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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 2 4
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 131 86 130
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 16.99% 19.07% 14.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.46% 41.15% 42.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 58 82
10th Percentile £290 £321 £366
25th Percentile £378 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £574 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £62.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £80.00 - £62.00
% change year-on-year - - +90.77%

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 332 209 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 43.06% 46.34% 35.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 135 218
10th Percentile £313 £263 £281
25th Percentile £413 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 1
10th Percentile - £28.86 -
25th Percentile - £33.73 -
Median hourly rate £14.25 £65.71 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.31% +5.98% +14.81%
75th Percentile £74.00 £100.66 -
90th Percentile £75.20 £102.00 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.25 £32.81 £15.00
% change year-on-year -56.57% +118.73% -71.15%

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 25 February 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 12 (9.16%) Confluence
2 9 (6.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (4.58%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.05%) Apache
4 4 (3.05%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (6.11%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.76%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 60 (45.80%) AWS
2 43 (32.82%) GCP
3 19 (14.50%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (14.50%) GitHub
3 19 (14.50%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (12.21%) Entra ID
4 16 (12.21%) GitHub Actions
4 16 (12.21%) Serverless
5 13 (9.92%) Azure AKS
6 12 (9.16%) PaaS
6 12 (9.16%) SaaS
7 9 (6.87%) Azure Functions
8 8 (6.11%) Azure Storage
8 8 (6.11%) IaaS
9 7 (5.34%) Power Platform
10 5 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (3.82%) PowerApps
11 4 (3.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (3.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (3.05%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.40%) Firewall
2 7 (5.34%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (4.58%) LAN
3 6 (4.58%) Network Security
3 6 (4.58%) WAN
4 5 (3.82%) DNS
4 5 (3.82%) IPsec
4 5 (3.82%) Kerberos
4 5 (3.82%) SSL
5 4 (3.05%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.05%) VoIP
6 3 (2.29%) DHCP
7 2 (1.53%) Unified Communications
7 2 (1.53%) VLAN
8 1 (0.76%) BGP
8 1 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.76%) OSPF
8 1 (0.76%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.76%) VPN
8 1 (0.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.63%) NoSQL
2 5 (3.82%) Power BI
3 4 (3.05%) Redis
3 4 (3.05%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.29%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.53%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.53%) Cloud Spanner
5 2 (1.53%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.53%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.53%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.76%) Big Data
6 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.76%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.76%) Parquet
6 1 (0.76%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (15.27%) Jenkins
2 13 (9.92%) Git
2 13 (9.92%) JIRA
3 4 (3.05%) CircleCI
3 4 (3.05%) Mocha
4 3 (2.29%) GitLab
4 3 (2.29%) Maven
5 2 (1.53%) Gradle
5 2 (1.53%) JUnit
5 2 (1.53%) Log4j
5 2 (1.53%) Mockito
5 2 (1.53%) MSI
5 2 (1.53%) Subversion
6 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.76%) JMeter
6 1 (0.76%) Postman
6 1 (0.76%) Selenium
6 1 (0.76%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.76%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.76%) Vite
General
1 37 (28.24%) Social Skills
2 25 (19.08%) Public Sector
3 15 (11.45%) Finance
4 9 (6.87%) Banking
5 7 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.58%) Legal
7 5 (3.82%) Health Technology
8 4 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Law
9 1 (0.76%) Local Government
9 1 (0.76%) Military
9 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Retail
9 1 (0.76%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (25.19%) Senior
2 26 (19.85%) Architect
3 14 (10.69%) Developer
4 11 (8.40%) Analyst
5 10 (7.63%) Senior Architect
5 10 (7.63%) Software Engineer
5 10 (7.63%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (6.11%) Lead
7 7 (5.34%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (5.34%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (4.58%) Senior Technical Architect
8 6 (4.58%) Technical Architect
8 6 (4.58%) Tester
9 5 (3.82%) .NET Software Engineer
9 5 (3.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 5 (3.82%) Security Architect
9 5 (3.82%) Senior Developer
9 5 (3.82%) Support Analyst
10 4 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (3.05%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.98%) React
2 13 (9.92%) OAuth
2 13 (9.92%) RESTful
3 11 (8.40%) SAML
4 10 (7.63%) .NET
4 10 (7.63%) Node.js
5 9 (6.87%) CSS
5 9 (6.87%) HTML
6 8 (6.11%) FHIR
6 8 (6.11%) Web Services
7 7 (5.34%) JWT
8 6 (4.58%) Jest
8 6 (4.58%) OAuth2
8 6 (4.58%) OpenID
8 6 (4.58%) REST
9 5 (3.82%) XACML
10 4 (3.05%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.05%) Kafka
10 4 (3.05%) Spring
10 4 (3.05%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.98%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.92%) NHS
3 9 (6.87%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.11%) Security Posture
5 6 (4.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 6 (4.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (4.58%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.05%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.29%) iPhone
7 3 (2.29%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.53%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.53%) Blockchain
8 2 (1.53%) CMDB
8 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.53%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.53%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.53%) IoT
8 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.74%) Windows
2 9 (6.87%) Linux
3 4 (3.05%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.29%) Android
4 3 (2.29%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.53%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.53%) Unix
6 1 (0.76%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (38.17%) CI/CD
2 47 (35.88%) DevOps
3 39 (29.77%) Agile
4 27 (20.61%) Microservices
5 23 (17.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (16.79%) Roadmaps
7 21 (16.03%) Containerisation
8 18 (13.74%) Cybersecurity
9 17 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (12.98%) Software Engineering
10 15 (11.45%) Cloud Security
11 14 (10.69%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (9.92%) Clean Code
12 13 (9.92%) Mentoring
13 12 (9.16%) ITIL
13 12 (9.16%) Migration
13 12 (9.16%) Platform Engineering
13 12 (9.16%) Test Automation
14 11 (8.40%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (25.19%) Python
2 29 (22.14%) SQL
3 21 (16.03%) JavaScript
4 17 (12.98%) PowerShell
5 12 (9.16%) TypeScript
6 11 (8.40%) Bash
6 11 (8.40%) C#
7 9 (6.87%) Java
8 4 (3.05%) Bicep
9 3 (2.29%) PHP
9 3 (2.29%) Rust
10 2 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.53%) Go
10 2 (1.53%) Solidity
11 1 (0.76%) Groovy
11 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (9.92%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.63%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.82%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (3.82%) CISSP
4 4 (3.05%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.05%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.05%) Degree
5 3 (2.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (2.29%) CCSP
6 2 (1.53%) CCNA
6 2 (1.53%) CCSK
6 2 (1.53%) CEH
6 2 (1.53%) CISA
6 2 (1.53%) CISM
6 2 (1.53%) OSCP
7 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.76%) CSPO
7 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.76%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.58%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.58%) GDPR
2 6 (4.58%) HL7
3 5 (3.82%) NIST
3 5 (3.82%) PCI DSS
4 4 (3.05%) QA
4 4 (3.05%) WCAG
5 3 (2.29%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.29%) PSD2
6 2 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.53%) GRC
6 2 (1.53%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.76%) COBIT
7 1 (0.76%) PMO
7 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (19.85%) Docker
2 16 (12.21%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.82%) RACF
3 5 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (19.85%) Kubernetes
1 26 (19.85%) Terraform
2 10 (7.63%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (6.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (5.34%) Grafana
5 6 (4.58%) Ansible
6 5 (3.82%) Prometheus
7 4 (3.05%) Istio
8 3 (2.29%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (2.29%) NetBackup
8 3 (2.29%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.76%) Oracle Identity Manager
9 1 (0.76%) SCCM
9 1 (0.76%) SCOM
Vendors
1 37 (28.24%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.16%) Google
3 8 (6.11%) Splunk
4 7 (5.34%) Oracle
4 7 (5.34%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.58%) Brio
5 6 (4.58%) Databricks
5 6 (4.58%) HP
5 6 (4.58%) VMware
6 5 (3.82%) Apple
6 5 (3.82%) MobileIron
7 4 (3.05%) CyberArk
8 3 (2.29%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.29%) Veritas
9 2 (1.53%) Cisco
9 2 (1.53%) Cribl.io
9 2 (1.53%) Nexthink
9 2 (1.53%) Okta
9 2 (1.53%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.53%) SAP