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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 10 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 404 160 201
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.22% 11.84% 11.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.11% 32.65% 38.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 107 145
10th Percentile £315 £311 £360
25th Percentile £437 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £600
90th Percentile £700 £600 £648
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £18.50 - -
25th Percentile £21.88 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £43.23 £42.34
% change year-on-year +33.02% +2.09% -29.32%

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 1,060 490 529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.31% 36.27% 31.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 687 332 364
10th Percentile £313 £263 £263
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £610 £645
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 4 9
10th Percentile £18.50 £27.82 £13.45
25th Percentile £23.00 £30.17 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.96 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +119.73% -33.36%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.48 £21.50
90th Percentile - £79.33 £22.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -36.77%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +4 208 £488 -2.50% 97
South Yorkshire +6 138 £525 +11.70% 37
North Yorkshire +3 28 £510 +63.20% 13
East Yorkshire -3 6 £338 - 14
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 45 (11.14%) SharePoint
2 24 (5.94%) Confluence
3 20 (4.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (2.72%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.74%) Apache
6 2 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.50%) Apache Superset
6 2 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.50%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.25%) CMS
7 1 (0.25%) IIS
7 1 (0.25%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 15 (3.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.25%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 166 (41.09%) AWS
2 106 (26.24%) GCP
3 68 (16.83%) Microsoft 365
4 64 (15.84%) Entra ID
5 60 (14.85%) Azure DevOps
6 57 (14.11%) Power Platform
7 54 (13.37%) GitHub
8 39 (9.65%) GitHub Actions
9 30 (7.43%) PowerApps
10 25 (6.19%) SaaS
11 24 (5.94%) Microsoft Copilot
12 23 (5.69%) Serverless
13 22 (5.45%) OneDrive
14 19 (4.70%) PaaS
15 18 (4.46%) Azure Monitor
16 15 (3.71%) Copilot Studio
16 15 (3.71%) Power Automate
17 14 (3.47%) Azure Data Factory
18 13 (3.22%) Azure Functions
18 13 (3.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.96%) Firewall
2 13 (3.22%) WAN
3 12 (2.97%) DNS
3 12 (2.97%) LAN
3 12 (2.97%) Network Security
4 10 (2.48%) VPN
4 10 (2.48%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (2.23%) SAN
5 9 (2.23%) WLAN
6 7 (1.73%) IPsec
6 7 (1.73%) Kerberos
6 7 (1.73%) VLAN
7 6 (1.49%) BGP
7 6 (1.49%) OSPF
7 6 (1.49%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.24%) DHCP
9 4 (0.99%) Internet
9 4 (0.99%) SSL
9 4 (0.99%) Unified Communications
9 4 (0.99%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.17%) SQL Server
2 27 (6.68%) Power BI
3 18 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (3.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (2.72%) Metadata
7 10 (2.48%) Big Data
7 10 (2.48%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.98%) Delta Lake
9 7 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.99%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.99%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.74%) Neo4j
11 3 (0.74%) Parquet
11 3 (0.74%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.50%) Redis
12 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.50%) Trino
13 1 (0.25%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (12.38%) Jenkins
2 42 (10.40%) JIRA
3 22 (5.45%) Git
4 13 (3.22%) GitLab
5 10 (2.48%) Gatling
6 7 (1.73%) Maven
7 6 (1.49%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.99%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.74%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (0.74%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.50%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.50%) MSBuild
10 2 (0.50%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.50%) Selenium
10 2 (0.50%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.25%) JMeter
11 1 (0.25%) JUnit
11 1 (0.25%) SoapUI
General
1 106 (26.24%) Social Skills
2 93 (23.02%) Finance
3 34 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.43%) Public Sector
5 27 (6.68%) Banking
6 21 (5.20%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.72%) Law
8 9 (2.23%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.73%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.73%) Legal
10 7 (1.73%) Publishing
10 7 (1.73%) Retail
11 6 (1.49%) Social Science
12 5 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.99%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.99%) Military
14 2 (0.50%) Billing
14 2 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 71 (17.57%) Architect
2 52 (12.87%) Senior
3 41 (10.15%) Lead
4 40 (9.90%) DevOps Engineer
5 38 (9.41%) Developer
6 26 (6.44%) Azure Engineer
7 25 (6.19%) Analyst
7 25 (6.19%) Solutions Architect
8 21 (5.20%) Data Engineer
9 19 (4.70%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (4.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (3.96%) Technical Architect
12 13 (3.22%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (2.97%) 2nd Line Support
13 12 (2.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 12 (2.97%) Delivery Manager
14 11 (2.72%) Administrator
14 11 (2.72%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 11 (2.72%) Project Manager
15 10 (2.48%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.42%) REST
2 22 (5.45%) .NET
3 17 (4.21%) OAuth
4 16 (3.96%) OpenID
4 16 (3.96%) Web Services
5 13 (3.22%) SAML
6 11 (2.72%) OAuth2
6 11 (2.72%) Playwright
6 11 (2.72%) PySpark
6 11 (2.72%) React
6 11 (2.72%) SOAP
7 10 (2.48%) Kafka
7 10 (2.48%) SailPoint
7 10 (2.48%) SAP Basis
8 9 (2.23%) .NET Core
8 9 (2.23%) ASP.NET
8 9 (2.23%) Microsoft Graph
9 8 (1.98%) JSON
9 8 (1.98%) LDAP
10 7 (1.73%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 49 (12.13%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.93%) Product Ownership
3 25 (6.19%) Data Centre
4 24 (5.94%) Onboarding
5 18 (4.46%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (3.71%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (2.97%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (2.48%) AI Agents
10 9 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.98%) Taxonomies
12 7 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.73%) NHS
12 7 (1.73%) Replication
13 6 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
14 5 (1.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 5 (1.24%) FlexPod
14 5 (1.24%) PKI
14 5 (1.24%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 49 (12.13%) Windows
2 25 (6.19%) Linux
3 19 (4.70%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.98%) Data ONTAP
4 8 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.49%) CoreOS
5 6 (1.49%) VMS
6 4 (0.99%) Android
6 4 (0.99%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.74%) AIX
7 3 (0.74%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.50%) Unix
8 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (39.60%) DevOps
2 153 (37.87%) CI/CD
3 99 (24.50%) Agile
4 72 (17.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 66 (16.34%) Stakeholder Management
6 63 (15.59%) Roadmaps
7 59 (14.60%) AI
8 53 (13.12%) Migration
9 52 (12.87%) Cybersecurity
10 50 (12.38%) Observability
11 47 (11.63%) Platform Engineering
12 45 (11.14%) Analytics
12 45 (11.14%) Problem-Solving
13 44 (10.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 37 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 35 (8.66%) Software Engineering
16 34 (8.42%) Containerisation
16 34 (8.42%) Data Modelling
16 34 (8.42%) Data Pipeline
17 33 (8.17%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 81 (20.05%) Python
2 52 (12.87%) SQL
3 40 (9.90%) Java
3 40 (9.90%) PowerShell
4 22 (5.45%) C#
5 19 (4.70%) Bash
6 14 (3.47%) JavaScript
7 10 (2.48%) Bicep
7 10 (2.48%) Scala
8 8 (1.98%) Groovy
9 6 (1.49%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.24%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.24%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.99%) ABAP
11 4 (0.99%) Go
12 3 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.74%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.25%) R
13 1 (0.25%) Ruby
13 1 (0.25%) X++
Qualifications
1 56 (13.86%) Security Cleared
2 35 (8.66%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.68%) Degree
4 16 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.72%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.48%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.98%) CISSP
9 7 (1.73%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.49%) CISM
10 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.24%) OCP
11 5 (1.24%) Oracle Certification
11 5 (1.24%) PMP
12 4 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.99%) CCNP
12 4 (0.99%) CCSP
12 4 (0.99%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.21%) QA
2 15 (3.71%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.23%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.23%) NIST
5 8 (1.98%) GDPR
6 7 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 7 (1.73%) WCAG
7 6 (1.49%) HIPAA
8 5 (1.24%) GRC
8 5 (1.24%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.50%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.50%) SLA
10 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.25%) NCSC
11 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 57 (14.11%) Active Directory
2 44 (10.89%) Docker
3 17 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (3.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (2.97%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (1.98%) NFS
6 8 (1.98%) vSphere
7 4 (0.99%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.99%) RACF
8 3 (0.74%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.74%) SRDF
8 3 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.25%) Ceph
9 1 (0.25%) KVM
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.25%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 92 (22.77%) Terraform
2 74 (18.32%) Kubernetes
3 32 (7.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (6.93%) Ansible
5 19 (4.70%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (3.96%) Jamf Pro
7 14 (3.47%) Grafana
7 14 (3.47%) Prometheus
8 9 (2.23%) HAProxy
9 8 (1.98%) SnapMirror
10 4 (0.99%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.99%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.74%) Argo
11 3 (0.74%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (0.50%) Istio
12 2 (0.50%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.50%) Podman
12 2 (0.50%) SnapVault
12 2 (0.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 144 (35.64%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.42%) Databricks
3 30 (7.43%) Google
4 21 (5.20%) ServiceNow
5 20 (4.95%) SAP
6 16 (3.96%) CyberArk
6 16 (3.96%) Foundry
7 15 (3.71%) Okta
8 14 (3.47%) VMware
9 12 (2.97%) Oracle
9 12 (2.97%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.98%) NetApp
10 8 (1.98%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.98%) Splunk
11 7 (1.73%) Aruba
11 7 (1.73%) Cisco
11 7 (1.73%) Citrix
12 6 (1.49%) Apple
12 6 (1.49%) BeyondTrust
12 6 (1.49%) IBM