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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 404 171 189
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.08% 11.34% 12.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.59% 32.14% 37.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 111 133
10th Percentile £342 £308 £380
25th Percentile £422 £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 £610
90th Percentile £698 £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% -34.88%

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 1,047 532 499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.48% 35.28% 32.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 367 342
10th Percentile £321 £263 £275
25th Percentile £413 £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 £675 £600 £650
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 £35.50 £26.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +36.54% +9.24% -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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +4 200 £489 -2.25% 144
South Yorkshire +7 144 £519 +15.72% 51
North Yorkshire +8 31 £510 +63.20% 33
East Yorkshire -1 7 £338 - 15
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 11 (2.72%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.99%) Apache
6 3 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.74%) Apache Superset
7 2 (0.50%) nginx
7 2 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.50%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.25%) CMS
8 1 (0.25%) IIS
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
1 153 (37.87%) AWS
2 106 (26.24%) GCP
3 71 (17.57%) Microsoft 365
4 62 (15.35%) Entra ID
4 62 (15.35%) Power Platform
5 60 (14.85%) Azure DevOps
6 59 (14.60%) GitHub
7 36 (8.91%) GitHub Actions
8 29 (7.18%) PowerApps
9 25 (6.19%) Microsoft Copilot
10 21 (5.20%) OneDrive
11 20 (4.95%) SaaS
12 18 (4.46%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (4.21%) Serverless
14 15 (3.71%) Azure Data Factory
14 15 (3.71%) Copilot Studio
14 15 (3.71%) Power Automate
15 14 (3.47%) Azure AI
16 13 (3.22%) PaaS
17 11 (2.72%) OpenShift
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%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (1.98%) VLAN
8 7 (1.73%) BGP
8 7 (1.73%) OSPF
8 7 (1.73%) SAN
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 30 (7.43%) Power BI
3 17 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (3.22%) Metadata
5 12 (2.97%) Big Data
6 11 (2.72%) Data Lake
7 10 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.49%) Delta Lake
10 5 (1.24%) Neo4j
11 4 (0.99%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.99%) SAP HANA
11 4 (0.99%) Tableau
12 3 (0.74%) Parquet
12 3 (0.74%) Semantic Layer
12 3 (0.74%) Spark SQL
12 3 (0.74%) Trino
13 2 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 48 (11.88%) Jenkins
1 48 (11.88%) JIRA
2 25 (6.19%) Git
3 13 (3.22%) GitLab
4 12 (2.97%) Gatling
5 7 (1.73%) Maven
5 7 (1.73%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (1.49%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.99%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.99%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.99%) Selenium
8 3 (0.74%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (0.74%) Fiddler
8 3 (0.74%) JMeter
9 2 (0.50%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.50%) MSBuild
9 2 (0.50%) Postman
9 2 (0.50%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.25%) SoapUI
General
1 109 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 95 (23.51%) Finance
3 35 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.18%) Public Sector
5 26 (6.44%) 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%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.49%) Publishing
11 6 (1.49%) Social Science
12 5 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.24%) Legal
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 51 (12.62%) Lead
3 46 (11.39%) Senior
4 37 (9.16%) Developer
5 36 (8.91%) DevOps Engineer
6 26 (6.44%) Solutions Architect
7 25 (6.19%) Analyst
8 24 (5.94%) Data Engineer
9 22 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
10 18 (4.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (4.46%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (3.47%) Delivery Manager
12 13 (3.22%) Consultant
13 12 (2.97%) 2nd Line Support
13 12 (2.97%) Cloud Engineer
14 11 (2.72%) Administrator
14 11 (2.72%) Technical Architect
15 10 (2.48%) Business Analyst
15 10 (2.48%) Data Analyst
15 10 (2.48%) Project Manager
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 13 (3.22%) Kafka
5 12 (2.97%) OAuth
5 12 (2.97%) Web Services
6 11 (2.72%) SailPoint
6 11 (2.72%) SOAP
7 10 (2.48%) .NET Core
7 10 (2.48%) ASP.NET
7 10 (2.48%) OpenID
7 10 (2.48%) PySpark
8 9 (2.23%) JSON
8 9 (2.23%) SAP Basis
9 8 (1.98%) AngularJS
9 8 (1.98%) LDAP
9 8 (1.98%) SAML
10 7 (1.73%) Microsoft Graph
10 7 (1.73%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 50 (12.38%) 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 15 (3.71%) 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%) Security Posture
14 4 (0.99%) Cyber Security Posture
14 4 (0.99%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 49 (12.13%) Windows
2 26 (6.44%) Linux
3 22 (5.45%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.49%) Data ONTAP
6 5 (1.24%) Android
6 5 (1.24%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.99%) CoreOS
7 4 (0.99%) VMS
8 3 (0.74%) AIX
8 3 (0.74%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.50%) Unix
9 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (36.63%) DevOps
2 146 (36.14%) CI/CD
3 92 (22.77%) Agile
4 73 (18.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 68 (16.83%) Stakeholder Management
6 63 (15.59%) AI
7 62 (15.35%) Roadmaps
8 54 (13.37%) Observability
9 51 (12.62%) Migration
10 50 (12.38%) Cybersecurity
11 49 (12.13%) Analytics
11 49 (12.13%) Platform Engineering
12 48 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
13 45 (11.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 39 (9.65%) Continuous Improvement
14 39 (9.65%) Data Engineering
15 38 (9.41%) Data Pipeline
16 37 (9.16%) Software Engineering
17 36 (8.91%) Containerisation
18 34 (8.42%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 81 (20.05%) Python
2 49 (12.13%) SQL
3 45 (11.14%) Java
4 39 (9.65%) PowerShell
5 25 (6.19%) C#
6 18 (4.46%) Bash
6 18 (4.46%) JavaScript
7 10 (2.48%) Scala
8 9 (2.23%) Groovy
9 8 (1.98%) Bicep
9 8 (1.98%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.98%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (1.24%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.99%) ABAP
13 3 (0.74%) Go
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 59 (14.60%) Security Cleared
2 37 (9.16%) 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%) PMP
11 4 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.99%) CCSP
11 4 (0.99%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.74%) OCP
12 3 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.95%) QA
2 17 (4.21%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.72%) NIST
4 9 (2.23%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.98%) GDPR
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%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.74%) GxP
9 3 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.50%) IASME
10 2 (0.50%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.50%) SLA
11 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 59 (14.60%) Active Directory
2 49 (12.13%) Docker
3 12 (2.97%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.73%) Hyper-V
7 6 (1.49%) NFS
7 6 (1.49%) vSphere
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 78 (19.31%) Kubernetes
3 29 (7.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 27 (6.68%) Ansible
5 16 (3.96%) Grafana
6 15 (3.71%) Prometheus
7 14 (3.47%) Jamf Pro
8 13 (3.22%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (2.23%) HAProxy
10 6 (1.49%) SnapMirror
11 4 (0.99%) Kustomize
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%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.50%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.50%) Podman
13 2 (0.50%) SnapVault
13 2 (0.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 146 (36.14%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.16%) Databricks
3 26 (6.44%) Google
4 21 (5.20%) ServiceNow
5 20 (4.95%) SAP
6 17 (4.21%) CyberArk
7 16 (3.96%) Foundry
8 13 (3.22%) Okta
9 12 (2.97%) VMware
10 11 (2.72%) Cisco
10 11 (2.72%) Oracle
10 11 (2.72%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.98%) Splunk
12 7 (1.73%) Aruba
12 7 (1.73%) Citrix
12 7 (1.73%) IBM
12 7 (1.73%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.49%) BeyondTrust
13 6 (1.49%) Centrify
13 6 (1.49%) OpenAI