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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 5 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 110 211 235
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 13.99% 15.82% 14.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.00% 44.05% 41.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 173 153
10th Percentile £351 £413 £363
25th Percentile £439 £481 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £596 £638 £638
90th Percentile £664 £700 £698
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -2.72%

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 250 479 561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 31.81% 35.91% 35.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 366 402
10th Percentile £298 £372 £309
25th Percentile £413 £463 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% +7.84%
75th Percentile £595 £622 £588
90th Percentile £669 £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 4 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

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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 (3.64%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.82%) Apache
2 2 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.82%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.91%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (24.55%) Azure DevOps
2 22 (20.00%) AWS
3 16 (14.55%) Akamai
3 16 (14.55%) Cloudflare
4 10 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 10 (9.09%) GitHub
5 8 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (7.27%) SaaS
6 7 (6.36%) GCP
6 7 (6.36%) IaaS
7 6 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (4.55%) PaaS
9 4 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.64%) iPaaS
9 4 (3.64%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.64%) Serverless
10 3 (2.73%) Azure Functions
10 3 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.09%) Firewall
2 7 (6.36%) DNS
3 5 (4.55%) Network Security
3 5 (4.55%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.82%) WAN
5 1 (0.91%) DHCP
5 1 (0.91%) LAN
5 1 (0.91%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.82%) SQL Server
2 9 (8.18%) Relational Database
3 8 (7.27%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (6.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (5.45%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.64%) Big Data
6 4 (3.64%) MySQL
6 4 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.64%) Power BI
7 3 (2.73%) InterSystems Cache
7 3 (2.73%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.73%) Redis
8 2 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.82%) Apache Hive
8 2 (1.82%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.82%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.82%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (7.27%) Jenkins
2 7 (6.36%) Git
2 7 (6.36%) GitLab
3 6 (5.45%) JIRA
4 5 (4.55%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (3.64%) AppScan
5 4 (3.64%) Burp Suite
5 4 (3.64%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.82%) Subversion
7 1 (0.91%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.91%) Maven
General
1 24 (21.82%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.64%) Retail
3 10 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.64%) Banking
5 4 (3.64%) Health Technology
6 3 (2.73%) Finance
7 2 (1.82%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.91%) Automotive
8 1 (0.91%) Marketing
8 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (24.55%) Architect
2 19 (17.27%) Developer
3 14 (12.73%) Azure Engineer
4 11 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (8.18%) Project Manager
6 7 (6.36%) Analyst
6 7 (6.36%) Data Engineer
7 6 (5.45%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 6 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.45%) Enterprise Architect
7 6 (5.45%) Security Architect
8 5 (4.55%) Azure Data Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) Enterprise Security Architect
8 5 (4.55%) Environment Manager
8 5 (4.55%) Lead
8 5 (4.55%) Senior
8 5 (4.55%) Site Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) SQL BI Developer
8 5 (4.55%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.55%) SailPoint
2 4 (3.64%) .NET
2 4 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (3.64%) Web Services
3 3 (2.73%) .NET Core
3 3 (2.73%) Blazor
3 3 (2.73%) Node.js
3 3 (2.73%) SignalR
4 2 (1.82%) Kafka
5 1 (0.91%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.91%) ADO
5 1 (0.91%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.91%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.91%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (0.91%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.91%) LDAP
5 1 (0.91%) Middleware
5 1 (0.91%) OAuth
5 1 (0.91%) PySpark
5 1 (0.91%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.27%) NHS
2 6 (5.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (4.55%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.82%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.82%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.82%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.91%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.27%) Windows
2 6 (5.45%) Linux
3 5 (4.55%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.73%) Unix
5 1 (0.91%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (36.36%) DevOps
2 24 (21.82%) Agile
3 18 (16.36%) Migration
4 15 (13.64%) CI/CD
5 13 (11.82%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (10.00%) Containerisation
6 11 (10.00%) Data Modelling
6 11 (10.00%) RAD
7 10 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (8.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (8.18%) OWASP
8 9 (8.18%) Project Delivery
9 8 (7.27%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (7.27%) Project Management
9 8 (7.27%) Software Testing
10 7 (6.36%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (6.36%) Technology Transformation
10 7 (6.36%) User Acceptance Testing
10 7 (6.36%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 20 (18.18%) SQL
2 14 (12.73%) Python
3 8 (7.27%) PowerShell
4 7 (6.36%) Bash
5 4 (3.64%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.82%) C#
6 2 (1.82%) Java
6 2 (1.82%) PHP
6 2 (1.82%) Scala
7 1 (0.91%) ABAP
7 1 (0.91%) Bicep
7 1 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.91%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (8.18%) SC Cleared
1 9 (8.18%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.55%) Azure Certification
2 5 (4.55%) Degree
3 4 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.82%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.82%) CCNA
4 2 (1.82%) CCNP
5 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.91%) CISM
5 1 (0.91%) CISSP
5 1 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.27%) QA
2 2 (1.82%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.82%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.91%) GDPR
3 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (10.91%) Docker
2 10 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.82%) HDFS
4 1 (0.91%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (11.82%) Terraform
2 12 (10.91%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.55%) Ansible
3 5 (4.55%) Nessus
3 5 (4.55%) Progress Chef
3 5 (4.55%) Prometheus
3 5 (4.55%) Puppet
4 4 (3.64%) Grafana
4 4 (3.64%) Graylog
4 4 (3.64%) HP Fortify
4 4 (3.64%) WebInspect
5 2 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.91%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (25.45%) Microsoft
2 15 (13.64%) F5
3 6 (5.45%) Brio
4 5 (4.55%) CyberArk
5 4 (3.64%) Checkmarx
5 4 (3.64%) Databricks
5 4 (3.64%) Google
5 4 (3.64%) Oracle
5 4 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.64%) Splunk
5 4 (3.64%) Veracode
6 2 (1.82%) SAP
6 2 (1.82%) VMware
7 1 (0.91%) Ariba
7 1 (0.91%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (0.91%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (0.91%) Cisco
7 1 (0.91%) Forcepoint
7 1 (0.91%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.91%) Imperva