Azure Contracts in Leeds

Microsoft Azure
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 70 107 170
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 13.33% 13.41% 14.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.89% 39.93% 43.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 78 129
10th Percentile £309 £393 £412
25th Percentile £375 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £595 £675
90th Percentile £600 £639 £703
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +5.26%

All Cloud 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 251 268 392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 47.81% 33.58% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 199 289
10th Percentile £313 £288 £368
25th Percentile £400 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -15.91% +7.32%
75th Percentile £550 £558 £638
90th Percentile £634 £632 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £31.53 - -
25th Percentile £31.62 - £52.00
Median hourly rate £33.11 - £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +151.16%
75th Percentile £66.51 - £56.00
90th Percentile £85.74 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.96 £15.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year +119.73% -72.22% +160.24%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Leeds over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in Leeds.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.86%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.43%) Magento
2 1 (1.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 27 (38.57%) AWS
2 19 (27.14%) Azure DevOps
2 19 (27.14%) GCP
3 9 (12.86%) Entra ID
3 9 (12.86%) PaaS
3 9 (12.86%) Power Platform
4 5 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.71%) GitHub
5 4 (5.71%) Serverless
6 3 (4.29%) Azure Functions
6 3 (4.29%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (4.29%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (4.29%) IaaS
6 3 (4.29%) npm
6 3 (4.29%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.86%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (2.86%) NuGet
7 2 (2.86%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.57%) Firewall
2 3 (4.29%) HTTP
2 3 (4.29%) Network Security
3 1 (1.43%) Intranet
3 1 (1.43%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.43%) LAN
3 1 (1.43%) SSL
3 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.43%) VLAN
3 1 (1.43%) VPN
3 1 (1.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.57%) MySQL
2 5 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.14%) Power BI
2 5 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.71%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.29%) Data Lake
4 3 (4.29%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.86%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.86%) Bigtable
5 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.86%) Power Query
5 2 (2.86%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.43%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.43%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (12.86%) Git
1 9 (12.86%) JIRA
2 8 (11.43%) GitLab
3 6 (8.57%) SonarQube
4 5 (7.14%) Artifactory
4 5 (7.14%) Selenium
5 4 (5.71%) Jenkins
6 3 (4.29%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (4.29%) webpack
7 2 (2.86%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.86%) JMeter
7 2 (2.86%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (2.86%) Postman
7 2 (2.86%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.43%) Maven
8 1 (1.43%) SpecFlow
General
1 15 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.14%) Finance
4 3 (4.29%) Local Government
5 2 (2.86%) Retail
6 1 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.43%) Banking
6 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.43%) Legal
6 1 (1.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 15 (21.43%) Developer
2 14 (20.00%) Architect
3 8 (11.43%) Software Engineer
4 7 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (8.57%) .NET Software Engineer
5 6 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Senior
6 5 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.71%) Consultant
7 4 (5.71%) Data Architect
7 4 (5.71%) IT Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Angular Developer
8 3 (4.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Azure Software Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Lead
8 3 (4.29%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Software Developer
9 2 (2.86%) Cloud Architect
9 2 (2.86%) Head of Cybersecurity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (22.86%) .NET
2 7 (10.00%) RESTful
3 6 (8.57%) Node.js
4 4 (5.71%) .NET Core
4 4 (5.71%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.71%) CSS
4 4 (5.71%) HTML
4 4 (5.71%) React
4 4 (5.71%) REST
5 3 (4.29%) Flask
5 3 (4.29%) pytest
5 3 (4.29%) Web Services
6 2 (2.86%) Kafka
6 2 (2.86%) LDAP
6 2 (2.86%) Razor View Engine
6 2 (2.86%) React Native
7 1 (1.43%) D3.js
7 1 (1.43%) Dropwizard
7 1 (1.43%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.43%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.57%) NHS
2 4 (5.71%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (5.71%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.29%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.86%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.86%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.43%) CCTV
5 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.43%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.00%) Linux
2 6 (8.57%) Windows
3 3 (4.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.29%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.86%) Unix
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (1.43%) Android
5 1 (1.43%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.43%) CentOS
5 1 (1.43%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.43%) VMS
5 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (35.71%) DevOps
2 18 (25.71%) CI/CD
3 13 (18.57%) Agile
3 13 (18.57%) Software Engineering
4 10 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (12.86%) Microservices
6 8 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (10.00%) Analytics
7 7 (10.00%) Mentoring
8 6 (8.57%) Containerisation
8 6 (8.57%) Data Engineering
8 6 (8.57%) SDLC
9 5 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (7.14%) Data Analytics
9 5 (7.14%) Data Protection
9 5 (7.14%) OWASP
9 5 (7.14%) Roadmaps
9 5 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (7.14%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 19 (27.14%) SQL
2 13 (18.57%) C#
3 11 (15.71%) PowerShell
3 11 (15.71%) Python
4 10 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.57%) Bash
5 6 (8.57%) Java
6 2 (2.86%) ANSI SQL
6 2 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.86%) PHP
6 2 (2.86%) Scala
6 2 (2.86%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.43%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (4.29%) CCNA
5 2 (2.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.86%) CISSP
5 2 (2.86%) Degree
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.43%) BC Cleared
6 1 (1.43%) CISM
6 1 (1.43%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (1.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) Accessibility
1 4 (5.71%) QA
2 3 (4.29%) GDPR
3 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.86%) NCSC
3 2 (2.86%) NIST
4 1 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.43%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.43%) GRC
4 1 (1.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (11.43%) Active Directory
1 8 (11.43%) Docker
2 3 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.29%) vSphere
3 2 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (17.14%) Terraform
2 4 (5.71%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.29%) Ansible
3 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (4.29%) SCCM
3 3 (4.29%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.86%) Control-M
4 2 (2.86%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.86%) Puppet
5 1 (1.43%) Nessus
5 1 (1.43%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.43%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.43%) vRealize
Vendors
1 15 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.29%) VMware
3 8 (11.43%) Google
4 5 (7.14%) Databricks
4 5 (7.14%) Veeam
5 4 (5.71%) Cisco
6 3 (4.29%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (4.29%) Meraki
6 3 (4.29%) Palo Alto
6 3 (4.29%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.86%) Brio
7 2 (2.86%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.86%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.86%) SAP
7 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.43%) Adobe
8 1 (1.43%) Aruba
8 1 (1.43%) HP
8 1 (1.43%) Oracle
8 1 (1.43%) Veritas