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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 428 202 194
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.63% 12.98% 13.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.07% 34.01% 37.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 122 132
10th Percentile £350 £316 £357
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £507
Median % change year-on-year +2.30% -3.60% -7.82%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £596
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £21.50 - -
75th Percentile £25.00 - -
90th Percentile £46.88 - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +54.41% -2.86% -24.21%

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 1,042 594 519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 35.62% 38.17% 35.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 398 355
10th Percentile £313 £235 £300
25th Percentile £413 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £567
90th Percentile £675 £612 £650
England median daily rate £525 £501 £530
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 4
10th Percentile £13.45 - -
25th Percentile £14.69 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £200.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -90.50% +830.23% +1.15%
75th Percentile £35.00 - £23.69
90th Percentile - - £26.73
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -1 194 £500 - 201
South Yorkshire +8 177 £518 +8.95% 89
North Yorkshire +5 30 £460 +143.71% 49
East Yorkshire -2 3 £338 - 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 43 (10.05%) SharePoint
2 29 (6.78%) Confluence
3 18 (4.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (3.27%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.64%) Apache
6 6 (1.40%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.17%) Apache Superset
8 2 (0.47%) nginx
9 1 (0.23%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 189 (44.16%) AWS
2 134 (31.31%) GCP
3 74 (17.29%) Microsoft 365
4 73 (17.06%) GitHub
5 67 (15.65%) Entra ID
6 66 (15.42%) Azure DevOps
7 58 (13.55%) Power Platform
8 42 (9.81%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (5.61%) Microsoft Copilot
10 21 (4.91%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (4.67%) OneDrive
11 20 (4.67%) PowerApps
12 16 (3.74%) Serverless
13 14 (3.27%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (3.27%) Copilot Studio
13 14 (3.27%) SaaS
14 13 (3.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 11 (2.57%) Azure AI
15 11 (2.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 11 (2.57%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.48%) Firewall
2 29 (6.78%) DNS
3 21 (4.91%) Network Security
4 18 (4.21%) VPN
5 16 (3.74%) VLAN
6 14 (3.27%) DHCP
7 13 (3.04%) LAN
7 13 (3.04%) WAN
8 12 (2.80%) WLAN
9 11 (2.57%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (2.34%) BGP
10 10 (2.34%) OSPF
11 9 (2.10%) TCP/IP
12 7 (1.64%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (1.64%) SAN
13 6 (1.40%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (1.40%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (1.40%) NAS
13 6 (1.40%) Wireless
14 5 (1.17%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (7.71%) Power BI
2 30 (7.01%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.97%) Big Data
4 17 (3.97%) Metadata
5 13 (3.04%) Data Lake
5 13 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.64%) Delta Lake
6 7 (1.64%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.17%) Neo4j
7 5 (1.17%) Semantic Layer
7 5 (1.17%) Tableau
7 5 (1.17%) Trino
8 4 (0.93%) Redis
8 4 (0.93%) SAP BW
8 4 (0.93%) SAP HANA
9 3 (0.70%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 52 (12.15%) Jenkins
1 52 (12.15%) JIRA
2 33 (7.71%) Git
3 17 (3.97%) GitLab
4 9 (2.10%) Gatling
4 9 (2.10%) JMeter
5 8 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (1.64%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.64%) Selenium
7 6 (1.40%) LoadRunner
8 5 (1.17%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.17%) Maven
8 5 (1.17%) Postman
9 4 (0.93%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.70%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.70%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (0.70%) Fiddler
10 3 (0.70%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.47%) Newman
11 2 (0.47%) REST Assured
General
1 132 (30.84%) Social Skills
2 118 (27.57%) Finance
3 41 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (8.41%) Banking
5 28 (6.54%) Public Sector
6 12 (2.80%) Retail
7 11 (2.57%) Law
8 10 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.34%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.10%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.40%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.93%) Military
12 4 (0.93%) Social Science
13 3 (0.70%) Legal
13 3 (0.70%) Police
14 2 (0.47%) Billing
14 2 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.23%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (17.29%) Architect
2 65 (15.19%) Senior
3 55 (12.85%) Lead
4 35 (8.18%) Developer
5 34 (7.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 33 (7.71%) Data Engineer
7 25 (5.84%) Solutions Architect
8 23 (5.37%) Azure Engineer
9 22 (5.14%) Analyst
10 19 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
11 16 (3.74%) Technical Architect
12 15 (3.50%) Delivery Manager
13 14 (3.27%) Cloud Architect
13 14 (3.27%) Cloud Engineer
13 14 (3.27%) Consultant
14 13 (3.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 12 (2.80%) 2nd Line Support
15 12 (2.80%) Security Engineer
16 11 (2.57%) Data Architect
17 10 (2.34%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (25.47%) Terraform
2 42 (9.81%) REST
3 26 (6.07%) Kafka
4 23 (5.37%) React
5 22 (5.14%) .NET
6 21 (4.91%) OAuth
7 17 (3.97%) OpenID
8 15 (3.50%) OAuth2
9 14 (3.27%) SAML
10 13 (3.04%) SailPoint
11 12 (2.80%) .NET Core
11 12 (2.80%) ASP.NET
11 12 (2.80%) PySpark
12 11 (2.57%) Middleware
12 11 (2.57%) Playwright
13 10 (2.34%) JSON
13 10 (2.34%) SOAP
13 10 (2.34%) Web Services
14 9 (2.10%) Node.js
14 9 (2.10%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 67 (15.65%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.71%) Data Centre
3 28 (6.54%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (4.67%) AI Agents
4 20 (4.67%) Onboarding
5 19 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
5 19 (4.44%) Product Ownership
6 17 (3.97%) Public Cloud
7 13 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.57%) PKI
9 9 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.87%) Replication
11 7 (1.64%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.40%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
13 5 (1.17%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 56 (13.08%) Windows
2 30 (7.01%) Linux
3 29 (6.78%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.40%) Android
4 6 (1.40%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.93%) Unix
6 3 (0.70%) AIX
6 3 (0.70%) Data ONTAP
6 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.23%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.23%) VMS
8 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (42.76%) CI/CD
2 166 (38.79%) DevOps
3 105 (24.53%) Agile
4 99 (23.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 86 (20.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 78 (18.22%) AI
7 74 (17.29%) Observability
8 71 (16.59%) Cybersecurity
9 62 (14.49%) Analytics
10 58 (13.55%) Test Automation
11 56 (13.08%) Roadmaps
12 52 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
12 52 (12.15%) Software Engineering
13 51 (11.92%) Migration
13 51 (11.92%) Platform Engineering
14 47 (10.98%) Data Engineering
15 46 (10.75%) Continuous Improvement
16 45 (10.51%) Data Pipeline
16 45 (10.51%) Validation
17 44 (10.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 105 (24.53%) Python
2 59 (13.79%) SQL
3 55 (12.85%) Java
4 52 (12.15%) PowerShell
5 23 (5.37%) C#
6 22 (5.14%) JavaScript
7 18 (4.21%) Bash
8 15 (3.50%) Bicep
9 13 (3.04%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.10%) Groovy
11 8 (1.87%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.64%) Go
12 7 (1.64%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.40%) Scala
14 4 (0.93%) ABAP
14 4 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.70%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.23%) C
Qualifications
1 58 (13.55%) Security Cleared
2 40 (9.35%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.31%) Degree
4 21 (4.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (3.50%) Azure Certification
5 15 (3.50%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (3.27%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.57%) CISSP
8 10 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.10%) CISM
10 8 (1.87%) CCNP
11 7 (1.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (1.64%) CCSP
11 7 (1.64%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.64%) PMI Certification
11 7 (1.64%) PMP
12 6 (1.40%) CCSK
13 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.31%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.07%) QA
3 13 (3.04%) GDPR
3 13 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.57%) NIST
5 10 (2.34%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.87%) HIPAA
7 7 (1.64%) WCAG
8 6 (1.40%) GRC
8 6 (1.40%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 5 (1.17%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.70%) GxP
10 3 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.47%) IASME
11 2 (0.47%) PMO
11 2 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 71 (16.59%) Active Directory
2 50 (11.68%) Docker
3 14 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (2.57%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (2.34%) Hyper-V
7 7 (1.64%) vSphere
8 5 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.70%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.70%) Firmware
9 3 (0.70%) NFS
9 3 (0.70%) SRDF
10 2 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.23%) Ceph
11 1 (0.23%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 90 (21.03%) Kubernetes
2 32 (7.48%) Ansible
2 32 (7.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (4.67%) Grafana
4 17 (3.97%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.80%) Jamf Pro
6 10 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (1.64%) Kustomize
8 6 (1.40%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.17%) HAProxy
10 4 (0.93%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.70%) Argo
11 3 (0.70%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.70%) Packer
11 3 (0.70%) SCCM
11 3 (0.70%) SnapMirror
11 3 (0.70%) vMotion
12 2 (0.47%) Podman
12 2 (0.47%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 141 (32.94%) Microsoft
2 50 (11.68%) Databricks
3 31 (7.24%) ServiceNow
4 26 (6.07%) Google
5 19 (4.44%) CyberArk
6 17 (3.97%) Cisco
7 16 (3.74%) SAP
8 15 (3.50%) Foundry
8 15 (3.50%) VMware
9 14 (3.27%) Splunk
10 13 (3.04%) Dynatrace
11 11 (2.57%) Okta
12 10 (2.34%) IBM
13 9 (2.10%) OpenAI
14 8 (1.87%) Citrix
15 7 (1.64%) Centrify
15 7 (1.64%) CheckPoint
15 7 (1.64%) Dell
15 7 (1.64%) Red Hat
15 7 (1.64%) Salesforce