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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 421 173 187
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.68% 11.42% 12.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.02% 31.68% 37.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 110 132
10th Percentile £331 £312 £400
25th Percentile £413 £371 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £594 £538 £612
90th Percentile £694 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £18.50 - -
25th Percentile £19.63 - -
Median hourly rate £45.75 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £38.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +41.94% +10.71% -24.21%

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 1,052 546 500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.68% 36.04% 32.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 380 345
10th Percentile £306 £262 £284
25th Percentile £410 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% -7.62%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £672 £600 £655
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 5
10th Percentile £15.85 £42.37 £16.15
25th Percentile £18.50 £58.29 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £91.69 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.83% +336.62% -1.20%
75th Percentile £51.88 £149.28 £22.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £179.71 -
England median hourly rate £35.11 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +35.04% +4.00% -22.86%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +6 208 £480 -4.00% 154
South Yorkshire +11 150 £518 +15.94% 58
North Yorkshire +9 34 £488 +77.27% 32
East Yorkshire -2 5 £313 - 13
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 45 (10.69%) SharePoint
2 27 (6.41%) Confluence
3 20 (4.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (2.85%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.19%) Apache
6 4 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.95%) Apache Superset
6 4 (0.95%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.48%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.24%) CMS
8 1 (0.24%) IIS
8 1 (0.24%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (3.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 167 (39.67%) AWS
2 112 (26.60%) GCP
3 74 (17.58%) Microsoft 365
4 66 (15.68%) GitHub
5 63 (14.96%) Power Platform
6 61 (14.49%) Entra ID
7 58 (13.78%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (10.21%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (6.41%) PowerApps
10 24 (5.70%) Microsoft Copilot
11 21 (4.99%) OneDrive
12 19 (4.51%) SaaS
13 18 (4.28%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (3.80%) Azure Data Factory
15 15 (3.56%) Copilot Studio
15 15 (3.56%) Serverless
16 13 (3.09%) Azure AI
16 13 (3.09%) Power Automate
17 12 (2.85%) OpenShift
17 12 (2.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.70%) Firewall
2 21 (4.99%) DNS
3 17 (4.04%) Network Security
4 15 (3.56%) VPN
5 14 (3.33%) LAN
5 14 (3.33%) WAN
6 13 (3.09%) VLAN
7 12 (2.85%) DHCP
7 12 (2.85%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (2.85%) WLAN
8 10 (2.38%) BGP
8 10 (2.38%) OSPF
9 9 (2.14%) SAN
10 7 (1.66%) Cisco Nexus
10 7 (1.66%) TCP/IP
11 6 (1.43%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (1.43%) Cisco Firepower
11 6 (1.43%) Wireless
12 5 (1.19%) IPsec
12 5 (1.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.31%) SQL Server
2 32 (7.60%) Power BI
3 20 (4.75%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (4.04%) Metadata
5 16 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (3.33%) Big Data
7 10 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (2.38%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.66%) Delta Lake
9 6 (1.43%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.19%) Neo4j
10 5 (1.19%) SAP HANA
10 5 (1.19%) Tableau
11 4 (0.95%) Redis
11 4 (0.95%) Semantic Layer
11 4 (0.95%) Trino
12 3 (0.71%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.71%) Parquet
12 3 (0.71%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 56 (13.30%) Jenkins
2 48 (11.40%) JIRA
3 28 (6.65%) Git
4 15 (3.56%) GitLab
5 12 (2.85%) Gatling
6 7 (1.66%) Maven
6 7 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.43%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.43%) JMeter
7 6 (1.43%) Selenium
8 5 (1.19%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.95%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.95%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.95%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.95%) Postman
10 3 (0.71%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (0.71%) Fiddler
10 3 (0.71%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.48%) JUnit
11 2 (0.48%) MSBuild
General
1 113 (26.84%) Social Skills
2 96 (22.80%) Finance
3 36 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (7.36%) Public Sector
5 30 (7.13%) Banking
6 17 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.33%) Law
8 9 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (2.14%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.90%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.90%) Retail
10 6 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.43%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.43%) Social Science
11 5 (1.19%) Legal
11 5 (1.19%) Publishing
12 4 (0.95%) Military
13 3 (0.71%) Police
14 2 (0.48%) Billing
14 2 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 67 (15.91%) Architect
2 54 (12.83%) Lead
2 54 (12.83%) Senior
3 37 (8.79%) Developer
4 34 (8.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 32 (7.60%) Data Engineer
6 26 (6.18%) Solutions Architect
7 23 (5.46%) Analyst
8 21 (4.99%) Azure Engineer
9 18 (4.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 18 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (3.33%) Consultant
10 14 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
11 13 (3.09%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (2.85%) 2nd Line Support
12 12 (2.85%) Technical Architect
13 10 (2.38%) .NET Developer
13 10 (2.38%) Administrator
13 10 (2.38%) Security Engineer
14 9 (2.14%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (9.50%) REST
2 25 (5.94%) .NET
3 20 (4.75%) Kafka
4 16 (3.80%) React
5 14 (3.33%) Playwright
6 13 (3.09%) Web Services
7 12 (2.85%) OAuth
7 12 (2.85%) PySpark
7 12 (2.85%) SailPoint
7 12 (2.85%) SOAP
8 11 (2.61%) .NET Core
8 11 (2.61%) ASP.NET
8 11 (2.61%) JSON
9 10 (2.38%) OpenID
10 9 (2.14%) AngularJS
10 9 (2.14%) SAP Basis
11 8 (1.90%) LDAP
11 8 (1.90%) SAML
12 7 (1.66%) Middleware
12 7 (1.66%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 55 (13.06%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.13%) Data Centre
3 28 (6.65%) Product Ownership
4 24 (5.70%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (5.23%) Onboarding
6 17 (4.04%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (3.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (3.33%) AI Agents
9 12 (2.85%) Public Cloud
9 12 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.66%) PKI
12 7 (1.66%) Replication
12 7 (1.66%) Taxonomies
13 6 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
13 6 (1.43%) NHS
14 5 (1.19%) Security Posture
15 4 (0.95%) Cyber Security Posture
15 4 (0.95%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 52 (12.35%) Windows
2 27 (6.41%) Linux
3 25 (5.94%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.43%) Data ONTAP
4 6 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.19%) Android
5 5 (1.19%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.95%) CoreOS
6 4 (0.95%) VMS
7 3 (0.71%) AIX
7 3 (0.71%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.48%) Unix
8 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (38.00%) CI/CD
2 148 (35.15%) DevOps
3 94 (22.33%) Agile
4 82 (19.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 68 (16.15%) Stakeholder Management
6 65 (15.44%) AI
7 62 (14.73%) Roadmaps
8 60 (14.25%) Observability
9 56 (13.30%) Analytics
10 53 (12.59%) Cybersecurity
10 53 (12.59%) Migration
11 50 (11.88%) Platform Engineering
12 49 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
13 46 (10.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 44 (10.45%) Data Pipeline
15 43 (10.21%) Data Engineering
16 42 (9.98%) Test Automation
17 41 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
18 39 (9.26%) Software Engineering
19 38 (9.03%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 90 (21.38%) Python
2 56 (13.30%) SQL
3 50 (11.88%) Java
4 42 (9.98%) PowerShell
5 24 (5.70%) C#
6 18 (4.28%) Bash
7 17 (4.04%) JavaScript
8 10 (2.38%) Groovy
8 10 (2.38%) Scala
9 9 (2.14%) Bicep
9 9 (2.14%) Shell Script
10 8 (1.90%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (1.19%) ABAP
12 5 (1.19%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.71%) Go
13 3 (0.71%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.24%) Cypher
15 1 (0.24%) X++
Qualifications
1 65 (15.44%) Security Cleared
2 44 (10.45%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.70%) Degree
4 16 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (2.61%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.61%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.90%) CCNP
7 8 (1.90%) CISSP
8 7 (1.66%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.43%) CISM
10 5 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (1.19%) CCSP
10 5 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.95%) CCSK
11 4 (0.95%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.95%) PMP
12 3 (0.71%) OCP
12 3 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.23%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.99%) QA
3 11 (2.61%) NIST
4 9 (2.14%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.14%) GDPR
4 9 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 7 (1.66%) WCAG
6 5 (1.19%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.95%) GRC
7 4 (0.95%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.71%) GxP
8 3 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.48%) IASME
9 2 (0.48%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.48%) SLA
10 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 62 (14.73%) Active Directory
2 57 (13.54%) Docker
3 14 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (1.90%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.90%) vSphere
6 6 (1.43%) NFS
7 5 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.71%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.71%) SRDF
9 2 (0.48%) Firmware
10 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.24%) Ceph
10 1 (0.24%) KVM
10 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.24%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 93 (22.09%) Terraform
2 90 (21.38%) Kubernetes
3 30 (7.13%) Ansible
4 29 (6.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (4.51%) Grafana
6 15 (3.56%) Prometheus
7 13 (3.09%) Jamf Pro
8 11 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (2.14%) HAProxy
10 6 (1.43%) Kustomize
10 6 (1.43%) SnapMirror
11 4 (0.95%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 4 (0.95%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.71%) Argo
12 3 (0.71%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (0.48%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.48%) Podman
13 2 (0.48%) SnapVault
13 2 (0.48%) vMotion
Vendors
1 149 (35.39%) Microsoft
2 42 (9.98%) Databricks
3 26 (6.18%) Google
4 21 (4.99%) ServiceNow
5 19 (4.51%) SAP
6 18 (4.28%) CyberArk
7 16 (3.80%) Cisco
7 16 (3.80%) Foundry
8 15 (3.56%) VMware
9 11 (2.61%) IBM
9 11 (2.61%) Okta
9 11 (2.61%) Oracle
9 11 (2.61%) Splunk
10 10 (2.38%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.66%) Centrify
11 7 (1.66%) CheckPoint
11 7 (1.66%) Citrix
11 7 (1.66%) Dynatrace
11 7 (1.66%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.43%) BeyondTrust