Azure Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 15 7
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 381 107 200
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.61% 10.20% 11.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.61% 29.00% 42.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 74 145
10th Percentile £331 £263 £321
25th Percentile £447 £325 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £600
90th Percentile £694 £550 £645
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 0 0
10th Percentile £18.95 - -
25th Percentile £44.88 - -
Median hourly rate £56.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +53.33% +7.14% -44.44%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,013 369 475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.86% 35.18% 28.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 690 259 335
10th Percentile £325 £258 £263
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £562 £538 £588
90th Percentile £657 £619 £643
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 4 8
10th Percentile £14.25 £27.82 £13.43
25th Percentile £23.00 £30.17 £14.63
Median hourly rate £56.50 £32.96 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.42% +119.73% -60.26%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.48 £17.31
90th Percentile £69.80 £79.33 £22.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.58%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 27 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Yorkshire

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 27 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 27 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Yorkshire +8 187 £500 +11.11% 84
South Yorkshire +14 141 £514 +14.22% 34
North Yorkshire +5 18 £450 +50.00% 9
East Yorkshire +1 14 £325 - 5
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 33 (8.66%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.46%) Confluence
3 15 (3.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (2.10%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.52%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.26%) Apache
6 1 (0.26%) CMS
6 1 (0.26%) IIS
6 1 (0.26%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.05%) Acrobat
1 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 26 (6.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.79%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.26%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 171 (44.88%) AWS
2 115 (30.18%) GCP
3 67 (17.59%) Entra ID
4 53 (13.91%) Microsoft 365
5 52 (13.65%) Azure DevOps
6 48 (12.60%) SaaS
7 47 (12.34%) GitHub
8 36 (9.45%) Power Platform
9 35 (9.19%) GitHub Actions
10 25 (6.56%) Serverless
11 21 (5.51%) OpenShift
12 20 (5.25%) PaaS
13 19 (4.99%) PowerApps
14 16 (4.20%) OneDrive
15 15 (3.94%) Microsoft Copilot
16 14 (3.67%) Azure Functions
17 13 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
17 13 (3.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 13 (3.41%) IaaS
18 12 (3.15%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.20%) Firewall
2 13 (3.41%) DNS
2 13 (3.41%) TCP/IP
2 13 (3.41%) WAN
3 11 (2.89%) LAN
3 11 (2.89%) Network Security
4 10 (2.62%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (2.10%) Kerberos
5 8 (2.10%) SAN
6 5 (1.31%) IPsec
6 5 (1.31%) SSL
6 5 (1.31%) VPN
6 5 (1.31%) WLAN
7 4 (1.05%) Unified Communications
7 4 (1.05%) VLAN
8 3 (0.79%) Internet
8 3 (0.79%) PSTN
9 2 (0.52%) BGP
9 2 (0.52%) DHCP
9 2 (0.52%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.87%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.25%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (4.72%) Power BI
4 12 (3.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (2.36%) Data Lake
6 8 (2.10%) Delta Lake
6 8 (2.10%) Metadata
7 7 (1.84%) Big Data
7 7 (1.84%) Neo4j
8 5 (1.31%) MySQL
9 4 (1.05%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.05%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.79%) Parquet
10 3 (0.79%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.52%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.26%) Redis
12 1 (0.26%) SAP HANA
12 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (14.96%) Jenkins
2 50 (13.12%) JIRA
3 33 (8.66%) GitLab
4 27 (7.09%) Git
5 14 (3.67%) Gatling
5 14 (3.67%) Selenium
6 13 (3.41%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.41%) REST Assured
7 11 (2.89%) Postman
8 8 (2.10%) Maven
9 6 (1.57%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.31%) JMeter
10 5 (1.31%) TestRail
11 4 (1.05%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.05%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.05%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.05%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.79%) Browser DevTools
12 3 (0.79%) Fiddler
13 2 (0.52%) Terragrunt
General
1 116 (30.45%) Social Skills
2 84 (22.05%) Finance
3 35 (9.19%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (8.92%) Banking
5 29 (7.61%) Public Sector
6 24 (6.30%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (4.20%) Publishing
8 9 (2.36%) Law
9 7 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.84%) Legal
10 5 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.05%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.79%) Military
13 2 (0.52%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.52%) Retail
13 2 (0.52%) Social Science
14 1 (0.26%) Digital Healthcare
14 1 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (15.49%) Architect
2 47 (12.34%) Lead
3 46 (12.07%) Senior
4 34 (8.92%) DevOps Engineer
5 33 (8.66%) Developer
6 21 (5.51%) Azure Engineer
7 20 (5.25%) Solutions Architect
8 18 (4.72%) Analyst
9 16 (4.20%) Data Engineer
10 15 (3.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (3.67%) Administrator
11 14 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (3.41%) Delivery Manager
13 11 (2.89%) Consultant
13 11 (2.89%) Project Manager
14 10 (2.62%) Data Analyst
14 10 (2.62%) Technical Architect
14 10 (2.62%) Test Automation Engineer
14 10 (2.62%) Test Engineer
15 9 (2.36%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (10.24%) REST
2 32 (8.40%) OpenID
3 23 (6.04%) .NET
3 23 (6.04%) LDAP
4 19 (4.99%) OAuth
5 18 (4.72%) SailPoint
5 18 (4.72%) SAP Basis
6 15 (3.94%) SAML
7 14 (3.67%) Playwright
8 12 (3.15%) Middleware
8 12 (3.15%) OAuth2
8 12 (3.15%) Web Services
9 11 (2.89%) Kafka
9 11 (2.89%) Microsoft Graph
9 11 (2.89%) React
10 10 (2.62%) PySpark
11 9 (2.36%) RESTful
11 9 (2.36%) SOAP
12 8 (2.10%) JSON
13 7 (1.84%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 41 (10.76%) Onboarding
2 39 (10.24%) Cloud Native
3 26 (6.82%) Product Ownership
4 21 (5.51%) Data Centre
4 21 (5.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 20 (5.25%) Taxonomies
6 12 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.84%) IoT
8 7 (1.84%) NHS
9 6 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 6 (1.57%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.31%) CMDB
10 5 (1.31%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.31%) FlexPod
11 4 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.05%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.05%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 39 (10.24%) Windows
2 28 (7.35%) Linux
3 8 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (2.10%) VMS
4 6 (1.57%) CoreOS
4 6 (1.57%) Data ONTAP
4 6 (1.57%) Unix
5 5 (1.31%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.31%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.05%) Android
6 4 (1.05%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.79%) AIX
8 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (41.47%) DevOps
2 149 (39.11%) CI/CD
3 96 (25.20%) Agile
4 73 (19.16%) Roadmaps
5 57 (14.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 57 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (13.65%) Migration
7 49 (12.86%) Containerisation
8 48 (12.60%) Cybersecurity
9 47 (12.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 44 (11.55%) Observability
10 44 (11.55%) Stakeholder Management
11 43 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 42 (11.02%) Identity Access Management
13 40 (10.50%) Test Automation
14 39 (10.24%) Data Governance
14 39 (10.24%) Data Pipeline
15 38 (9.97%) Microservices
16 37 (9.71%) Analytics
17 36 (9.45%) AI
Programming Languages
1 84 (22.05%) Python
2 65 (17.06%) SQL
3 58 (15.22%) Java
4 36 (9.45%) PowerShell
5 22 (5.77%) Bash
6 20 (5.25%) JavaScript
7 18 (4.72%) C#
8 14 (3.67%) Scala
9 8 (2.10%) Go
9 8 (2.10%) PHP
10 7 (1.84%) Bicep
10 7 (1.84%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.31%) Groovy
11 5 (1.31%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.31%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.05%) Cypher
13 3 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.26%) ABAP
14 1 (0.26%) X++
Qualifications
1 41 (10.76%) Security Cleared
2 28 (7.35%) Degree
3 27 (7.09%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.10%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.84%) CISSP
7 6 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.57%) CISM
7 6 (1.57%) PMP
8 5 (1.31%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.31%) OCP
8 5 (1.31%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.05%) CCSP
9 4 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.05%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.79%) CCSK
10 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.52%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.25%) QA
2 14 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.10%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.10%) NIST
4 7 (1.84%) HIPAA
4 7 (1.84%) SLA
5 6 (1.57%) GDPR
5 6 (1.57%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.31%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.05%) GRC
7 4 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.05%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.79%) HL7
8 3 (0.79%) WCAG
9 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.52%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 43 (11.29%) Docker
2 37 (9.71%) Active Directory
3 18 (4.72%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.10%) NFS
6 7 (1.84%) vSphere
7 5 (1.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (1.31%) RACF
7 5 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (1.05%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.26%) Ceph
10 1 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.26%) KVM
10 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.26%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 80 (21.00%) Terraform
2 77 (20.21%) Kubernetes
3 32 (8.40%) Single Sign-On
4 29 (7.61%) Ansible
5 23 (6.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (4.46%) Grafana
7 11 (2.89%) Prometheus
8 9 (2.36%) HAProxy
8 9 (2.36%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (1.57%) SnapMirror
10 4 (1.05%) Istio
10 4 (1.05%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.79%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.52%) Argo
12 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.26%) Kibana
13 1 (0.26%) logstash
13 1 (0.26%) SELinux
13 1 (0.26%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 127 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.71%) ServiceNow
3 35 (9.19%) Google
4 34 (8.92%) SAP
5 26 (6.82%) Databricks
5 26 (6.82%) Okta
6 17 (4.46%) Oracle
7 13 (3.41%) VMware
8 10 (2.62%) Splunk
9 9 (2.36%) OpenAI
9 9 (2.36%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.84%) Foundry
10 7 (1.84%) NetApp
11 6 (1.57%) Adobe
11 6 (1.57%) Aruba
11 6 (1.57%) Cisco
11 6 (1.57%) CyberArk
11 6 (1.57%) IBM
11 6 (1.57%) Veeam
12 5 (1.31%) Salesforce