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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 11 5
Rank change year-on-year +5 -6 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure 430 198 202
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.77% 12.64% 13.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.15% 33.79% 38.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 120 140
10th Percentile £344 £312 £350
25th Percentile £413 £396 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £506
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -3.66% -8.00%
75th Percentile £594 £550 £600
90th Percentile £688 £676 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
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 £33.39 £38.50
% change year-on-year +57.26% -13.29% -16.63%

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 1,045 586 531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 35.90% 37.40% 35.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 392 366
10th Percentile £306 £235 £288
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £567
90th Percentile £675 £610 £650
England median daily rate £525 £501 £533
% change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 5
10th Percentile £13.45 - -
25th Percentile £14.69 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £200.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -90.50% +809.09% +3.51%
75th Percentile £35.00 - -
90th Percentile - - £26.05
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
% change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%

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 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 25 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 25 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 0 199 £488 -2.50% 248
South Yorkshire +9 173 £518 +8.95% 112
North Yorkshire +8 30 £460 +143.71% 65
East Yorkshire -2 3 £338 - 21
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 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 27 (6.28%) Confluence
3 18 (4.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (3.49%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.63%) Apache
6 6 (1.40%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.16%) 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 9 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 183 (42.56%) AWS
2 128 (29.77%) GCP
3 74 (17.21%) Microsoft 365
4 71 (16.51%) GitHub
5 66 (15.35%) Azure DevOps
5 66 (15.35%) Entra ID
6 62 (14.42%) Power Platform
7 43 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (6.28%) Microsoft Copilot
9 24 (5.58%) PowerApps
10 21 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (4.65%) OneDrive
12 17 (3.95%) Serverless
13 16 (3.72%) Copilot Studio
14 14 (3.26%) Azure AI
14 14 (3.26%) SaaS
15 13 (3.02%) Azure Data Factory
16 12 (2.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 12 (2.79%) Power Automate
17 11 (2.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.44%) Firewall
2 29 (6.74%) DNS
3 21 (4.88%) Network Security
4 18 (4.19%) VPN
5 16 (3.72%) VLAN
6 14 (3.26%) DHCP
7 13 (3.02%) LAN
7 13 (3.02%) WAN
8 12 (2.79%) WLAN
9 11 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (2.33%) BGP
10 10 (2.33%) OSPF
11 9 (2.09%) TCP/IP
12 7 (1.63%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (1.63%) 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 (1.16%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.44%) Power BI
1 32 (7.44%) SQL Server
2 18 (4.19%) Big Data
2 18 (4.19%) Metadata
2 18 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (2.79%) Data Lake
5 8 (1.86%) Delta Lake
6 7 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.63%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.16%) Neo4j
7 5 (1.16%) Redis
7 5 (1.16%) Semantic Layer
7 5 (1.16%) Tableau
7 5 (1.16%) Trino
8 4 (0.93%) SAP HANA
9 3 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.70%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.70%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 53 (12.33%) Jenkins
2 49 (11.40%) JIRA
3 33 (7.67%) Git
4 17 (3.95%) GitLab
5 9 (2.09%) Gatling
6 8 (1.86%) JMeter
6 8 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.40%) LoadRunner
7 6 (1.40%) Selenium
8 5 (1.16%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.16%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.16%) Maven
8 5 (1.16%) 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%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.47%) Terragrunt
General
1 130 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 118 (27.44%) Finance
3 39 (9.07%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (8.14%) Banking
5 31 (7.21%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.02%) Law
7 11 (2.56%) Retail
8 10 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.33%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.09%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.40%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.40%) Social Science
12 5 (1.16%) Legal
13 4 (0.93%) Military
14 3 (0.70%) Police
15 2 (0.47%) Billing
15 2 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
16 1 (0.23%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (16.51%) Architect
2 62 (14.42%) Senior
3 55 (12.79%) Lead
4 37 (8.60%) Developer
5 36 (8.37%) Data Engineer
6 35 (8.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 23 (5.35%) Analyst
7 23 (5.35%) Azure Engineer
7 23 (5.35%) Solutions Architect
8 19 (4.42%) Platform Engineer
9 15 (3.49%) Delivery Manager
9 15 (3.49%) Technical Architect
10 14 (3.26%) Cloud Architect
10 14 (3.26%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (3.26%) Consultant
11 13 (3.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (2.79%) 2nd Line Support
12 12 (2.79%) Security Engineer
13 11 (2.56%) Data Architect
14 10 (2.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (25.35%) Terraform
2 42 (9.77%) REST
3 27 (6.28%) Kafka
4 24 (5.58%) React
5 22 (5.12%) .NET
6 20 (4.65%) OAuth
7 16 (3.72%) OpenID
8 14 (3.26%) OAuth2
9 13 (3.02%) ASP.NET
9 13 (3.02%) PySpark
9 13 (3.02%) SailPoint
9 13 (3.02%) SAML
10 12 (2.79%) .NET Core
11 11 (2.56%) JSON
11 11 (2.56%) Middleware
11 11 (2.56%) Playwright
12 10 (2.33%) RESTful
12 10 (2.33%) SOAP
12 10 (2.33%) Web Services
13 9 (2.09%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 68 (15.81%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.67%) Data Centre
3 27 (6.28%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (4.88%) AI Agents
5 20 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
5 20 (4.65%) Onboarding
5 20 (4.65%) Product Ownership
6 17 (3.95%) Public Cloud
7 13 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.33%) PKI
9 9 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.63%) Replication
11 6 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.40%) NHS
12 5 (1.16%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 56 (13.02%) Windows
2 30 (6.98%) Linux
3 29 (6.74%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.40%) Android
4 6 (1.40%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.70%) AIX
5 3 (0.70%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.70%) Unix
6 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.23%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.23%) VMS
7 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (42.56%) CI/CD
2 164 (38.14%) DevOps
3 106 (24.65%) Agile
4 102 (23.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 83 (19.30%) Stakeholder Management
6 81 (18.84%) AI
7 76 (17.67%) Observability
8 69 (16.05%) Cybersecurity
9 64 (14.88%) Analytics
10 57 (13.26%) Roadmaps
11 56 (13.02%) Test Automation
12 53 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
13 50 (11.63%) Data Engineering
13 50 (11.63%) Platform Engineering
14 49 (11.40%) Migration
14 49 (11.40%) Software Engineering
15 47 (10.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 45 (10.47%) Data Pipeline
16 45 (10.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 45 (10.47%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 103 (23.95%) Python
2 55 (12.79%) SQL
3 53 (12.33%) Java
4 51 (11.86%) PowerShell
5 24 (5.58%) C#
6 21 (4.88%) JavaScript
7 18 (4.19%) Bash
8 15 (3.49%) Bicep
9 13 (3.02%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.09%) Groovy
10 9 (2.09%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.63%) Go
12 6 (1.40%) Scala
13 5 (1.16%) Kotlin
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 59 (13.72%) Security Cleared
2 41 (9.53%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.28%) Degree
4 19 (4.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (3.49%) Azure Certification
5 15 (3.49%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (2.79%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.56%) CISSP
8 9 (2.09%) CISM
8 9 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.86%) CCNP
10 7 (1.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (1.63%) CCSP
10 7 (1.63%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.63%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.63%) PMP
11 6 (1.40%) CCSK
12 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.28%) Data Quality
2 25 (5.81%) QA
3 13 (3.02%) GDPR
3 13 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.56%) NIST
5 9 (2.09%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.86%) HIPAA
7 7 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 7 (1.63%) WCAG
8 6 (1.40%) GRC
8 6 (1.40%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (1.16%) 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 70 (16.28%) Active Directory
2 53 (12.33%) Docker
3 14 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (2.33%) Hyper-V
7 7 (1.63%) vSphere
8 5 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.70%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.70%) Firmware
9 3 (0.70%) NFS
9 3 (0.70%) SRDF
10 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.23%) Ceph
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.23%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 92 (21.40%) Kubernetes
2 32 (7.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 31 (7.21%) Ansible
4 20 (4.65%) Grafana
5 16 (3.72%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.79%) Jamf Pro
7 9 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (1.63%) Kustomize
9 6 (1.40%) vCenter Server
10 5 (1.16%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.93%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.70%) Argo
12 3 (0.70%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.70%) Packer
12 3 (0.70%) SCCM
12 3 (0.70%) SnapMirror
12 3 (0.70%) vMotion
13 2 (0.47%) Podman
13 2 (0.47%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 147 (34.19%) Microsoft
2 50 (11.63%) Databricks
3 31 (7.21%) ServiceNow
4 28 (6.51%) Google
5 19 (4.42%) CyberArk
6 18 (4.19%) Foundry
7 17 (3.95%) Cisco
8 15 (3.49%) SAP
8 15 (3.49%) VMware
9 13 (3.02%) Splunk
10 12 (2.79%) Dynatrace
11 11 (2.56%) Okta
12 10 (2.33%) IBM
13 9 (2.09%) OpenAI
14 8 (1.86%) Citrix
14 8 (1.86%) Oracle
15 7 (1.63%) CheckPoint
15 7 (1.63%) Dell
15 7 (1.63%) Red Hat
15 7 (1.63%) Salesforce