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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 10 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 403 173 202
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.29% 11.79% 12.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.94% 32.95% 39.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 117 143
10th Percentile £327 £313 £380
25th Percentile £421 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £600
90th Percentile £700 £600 £649
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% -40.32%

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 1,035 525 510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.70% 35.79% 32.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 361 351
10th Percentile £313 £274 £263
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £580 £538 £575
90th Percentile £680 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.49% -2.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 3 6
10th Percentile £16.00 £27.35 £13.38
25th Percentile £18.50 £29.01 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.11 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% +57.67% -1.20%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.51 £21.88
90th Percentile - £85.74 £22.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% +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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +5 205 £488 -2.50% 107
South Yorkshire +7 141 £522 +11.06% 29
North Yorkshire +6 29 £510 +63.20% 24
East Yorkshire -3 6 £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 46 (11.41%) SharePoint
2 26 (6.45%) Confluence
3 20 (4.96%) 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 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
1 162 (40.20%) AWS
2 106 (26.30%) GCP
3 69 (17.12%) Microsoft 365
4 63 (15.63%) Power Platform
5 61 (15.14%) Entra ID
6 60 (14.89%) Azure DevOps
7 52 (12.90%) GitHub
8 37 (9.18%) GitHub Actions
9 30 (7.44%) PowerApps
10 24 (5.96%) Microsoft Copilot
10 24 (5.96%) SaaS
11 23 (5.71%) OneDrive
12 21 (5.21%) Serverless
13 18 (4.47%) Azure Monitor
13 18 (4.47%) PaaS
14 15 (3.72%) Copilot Studio
14 15 (3.72%) Power Automate
15 14 (3.47%) Azure AI
16 13 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (3.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.47%) Firewall
2 14 (3.47%) DNS
3 13 (3.23%) LAN
3 13 (3.23%) WAN
4 12 (2.98%) Network Security
5 11 (2.73%) VPN
5 11 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (2.48%) WLAN
7 9 (2.23%) SAN
8 8 (1.99%) VLAN
9 7 (1.74%) BGP
9 7 (1.74%) IPsec
9 7 (1.74%) OSPF
9 7 (1.74%) TCP/IP
10 6 (1.49%) DHCP
10 6 (1.49%) Kerberos
11 5 (1.24%) VoIP
12 4 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (0.99%) Internet
12 4 (0.99%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.19%) SQL Server
2 30 (7.44%) Power BI
3 18 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (3.23%) Metadata
6 10 (2.48%) Big Data
6 10 (2.48%) Data Lake
7 9 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.74%) Delta Lake
9 4 (0.99%) Neo4j
9 4 (0.99%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.99%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.74%) Parquet
10 3 (0.74%) Spark SQL
10 3 (0.74%) Tableau
11 2 (0.50%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.50%) Redis
11 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 49 (12.16%) Jenkins
2 44 (10.92%) JIRA
3 22 (5.46%) Git
4 14 (3.47%) GitLab
5 11 (2.73%) Gatling
6 7 (1.74%) Maven
7 6 (1.49%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.99%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.74%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (0.74%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.50%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.50%) JMeter
10 2 (0.50%) MSBuild
10 2 (0.50%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.50%) Selenium
10 2 (0.50%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.25%) JUnit
11 1 (0.25%) LoadRunner
General
1 106 (26.30%) Social Skills
2 94 (23.33%) Finance
3 32 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.20%) Public Sector
5 27 (6.70%) Banking
6 19 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.98%) Law
8 9 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (2.23%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.74%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.74%) Retail
10 6 (1.49%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.49%) Publishing
10 6 (1.49%) Social Science
11 5 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.24%) Legal
12 4 (0.99%) Military
13 3 (0.74%) Police
14 2 (0.50%) Billing
14 2 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 70 (17.37%) Architect
2 51 (12.66%) Senior
3 47 (11.66%) Lead
4 39 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
5 37 (9.18%) Developer
6 24 (5.96%) Azure Engineer
6 24 (5.96%) Solutions Architect
7 23 (5.71%) Analyst
7 23 (5.71%) Data Engineer
8 19 (4.71%) Platform Engineer
9 18 (4.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (3.72%) Technical Architect
11 13 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (3.23%) Delivery Manager
12 12 (2.98%) 2nd Line Support
12 12 (2.98%) Consultant
13 11 (2.73%) Administrator
13 11 (2.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 10 (2.48%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 10 (2.48%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.44%) REST
2 22 (5.46%) .NET
3 15 (3.72%) OAuth
3 15 (3.72%) Web Services
4 14 (3.47%) OpenID
5 11 (2.73%) Kafka
5 11 (2.73%) Playwright
5 11 (2.73%) PySpark
5 11 (2.73%) React
5 11 (2.73%) SAML
5 11 (2.73%) SOAP
6 10 (2.48%) SailPoint
7 9 (2.23%) .NET Core
7 9 (2.23%) ASP.NET
7 9 (2.23%) Microsoft Graph
7 9 (2.23%) OAuth2
7 9 (2.23%) SAP Basis
8 8 (1.99%) JSON
8 8 (1.99%) LDAP
9 7 (1.74%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 51 (12.66%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.95%) Product Ownership
3 25 (6.20%) Data Centre
4 24 (5.96%) Onboarding
5 19 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (3.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (2.98%) AI Agents
7 12 (2.98%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (2.98%) Public Cloud
7 12 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.74%) Replication
9 7 (1.74%) Taxonomies
10 6 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.49%) NHS
10 6 (1.49%) PKI
11 5 (1.24%) FlexPod
12 4 (0.99%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 50 (12.41%) Windows
2 25 (6.20%) Linux
3 20 (4.96%) 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
1 155 (38.46%) DevOps
2 148 (36.72%) CI/CD
3 97 (24.07%) Agile
4 70 (17.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 67 (16.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 64 (15.88%) Roadmaps
7 61 (15.14%) AI
8 55 (13.65%) Observability
9 53 (13.15%) Migration
10 51 (12.66%) Cybersecurity
11 49 (12.16%) Platform Engineering
11 49 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
12 47 (11.66%) Analytics
13 44 (10.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 37 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
15 36 (8.93%) Containerisation
15 36 (8.93%) Data Engineering
15 36 (8.93%) Software Engineering
16 35 (8.68%) Data Modelling
17 34 (8.44%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 83 (20.60%) Python
2 50 (12.41%) SQL
3 43 (10.67%) Java
4 39 (9.68%) PowerShell
5 23 (5.71%) C#
6 18 (4.47%) Bash
7 14 (3.47%) JavaScript
8 10 (2.48%) Scala
9 9 (2.23%) Bicep
9 9 (2.23%) Groovy
10 7 (1.74%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.24%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.24%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.99%) ABAP
13 3 (0.74%) Go
13 3 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.74%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.25%) Cypher
14 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.25%) X++
Qualifications
1 57 (14.14%) Security Cleared
2 36 (8.93%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.45%) Degree
4 16 (3.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.73%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.48%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.99%) CISSP
8 7 (1.74%) 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 18 (4.47%) QA
2 16 (3.97%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.23%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.23%) NIST
4 8 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.74%) GDPR
5 7 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 7 (1.74%) WCAG
6 5 (1.24%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.99%) GRC
7 4 (0.99%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.74%) GxP
8 3 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.50%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.50%) SLA
10 1 (0.25%) NCSC
10 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 56 (13.90%) Active Directory
2 47 (11.66%) Docker
3 14 (3.47%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (2.98%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (1.99%) NFS
6 8 (1.99%) vSphere
7 5 (1.24%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.74%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.74%) RACF
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 88 (21.84%) Terraform
2 76 (18.86%) Kubernetes
3 31 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (6.95%) Ansible
5 16 (3.97%) 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 4 (0.99%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.99%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.74%) Argo
11 3 (0.74%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (0.50%) Istio
12 2 (0.50%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.50%) Podman
12 2 (0.50%) SnapVault
12 2 (0.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 143 (35.48%) Microsoft
2 35 (8.68%) Databricks
3 29 (7.20%) Google
4 22 (5.46%) ServiceNow
5 19 (4.71%) SAP
6 16 (3.97%) CyberArk
6 16 (3.97%) Foundry
7 14 (3.47%) VMware
8 12 (2.98%) Okta
8 12 (2.98%) Oracle
8 12 (2.98%) Red Hat
9 9 (2.23%) Cisco
10 8 (1.99%) NetApp
11 7 (1.74%) Aruba
11 7 (1.74%) Citrix
11 7 (1.74%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.74%) Splunk
12 6 (1.49%) Apple
12 6 (1.49%) BeyondTrust
12 6 (1.49%) IBM