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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 15 7
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 381 118 200
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.12% 10.31% 11.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.17% 29.21% 39.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 79 145
10th Percentile £320 £263 £364
25th Percentile £447 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £619 £538 £600
90th Percentile £700 £600 £648
England median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% -3.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 0
10th Percentile £18.50 - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £49.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.75% +40.71% -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 1,025 404 503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.98% 35.28% 29.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 685 278 352
10th Percentile £313 £259 £251
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £493
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.55% -6.19%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £588
90th Percentile £669 £629 £642
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 4 9
10th Percentile £17.05 £27.82 £13.45
25th Percentile £20.75 £30.17 -
Median hourly rate £56.50 £32.96 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.42% +119.73% -53.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.48 £21.50
90th Percentile £70.85 £79.33 £22.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +54.90% +18.60% -38.57%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +7 193 £490 +3.16% 77
South Yorkshire +9 131 £527 +8.00% 29
North Yorkshire +8 24 £450 +44.00% 12
East Yorkshire +2 8 £344 - 6
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 39 (10.24%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.67%) Confluence
4 9 (2.36%) 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
2 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 20 (5.25%) 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
1 157 (41.21%) AWS
2 98 (25.72%) GCP
3 68 (17.85%) Entra ID
4 62 (16.27%) Microsoft 365
5 57 (14.96%) Azure DevOps
6 49 (12.86%) GitHub
7 46 (12.07%) Power Platform
8 40 (10.50%) GitHub Actions
9 39 (10.24%) SaaS
10 27 (7.09%) Serverless
11 25 (6.56%) PowerApps
12 21 (5.51%) Microsoft Copilot
12 21 (5.51%) OneDrive
13 20 (5.25%) PaaS
14 16 (4.20%) Azure Monitor
15 15 (3.94%) Azure Functions
15 15 (3.94%) Power Automate
16 14 (3.67%) Azure Data Factory
17 13 (3.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 13 (3.41%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.46%) Firewall
2 14 (3.67%) WAN
3 12 (3.15%) DNS
3 12 (3.15%) TCP/IP
4 11 (2.89%) LAN
4 11 (2.89%) Network Security
4 11 (2.89%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (2.36%) SAN
6 7 (1.84%) Kerberos
7 6 (1.57%) WLAN
8 5 (1.31%) IPsec
8 5 (1.31%) SSL
8 5 (1.31%) VPN
9 4 (1.05%) Unified Communications
9 4 (1.05%) VLAN
10 3 (0.79%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (0.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 3 (0.79%) NAS
10 3 (0.79%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.79%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 22 (5.77%) Power BI
3 20 (5.25%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (2.36%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.10%) Big Data
7 8 (2.10%) Delta Lake
7 8 (2.10%) Metadata
8 7 (1.84%) Neo4j
9 5 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.31%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.05%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.79%) Parquet
11 3 (0.79%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.26%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
13 1 (0.26%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 48 (12.60%) Jenkins
2 41 (10.76%) JIRA
3 26 (6.82%) GitLab
4 24 (6.30%) Git
5 14 (3.67%) Gatling
6 7 (1.84%) Cucumber
6 7 (1.84%) Maven
6 7 (1.84%) REST Assured
6 7 (1.84%) Selenium
7 6 (1.57%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.31%) JMeter
8 5 (1.31%) Postman
9 4 (1.05%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.05%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.05%) NeoLoad
10 3 (0.79%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (0.79%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.79%) Fiddler
11 2 (0.52%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.26%) Newman
General
1 108 (28.35%) Social Skills
2 89 (23.36%) Finance
3 33 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (8.40%) Banking
5 31 (8.14%) Public Sector
6 25 (6.56%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.67%) Publishing
8 13 (3.41%) Law
9 8 (2.10%) Legal
10 7 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.31%) Social Science
12 4 (1.05%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.79%) Military
14 2 (0.52%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.52%) Retail
15 1 (0.26%) Digital Health
15 1 (0.26%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 64 (16.80%) Architect
2 50 (13.12%) Senior
3 45 (11.81%) Lead
4 34 (8.92%) DevOps Engineer
5 33 (8.66%) Developer
6 23 (6.04%) Azure Engineer
7 22 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
8 20 (5.25%) Analyst
9 17 (4.46%) Data Engineer
10 16 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (3.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (3.41%) Delivery Manager
13 12 (3.15%) Administrator
14 11 (2.89%) Consultant
15 10 (2.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 10 (2.62%) Data Analyst
15 10 (2.62%) Security Engineer
15 10 (2.62%) Technical Architect
16 9 (2.36%) 2nd Line Support
16 9 (2.36%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.92%) REST
2 26 (6.82%) OpenID
3 18 (4.72%) OAuth
4 17 (4.46%) .NET
4 17 (4.46%) LDAP
5 14 (3.67%) Playwright
5 14 (3.67%) SAML
5 14 (3.67%) SAP Basis
6 12 (3.15%) Microsoft Graph
6 12 (3.15%) OAuth2
6 12 (3.15%) SailPoint
6 12 (3.15%) Web Services
7 11 (2.89%) Kafka
7 11 (2.89%) PySpark
7 11 (2.89%) React
8 9 (2.36%) Middleware
8 9 (2.36%) RESTful
8 9 (2.36%) SOAP
9 7 (1.84%) HTML
9 7 (1.84%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 44 (11.55%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.45%) Onboarding
3 24 (6.30%) Data Centre
4 20 (5.25%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.94%) Taxonomies
6 14 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (2.36%) Public Cloud
10 8 (2.10%) NHS
11 7 (1.84%) Replication
11 7 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 5 (1.31%) AI Agents
13 5 (1.31%) CMDB
13 5 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
13 5 (1.31%) FlexPod
14 4 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (1.05%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 46 (12.07%) Windows
2 26 (6.82%) Linux
3 9 (2.36%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.10%) Data ONTAP
4 8 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.84%) Unix
6 6 (1.57%) CoreOS
6 6 (1.57%) VMS
7 4 (1.05%) Android
7 4 (1.05%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.05%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.79%) AIX
9 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (40.68%) DevOps
2 143 (37.53%) CI/CD
3 91 (23.88%) Agile
4 65 (17.06%) Roadmaps
5 62 (16.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 52 (13.65%) Cybersecurity
6 52 (13.65%) Migration
7 48 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (12.60%) Stakeholder Management
8 47 (12.34%) Observability
9 41 (10.76%) AI
9 41 (10.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 41 (10.76%) Platform Engineering
9 41 (10.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 40 (10.50%) Containerisation
11 38 (9.97%) Analytics
11 38 (9.97%) Data Pipeline
12 37 (9.71%) Identity Access Management
13 35 (9.19%) Data Governance
14 34 (8.92%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 83 (21.78%) Python
2 60 (15.75%) SQL
3 53 (13.91%) Java
4 39 (10.24%) PowerShell
5 20 (5.25%) Bash
5 20 (5.25%) C#
6 16 (4.20%) JavaScript
7 14 (3.67%) Scala
8 9 (2.36%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.10%) Go
10 7 (1.84%) Bicep
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%) PHP
13 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.52%) Groovy
15 1 (0.26%) Ruby
15 1 (0.26%) X++
Qualifications
1 46 (12.07%) Security Cleared
2 31 (8.14%) Degree
3 30 (7.87%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.10%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.84%) Azure 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%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.31%) Microsoft 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%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.79%) NCDA
10 3 (0.79%) NCIE
10 3 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.67%) QA
2 12 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.62%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.36%) GDPR
4 9 (2.36%) NIST
5 7 (1.84%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.84%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.84%) SLA
6 6 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 6 (1.57%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.31%) GRC
7 5 (1.31%) WCAG
8 4 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.05%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.52%) HL7
9 2 (0.52%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 43 (11.29%) Active Directory
2 39 (10.24%) Docker
3 17 (4.46%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.10%) NFS
5 8 (2.10%) vSphere
6 6 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (1.31%) RACF
8 4 (1.05%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (1.05%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.79%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.79%) SRDF
9 3 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.26%) Ceph
10 1 (0.26%) KVM
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 84 (22.05%) Terraform
2 66 (17.32%) Kubernetes
3 28 (7.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 26 (6.82%) Ansible
4 26 (6.82%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (3.94%) Grafana
6 10 (2.62%) Jamf Pro
6 10 (2.62%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.36%) HAProxy
8 8 (2.10%) SnapMirror
9 4 (1.05%) Istio
9 4 (1.05%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.79%) Argo
10 3 (0.79%) EMC VPLEX
10 3 (0.79%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.52%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.52%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.52%) SnapVault
11 2 (0.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 134 (35.17%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.92%) Google
3 31 (8.14%) ServiceNow
4 28 (7.35%) Databricks
5 26 (6.82%) SAP
6 21 (5.51%) Okta
7 17 (4.46%) Oracle
8 14 (3.67%) VMware
9 11 (2.89%) Foundry
9 11 (2.89%) Red Hat
10 10 (2.62%) Splunk
11 8 (2.10%) Cisco
11 8 (2.10%) NetApp
11 8 (2.10%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.84%) Aruba
12 7 (1.84%) Veeam
13 6 (1.57%) Adobe
13 6 (1.57%) CyberArk
14 5 (1.31%) Brio
14 5 (1.31%) IBM