Azure AI Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Azure AI Platform
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Azure AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AI 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.13% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £575 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Leeds

Azure AI 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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 322 222 313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 43.05% 46.74% 34.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 147 227
10th Percentile £313 £267 £281
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £574 £600
90th Percentile £616 £718 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 1
10th Percentile - £28.86 -
25th Percentile - £33.73 -
Median hourly rate £14.25 £65.71 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.31% +5.98% +14.81%
75th Percentile £74.00 £100.66 -
90th Percentile £75.20 £102.00 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.25 £32.81 £15.00
% change year-on-year -56.57% +118.73% -70.00%

Azure AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure AI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Azure AI job vacancy trend in Leeds

Azure AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Sharing
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI