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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 432 206 197
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.80% 13.10% 13.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.70% 34.33% 37.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 125 135
10th Percentile £350 £314 £359
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £507
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -3.85% -7.82%
75th Percentile £598 £550 £597
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £19.00 - -
75th Percentile £25.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +54.41% -2.86% -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 1,036 600 524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 35.50% 38.14% 35.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 664 403 360
10th Percentile £323 £235 £300
25th Percentile £413 £369 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.52% -5.24%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £567
90th Percentile £675 £616 £650
England median daily rate £525 £501 £530
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 4
10th Percentile £13.45 - -
25th Percentile £14.41 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £200.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -90.50% +830.23% +1.15%
75th Percentile £32.50 - £23.69
90th Percentile £35.00 - £26.73
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%

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 1 October 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
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 1 October 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 -1 198 £500 - 206
South Yorkshire +7 178 £518 +8.95% 99
North Yorkshire +5 30 £460 +143.71% 51
East Yorkshire -2 3 £338 - 18
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 43 (9.95%) SharePoint
2 29 (6.71%) Confluence
3 18 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (3.24%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.85%) Apache
6 6 (1.39%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.16%) Apache Superset
8 2 (0.46%) nginx
9 1 (0.23%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.46%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 191 (44.21%) AWS
2 135 (31.25%) GCP
3 74 (17.13%) GitHub
3 74 (17.13%) Microsoft 365
4 67 (15.51%) Azure DevOps
5 66 (15.28%) Entra ID
6 58 (13.43%) Power Platform
7 43 (9.95%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
9 21 (4.86%) Azure Monitor
10 20 (4.63%) OneDrive
10 20 (4.63%) PowerApps
11 17 (3.94%) Serverless
12 14 (3.24%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (3.24%) Copilot Studio
13 13 (3.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 13 (3.01%) SaaS
14 11 (2.55%) Azure AI
14 11 (2.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 11 (2.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.41%) Firewall
2 29 (6.71%) DNS
3 22 (5.09%) Network Security
4 18 (4.17%) VPN
5 16 (3.70%) VLAN
6 14 (3.24%) DHCP
7 13 (3.01%) LAN
7 13 (3.01%) WAN
8 12 (2.78%) WLAN
9 11 (2.55%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (2.31%) BGP
10 10 (2.31%) OSPF
11 9 (2.08%) TCP/IP
12 7 (1.62%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (1.62%) SAN
13 6 (1.39%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (1.39%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (1.39%) NAS
13 6 (1.39%) Wireless
14 5 (1.16%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (7.64%) Power BI
2 30 (6.94%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.94%) Big Data
4 17 (3.94%) Metadata
5 13 (3.01%) Data Lake
5 13 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (1.85%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.62%) Delta Lake
8 5 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.16%) Neo4j
8 5 (1.16%) Semantic Layer
8 5 (1.16%) Tableau
8 5 (1.16%) Trino
9 4 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (0.93%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.93%) Redis
9 4 (0.93%) SAP BW
9 4 (0.93%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 54 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 52 (12.04%) JIRA
3 33 (7.64%) Git
4 17 (3.94%) GitLab
5 11 (2.55%) Selenium
6 10 (2.31%) JMeter
7 9 (2.08%) Gatling
8 8 (1.85%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.85%) Postman
8 8 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (1.62%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.39%) LoadRunner
10 6 (1.39%) SoapUI
11 5 (1.16%) Maven
12 4 (0.93%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.69%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.69%) Browser DevTools
13 3 (0.69%) Fiddler
14 2 (0.46%) Claude Code
14 2 (0.46%) Newman
General
1 133 (30.79%) Social Skills
2 120 (27.78%) Finance
3 40 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (8.33%) Banking
5 28 (6.48%) Public Sector
6 12 (2.78%) Retail
7 11 (2.55%) Law
8 10 (2.31%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.08%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.39%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.93%) Military
12 4 (0.93%) Social Science
13 3 (0.69%) Legal
13 3 (0.69%) Police
14 2 (0.46%) Billing
14 2 (0.46%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 74 (17.13%) Architect
2 65 (15.05%) Senior
3 56 (12.96%) Lead
4 35 (8.10%) Developer
4 35 (8.10%) DevOps Engineer
5 34 (7.87%) Data Engineer
6 25 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
7 24 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
8 22 (5.09%) Analyst
9 19 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
10 16 (3.70%) Technical Architect
11 15 (3.47%) Delivery Manager
12 14 (3.24%) Cloud Architect
12 14 (3.24%) Cloud Engineer
12 14 (3.24%) Consultant
13 12 (2.78%) 2nd Line Support
13 12 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 12 (2.78%) Security Engineer
14 11 (2.55%) Data Architect
15 10 (2.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (25.23%) Terraform
2 43 (9.95%) REST
3 28 (6.48%) Kafka
4 23 (5.32%) React
5 22 (5.09%) .NET
6 21 (4.86%) OAuth
7 17 (3.94%) OpenID
8 15 (3.47%) OAuth2
9 14 (3.24%) SAML
10 13 (3.01%) SailPoint
11 12 (2.78%) .NET Core
11 12 (2.78%) ASP.NET
11 12 (2.78%) Middleware
11 12 (2.78%) PySpark
12 11 (2.55%) JSON
12 11 (2.55%) Playwright
13 10 (2.31%) HTML
13 10 (2.31%) SOAP
13 10 (2.31%) Web Services
14 9 (2.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 67 (15.51%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.64%) Data Centre
3 28 (6.48%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (4.86%) Data Protection Act
5 20 (4.63%) AI Agents
6 19 (4.40%) Onboarding
6 19 (4.40%) Product Ownership
7 17 (3.94%) Public Cloud
8 13 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (2.55%) PKI
11 10 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (1.85%) Replication
13 7 (1.62%) Data Structures
14 6 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
14 6 (1.39%) Mobile App
15 5 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
15 5 (1.16%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 56 (12.96%) Windows
2 29 (6.71%) Linux
3 28 (6.48%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.39%) Android
4 6 (1.39%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.93%) Unix
6 3 (0.69%) AIX
6 3 (0.69%) Data ONTAP
6 3 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.23%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.23%) VMS
8 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (43.52%) CI/CD
2 168 (38.89%) DevOps
3 110 (25.46%) Agile
4 101 (23.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 88 (20.37%) Stakeholder Management
6 79 (18.29%) AI
7 75 (17.36%) Observability
8 72 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
9 63 (14.58%) Analytics
9 63 (14.58%) Test Automation
10 55 (12.73%) Roadmaps
11 53 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
12 52 (12.04%) Software Engineering
13 51 (11.81%) Migration
13 51 (11.81%) Platform Engineering
14 48 (11.11%) Data Engineering
15 46 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 45 (10.42%) Validation
17 44 (10.19%) Data Pipeline
17 44 (10.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 109 (25.23%) Python
2 59 (13.66%) SQL
3 58 (13.43%) Java
4 52 (12.04%) PowerShell
5 23 (5.32%) C#
6 22 (5.09%) JavaScript
7 19 (4.40%) Bash
8 15 (3.47%) Bicep
9 13 (3.01%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.08%) Groovy
11 8 (1.85%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.62%) Go
12 7 (1.62%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.39%) Scala
14 4 (0.93%) ABAP
14 4 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.69%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.23%) C
Qualifications
1 62 (14.35%) Security Cleared
2 44 (10.19%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.02%) Degree
4 21 (4.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (3.47%) Azure Certification
5 15 (3.47%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (3.24%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.55%) CISSP
8 10 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.08%) CISM
10 8 (1.85%) CCNP
11 7 (1.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (1.62%) CCSP
11 7 (1.62%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.62%) PMI Certification
11 7 (1.62%) PMP
12 6 (1.39%) CCSK
13 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.02%) QA
3 13 (3.01%) GDPR
3 13 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.55%) NIST
5 10 (2.31%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.85%) HIPAA
7 7 (1.62%) WCAG
8 6 (1.39%) GRC
8 6 (1.39%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 5 (1.16%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.69%) GxP
10 3 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.46%) IASME
11 2 (0.46%) PMO
11 2 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 70 (16.20%) Active Directory
2 54 (12.50%) Docker
3 14 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (2.31%) Hyper-V
7 7 (1.62%) vSphere
8 5 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.69%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.69%) Firmware
9 3 (0.69%) NFS
9 3 (0.69%) SRDF
10 2 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.23%) Ceph
11 1 (0.23%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 94 (21.76%) Kubernetes
2 33 (7.64%) Ansible
2 33 (7.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (4.86%) Grafana
4 18 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.78%) Jamf Pro
6 9 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (1.62%) Kustomize
8 6 (1.39%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.16%) HAProxy
10 4 (0.93%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.69%) Argo
11 3 (0.69%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.69%) Packer
11 3 (0.69%) SCCM
11 3 (0.69%) SnapMirror
11 3 (0.69%) vMotion
12 2 (0.46%) Podman
12 2 (0.46%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 141 (32.64%) Microsoft
2 50 (11.57%) Databricks
3 31 (7.18%) ServiceNow
4 26 (6.02%) Google
5 19 (4.40%) CyberArk
6 17 (3.94%) Cisco
7 15 (3.47%) Foundry
7 15 (3.47%) SAP
7 15 (3.47%) VMware
8 14 (3.24%) Splunk
9 13 (3.01%) Dynatrace
10 11 (2.55%) IBM
11 10 (2.31%) Okta
12 9 (2.08%) Citrix
12 9 (2.08%) OpenAI
13 7 (1.62%) Centrify
13 7 (1.62%) CheckPoint
13 7 (1.62%) Dell
13 7 (1.62%) Red Hat
13 7 (1.62%) Salesforce