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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure 283 170 247
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 15.43% 13.24% 13.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.68% 34.27% 42.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 106 179
10th Percentile £290 £353 £275
25th Percentile £381 £406 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% -2.44% -3.76%
75th Percentile £550 £567 £600
90th Percentile £684 £655 £690
England median daily rate £520 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -3.26% -2.27% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £31.86 - £62.00
England median hourly rate £45.73 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +30.66% -24.21% -5.76%

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 751 496 585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 40.95% 38.63% 32.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 525 327 433
10th Percentile £203 £288 £231
25th Percentile £370 £400 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £600
90th Percentile £616 £688 £675
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 3
10th Percentile - £18.86 £18.80
25th Percentile £14.25 £20.50 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +37.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £31.86 £96.64 £41.00
90th Percentile £132.74 £102.00 £53.60
England median hourly rate £26.00 £31.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.46% +26.00% +11.11%

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 5 December 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 5 December 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 +1 162 £500 - 102
South Yorkshire +6 93 £484 -11.08% 49
North Yorkshire -1 15 £315 +14.55% 15
East Yorkshire -9 4 £344 +19.57% 33
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 18 (6.36%) SharePoint
2 16 (5.65%) Confluence
3 10 (3.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.77%) Apache
4 5 (1.77%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.41%) CMS
6 2 (0.71%) CICS
6 2 (0.71%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.71%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.35%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.41%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (1.06%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.71%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.35%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.35%) Magento
6 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.35%) SAP MRS
6 1 (0.35%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 143 (50.53%) AWS
2 116 (40.99%) GCP
3 45 (15.90%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (14.49%) Entra ID
4 41 (14.49%) Microsoft 365
5 28 (9.89%) GitHub
6 21 (7.42%) Azure AKS
6 21 (7.42%) Power Platform
7 17 (6.01%) SaaS
7 17 (6.01%) Serverless
8 16 (5.65%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (5.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (4.95%) PaaS
11 11 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (3.89%) OneDrive
11 11 (3.89%) OpenShift
12 10 (3.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 9 (3.18%) Azure Functions
14 8 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (2.83%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 30 (10.60%) Firewall
2 9 (3.18%) Network Security
2 9 (3.18%) VPN
3 8 (2.83%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.83%) WAN
4 7 (2.47%) LAN
4 7 (2.47%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (2.12%) DNS
6 5 (1.77%) HTTP
7 4 (1.41%) DHCP
7 4 (1.41%) VLAN
8 3 (1.06%) HTTPS
8 3 (1.06%) VoIP
9 2 (0.71%) BGP
9 2 (0.71%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.71%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.71%) OSPF
9 2 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.71%) SAN
9 2 (0.71%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.13%) NoSQL
2 19 (6.71%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (6.71%) Power BI
3 15 (5.30%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.83%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.47%) BigQuery
6 6 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.77%) Metadata
7 5 (1.77%) Redis
7 5 (1.77%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.77%) Tableau
8 4 (1.41%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.71%) DataStage
10 2 (0.71%) GIS
10 2 (0.71%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.71%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 35 (12.37%) Jenkins
2 29 (10.25%) JIRA
3 24 (8.48%) Git
4 12 (4.24%) Postman
5 9 (3.18%) SoapUI
6 8 (2.83%) GitLab
6 8 (2.83%) Selenium
7 5 (1.77%) CircleCI
7 5 (1.77%) JUnit
8 4 (1.41%) Mocha
8 4 (1.41%) Storybook
8 4 (1.41%) Zephyr
9 3 (1.06%) Maven
9 3 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.06%) TestNG
9 3 (1.06%) TestRail
10 2 (0.71%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.71%) Gradle
10 2 (0.71%) Mockito
10 2 (0.71%) SpecFlow
General
1 107 (37.81%) Social Skills
2 39 (13.78%) Finance
3 37 (13.07%) Public Sector
4 27 (9.54%) Banking
5 17 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.89%) Legal
7 10 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.47%) Retail
9 4 (1.41%) Law
9 4 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.06%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.06%) Local Government
11 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.71%) Police
11 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.35%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 43 (15.19%) Architect
2 32 (11.31%) Developer
3 31 (10.95%) Analyst
4 27 (9.54%) Senior
5 22 (7.77%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (6.71%) Lead
7 18 (6.36%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (4.95%) 2nd Line Support
8 14 (4.95%) IT Support
9 13 (4.59%) Business Analyst
9 13 (4.59%) Software Engineer
10 12 (4.24%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (3.18%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (3.18%) Data Engineer
11 9 (3.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.18%) Test Analyst
12 8 (2.83%) Consultant
12 8 (2.83%) Security Architect
12 8 (2.83%) Senior Developer
12 8 (2.83%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (10.25%) RESTful
2 24 (8.48%) React
3 21 (7.42%) Node.js
4 20 (7.07%) .NET
5 19 (6.71%) OAuth
6 18 (6.36%) SAML
7 16 (5.65%) REST
8 13 (4.59%) JSON
9 12 (4.24%) CSS
9 12 (4.24%) HTML
10 11 (3.89%) OpenID
11 9 (3.18%) AngularJS
11 9 (3.18%) Express.js
11 9 (3.18%) Kafka
11 9 (3.18%) PyTorch
11 9 (3.18%) TensorFlow
12 8 (2.83%) CSS3
12 8 (2.83%) Django
12 8 (2.83%) HTML5
12 8 (2.83%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 37 (13.07%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.07%) Onboarding
3 19 (6.71%) Product Ownership
4 18 (6.36%) NHS
5 15 (5.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (3.89%) Security Posture
7 8 (2.83%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.47%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.77%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.41%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.41%) Replication
12 3 (1.06%) CMDB
12 3 (1.06%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.06%) IoT
12 3 (1.06%) iPhone
12 3 (1.06%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 33 (11.66%) Windows
2 24 (8.48%) Linux
3 7 (2.47%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.77%) Android
4 5 (1.77%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.41%) Unix
6 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.71%) Solaris
6 2 (0.71%) VMS
6 2 (0.71%) zOS
7 1 (0.35%) CentOS
7 1 (0.35%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.35%) MVS
7 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (35.34%) DevOps
2 88 (31.10%) CI/CD
3 68 (24.03%) Agile
4 47 (16.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (15.90%) Containerisation
6 42 (14.84%) Stakeholder Management
7 40 (14.13%) Microservices
8 38 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (12.37%) Migration
10 32 (11.31%) Cybersecurity
10 32 (11.31%) Roadmaps
11 30 (10.60%) Cloud Security
11 30 (10.60%) ITIL
12 29 (10.25%) DevSecOps
13 28 (9.89%) Mentoring
14 24 (8.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (8.13%) AI
16 22 (7.77%) Clean Code
17 21 (7.42%) Machine Learning
17 21 (7.42%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 71 (25.09%) Python
2 40 (14.13%) SQL
3 27 (9.54%) Java
3 27 (9.54%) PowerShell
4 22 (7.77%) Bash
4 22 (7.77%) C#
4 22 (7.77%) JavaScript
5 17 (6.01%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.18%) Bicep
7 4 (1.41%) Groovy
8 3 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.06%) Rust
8 3 (1.06%) Search Processing Language
9 2 (0.71%) PHP
9 2 (0.71%) Solidity
9 2 (0.71%) XPath
10 1 (0.35%) ABAP
10 1 (0.35%) Go
10 1 (0.35%) VB
10 1 (0.35%) VB6
Qualifications
1 19 (6.71%) Security Cleared
2 15 (5.30%) CISSP
3 13 (4.59%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.24%) CISM
5 10 (3.53%) ISTQB
6 9 (3.18%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.18%) Degree
7 7 (2.47%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.77%) CEH
8 5 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.06%) CCSK
10 3 (1.06%) CCSP
10 3 (1.06%) GIAC
10 3 (1.06%) GWAPT
10 3 (1.06%) SAP Certification
11 2 (0.71%) CCNA
11 2 (0.71%) CCNP
11 2 (0.71%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (6.36%) GDPR
3 14 (4.95%) QA
4 13 (4.59%) NIST
4 13 (4.59%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.83%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.77%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.77%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.41%) HL7
7 4 (1.41%) WCAG
8 3 (1.06%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.06%) NCSC
8 3 (1.06%) PSD2
9 2 (0.71%) COBIT
9 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.71%) GRC
9 2 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 53 (18.73%) Docker
2 40 (14.13%) Active Directory
3 15 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.77%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.06%) KVM
6 3 (1.06%) vSphere
7 2 (0.71%) NFS
7 2 (0.71%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.35%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.35%) Ceph
8 1 (0.35%) QEMU
8 1 (0.35%) Snort
8 1 (0.35%) SRDF
8 1 (0.35%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.35%) Xen
8 1 (0.35%) XenApp
8 1 (0.35%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 70 (24.73%) Kubernetes
1 70 (24.73%) Terraform
2 26 (9.19%) Ansible
3 20 (7.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (4.59%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (3.18%) Grafana
5 9 (3.18%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.47%) NetBackup
6 7 (2.47%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.71%) Argo
7 2 (0.71%) CSIRT
7 2 (0.71%) Puppet
7 2 (0.71%) SCCM
8 1 (0.35%) Istio
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Identity Manager
8 1 (0.35%) Podman
8 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.35%) SCOM
8 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 80 (28.27%) Microsoft
2 36 (12.72%) Google
3 17 (6.01%) Oracle
4 16 (5.65%) CyberArk
4 16 (5.65%) F5
4 16 (5.65%) SAP
4 16 (5.65%) VMware
5 13 (4.59%) Databricks
6 11 (3.89%) Cisco
6 11 (3.89%) Splunk
7 8 (2.83%) Alibaba
7 8 (2.83%) BeyondTrust
7 8 (2.83%) Thycotic
8 7 (2.47%) HP
8 7 (2.47%) Veritas
9 6 (2.12%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.12%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.77%) Apple
10 5 (1.77%) MobileIron
10 5 (1.77%) OpenAI