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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 11 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 404 173 195
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.17% 11.63% 12.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.73% 32.64% 38.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 116 139
10th Percentile £331 £310 £395
25th Percentile £422 £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 £603
90th Percentile £700 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £18.50 - -
25th Percentile £20.75 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £41.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.72% +18.43% -37.78%

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 1,043 530 501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.57% 35.64% 32.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 664 364 348
10th Percentile £314 £263 £275
25th Percentile £413 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% -7.62%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £647
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 5
10th Percentile £15.93 £27.35 £16.15
25th Percentile £18.50 £29.01 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.11 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% +57.67% -1.20%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.51 £22.00
90th Percentile - £85.74 -
England median hourly rate £37.24 £25.58 £23.80
% change year-on-year +45.61% +7.46% -27.88%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +4 204 £488 -2.50% 121
South Yorkshire +6 141 £519 +15.72% 49
North Yorkshire +7 30 £510 +63.20% 28
East Yorkshire -1 7 £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 46 (11.39%) SharePoint
2 28 (6.93%) 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 Project
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (3.47%) 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
1 157 (38.86%) AWS
2 110 (27.23%) GCP
3 71 (17.57%) Microsoft 365
4 63 (15.59%) Entra ID
4 63 (15.59%) Power Platform
5 59 (14.60%) Azure DevOps
6 55 (13.61%) GitHub
7 37 (9.16%) GitHub Actions
8 30 (7.43%) PowerApps
9 24 (5.94%) Microsoft Copilot
9 24 (5.94%) SaaS
10 23 (5.69%) OneDrive
11 18 (4.46%) Azure Monitor
11 18 (4.46%) Serverless
12 16 (3.96%) PaaS
13 15 (3.71%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (3.71%) Copilot Studio
13 15 (3.71%) Power Automate
14 14 (3.47%) Azure AI
15 13 (3.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.70%) Firewall
2 13 (3.22%) DNS
2 13 (3.22%) LAN
2 13 (3.22%) WAN
3 12 (2.97%) Network Security
4 11 (2.72%) VPN
4 11 (2.72%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (2.48%) WLAN
6 9 (2.23%) SAN
7 8 (1.98%) VLAN
8 7 (1.73%) BGP
8 7 (1.73%) OSPF
8 7 (1.73%) TCP/IP
9 6 (1.49%) DHCP
10 5 (1.24%) IPsec
11 4 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (0.99%) Internet
11 4 (0.99%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.99%) VoIP
11 4 (0.99%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.17%) SQL Server
2 30 (7.43%) Power BI
3 17 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (3.22%) Metadata
5 10 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (2.48%) Big Data
5 10 (2.48%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.73%) Delta Lake
7 5 (1.24%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.99%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.99%) SAP HANA
9 3 (0.74%) Parquet
9 3 (0.74%) Spark SQL
9 3 (0.74%) Tableau
10 2 (0.50%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.50%) Redis
10 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 48 (11.88%) Jenkins
1 48 (11.88%) JIRA
2 25 (6.19%) Git
3 13 (3.22%) GitLab
4 11 (2.72%) Gatling
5 7 (1.73%) Maven
6 6 (1.49%) Artifactory
6 6 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.99%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.99%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.74%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (0.74%) Fiddler
8 3 (0.74%) Selenium
9 2 (0.50%) JMeter
9 2 (0.50%) MSBuild
9 2 (0.50%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.25%) Gradle
10 1 (0.25%) JUnit
10 1 (0.25%) LoadRunner
General
1 106 (26.24%) Social Skills
2 95 (23.51%) Finance
3 33 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (6.93%) Public Sector
5 27 (6.68%) Banking
6 19 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.47%) Law
8 9 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (2.23%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.98%) Retail
10 7 (1.73%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.49%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.49%) Publishing
11 6 (1.49%) Social Science
12 5 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.24%) Legal
13 3 (0.74%) Military
13 3 (0.74%) Police
14 2 (0.50%) Billing
14 2 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 68 (16.83%) Architect
2 50 (12.38%) Lead
3 49 (12.13%) Senior
4 39 (9.65%) DevOps Engineer
5 37 (9.16%) Developer
6 26 (6.44%) Solutions Architect
7 24 (5.94%) Azure Engineer
8 23 (5.69%) Analyst
8 23 (5.69%) Data Engineer
9 18 (4.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 18 (4.46%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (3.22%) Consultant
10 13 (3.22%) Delivery Manager
10 13 (3.22%) Technical Architect
11 12 (2.97%) 2nd Line Support
11 12 (2.97%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (2.72%) Administrator
13 10 (2.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 10 (2.48%) Data Analyst
13 10 (2.48%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.42%) REST
2 22 (5.45%) .NET
3 14 (3.47%) Playwright
3 14 (3.47%) React
4 13 (3.22%) OAuth
4 13 (3.22%) Web Services
5 11 (2.72%) Kafka
5 11 (2.72%) OpenID
5 11 (2.72%) PySpark
5 11 (2.72%) SOAP
6 9 (2.23%) .NET Core
6 9 (2.23%) ASP.NET
6 9 (2.23%) Microsoft Graph
6 9 (2.23%) SailPoint
6 9 (2.23%) SAML
6 9 (2.23%) SAP Basis
7 8 (1.98%) JSON
8 7 (1.73%) AngularJS
8 7 (1.73%) LDAP
8 7 (1.73%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 49 (12.13%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.43%) Product Ownership
3 25 (6.19%) Data Centre
4 23 (5.69%) Onboarding
5 20 (4.95%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (4.21%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (3.22%) AI Agents
8 12 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (2.97%) Public Cloud
8 12 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.98%) Taxonomies
10 7 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.73%) Replication
11 6 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.49%) NHS
11 6 (1.49%) PKI
12 5 (1.24%) FlexPod
12 5 (1.24%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.99%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 51 (12.62%) Windows
2 25 (6.19%) Linux
3 22 (5.45%) 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
1 151 (37.38%) DevOps
2 147 (36.39%) CI/CD
3 93 (23.02%) Agile
4 73 (18.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 68 (16.83%) Stakeholder Management
6 65 (16.09%) Roadmaps
7 63 (15.59%) AI
8 55 (13.61%) Observability
9 53 (13.12%) Migration
10 50 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
11 48 (11.88%) Cybersecurity
11 48 (11.88%) Platform Engineering
12 47 (11.63%) Analytics
13 43 (10.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 40 (9.90%) Continuous Improvement
15 36 (8.91%) Data Engineering
15 36 (8.91%) Data Pipeline
15 36 (8.91%) Software Engineering
16 35 (8.66%) Containerisation
17 34 (8.42%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 81 (20.05%) Python
2 46 (11.39%) SQL
3 42 (10.40%) Java
4 39 (9.65%) PowerShell
5 23 (5.69%) C#
6 18 (4.46%) Bash
7 17 (4.21%) JavaScript
8 10 (2.48%) Scala
9 9 (2.23%) Bicep
9 9 (2.23%) Groovy
10 8 (1.98%) TypeScript
11 7 (1.73%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.24%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.99%) ABAP
14 3 (0.74%) Go
14 3 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.74%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.25%) Cypher
15 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.25%) X++
Qualifications
1 58 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 36 (8.91%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.44%) Degree
4 16 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.72%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.48%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.98%) CISSP
8 7 (1.73%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.49%) CISM
10 5 (1.24%) CCNP
10 5 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.24%) OCP
10 5 (1.24%) Oracle Certification
10 5 (1.24%) PMP
11 4 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.99%) CCSP
11 4 (0.99%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.46%) QA
2 16 (3.96%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.48%) NIST
4 9 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.73%) GDPR
6 7 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 7 (1.73%) WCAG
7 5 (1.24%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.99%) GRC
8 4 (0.99%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.74%) GxP
9 3 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.50%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.50%) SLA
11 1 (0.25%) IASME
11 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 56 (13.86%) Active Directory
2 47 (11.63%) Docker
3 13 (3.22%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (3.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (1.98%) NFS
5 8 (1.98%) vSphere
6 7 (1.73%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.74%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (0.74%) SRDF
7 3 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.25%) Ceph
8 1 (0.25%) KVM
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.25%) RACF
8 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.25%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 89 (22.03%) Terraform
2 78 (19.31%) Kubernetes
3 31 (7.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (6.93%) Ansible
5 15 (3.71%) Jamf Pro
6 14 (3.47%) Grafana
6 14 (3.47%) Prometheus
6 14 (3.47%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.23%) HAProxy
8 8 (1.98%) SnapMirror
9 4 (0.99%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.99%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.74%) Argo
10 3 (0.74%) EMC VPLEX
11 2 (0.50%) Istio
11 2 (0.50%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.50%) Podman
11 2 (0.50%) SnapVault
11 2 (0.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 144 (35.64%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.16%) Databricks
3 29 (7.18%) Google
4 21 (5.20%) ServiceNow
5 19 (4.70%) SAP
6 16 (3.96%) CyberArk
6 16 (3.96%) Foundry
7 14 (3.47%) VMware
8 12 (2.97%) Okta
8 12 (2.97%) Oracle
8 12 (2.97%) Red Hat
9 11 (2.72%) Cisco
10 8 (1.98%) NetApp
11 7 (1.73%) Aruba
11 7 (1.73%) Citrix
11 7 (1.73%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.73%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.73%) Splunk
12 6 (1.49%) Apple
12 6 (1.49%) BeyondTrust