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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 16 7
Rank change year-on-year +9 -9 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 386 114 201
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.33% 10.08% 11.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.66% 28.79% 40.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 76 145
10th Percentile £321 £263 £364
25th Percentile £431 £347 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £618 £538 £600
90th Percentile £700 £600 £648
England median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 0
10th Percentile £18.50 - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £49.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.75% +40.71% -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 1,025 396 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.05% 35.01% 28.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 683 271 354
10th Percentile £313 £258 £252
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £493
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.55% -6.19%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £588
90th Percentile £669 £625 £641
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 4 8
10th Percentile £17.25 £27.82 £13.43
25th Percentile £23.00 £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 £71.38 £79.33 £22.00
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.50 £21.46
% change year-on-year +61.02% +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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +7 194 £489 +5.68% 65
South Yorkshire +16 136 £525 +7.69% 28
North Yorkshire +8 24 £450 +44.00% 12
East Yorkshire +1 8 £344 - 7
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 (9.84%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.63%) Confluence
4 9 (2.33%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.52%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.26%) Apache
6 1 (0.26%) CMS
6 1 (0.26%) IIS
6 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 20 (5.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.33%) 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
1 163 (42.23%) AWS
2 104 (26.94%) GCP
3 70 (18.13%) Entra ID
4 62 (16.06%) Microsoft 365
5 57 (14.77%) Azure DevOps
6 49 (12.69%) GitHub
7 46 (11.92%) Power Platform
8 44 (11.40%) SaaS
9 40 (10.36%) GitHub Actions
10 27 (6.99%) Serverless
11 25 (6.48%) PowerApps
12 21 (5.44%) Microsoft Copilot
13 20 (5.18%) OneDrive
13 20 (5.18%) PaaS
14 16 (4.15%) Azure Monitor
15 15 (3.89%) Azure Functions
15 15 (3.89%) Power Automate
16 14 (3.63%) Azure Data Factory
17 13 (3.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 13 (3.37%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.40%) Firewall
2 14 (3.63%) WAN
3 12 (3.11%) DNS
3 12 (3.11%) TCP/IP
4 11 (2.85%) LAN
4 11 (2.85%) Network Security
4 11 (2.85%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (2.33%) Kerberos
5 9 (2.33%) SAN
6 6 (1.55%) WLAN
7 5 (1.30%) IPsec
7 5 (1.30%) SSL
7 5 (1.30%) VPN
8 4 (1.04%) Unified Communications
8 4 (1.04%) VLAN
9 3 (0.78%) BGP
9 3 (0.78%) BIG-IP
9 3 (0.78%) NAS
9 3 (0.78%) OSPF
9 3 (0.78%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.51%) SQL Server
2 22 (5.70%) Power BI
3 19 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.66%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (3.37%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (2.33%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.07%) Big Data
7 8 (2.07%) Delta Lake
7 8 (2.07%) Metadata
8 7 (1.81%) Neo4j
9 4 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.04%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.04%) MySQL
9 4 (1.04%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.78%) Parquet
10 3 (0.78%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.26%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.26%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 53 (13.73%) Jenkins
2 46 (11.92%) JIRA
3 30 (7.77%) GitLab
4 24 (6.22%) Git
5 14 (3.63%) Gatling
6 12 (3.11%) Selenium
7 11 (2.85%) Cucumber
7 11 (2.85%) REST Assured
8 10 (2.59%) Postman
9 8 (2.07%) Maven
10 6 (1.55%) Artifactory
11 5 (1.30%) JMeter
12 4 (1.04%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.04%) LoadRunner
12 4 (1.04%) NeoLoad
12 4 (1.04%) TestRail
13 3 (0.78%) Browser DevTools
13 3 (0.78%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.78%) Fiddler
14 2 (0.52%) SoapUI
General
1 111 (28.76%) Social Skills
2 89 (23.06%) Finance
3 33 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (8.55%) Banking
4 31 (8.03%) Public Sector
5 25 (6.48%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (3.63%) Publishing
7 13 (3.37%) Law
8 8 (2.07%) Legal
9 7 (1.81%) 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
13 2 (0.52%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Retail
14 1 (0.26%) Digital Health
14 1 (0.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 63 (16.32%) Architect
2 49 (12.69%) Lead
2 49 (12.69%) Senior
3 34 (8.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 33 (8.55%) Developer
5 23 (5.96%) Azure Engineer
6 21 (5.44%) Solutions Architect
7 20 (5.18%) Analyst
8 17 (4.40%) Data Engineer
9 16 (4.15%) Platform Engineer
10 15 (3.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (3.37%) Delivery Manager
12 11 (2.85%) Administrator
12 11 (2.85%) Consultant
13 10 (2.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 10 (2.59%) Data Analyst
13 10 (2.59%) Security Engineer
13 10 (2.59%) Technical Architect
14 9 (2.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 9 (2.33%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (10.10%) REST
2 33 (8.55%) OpenID
3 24 (6.22%) LDAP
4 21 (5.44%) .NET
5 20 (5.18%) OAuth
6 17 (4.40%) SailPoint
7 16 (4.15%) SAML
8 14 (3.63%) Playwright
8 14 (3.63%) SAP Basis
9 12 (3.11%) Microsoft Graph
9 12 (3.11%) OAuth2
9 12 (3.11%) Web Services
10 11 (2.85%) Kafka
10 11 (2.85%) PySpark
10 11 (2.85%) React
11 9 (2.33%) Middleware
11 9 (2.33%) RESTful
11 9 (2.33%) SOAP
12 7 (1.81%) HTML
12 7 (1.81%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 43 (11.14%) Cloud Native
2 38 (9.84%) Onboarding
3 24 (6.22%) Data Centre
4 20 (5.18%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.89%) Taxonomies
6 14 (3.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (2.33%) Public Cloud
10 8 (2.07%) NHS
11 7 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 6 (1.55%) Replication
13 5 (1.30%) AI Agents
13 5 (1.30%) CMDB
13 5 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
13 5 (1.30%) FlexPod
14 4 (1.04%) Data Structures
14 4 (1.04%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 45 (11.66%) Windows
2 25 (6.48%) Linux
3 8 (2.07%) Data ONTAP
3 8 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (2.07%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.55%) CoreOS
4 6 (1.55%) Unix
4 6 (1.55%) VMS
5 5 (1.30%) Mac OS
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 (40.93%) DevOps
2 146 (37.82%) CI/CD
3 94 (24.35%) Agile
4 66 (17.10%) Roadmaps
5 62 (16.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 54 (13.99%) Migration
7 52 (13.47%) Cybersecurity
8 49 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
9 48 (12.44%) Stakeholder Management
10 47 (12.18%) Observability
10 47 (12.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 42 (10.88%) AI
11 42 (10.88%) Identity Access Management
12 41 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 41 (10.62%) Platform Engineering
13 40 (10.36%) Containerisation
14 38 (9.84%) Analytics
14 38 (9.84%) Data Pipeline
15 37 (9.59%) Test Automation
16 35 (9.07%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 86 (22.28%) Python
2 63 (16.32%) SQL
3 58 (15.03%) Java
4 39 (10.10%) PowerShell
5 20 (5.18%) Bash
5 20 (5.18%) C#
5 20 (5.18%) JavaScript
6 14 (3.63%) Scala
7 9 (2.33%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.07%) Go
9 7 (1.81%) Bicep
9 7 (1.81%) PHP
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%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.26%) X++
Qualifications
1 46 (11.92%) Security Cleared
2 31 (8.03%) Degree
3 30 (7.77%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.07%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.81%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.81%) CISSP
7 6 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.55%) CISM
7 6 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.55%) PMP
8 5 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.30%) OCP
8 5 (1.30%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.04%) CCSP
9 4 (1.04%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.78%) NCDA
10 3 (0.78%) NCIE
10 3 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.66%) QA
2 12 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.59%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.33%) GDPR
4 9 (2.33%) NIST
5 7 (1.81%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.81%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.81%) SLA
6 6 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 6 (1.55%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.30%) GRC
7 5 (1.30%) WCAG
8 4 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.04%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.52%) HL7
9 2 (0.52%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 45 (11.66%) Active Directory
2 39 (10.10%) Docker
3 17 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.07%) NFS
5 8 (2.07%) vSphere
6 6 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (1.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (1.30%) RACF
8 4 (1.04%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.78%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.78%) SRDF
9 3 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.26%) Ceph
10 1 (0.26%) KVM
10 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 83 (21.50%) Terraform
2 66 (17.10%) Kubernetes
3 28 (7.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 26 (6.74%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (6.48%) Ansible
6 15 (3.89%) Grafana
7 10 (2.59%) Jamf Pro
8 9 (2.33%) HAProxy
8 9 (2.33%) Prometheus
9 8 (2.07%) SnapMirror
10 4 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (1.04%) Istio
10 4 (1.04%) Kustomize
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
1 136 (35.23%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.33%) ServiceNow
3 34 (8.81%) Google
4 28 (7.25%) Databricks
5 26 (6.74%) SAP
6 21 (5.44%) Okta
7 16 (4.15%) Oracle
8 14 (3.63%) VMware
9 11 (2.85%) Foundry
9 11 (2.85%) Red Hat
10 9 (2.33%) Splunk
11 8 (2.07%) Cisco
11 8 (2.07%) NetApp
11 8 (2.07%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.81%) Aruba
12 7 (1.81%) Veeam
13 6 (1.55%) Adobe
13 6 (1.55%) CyberArk
14 5 (1.30%) IBM
14 5 (1.30%) Salesforce