Azure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Microsoft Azure Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Leeds is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 41 45
Rank change year-on-year -30 +4 +30
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 4 19 27
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.55% 3.14% 3.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 3.35% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 23
10th Percentile £439 £403 £470
25th Percentile £478 £406 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £550
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £463 £694
90th Percentile - £530 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £506 £413 £550
% change year-on-year +22.73% -25.00% -2.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Leeds with a recognized job title 699 567 858
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.75% 93.72% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 357 576
10th Percentile £313 £300 £303
25th Percentile £400 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £517
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.03% -1.62%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £600
90th Percentile £649 £675 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 27 6
10th Percentile - £16.55 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.25 £19.50 £18.74
Median hourly rate £16.25 £24.18 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -32.80% +15.10% -2.29%
75th Percentile £25.00 £38.75 £21.80
90th Percentile £26.95 £72.41 £41.98
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £26.00 £24.18 £19.85
% change year-on-year +7.53% +21.80% -7.66%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in Leeds

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Leeds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Leeds

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in Leeds over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in Leeds

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 18 December 2025, Azure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Leeds region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (50.00%) ARM Templates
3 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Bicep
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (25.00%) .NET
4 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Ansible
4 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) Docker
4 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) JMeter
4 1 (25.00%) LogicMonitor

Azure Engineer Skill Set
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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (25.00%) NuGet
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Next.js
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (25.00%) NHS
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) Bicep
3 1 (25.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (25.00%) LogicMonitor