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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 7
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 417 171 188
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.54% 11.37% 12.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.41% 32.02% 38.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 111 133
10th Percentile £331 £313 £380
25th Percentile £413 £372 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £594 £538 £610
90th Percentile £694 £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 £40.73 £35.00
% change year-on-year +41.19% +16.36% -24.21%

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 1,058 534 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.90% 35.51% 32.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 671 369 340
10th Percentile £313 £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 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.84% -2.76% -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 £26.15 £24.59
% change year-on-year +35.76% +6.34% -23.92%

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 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 12 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 12 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 +7 207 £488 -2.50% 185
South Yorkshire +11 146 £518 +15.38% 53
North Yorkshire +9 34 £488 +56.00% 30
East Yorkshire -2 6 £313 - 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 44 (10.55%) SharePoint
2 26 (6.24%) Confluence
3 19 (4.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (2.64%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.96%) Apache
6 3 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.72%) Apache Superset
7 2 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.48%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.24%) CMS
8 1 (0.24%) IIS
8 1 (0.24%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (3.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 159 (38.13%) AWS
2 110 (26.38%) GCP
3 71 (17.03%) Microsoft 365
4 66 (15.83%) Power Platform
5 63 (15.11%) GitHub
6 62 (14.87%) Entra ID
7 61 (14.63%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (9.83%) GitHub Actions
9 29 (6.95%) PowerApps
10 25 (6.00%) Microsoft Copilot
11 21 (5.04%) OneDrive
12 20 (4.80%) SaaS
13 18 (4.32%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (4.08%) Serverless
15 16 (3.84%) Azure Data Factory
16 15 (3.60%) Copilot Studio
16 15 (3.60%) Power Automate
17 14 (3.36%) Azure AI
18 12 (2.88%) OpenShift
18 12 (2.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.32%) Firewall
2 14 (3.36%) DNS
3 13 (3.12%) Network Security
4 11 (2.64%) LAN
4 11 (2.64%) VPN
4 11 (2.64%) WAN
5 10 (2.40%) WLAN
6 9 (2.16%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (1.68%) BGP
7 7 (1.68%) OSPF
7 7 (1.68%) SAN
7 7 (1.68%) VLAN
8 6 (1.44%) DHCP
8 6 (1.44%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (0.96%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (0.96%) Internet
9 4 (0.96%) IPsec
9 4 (0.96%) VoIP
9 4 (0.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.15%) Power BI
1 34 (8.15%) SQL Server
2 16 (3.84%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (3.84%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (3.60%) Metadata
4 13 (3.12%) Big Data
5 10 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (2.40%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.68%) Delta Lake
7 5 (1.20%) Neo4j
7 5 (1.20%) SAP HANA
7 5 (1.20%) Tableau
8 4 (0.96%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.96%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (0.72%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.72%) Parquet
9 3 (0.72%) Spark SQL
9 3 (0.72%) Trino
10 2 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 53 (12.71%) Jenkins
2 47 (11.27%) JIRA
3 28 (6.71%) Git
4 13 (3.12%) GitLab
5 12 (2.88%) Gatling
6 7 (1.68%) Maven
6 7 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.44%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.44%) JMeter
7 6 (1.44%) Selenium
8 5 (1.20%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.96%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.96%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.96%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.96%) Postman
10 3 (0.72%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (0.72%) Fiddler
10 3 (0.72%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.48%) JUnit
11 2 (0.48%) MSBuild
General
1 112 (26.86%) Social Skills
2 98 (23.50%) Finance
3 36 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.19%) Banking
4 30 (7.19%) Public Sector
5 18 (4.32%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (3.36%) Law
7 9 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (2.16%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.92%) Financial Institution
8 8 (1.92%) Retail
9 6 (1.44%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.44%) Publishing
9 6 (1.44%) Social Science
10 5 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.20%) Legal
11 4 (0.96%) Military
12 3 (0.72%) Police
13 2 (0.48%) Billing
13 2 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 67 (16.07%) Architect
2 53 (12.71%) Lead
3 48 (11.51%) Senior
4 38 (9.11%) Developer
5 36 (8.63%) DevOps Engineer
6 30 (7.19%) Data Engineer
7 26 (6.24%) Solutions Architect
8 24 (5.76%) Analyst
9 22 (5.28%) Azure Engineer
10 18 (4.32%) Platform Engineer
11 17 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (3.36%) Consultant
12 14 (3.36%) Delivery Manager
13 12 (2.88%) 2nd Line Support
13 12 (2.88%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (2.88%) Technical Architect
14 11 (2.64%) Administrator
15 10 (2.40%) Business Analyst
15 10 (2.40%) Project Manager
15 10 (2.40%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (8.87%) REST
2 23 (5.52%) .NET
3 18 (4.32%) Kafka
4 14 (3.36%) Playwright
4 14 (3.36%) React
5 12 (2.88%) OAuth
5 12 (2.88%) SOAP
5 12 (2.88%) Web Services
6 11 (2.64%) SailPoint
7 10 (2.40%) .NET Core
7 10 (2.40%) ASP.NET
7 10 (2.40%) OpenID
7 10 (2.40%) PySpark
7 10 (2.40%) SAP Basis
8 9 (2.16%) JSON
9 8 (1.92%) AngularJS
9 8 (1.92%) LDAP
9 8 (1.92%) SAML
10 7 (1.68%) Middleware
10 7 (1.68%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 53 (12.71%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.19%) Product Ownership
3 25 (6.00%) Data Centre
4 23 (5.52%) Onboarding
5 22 (5.28%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (3.36%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (3.12%) AI Agents
9 12 (2.88%) Public Cloud
9 12 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.92%) Taxonomies
12 7 (1.68%) Replication
13 6 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
13 6 (1.44%) NHS
13 6 (1.44%) PKI
14 5 (1.20%) Security Posture
15 4 (0.96%) Cyber Security Posture
15 4 (0.96%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 49 (11.75%) Windows
2 25 (6.00%) Linux
3 22 (5.28%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.44%) Data ONTAP
4 6 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.20%) Android
5 5 (1.20%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.96%) CoreOS
6 4 (0.96%) VMS
7 3 (0.72%) AIX
7 3 (0.72%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.48%) Unix
8 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (37.65%) CI/CD
2 149 (35.73%) DevOps
3 96 (23.02%) Agile
4 76 (18.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 68 (16.31%) Stakeholder Management
6 64 (15.35%) AI
7 63 (15.11%) Roadmaps
8 57 (13.67%) Observability
9 54 (12.95%) Migration
10 52 (12.47%) Analytics
11 50 (11.99%) Cybersecurity
12 49 (11.75%) Platform Engineering
12 49 (11.75%) Problem-Solving
13 47 (11.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 43 (10.31%) Data Pipeline
15 41 (9.83%) Data Engineering
15 41 (9.83%) Test Automation
16 40 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
17 37 (8.87%) Containerisation
17 37 (8.87%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 88 (21.10%) Python
2 53 (12.71%) SQL
3 48 (11.51%) Java
4 39 (9.35%) PowerShell
5 25 (6.00%) C#
6 19 (4.56%) JavaScript
7 18 (4.32%) Bash
8 10 (2.40%) Groovy
8 10 (2.40%) Scala
9 9 (2.16%) Shell Script
10 8 (1.92%) Bicep
10 8 (1.92%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (1.20%) ABAP
12 5 (1.20%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.72%) Go
13 3 (0.72%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.24%) Cypher
15 1 (0.24%) X++
Qualifications
1 64 (15.35%) Security Cleared
2 43 (10.31%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.00%) Degree
4 16 (3.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.64%) AWS Certification
5 11 (2.64%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (2.40%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.92%) CISSP
8 7 (1.68%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.44%) CISM
10 5 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (1.20%) CCNP
10 5 (1.20%) CCSP
10 5 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.20%) PMP
11 4 (0.96%) CCSK
11 4 (0.96%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.72%) OCP
12 3 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.04%) QA
2 20 (4.80%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.64%) NIST
4 9 (2.16%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.16%) GDPR
4 9 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 7 (1.68%) WCAG
6 5 (1.20%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.96%) GRC
7 4 (0.96%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.72%) GxP
8 3 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.48%) IASME
9 2 (0.48%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.48%) SLA
10 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 59 (14.15%) Active Directory
2 56 (13.43%) Docker
3 12 (2.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.68%) Hyper-V
7 6 (1.44%) NFS
7 6 (1.44%) vSphere
8 3 (0.72%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.72%) SRDF
8 3 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.24%) Ceph
9 1 (0.24%) KVM
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.24%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 87 (20.86%) Terraform
2 86 (20.62%) Kubernetes
3 29 (6.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 27 (6.47%) Ansible
5 19 (4.56%) Grafana
6 15 (3.60%) Prometheus
7 14 (3.36%) Jamf Pro
8 13 (3.12%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (2.16%) HAProxy
10 6 (1.44%) SnapMirror
11 4 (0.96%) Kustomize
11 4 (0.96%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.72%) Argo
12 3 (0.72%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (0.48%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.48%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.48%) Podman
13 2 (0.48%) SnapVault
13 2 (0.48%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 147 (35.25%) Microsoft
2 42 (10.07%) Databricks
3 26 (6.24%) Google
4 21 (5.04%) SAP
4 21 (5.04%) ServiceNow
5 17 (4.08%) CyberArk
6 16 (3.84%) Foundry
7 13 (3.12%) Okta
8 12 (2.88%) VMware
9 11 (2.64%) Cisco
9 11 (2.64%) IBM
9 11 (2.64%) Oracle
9 11 (2.64%) Splunk
10 10 (2.40%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.68%) Citrix
11 7 (1.68%) Dynatrace
11 7 (1.68%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.44%) BeyondTrust
12 6 (1.44%) Centrify
12 6 (1.44%) OpenAI