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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 111 191 231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 14.05% 15.17% 14.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.40% 43.41% 42.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 151 161
10th Percentile £366 £413 £363
25th Percentile £448 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £659 £700 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £519
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.02% +3.75%

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 250 440 546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 31.65% 34.95% 35.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 336 404
10th Percentile £310 £363 £275
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £588
90th Percentile £669 £700 £688
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% +8.72%
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% +2.56%

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

Azure
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

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Leeds over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Leeds

Azure
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

Azure
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 (3.60%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.80%) Apache
3 2 (1.80%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.80%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.90%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.90%) Confluence
4 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (27.03%) Azure DevOps
2 22 (19.82%) AWS
3 16 (14.41%) Akamai
3 16 (14.41%) Cloudflare
4 11 (9.91%) GitHub
5 9 (8.11%) Entra ID
5 9 (8.11%) IaaS
6 8 (7.21%) GCP
6 8 (7.21%) SaaS
7 7 (6.31%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (6.31%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (6.31%) PaaS
7 7 (6.31%) Power Platform
8 5 (4.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.60%) iPaaS
9 4 (3.60%) Serverless
10 3 (2.70%) Azure Functions
10 3 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.01%) Firewall
2 7 (6.31%) DNS
3 6 (5.41%) Network Security
4 5 (4.50%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.80%) WAN
6 1 (0.90%) DHCP
6 1 (0.90%) Internet
6 1 (0.90%) LAN
6 1 (0.90%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.91%) SQL Server
2 9 (8.11%) Relational Database
3 8 (7.21%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (6.31%) Data Lake
4 7 (6.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (5.41%) Power BI
6 5 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.60%) Big Data
7 4 (3.60%) MySQL
8 3 (2.70%) InterSystems Cache
8 3 (2.70%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.70%) Redis
9 2 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.80%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.80%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.80%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.80%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (7.21%) Git
1 8 (7.21%) Jenkins
2 7 (6.31%) JIRA
3 6 (5.41%) GitLab
4 5 (4.50%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (3.60%) AppScan
5 4 (3.60%) Burp Suite
5 4 (3.60%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.80%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.90%) Maven
General
1 25 (22.52%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.51%) Retail
3 11 (9.91%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.60%) Banking
5 4 (3.60%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.80%) Finance
7 1 (0.90%) Automotive
7 1 (0.90%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 26 (23.42%) Architect
2 21 (18.92%) Developer
3 15 (13.51%) Azure Engineer
4 11 (9.91%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (8.11%) Data Engineer
6 8 (7.21%) Project Manager
7 6 (5.41%) Azure Data Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 6 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) Security Architect
8 5 (4.50%) Analyst
8 5 (4.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Enterprise Architect
8 5 (4.50%) Enterprise Security Architect
8 5 (4.50%) Senior
8 5 (4.50%) Site Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) SQL BI Developer
8 5 (4.50%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.50%) .NET
1 5 (4.50%) SailPoint
2 4 (3.60%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (3.60%) Web Services
3 3 (2.70%) .NET Core
3 3 (2.70%) Blazor
3 3 (2.70%) Kafka
3 3 (2.70%) Node.js
3 3 (2.70%) SignalR
4 1 (0.90%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.90%) ADO
4 1 (0.90%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.90%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (0.90%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.90%) J2EE
4 1 (0.90%) LDAP
4 1 (0.90%) Middleware
4 1 (0.90%) OAuth
4 1 (0.90%) SAML
4 1 (0.90%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.11%) NHS
2 6 (5.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (4.50%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.70%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.80%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.90%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.90%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.21%) Windows
2 7 (6.31%) Linux
3 4 (3.60%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (37.84%) DevOps
2 23 (20.72%) Agile
3 18 (16.22%) Migration
4 15 (13.51%) CI/CD
5 13 (11.71%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (10.81%) Data Modelling
7 11 (9.91%) Containerisation
7 11 (9.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (9.91%) RAD
8 10 (9.01%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (8.11%) OWASP
10 8 (7.21%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (7.21%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (7.21%) Project Delivery
10 8 (7.21%) Software Testing
11 7 (6.31%) Identity Access Management
11 7 (6.31%) Technology Transformation
12 6 (5.41%) Data Engineering
12 6 (5.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (20.72%) SQL
2 15 (13.51%) Python
3 11 (9.91%) PowerShell
4 7 (6.31%) Bash
5 5 (4.50%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.70%) C#
7 2 (1.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.80%) PHP
7 2 (1.80%) Scala
8 1 (0.90%) ABAP
8 1 (0.90%) Bicep
8 1 (0.90%) Java
8 1 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (8.11%) SC Cleared
1 9 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.50%) Degree
3 4 (3.60%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.80%) CCNA
4 2 (1.80%) CCNP
5 1 (0.90%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.90%) CISM
5 1 (0.90%) CISSP
5 1 (0.90%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.21%) QA
2 2 (1.80%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.80%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.90%) GDPR
3 1 (0.90%) GRC
3 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (10.81%) Docker
2 9 (8.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.80%) HDFS
4 1 (0.90%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (13.51%) Terraform
2 13 (11.71%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.50%) Ansible
3 5 (4.50%) Nessus
3 5 (4.50%) Progress Chef
3 5 (4.50%) Prometheus
3 5 (4.50%) Puppet
4 4 (3.60%) Grafana
4 4 (3.60%) Graylog
4 4 (3.60%) HP Fortify
4 4 (3.60%) WebInspect
5 2 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.90%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (24.32%) Microsoft
2 15 (13.51%) F5
3 7 (6.31%) Brio
4 5 (4.50%) CyberArk
4 5 (4.50%) Databricks
5 4 (3.60%) Checkmarx
5 4 (3.60%) Google
5 4 (3.60%) Splunk
5 4 (3.60%) Veracode
6 3 (2.70%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.80%) Oracle
7 2 (1.80%) SAP
7 2 (1.80%) VMware
8 1 (0.90%) Ariba
8 1 (0.90%) Cisco
8 1 (0.90%) Forcepoint
8 1 (0.90%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.90%) Qualys
8 1 (0.90%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.90%) Skytap