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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 404 169 195
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.20% 11.40% 12.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.66% 32.44% 38.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 112 138
10th Percentile £340 £308 £393
25th Percentile £425 £372 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £604
90th Percentile £700 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £18.50 - -
25th Percentile £20.75 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £41.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.72% +18.43% -37.78%

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 1,045 521 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.72% 35.13% 32.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 358 347
10th Percentile £320 £264 £275
25th Percentile £413 £371 £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 £675 £602 £647
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 5
10th Percentile £15.93 £37.07 £16.15
25th Percentile £18.50 £45.03 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £62.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.91% +197.14% -1.20%
75th Percentile £68.75 £82.53 £22.00
90th Percentile - £92.15 -
England median hourly rate £37.24 £25.15 £23.80
% change year-on-year +48.07% +5.67% -29.79%

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 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 5 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 5 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 +7 200 £489 -2.25% 157
South Yorkshire +10 144 £519 +15.72% 54
North Yorkshire +8 31 £510 +63.20% 31
East Yorkshire 0 7 £338 - 16
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 44 (10.89%) SharePoint
2 27 (6.68%) Confluence
3 19 (4.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (2.97%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.99%) Apache
6 3 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.74%) Apache Superset
7 2 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.50%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.25%) CMS
8 1 (0.25%) IIS
8 1 (0.25%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (3.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.25%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 156 (38.61%) AWS
2 109 (26.98%) GCP
3 71 (17.57%) Microsoft 365
4 63 (15.59%) Power Platform
5 61 (15.10%) Entra ID
6 59 (14.60%) Azure DevOps
7 55 (13.61%) GitHub
8 35 (8.66%) GitHub Actions
9 29 (7.18%) PowerApps
10 25 (6.19%) Microsoft Copilot
11 21 (5.20%) OneDrive
12 20 (4.95%) SaaS
13 18 (4.46%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (4.21%) Serverless
15 15 (3.71%) Azure Data Factory
15 15 (3.71%) Copilot Studio
15 15 (3.71%) Power Automate
16 14 (3.47%) Azure AI
17 13 (3.22%) OpenShift
17 13 (3.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.95%) Firewall
2 14 (3.47%) DNS
3 12 (2.97%) Network Security
4 11 (2.72%) LAN
4 11 (2.72%) VPN
4 11 (2.72%) WAN
5 10 (2.48%) WLAN
6 9 (2.23%) SAN
6 9 (2.23%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (1.98%) VLAN
8 7 (1.73%) BGP
8 7 (1.73%) OSPF
8 7 (1.73%) TCP/IP
9 6 (1.49%) DHCP
10 4 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (0.99%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (0.99%) Internet
10 4 (0.99%) IPsec
10 4 (0.99%) VoIP
10 4 (0.99%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.42%) SQL Server
2 31 (7.67%) Power BI
3 17 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (3.22%) Metadata
5 10 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (2.48%) Big Data
5 10 (2.48%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.73%) Delta Lake
7 5 (1.24%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.99%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.99%) SAP HANA
9 3 (0.74%) Parquet
9 3 (0.74%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (0.74%) Spark SQL
9 3 (0.74%) Tableau
9 3 (0.74%) Trino
10 2 (0.50%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 48 (11.88%) JIRA
2 46 (11.39%) Jenkins
3 25 (6.19%) Git
4 13 (3.22%) GitLab
5 11 (2.72%) Gatling
6 7 (1.73%) Maven
6 7 (1.73%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.49%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.99%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.99%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.99%) Selenium
9 3 (0.74%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (0.74%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.50%) JMeter
10 2 (0.50%) MSBuild
10 2 (0.50%) Postman
10 2 (0.50%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.25%) JUnit
11 1 (0.25%) LoadRunner
General
1 109 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 94 (23.27%) Finance
3 35 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.18%) Public Sector
5 28 (6.93%) Banking
6 19 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.47%) Law
8 9 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (2.23%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.98%) Retail
10 7 (1.73%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.49%) Legal
11 6 (1.49%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.49%) Publishing
11 6 (1.49%) Social Science
12 5 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.74%) Military
13 3 (0.74%) Police
14 2 (0.50%) Billing
14 2 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 66 (16.34%) Architect
2 49 (12.13%) Lead
3 46 (11.39%) Senior
4 38 (9.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 37 (9.16%) Developer
6 26 (6.44%) Solutions Architect
7 25 (6.19%) Data Engineer
8 24 (5.94%) Analyst
8 24 (5.94%) Azure Engineer
9 18 (4.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 18 (4.46%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (3.47%) Delivery Manager
11 13 (3.22%) Consultant
12 12 (2.97%) 2nd Line Support
13 11 (2.72%) Administrator
13 11 (2.72%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (2.72%) Technical Architect
14 10 (2.48%) Data Analyst
14 10 (2.48%) Project Manager
15 9 (2.23%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (8.66%) REST
2 23 (5.69%) .NET
3 14 (3.47%) Playwright
3 14 (3.47%) React
4 12 (2.97%) OAuth
4 12 (2.97%) Web Services
5 11 (2.72%) Kafka
5 11 (2.72%) PySpark
5 11 (2.72%) SailPoint
5 11 (2.72%) SOAP
6 10 (2.48%) .NET Core
6 10 (2.48%) ASP.NET
6 10 (2.48%) OpenID
7 9 (2.23%) JSON
7 9 (2.23%) SAP Basis
8 8 (1.98%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.98%) LDAP
8 8 (1.98%) SAML
9 7 (1.73%) Microsoft Graph
9 7 (1.73%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 49 (12.13%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.43%) Product Ownership
3 25 (6.19%) Data Centre
4 23 (5.69%) Onboarding
5 21 (5.20%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (4.21%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (3.47%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (3.22%) AI Agents
9 12 (2.97%) Public Cloud
9 12 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.98%) Taxonomies
11 7 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.73%) Replication
12 6 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
12 6 (1.49%) NHS
12 6 (1.49%) PKI
13 5 (1.24%) FlexPod
13 5 (1.24%) Security Posture
14 4 (0.99%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 49 (12.13%) Windows
2 25 (6.19%) Linux
3 22 (5.45%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.98%) Data ONTAP
4 8 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.49%) CoreOS
5 6 (1.49%) VMS
6 5 (1.24%) Android
6 5 (1.24%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.74%) AIX
7 3 (0.74%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.50%) Unix
8 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (36.63%) DevOps
2 143 (35.40%) CI/CD
3 91 (22.52%) Agile
4 71 (17.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 67 (16.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 64 (15.84%) AI
7 62 (15.35%) Roadmaps
8 53 (13.12%) Migration
8 53 (13.12%) Observability
9 50 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
10 49 (12.13%) Analytics
11 48 (11.88%) Cybersecurity
12 46 (11.39%) Platform Engineering
13 44 (10.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 39 (9.65%) Continuous Improvement
15 37 (9.16%) Data Engineering
15 37 (9.16%) Data Pipeline
15 37 (9.16%) Software Engineering
16 35 (8.66%) Containerisation
16 35 (8.66%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 79 (19.55%) Python
2 47 (11.63%) SQL
3 43 (10.64%) Java
4 37 (9.16%) PowerShell
5 23 (5.69%) C#
6 17 (4.21%) JavaScript
7 16 (3.96%) Bash
8 10 (2.48%) Scala
9 9 (2.23%) Bicep
10 8 (1.98%) Groovy
10 8 (1.98%) TypeScript
11 7 (1.73%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.24%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.99%) ABAP
14 3 (0.74%) Go
14 3 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.74%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.25%) Cypher
16 1 (0.25%) X++
Qualifications
1 58 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 36 (8.91%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.44%) Degree
4 16 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.72%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.48%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.98%) CISSP
8 7 (1.73%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.49%) CISM
10 5 (1.24%) CCNP
10 5 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.24%) OCP
10 5 (1.24%) Oracle Certification
10 5 (1.24%) PMP
11 4 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.99%) CCSP
11 4 (0.99%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.95%) QA
2 17 (4.21%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.48%) NIST
4 9 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.98%) GDPR
5 8 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 7 (1.73%) WCAG
7 5 (1.24%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.99%) GRC
8 4 (0.99%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.74%) GxP
9 3 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.50%) IASME
10 2 (0.50%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.50%) SLA
11 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 58 (14.36%) Active Directory
2 47 (11.63%) Docker
3 14 (3.47%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (3.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (2.97%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (1.98%) NFS
6 8 (1.98%) vSphere
7 7 (1.73%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.74%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.74%) SRDF
8 3 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.25%) Ceph
9 1 (0.25%) KVM
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.25%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 87 (21.53%) Terraform
2 77 (19.06%) Kubernetes
3 29 (7.18%) Ansible
3 29 (7.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (3.47%) Grafana
4 14 (3.47%) Jamf Pro
4 14 (3.47%) Prometheus
5 13 (3.22%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (2.23%) HAProxy
7 8 (1.98%) SnapMirror
8 4 (0.99%) Kustomize
8 4 (0.99%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.74%) Argo
9 3 (0.74%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (0.50%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.50%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.50%) Podman
10 2 (0.50%) SnapVault
10 2 (0.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 147 (36.39%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.16%) Databricks
3 29 (7.18%) Google
4 21 (5.20%) ServiceNow
5 19 (4.70%) SAP
6 17 (4.21%) CyberArk
7 16 (3.96%) Foundry
8 14 (3.47%) VMware
9 13 (3.22%) Okta
10 12 (2.97%) Red Hat
11 11 (2.72%) Cisco
11 11 (2.72%) Oracle
12 8 (1.98%) NetApp
13 7 (1.73%) Aruba
13 7 (1.73%) Citrix
13 7 (1.73%) OpenAI
13 7 (1.73%) Palo Alto
13 7 (1.73%) Splunk
14 6 (1.49%) BeyondTrust
14 6 (1.49%) Centrify