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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 288 142 242
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 15.40% 13.73% 13.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.80% 36.32% 42.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 93 167
10th Percentile £290 £302 £263
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £559 £563 £600
90th Percentile £684 £650 £688
England median daily rate £522 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.57% -4.55% -3.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £41.44 - -
25th Percentile £52.75 - -
Median hourly rate £56.50 - £62.00
75th Percentile £57.25 - -
90th Percentile £60.20 - -
England median hourly rate £53.25 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +52.14% -24.21% -8.55%

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 762 391 567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 40.75% 37.81% 31.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 256 420
10th Percentile £219 £275 £250
25th Percentile £378 £404 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £600
90th Percentile £625 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 2
10th Percentile - £20.67 £24.20
25th Percentile £14.25 £26.25 £30.50
Median hourly rate £54.00 £41.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.71% - +64.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £99.32 £51.50
90th Percentile £66.80 £102.00 £57.80
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £22.50
% change year-on-year -3.36% +26.47% -

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 11 January 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 -1 150 £500 +5.26% 92
South Yorkshire +7 94 £487 -7.90% 49
North Yorkshire 0 20 £450 +63.64% 24
East Yorkshire - 9 £325 - 36
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 19 (6.60%) SharePoint
2 16 (5.56%) Confluence
3 9 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.74%) Apache
4 5 (1.74%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.39%) CMS
6 2 (0.69%) CICS
6 2 (0.69%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.69%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.35%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 8 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.74%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.35%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (5.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.39%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (1.04%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.69%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.69%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.35%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.35%) Magento
6 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 145 (50.35%) AWS
2 112 (38.89%) GCP
3 46 (15.97%) Entra ID
4 40 (13.89%) Microsoft 365
5 34 (11.81%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (10.76%) GitHub
7 30 (10.42%) SaaS
8 20 (6.94%) Power Platform
9 19 (6.60%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (5.56%) Serverless
11 14 (4.86%) OpenShift
12 12 (4.17%) OneDrive
12 12 (4.17%) PaaS
13 10 (3.47%) Azure AKS
14 9 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (2.78%) Azure Functions
16 7 (2.43%) Power Automate
17 6 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
17 6 (2.08%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 33 (11.46%) Firewall
2 17 (5.90%) TCP/IP
3 12 (4.17%) DNS
3 12 (4.17%) WAN
4 11 (3.82%) LAN
4 11 (3.82%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (3.13%) Network Security
6 7 (2.43%) VPN
7 5 (1.74%) HTTP
7 5 (1.74%) Kerberos
8 4 (1.39%) DHCP
8 4 (1.39%) VLAN
9 3 (1.04%) HTTPS
9 3 (1.04%) SSL
9 3 (1.04%) VoIP
10 2 (0.69%) BGP
10 2 (0.69%) IPsec
10 2 (0.69%) OSPF
10 2 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.94%) SQL Server
2 19 (6.60%) Power BI
3 18 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 14 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.43%) MySQL
6 6 (2.08%) BigQuery
6 6 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.08%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.08%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.74%) Redis
7 5 (1.74%) Tableau
8 4 (1.39%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.39%) Metadata
9 3 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.69%) Cloud Spanner
10 2 (0.69%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.69%) Power Query
10 2 (0.69%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (16.32%) Jenkins
2 35 (12.15%) JIRA
3 29 (10.07%) Git
4 21 (7.29%) GitLab
5 18 (6.25%) Selenium
6 12 (4.17%) Cucumber
7 11 (3.82%) Postman
8 10 (3.47%) REST Assured
9 9 (3.13%) CircleCI
10 8 (2.78%) TestRail
11 6 (2.08%) JUnit
12 5 (1.74%) Zephyr
13 4 (1.39%) Maven
13 4 (1.39%) Mocha
13 4 (1.39%) Storybook
14 3 (1.04%) SoapUI
14 3 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
14 3 (1.04%) TestNG
15 2 (0.69%) Cypress.io
15 2 (0.69%) Mockito
General
1 109 (37.85%) Social Skills
2 46 (15.97%) Finance
3 39 (13.54%) Public Sector
4 30 (10.42%) Banking
5 23 (7.99%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.13%) Legal
8 8 (2.78%) Publishing
9 7 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.43%) Retail
10 6 (2.08%) Law
11 5 (1.74%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.04%) Local Government
14 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.69%) Police
15 1 (0.35%) Digital Health
15 1 (0.35%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 40 (13.89%) Architect
2 31 (10.76%) Senior
3 27 (9.38%) Developer
4 26 (9.03%) Lead
5 21 (7.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
7 16 (5.56%) Analyst
8 14 (4.86%) 2nd Line Support
9 13 (4.51%) IT Support
9 13 (4.51%) Software Engineer
10 9 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (3.13%) Data Engineer
11 8 (2.78%) Consultant
11 8 (2.78%) IT Engineer
11 8 (2.78%) Project Manager
11 8 (2.78%) Senior Developer
11 8 (2.78%) Tester
12 7 (2.43%) Security Architect
12 7 (2.43%) Test Automation Engineer
12 7 (2.43%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (9.03%) React
2 24 (8.33%) REST
2 24 (8.33%) RESTful
3 23 (7.99%) .NET
4 20 (6.94%) LDAP
5 19 (6.60%) Node.js
6 16 (5.56%) OpenID
7 15 (5.21%) OAuth
8 13 (4.51%) CSS
8 13 (4.51%) HTML
9 12 (4.17%) SailPoint
9 12 (4.17%) SAML
10 10 (3.47%) SAP Basis
11 9 (3.13%) FHIR
11 9 (3.13%) Kafka
12 8 (2.78%) AngularJS
12 8 (2.78%) Middleware
13 7 (2.43%) Express.js
13 7 (2.43%) JWT
13 7 (2.43%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.72%) Onboarding
2 27 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (6.25%) NHS
3 18 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.82%) Taxonomies
5 10 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (3.47%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.43%) CMDB
6 7 (2.43%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.08%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.74%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.74%) IoT
8 5 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.39%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (1.39%) Replication
10 3 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.04%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.04%) iPhone
10 3 (1.04%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 40 (13.89%) Windows
2 29 (10.07%) Linux
3 9 (3.13%) Unix
4 5 (1.74%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.39%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.04%) Android
7 2 (0.69%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.69%) Solaris
7 2 (0.69%) VMS
7 2 (0.69%) zOS
8 1 (0.35%) CentOS
8 1 (0.35%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.35%) MVS
8 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (33.68%) DevOps
2 95 (32.99%) CI/CD
3 60 (20.83%) Agile
4 49 (17.01%) Containerisation
5 48 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 45 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 38 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 36 (12.50%) Microservices
10 35 (12.15%) Migration
11 32 (11.11%) ITIL
11 32 (11.11%) Test Automation
12 31 (10.76%) Cybersecurity
12 31 (10.76%) Stakeholder Management
13 28 (9.72%) Mentoring
14 26 (9.03%) DevSecOps
15 25 (8.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 23 (7.99%) Data Governance
17 22 (7.64%) Cloud Security
17 22 (7.64%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 68 (23.61%) Python
2 54 (18.75%) SQL
3 43 (14.93%) Java
4 29 (10.07%) JavaScript
5 28 (9.72%) PowerShell
6 25 (8.68%) Bash
7 19 (6.60%) C#
8 16 (5.56%) TypeScript
9 10 (3.47%) PHP
10 8 (2.78%) Bicep
11 4 (1.39%) Go
11 4 (1.39%) Groovy
12 3 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.04%) Rust
12 3 (1.04%) Search Processing Language
12 3 (1.04%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.69%) Solidity
13 2 (0.69%) XPath
14 1 (0.35%) C++
Qualifications
1 19 (6.60%) Security Cleared
2 13 (4.51%) Degree
3 11 (3.82%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.78%) CISSP
5 7 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.08%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.74%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.74%) CEH
7 5 (1.74%) CISM
8 4 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.39%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.04%) CCSK
9 3 (1.04%) CCSP
9 3 (1.04%) GIAC
9 3 (1.04%) GWAPT
9 3 (1.04%) SAP Certification
10 2 (0.69%) CCNA
10 2 (0.69%) CCNP
10 2 (0.69%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.90%) QA
2 14 (4.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.82%) GDPR
4 9 (3.13%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.43%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.43%) NIST
6 6 (2.08%) Data Quality
6 6 (2.08%) HL7
6 6 (2.08%) SOC 2
7 5 (1.74%) SLA
8 4 (1.39%) WCAG
9 3 (1.04%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.04%) PSD2
10 2 (0.69%) COBIT
10 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.69%) GRC
10 2 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 55 (19.10%) Docker
2 36 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 14 (4.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.04%) KVM
5 3 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.04%) vSphere
6 2 (0.69%) NFS
6 2 (0.69%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.35%) QEMU
7 1 (0.35%) RACF
7 1 (0.35%) Snort
7 1 (0.35%) SRDF
7 1 (0.35%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.35%) Xen
7 1 (0.35%) XenApp
7 1 (0.35%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 63 (21.88%) Kubernetes
2 60 (20.83%) Terraform
3 32 (11.11%) Ansible
4 22 (7.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (5.90%) Grafana
7 11 (3.82%) Prometheus
8 6 (2.08%) NetBackup
8 6 (2.08%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.69%) Argo
10 2 (0.69%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.69%) Puppet
11 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.35%) Istio
11 1 (0.35%) Kibana
11 1 (0.35%) logstash
11 1 (0.35%) Oracle Identity Manager
11 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 71 (24.65%) Microsoft
2 29 (10.07%) Google
3 26 (9.03%) SAP
4 21 (7.29%) Oracle
5 18 (6.25%) ServiceNow
6 17 (5.90%) Splunk
7 16 (5.56%) F5
8 15 (5.21%) Cisco
8 15 (5.21%) VMware
9 11 (3.82%) Okta
10 9 (3.13%) Databricks
11 8 (2.78%) CyberArk
12 7 (2.43%) HP
13 6 (2.08%) Adobe
13 6 (2.08%) Meraki
13 6 (2.08%) Salesforce
13 6 (2.08%) Veeam
13 6 (2.08%) Veritas
14 5 (1.74%) Apple
14 5 (1.74%) MobileIron