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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 6 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 133 114 136
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 18.45% 17.65% 14.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.12% 36.08% 43.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 78 94
10th Percentile £290 £371 £400
25th Percentile £400 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £563 £567 £600
90th Percentile £653 £657 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £62.00

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 340 316 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 47.16% 48.92% 33.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 216 235
10th Percentile £354 £350 £313
25th Percentile £406 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £564 £600
90th Percentile £621 £700 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile - £31.95 -
25th Percentile - £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £14.25 £90.42 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -84.24% +45.83% +166.67%
75th Percentile £17.88 £102.00 -
90th Percentile £24.40 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.25 £41.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -65.24% -33.87% +175.56%

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 7 December 2025.

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 10 (7.52%) Confluence
2 8 (6.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (4.51%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.76%) Apache
5 4 (3.01%) Apache Spark
6 3 (2.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.26%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 63 (47.37%) AWS
2 50 (37.59%) GCP
3 24 (18.05%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (14.29%) GitHub
5 16 (12.03%) Serverless
6 14 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (9.77%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (9.02%) Entra ID
8 12 (9.02%) PaaS
9 9 (6.77%) Azure Functions
9 9 (6.77%) Power Platform
10 6 (4.51%) Azure AKS
10 6 (4.51%) Azure Storage
11 5 (3.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (3.76%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (3.01%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (3.01%) PowerApps
12 4 (3.01%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (12.03%) Firewall
2 6 (4.51%) Network Security
3 5 (3.76%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (3.01%) LAN
4 4 (3.01%) WAN
5 3 (2.26%) DHCP
5 3 (2.26%) DNS
5 3 (2.26%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.26%) VoIP
6 2 (1.50%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.50%) VLAN
6 2 (1.50%) VPN
7 1 (0.75%) BGP
7 1 (0.75%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.75%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.75%) OSPF
7 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.27%) SQL Server
2 10 (7.52%) NoSQL
3 8 (6.02%) Power BI
4 6 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.76%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.01%) Redis
6 4 (3.01%) Tableau
7 3 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.26%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.26%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.50%) Cloud Spanner
8 2 (1.50%) Power Query
8 2 (1.50%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.75%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.75%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.75%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (11.28%) Jenkins
2 11 (8.27%) JIRA
3 10 (7.52%) Git
4 5 (3.76%) CircleCI
5 4 (3.01%) Mocha
6 3 (2.26%) Maven
6 3 (2.26%) Storybook
7 2 (1.50%) GitLab
7 2 (1.50%) Gradle
7 2 (1.50%) JMeter
7 2 (1.50%) JUnit
7 2 (1.50%) Log4j
7 2 (1.50%) Mockito
7 2 (1.50%) MSI
7 2 (1.50%) Selenium
7 2 (1.50%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.50%) Subversion
8 1 (0.75%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.75%) webpack
General
1 43 (32.33%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.80%) Public Sector
3 15 (11.28%) Finance
4 12 (9.02%) Banking
5 10 (7.52%) Legal
6 7 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.51%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.76%) Retail
9 3 (2.26%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.50%) Local Government
10 2 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (15.04%) Architect
1 20 (15.04%) Senior
2 14 (10.53%) Developer
3 12 (9.02%) Lead
3 12 (9.02%) Software Engineer
4 11 (8.27%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (7.52%) Analyst
6 9 (6.77%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (6.77%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (6.02%) .NET Software Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
8 7 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) NetBackup Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Security Architect
9 6 (4.51%) Data Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Tester
10 5 (3.76%) IT Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.76%) Support Analyst
11 4 (3.01%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.79%) React
2 16 (12.03%) .NET
3 14 (10.53%) RESTful
4 13 (9.77%) Node.js
5 9 (6.77%) CSS
5 9 (6.77%) HTML
6 8 (6.02%) OAuth
7 7 (5.26%) FHIR
7 7 (5.26%) JWT
8 6 (4.51%) AngularJS
8 6 (4.51%) Express.js
8 6 (4.51%) Jest
8 6 (4.51%) SAML
9 5 (3.76%) CSS3
9 5 (3.76%) HTML5
10 4 (3.01%) .NET Core
10 4 (3.01%) ARM Templates
10 4 (3.01%) Next.js
10 4 (3.01%) Spring
10 4 (3.01%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.29%) Cloud Native
2 16 (12.03%) NHS
3 8 (6.02%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.02%) Security Posture
4 6 (4.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.51%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.01%) Cloud Security Posture
5 4 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.26%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.26%) iPhone
6 3 (2.26%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.50%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.50%) Blockchain
7 2 (1.50%) CMDB
8 1 (0.75%) IoT
8 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.53%) Linux
1 14 (10.53%) Windows
2 5 (3.76%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.26%) Android
3 3 (2.26%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.75%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (30.83%) DevOps
2 38 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 32 (24.06%) Agile
4 26 (19.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (18.05%) Containerisation
6 22 (16.54%) Microservices
7 18 (13.53%) Cloud Security
8 16 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (12.03%) Software Engineering
8 16 (12.03%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (11.28%) Analytics
9 15 (11.28%) ITIL
10 14 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
10 14 (10.53%) Roadmaps
10 14 (10.53%) Translating Business Requirements
11 12 (9.02%) Clean Code
11 12 (9.02%) DevSecOps
11 12 (9.02%) Migration
11 12 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (9.02%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (24.81%) Python
2 25 (18.80%) SQL
3 19 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 18 (13.53%) JavaScript
5 17 (12.78%) C#
6 14 (10.53%) Bash
7 13 (9.77%) TypeScript
8 10 (7.52%) Java
9 7 (5.26%) Bicep
10 3 (2.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (2.26%) Rust
11 2 (1.50%) Solidity
12 1 (0.75%) Go
12 1 (0.75%) VB
12 1 (0.75%) VB6
Qualifications
1 15 (11.28%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.02%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.76%) AWS Certification
3 5 (3.76%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (3.76%) CISSP
4 4 (3.01%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.01%) Degree
5 3 (2.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (2.26%) CCSP
6 2 (1.50%) CCNA
6 2 (1.50%) CCSK
6 2 (1.50%) CEH
6 2 (1.50%) CISA
6 2 (1.50%) CISM
6 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.50%) OSCP
7 1 (0.75%) CSPO
7 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.75%) OCP
7 1 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.26%) GDPR
3 6 (4.51%) NIST
4 5 (3.76%) PCI DSS
5 4 (3.01%) Data Quality
5 4 (3.01%) HL7
5 4 (3.01%) QA
5 4 (3.01%) WCAG
6 3 (2.26%) NCSC
6 3 (2.26%) PSD2
7 2 (1.50%) COBIT
7 2 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.50%) GRC
7 2 (1.50%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.75%) PMO
8 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (24.06%) Docker
2 14 (10.53%) Active Directory
3 9 (6.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.50%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (27.07%) Terraform
2 23 (17.29%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.02%) Grafana
3 8 (6.02%) Prometheus
4 7 (5.26%) Ansible
4 7 (5.26%) NetBackup
4 7 (5.26%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.50%) SCCM
7 1 (0.75%) Istio
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle Identity Manager
7 1 (0.75%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.75%) Puppet
7 1 (0.75%) SCOM
Vendors
1 35 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 19 (14.29%) Google
3 11 (8.27%) Databricks
3 11 (8.27%) Oracle
4 10 (7.52%) VMware
5 8 (6.02%) CyberArk
6 7 (5.26%) HP
6 7 (5.26%) Splunk
6 7 (5.26%) Veritas
7 6 (4.51%) ServiceNow
8 5 (3.76%) Apple
8 5 (3.76%) Brio
8 5 (3.76%) MobileIron
9 4 (3.01%) Cisco
9 4 (3.01%) Dynatrace
9 4 (3.01%) Salesforce
10 3 (2.26%) SAP
11 2 (1.50%) CheckPoint
11 2 (1.50%) Citrix
11 2 (1.50%) Dell