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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 310 140 224
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 15.32% 14.89% 12.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.92% 39.11% 39.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 95 150
10th Percentile £225 £285 £231
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £475 £481
Median % change year-on-year +2.32% -1.30% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £593
90th Percentile £688 £600 £675
England median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -2.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile £43.45 - -
25th Percentile £54.25 - -
Median hourly rate £56.50 - £62.00
75th Percentile £60.69 - -
90th Percentile £68.75 - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +64.29% -24.21% -16.04%

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 863 358 570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 42.64% 38.09% 31.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 610 244 409
10th Percentile £251 £265 £224
25th Percentile £400 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £588
90th Percentile £625 £688 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 6
10th Percentile £14.25 £23.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £56.50 £32.81 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.20% +118.73% -63.64%
75th Percentile £68.75 £96.64 -
90th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 £38.50
England median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +34.55% +24.15% -11.40%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -2 158 £494 +6.76% 88
South Yorkshire +1 106 £510 -1.92% 37
North Yorkshire -1 19 £450 +63.64% 19
East Yorkshire - 11 £344 - 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 21 (6.77%) SharePoint
2 19 (6.13%) Confluence
3 11 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.61%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.29%) Apache
5 4 (1.29%) CMS
6 1 (0.32%) nginx
6 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.61%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.32%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (6.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.29%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.97%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.65%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.65%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.32%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 149 (48.06%) AWS
2 120 (38.71%) GCP
3 59 (19.03%) Entra ID
4 45 (14.52%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (12.26%) SaaS
6 35 (11.29%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (10.32%) GitHub
8 22 (7.10%) Serverless
9 21 (6.77%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (6.13%) Power Platform
11 17 (5.48%) Azure AKS
12 16 (5.16%) OpenShift
13 15 (4.84%) OneDrive
14 14 (4.52%) PaaS
15 11 (3.55%) Azure Storage
15 11 (3.55%) IaaS
16 10 (3.23%) Azure Functions
17 9 (2.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 8 (2.58%) Azure Data Factory
18 8 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 30 (9.68%) Firewall
2 18 (5.81%) TCP/IP
3 13 (4.19%) DNS
3 13 (4.19%) WAN
3 13 (4.19%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (3.87%) LAN
5 9 (2.90%) Kerberos
5 9 (2.90%) Network Security
6 7 (2.26%) SSL
6 7 (2.26%) VPN
7 6 (1.94%) IPsec
8 5 (1.61%) HTTP
8 5 (1.61%) VLAN
9 4 (1.29%) DHCP
9 4 (1.29%) VoIP
10 3 (0.97%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.97%) SAN
11 2 (0.65%) BGP
11 2 (0.65%) OSPF
11 2 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.48%) Power BI
1 17 (5.48%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.52%) NoSQL
3 13 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.61%) BigQuery
6 5 (1.61%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.61%) Metadata
6 5 (1.61%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.61%) MySQL
6 5 (1.61%) Redis
6 5 (1.61%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.29%) Neo4j
8 3 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.97%) Tableau
9 2 (0.65%) DataStage
9 2 (0.65%) DB2
9 2 (0.65%) GIS
9 2 (0.65%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 50 (16.13%) Jenkins
2 42 (13.55%) JIRA
3 27 (8.71%) GitLab
4 26 (8.39%) Git
5 17 (5.48%) Selenium
6 14 (4.52%) Cucumber
6 14 (4.52%) Postman
7 12 (3.87%) REST Assured
8 8 (2.58%) TestRail
9 7 (2.26%) CircleCI
10 5 (1.61%) JMeter
10 5 (1.61%) Zephyr
11 4 (1.29%) Gatling
11 4 (1.29%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.29%) Maven
11 4 (1.29%) Mocha
11 4 (1.29%) NeoLoad
11 4 (1.29%) Storybook
12 3 (0.97%) JUnit
13 2 (0.65%) MSI
General
1 114 (36.77%) Social Skills
2 49 (15.81%) Finance
3 34 (10.97%) Banking
4 32 (10.32%) Public Sector
5 27 (8.71%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (3.55%) Legal
8 10 (3.23%) Publishing
9 6 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.94%) Retail
10 5 (1.61%) Health Technology
10 5 (1.61%) Law
10 5 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.65%) Local Government
12 2 (0.65%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.32%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (16.45%) Architect
2 43 (13.87%) Senior
3 28 (9.03%) Lead
4 24 (7.74%) Developer
5 19 (6.13%) Solutions Architect
6 16 (5.16%) Analyst
7 15 (4.84%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (4.52%) 2nd Line Support
9 13 (4.19%) IT Support
10 11 (3.55%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (3.55%) Senior Architect
10 11 (3.55%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.23%) Project Manager
12 9 (2.90%) Test Automation Engineer
12 9 (2.90%) Test Engineer
13 8 (2.58%) Administrator
13 8 (2.58%) Consultant
13 8 (2.58%) Data Engineer
13 8 (2.58%) Senior Developer
13 8 (2.58%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (11.29%) REST
2 28 (9.03%) OpenID
3 24 (7.74%) LDAP
4 23 (7.42%) React
5 22 (7.10%) RESTful
6 21 (6.77%) Node.js
6 21 (6.77%) OAuth
7 18 (5.81%) .NET
7 18 (5.81%) SailPoint
7 18 (5.81%) SAML
8 13 (4.19%) CSS
8 13 (4.19%) HTML
9 12 (3.87%) SAP Basis
10 9 (2.90%) JWT
10 9 (2.90%) Kafka
11 8 (2.58%) FHIR
11 8 (2.58%) Middleware
11 8 (2.58%) OAuth2
11 8 (2.58%) Spring Boot
11 8 (2.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 31 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 20 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (4.84%) NHS
4 14 (4.52%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.19%) Taxonomies
6 11 (3.55%) Security Posture
7 10 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.90%) Data Centre
9 7 (2.26%) CMDB
9 7 (2.26%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 6 (1.94%) IoT
10 6 (1.94%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.61%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.29%) Cloud Security Posture
13 3 (0.97%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
13 3 (0.97%) iPhone
13 3 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 40 (12.90%) Windows
2 28 (9.03%) Linux
3 9 (2.90%) Unix
4 5 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.61%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.29%) VMS
5 4 (1.29%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.97%) Android
7 2 (0.65%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.65%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.32%) CentOS
8 1 (0.32%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (36.45%) DevOps
2 108 (34.84%) CI/CD
3 74 (23.87%) Agile
4 54 (17.42%) Roadmaps
5 52 (16.77%) Containerisation
6 50 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (13.87%) Cybersecurity
8 42 (13.55%) Infrastructure as Code
8 42 (13.55%) Microservices
9 39 (12.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 39 (12.58%) Migration
10 36 (11.61%) Test Automation
11 33 (10.65%) Stakeholder Management
12 31 (10.00%) ITIL
13 29 (9.35%) Data Governance
13 29 (9.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 27 (8.71%) Analytics
14 27 (8.71%) Mentoring
15 26 (8.39%) DevSecOps
15 26 (8.39%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (25.16%) Python
2 61 (19.68%) SQL
3 40 (12.90%) Java
4 36 (11.61%) PowerShell
5 28 (9.03%) Bash
5 28 (9.03%) JavaScript
6 18 (5.81%) TypeScript
7 13 (4.19%) C#
8 8 (2.58%) PHP
9 7 (2.26%) Bicep
10 6 (1.94%) Go
11 5 (1.61%) Groovy
12 4 (1.29%) Cypher
12 4 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.29%) Scala
13 3 (0.97%) Rust
13 3 (0.97%) Search Processing Language
13 3 (0.97%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.65%) Solidity
14 2 (0.65%) XPath
Qualifications
1 19 (6.13%) Security Cleared
2 18 (5.81%) Degree
3 10 (3.23%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.58%) CISSP
5 7 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.61%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.61%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.61%) CEH
6 5 (1.61%) CISM
6 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.97%) CCSK
8 3 (0.97%) CCSP
8 3 (0.97%) GIAC
8 3 (0.97%) GWAPT
8 3 (0.97%) OCP
8 3 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (0.97%) SAP Certification
9 2 (0.65%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.13%) QA
2 16 (5.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.55%) GDPR
4 8 (2.58%) SOC 2
5 7 (2.26%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.26%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.94%) HIPAA
6 6 (1.94%) HL7
6 6 (1.94%) NIST
7 5 (1.61%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.61%) SLA
8 4 (1.29%) WCAG
9 3 (0.97%) GRC
9 3 (0.97%) PSD2
9 3 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.32%) COBIT
11 1 (0.32%) PMO
System Software
1 47 (15.16%) Docker
2 36 (11.61%) Active Directory
3 14 (4.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (3.55%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.61%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 5 (1.61%) RACF
5 5 (1.61%) vSphere
6 3 (0.97%) NFS
7 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.65%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.32%) Ceph
8 1 (0.32%) KVM
8 1 (0.32%) QEMU
8 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.32%) XenApp
8 1 (0.32%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 63 (20.32%) Kubernetes
2 57 (18.39%) Terraform
3 29 (9.35%) Ansible
4 25 (8.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (8.06%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (4.84%) Grafana
6 9 (2.90%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.94%) NetBackup
7 6 (1.94%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (1.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.29%) Istio
9 2 (0.65%) Argo
9 2 (0.65%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.65%) SnapMirror
10 1 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.32%) Kibana
10 1 (0.32%) logstash
10 1 (0.32%) Podman
10 1 (0.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 77 (24.84%) Microsoft
2 36 (11.61%) Google
3 30 (9.68%) SAP
4 27 (8.71%) ServiceNow
5 19 (6.13%) Oracle
6 17 (5.48%) Splunk
7 16 (5.16%) Okta
8 15 (4.84%) VMware
9 12 (3.87%) F5
10 10 (3.23%) Cisco
11 9 (2.90%) Databricks
11 9 (2.90%) OpenAI
12 7 (2.26%) CyberArk
13 6 (1.94%) Adobe
13 6 (1.94%) ESRI
13 6 (1.94%) HP
13 6 (1.94%) Meraki
13 6 (1.94%) Veeam
13 6 (1.94%) Veritas
14 5 (1.61%) MobileIron