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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 10 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 403 156 205
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.23% 11.67% 11.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.38% 32.64% 39.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 104 152
10th Percentile £317 £309 £351
25th Percentile £450 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.32% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £618 £538 £600
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 13 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 £45.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year +27.78% +16.88% -36.21%

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 1,078 478 524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.05% 35.75% 30.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 698 328 370
10th Percentile £313 £262 £261
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £575
90th Percentile £679 £618 £638
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 4 10
10th Percentile £18.50 £27.82 £13.48
25th Percentile £23.00 £30.17 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.96 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +119.73% -33.36%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.48 £21.50
90th Percentile - £79.33 £22.00
England median hourly rate £39.75 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +58.05% +14.32% -33.33%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 10 July 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 +6 202 £500 +5.26% 94
South Yorkshire +9 144 £530 +12.17% 44
North Yorkshire +6 27 £510 +63.20% 18
East Yorkshire -1 7 £338 - 14
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 (10.92%) SharePoint
2 21 (5.21%) Confluence
3 19 (4.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (2.73%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.74%) Apache
6 2 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.50%) Apache Superset
6 2 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.50%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.25%) CMS
7 1 (0.25%) IIS
7 1 (0.25%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 17 (4.22%) 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
1 166 (41.19%) AWS
2 108 (26.80%) GCP
3 67 (16.63%) Entra ID
4 65 (16.13%) Microsoft 365
5 63 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
6 57 (14.14%) Power Platform
7 56 (13.90%) GitHub
8 41 (10.17%) GitHub Actions
9 30 (7.44%) PowerApps
10 26 (6.45%) SaaS
11 25 (6.20%) Microsoft Copilot
11 25 (6.20%) Serverless
12 22 (5.46%) OneDrive
13 19 (4.71%) Azure Monitor
13 19 (4.71%) PaaS
14 15 (3.72%) Azure Data Factory
14 15 (3.72%) Copilot Studio
14 15 (3.72%) Power Automate
15 14 (3.47%) Azure Functions
16 13 (3.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.47%) Firewall
1 14 (3.47%) Network Security
2 12 (2.98%) WAN
3 10 (2.48%) DNS
3 10 (2.48%) LAN
4 9 (2.23%) SAN
5 8 (1.99%) VPN
5 8 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (1.74%) Kerberos
6 7 (1.74%) WLAN
7 5 (1.24%) IPsec
7 5 (1.24%) VLAN
8 4 (0.99%) BGP
8 4 (0.99%) Internet
8 4 (0.99%) OSPF
8 4 (0.99%) SSL
8 4 (0.99%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.99%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.74%) DHCP
9 3 (0.74%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.19%) SQL Server
2 27 (6.70%) Power BI
3 18 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (2.73%) Data Lake
6 11 (2.73%) Metadata
7 9 (2.23%) Big Data
8 8 (1.99%) Delta Lake
9 7 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.74%) Neo4j
10 4 (0.99%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.99%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.74%) Parquet
11 3 (0.74%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.50%) Redis
12 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.50%) Trino
13 1 (0.25%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 55 (13.65%) Jenkins
2 43 (10.67%) JIRA
3 23 (5.71%) Git
4 18 (4.47%) GitLab
5 14 (3.47%) Gatling
6 7 (1.74%) Maven
7 6 (1.49%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (1.24%) JMeter
8 5 (1.24%) Postman
9 4 (0.99%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.99%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.99%) NeoLoad
10 3 (0.74%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (0.74%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.74%) Fiddler
10 3 (0.74%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.74%) Selenium
11 2 (0.50%) MSBuild
11 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 103 (25.56%) Social Skills
2 94 (23.33%) Finance
3 33 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.20%) Public Sector
5 28 (6.95%) Banking
6 22 (5.46%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.73%) Law
8 8 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.99%) Legal
8 8 (1.99%) Publishing
9 7 (1.74%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.49%) Retail
10 6 (1.49%) Social Science
11 5 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.99%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.99%) Military
13 2 (0.50%) Billing
13 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 76 (18.86%) Architect
2 52 (12.90%) Senior
3 42 (10.42%) Lead
4 40 (9.93%) DevOps Engineer
5 39 (9.68%) Developer
6 27 (6.70%) Azure Engineer
6 27 (6.70%) Solutions Architect
7 22 (5.46%) Data Engineer
8 21 (5.21%) Analyst
9 19 (4.71%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (4.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (3.72%) Technical Architect
12 14 (3.47%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (2.98%) Administrator
13 12 (2.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 12 (2.98%) Delivery Manager
14 11 (2.73%) 2nd Line Support
14 11 (2.73%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 11 (2.73%) Consultant
15 10 (2.48%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (9.68%) REST
2 24 (5.96%) .NET
3 22 (5.46%) OpenID
4 17 (4.22%) OAuth
5 16 (3.97%) Web Services
6 14 (3.47%) Playwright
6 14 (3.47%) SAML
7 13 (3.23%) LDAP
7 13 (3.23%) SailPoint
8 12 (2.98%) OAuth2
9 11 (2.73%) Kafka
9 11 (2.73%) PySpark
9 11 (2.73%) SAP Basis
9 11 (2.73%) SOAP
10 10 (2.48%) Microsoft Graph
10 10 (2.48%) React
11 9 (2.23%) .NET Core
11 9 (2.23%) ASP.NET
12 8 (1.99%) JSON
12 8 (1.99%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 56 (13.90%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.45%) Data Centre
3 25 (6.20%) Onboarding
4 20 (4.96%) Product Ownership
5 18 (4.47%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (3.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (2.98%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (2.48%) AI Agents
9 10 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.23%) Taxonomies
11 7 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.74%) NHS
11 7 (1.74%) Replication
12 5 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (1.24%) FlexPod
13 4 (0.99%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (11.41%) Windows
2 25 (6.20%) Linux
3 17 (4.22%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.99%) Data ONTAP
4 8 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.49%) CoreOS
5 6 (1.49%) VMS
6 4 (0.99%) Android
6 4 (0.99%) 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
1 165 (40.94%) DevOps
2 158 (39.21%) CI/CD
3 94 (23.33%) Agile
4 78 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 62 (15.38%) Roadmaps
6 58 (14.39%) Stakeholder Management
7 56 (13.90%) Migration
8 52 (12.90%) Observability
8 52 (12.90%) Platform Engineering
9 50 (12.41%) AI
9 50 (12.41%) Cybersecurity
10 46 (11.41%) Analytics
11 44 (10.92%) Problem-Solving
11 44 (10.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 41 (10.17%) Identity Access Management
13 40 (9.93%) Containerisation
14 36 (8.93%) Data Pipeline
14 36 (8.93%) Test Automation
15 35 (8.68%) Microservices
16 34 (8.44%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 90 (22.33%) Python
2 54 (13.40%) SQL
3 46 (11.41%) Java
4 42 (10.42%) PowerShell
5 22 (5.46%) C#
6 20 (4.96%) Bash
7 14 (3.47%) Scala
8 13 (3.23%) JavaScript
9 11 (2.73%) Bicep
10 8 (1.99%) TypeScript
11 7 (1.74%) Groovy
12 5 (1.24%) Go
12 5 (1.24%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.24%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.99%) ABAP
13 4 (0.99%) Cypher
14 3 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.74%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.25%) Ruby
15 1 (0.25%) X++
Qualifications
1 52 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 32 (7.94%) SC Cleared
3 28 (6.95%) Degree
4 16 (3.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.73%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.48%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.99%) CISSP
8 7 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.49%) CISM
9 6 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.49%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.49%) PMP
10 5 (1.24%) OCP
10 5 (1.24%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.99%) CCSP
11 4 (0.99%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.74%) CCSK
12 3 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.47%) QA
2 15 (3.72%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.23%) NIST
5 8 (1.99%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.99%) GDPR
6 7 (1.74%) HIPAA
6 7 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 6 (1.49%) WCAG
8 5 (1.24%) GRC
8 5 (1.24%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.74%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.50%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.50%) SLA
12 1 (0.25%) GxP
12 1 (0.25%) HL7
System Software
1 55 (13.65%) Active Directory
2 44 (10.92%) Docker
3 18 (4.47%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (2.73%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (1.99%) NFS
6 8 (1.99%) vSphere
7 5 (1.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.99%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.99%) RACF
9 3 (0.74%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.74%) SRDF
9 3 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.25%) Ceph
10 1 (0.25%) KVM
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.25%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 98 (24.32%) Terraform
2 77 (19.11%) Kubernetes
3 30 (7.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 29 (7.20%) Ansible
5 20 (4.96%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (3.72%) Jamf Pro
7 14 (3.47%) Grafana
7 14 (3.47%) Prometheus
8 9 (2.23%) HAProxy
9 8 (1.99%) SnapMirror
10 5 (1.24%) Kustomize
11 4 (0.99%) Istio
11 4 (0.99%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.74%) Argo
12 3 (0.74%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (0.50%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.50%) Podman
13 2 (0.50%) SnapVault
13 2 (0.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 148 (36.72%) Microsoft
2 38 (9.43%) Google
3 34 (8.44%) Databricks
4 26 (6.45%) ServiceNow
5 23 (5.71%) SAP
6 16 (3.97%) Foundry
6 16 (3.97%) Okta
7 15 (3.72%) CyberArk
8 14 (3.47%) VMware
9 12 (2.98%) Oracle
9 12 (2.98%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.99%) NetApp
10 8 (1.99%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.99%) Splunk
11 7 (1.74%) Aruba
12 6 (1.49%) Citrix
12 6 (1.49%) IBM
13 5 (1.24%) Apple
13 5 (1.24%) Cisco
13 5 (1.24%) Salesforce