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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 317 120 201
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.47% 13.32% 11.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.57% 36.04% 39.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 80 131
10th Percentile £290 £296 £231
25th Percentile £413 £375 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £570 £538 £581
90th Percentile £688 £600 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £540
% change year-on-year -0.94% -1.85% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 1
10th Percentile £47.25 - -
25th Percentile £55.56 - -
Median hourly rate £57.25 - £62.00
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £53.50 £46.12
% change year-on-year +7.48% +16.01% -22.88%

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 917 333 504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 41.85% 36.96% 28.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 231 347
10th Percentile £291 £263 £213
25th Percentile £403 £375 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% +2.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £541 £575 £587
90th Percentile £625 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 10 6
10th Percentile £14.25 £24.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £30.46 £27.56 -
Median hourly rate £56.50 £37.06 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.48% +147.03% -65.32%
75th Percentile £68.75 £98.08 -
90th Percentile £72.43 £102.00 £38.50
England median hourly rate £37.58 £26.00 £21.19
% change year-on-year +44.54% +22.73% -15.26%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 17 March 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 +2 166 £500 +11.11% 124
South Yorkshire +1 108 £500 -0.99% 47
North Yorkshire +1 16 £450 +12.50% 14
East Yorkshire -5 15 £344 - 17
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 22 (6.94%) SharePoint
2 16 (5.05%) Confluence
3 14 (4.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.58%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.26%) Apache
6 2 (0.63%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.32%) CMS
7 1 (0.32%) nginx
7 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.58%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.32%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 27 (8.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.95%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.63%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.63%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.32%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.32%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 138 (43.53%) AWS
2 104 (32.81%) GCP
3 66 (20.82%) Entra ID
4 46 (14.51%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (14.20%) Azure DevOps
6 44 (13.88%) SaaS
7 35 (11.04%) GitHub
8 24 (7.57%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (7.26%) Power Platform
10 20 (6.31%) OpenShift
10 20 (6.31%) Serverless
11 19 (5.99%) PaaS
12 13 (4.10%) Azure AKS
12 13 (4.10%) IaaS
12 13 (4.10%) OneDrive
13 12 (3.79%) Dynamics 365
14 11 (3.47%) Azure Functions
14 11 (3.47%) Azure Storage
15 10 (3.15%) Azure Data Factory
16 9 (2.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.94%) Firewall
2 17 (5.36%) TCP/IP
3 13 (4.10%) DNS
3 13 (4.10%) WAN
3 13 (4.10%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (3.79%) LAN
5 9 (2.84%) Kerberos
5 9 (2.84%) Network Security
6 7 (2.21%) SSL
7 6 (1.89%) IPsec
7 6 (1.89%) SAN
8 5 (1.58%) VLAN
8 5 (1.58%) VPN
9 4 (1.26%) DHCP
9 4 (1.26%) VoIP
10 3 (0.95%) HTTP
11 2 (0.63%) BGP
11 2 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (0.63%) OSPF
11 2 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.68%) Power BI
2 12 (3.79%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.15%) NoSQL
4 9 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.58%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.58%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.58%) MySQL
7 4 (1.26%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.26%) Neo4j
7 4 (1.26%) Redis
8 3 (0.95%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.95%) Metadata
9 2 (0.63%) Big Data
9 2 (0.63%) Cloud Spanner
9 2 (0.63%) DataStage
9 2 (0.63%) DB2
9 2 (0.63%) Parquet
9 2 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (14.83%) Jenkins
2 41 (12.93%) JIRA
3 27 (8.52%) GitLab
4 21 (6.62%) Git
5 16 (5.05%) Selenium
6 14 (4.42%) Cucumber
6 14 (4.42%) Postman
7 12 (3.79%) REST Assured
8 8 (2.52%) TestRail
9 7 (2.21%) CircleCI
10 5 (1.58%) JMeter
11 4 (1.26%) Gatling
11 4 (1.26%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.26%) Mocha
11 4 (1.26%) NeoLoad
11 4 (1.26%) Zephyr
12 2 (0.63%) MSI
12 2 (0.63%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.32%) JUnit
13 1 (0.32%) Maven
General
1 114 (35.96%) Social Skills
2 47 (14.83%) Finance
3 35 (11.04%) Public Sector
4 30 (9.46%) Banking
5 29 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (4.42%) Publishing
8 10 (3.15%) Legal
9 6 (1.89%) Law
10 5 (1.58%) Health Technology
10 5 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.63%) Local Government
13 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.32%) Military
13 1 (0.32%) Retail
13 1 (0.32%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (17.35%) Architect
2 37 (11.67%) Senior
3 30 (9.46%) Lead
4 21 (6.62%) Azure Engineer
4 21 (6.62%) Developer
5 20 (6.31%) Solutions Architect
6 17 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (4.10%) Analyst
8 12 (3.79%) Administrator
9 11 (3.47%) 2nd Line Support
9 11 (3.47%) Consultant
9 11 (3.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (3.47%) Senior Architect
10 10 (3.15%) Data Engineer
10 10 (3.15%) IT Support
10 10 (3.15%) Project Manager
10 10 (3.15%) Software Engineer
11 9 (2.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 9 (2.84%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (12.30%) REST
2 29 (9.15%) OpenID
3 24 (7.57%) LDAP
4 22 (6.94%) OAuth
5 20 (6.31%) .NET
6 19 (5.99%) SAML
7 18 (5.68%) SailPoint
8 17 (5.36%) React
9 16 (5.05%) SAP Basis
10 15 (4.73%) RESTful
11 13 (4.10%) Node.js
12 10 (3.15%) Middleware
12 10 (3.15%) Web Services
13 9 (2.84%) CSS
13 9 (2.84%) HTML
13 9 (2.84%) OAuth2
14 8 (2.52%) FHIR
14 8 (2.52%) JWT
14 8 (2.52%) Microsoft Graph
15 7 (2.21%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.09%) Onboarding
2 28 (8.83%) Cloud Native
3 24 (7.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (6.62%) Product Ownership
5 17 (5.36%) Taxonomies
6 16 (5.05%) NHS
7 12 (3.79%) Data Centre
8 11 (3.47%) Security Posture
9 10 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (2.21%) CMDB
10 7 (2.21%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 6 (1.89%) IoT
11 6 (1.89%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.58%) Cloud Security Posture
12 5 (1.58%) FlexPod
13 4 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
14 3 (0.95%) iPhone
14 3 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 38 (11.99%) Windows
2 22 (6.94%) Linux
3 8 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.21%) VMS
5 5 (1.58%) CoreOS
5 5 (1.58%) Data ONTAP
5 5 (1.58%) Unix
5 5 (1.58%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.26%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.95%) Android
8 2 (0.63%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.32%) CentOS
9 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (37.54%) DevOps
2 112 (35.33%) CI/CD
3 75 (23.66%) Agile
4 55 (17.35%) Roadmaps
5 50 (15.77%) Migration
6 49 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (13.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 42 (13.25%) Containerisation
9 40 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (12.30%) Microservices
11 37 (11.67%) Cybersecurity
12 34 (10.73%) Test Automation
13 33 (10.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 33 (10.41%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (10.09%) Data Governance
15 29 (9.15%) Identity Access Management
16 28 (8.83%) ITIL
17 26 (8.20%) Cloud Security
18 25 (7.89%) Observability
18 25 (7.89%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (20.50%) Python
2 57 (17.98%) SQL
3 34 (10.73%) Java
4 31 (9.78%) PowerShell
5 27 (8.52%) JavaScript
6 22 (6.94%) Bash
7 18 (5.68%) C#
8 16 (5.05%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.52%) PHP
10 7 (2.21%) Bicep
11 6 (1.89%) Go
11 6 (1.89%) Groovy
12 4 (1.26%) Cypher
12 4 (1.26%) Scala
13 3 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.95%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.63%) Rust
14 2 (0.63%) Solidity
14 2 (0.63%) XPath
15 1 (0.32%) X++
Qualifications
1 22 (6.94%) Degree
1 22 (6.94%) Security Cleared
2 12 (3.79%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.52%) CISSP
4 7 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (1.58%) CISM
5 5 (1.58%) OCP
5 5 (1.58%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (1.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.95%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.95%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.95%) CCSK
7 3 (0.95%) CCSP
7 3 (0.95%) CEH
7 3 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.95%) SAP Certification
8 2 (0.63%) CCNA
8 2 (0.63%) CCNP
8 2 (0.63%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.26%) QA
2 17 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.84%) GDPR
4 7 (2.21%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.21%) NIST
4 7 (2.21%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.89%) HL7
6 5 (1.58%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.58%) SLA
6 5 (1.58%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.26%) WCAG
8 3 (0.95%) GRC
8 3 (0.95%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.95%) PSD2
9 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.32%) NCSC
10 1 (0.32%) PMO
System Software
1 38 (11.99%) Docker
2 36 (11.36%) Active Directory
3 16 (5.05%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (4.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (2.84%) vSphere
6 6 (1.89%) NFS
7 5 (1.58%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (1.58%) RACF
8 3 (0.95%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.63%) KVM
9 2 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.63%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.32%) Ceph
10 1 (0.32%) QEMU
10 1 (0.32%) XenApp
10 1 (0.32%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 61 (19.24%) Kubernetes
2 55 (17.35%) Terraform
3 30 (9.46%) Single Sign-On
4 29 (9.15%) Ansible
5 24 (7.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (4.73%) Grafana
7 8 (2.52%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.58%) Istio
8 5 (1.58%) SnapMirror
9 4 (1.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.63%) Argo
11 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.32%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.32%) Oracle Identity Manager
12 1 (0.32%) Podman
12 1 (0.32%) Puppet
12 1 (0.32%) SCCM
12 1 (0.32%) SCOM
12 1 (0.32%) WSUS
Vendors
1 88 (27.76%) Microsoft
2 34 (10.73%) SAP
3 30 (9.46%) Google
4 27 (8.52%) ServiceNow
5 21 (6.62%) Okta
6 14 (4.42%) Splunk
6 14 (4.42%) VMware
7 11 (3.47%) Oracle
8 10 (3.15%) Cisco
9 9 (2.84%) Databricks
9 9 (2.84%) OpenAI
10 8 (2.52%) Red Hat
11 7 (2.21%) NetApp
12 6 (1.89%) Adobe
12 6 (1.89%) Brio
12 6 (1.89%) ESRI
12 6 (1.89%) Meraki
12 6 (1.89%) Veeam
13 5 (1.58%) F5
13 5 (1.58%) MobileIron