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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 15 7
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 354 104 200
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.24% 10.05% 12.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.72% 28.18% 42.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 73 143
10th Percentile £331 £263 £280
25th Percentile £447 £325 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £595
90th Percentile £688 £550 £644
England median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 0 0
10th Percentile £38.60 - -
25th Percentile £55.38 - -
Median hourly rate £58.00 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £38.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +48.39% +10.71% -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 964 369 471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.78% 35.65% 28.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 257 329
10th Percentile £320 £251 £250
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +3.05% -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £560 £550 £588
90th Percentile £650 £630 £639
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 6 8
10th Percentile £14.25 £28.86 £13.43
25th Percentile £27.88 £31.54 £14.63
Median hourly rate £56.50 £62.40 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% +316.00% -65.32%
75th Percentile £68.75 £101.14 £17.31
90th Percentile £71.38 £102.00 £22.00
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -35.19%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +7 169 £500 +17.65% 105
South Yorkshire +9 138 £514 +8.21% 38
North Yorkshire +4 17 £475 +31.03% 13
East Yorkshire +1 14 £325 - 7
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 25 (7.06%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.80%) Confluence
3 13 (3.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.98%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.56%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.28%) Apache
6 1 (0.28%) CMS
6 1 (0.28%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.13%) Acrobat
2 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 27 (7.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (3.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.85%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.28%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.28%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 162 (45.76%) AWS
2 112 (31.64%) GCP
3 62 (17.51%) Entra ID
4 48 (13.56%) SaaS
5 46 (12.99%) Azure DevOps
6 43 (12.15%) Microsoft 365
7 41 (11.58%) GitHub
8 35 (9.89%) Power Platform
9 29 (8.19%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (6.21%) PaaS
11 21 (5.93%) OpenShift
12 20 (5.65%) Serverless
13 16 (4.52%) PowerApps
14 14 (3.95%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (3.67%) Azure AKS
15 13 (3.67%) IaaS
15 13 (3.67%) Microsoft Copilot
15 13 (3.67%) OneDrive
16 12 (3.39%) Azure Functions
16 12 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.24%) Firewall
2 12 (3.39%) DNS
2 12 (3.39%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.82%) Kerberos
3 10 (2.82%) WAN
3 10 (2.82%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (2.54%) LAN
4 9 (2.54%) Network Security
5 7 (1.98%) SAN
6 6 (1.69%) SSL
6 6 (1.69%) VPN
7 5 (1.41%) IPsec
8 4 (1.13%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.85%) Internet
9 3 (0.85%) PSTN
10 2 (0.56%) NAS
10 2 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.56%) VLAN
10 2 (0.56%) WLAN
11 1 (0.28%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.63%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (5.37%) Power BI
4 18 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.26%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.98%) Metadata
8 6 (1.69%) Big Data
8 6 (1.69%) Delta Lake
9 5 (1.41%) MySQL
10 4 (1.13%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.13%) Neo4j
10 4 (1.13%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.56%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.56%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.56%) Tableau
12 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.28%) Redis
12 1 (0.28%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 57 (16.10%) Jenkins
2 47 (13.28%) JIRA
3 30 (8.47%) GitLab
4 26 (7.34%) Git
5 14 (3.95%) Gatling
5 14 (3.95%) Selenium
6 13 (3.67%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.67%) REST Assured
7 12 (3.39%) Postman
8 8 (2.26%) Maven
9 7 (1.98%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.41%) JMeter
10 5 (1.41%) TestRail
11 4 (1.13%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.13%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.13%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.13%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.85%) Browser DevTools
12 3 (0.85%) Fiddler
13 2 (0.56%) SoapUI
General
1 115 (32.49%) Social Skills
2 80 (22.60%) Finance
3 34 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (8.76%) Banking
4 31 (8.76%) Public Sector
5 21 (5.93%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (4.52%) Publishing
7 7 (1.98%) Law
7 7 (1.98%) Legal
8 5 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.13%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.85%) Health Technology
10 3 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.85%) Military
11 2 (0.56%) Retail
11 2 (0.56%) Social Science
12 1 (0.28%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.28%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (14.12%) Architect
2 43 (12.15%) Lead
3 41 (11.58%) Senior
4 30 (8.47%) Developer
5 27 (7.63%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (5.93%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (5.08%) Analyst
8 17 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
9 15 (4.24%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (3.95%) Administrator
10 14 (3.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (3.67%) Data Engineer
12 11 (3.11%) Consultant
12 11 (3.11%) Delivery Manager
12 11 (3.11%) Project Manager
13 10 (2.82%) Technical Architect
13 10 (2.82%) Test Automation Engineer
13 10 (2.82%) Test Engineer
14 9 (2.54%) Data Analyst
14 9 (2.54%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.02%) REST
2 33 (9.32%) OpenID
3 26 (7.34%) LDAP
4 22 (6.21%) .NET
5 19 (5.37%) OAuth
6 18 (5.08%) SailPoint
6 18 (5.08%) SAP Basis
7 16 (4.52%) SAML
8 14 (3.95%) Playwright
9 12 (3.39%) Middleware
9 12 (3.39%) OAuth2
10 10 (2.82%) Microsoft Graph
10 10 (2.82%) RESTful
10 10 (2.82%) Web Services
11 9 (2.54%) React
11 9 (2.54%) SOAP
12 8 (2.26%) Kafka
12 8 (2.26%) Node.js
13 7 (1.98%) PySpark
14 6 (1.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 41 (11.58%) Onboarding
2 33 (9.32%) Cloud Native
3 26 (7.34%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (5.65%) Taxonomies
5 19 (5.37%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.54%) NHS
8 8 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.98%) IoT
10 6 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.41%) CMDB
11 5 (1.41%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.41%) FlexPod
11 5 (1.41%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.41%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 33 (9.32%) Windows
2 28 (7.91%) Linux
3 8 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (2.26%) VMS
4 6 (1.69%) CoreOS
4 6 (1.69%) Data ONTAP
4 6 (1.69%) Unix
5 5 (1.41%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.13%) Android
6 4 (1.13%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.85%) AIX
7 3 (0.85%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (40.40%) DevOps
2 135 (38.14%) CI/CD
3 92 (25.99%) Agile
4 69 (19.49%) Roadmaps
5 52 (14.69%) Migration
6 50 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (13.28%) Containerisation
7 47 (13.28%) Infrastructure as Code
8 46 (12.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 43 (12.15%) Cybersecurity
10 42 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
11 39 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
12 38 (10.73%) Identity Access Management
12 38 (10.73%) Observability
13 36 (10.17%) Analytics
13 36 (10.17%) Test Automation
14 35 (9.89%) Data Governance
14 35 (9.89%) Data Pipeline
15 34 (9.60%) AI
15 34 (9.60%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 81 (22.88%) Python
2 58 (16.38%) SQL
3 55 (15.54%) Java
4 32 (9.04%) PowerShell
5 23 (6.50%) Bash
6 19 (5.37%) JavaScript
7 17 (4.80%) C#
8 13 (3.67%) Scala
9 8 (2.26%) Bicep
9 8 (2.26%) PHP
10 7 (1.98%) Go
10 7 (1.98%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.41%) Groovy
11 5 (1.41%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.13%) Cypher
12 4 (1.13%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.56%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.28%) ABAP
15 1 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (10.73%) Security Cleared
2 29 (8.19%) Degree
3 25 (7.06%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.26%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.98%) CISSP
7 6 (1.69%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.69%) CISM
7 6 (1.69%) PMP
8 5 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.41%) OCP
8 5 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.13%) CCSP
9 4 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.13%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.85%) CCSK
11 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.37%) QA
2 13 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.26%) NIST
4 7 (1.98%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.98%) HIPAA
5 6 (1.69%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.69%) SLA
6 4 (1.13%) GRC
6 4 (1.13%) HL7
6 4 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.13%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.85%) GDPR
8 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.56%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.56%) PMO
9 1 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 40 (11.30%) Docker
2 31 (8.76%) Active Directory
3 18 (5.08%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.26%) NFS
6 7 (1.98%) vSphere
7 5 (1.41%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (1.41%) RACF
8 3 (0.85%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.28%) Ceph
10 1 (0.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.28%) KVM
10 1 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.28%) SRDF
10 1 (0.28%) XenApp
10 1 (0.28%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 72 (20.34%) Kubernetes
2 68 (19.21%) Terraform
3 31 (8.76%) Single Sign-On
4 26 (7.34%) Ansible
5 20 (5.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (3.95%) Grafana
7 9 (2.54%) HAProxy
8 8 (2.26%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (2.26%) Prometheus
9 6 (1.69%) SnapMirror
10 5 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (1.41%) Istio
11 3 (0.85%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.56%) Argo
12 2 (0.56%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.28%) EMC VPLEX
13 1 (0.28%) Kibana
13 1 (0.28%) logstash
13 1 (0.28%) SELinux
13 1 (0.28%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 122 (34.46%) Microsoft
2 36 (10.17%) ServiceNow
3 35 (9.89%) Google
4 34 (9.60%) SAP
5 25 (7.06%) Okta
6 21 (5.93%) Databricks
7 18 (5.08%) Oracle
8 13 (3.67%) VMware
9 10 (2.82%) Splunk
10 9 (2.54%) OpenAI
10 9 (2.54%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.98%) NetApp
12 6 (1.69%) Brio
12 6 (1.69%) CyberArk
12 6 (1.69%) Veeam
13 5 (1.41%) Adobe
13 5 (1.41%) Aruba
13 5 (1.41%) Cisco
13 5 (1.41%) Foundry
13 5 (1.41%) IBM