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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 231 196 263
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 13.73% 13.35% 12.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.32% 37.12% 40.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 134 196
10th Percentile £290 £366 £344
25th Percentile £385 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +2.33%
75th Percentile £563 £609 £625
90th Percentile £688 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £43.55
25th Percentile - - £46.63
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £57.63
90th Percentile - - £60.25
England median hourly rate £34.24 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -2.17% -24.21% -16.04%

All Cloud 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 654 528 648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.86% 35.97% 31.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 361 475
10th Percentile £235 £300 £228
25th Percentile £370 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% -4.76% +4.95%
75th Percentile £538 £573 £613
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
England median daily rate £503 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.29% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £43.63 £15.58 £19.10
25th Percentile £69.69 £20.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £113.75 £21.00 £22.51
Median % change year-on-year +441.67% -6.71% +0.04%
75th Percentile £157.19 £28.75 £44.50
90th Percentile £182.88 - £55.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +43.56%

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 October 2025.

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
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 October 2025. 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 +1 134 £500 -2.44% 116
South Yorkshire -5 74 £475 -12.64% 34
North Yorkshire -3 11 £190 -30.91% 19
East Yorkshire -8 2 - - 25
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 13 (5.63%) SharePoint
2 10 (4.33%) Confluence
3 7 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.16%) Apache
4 5 (2.16%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.73%) CMS
6 2 (0.87%) CICS
6 2 (0.87%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.87%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.43%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.73%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.87%) Magento
4 2 (0.87%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.43%) SAP MRS
5 1 (0.43%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 117 (50.65%) AWS
2 91 (39.39%) GCP
3 39 (16.88%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 28 (12.12%) Entra ID
6 22 (9.52%) GitHub
7 18 (7.79%) Azure AKS
8 15 (6.49%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (6.49%) Power Platform
8 15 (6.49%) Serverless
9 14 (6.06%) SaaS
10 10 (4.33%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (4.33%) PaaS
11 9 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (3.90%) OneDrive
12 8 (3.46%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (3.46%) Azure Functions
12 8 (3.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (2.60%) Azure Sentinel
13 6 (2.60%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 25 (10.82%) Firewall
2 10 (4.33%) VPN
3 5 (2.16%) HTTP
3 5 (2.16%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.73%) Network Security
5 3 (1.30%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.30%) SAN
5 3 (1.30%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.87%) LAN
6 2 (0.87%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.87%) VLAN
6 2 (0.87%) WAN
7 1 (0.43%) BGP
7 1 (0.43%) Broadband
7 1 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.43%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.43%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.43%) NAS
7 1 (0.43%) OSPF
7 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.39%) NoSQL
2 22 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (6.93%) SQL Server
4 12 (5.19%) Power BI
5 11 (4.76%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.03%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.60%) BigQuery
7 6 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.60%) MySQL
8 5 (2.16%) Redis
9 4 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.73%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.73%) Metadata
9 4 (1.73%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.73%) Tableau
10 3 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.87%) Bigtable
11 2 (0.87%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 31 (13.42%) Jenkins
2 28 (12.12%) Git
3 24 (10.39%) JIRA
4 10 (4.33%) GitLab
5 9 (3.90%) Postman
5 9 (3.90%) SoapUI
6 7 (3.03%) Selenium
7 6 (2.60%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.16%) CircleCI
8 5 (2.16%) JUnit
8 5 (2.16%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.73%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.73%) Maven
9 4 (1.73%) Mocha
9 4 (1.73%) Storybook
10 3 (1.30%) git-flow
10 3 (1.30%) TestNG
11 2 (0.87%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.87%) Gradle
11 2 (0.87%) Mockito
General
1 77 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.72%) Finance
3 27 (11.69%) Public Sector
4 21 (9.09%) Banking
5 10 (4.33%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.90%) Retail
7 8 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.60%) Legal
9 3 (1.30%) Law
9 3 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Local Government
10 2 (0.87%) Police
11 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.43%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (18.61%) Developer
2 35 (15.15%) Architect
3 29 (12.55%) Analyst
4 27 (11.69%) Senior
5 19 (8.23%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (7.79%) Solutions Architect
7 14 (6.06%) Lead
8 11 (4.76%) Business Analyst
8 11 (4.76%) Senior Developer
8 11 (4.76%) Software Engineer
9 10 (4.33%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (4.33%) IT Support
9 10 (4.33%) Test Analyst
10 9 (3.90%) 2nd Line Support
10 9 (3.90%) Data Engineer
10 9 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.46%) .NET Software Engineer
11 8 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (3.03%) AWS DevOps
12 7 (3.03%) NetBackup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (12.12%) RESTful
2 24 (10.39%) .NET
2 24 (10.39%) Node.js
3 17 (7.36%) React
4 13 (5.63%) CSS
4 13 (5.63%) HTML
5 11 (4.76%) JSON
5 11 (4.76%) REST
6 10 (4.33%) Kafka
6 10 (4.33%) SAML
7 9 (3.90%) Express.js
7 9 (3.90%) OAuth
7 9 (3.90%) PyTorch
7 9 (3.90%) TensorFlow
8 8 (3.46%) Django
8 8 (3.46%) Next.js
8 8 (3.46%) OpenID
8 8 (3.46%) Regular Expression
9 7 (3.03%) CSS3
9 7 (3.03%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.12%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.36%) Onboarding
3 15 (6.49%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.19%) NHS
5 8 (3.46%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.60%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.16%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.16%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.16%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.30%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.87%) CCTV
10 2 (0.87%) CMDB
10 2 (0.87%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.87%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.87%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.87%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.87%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (12.12%) Windows
2 20 (8.66%) Linux
3 6 (2.60%) Unix
4 4 (1.73%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.87%) Android
5 2 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.87%) Solaris
5 2 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.87%) zOS
6 1 (0.43%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.43%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (36.80%) DevOps
2 70 (30.30%) CI/CD
3 61 (26.41%) Agile
4 39 (16.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (15.58%) Microservices
6 35 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
7 33 (14.29%) Containerisation
8 27 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (9.52%) Clean Code
9 22 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
10 20 (8.66%) Cloud Security
10 20 (8.66%) ITIL
10 20 (8.66%) Mentoring
10 20 (8.66%) Roadmaps
11 19 (8.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (8.23%) DevSecOps
11 19 (8.23%) Scrum
12 18 (7.79%) Migration
12 18 (7.79%) Software Engineering
12 18 (7.79%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 60 (25.97%) Python
2 47 (20.35%) SQL
3 27 (11.69%) Java
4 21 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 21 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 20 (8.66%) C#
6 18 (7.79%) Bash
7 13 (5.63%) TypeScript
8 8 (3.46%) Bicep
9 3 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.30%) PHP
9 3 (1.30%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (0.87%) ANSI SQL
10 2 (0.87%) Groovy
10 2 (0.87%) Scala
10 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.43%) ABAP
11 1 (0.43%) Rust
11 1 (0.43%) VB
11 1 (0.43%) VB6
Qualifications
1 16 (6.93%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.33%) CISM
2 10 (4.33%) CISSP
2 10 (4.33%) ISTQB
2 10 (4.33%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.90%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.16%) Degree
5 4 (1.73%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.30%) CEH
6 3 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.30%) GIAC
6 3 (1.30%) GWAPT
6 3 (1.30%) SAP Certification
7 2 (0.87%) CCNA
7 2 (0.87%) CISMP
7 2 (0.87%) GSEC
8 1 (0.43%) OCP
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.63%) GDPR
2 11 (4.76%) QA
3 10 (4.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.46%) NIST
5 7 (3.03%) Accessibility
5 7 (3.03%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.16%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.73%) WCAG
8 3 (1.30%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.30%) NCSC
8 3 (1.30%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.87%) COBIT
9 2 (0.87%) GRC
10 1 (0.43%) HL7
10 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (16.88%) Docker
2 29 (12.55%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.73%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.87%) KVM
7 1 (0.43%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.43%) NFS
7 1 (0.43%) Snort
7 1 (0.43%) SRDF
7 1 (0.43%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.43%) vSphere
7 1 (0.43%) Xen
Systems Management
1 60 (25.97%) Terraform
2 51 (22.08%) Kubernetes
3 19 (8.23%) Ansible
3 19 (8.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (4.33%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (3.46%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.03%) NetBackup
6 7 (3.03%) Oracle RMAN
7 6 (2.60%) Grafana
8 3 (1.30%) SCCM
9 2 (0.87%) Control-M
9 2 (0.87%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.87%) Puppet
9 2 (0.87%) SCOM
10 1 (0.43%) Argo
10 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 65 (28.14%) Microsoft
2 32 (13.85%) Google
3 15 (6.49%) CyberArk
4 14 (6.06%) Databricks
4 14 (6.06%) Oracle
5 13 (5.63%) F5
5 13 (5.63%) SAP
6 12 (5.19%) VMware
7 10 (4.33%) Cisco
8 8 (3.46%) Alibaba
8 8 (3.46%) BeyondTrust
8 8 (3.46%) Salesforce
8 8 (3.46%) Thycotic
9 7 (3.03%) HP
9 7 (3.03%) Veritas
10 5 (2.16%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.73%) Imperva
11 4 (1.73%) Splunk
12 3 (1.30%) Apple
12 3 (1.30%) Brio