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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 12 4
Rank change year-on-year +7 -8 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 165 66 108
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 16.89% 13.02% 13.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.15% 27.62% 40.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 40 79
10th Percentile £313 £303 £395
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £584 £538 £598
90th Percentile £740 £608 £645
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -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 411 239 267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 42.07% 47.14% 33.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 155 198
10th Percentile £326 £313 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £577
90th Percentile £638 £645 £643
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £28.10 £31.53 -
25th Percentile - £31.62 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.11 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% - -
75th Percentile £54.50 £66.51 -
90th Percentile £74.00 £85.74 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £32.96 £15.00
% change year-on-year +6.19% +119.73% -65.32%

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 30 June 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 14 (8.48%) SharePoint
2 9 (5.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (4.85%) Confluence
4 2 (1.21%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (1.21%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.61%) Apache
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.61%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.21%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (5.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.61%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (36.36%) AWS
2 36 (21.82%) Power Platform
3 31 (18.79%) GitHub
4 29 (17.58%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (17.58%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (15.15%) PowerApps
6 23 (13.94%) GCP
7 22 (13.33%) Entra ID
7 22 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (12.12%) Microsoft Copilot
9 16 (9.70%) Serverless
10 15 (9.09%) SaaS
11 14 (8.48%) Copilot Studio
11 14 (8.48%) PaaS
12 12 (7.27%) Power Automate
13 11 (6.67%) Azure AI
14 10 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (5.45%) Azure AKS
15 9 (5.45%) Azure Functions
15 9 (5.45%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.24%) WAN
1 7 (4.24%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (3.64%) Firewall
3 5 (3.03%) DNS
4 4 (2.42%) IPsec
4 4 (2.42%) Kerberos
4 4 (2.42%) LAN
4 4 (2.42%) Network Security
4 4 (2.42%) SSL
4 4 (2.42%) Unified Communications
4 4 (2.42%) VPN
5 3 (1.82%) BGP
5 3 (1.82%) BIG-IP
5 3 (1.82%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (1.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (1.82%) OSPF
5 3 (1.82%) PSTN
5 3 (1.82%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.82%) VXLAN
5 3 (1.82%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.88%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.67%) Power BI
3 9 (5.45%) Metadata
3 9 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.42%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.42%) SAP HANA
7 3 (1.82%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.21%) Parquet
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.61%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 20 (12.12%) Jenkins
2 15 (9.09%) JIRA
3 10 (6.06%) Git
4 7 (4.24%) Gatling
5 6 (3.64%) GitLab
6 4 (2.42%) Artifactory
6 4 (2.42%) Maven
General
1 35 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 31 (18.79%) Finance
3 19 (11.52%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.85%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (4.85%) Law
6 6 (3.64%) Social Science
7 5 (3.03%) Retail
8 4 (2.42%) Military
9 3 (1.82%) Banking
9 3 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.21%) Legal
10 2 (1.21%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.61%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.61%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 38 (23.03%) Senior
2 37 (22.42%) Architect
3 22 (13.33%) Developer
4 14 (8.48%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (7.88%) Analyst
6 11 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
6 11 (6.67%) Lead
7 10 (6.06%) Data Engineer
7 10 (6.06%) Technical Architect
8 9 (5.45%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (4.85%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 8 (4.85%) Data Analyst
9 8 (4.85%) Data Architect
9 8 (4.85%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.24%) Data Modeller
10 7 (4.24%) Senior Architect
10 7 (4.24%) Senior Manager
11 6 (3.64%) Microsoft 365 Architect
11 6 (3.64%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
11 6 (3.64%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.09%) REST
2 11 (6.67%) .NET
3 9 (5.45%) Microsoft Graph
3 9 (5.45%) Web Services
4 7 (4.24%) OAuth
4 7 (4.24%) OpenID
4 7 (4.24%) Playwright
5 6 (3.64%) SAML
5 6 (3.64%) YAML
6 5 (3.03%) OAuth2
6 5 (3.03%) PySpark
6 5 (3.03%) React
6 5 (3.03%) SOAP
7 4 (2.42%) JSP
7 4 (2.42%) SAP Fiori
7 4 (2.42%) SAPUI5
7 4 (2.42%) XACML
8 3 (1.82%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.82%) JSON
8 3 (1.82%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.52%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.48%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.24%) AI Agents
4 6 (3.64%) NHS
5 5 (3.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (2.42%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.42%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.82%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.82%) IoT
7 3 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.82%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.21%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.21%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.21%) Replication
8 2 (1.21%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.21%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.67%) Windows
2 8 (4.85%) Linux
3 2 (1.21%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (44.85%) DevOps
2 69 (41.82%) CI/CD
3 56 (33.94%) Agile
4 36 (21.82%) Roadmaps
5 34 (20.61%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (18.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 26 (15.76%) AI
8 23 (13.94%) Observability
9 20 (12.12%) Analytics
9 20 (12.12%) Data Modelling
9 20 (12.12%) Migration
10 19 (11.52%) Identity Access Management
11 18 (10.91%) Software Engineering
12 17 (10.30%) Data Engineering
12 17 (10.30%) Platform Engineering
13 16 (9.70%) Enterprise Architecture
14 15 (9.09%) Data Governance
14 15 (9.09%) Integration Patterns
14 15 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (8.48%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 33 (20.00%) Python
2 22 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 18 (10.91%) SQL
4 13 (7.88%) C#
4 13 (7.88%) Java
5 8 (4.85%) Bash
6 7 (4.24%) Scala
7 6 (3.64%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.03%) Bicep
9 4 (2.42%) ABAP
10 3 (1.82%) Groovy
10 3 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.82%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (18.79%) Security Cleared
2 22 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.42%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.82%) Degree
6 2 (1.21%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.21%) CISM
6 2 (1.21%) CISSP
6 2 (1.21%) CRISC
6 2 (1.21%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.21%) PMP
7 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.24%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.64%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 5 (3.03%) GDPR
3 5 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.03%) WCAG
4 3 (1.82%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.82%) NIST
4 3 (1.82%) QA
4 3 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.21%) GRC
6 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.61%) GxP
6 1 (0.61%) HL7
6 1 (0.61%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.61%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (9.70%) Docker
2 15 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (2.42%) RACF
4 4 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.61%) NFS
6 1 (0.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 42 (25.45%) Terraform
2 23 (13.94%) Kubernetes
3 12 (7.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (6.06%) Jamf Pro
5 7 (4.24%) HAProxy
5 7 (4.24%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (3.03%) Ansible
7 3 (1.82%) Istio
8 2 (1.21%) Podman
9 1 (0.61%) Grafana
9 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.61%) SELinux
9 1 (0.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 82 (49.70%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.70%) Google
3 13 (7.88%) Foundry
4 11 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 10 (6.06%) Databricks
6 7 (4.24%) Oracle
6 7 (4.24%) SAP
7 4 (2.42%) Brio
7 4 (2.42%) Okta
8 3 (1.82%) Arista
8 3 (1.82%) Aruba
8 3 (1.82%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.82%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.82%) F5
8 3 (1.82%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.21%) ForgeRock
9 2 (1.21%) IBM
9 2 (1.21%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.21%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.21%) VMware