Azure Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Microsoft Azure
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
3 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 10 5
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 169 97 112
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 15.84% 14.92% 16.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.58% 31.49% 36.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 57 82
10th Percentile £363 £345 £400
25th Percentile £413 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £591
90th Percentile £700 £680 £655
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Leeds

Azure 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 438 308 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 41.05% 47.38% 44.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 198 226
10th Percentile £363 £346 £318
25th Percentile £425 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -7.32%
75th Percentile £575 £544 £561
90th Percentile £647 £604 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -7.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £26.38 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £200.00 £19.90
% change year-on-year -82.50% +905.03% -67.90%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Leeds

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Leeds over the 6 months to 3 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Leeds

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Azure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Azure

Azure
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 10 (5.92%) Confluence
1 10 (5.92%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.55%) Palantir Foundry
3 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.37%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (2.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 76 (44.97%) AWS
2 42 (24.85%) GCP
3 36 (21.30%) GitHub
4 34 (20.12%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (19.53%) Power Platform
6 28 (16.57%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (10.06%) Microsoft Copilot
7 17 (10.06%) PowerApps
8 16 (9.47%) Entra ID
8 16 (9.47%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (7.10%) Copilot Studio
10 11 (6.51%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (5.33%) SaaS
12 8 (4.73%) Azure AI
12 8 (4.73%) Power Automate
13 7 (4.14%) Serverless
14 6 (3.55%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (3.55%) PaaS
15 5 (2.96%) Azure AKS
15 5 (2.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.33%) Firewall
2 4 (2.37%) DNS
2 4 (2.37%) VPN
2 4 (2.37%) WAN
2 4 (2.37%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.78%) BGP
3 3 (1.78%) BIG-IP
3 3 (1.78%) Ethernet VPN
3 3 (1.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (1.78%) OSPF
3 3 (1.78%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.78%) VXLAN
3 3 (1.78%) WLAN
4 2 (1.18%) Network Security
5 1 (0.59%) Internet
5 1 (0.59%) LAN
5 1 (0.59%) PSTN
5 1 (0.59%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.92%) Power BI
3 9 (5.33%) Metadata
3 9 (5.33%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.96%) Tableau
5 4 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.37%) Delta Lake
5 4 (2.37%) SAP HANA
6 3 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.78%) Big Data
6 3 (1.78%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.18%) Parquet
7 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.18%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.59%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.59%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.59%) MySQL
8 1 (0.59%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 22 (13.02%) JIRA
2 20 (11.83%) Jenkins
3 17 (10.06%) Git
4 9 (5.33%) GitLab
4 9 (5.33%) Selenium
5 8 (4.73%) JMeter
6 7 (4.14%) Gatling
7 6 (3.55%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.96%) LoadRunner
8 5 (2.96%) Postman
8 5 (2.96%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.78%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.78%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.78%) Maven
10 2 (1.18%) eggPlant
11 1 (0.59%) Balsamiq
11 1 (0.59%) JUnit
11 1 (0.59%) Mockito
11 1 (0.59%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.59%) WebDriver
General
1 50 (29.59%) Social Skills
2 40 (23.67%) Finance
3 17 (10.06%) Public Sector
4 13 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.92%) Banking
6 7 (4.14%) Law
7 6 (3.55%) Retail
7 6 (3.55%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.37%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.37%) Military
8 4 (2.37%) Social Science
9 3 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.59%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.59%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.59%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 38 (22.49%) Senior
2 35 (20.71%) Architect
3 18 (10.65%) Lead
4 15 (8.88%) Developer
5 12 (7.10%) Delivery Manager
5 12 (7.10%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (6.51%) Analyst
6 11 (6.51%) Data Engineer
6 11 (6.51%) Technical Architect
7 10 (5.92%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (5.33%) Data Architect
9 7 (4.14%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 7 (4.14%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (4.14%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.55%) Microsoft 365 Architect
10 6 (3.55%) Palantir Engineer
10 6 (3.55%) Senior Manager
10 6 (3.55%) Technical Analyst
10 6 (3.55%) Tester
11 5 (2.96%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (25.44%) Terraform
2 14 (8.28%) REST
3 11 (6.51%) Kafka
4 10 (5.92%) React
5 8 (4.73%) Playwright
5 8 (4.73%) PySpark
5 8 (4.73%) YAML
6 7 (4.14%) .NET
7 6 (3.55%) Middleware
8 5 (2.96%) SOAP
9 4 (2.37%) .NET Core
9 4 (2.37%) Node.js
9 4 (2.37%) RESTful
9 4 (2.37%) SAP Basis
9 4 (2.37%) SAP Fiori
9 4 (2.37%) SAPUI5
10 3 (1.78%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (1.78%) Jest
10 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (1.78%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.79%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.28%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.33%) AI Agents
3 9 (5.33%) Public Cloud
4 8 (4.73%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (4.14%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.55%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.78%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.78%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.78%) NHS
10 2 (1.18%) Digital Wallet
10 2 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.18%) Replication
11 1 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.59%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.59%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.14%) Linux
2 5 (2.96%) Windows
3 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 71 (42.01%) DevOps
3 62 (36.69%) Agile
4 41 (24.26%) Stakeholder Management
5 39 (23.08%) AI
6 38 (22.49%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (17.75%) Roadmaps
8 27 (15.98%) Observability
9 25 (14.79%) Test Automation
10 24 (14.20%) Migration
11 20 (11.83%) Software Engineering
12 18 (10.65%) Data Engineering
12 18 (10.65%) Data Modelling
13 17 (10.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 16 (9.47%) Analytics
14 16 (9.47%) Sprint Planning
15 15 (8.88%) Containerisation
15 15 (8.88%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (8.88%) Problem-Solving
15 15 (8.88%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 39 (23.08%) Python
2 16 (9.47%) PowerShell
3 15 (8.88%) Java
4 11 (6.51%) JavaScript
5 10 (5.92%) SQL
6 8 (4.73%) TypeScript
7 7 (4.14%) Bash
7 7 (4.14%) C#
8 6 (3.55%) Bicep
9 5 (2.96%) Scala
10 4 (2.37%) ABAP
11 2 (1.18%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.18%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 45 (26.63%) Security Cleared
2 36 (21.30%) SC Cleared
3 16 (9.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.55%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.37%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.37%) Degree
6 2 (1.18%) CISM
6 2 (1.18%) CISSP
6 2 (1.18%) CRISC
6 2 (1.18%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.18%) PMP
7 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.59%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.28%) QA
2 10 (5.92%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.73%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.73%) GDPR
4 6 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.55%) WCAG
5 5 (2.96%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 3 (1.78%) GxP
7 3 (1.78%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.18%) GRC
8 2 (1.18%) NIST
9 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.59%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 23 (13.61%) Docker
2 12 (7.10%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.96%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.59%) NFS
5 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (18.93%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.73%) Grafana
2 8 (4.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (3.55%) Ansible
3 6 (3.55%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (2.96%) HAProxy
5 3 (1.78%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.18%) Podman
7 1 (0.59%) SELinux
7 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (32.54%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.47%) Databricks
3 14 (8.28%) Foundry
4 13 (7.69%) Google
4 13 (7.69%) ServiceNow
5 11 (6.51%) Dynatrace
6 7 (4.14%) IBM
6 7 (4.14%) SAP
7 6 (3.55%) Palantir
7 6 (3.55%) Splunk
8 5 (2.96%) New Relic
9 4 (2.37%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.78%) Arista
10 3 (1.78%) Aruba
10 3 (1.78%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.78%) F5
10 3 (1.78%) Oracle
10 3 (1.78%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.78%) Workday
11 2 (1.18%) MuleSoft
197 Azure jobs in Leeds