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

 6 months to
17 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 11 5
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 169 80 119
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 15.52% 13.47% 16.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.15% 28.37% 38.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 48 89
10th Percentile £343 £343 £400
25th Percentile £403 £396 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £541 £588
90th Percentile £700 £679 £650
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 443 282 310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 40.68% 47.47% 43.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 186 228
10th Percentile £363 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -7.54%
75th Percentile £566 £539 £564
90th Percentile £648 £600 £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 £27.50
% change year-on-year -82.50% +627.27% -

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 17 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 (6.51%) Confluence
2 10 (5.92%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.55%) Palantir Foundry
4 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (2.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 71 (42.01%) AWS
2 39 (23.08%) Power Platform
3 37 (21.89%) GCP
4 33 (19.53%) GitHub
5 29 (17.16%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (15.98%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (12.43%) PowerApps
8 20 (11.83%) Microsoft Copilot
9 15 (8.88%) Entra ID
9 15 (8.88%) Microsoft 365
10 14 (8.28%) Copilot Studio
11 11 (6.51%) Azure AI
12 9 (5.33%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (5.33%) Power Automate
12 9 (5.33%) SaaS
13 8 (4.73%) Serverless
14 6 (3.55%) Azure Key Vault
15 5 (2.96%) Azure Functions
15 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Purview
15 5 (2.96%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.14%) Firewall
2 5 (2.96%) WAN
2 5 (2.96%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.37%) DNS
3 4 (2.37%) VPN
4 3 (1.78%) BGP
4 3 (1.78%) BIG-IP
4 3 (1.78%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (1.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (1.78%) OSPF
4 3 (1.78%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.78%) VXLAN
4 3 (1.78%) WLAN
5 2 (1.18%) LAN
5 2 (1.18%) Network Security
5 2 (1.18%) PSTN
5 2 (1.18%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.59%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.28%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (7.10%) Power BI
4 10 (5.92%) Metadata
5 7 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.37%) Delta Lake
6 4 (2.37%) SAP HANA
6 4 (2.37%) Tableau
7 3 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.78%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.78%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.18%) Big Data
8 2 (1.18%) Parquet
8 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.18%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.59%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.59%) MySQL
9 1 (0.59%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 23 (13.61%) JIRA
2 20 (11.83%) Jenkins
3 16 (9.47%) Git
4 8 (4.73%) Gatling
4 8 (4.73%) GitLab
5 4 (2.37%) Artifactory
5 4 (2.37%) JMeter
5 4 (2.37%) LoadRunner
5 4 (2.37%) Maven
5 4 (2.37%) Selenium
6 3 (1.78%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.78%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.18%) Postman
7 2 (1.18%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.59%) eggPlant
8 1 (0.59%) JUnit
8 1 (0.59%) MLflow
8 1 (0.59%) Mockito
8 1 (0.59%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.59%) WebDriver
General
1 44 (26.04%) Social Skills
2 40 (23.67%) Finance
3 19 (11.24%) Public Sector
4 12 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.92%) Banking
6 8 (4.73%) Law
7 6 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.55%) Retail
7 6 (3.55%) Social Science
7 6 (3.55%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.37%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.37%) Military
9 3 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.18%) Legal
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 37 (21.89%) Senior
2 31 (18.34%) Architect
3 17 (10.06%) Developer
4 14 (8.28%) Analyst
4 14 (8.28%) Data Engineer
4 14 (8.28%) Lead
5 13 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
6 11 (6.51%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (5.92%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (5.92%) Technical Architect
8 8 (4.73%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 7 (4.14%) Data Analyst
9 7 (4.14%) Data Architect
9 7 (4.14%) Data Modeller
9 7 (4.14%) Senior Manager
10 6 (3.55%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (3.55%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.55%) Microsoft 365 Architect
10 6 (3.55%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (3.55%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (26.63%) Terraform
2 13 (7.69%) REST
3 10 (5.92%) Playwright
4 9 (5.33%) Kafka
4 9 (5.33%) React
5 8 (4.73%) PySpark
6 7 (4.14%) .NET
6 7 (4.14%) YAML
7 5 (2.96%) SOAP
8 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Graph
8 4 (2.37%) Middleware
8 4 (2.37%) Node.js
8 4 (2.37%) RESTful
8 4 (2.37%) SAP Basis
8 4 (2.37%) SAP Fiori
8 4 (2.37%) SAPUI5
9 3 (1.78%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.78%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.78%) Jest
9 3 (1.78%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.20%) Cloud Native
2 18 (10.65%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.92%) AI Agents
4 6 (3.55%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.55%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.96%) NHS
5 5 (2.96%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.78%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.78%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.18%) IoT
7 2 (1.18%) Replication
8 1 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.59%) FMCG
8 1 (0.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.59%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.92%) Linux
2 7 (4.14%) Windows
3 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.59%) Unix
3 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (42.60%) CI/CD
2 66 (39.05%) DevOps
3 62 (36.69%) Agile
4 41 (24.26%) AI
5 40 (23.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 39 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (21.30%) Roadmaps
8 26 (15.38%) Observability
9 23 (13.61%) Migration
10 22 (13.02%) Data Modelling
11 21 (12.43%) Data Engineering
12 20 (11.83%) Analytics
13 19 (11.24%) Software Engineering
13 19 (11.24%) Test Automation
14 17 (10.06%) Sprint Planning
14 17 (10.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 16 (9.47%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (9.47%) User Experience
16 15 (8.88%) Continuous Improvement
16 15 (8.88%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 35 (20.71%) Python
2 17 (10.06%) PowerShell
3 14 (8.28%) Java
4 12 (7.10%) SQL
5 10 (5.92%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.73%) C#
7 7 (4.14%) Bash
7 7 (4.14%) Scala
7 7 (4.14%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.55%) Bicep
9 4 (2.37%) ABAP
10 2 (1.18%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.18%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 41 (24.26%) Security Cleared
2 32 (18.93%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.96%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.37%) Degree
6 2 (1.18%) AWS Certification
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%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.59%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.51%) Data Quality
1 11 (6.51%) QA
2 7 (4.14%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.14%) GDPR
3 6 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 6 (3.55%) WCAG
4 5 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.37%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.78%) GxP
6 3 (1.78%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.18%) GRC
7 2 (1.18%) NIST
8 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.59%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 22 (13.02%) 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%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (17.16%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (4.14%) Grafana
3 7 (4.14%) HAProxy
3 7 (4.14%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (2.96%) Ansible
5 3 (1.78%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.18%) Podman
7 1 (0.59%) SELinux
7 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (40.24%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.06%) Foundry
3 16 (9.47%) Google
4 15 (8.88%) Databricks
5 13 (7.69%) ServiceNow
6 8 (4.73%) Dynatrace
7 7 (4.14%) Oracle
7 7 (4.14%) SAP
8 6 (3.55%) Palantir
8 6 (3.55%) Splunk
9 5 (2.96%) IBM
10 4 (2.37%) New Relic
10 4 (2.37%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.78%) Arista
11 3 (1.78%) Aruba
11 3 (1.78%) CyberArk
11 3 (1.78%) F5
11 3 (1.78%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.78%) Workday
12 2 (1.18%) Brio
228 Azure jobs in Leeds