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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 15 7
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 384 113 202
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.39% 10.39% 11.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.65% 29.50% 41.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 78 148
10th Percentile £318 £263 £329
25th Percentile £426 £328 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -7.41%
75th Percentile £604 £538 £600
90th Percentile £700 £600 £647
England median daily rate £525 £525 £548
% change year-on-year - -4.11% -2.67%
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 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +43.75% +14.29% -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 1,020 383 487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.22% 35.20% 28.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 267 343
10th Percentile £313 £262 £259
25th Percentile £413 £374 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £567 £550 £588
90th Percentile £669 £630 £644
England median daily rate £513 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.97% -1.43% -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 £40.28 £25.26 £21.37
% change year-on-year +59.49% +18.18% -38.94%

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 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 5 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 5 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 +7 193 £489 +8.61% 96
South Yorkshire +14 133 £519 +6.46% 41
North Yorkshire +6 21 £450 +44.00% 24
East Yorkshire +2 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 37 (9.64%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.91%) Confluence
2 15 (3.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.34%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.52%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.26%) Apache
5 1 (0.26%) CMS
5 1 (0.26%) IIS
5 1 (0.26%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.04%) Acrobat
1 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 26 (6.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.78%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.26%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 162 (42.19%) AWS
2 106 (27.60%) GCP
3 73 (19.01%) Entra ID
4 58 (15.10%) Microsoft 365
5 56 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
6 49 (12.76%) SaaS
7 48 (12.50%) GitHub
8 43 (11.20%) Power Platform
9 39 (10.16%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (6.77%) Serverless
11 24 (6.25%) PowerApps
12 20 (5.21%) Microsoft Copilot
12 20 (5.21%) OneDrive
12 20 (5.21%) PaaS
13 15 (3.91%) Azure Functions
13 15 (3.91%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (3.91%) OpenShift
14 14 (3.65%) Azure Data Factory
14 14 (3.65%) Power Automate
15 13 (3.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.91%) Firewall
2 14 (3.65%) WAN
3 12 (3.13%) DNS
3 12 (3.13%) TCP/IP
4 11 (2.86%) LAN
4 11 (2.86%) Network Security
4 11 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (2.34%) SAN
6 8 (2.08%) Kerberos
7 6 (1.56%) WLAN
8 5 (1.30%) IPsec
8 5 (1.30%) SSL
9 4 (1.04%) Unified Communications
9 4 (1.04%) VLAN
9 4 (1.04%) VPN
10 3 (0.78%) BGP
10 3 (0.78%) Internet
10 3 (0.78%) NAS
10 3 (0.78%) OSPF
10 3 (0.78%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.55%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.21%) Power BI
3 19 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (2.34%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.08%) Big Data
7 8 (2.08%) Delta Lake
7 8 (2.08%) Metadata
8 7 (1.82%) Neo4j
9 5 (1.30%) MySQL
10 4 (1.04%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.04%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.78%) Parquet
11 3 (0.78%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.26%) NoSQL
13 1 (0.26%) Redis
13 1 (0.26%) SAP HANA
13 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 55 (14.32%) Jenkins
2 48 (12.50%) JIRA
3 31 (8.07%) GitLab
4 25 (6.51%) Git
5 14 (3.65%) Gatling
5 14 (3.65%) Selenium
6 13 (3.39%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.39%) REST Assured
7 11 (2.86%) Postman
8 8 (2.08%) Maven
9 6 (1.56%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.30%) JMeter
10 5 (1.30%) TestRail
11 4 (1.04%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.04%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.04%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.78%) Browser DevTools
12 3 (0.78%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.78%) Fiddler
13 2 (0.52%) Terragrunt
General
1 110 (28.65%) Social Skills
2 87 (22.66%) Finance
3 34 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (8.85%) Banking
4 31 (8.07%) Public Sector
5 25 (6.51%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (4.17%) Publishing
7 13 (3.39%) Law
8 8 (2.08%) Legal
9 7 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.30%) Social Science
11 4 (1.04%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.78%) Military
12 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.52%) Retail
14 1 (0.26%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (14.84%) Architect
2 49 (12.76%) Lead
3 48 (12.50%) Senior
4 34 (8.85%) Developer
4 34 (8.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (5.47%) Azure Engineer
6 20 (5.21%) Analyst
7 19 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
8 16 (4.17%) Data Engineer
9 15 (3.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (3.65%) Administrator
10 14 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (3.39%) Delivery Manager
12 12 (3.13%) Consultant
13 10 (2.60%) Data Analyst
13 10 (2.60%) Project Manager
13 10 (2.60%) Security Engineer
13 10 (2.60%) Technical Architect
13 10 (2.60%) Test Automation Engineer
13 10 (2.60%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (9.90%) REST
2 33 (8.59%) OpenID
3 24 (6.25%) LDAP
4 22 (5.73%) .NET
5 19 (4.95%) OAuth
6 18 (4.69%) SailPoint
6 18 (4.69%) SAP Basis
7 15 (3.91%) SAML
8 14 (3.65%) Playwright
9 12 (3.13%) Microsoft Graph
9 12 (3.13%) OAuth2
9 12 (3.13%) Web Services
10 11 (2.86%) Kafka
10 11 (2.86%) React
11 10 (2.60%) Middleware
11 10 (2.60%) PySpark
12 9 (2.34%) SOAP
13 8 (2.08%) RESTful
14 7 (1.82%) JSON
15 6 (1.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 41 (10.68%) Cloud Native
1 41 (10.68%) Onboarding
2 24 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 22 (5.73%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.21%) Taxonomies
5 17 (4.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (2.08%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.82%) NHS
10 6 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 6 (1.56%) Replication
10 6 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.30%) CMDB
11 5 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.30%) FlexPod
11 5 (1.30%) IoT
12 4 (1.04%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.04%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 42 (10.94%) Windows
2 26 (6.77%) Linux
3 8 (2.08%) Data ONTAP
3 8 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.56%) CoreOS
4 6 (1.56%) Unix
4 6 (1.56%) VMS
5 5 (1.30%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.04%) Android
6 4 (1.04%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.78%) AIX
8 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (41.15%) DevOps
2 147 (38.28%) CI/CD
3 94 (24.48%) Agile
4 72 (18.75%) Roadmaps
5 60 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 52 (13.54%) Migration
7 51 (13.28%) Cybersecurity
7 51 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 47 (12.24%) Observability
9 47 (12.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 43 (11.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (11.20%) Identity Access Management
11 41 (10.68%) Data Pipeline
12 40 (10.42%) AI
12 40 (10.42%) Containerisation
12 40 (10.42%) Test Automation
13 39 (10.16%) Data Governance
14 38 (9.90%) Platform Engineering
15 37 (9.64%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 85 (22.14%) Python
2 65 (16.93%) SQL
3 58 (15.10%) Java
4 38 (9.90%) PowerShell
5 20 (5.21%) Bash
5 20 (5.21%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.69%) C#
7 14 (3.65%) Scala
8 8 (2.08%) Go
8 8 (2.08%) PHP
8 8 (2.08%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.82%) Bicep
10 5 (1.30%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.30%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.04%) Cypher
12 3 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.78%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.52%) Groovy
14 1 (0.26%) Ruby
14 1 (0.26%) X++
Qualifications
1 45 (11.72%) Security Cleared
2 28 (7.29%) Degree
2 28 (7.29%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (2.08%) AWS Certification
5 7 (1.82%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.82%) CISSP
6 6 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (1.56%) CISM
6 6 (1.56%) PMP
7 5 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.30%) OCP
7 5 (1.30%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.04%) CCSP
8 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.04%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.78%) NCDA
9 3 (0.78%) NCIE
9 3 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.95%) QA
2 13 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.60%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.34%) GDPR
4 9 (2.34%) NIST
5 7 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.82%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.82%) SLA
6 6 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 6 (1.56%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.30%) WCAG
8 4 (1.04%) GRC
8 4 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.04%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.78%) HL7
10 2 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.52%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 41 (10.68%) Active Directory
2 39 (10.16%) Docker
3 17 (4.43%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.08%) NFS
5 8 (2.08%) vSphere
6 5 (1.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 5 (1.30%) RACF
6 5 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.04%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.78%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.78%) SRDF
8 3 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.26%) Ceph
9 1 (0.26%) KVM
9 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 80 (20.83%) Terraform
2 69 (17.97%) Kubernetes
3 32 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
4 27 (7.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (6.77%) Ansible
6 16 (4.17%) Grafana
7 10 (2.60%) Prometheus
8 9 (2.34%) HAProxy
8 9 (2.34%) Jamf Pro
9 8 (2.08%) SnapMirror
10 4 (1.04%) Istio
10 4 (1.04%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.78%) Argo
11 3 (0.78%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.78%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.52%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (0.52%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.52%) SnapVault
12 2 (0.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 130 (33.85%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.64%) ServiceNow
3 33 (8.59%) Google
3 33 (8.59%) SAP
4 28 (7.29%) Databricks
5 26 (6.77%) Okta
6 16 (4.17%) Oracle
7 14 (3.65%) VMware
8 11 (2.86%) Foundry
8 11 (2.86%) Red Hat
9 9 (2.34%) Splunk
10 8 (2.08%) Cisco
10 8 (2.08%) NetApp
10 8 (2.08%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.82%) Aruba
11 7 (1.82%) Veeam
12 6 (1.56%) Adobe
12 6 (1.56%) CyberArk
13 5 (1.30%) IBM
13 5 (1.30%) Salesforce