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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 62 114 211
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 13.33% 14.27% 15.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.97% 44.88% 43.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 74 172
10th Percentile £263 £352 £416
25th Percentile £325 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £524 £595 £638
90th Percentile £550 £656 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% +10.00%

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 214 254 480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 46.02% 31.79% 36.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 179 366
10th Percentile £263 £295 £388
25th Percentile £375 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £550 £595 £618
90th Percentile £714 £670 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £31.64 - £54.80
25th Percentile £36.13 - £59.00
Median hourly rate £90.42 - £67.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +216.04%
75th Percentile £100.28 - £74.00
90th Percentile £102.00 - £77.60
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £65.71 £15.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year +338.05% -72.22% +170.00%

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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 1 May 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 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.61%) Apache
3 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (33.87%) AWS
2 16 (25.81%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (20.97%) GCP
4 12 (19.35%) Entra ID
5 8 (12.90%) PaaS
6 6 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (9.68%) Power Platform
7 4 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (6.45%) GitHub
8 3 (4.84%) IaaS
9 2 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.23%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.23%) npm
9 2 (3.23%) NuGet
9 2 (3.23%) Serverless
10 1 (1.61%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.61%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.61%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.61%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.61%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.68%) Firewall
2 3 (4.84%) Network Security
3 2 (3.23%) HTTP
3 2 (3.23%) VLAN
3 2 (3.23%) VPN
4 1 (1.61%) DNS
4 1 (1.61%) Intranet
4 1 (1.61%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.61%) LAN
4 1 (1.61%) SSL
4 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.61%) WAN
4 1 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.29%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.06%) Power BI
3 4 (6.45%) MySQL
4 3 (4.84%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.23%) Power Query
6 1 (1.61%) Big Data
6 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.61%) Metadata
6 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Selenium
2 6 (9.68%) JIRA
3 4 (6.45%) Cypress.io
3 4 (6.45%) Postman
3 4 (6.45%) SoapUI
4 3 (4.84%) GitLab
5 2 (3.23%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.23%) Git
5 2 (3.23%) JMeter
5 2 (3.23%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (3.23%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.23%) webpack
6 1 (1.61%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.61%) Cucumber
General
1 13 (20.97%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.68%) Finance
3 3 (4.84%) Local Government
3 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (20.97%) Developer
2 9 (14.52%) Architect
3 7 (11.29%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (9.68%) Senior
4 6 (9.68%) Software Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Consultant
6 4 (6.45%) IT Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) QA Tester
6 4 (6.45%) React Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Tester
7 3 (4.84%) .NET Software Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Administrator
7 3 (4.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.23%) .NET Developer
8 2 (3.23%) Security Architect
8 2 (3.23%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.35%) .NET
2 6 (9.68%) AngularJS
2 6 (9.68%) React
3 4 (6.45%) React Native
4 3 (4.84%) .NET Core
4 3 (4.84%) CSS
4 3 (4.84%) HTML
4 3 (4.84%) Laravel
4 3 (4.84%) RESTful
4 3 (4.84%) Vue
4 3 (4.84%) WPF
5 2 (3.23%) Flask
5 2 (3.23%) LDAP
5 2 (3.23%) pytest
5 2 (3.23%) REST
5 2 (3.23%) Web Services
6 1 (1.61%) D3.js
6 1 (1.61%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.61%) Node.js
6 1 (1.61%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.06%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (4.84%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.84%) NHS
3 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.61%) CCTV
4 1 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.61%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.90%) Windows
2 5 (8.06%) Linux
3 3 (4.84%) Android
3 3 (4.84%) Apple iOS
3 3 (4.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.84%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.61%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.61%) CentOS
4 1 (1.61%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.61%) VMS
4 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (32.26%) DevOps
2 12 (19.35%) Software Engineering
3 11 (17.74%) Agile
4 9 (14.52%) CI/CD
5 8 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (12.90%) Test Automation
6 7 (11.29%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (9.68%) Analytics
7 6 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (9.68%) Mentoring
8 5 (8.06%) Identity Management
9 4 (6.45%) API Testing
9 4 (6.45%) Configuration Management
9 4 (6.45%) Manual Testing
9 4 (6.45%) Project Management
9 4 (6.45%) Scrum
9 4 (6.45%) Security Testing
9 4 (6.45%) TDD
9 4 (6.45%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 14 (22.58%) SQL
2 11 (17.74%) C#
3 10 (16.13%) PowerShell
4 8 (12.90%) Python
5 4 (6.45%) Bash
5 4 (6.45%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.45%) PHP
6 2 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.61%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (9.68%) SC Cleared
1 6 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.06%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (4.84%) CCNA
4 2 (3.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (3.23%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.23%) CISSP
4 2 (3.23%) Degree
5 1 (1.61%) CISM
5 1 (1.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (1.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) Accessibility
1 5 (8.06%) QA
2 2 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.23%) GDPR
2 2 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.23%) NIST
3 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.61%) GRC
3 1 (1.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (19.35%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.06%) Docker
3 3 (4.84%) vSphere
4 2 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (11.29%) Terraform
2 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (4.84%) Ansible
3 3 (4.84%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.84%) SCCM
3 3 (4.84%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (3.23%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.23%) Puppet
5 1 (1.61%) Nessus
5 1 (1.61%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.61%) vRealize
Vendors
1 15 (24.19%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.52%) VMware
3 5 (8.06%) Cisco
3 5 (8.06%) Google
3 5 (8.06%) Veeam
4 4 (6.45%) Databricks
4 4 (6.45%) Meraki
5 3 (4.84%) LogicMonitor
5 3 (4.84%) Palo Alto
5 3 (4.84%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.23%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.61%) Aruba
7 1 (1.61%) HP
7 1 (1.61%) Qualys
7 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow