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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 12 7
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 380 122 205
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 13.98% 10.50% 11.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.82% 29.47% 40.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 81 147
10th Percentile £321 £263 £368
25th Percentile £435 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £624 £538 £600
90th Percentile £700 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -3.57%
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 £53.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.48% +52.86% -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 1,032 414 509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.96% 35.63% 29.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 683 284 354
10th Percentile £319 £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 £572 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £643
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 4 9
10th Percentile £18.13 £27.82 £13.45
25th Percentile £23.00 £30.17 -
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 £21.50
90th Percentile £71.38 £79.33 £22.00
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.08 £21.50
% change year-on-year +63.72% +16.65% -38.21%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +8 190 £490 +3.16% 139
South Yorkshire +10 131 £528 +11.16% 87
North Yorkshire +7 26 £450 +44.00% 50
East Yorkshire +2 7 £363 - 25
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 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.68%) Confluence
2 14 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.37%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.53%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.26%) Apache
5 1 (0.26%) CMS
5 1 (0.26%) IIS
5 1 (0.26%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.05%) Acrobat
2 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 20 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.79%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.26%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 155 (40.79%) AWS
2 95 (25.00%) GCP
3 67 (17.63%) Entra ID
4 62 (16.32%) Microsoft 365
5 58 (15.26%) Azure DevOps
6 47 (12.37%) GitHub
6 47 (12.37%) Power Platform
7 39 (10.26%) SaaS
8 38 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (7.11%) Serverless
10 25 (6.58%) PowerApps
11 21 (5.53%) Microsoft Copilot
11 21 (5.53%) OneDrive
12 20 (5.26%) PaaS
13 18 (4.74%) Azure Monitor
14 15 (3.95%) Azure Functions
14 15 (3.95%) Power Automate
15 14 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (3.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 13 (3.42%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.21%) Firewall
2 14 (3.68%) WAN
3 12 (3.16%) Network Security
4 11 (2.89%) LAN
4 11 (2.89%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (2.63%) DNS
5 10 (2.63%) TCP/IP
6 9 (2.37%) SAN
7 7 (1.84%) Kerberos
8 6 (1.58%) VPN
8 6 (1.58%) WLAN
9 5 (1.32%) IPsec
9 5 (1.32%) SSL
10 4 (1.05%) Internet
10 4 (1.05%) Unified Communications
10 4 (1.05%) VLAN
11 3 (0.79%) BGP
11 3 (0.79%) NAS
11 3 (0.79%) OSPF
11 3 (0.79%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.58%) SQL Server
2 23 (6.05%) Power BI
3 18 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (2.37%) Data Lake
6 8 (2.11%) Big Data
6 8 (2.11%) Delta Lake
6 8 (2.11%) Metadata
7 7 (1.84%) Neo4j
8 6 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.32%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.79%) Parquet
10 3 (0.79%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.53%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.26%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.26%) Redis
12 1 (0.26%) SAP HANA
12 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (11.84%) Jenkins
2 38 (10.00%) JIRA
3 23 (6.05%) Git
4 22 (5.79%) GitLab
5 14 (3.68%) Gatling
6 7 (1.84%) Maven
7 6 (1.58%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.32%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.32%) JMeter
8 5 (1.32%) Postman
8 5 (1.32%) REST Assured
8 5 (1.32%) Selenium
9 4 (1.05%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.05%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.05%) NeoLoad
10 3 (0.79%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (0.79%) Fiddler
11 2 (0.53%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.26%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.26%) Newman
General
1 104 (27.37%) Social Skills
2 86 (22.63%) Finance
3 32 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.89%) Banking
4 30 (7.89%) Public Sector
5 25 (6.58%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (3.68%) Publishing
7 11 (2.89%) Law
8 8 (2.11%) Legal
9 7 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.32%) Social Science
11 4 (1.05%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.05%) Military
12 2 (0.53%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.53%) Retail
13 1 (0.26%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (17.63%) Architect
2 50 (13.16%) Senior
3 42 (11.05%) Lead
4 35 (9.21%) DevOps Engineer
5 32 (8.42%) Developer
6 25 (6.58%) Azure Engineer
7 24 (6.32%) Solutions Architect
8 20 (5.26%) Analyst
9 18 (4.74%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (4.47%) Data Engineer
11 15 (3.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (3.68%) Delivery Manager
13 13 (3.42%) Administrator
14 12 (3.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 11 (2.89%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 11 (2.89%) Cloud Engineer
15 11 (2.89%) Consultant
16 10 (2.63%) Data Analyst
16 10 (2.63%) Data Architect
16 10 (2.63%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (8.68%) REST
2 24 (6.32%) OpenID
3 17 (4.47%) OAuth
4 16 (4.21%) .NET
5 14 (3.68%) LDAP
5 14 (3.68%) Playwright
5 14 (3.68%) SAML
5 14 (3.68%) SAP Basis
6 12 (3.16%) Microsoft Graph
6 12 (3.16%) OAuth2
6 12 (3.16%) Web Services
7 11 (2.89%) PySpark
8 10 (2.63%) React
8 10 (2.63%) SailPoint
9 9 (2.37%) Kafka
9 9 (2.37%) Middleware
9 9 (2.37%) SOAP
10 8 (2.11%) RESTful
11 7 (1.84%) JSON
12 6 (1.58%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (12.11%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.47%) Onboarding
3 24 (6.32%) Data Centre
4 20 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.95%) Taxonomies
6 14 (3.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (2.63%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.11%) NHS
10 7 (1.84%) Replication
10 7 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (1.32%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.32%) CMDB
12 5 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.32%) FlexPod
13 4 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.05%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 45 (11.84%) Windows
2 25 (6.58%) Linux
3 10 (2.63%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.11%) Data ONTAP
4 8 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.58%) CoreOS
5 6 (1.58%) VMS
6 5 (1.32%) Unix
7 4 (1.05%) Android
7 4 (1.05%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.05%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.79%) AIX
9 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (40.79%) DevOps
2 142 (37.37%) CI/CD
3 90 (23.68%) Agile
4 66 (17.37%) Roadmaps
5 63 (16.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 52 (13.68%) Migration
7 49 (12.89%) Cybersecurity
7 49 (12.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 46 (12.11%) Observability
9 45 (11.84%) Platform Engineering
9 45 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (10.79%) AI
10 41 (10.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 40 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (10.26%) Analytics
13 38 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
13 38 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
14 37 (9.74%) Containerisation
15 34 (8.95%) Data Governance
16 33 (8.68%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 84 (22.11%) Python
2 55 (14.47%) SQL
3 50 (13.16%) Java
4 38 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 20 (5.26%) C#
6 19 (5.00%) Bash
7 15 (3.95%) JavaScript
8 14 (3.68%) Scala
9 9 (2.37%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.84%) Bicep
11 6 (1.58%) Go
12 5 (1.32%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.05%) Cypher
14 3 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.79%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.53%) Groovy
15 2 (0.53%) PHP
16 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.26%) X++
Qualifications
1 46 (12.11%) Security Cleared
2 32 (8.42%) Degree
3 30 (7.89%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.11%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.84%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.84%) CISSP
7 6 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.58%) CISM
7 6 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.58%) PMP
8 5 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.32%) OCP
8 5 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.05%) CCSP
9 4 (1.05%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.79%) NCDA
10 3 (0.79%) NCIE
10 3 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.68%) QA
2 12 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.63%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.37%) NIST
5 8 (2.11%) GDPR
6 7 (1.84%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.84%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 5 (1.32%) GRC
8 5 (1.32%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.32%) SLA
8 5 (1.32%) WCAG
9 4 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.79%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.53%) HL7
11 2 (0.53%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 44 (11.58%) Active Directory
2 36 (9.47%) Docker
3 17 (4.47%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.11%) NFS
5 8 (2.11%) vSphere
6 6 (1.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (1.32%) RACF
8 4 (1.05%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (1.05%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.79%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.79%) SRDF
9 3 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.26%) Ceph
10 1 (0.26%) KVM
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 86 (22.63%) Terraform
2 63 (16.58%) Kubernetes
3 28 (7.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (6.58%) Single Sign-On
5 24 (6.32%) Ansible
6 14 (3.68%) Grafana
7 11 (2.89%) Prometheus
8 10 (2.63%) Jamf Pro
9 9 (2.37%) HAProxy
10 8 (2.11%) SnapMirror
11 4 (1.05%) Istio
11 4 (1.05%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.79%) Argo
12 3 (0.79%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.79%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.53%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.53%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.53%) SnapVault
13 2 (0.53%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 135 (35.53%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.95%) Google
3 28 (7.37%) Databricks
3 28 (7.37%) ServiceNow
4 26 (6.84%) SAP
5 21 (5.53%) Okta
6 15 (3.95%) Oracle
7 14 (3.68%) VMware
8 11 (2.89%) Foundry
8 11 (2.89%) Red Hat
9 9 (2.37%) Splunk
10 8 (2.11%) Cisco
10 8 (2.11%) NetApp
10 8 (2.11%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.84%) Aruba
11 7 (1.84%) Veeam
12 6 (1.58%) CyberArk
13 5 (1.32%) Adobe
13 5 (1.32%) IBM
13 5 (1.32%) Salesforce