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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
4 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 11 6
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 166 76 109
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 15.65% 12.90% 15.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.16% 27.14% 37.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 45 80
10th Percentile £344 £335 £400
25th Percentile £405 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £581 £538 £596
90th Percentile £700 £683 £651
West Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -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 435 280 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 41.00% 47.54% 40.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 185 214
10th Percentile £363 £350 £315
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £456
Median % change year-on-year - +9.59% -11.41%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £550
90th Percentile £644 £600 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £26.38 £37.07 -
25th Percentile - £45.03 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £62.40 -
Median % change year-on-year -43.91% - -
75th Percentile - £82.53 -
90th Percentile - £92.15 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £91.69 -
% change year-on-year -61.83% - -

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 4 September 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 11 (6.63%) Confluence
2 10 (6.02%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.41%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (3.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 67 (40.36%) AWS
2 38 (22.89%) Power Platform
3 36 (21.69%) GCP
4 32 (19.28%) GitHub
5 27 (16.27%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (15.66%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (13.25%) PowerApps
8 20 (12.05%) Microsoft Copilot
9 15 (9.04%) Entra ID
10 14 (8.43%) Copilot Studio
10 14 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (6.63%) Azure AI
12 10 (6.02%) Power Automate
13 8 (4.82%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (4.82%) SaaS
14 7 (4.22%) Serverless
15 6 (3.61%) Azure Key Vault
16 5 (3.01%) Azure Logic Apps
16 5 (3.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 5 (3.01%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.01%) Firewall
1 5 (3.01%) WAN
1 5 (3.01%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (2.41%) DNS
2 4 (2.41%) VPN
3 3 (1.81%) BGP
3 3 (1.81%) BIG-IP
3 3 (1.81%) Ethernet VPN
3 3 (1.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (1.81%) OSPF
3 3 (1.81%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.81%) VXLAN
3 3 (1.81%) WLAN
4 2 (1.20%) LAN
4 2 (1.20%) Network Security
4 2 (1.20%) PSTN
4 2 (1.20%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.60%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.83%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (7.83%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.63%) Power BI
3 10 (6.02%) Metadata
4 7 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.41%) SAP HANA
5 4 (2.41%) Tableau
6 3 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.81%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.20%) Big Data
7 2 (1.20%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.20%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.20%) Parquet
7 2 (1.20%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.20%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.60%) MySQL
8 1 (0.60%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 23 (13.86%) JIRA
2 20 (12.05%) Jenkins
3 13 (7.83%) Git
4 8 (4.82%) Gatling
4 8 (4.82%) GitLab
5 4 (2.41%) Artifactory
5 4 (2.41%) JMeter
5 4 (2.41%) LoadRunner
5 4 (2.41%) Maven
5 4 (2.41%) Selenium
6 3 (1.81%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.81%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.20%) Postman
7 2 (1.20%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.60%) eggPlant
8 1 (0.60%) JUnit
8 1 (0.60%) MLflow
8 1 (0.60%) Mockito
8 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.60%) WebDriver
General
1 42 (25.30%) Social Skills
2 37 (22.29%) Finance
3 19 (11.45%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.02%) Banking
6 8 (4.82%) Law
7 7 (4.22%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (4.22%) Retail
8 6 (3.61%) Social Science
8 6 (3.61%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.41%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.41%) Military
10 3 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.20%) Legal
11 2 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.60%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.60%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 34 (20.48%) Senior
2 33 (19.88%) Architect
3 16 (9.64%) Developer
4 14 (8.43%) Analyst
4 14 (8.43%) Lead
5 13 (7.83%) Delivery Manager
6 12 (7.23%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (6.63%) Data Engineer
7 11 (6.63%) Technical Architect
8 9 (5.42%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.82%) Agile Delivery Manager
10 7 (4.22%) Data Analyst
10 7 (4.22%) Data Architect
10 7 (4.22%) Data Modeller
10 7 (4.22%) Senior Manager
11 6 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (3.61%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.61%) Microsoft 365 Architect
11 6 (3.61%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.61%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (25.90%) Terraform
2 12 (7.23%) REST
3 10 (6.02%) Playwright
4 9 (5.42%) Kafka
5 8 (4.82%) React
6 7 (4.22%) .NET
7 6 (3.61%) PySpark
7 6 (3.61%) YAML
8 5 (3.01%) SOAP
9 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Graph
9 4 (2.41%) Middleware
9 4 (2.41%) Node.js
9 4 (2.41%) RESTful
9 4 (2.41%) SAP Basis
9 4 (2.41%) SAP Fiori
9 4 (2.41%) SAPUI5
10 3 (1.81%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (1.81%) Jest
10 3 (1.81%) OAuth
10 3 (1.81%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.86%) Cloud Native
2 18 (10.84%) Product Ownership
3 10 (6.02%) AI Agents
4 6 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.01%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.01%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.01%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.41%) NHS
7 3 (1.81%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.81%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.20%) IoT
8 2 (1.20%) Replication
8 2 (1.20%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.60%) FMCG
9 1 (0.60%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.02%) Linux
2 8 (4.82%) Windows
3 2 (1.20%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.60%) Unix
4 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (41.57%) CI/CD
2 64 (38.55%) DevOps
3 61 (36.75%) Agile
4 39 (23.49%) AI
4 39 (23.49%) Stakeholder Management
5 37 (22.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (21.69%) Roadmaps
7 25 (15.06%) Observability
8 22 (13.25%) Data Modelling
9 20 (12.05%) Data Engineering
9 20 (12.05%) Migration
10 19 (11.45%) Analytics
10 19 (11.45%) Software Engineering
11 18 (10.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 17 (10.24%) Sprint Planning
13 16 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (9.64%) Test Automation
13 16 (9.64%) User Experience
14 15 (9.04%) Validation
15 14 (8.43%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 32 (19.28%) Python
2 17 (10.24%) PowerShell
3 14 (8.43%) Java
4 10 (6.02%) JavaScript
4 10 (6.02%) SQL
5 8 (4.82%) C#
6 7 (4.22%) Bash
6 7 (4.22%) Scala
7 6 (3.61%) Bicep
7 6 (3.61%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.41%) ABAP
9 2 (1.20%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.20%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 41 (24.70%) Security Cleared
2 32 (19.28%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.41%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.41%) Degree
5 2 (1.20%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.20%) CISM
5 2 (1.20%) CISSP
5 2 (1.20%) CRISC
5 2 (1.20%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.20%) PMP
6 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.02%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.22%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.22%) QA
3 6 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 6 (3.61%) WCAG
4 5 (3.01%) GDPR
5 4 (2.41%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.81%) GxP
6 3 (1.81%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.20%) GRC
7 2 (1.20%) NIST
8 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 22 (13.25%) Docker
2 12 (7.23%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.01%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.60%) NFS
5 1 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 28 (16.87%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.22%) Grafana
2 7 (4.22%) HAProxy
2 7 (4.22%) Jamf Pro
2 7 (4.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (3.01%) Ansible
4 3 (1.81%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.20%) Podman
6 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.60%) SELinux
6 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.60%) WSUS
Vendors
1 66 (39.76%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.04%) Foundry
2 15 (9.04%) Google
3 13 (7.83%) Databricks
4 12 (7.23%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.82%) SAP
6 7 (4.22%) Oracle
7 6 (3.61%) Dynatrace
7 6 (3.61%) Splunk
8 5 (3.01%) IBM
9 4 (2.41%) New Relic
9 4 (2.41%) Palantir
9 4 (2.41%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.81%) Arista
10 3 (1.81%) Aruba
10 3 (1.81%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.81%) F5
10 3 (1.81%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.81%) Workday
11 2 (1.20%) Red Hat
138 Azure jobs in Leeds