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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 12 7
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 346 103 189
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.13% 9.99% 11.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.65% 27.99% 41.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 73 135
10th Percentile £331 £263 £275
25th Percentile £439 £325 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £600
90th Percentile £688 £550 £645
England median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 0 0
10th Percentile £38.60 - -
25th Percentile £55.38 - -
Median hourly rate £58.00 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £38.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +48.39% +10.71% -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 944 368 460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.55% 35.69% 27.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 652 257 322
10th Percentile £319 £251 £228
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £558 £550 £588
90th Percentile £643 £630 £642
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 6 8
10th Percentile £14.25 £28.86 £13.43
25th Percentile £27.88 £31.54 £14.63
Median hourly rate £56.50 £62.40 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% +316.00% -65.32%
75th Percentile £68.75 £101.14 £17.31
90th Percentile £71.38 £102.00 £22.00
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -34.98%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +6 164 £488 +14.71% 99
South Yorkshire +13 135 £514 +8.21% 38
North Yorkshire +4 17 £475 +31.03% 12
East Yorkshire +1 14 £325 - 9
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 24 (6.94%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.91%) Confluence
3 13 (3.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (2.02%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.58%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.29%) Apache
6 1 (0.29%) CMS
6 1 (0.29%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.16%) Acrobat
2 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.29%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 27 (7.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (3.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.87%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.29%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.29%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 161 (46.53%) AWS
2 110 (31.79%) GCP
3 61 (17.63%) Entra ID
4 48 (13.87%) SaaS
5 46 (13.29%) Azure DevOps
6 42 (12.14%) GitHub
6 42 (12.14%) Microsoft 365
7 34 (9.83%) Power Platform
8 30 (8.67%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (6.07%) OpenShift
9 21 (6.07%) PaaS
9 21 (6.07%) Serverless
10 15 (4.34%) PowerApps
11 14 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (3.76%) Azure AKS
12 13 (3.76%) IaaS
12 13 (3.76%) Microsoft Copilot
12 13 (3.76%) OneDrive
13 12 (3.47%) Azure Functions
13 12 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.76%) Firewall
2 12 (3.47%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.89%) DNS
3 10 (2.89%) WAN
3 10 (2.89%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (2.60%) Kerberos
4 9 (2.60%) LAN
5 7 (2.02%) Network Security
5 7 (2.02%) SAN
6 6 (1.73%) SSL
7 5 (1.45%) IPsec
8 4 (1.16%) Unified Communications
8 4 (1.16%) VPN
9 3 (0.87%) Internet
9 3 (0.87%) PSTN
10 2 (0.58%) NAS
10 2 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.58%) VLAN
10 2 (0.58%) WLAN
11 1 (0.29%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.80%) SQL Server
2 18 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (5.20%) Power BI
3 17 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (2.31%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.73%) Big Data
6 6 (1.73%) Delta Lake
6 6 (1.73%) Metadata
7 5 (1.45%) MySQL
8 4 (1.16%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.16%) Neo4j
9 3 (0.87%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.58%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.58%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.58%) Tableau
11 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.29%) Redis
11 1 (0.29%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 57 (16.47%) Jenkins
2 46 (13.29%) JIRA
3 30 (8.67%) GitLab
4 25 (7.23%) Git
5 14 (4.05%) Gatling
5 14 (4.05%) Selenium
6 13 (3.76%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.76%) REST Assured
7 12 (3.47%) Postman
8 8 (2.31%) Maven
9 7 (2.02%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.45%) JMeter
10 5 (1.45%) TestRail
11 4 (1.16%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.16%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.16%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.16%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.87%) Browser DevTools
12 3 (0.87%) Fiddler
13 2 (0.58%) SoapUI
General
1 112 (32.37%) Social Skills
2 77 (22.25%) Finance
3 33 (9.54%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (8.38%) Banking
4 29 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 21 (6.07%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (4.62%) Publishing
7 7 (2.02%) Law
7 7 (2.02%) Legal
8 5 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.16%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.87%) Health Technology
10 3 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.87%) Military
11 2 (0.58%) Retail
11 2 (0.58%) Social Science
12 1 (0.29%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (13.29%) Architect
2 43 (12.43%) Lead
3 41 (11.85%) Senior
4 30 (8.67%) Developer
5 27 (7.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (5.78%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (5.20%) Analyst
8 16 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
9 14 (4.05%) Administrator
9 14 (4.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (3.76%) Data Engineer
11 11 (3.18%) Delivery Manager
11 11 (3.18%) Project Manager
12 10 (2.89%) Consultant
12 10 (2.89%) Technical Architect
12 10 (2.89%) Test Automation Engineer
12 10 (2.89%) Test Engineer
13 9 (2.60%) Senior Architect
13 9 (2.60%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (10.98%) REST
2 32 (9.25%) OpenID
3 25 (7.23%) LDAP
4 22 (6.36%) .NET
5 19 (5.49%) OAuth
6 18 (5.20%) SailPoint
6 18 (5.20%) SAP Basis
7 15 (4.34%) SAML
8 14 (4.05%) Playwright
9 12 (3.47%) OAuth2
10 11 (3.18%) Middleware
11 10 (2.89%) Microsoft Graph
11 10 (2.89%) RESTful
11 10 (2.89%) Web Services
12 9 (2.60%) Node.js
12 9 (2.60%) React
13 8 (2.31%) Kafka
13 8 (2.31%) SOAP
14 7 (2.02%) PySpark
15 6 (1.73%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.56%) Onboarding
2 34 (9.83%) Cloud Native
3 25 (7.23%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 19 (5.49%) Taxonomies
6 18 (5.20%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (2.60%) NHS
9 7 (2.02%) IoT
10 6 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.45%) CMDB
11 5 (1.45%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.45%) FlexPod
11 5 (1.45%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.45%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.16%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (1.16%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 33 (9.54%) Windows
2 28 (8.09%) Linux
3 8 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (2.31%) VMS
4 6 (1.73%) CoreOS
4 6 (1.73%) Data ONTAP
4 6 (1.73%) Unix
5 5 (1.45%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.16%) Android
6 4 (1.16%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.87%) AIX
7 3 (0.87%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (41.33%) DevOps
2 134 (38.73%) CI/CD
3 91 (26.30%) Agile
4 67 (19.36%) Roadmaps
5 49 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (13.58%) Containerisation
6 47 (13.58%) Migration
7 46 (13.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 43 (12.43%) Cybersecurity
8 43 (12.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 41 (11.85%) Stakeholder Management
10 39 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (10.98%) Identity Access Management
12 37 (10.69%) Observability
12 37 (10.69%) Test Automation
13 35 (10.12%) Data Pipeline
13 35 (10.12%) Microservices
14 34 (9.83%) AI
14 34 (9.83%) Analytics
15 32 (9.25%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 82 (23.70%) Python
2 57 (16.47%) SQL
3 55 (15.90%) Java
4 32 (9.25%) PowerShell
5 23 (6.65%) Bash
6 19 (5.49%) JavaScript
7 17 (4.91%) C#
8 13 (3.76%) Scala
9 8 (2.31%) PHP
10 7 (2.02%) Go
10 7 (2.02%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.73%) Bicep
12 5 (1.45%) Groovy
12 5 (1.45%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.16%) Cypher
13 4 (1.16%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.58%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.29%) ABAP
16 1 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (10.12%) Security Cleared
2 29 (8.38%) Degree
3 22 (6.36%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.31%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.02%) CISSP
7 6 (1.73%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.73%) CISM
7 6 (1.73%) PMP
8 5 (1.45%) OCP
8 5 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.16%) CCSP
9 4 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.16%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.87%) CCSK
11 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.49%) QA
2 13 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.31%) NIST
4 7 (2.02%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.02%) HIPAA
5 6 (1.73%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.73%) SLA
6 4 (1.16%) HL7
6 4 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.16%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.87%) GDPR
7 3 (0.87%) GRC
8 2 (0.58%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.58%) PMO
9 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 41 (11.85%) Docker
2 30 (8.67%) Active Directory
3 18 (5.20%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.31%) NFS
6 7 (2.02%) vSphere
7 5 (1.45%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (1.45%) RACF
8 3 (0.87%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.29%) Ceph
10 1 (0.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.29%) KVM
10 1 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.29%) SRDF
10 1 (0.29%) XenApp
10 1 (0.29%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 72 (20.81%) Kubernetes
2 69 (19.94%) Terraform
3 31 (8.96%) Single Sign-On
4 27 (7.80%) Ansible
5 20 (5.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (4.05%) Grafana
7 9 (2.60%) HAProxy
8 8 (2.31%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (2.31%) Prometheus
9 6 (1.73%) SnapMirror
10 5 (1.45%) Istio
11 4 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.87%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.58%) Argo
13 2 (0.58%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.29%) EMC VPLEX
14 1 (0.29%) Kibana
14 1 (0.29%) logstash
14 1 (0.29%) SELinux
14 1 (0.29%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 116 (33.53%) Microsoft
2 35 (10.12%) Google
2 35 (10.12%) ServiceNow
3 34 (9.83%) SAP
4 25 (7.23%) Okta
5 18 (5.20%) Databricks
5 18 (5.20%) Oracle
6 13 (3.76%) VMware
7 10 (2.89%) Splunk
8 9 (2.60%) OpenAI
8 9 (2.60%) Red Hat
9 7 (2.02%) NetApp
10 6 (1.73%) Brio
10 6 (1.73%) CyberArk
10 6 (1.73%) Veeam
11 5 (1.45%) Adobe
11 5 (1.45%) Aruba
11 5 (1.45%) Cisco
11 5 (1.45%) Foundry
11 5 (1.45%) IBM