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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 10 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 404 162 204
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.17% 11.71% 12.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.37% 32.73% 38.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 110 146
10th Percentile £314 £312 £363
25th Percentile £424 £377 £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 £645
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £18.50 - -
25th Percentile £21.88 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £45.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +27.78% +28.57% -41.57%

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 1,053 495 524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.92% 35.79% 31.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 677 336 359
10th Percentile £313 £263 £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 £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £608 £644
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.34% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 4 8
10th Percentile £18.50 £27.82 £13.43
25th Percentile £23.00 £30.17 £14.63
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.96 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +83.11% -15.31%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.48 £21.63
90th Percentile - £79.33 £22.00
England median hourly rate £39.27 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +56.14% +14.32% -36.96%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +5 208 £488 -2.50% 107
South Yorkshire +5 138 £527 +11.43% 33
North Yorkshire +2 28 £510 +63.20% 21
East Yorkshire -3 6 £338 - 13
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 45 (11.14%) SharePoint
2 24 (5.94%) Confluence
3 20 (4.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (2.72%) 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 15 (3.71%) 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
1 164 (40.59%) AWS
2 104 (25.74%) GCP
3 68 (16.83%) Microsoft 365
4 62 (15.35%) Entra ID
5 61 (15.10%) Azure DevOps
6 57 (14.11%) Power Platform
7 54 (13.37%) GitHub
8 39 (9.65%) GitHub Actions
9 30 (7.43%) PowerApps
10 25 (6.19%) SaaS
11 24 (5.94%) Microsoft Copilot
12 22 (5.45%) OneDrive
12 22 (5.45%) Serverless
13 19 (4.70%) PaaS
14 18 (4.46%) Azure Monitor
15 15 (3.71%) Copilot Studio
15 15 (3.71%) Power Automate
16 13 (3.22%) Azure AI
16 13 (3.22%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (3.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.21%) Firewall
2 14 (3.47%) DNS
3 13 (3.22%) LAN
3 13 (3.22%) WAN
4 12 (2.97%) Network Security
5 11 (2.72%) VPN
5 11 (2.72%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (2.48%) WLAN
7 9 (2.23%) SAN
8 8 (1.98%) IPsec
8 8 (1.98%) VLAN
9 7 (1.73%) BGP
9 7 (1.73%) Kerberos
9 7 (1.73%) OSPF
9 7 (1.73%) TCP/IP
10 6 (1.49%) DHCP
11 5 (1.24%) VoIP
12 4 (0.99%) Internet
12 4 (0.99%) SSL
12 4 (0.99%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.17%) SQL Server
2 27 (6.68%) Power BI
3 18 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (2.97%) Metadata
6 10 (2.48%) Big Data
6 10 (2.48%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.98%) Delta Lake
8 7 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.99%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.99%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.74%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.74%) Parquet
10 3 (0.74%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.50%) Redis
11 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.50%) Trino
12 1 (0.25%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (12.38%) Jenkins
2 42 (10.40%) JIRA
3 22 (5.45%) Git
4 13 (3.22%) GitLab
5 10 (2.48%) Gatling
6 7 (1.73%) 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%) 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%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.25%) JMeter
11 1 (0.25%) JUnit
General
1 104 (25.74%) Social Skills
2 94 (23.27%) Finance
3 34 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.43%) Public Sector
5 27 (6.68%) Banking
6 20 (4.95%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.72%) Law
8 9 (2.23%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.73%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.73%) Publishing
10 7 (1.73%) Retail
11 6 (1.49%) Social Science
12 5 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.24%) Legal
13 4 (0.99%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.99%) Military
14 3 (0.74%) Police
15 2 (0.50%) Billing
15 2 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 71 (17.57%) Architect
2 52 (12.87%) Senior
3 42 (10.40%) Lead
4 39 (9.65%) DevOps Engineer
5 37 (9.16%) Developer
6 25 (6.19%) Azure Engineer
6 25 (6.19%) Solutions Architect
7 24 (5.94%) Analyst
8 21 (5.20%) Data Engineer
9 19 (4.70%) Platform Engineer
10 18 (4.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (3.96%) Technical Architect
12 14 (3.47%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (2.97%) 2nd Line Support
13 12 (2.97%) Administrator
13 12 (2.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 12 (2.97%) Delivery Manager
14 11 (2.72%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 11 (2.72%) Project Manager
15 10 (2.48%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (8.66%) REST
2 22 (5.45%) .NET
3 16 (3.96%) OAuth
3 16 (3.96%) Web Services
4 15 (3.71%) OpenID
5 12 (2.97%) SAML
6 11 (2.72%) Playwright
6 11 (2.72%) PySpark
6 11 (2.72%) React
6 11 (2.72%) SOAP
7 10 (2.48%) Kafka
7 10 (2.48%) OAuth2
7 10 (2.48%) SailPoint
7 10 (2.48%) SAP Basis
8 9 (2.23%) .NET Core
8 9 (2.23%) ASP.NET
8 9 (2.23%) Microsoft Graph
9 8 (1.98%) JSON
9 8 (1.98%) LDAP
10 7 (1.73%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 48 (11.88%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.93%) Product Ownership
3 25 (6.19%) Data Centre
4 24 (5.94%) Onboarding
5 18 (4.46%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (3.71%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (2.97%) Public Cloud
7 12 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (2.48%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.98%) Taxonomies
10 7 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.73%) Replication
11 6 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.49%) NHS
11 6 (1.49%) PKI
12 5 (1.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (1.24%) FlexPod
12 5 (1.24%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 49 (12.13%) Windows
2 25 (6.19%) Linux
3 19 (4.70%) 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 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
1 160 (39.60%) DevOps
2 153 (37.87%) CI/CD
3 96 (23.76%) Agile
4 71 (17.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 65 (16.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 63 (15.59%) Roadmaps
7 60 (14.85%) AI
8 53 (13.12%) Cybersecurity
8 53 (13.12%) Migration
9 52 (12.87%) Observability
10 48 (11.88%) Platform Engineering
11 46 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
12 45 (11.14%) Analytics
13 44 (10.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 39 (9.65%) Continuous Improvement
15 36 (8.91%) Software Engineering
16 34 (8.42%) Containerisation
16 34 (8.42%) Data Engineering
16 34 (8.42%) Data Pipeline
17 33 (8.17%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (20.05%) Python
2 52 (12.87%) SQL
3 40 (9.90%) Java
4 39 (9.65%) PowerShell
5 23 (5.69%) C#
6 18 (4.46%) Bash
7 14 (3.47%) JavaScript
8 10 (2.48%) Scala
9 9 (2.23%) Bicep
10 8 (1.98%) Groovy
11 6 (1.49%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.24%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.24%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.99%) ABAP
14 3 (0.74%) Go
14 3 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.74%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.25%) Ruby
15 1 (0.25%) X++
Qualifications
1 57 (14.11%) Security Cleared
2 36 (8.91%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.68%) 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 17 (4.21%) QA
2 15 (3.71%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.23%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.23%) NIST
4 8 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.73%) GDPR
5 7 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 7 (1.73%) WCAG
6 5 (1.24%) GRC
6 5 (1.24%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.99%) HIPAA
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
10 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 56 (13.86%) Active Directory
2 44 (10.89%) Docker
3 16 (3.96%) 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 4 (0.99%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.99%) RACF
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 91 (22.52%) Terraform
2 74 (18.32%) Kubernetes
3 32 (7.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (6.93%) Ansible
5 19 (4.70%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (3.96%) Jamf Pro
7 14 (3.47%) Grafana
7 14 (3.47%) Prometheus
8 9 (2.23%) HAProxy
9 8 (1.98%) 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 (35.40%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.42%) Databricks
3 28 (6.93%) Google
4 20 (4.95%) SAP
4 20 (4.95%) ServiceNow
5 16 (3.96%) CyberArk
5 16 (3.96%) Foundry
6 14 (3.47%) Okta
6 14 (3.47%) VMware
7 12 (2.97%) Oracle
7 12 (2.97%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.98%) Cisco
8 8 (1.98%) NetApp
9 7 (1.73%) Aruba
9 7 (1.73%) Citrix
9 7 (1.73%) OpenAI
9 7 (1.73%) Splunk
10 6 (1.49%) Apple
10 6 (1.49%) BeyondTrust
10 6 (1.49%) IBM