Azure Contracts in Leeds

Microsoft Azure
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 4 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 115 211 236
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 14.58% 15.94% 14.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 46.00% 44.23% 41.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 172 151
10th Percentile £352 £416 £363
25th Percentile £425 £481 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -2.72%
75th Percentile £595 £638 £638
90th Percentile £656 £700 £688
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

All Cloud Skills
Leeds

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 250 477 571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 31.69% 36.03% 36.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 364 404
10th Percentile £283 £388 £309
25th Percentile £413 £463 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £599 £619 £588
90th Percentile £673 £700 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £54.80 £18.38
25th Percentile - £59.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate - £67.00 £21.20
Median % change year-on-year - +216.04% -9.71%
75th Percentile - £74.00 £22.40
90th Percentile - £77.60 £22.58
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -72.22% +170.00% -6.98%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Leeds over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 4 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.74%) Apache
2 2 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.74%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.87%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
2 23 (20.00%) AWS
3 16 (13.91%) Akamai
3 16 (13.91%) Cloudflare
4 10 (8.70%) Entra ID
4 10 (8.70%) GitHub
5 9 (7.83%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (6.96%) GCP
6 8 (6.96%) SaaS
7 7 (6.09%) IaaS
8 6 (5.22%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (4.35%) PaaS
10 4 (3.48%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (3.48%) iPaaS
10 4 (3.48%) Power Platform
10 4 (3.48%) Serverless
11 3 (2.61%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.70%) Firewall
2 7 (6.09%) DNS
3 5 (4.35%) Network Security
3 5 (4.35%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.74%) WAN
5 1 (0.87%) DHCP
5 1 (0.87%) LAN
5 1 (0.87%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.30%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.83%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.96%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (6.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (5.22%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.48%) Big Data
6 4 (3.48%) MySQL
6 4 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.48%) Power BI
7 3 (2.61%) InterSystems Cache
7 3 (2.61%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.61%) Redis
8 2 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.74%) Apache Hive
8 2 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.74%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.74%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.74%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.87%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.87%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 8 (6.96%) Jenkins
2 7 (6.09%) Git
2 7 (6.09%) GitLab
3 6 (5.22%) JIRA
4 5 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (3.48%) AppScan
5 4 (3.48%) Burp Suite
5 4 (3.48%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.74%) Subversion
7 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.87%) Maven
General
1 24 (20.87%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.04%) Retail
3 9 (7.83%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.22%) Finance
5 5 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.48%) Banking
6 4 (3.48%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.74%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.87%) Automotive
8 1 (0.87%) Marketing
8 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (22.61%) Architect
2 19 (16.52%) Developer
3 14 (12.17%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (8.70%) Project Manager
4 10 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (7.83%) Analyst
6 7 (6.09%) Data Engineer
7 6 (5.22%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 6 (5.22%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.22%) Enterprise Architect
7 6 (5.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (5.22%) Lead
7 6 (5.22%) Security Architect
7 6 (5.22%) Senior
8 5 (4.35%) Azure Data Engineer
8 5 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (4.35%) Enterprise Security Architect
8 5 (4.35%) Environment Manager
8 5 (4.35%) Site Engineer
8 5 (4.35%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.35%) SailPoint
2 4 (3.48%) .NET
2 4 (3.48%) ADO
2 4 (3.48%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (3.48%) Web Services
3 3 (2.61%) .NET Core
3 3 (2.61%) Blazor
3 3 (2.61%) Node.js
3 3 (2.61%) SignalR
4 2 (1.74%) Kafka
5 1 (0.87%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.87%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.87%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.87%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (0.87%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.87%) LDAP
5 1 (0.87%) Middleware
5 1 (0.87%) OAuth
5 1 (0.87%) PySpark
5 1 (0.87%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.09%) NHS
2 6 (5.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (4.35%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.74%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.74%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.87%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.70%) Windows
2 6 (5.22%) Linux
2 6 (5.22%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.61%) Unix
4 1 (0.87%) VMS
4 1 (0.87%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (37.39%) DevOps
2 28 (24.35%) Agile
3 22 (19.13%) Migration
4 15 (13.04%) CI/CD
5 13 (11.30%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (9.57%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (9.57%) Containerisation
6 11 (9.57%) Data Modelling
6 11 (9.57%) RAD
7 10 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (8.70%) Waterfall
8 9 (7.83%) Data Management
8 9 (7.83%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (7.83%) OWASP
8 9 (7.83%) Project Delivery
8 9 (7.83%) Project Management
9 8 (6.96%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (6.96%) Software Testing
10 7 (6.09%) Data Migration
10 7 (6.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (18.26%) SQL
2 14 (12.17%) Python
3 9 (7.83%) PowerShell
4 7 (6.09%) Bash
5 4 (3.48%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.74%) C#
6 2 (1.74%) Java
6 2 (1.74%) PHP
6 2 (1.74%) Scala
7 1 (0.87%) ABAP
7 1 (0.87%) Bicep
7 1 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.87%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (7.83%) SC Cleared
1 9 (7.83%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.35%) Azure Certification
2 5 (4.35%) Degree
3 4 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.74%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.74%) CCNA
4 2 (1.74%) CCNP
5 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.87%) CISM
5 1 (0.87%) CISSP
5 1 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.96%) QA
2 2 (1.74%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.74%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.87%) GDPR
3 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (10.43%) Docker
2 11 (9.57%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.74%) HDFS
4 1 (0.87%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (11.30%) Kubernetes
1 13 (11.30%) Terraform
2 5 (4.35%) Ansible
2 5 (4.35%) Nessus
2 5 (4.35%) Progress Chef
2 5 (4.35%) Prometheus
2 5 (4.35%) Puppet
3 4 (3.48%) Grafana
3 4 (3.48%) Graylog
3 4 (3.48%) HP Fortify
3 4 (3.48%) WebInspect
4 2 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.87%) SCCM
5 1 (0.87%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (24.35%) Microsoft
2 15 (13.04%) F5
3 7 (6.09%) Oracle
4 5 (4.35%) Brio
4 5 (4.35%) CyberArk
4 5 (4.35%) SAP
5 4 (3.48%) Checkmarx
5 4 (3.48%) Databricks
5 4 (3.48%) Google
5 4 (3.48%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.48%) Splunk
5 4 (3.48%) Veracode
6 3 (2.61%) VMware
6 3 (2.61%) Workday
7 1 (0.87%) Ariba
7 1 (0.87%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (0.87%) Cisco
7 1 (0.87%) Forcepoint
7 1 (0.87%) Imperva
7 1 (0.87%) NetApp