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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 9 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 166 100 112
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 15.79% 15.11% 16.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.60% 32.15% 36.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 58 81
10th Percentile £359 £364 £400
25th Percentile £411 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £594
90th Percentile £691 £679 £655
West Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -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 430 311 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 40.91% 46.98% 44.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 196 225
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -7.32%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £563
90th Percentile £644 £606 £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 4 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 9 (5.42%) Confluence
1 9 (5.42%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.61%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 75 (45.18%) AWS
2 41 (24.70%) GCP
3 36 (21.69%) GitHub
4 34 (20.48%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (18.67%) Power Platform
6 28 (16.87%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (10.24%) Microsoft Copilot
8 15 (9.04%) Entra ID
8 15 (9.04%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (9.04%) PowerApps
9 12 (7.23%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (7.23%) Copilot Studio
10 8 (4.82%) Azure AI
10 8 (4.82%) SaaS
11 7 (4.22%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (4.22%) Power Automate
12 6 (3.61%) Azure AKS
12 6 (3.61%) Serverless
13 5 (3.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (3.01%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.02%) Firewall
2 5 (3.01%) DNS
3 4 (2.41%) VPN
4 3 (1.81%) BGP
4 3 (1.81%) BIG-IP
4 3 (1.81%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (1.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (1.81%) Network Security
4 3 (1.81%) OSPF
4 3 (1.81%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.81%) VXLAN
4 3 (1.81%) WAN
4 3 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.81%) WLAN
5 1 (0.60%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.63%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (5.42%) Metadata
2 9 (5.42%) Power BI
2 9 (5.42%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.01%) Tableau
4 4 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.41%) Delta Lake
4 4 (2.41%) SAP HANA
5 3 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (1.81%) Big Data
5 3 (1.81%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.20%) Parquet
6 2 (1.20%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.20%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.60%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.60%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.60%) MySQL
7 1 (0.60%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 21 (12.65%) JIRA
2 20 (12.05%) Jenkins
3 18 (10.84%) Git
4 9 (5.42%) GitLab
4 9 (5.42%) Selenium
5 8 (4.82%) JMeter
6 7 (4.22%) Gatling
7 6 (3.61%) Cucumber
8 5 (3.01%) LoadRunner
8 5 (3.01%) Postman
8 5 (3.01%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.81%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.81%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.81%) Maven
10 2 (1.20%) eggPlant
11 1 (0.60%) Balsamiq
11 1 (0.60%) JUnit
11 1 (0.60%) Mockito
11 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.60%) WebDriver
General
1 50 (30.12%) Social Skills
2 39 (23.49%) Finance
3 16 (9.64%) Public Sector
4 12 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.02%) Banking
6 7 (4.22%) Law
7 6 (3.61%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.01%) Retail
9 4 (2.41%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.41%) Military
9 4 (2.41%) Social Science
10 3 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
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 37 (22.29%) Senior
2 34 (20.48%) Architect
3 18 (10.84%) Lead
4 14 (8.43%) Developer
5 12 (7.23%) Delivery Manager
6 11 (6.63%) Analyst
6 11 (6.63%) Data Engineer
6 11 (6.63%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (6.63%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (6.63%) Technical Architect
7 9 (5.42%) Data Architect
8 8 (4.82%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (4.22%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 7 (4.22%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.61%) Microsoft 365 Architect
10 6 (3.61%) Palantir Engineer
10 6 (3.61%) Senior Manager
10 6 (3.61%) Technical Analyst
10 6 (3.61%) Tester
11 5 (3.01%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (26.51%) Terraform
2 14 (8.43%) REST
3 11 (6.63%) Kafka
4 10 (6.02%) React
5 9 (5.42%) YAML
6 8 (4.82%) Playwright
6 8 (4.82%) PySpark
7 7 (4.22%) .NET
8 6 (3.61%) Middleware
9 5 (3.01%) SOAP
10 4 (2.41%) .NET Core
10 4 (2.41%) Node.js
10 4 (2.41%) RESTful
10 4 (2.41%) SAP Basis
10 4 (2.41%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (2.41%) SAPUI5
11 3 (1.81%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.81%) Jest
11 3 (1.81%) SailPoint
11 3 (1.81%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.06%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.83%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.42%) AI Agents
3 9 (5.42%) Public Cloud
4 8 (4.82%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (4.22%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.61%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.01%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.81%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.81%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.81%) NHS
9 2 (1.20%) Digital Wallet
9 2 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.20%) Replication
10 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.60%) FMCG
10 1 (0.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.61%) Linux
2 3 (1.81%) Windows
3 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (46.99%) CI/CD
2 71 (42.77%) DevOps
3 61 (36.75%) Agile
4 40 (24.10%) Stakeholder Management
5 39 (23.49%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (22.89%) AI
7 29 (17.47%) Roadmaps
8 27 (16.27%) Observability
9 26 (15.66%) Test Automation
10 23 (13.86%) Migration
11 20 (12.05%) Software Engineering
12 18 (10.84%) Data Engineering
12 18 (10.84%) Data Modelling
13 17 (10.24%) Analytics
13 17 (10.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 16 (9.64%) Containerisation
14 16 (9.64%) Sprint Planning
15 15 (9.04%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (9.04%) Scrum
15 15 (9.04%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 38 (22.89%) Python
2 15 (9.04%) Java
2 15 (9.04%) PowerShell
3 10 (6.02%) JavaScript
3 10 (6.02%) SQL
4 8 (4.82%) TypeScript
5 7 (4.22%) Bash
6 6 (3.61%) Bicep
6 6 (3.61%) C#
7 5 (3.01%) Scala
8 4 (2.41%) ABAP
9 2 (1.20%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.20%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 45 (27.11%) Security Cleared
2 36 (21.69%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.61%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.41%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.81%) Degree
7 2 (1.20%) CISM
7 2 (1.20%) CISSP
7 2 (1.20%) CRISC
7 2 (1.20%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.20%) PMP
8 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.43%) QA
2 10 (6.02%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.82%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.82%) GDPR
4 6 (3.61%) WCAG
5 5 (3.01%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 3 (1.81%) GxP
8 2 (1.20%) GRC
8 2 (1.20%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.20%) NIST
8 2 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 24 (14.46%) Docker
2 11 (6.63%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.01%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.60%) NFS
5 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (19.88%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.82%) Grafana
3 7 (4.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (3.61%) Ansible
5 5 (3.01%) HAProxy
5 5 (3.01%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (1.81%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.20%) Podman
8 1 (0.60%) SELinux
8 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (31.93%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.64%) Databricks
3 14 (8.43%) Foundry
4 13 (7.83%) Google
4 13 (7.83%) ServiceNow
5 11 (6.63%) Dynatrace
6 7 (4.22%) IBM
6 7 (4.22%) SAP
7 6 (3.61%) Palantir
7 6 (3.61%) Splunk
8 5 (3.01%) New Relic
9 4 (2.41%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.81%) Arista
10 3 (1.81%) Aruba
10 3 (1.81%) F5
10 3 (1.81%) Oracle
10 3 (1.81%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.81%) Workday
11 2 (1.20%) Okta
11 2 (1.20%) OneLogin