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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 16 7
Rank change year-on-year +9 -9 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 369 105 200
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.35% 10.01% 12.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.86% 27.93% 42.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 75 144
10th Percentile £331 £263 £283
25th Percentile £450 £325 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% -10.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £531 £595
90th Percentile £688 £550 £643
England median daily rate £525 £525 £543
% change year-on-year - -3.23% -3.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 0 0
10th Percentile £23.00 - -
25th Percentile £52.00 - -
Median hourly rate £56.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £38.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +48.39% +10.71% -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 1,001 376 470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.93% 35.84% 28.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 686 264 330
10th Percentile £325 £257 £257
25th Percentile £413 £371 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.52% -5.24%
75th Percentile £560 £550 £588
90th Percentile £650 £623 £638
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 6 8
10th Percentile £14.25 £28.86 £13.43
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.54 £14.63
Median hourly rate £56.50 £62.40 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% +316.00% -53.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £101.14 £17.31
90th Percentile £70.85 £102.00 £22.00
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +61.02% +19.33% -33.84%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +9 179 £500 +11.11% 96
South Yorkshire +12 141 £510 +10.27% 32
North Yorkshire +6 18 £450 +24.14% 13
East Yorkshire +2 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 30 (8.13%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.61%) Confluence
3 14 (3.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.90%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.54%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.27%) Apache
6 1 (0.27%) CMS
6 1 (0.27%) IIS
6 1 (0.27%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Acrobat
1 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 27 (7.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (2.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.81%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.27%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.27%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 168 (45.53%) AWS
2 115 (31.17%) GCP
3 65 (17.62%) Entra ID
4 50 (13.55%) Microsoft 365
5 47 (12.74%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (12.74%) SaaS
6 42 (11.38%) GitHub
7 36 (9.76%) Power Platform
8 30 (8.13%) GitHub Actions
9 26 (7.05%) Serverless
10 21 (5.69%) OpenShift
10 21 (5.69%) PaaS
11 19 (5.15%) PowerApps
12 15 (4.07%) Azure Functions
12 15 (4.07%) Microsoft Copilot
13 14 (3.79%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (3.79%) OneDrive
14 13 (3.52%) Azure AKS
14 13 (3.52%) IaaS
15 12 (3.25%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.07%) Firewall
2 13 (3.52%) DNS
2 13 (3.52%) TCP/IP
3 12 (3.25%) Network Security
4 11 (2.98%) WAN
5 10 (2.71%) Kerberos
5 10 (2.71%) LAN
6 9 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (2.17%) SAN
8 6 (1.63%) SSL
9 5 (1.36%) IPsec
9 5 (1.36%) VPN
10 4 (1.08%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.81%) Internet
11 3 (0.81%) PSTN
11 3 (0.81%) VLAN
11 3 (0.81%) WLAN
12 2 (0.54%) NAS
12 2 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
13 1 (0.27%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.86%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (4.88%) Power BI
4 12 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (2.17%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.90%) Metadata
6 7 (1.90%) Neo4j
7 6 (1.63%) Big Data
7 6 (1.63%) Delta Lake
8 5 (1.36%) MySQL
9 4 (1.08%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.08%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.54%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.54%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.27%) Redis
11 1 (0.27%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (15.45%) Jenkins
2 50 (13.55%) JIRA
3 30 (8.13%) GitLab
4 26 (7.05%) Git
5 14 (3.79%) Gatling
5 14 (3.79%) Selenium
6 13 (3.52%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.52%) REST Assured
7 11 (2.98%) Postman
8 8 (2.17%) Maven
9 6 (1.63%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.36%) JMeter
10 5 (1.36%) TestRail
11 4 (1.08%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.08%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.08%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.08%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.81%) Browser DevTools
12 3 (0.81%) Fiddler
13 2 (0.54%) Terragrunt
General
1 117 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 84 (22.76%) Finance
3 35 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.21%) Banking
5 31 (8.40%) Public Sector
6 24 (6.50%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (4.34%) Publishing
8 8 (2.17%) Law
9 7 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.90%) Legal
10 5 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.08%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.81%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.81%) Military
13 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.54%) Retail
13 2 (0.54%) Social Science
14 1 (0.27%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (14.91%) Architect
2 46 (12.47%) Lead
3 42 (11.38%) Senior
4 33 (8.94%) Developer
5 31 (8.40%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (5.69%) Azure Engineer
7 19 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
8 17 (4.61%) Analyst
9 14 (3.79%) Administrator
9 14 (3.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (3.52%) Data Engineer
10 13 (3.52%) Delivery Manager
11 11 (2.98%) Consultant
11 11 (2.98%) Project Manager
12 10 (2.71%) Technical Architect
12 10 (2.71%) Test Automation Engineer
12 10 (2.71%) Test Engineer
13 9 (2.44%) Data Analyst
13 9 (2.44%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (10.30%) REST
2 33 (8.94%) OpenID
3 26 (7.05%) LDAP
4 23 (6.23%) .NET
5 20 (5.42%) OAuth
6 18 (4.88%) SailPoint
6 18 (4.88%) SAP Basis
7 16 (4.34%) SAML
8 14 (3.79%) Playwright
9 12 (3.25%) Middleware
9 12 (3.25%) OAuth2
9 12 (3.25%) Web Services
10 11 (2.98%) Kafka
10 11 (2.98%) Microsoft Graph
10 11 (2.98%) React
11 10 (2.71%) RESTful
12 9 (2.44%) SOAP
13 7 (1.90%) Node.js
13 7 (1.90%) PySpark
14 6 (1.63%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 40 (10.84%) Onboarding
2 36 (9.76%) Cloud Native
3 26 (7.05%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.42%) Data Centre
4 20 (5.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (5.42%) Taxonomies
5 10 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.44%) NHS
7 7 (1.90%) IoT
8 6 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (1.36%) CMDB
9 5 (1.36%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.36%) FlexPod
9 5 (1.36%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.08%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 36 (9.76%) Windows
2 28 (7.59%) Linux
3 8 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (2.17%) VMS
4 6 (1.63%) CoreOS
4 6 (1.63%) Data ONTAP
4 6 (1.63%) Unix
5 5 (1.36%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.36%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.08%) Android
6 4 (1.08%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.81%) AIX
8 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (39.84%) DevOps
2 141 (38.21%) CI/CD
3 95 (25.75%) Agile
4 68 (18.43%) Roadmaps
5 55 (14.91%) Migration
5 55 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (13.55%) Containerisation
6 50 (13.55%) Infrastructure as Code
7 49 (13.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 46 (12.47%) Cybersecurity
9 44 (11.92%) Stakeholder Management
10 43 (11.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (11.38%) Identity Access Management
11 42 (11.38%) Observability
12 39 (10.57%) Test Automation
13 38 (10.30%) Data Pipeline
14 37 (10.03%) Microservices
15 36 (9.76%) Analytics
15 36 (9.76%) Data Governance
15 36 (9.76%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 80 (21.68%) Python
2 60 (16.26%) SQL
3 56 (15.18%) Java
4 34 (9.21%) PowerShell
5 22 (5.96%) Bash
6 19 (5.15%) JavaScript
7 18 (4.88%) C#
8 14 (3.79%) Scala
9 8 (2.17%) Go
9 8 (2.17%) PHP
9 8 (2.17%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.90%) Bicep
11 5 (1.36%) Groovy
11 5 (1.36%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.36%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.08%) Cypher
13 3 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.81%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.27%) ABAP
14 1 (0.27%) X++
Qualifications
1 39 (10.57%) Security Cleared
2 29 (7.86%) Degree
3 26 (7.05%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.17%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.90%) CISSP
7 6 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.63%) CISM
7 6 (1.63%) PMP
8 5 (1.36%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.36%) OCP
8 5 (1.36%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.08%) CCSP
9 4 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.08%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.81%) CCSK
11 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.15%) QA
2 13 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.17%) NIST
4 7 (1.90%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.90%) HIPAA
5 6 (1.63%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.63%) SLA
6 4 (1.08%) GRC
6 4 (1.08%) HL7
6 4 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.08%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.81%) GDPR
8 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.54%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.27%) NCSC
9 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 42 (11.38%) Docker
2 35 (9.49%) Active Directory
3 18 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.17%) NFS
6 7 (1.90%) vSphere
7 5 (1.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (1.36%) RACF
8 4 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.81%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.27%) Ceph
11 1 (0.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.27%) KVM
11 1 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.27%) SRDF
11 1 (0.27%) XenApp
11 1 (0.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 75 (20.33%) Kubernetes
2 72 (19.51%) Terraform
3 31 (8.40%) Single Sign-On
4 28 (7.59%) Ansible
5 21 (5.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (4.07%) Grafana
7 9 (2.44%) HAProxy
7 9 (2.44%) Jamf Pro
7 9 (2.44%) Prometheus
8 6 (1.63%) SnapMirror
9 5 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (1.08%) Istio
10 4 (1.08%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.81%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.54%) Argo
12 2 (0.54%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.27%) Kibana
13 1 (0.27%) logstash
13 1 (0.27%) SELinux
13 1 (0.27%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 129 (34.96%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.76%) Google
2 36 (9.76%) ServiceNow
3 34 (9.21%) SAP
4 26 (7.05%) Okta
5 22 (5.96%) Databricks
6 18 (4.88%) Oracle
7 14 (3.79%) VMware
8 10 (2.71%) Splunk
9 9 (2.44%) OpenAI
9 9 (2.44%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.90%) NetApp
11 6 (1.63%) Brio
11 6 (1.63%) CyberArk
11 6 (1.63%) IBM
11 6 (1.63%) Veeam
12 5 (1.36%) Adobe
12 5 (1.36%) Aruba
12 5 (1.36%) Cisco
12 5 (1.36%) Foundry