Azure Certification Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Microsoft Azure Certification
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 47 75
Rank change year-on-year -27 +28 +29
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 1 18 6
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.15% 2.66% 0.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.49% 10.78% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 16 6
10th Percentile - £384 £388
25th Percentile - £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -14.29% +17.98%
75th Percentile - £525 £600
90th Percentile - £556 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £575 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +27.78% -14.29% +17.98%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Leeds

Azure Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Leeds.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 204 167 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 30.54% 24.67% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 129 144
10th Percentile £363 £288 £343
25th Percentile £416 £400 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £641
90th Percentile £650 £600 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £34.50 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £40.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year - +33.33% -

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in Leeds

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Azure Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Azure Certification

Azure Certification
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Log4j
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Mockito
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) PowerMock
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Cache
1 1 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification