Azure Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in Leeds is £67, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2026.

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

 6 months to
25 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 - 64
Rank change year-on-year - - +30
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.32% - 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% - 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £67 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.37%
West Yorkshire median daily rate £67 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -18.37%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 873 454 727
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.28% 97.42% 92.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 305 456
10th Percentile £325 £263 £313
25th Percentile £416 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £600 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 16
10th Percentile - £31.53 £11.43
25th Percentile £14.25 £31.62 £12.13
Median hourly rate £19.00 £33.11 £13.02
Median % change year-on-year -42.62% +154.40% -42.16%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.51 £18.27
90th Percentile £74.00 £85.74 £48.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.77 £22.14 £15.23
% change year-on-year +11.88% +45.37% -29.16%

Azure Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Azure Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Leeds

Azure Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 25 May 2026, Azure Platform 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Functions
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) Bicep
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Database Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) VPN

Azure Platform 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Functions
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Database Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
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