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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 170 80 111
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 15.93% 13.36% 14.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.29% 28.67% 37.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 49 81
10th Percentile £349 £325 £400
25th Percentile £411 £378 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £595
90th Percentile £700 £678 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -1.52% -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 444 279 295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 41.61% 46.58% 39.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 187 214
10th Percentile £363 £350 £303
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £469
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -10.71%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £555
90th Percentile £644 £600 £655
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £469
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -10.71%
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 28 August 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 13 (7.65%) SharePoint
2 11 (6.47%) Confluence
3 7 (4.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.35%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.59%) CMS
5 1 (0.59%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (4.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.59%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 68 (40.00%) AWS
2 39 (22.94%) Power Platform
3 36 (21.18%) GCP
4 34 (20.00%) GitHub
5 29 (17.06%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (15.88%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (12.94%) PowerApps
8 20 (11.76%) Microsoft Copilot
9 18 (10.59%) Entra ID
10 17 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (8.24%) Copilot Studio
12 11 (6.47%) Azure AI
13 10 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (5.88%) Power Automate
14 9 (5.29%) Azure Key Vault
14 9 (5.29%) SaaS
15 7 (4.12%) PaaS
15 7 (4.12%) Serverless
16 5 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
16 5 (2.94%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.94%) Firewall
1 5 (2.94%) WAN
1 5 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (2.35%) DNS
2 4 (2.35%) VPN
3 3 (1.76%) BGP
3 3 (1.76%) BIG-IP
3 3 (1.76%) Ethernet VPN
3 3 (1.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (1.76%) OSPF
3 3 (1.76%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.76%) VXLAN
3 3 (1.76%) WLAN
4 2 (1.18%) LAN
4 2 (1.18%) Network Security
4 2 (1.18%) PSTN
4 2 (1.18%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.59%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.65%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (7.65%) SQL Server
2 12 (7.06%) Power BI
3 10 (5.88%) Metadata
4 7 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.94%) SAP HANA
6 4 (2.35%) Tableau
7 3 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.76%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.18%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.18%) Parquet
8 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.18%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.59%) Big Data
9 1 (0.59%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.59%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.59%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.59%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 23 (13.53%) JIRA
2 20 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 13 (7.65%) Git
4 8 (4.71%) Gatling
5 6 (3.53%) GitLab
6 4 (2.35%) Artifactory
6 4 (2.35%) JMeter
6 4 (2.35%) LoadRunner
6 4 (2.35%) Maven
6 4 (2.35%) Selenium
7 3 (1.76%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.76%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.18%) Postman
8 2 (1.18%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.59%) eggPlant
9 1 (0.59%) JUnit
9 1 (0.59%) MLflow
9 1 (0.59%) Mockito
9 1 (0.59%) WebDriver
General
1 42 (24.71%) Social Skills
2 37 (21.76%) Finance
3 20 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.88%) Banking
6 8 (4.71%) Law
7 7 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.53%) Social Science
8 6 (3.53%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.94%) Retail
10 4 (2.35%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.35%) Military
11 3 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.18%) Legal
12 2 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.59%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.59%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.59%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 34 (20.00%) Senior
2 32 (18.82%) Architect
3 21 (12.35%) Developer
4 15 (8.82%) Lead
5 14 (8.24%) Analyst
6 13 (7.65%) Delivery Manager
7 12 (7.06%) Data Engineer
7 12 (7.06%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (5.29%) Technical Architect
9 8 (4.71%) Agile Delivery Manager
10 7 (4.12%) Data Analyst
10 7 (4.12%) Data Architect
10 7 (4.12%) Data Modeller
10 7 (4.12%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.12%) Senior Manager
11 6 (3.53%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.53%) Microsoft 365 Architect
11 6 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.53%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
11 6 (3.53%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (24.12%) Terraform
2 14 (8.24%) REST
3 10 (5.88%) .NET
3 10 (5.88%) Playwright
4 9 (5.29%) Kafka
5 8 (4.71%) React
6 7 (4.12%) Microsoft Graph
7 6 (3.53%) PySpark
7 6 (3.53%) SOAP
7 6 (3.53%) YAML
8 5 (2.94%) Middleware
8 5 (2.94%) SAP Fiori
8 5 (2.94%) SAPUI5
9 4 (2.35%) Node.js
9 4 (2.35%) RESTful
9 4 (2.35%) SAP Basis
9 4 (2.35%) Web Services
10 3 (1.76%) .NET Framework
10 3 (1.76%) OAuth
10 3 (1.76%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.94%) Cloud Native
2 18 (10.59%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.88%) AI Agents
4 6 (3.53%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.94%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.94%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.35%) NHS
7 3 (1.76%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.76%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.18%) IoT
8 2 (1.18%) Replication
8 2 (1.18%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.59%) FMCG
9 1 (0.59%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.59%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.71%) Linux
2 7 (4.12%) Windows
3 2 (1.18%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (39.41%) CI/CD
2 65 (38.24%) DevOps
3 63 (37.06%) Agile
4 40 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 37 (21.76%) AI
6 36 (21.18%) Roadmaps
7 35 (20.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (14.71%) Observability
9 21 (12.35%) Analytics
9 21 (12.35%) Data Engineering
9 21 (12.35%) Data Modelling
9 21 (12.35%) Migration
10 19 (11.18%) Software Engineering
11 17 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
11 17 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 16 (9.41%) User Experience
13 14 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (8.24%) Data Governance
13 14 (8.24%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (8.24%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 31 (18.24%) Python
2 19 (11.18%) PowerShell
3 15 (8.82%) Java
4 11 (6.47%) C#
4 11 (6.47%) SQL
5 10 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.12%) Scala
7 6 (3.53%) Bash
7 6 (3.53%) Bicep
7 6 (3.53%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.94%) ABAP
9 3 (1.76%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.18%) Groovy
11 1 (0.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 44 (25.88%) Security Cleared
2 34 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.35%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.35%) Degree
5 2 (1.18%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.18%) CISM
5 2 (1.18%) CISSP
5 2 (1.18%) CRISC
5 2 (1.18%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.18%) PMP
6 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.59%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.47%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.12%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.12%) QA
3 6 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 6 (3.53%) WCAG
4 5 (2.94%) GDPR
5 4 (2.35%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.76%) GxP
6 3 (1.76%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.76%) 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 (12.94%) Docker
2 12 (7.06%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.59%) NFS
5 1 (0.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 27 (15.88%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.12%) HAProxy
2 7 (4.12%) Jamf Pro
2 7 (4.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (2.94%) Ansible
3 5 (2.94%) Grafana
4 2 (1.18%) Podman
5 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.59%) SELinux
5 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.59%) WSUS
Vendors
1 70 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.82%) Foundry
2 15 (8.82%) Google
3 13 (7.65%) Databricks
4 12 (7.06%) ServiceNow
5 9 (5.29%) SAP
6 7 (4.12%) Oracle
7 6 (3.53%) Dynatrace
7 6 (3.53%) IBM
8 5 (2.94%) Splunk
9 4 (2.35%) New Relic
9 4 (2.35%) Palantir
10 3 (1.76%) Arista
10 3 (1.76%) Aruba
10 3 (1.76%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.76%) F5
10 3 (1.76%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.76%) Workday
11 2 (1.18%) ForgeRock
11 2 (1.18%) Okta