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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 4
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 152 61 109
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 16.31% 13.17% 13.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.08% 29.90% 44.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 39 75
10th Percentile £313 £263 £374
25th Percentile £413 £325 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £515
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -12.62% -6.36%
75th Percentile £573 £524 £600
90th Percentile £700 £600 £661
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 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 - -

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 370 204 246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 39.70% 44.06% 31.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 134 179
10th Percentile £315 £276 £308
25th Percentile £400 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £600
90th Percentile £635 £646 £670
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile - £31.53 -
25th Percentile £14.25 £31.62 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.11 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% - -
75th Percentile £74.00 £66.51 -
90th Percentile £76.40 £85.74 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £32.96 £15.00
% change year-on-year -27.18% +119.73% -72.22%

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 May 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 (7.89%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (4.61%) Confluence
4 2 (1.32%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (1.32%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.66%) Apache
5 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.66%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.32%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.66%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 9 (5.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.66%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 60 (39.47%) AWS
2 26 (17.11%) GitHub
2 26 (17.11%) GitHub Actions
3 24 (15.79%) Power Platform
4 23 (15.13%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (13.82%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (13.16%) Entra ID
7 19 (12.50%) GCP
8 16 (10.53%) Serverless
9 15 (9.87%) PaaS
9 15 (9.87%) PowerApps
9 15 (9.87%) SaaS
10 10 (6.58%) Microsoft Copilot
10 10 (6.58%) Power Automate
11 9 (5.92%) Azure AKS
11 9 (5.92%) Azure Functions
12 8 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (5.26%) IaaS
13 7 (4.61%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (3.95%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.95%) Firewall
1 6 (3.95%) WAN
1 6 (3.95%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (3.29%) DNS
2 5 (3.29%) IPsec
2 5 (3.29%) Kerberos
2 5 (3.29%) SSL
3 4 (2.63%) LAN
3 4 (2.63%) Network Security
3 4 (2.63%) Unified Communications
4 3 (1.97%) PSTN
4 3 (1.97%) VPN
5 2 (1.32%) BGP
5 2 (1.32%) BIG-IP
5 2 (1.32%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (1.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (1.32%) OSPF
5 2 (1.32%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.32%) VXLAN
5 2 (1.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.89%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.92%) Power BI
4 8 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (4.61%) Metadata
6 5 (3.29%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.63%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.97%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.32%) Parquet
10 1 (0.66%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.66%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 18 (11.84%) Jenkins
2 14 (9.21%) JIRA
3 13 (8.55%) Git
4 7 (4.61%) Gatling
5 6 (3.95%) GitLab
6 4 (2.63%) Artifactory
6 4 (2.63%) Maven
7 1 (0.66%) CircleCI
General
1 28 (18.42%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.13%) Finance
3 19 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.63%) Banking
6 4 (2.63%) Law
7 3 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.97%) Military
8 2 (1.32%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.32%) Legal
8 2 (1.32%) Retail
8 2 (1.32%) Social Science
9 1 (0.66%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 37 (24.34%) Senior
2 34 (22.37%) Architect
3 21 (13.82%) Developer
4 13 (8.55%) Analyst
4 13 (8.55%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (7.89%) Lead
6 10 (6.58%) Delivery Manager
7 9 (5.92%) Data Engineer
7 9 (5.92%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (5.26%) Data Analyst
8 8 (5.26%) Senior Architect
8 8 (5.26%) Technical Architect
9 7 (4.61%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 7 (4.61%) Data Architect
9 7 (4.61%) Data Modeller
9 7 (4.61%) Senior Manager
10 6 (3.95%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (3.95%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
10 6 (3.95%) Senior Delivery Manager
10 6 (3.95%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.24%) .NET
1 11 (7.24%) REST
2 10 (6.58%) Web Services
3 8 (5.26%) Microsoft Graph
3 8 (5.26%) OAuth
3 8 (5.26%) OpenID
4 7 (4.61%) Playwright
4 7 (4.61%) React
4 7 (4.61%) SAML
5 6 (3.95%) OAuth2
6 5 (3.29%) XACML
7 4 (2.63%) JSP
7 4 (2.63%) PySpark
7 4 (2.63%) RESTful
7 4 (2.63%) YAML
8 3 (1.97%) CSS
8 3 (1.97%) FHIR
8 3 (1.97%) HTML
8 3 (1.97%) LDAP
8 3 (1.97%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.55%) Product Ownership
2 9 (5.92%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 6 (3.95%) NHS
4 4 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.97%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.97%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.97%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.97%) IoT
5 3 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.97%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.32%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.32%) Replication
6 2 (1.32%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.66%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.66%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.55%) Windows
2 8 (5.26%) Linux
3 2 (1.32%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.32%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.66%) Unix
4 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (40.79%) DevOps
2 57 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 55 (36.18%) Agile
4 34 (22.37%) Roadmaps
5 26 (17.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (13.82%) Data Modelling
7 20 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
8 19 (12.50%) Software Engineering
9 18 (11.84%) Analytics
9 18 (11.84%) Identity Access Management
9 18 (11.84%) Migration
10 16 (10.53%) AI
10 16 (10.53%) Observability
10 16 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
10 16 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (9.87%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (9.87%) Data Governance
12 14 (9.21%) Data Architecture
13 13 (8.55%) Data Engineering
13 13 (8.55%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 30 (19.74%) Python
2 24 (15.79%) SQL
3 20 (13.16%) PowerShell
4 14 (9.21%) Java
5 12 (7.89%) C#
6 8 (5.26%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.61%) Bash
7 7 (4.61%) Scala
8 3 (1.97%) Bicep
8 3 (1.97%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.97%) PHP
9 2 (1.32%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.66%) ABAP
10 1 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.66%) Go
10 1 (0.66%) Groovy
10 1 (0.66%) Ruby
10 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (17.76%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.47%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.97%) Degree
5 2 (1.32%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.32%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.32%) CISM
5 2 (1.32%) CISSP
5 2 (1.32%) CRISC
5 2 (1.32%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.32%) PMP
6 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.97%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.97%) GDPR
3 3 (1.97%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.97%) HL7
3 3 (1.97%) NIST
3 3 (1.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.97%) WCAG
4 2 (1.32%) GRC
4 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (1.32%) QA
5 1 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.66%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.66%) NCSC
5 1 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (11.18%) Docker
2 15 (9.87%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.29%) RACF
4 4 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.66%) NFS
7 1 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 34 (22.37%) Terraform
2 21 (13.82%) Kubernetes
3 12 (7.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (5.92%) Jamf Pro
5 8 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (4.61%) HAProxy
7 5 (3.29%) Ansible
8 3 (1.97%) Istio
9 2 (1.32%) Grafana
10 1 (0.66%) Podman
10 1 (0.66%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.66%) SELinux
10 1 (0.66%) WSUS
Vendors
1 75 (49.34%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.89%) Google
3 10 (6.58%) Databricks
3 10 (6.58%) ServiceNow
4 8 (5.26%) Oracle
5 5 (3.29%) Brio
5 5 (3.29%) Foundry
6 4 (2.63%) Okta
6 4 (2.63%) SAP
7 3 (1.97%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.32%) Arista
8 2 (1.32%) Aruba
8 2 (1.32%) F5
8 2 (1.32%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.32%) Nexthink
8 2 (1.32%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.32%) Palantir
8 2 (1.32%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.32%) Splunk
8 2 (1.32%) Workday