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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 14 7
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 391 113 201
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.55% 10.30% 11.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.92% 29.27% 41.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 78 147
10th Percentile £320 £263 £327
25th Percentile £429 £328 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -6.10%
75th Percentile £609 £538 £600
90th Percentile £700 £600 £647
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 0 0
10th Percentile £18.95 - -
25th Percentile £44.88 - -
Median hourly rate £56.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +35.29% +21.43% -44.44%

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 1,031 386 484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.37% 35.19% 28.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 686 269 340
10th Percentile £313 £258 £257
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £566 £550 £588
90th Percentile £669 £628 £644
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 4 8
10th Percentile £18.25 £27.82 £13.43
25th Percentile £26.00 £30.17 £14.63
Median hourly rate £56.50 £32.96 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.42% +119.73% -53.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.48 £17.31
90th Percentile £69.28 £79.33 £22.00
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.46
% change year-on-year +67.39% +18.83% -38.69%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 6 June 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 +7 195 £490 +8.89% 95
South Yorkshire +15 137 £519 +6.46% 36
North Yorkshire +7 22 £450 +44.00% 21
East Yorkshire +3 13 £344 - 11
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 38 (9.72%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.84%) Confluence
2 15 (3.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.30%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.51%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.26%) Apache
5 1 (0.26%) CMS
5 1 (0.26%) IIS
5 1 (0.26%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Acrobat
1 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 26 (6.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.77%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.26%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 168 (42.97%) AWS
2 110 (28.13%) GCP
3 75 (19.18%) Entra ID
4 60 (15.35%) Microsoft 365
5 57 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
6 49 (12.53%) GitHub
6 49 (12.53%) SaaS
7 45 (11.51%) Power Platform
8 40 (10.23%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (6.91%) Serverless
10 25 (6.39%) PowerApps
11 21 (5.37%) Microsoft Copilot
12 20 (5.12%) OneDrive
12 20 (5.12%) PaaS
13 15 (3.84%) Azure Functions
13 15 (3.84%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (3.84%) OpenShift
13 15 (3.84%) Power Automate
14 14 (3.58%) Azure Data Factory
14 14 (3.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.09%) Firewall
2 14 (3.58%) WAN
3 12 (3.07%) DNS
3 12 (3.07%) TCP/IP
4 11 (2.81%) LAN
4 11 (2.81%) Network Security
4 11 (2.81%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (2.30%) Kerberos
5 9 (2.30%) SAN
6 6 (1.53%) WLAN
7 5 (1.28%) IPsec
7 5 (1.28%) SSL
8 4 (1.02%) Unified Communications
8 4 (1.02%) VLAN
8 4 (1.02%) VPN
9 3 (0.77%) BGP
9 3 (0.77%) Internet
9 3 (0.77%) NAS
9 3 (0.77%) OSPF
9 3 (0.77%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.42%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.37%) Power BI
3 19 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (3.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (2.30%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.05%) Big Data
7 8 (2.05%) Delta Lake
7 8 (2.05%) Metadata
8 7 (1.79%) Neo4j
9 5 (1.28%) MySQL
10 4 (1.02%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.02%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.77%) Parquet
11 3 (0.77%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.26%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.26%) Redis
13 1 (0.26%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 55 (14.07%) Jenkins
2 48 (12.28%) JIRA
3 31 (7.93%) GitLab
4 25 (6.39%) Git
5 14 (3.58%) Gatling
5 14 (3.58%) Selenium
6 13 (3.32%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.32%) REST Assured
7 11 (2.81%) Postman
8 8 (2.05%) Maven
9 6 (1.53%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.28%) JMeter
10 5 (1.28%) TestRail
11 4 (1.02%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.02%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.02%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.77%) Browser DevTools
12 3 (0.77%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.77%) Fiddler
13 2 (0.51%) Terragrunt
General
1 114 (29.16%) Social Skills
2 88 (22.51%) Finance
3 34 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (8.70%) Banking
4 32 (8.18%) Public Sector
5 25 (6.39%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (4.09%) Publishing
7 13 (3.32%) Law
8 8 (2.05%) Legal
9 7 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.28%) Social Science
11 4 (1.02%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.77%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.77%) Military
12 3 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.51%) Retail
14 1 (0.26%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (15.35%) Architect
2 51 (13.04%) Lead
3 49 (12.53%) Senior
4 35 (8.95%) DevOps Engineer
5 34 (8.70%) Developer
6 22 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
7 21 (5.37%) Solutions Architect
8 20 (5.12%) Analyst
9 17 (4.35%) Data Engineer
10 15 (3.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (3.84%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (3.58%) Administrator
12 13 (3.32%) Delivery Manager
13 12 (3.07%) Consultant
14 10 (2.56%) Data Analyst
14 10 (2.56%) Project Manager
14 10 (2.56%) Security Engineer
14 10 (2.56%) Technical Architect
14 10 (2.56%) Test Automation Engineer
14 10 (2.56%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (9.72%) REST
2 34 (8.70%) OpenID
3 25 (6.39%) LDAP
4 22 (5.63%) .NET
5 20 (5.12%) OAuth
6 18 (4.60%) SailPoint
6 18 (4.60%) SAP Basis
7 16 (4.09%) SAML
8 14 (3.58%) Playwright
9 12 (3.07%) Microsoft Graph
9 12 (3.07%) OAuth2
9 12 (3.07%) Web Services
10 11 (2.81%) Kafka
10 11 (2.81%) PySpark
10 11 (2.81%) React
11 10 (2.56%) Middleware
12 9 (2.30%) SOAP
13 8 (2.05%) RESTful
14 7 (1.79%) JSON
15 6 (1.53%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.74%) Cloud Native
2 41 (10.49%) Onboarding
3 24 (6.14%) Data Centre
4 22 (5.63%) Product Ownership
5 20 (5.12%) Taxonomies
6 17 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (2.30%) Public Cloud
10 8 (2.05%) NHS
11 6 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 6 (1.53%) Replication
11 6 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.28%) CMDB
12 5 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.28%) FlexPod
12 5 (1.28%) IoT
13 4 (1.02%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.02%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 43 (11.00%) Windows
2 26 (6.65%) Linux
3 8 (2.05%) Data ONTAP
3 8 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.53%) CoreOS
4 6 (1.53%) Unix
4 6 (1.53%) VMS
4 6 (1.53%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.28%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.02%) Android
6 4 (1.02%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.77%) AIX
8 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (41.18%) DevOps
2 150 (38.36%) CI/CD
3 95 (24.30%) Agile
4 73 (18.67%) Roadmaps
5 61 (15.60%) Infrastructure as Code
6 53 (13.55%) Migration
7 52 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
9 49 (12.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 48 (12.28%) Observability
10 48 (12.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 44 (11.25%) Identity Access Management
12 43 (11.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (10.74%) Data Pipeline
14 41 (10.49%) AI
14 41 (10.49%) Containerisation
15 40 (10.23%) Test Automation
16 39 (9.97%) Data Governance
16 39 (9.97%) Platform Engineering
17 37 (9.46%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 86 (21.99%) Python
2 66 (16.88%) SQL
3 59 (15.09%) Java
4 39 (9.97%) PowerShell
5 20 (5.12%) Bash
5 20 (5.12%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.60%) C#
7 14 (3.58%) Scala
8 8 (2.05%) Go
8 8 (2.05%) PHP
8 8 (2.05%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.79%) Bicep
10 5 (1.28%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.28%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.02%) Cypher
12 3 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.77%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.51%) Groovy
14 1 (0.26%) Ruby
14 1 (0.26%) X++
Qualifications
1 45 (11.51%) Security Cleared
2 29 (7.42%) Degree
3 28 (7.16%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.05%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.79%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.79%) CISSP
7 6 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.53%) CISM
7 6 (1.53%) PMP
8 5 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.28%) OCP
8 5 (1.28%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.02%) CCSP
9 4 (1.02%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.77%) NCDA
10 3 (0.77%) NCIE
10 3 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.86%) QA
2 13 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.30%) GDPR
4 9 (2.30%) NIST
5 7 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.79%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.79%) SLA
6 6 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 6 (1.53%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.28%) WCAG
8 4 (1.02%) GRC
8 4 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.02%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.77%) HL7
10 2 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.51%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 44 (11.25%) Active Directory
2 40 (10.23%) Docker
3 17 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.05%) NFS
5 8 (2.05%) vSphere
6 6 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (1.28%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (1.28%) RACF
8 4 (1.02%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.77%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.77%) SRDF
9 3 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.26%) Ceph
10 1 (0.26%) KVM
10 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 84 (21.48%) Terraform
2 70 (17.90%) Kubernetes
3 32 (8.18%) Single Sign-On
4 28 (7.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (6.65%) Ansible
6 17 (4.35%) Grafana
7 11 (2.81%) Prometheus
8 10 (2.56%) Jamf Pro
9 9 (2.30%) HAProxy
10 8 (2.05%) SnapMirror
11 4 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (1.02%) Istio
11 4 (1.02%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.77%) Argo
12 3 (0.77%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.77%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.51%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.51%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.51%) SnapVault
13 2 (0.51%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 133 (34.02%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.46%) ServiceNow
3 35 (8.95%) Google
4 33 (8.44%) SAP
5 28 (7.16%) Databricks
6 26 (6.65%) Okta
7 16 (4.09%) Oracle
8 14 (3.58%) VMware
9 11 (2.81%) Foundry
9 11 (2.81%) Red Hat
10 9 (2.30%) Splunk
11 8 (2.05%) Cisco
11 8 (2.05%) NetApp
11 8 (2.05%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.79%) Aruba
12 7 (1.79%) Veeam
13 6 (1.53%) Adobe
13 6 (1.53%) CyberArk
14 5 (1.28%) IBM
14 5 (1.28%) Salesforce