Azure Contracts in Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 7 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 112 194 328
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 10.95% 11.51% 14.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.40% 41.45% 41.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 135 269
10th Percentile £263 £268 £346
25th Percentile £325 £412 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £525 £591 £623
90th Percentile £550 £645 £700
England median daily rate £525 £543 £563
% change year-on-year -3.23% -3.56% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate - - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £53.50 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +52.86% -36.36% +10.00%

All Cloud 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 381 468 790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.24% 27.77% 34.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 327 592
10th Percentile £242 £240 £256
25th Percentile £360 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £640 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 4
10th Percentile £29.90 £13.43 £21.63
25th Percentile £31.69 £14.63 £27.81
Median hourly rate £65.71 £15.00 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +338.05% -65.32% +129.14%
75th Percentile £99.42 £17.31 £62.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £22.00 £72.80
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Yorkshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Yorkshire

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend 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 2 May 2025. 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 -3 75 £425 -15.00% 169
South Yorkshire -9 23 £450 +5.88% 76
North Yorkshire +5 8 £363 -3.33% 55
East Yorkshire +4 1 - - 21
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.79%) Apache
4 1 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.89%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.68%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 38 (33.93%) AWS
2 26 (23.21%) GCP
3 22 (19.64%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (19.64%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (17.86%) Entra ID
5 15 (13.39%) Power Platform
6 8 (7.14%) PaaS
7 7 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (4.46%) GitHub
9 3 (2.68%) IaaS
9 3 (2.68%) npm
9 3 (2.68%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.79%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.79%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.14%) Firewall
2 5 (4.46%) VPN
3 4 (3.57%) Network Security
4 3 (2.68%) HTTP
5 2 (1.79%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.79%) LAN
5 2 (1.79%) NAS
5 2 (1.79%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.79%) VLAN
5 2 (1.79%) VSAN
5 2 (1.79%) WAN
6 1 (0.89%) 4G
6 1 (0.89%) Intranet
6 1 (0.89%) ISDN
6 1 (0.89%) PSTN
6 1 (0.89%) SAN
6 1 (0.89%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.89%) SSH
6 1 (0.89%) SSL
6 1 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.50%) Power BI
2 12 (10.71%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.57%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.57%) MySQL
4 3 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.68%) Metadata
4 3 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.79%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.79%) Metadata Repository
5 2 (1.79%) Power Query
5 2 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.89%) Big Data
6 1 (0.89%) GIS
6 1 (0.89%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (11.61%) JIRA
2 8 (7.14%) Selenium
3 5 (4.46%) Git
4 4 (3.57%) Cypress.io
4 4 (3.57%) GitLab
4 4 (3.57%) JMeter
4 4 (3.57%) Postman
4 4 (3.57%) SoapUI
4 4 (3.57%) TestRail
5 3 (2.68%) webpack
6 2 (1.79%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.79%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.79%) LoadRunner
6 2 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.79%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.89%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.89%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.89%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.89%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 20 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.71%) Finance
3 7 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.68%) Local Government
6 2 (1.79%) Banking
6 2 (1.79%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.79%) Retail
7 1 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.89%) Military
7 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (19.64%) Developer
2 15 (13.39%) Architect
3 11 (9.82%) Analyst
3 11 (9.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (9.82%) Senior
4 9 (8.04%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 6 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.36%) IT Engineer
6 6 (5.36%) Software Engineer
6 6 (5.36%) Tester
7 4 (3.57%) Administrator
7 4 (3.57%) Consultant
7 4 (3.57%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (3.57%) IT Support
7 4 (3.57%) QA Analyst
7 4 (3.57%) QA Tester
7 4 (3.57%) React Developer
7 4 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.68%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.29%) .NET
2 7 (6.25%) AngularJS
3 6 (5.36%) React
3 6 (5.36%) RESTful
4 5 (4.46%) .NET Core
5 4 (3.57%) CSS
5 4 (3.57%) HTML
5 4 (3.57%) React Native
6 3 (2.68%) Flask
6 3 (2.68%) Laravel
6 3 (2.68%) LDAP
6 3 (2.68%) pytest
6 3 (2.68%) REST
6 3 (2.68%) Vue
6 3 (2.68%) Web Services
6 3 (2.68%) WPF
7 2 (1.79%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.79%) Django
7 2 (1.79%) PySpark
8 1 (0.89%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.46%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.68%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.68%) NHS
4 2 (1.79%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.79%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.79%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.79%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.89%) CCTV
5 1 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (0.89%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.89%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.89%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.89%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.89%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.89%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.29%) Windows
2 12 (10.71%) Linux
3 7 (6.25%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.68%) Android
5 3 (2.68%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.79%) Unix
7 1 (0.89%) AIX
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.89%) CentOS
7 1 (0.89%) Solaris
7 1 (0.89%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.89%) VMS
7 1 (0.89%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (27.68%) DevOps
2 16 (14.29%) Agile
2 16 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (13.39%) Business Intelligence
3 15 (13.39%) CI/CD
4 13 (11.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (11.61%) Software Engineering
5 10 (8.93%) Collaborative Working
5 10 (8.93%) Migration
5 10 (8.93%) Test Automation
6 9 (8.04%) Analytics
6 9 (8.04%) Mentoring
7 8 (7.14%) Containerisation
8 7 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (6.25%) ERP
8 7 (6.25%) Identity Access Management
8 7 (6.25%) Roadmaps
8 7 (6.25%) SDLC
9 6 (5.36%) Data Modelling
9 6 (5.36%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 24 (21.43%) SQL
2 19 (16.96%) Python
3 13 (11.61%) C#
4 12 (10.71%) PowerShell
5 6 (5.36%) Bash
5 6 (5.36%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.57%) PHP
7 2 (1.79%) ActionScript
7 2 (1.79%) ActionScript 2.0
7 2 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.79%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.79%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.79%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.89%) Java
8 1 (0.89%) Korn
8 1 (0.89%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.89%) Perl
8 1 (0.89%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (8.93%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.04%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.36%) Degree
4 5 (4.46%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (3.57%) CISSP
6 3 (2.68%) CCNA
7 2 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.79%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.79%) CISM
7 2 (1.79%) IBM Certification
8 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.89%) CISA
8 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (0.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.93%) QA
2 6 (5.36%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.57%) GDPR
3 4 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.68%) NIST
5 2 (1.79%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.79%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.89%) GRC
6 1 (0.89%) SLA
6 1 (0.89%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.89%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 20 (17.86%) Active Directory
2 10 (8.93%) Docker
3 4 (3.57%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.68%) vSphere
5 2 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.79%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.89%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.89%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (8.04%) Kubernetes
1 9 (8.04%) Microsoft Intune
1 9 (8.04%) Terraform
2 5 (4.46%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (3.57%) Ansible
3 4 (3.57%) Puppet
3 4 (3.57%) SCCM
4 3 (2.68%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.89%) Nagios
5 1 (0.89%) Nessus
5 1 (0.89%) NetApp OnCommand
5 1 (0.89%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.89%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.89%) vRealize
Vendors
1 31 (27.68%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.71%) VMware
3 7 (6.25%) Cisco
3 7 (6.25%) Databricks
3 7 (6.25%) Google
4 6 (5.36%) Meraki
4 6 (5.36%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.46%) Veeam
6 3 (2.68%) IBM
6 3 (2.68%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (2.68%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.68%) SAP
7 2 (1.79%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.79%) IBM Sterling
7 2 (1.79%) Liquidlogic
7 2 (1.79%) Splunk
8 1 (0.89%) Aruba
8 1 (0.89%) ESRI
8 1 (0.89%) HP
8 1 (0.89%) Qualys