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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 12 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -6 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 384 132 207
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.03% 10.90% 11.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.78% 30.48% 39.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 83 152
10th Percentile £316 £263 £358
25th Percentile £449 £359 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.37% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £600
90th Percentile £700 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £543
% change year-on-year - -3.23% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 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 £43.23 £36.75
% change year-on-year +33.02% +17.62% -41.67%

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 1,044 433 520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.14% 35.76% 30.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 690 293 366
10th Percentile £313 £258 £263
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.52% -5.24%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £676 £624 £643
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 4 9
10th Percentile £18.50 £27.82 £13.45
25th Percentile £23.00 £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 £72.43 £79.33 £22.00
England median hourly rate £43.09 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +71.34% +14.32% -31.89%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +9 196 £500 +5.26% 69
South Yorkshire +10 131 £535 +18.89% 35
North Yorkshire +5 25 £500 +60.00% 18
East Yorkshire -1 6 £363 - 11
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 41 (10.68%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (3.91%) Confluence
4 9 (2.34%) 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 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.52%) Acrobat
2 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 21 (5.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.78%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.26%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 155 (40.36%) AWS
2 101 (26.30%) GCP
3 70 (18.23%) Entra ID
4 63 (16.41%) Microsoft 365
5 58 (15.10%) Azure DevOps
6 48 (12.50%) Power Platform
7 47 (12.24%) GitHub
8 38 (9.90%) GitHub Actions
9 34 (8.85%) SaaS
10 26 (6.77%) PowerApps
11 25 (6.51%) Serverless
12 22 (5.73%) Microsoft Copilot
12 22 (5.73%) OneDrive
13 19 (4.95%) Azure Monitor
13 19 (4.95%) PaaS
14 15 (3.91%) Power Automate
15 14 (3.65%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (3.65%) Azure Functions
16 13 (3.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 13 (3.39%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.39%) Firewall
1 13 (3.39%) WAN
2 12 (3.13%) Network Security
3 10 (2.60%) LAN
4 9 (2.34%) SAN
4 9 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (2.08%) DNS
6 7 (1.82%) Kerberos
6 7 (1.82%) VPN
7 6 (1.56%) WLAN
8 5 (1.30%) TCP/IP
9 4 (1.04%) Internet
9 4 (1.04%) IPsec
9 4 (1.04%) SSL
9 4 (1.04%) Unified Communications
9 4 (1.04%) VLAN
10 3 (0.78%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 3 (0.78%) NAS
10 3 (0.78%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.51%) SQL Server
2 23 (5.99%) Power BI
3 17 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (2.34%) Data Lake
6 9 (2.34%) Metadata
7 8 (2.08%) Big Data
7 8 (2.08%) Delta Lake
8 7 (1.82%) Neo4j
9 6 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.04%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.04%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.78%) Parquet
11 3 (0.78%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.26%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.26%) Redis
13 1 (0.26%) SAP BW
13 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (11.98%) Jenkins
2 37 (9.64%) JIRA
3 21 (5.47%) Git
4 19 (4.95%) GitLab
5 14 (3.65%) Gatling
6 7 (1.82%) Maven
7 6 (1.56%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.30%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.30%) JMeter
8 5 (1.30%) Postman
8 5 (1.30%) REST Assured
8 5 (1.30%) Selenium
9 4 (1.04%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.04%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.04%) NeoLoad
10 3 (0.78%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (0.78%) Fiddler
11 2 (0.52%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.26%) Gradle
12 1 (0.26%) Newman
General
1 100 (26.04%) Social Skills
2 91 (23.70%) Finance
3 31 (8.07%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.03%) Banking
4 27 (7.03%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (3.13%) Publishing
7 11 (2.86%) Law
8 8 (2.08%) Legal
9 7 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.56%) Social Science
11 5 (1.30%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.30%) Retail
12 4 (1.04%) Military
13 3 (0.78%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.26%) Digital Health
15 1 (0.26%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 72 (18.75%) Architect
2 50 (13.02%) Senior
3 41 (10.68%) Lead
4 37 (9.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 32 (8.33%) Developer
6 26 (6.77%) Azure Engineer
7 25 (6.51%) Solutions Architect
8 20 (5.21%) Analyst
9 18 (4.69%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (4.43%) Data Engineer
11 16 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (3.39%) Technical Architect
13 12 (3.13%) Administrator
13 12 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (3.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 12 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
14 11 (2.86%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 11 (2.86%) Consultant
15 10 (2.60%) Data Architect
15 10 (2.60%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.11%) REST
2 24 (6.25%) OpenID
3 17 (4.43%) OAuth
4 16 (4.17%) .NET
5 15 (3.91%) LDAP
5 15 (3.91%) SAP Basis
6 14 (3.65%) Playwright
6 14 (3.65%) SAML
7 12 (3.13%) Microsoft Graph
7 12 (3.13%) OAuth2
8 11 (2.86%) PySpark
8 11 (2.86%) SOAP
8 11 (2.86%) Web Services
9 10 (2.60%) SailPoint
10 9 (2.34%) Kafka
10 9 (2.34%) Middleware
10 9 (2.34%) React
11 7 (1.82%) JSON
11 7 (1.82%) RESTful
12 6 (1.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (13.28%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.81%) Onboarding
3 24 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 20 (5.21%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.65%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (3.39%) Taxonomies
7 12 (3.13%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.82%) NHS
10 7 (1.82%) Replication
10 7 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.30%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.30%) FlexPod
12 4 (1.04%) IoT
12 4 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.04%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 43 (11.20%) Windows
2 24 (6.25%) Linux
3 12 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.08%) Data ONTAP
4 8 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.56%) CoreOS
5 6 (1.56%) VMS
6 4 (1.04%) Android
6 4 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.04%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.78%) AIX
8 2 (0.52%) Unix
8 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (40.63%) DevOps
2 144 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 88 (22.92%) Agile
4 66 (17.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (17.19%) Roadmaps
5 53 (13.80%) Migration
6 51 (13.28%) Stakeholder Management
7 49 (12.76%) Platform Engineering
8 47 (12.24%) Observability
9 46 (11.98%) Cybersecurity
10 43 (11.20%) AI
11 41 (10.68%) Analytics
12 40 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (10.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 38 (9.90%) Identity Access Management
14 37 (9.64%) Containerisation
15 36 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
15 36 (9.38%) Data Pipeline
16 32 (8.33%) Microservices
17 31 (8.07%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 87 (22.66%) Python
2 50 (13.02%) SQL
3 47 (12.24%) Java
4 40 (10.42%) PowerShell
5 20 (5.21%) Bash
5 20 (5.21%) C#
6 14 (3.65%) JavaScript
6 14 (3.65%) Scala
7 8 (2.08%) Bicep
7 8 (2.08%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.30%) Go
8 5 (1.30%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.04%) ABAP
9 4 (1.04%) Cypher
9 4 (1.04%) Groovy
10 3 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.78%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.26%) Ruby
12 1 (0.26%) X++
Qualifications
1 47 (12.24%) Security Cleared
2 31 (8.07%) Degree
3 30 (7.81%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.34%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.08%) CISSP
7 7 (1.82%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.56%) CISM
8 6 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.56%) PMP
9 5 (1.30%) OCP
9 5 (1.30%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.04%) CCSP
10 4 (1.04%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.78%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.78%) NCDA
11 3 (0.78%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.91%) QA
2 12 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.34%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.34%) NIST
4 8 (2.08%) GDPR
5 7 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.82%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 5 (1.30%) GRC
6 5 (1.30%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.30%) WCAG
7 4 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.78%) 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%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.52%) SLA
10 1 (0.26%) NCSC
10 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 48 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 34 (8.85%) Docker
3 18 (4.69%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.08%) NFS
5 8 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (2.08%) vSphere
6 5 (1.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 4 (1.04%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.04%) RACF
8 3 (0.78%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.78%) SRDF
8 3 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.26%) Ceph
9 1 (0.26%) KVM
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 91 (23.70%) Terraform
2 65 (16.93%) Kubernetes
3 29 (7.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (5.99%) Single Sign-On
5 21 (5.47%) Ansible
6 12 (3.13%) Jamf Pro
7 11 (2.86%) Grafana
7 11 (2.86%) Prometheus
8 9 (2.34%) HAProxy
9 8 (2.08%) SnapMirror
10 4 (1.04%) Istio
10 4 (1.04%) Kustomize
10 4 (1.04%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.78%) Argo
11 3 (0.78%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (0.52%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.52%) Podman
12 2 (0.52%) SnapVault
12 2 (0.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 135 (35.16%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.64%) Google
3 28 (7.29%) Databricks
4 27 (7.03%) SAP
4 27 (7.03%) ServiceNow
5 20 (5.21%) Okta
6 14 (3.65%) VMware
7 12 (3.13%) Foundry
7 12 (3.13%) Oracle
7 12 (3.13%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.08%) CyberArk
8 8 (2.08%) NetApp
8 8 (2.08%) OpenAI
9 7 (1.82%) Aruba
9 7 (1.82%) Splunk
10 6 (1.56%) Cisco
11 5 (1.30%) IBM
11 5 (1.30%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.30%) Veeam
12 4 (1.04%) Brio