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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 4
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 142 60 109
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 15.35% 12.74% 13.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.90% 28.71% 44.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 38 73
10th Percentile £313 £263 £351
25th Percentile £424 £325 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.72% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £508 £595
90th Percentile £711 £565 £660
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 365 209 243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 39.46% 44.37% 30.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 136 174
10th Percentile £314 £263 £300
25th Percentile £409 £375 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £599
90th Percentile £630 £638 £673
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 0
10th Percentile - £31.59 -
25th Percentile £14.25 £31.76 -
Median hourly rate £24.63 £91.69 -
Median % change year-on-year -73.14% - -
75th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 -
90th Percentile £75.80 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £62.40 £15.00
% change year-on-year -61.54% +316.00% -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 22 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 (8.45%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (4.23%) Confluence
4 2 (1.41%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.70%) Apache
5 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.70%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.41%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.70%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 9 (6.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.70%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 57 (40.14%) AWS
2 22 (15.49%) Power Platform
3 21 (14.79%) GitHub
3 21 (14.79%) GitHub Actions
4 20 (14.08%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (13.38%) Entra ID
5 19 (13.38%) GCP
6 17 (11.97%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (11.97%) Serverless
7 15 (10.56%) PaaS
7 15 (10.56%) PowerApps
8 13 (9.15%) SaaS
9 10 (7.04%) Azure AKS
9 10 (7.04%) Azure Functions
9 10 (7.04%) Microsoft Copilot
9 10 (7.04%) Power Automate
10 8 (5.63%) IaaS
11 6 (4.23%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (4.23%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.52%) DNS
1 5 (3.52%) Firewall
1 5 (3.52%) IPsec
1 5 (3.52%) Kerberos
1 5 (3.52%) SSL
1 5 (3.52%) WAN
1 5 (3.52%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (2.82%) LAN
2 4 (2.82%) Network Security
2 4 (2.82%) Unified Communications
3 3 (2.11%) PSTN
3 3 (2.11%) VPN
4 1 (0.70%) BGP
4 1 (0.70%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (0.70%) Internet
4 1 (0.70%) OSPF
4 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.70%) VoIP
4 1 (0.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.75%) SQL Server
2 10 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (5.63%) Power BI
4 7 (4.93%) Metadata
5 5 (3.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.82%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.41%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.70%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.70%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 18 (12.68%) Jenkins
2 13 (9.15%) Git
2 13 (9.15%) JIRA
3 7 (4.93%) Gatling
4 4 (2.82%) Artifactory
4 4 (2.82%) Maven
5 3 (2.11%) GitLab
6 1 (0.70%) CircleCI
General
1 27 (19.01%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.49%) Finance
3 18 (12.68%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.82%) Banking
6 4 (2.82%) Law
7 3 (2.11%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.11%) Military
8 2 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.41%) Legal
8 2 (1.41%) Retail
8 2 (1.41%) Social Science
9 1 (0.70%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 33 (23.24%) Architect
2 32 (22.54%) Senior
3 21 (14.79%) Developer
4 12 (8.45%) Analyst
4 12 (8.45%) Lead
4 12 (8.45%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (7.04%) Delivery Manager
6 9 (6.34%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (5.63%) Data Analyst
7 8 (5.63%) Senior Architect
7 8 (5.63%) Technical Architect
8 7 (4.93%) Agile Delivery Manager
8 7 (4.93%) Data Architect
8 7 (4.93%) Data Modeller
8 7 (4.93%) Senior Manager
9 6 (4.23%) Data Engineer
9 6 (4.23%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
9 6 (4.23%) Senior Delivery Manager
9 6 (4.23%) Senior Technical Architect
9 6 (4.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.45%) .NET
2 11 (7.75%) REST
3 10 (7.04%) Web Services
4 8 (5.63%) Microsoft Graph
4 8 (5.63%) React
5 7 (4.93%) OAuth
5 7 (4.93%) OpenID
5 7 (4.93%) Playwright
6 6 (4.23%) OAuth2
6 6 (4.23%) SAML
7 5 (3.52%) RESTful
7 5 (3.52%) XACML
8 4 (2.82%) FHIR
8 4 (2.82%) JSP
8 4 (2.82%) YAML
9 3 (2.11%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.11%) CSS
9 3 (2.11%) Flask
9 3 (2.11%) HTML
9 3 (2.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.15%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.63%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.93%) NHS
4 6 (4.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (2.11%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.11%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.11%) IoT
5 3 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.11%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.41%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.41%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.41%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.41%) Replication
6 2 (1.41%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.41%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.70%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.70%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.70%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.15%) Windows
2 8 (5.63%) Linux
3 2 (1.41%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.70%) Unix
4 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (38.73%) Agile
1 55 (38.73%) DevOps
2 52 (36.62%) CI/CD
3 31 (21.83%) Roadmaps
4 21 (14.79%) Data Modelling
4 21 (14.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (13.38%) Software Engineering
6 18 (12.68%) Identity Access Management
6 18 (12.68%) Migration
6 18 (12.68%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (11.97%) Analytics
7 17 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (11.27%) AI
8 16 (11.27%) Platform Engineering
9 14 (9.86%) Cybersecurity
9 14 (9.86%) Data Architecture
9 14 (9.86%) Observability
10 13 (9.15%) Microservices
11 12 (8.45%) Collaborative Working
11 12 (8.45%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (19.01%) Python
2 22 (15.49%) SQL
3 19 (13.38%) PowerShell
4 14 (9.86%) Java
5 13 (9.15%) C#
6 8 (5.63%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.93%) Bash
7 7 (4.93%) Scala
8 3 (2.11%) Bicep
8 3 (2.11%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (2.11%) PHP
8 3 (2.11%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.70%) ABAP
9 1 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.70%) Go
9 1 (0.70%) Groovy
9 1 (0.70%) Ruby
9 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (18.31%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.49%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.11%) Degree
5 2 (1.41%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.41%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.41%) CISM
5 2 (1.41%) CISSP
5 2 (1.41%) CRISC
5 2 (1.41%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.41%) PMP
6 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.82%) HL7
1 4 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.11%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.11%) HIPAA
2 3 (2.11%) NIST
2 3 (2.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.41%) GRC
3 2 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.70%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.70%) NCSC
4 1 (0.70%) QA
4 1 (0.70%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (12.68%) Docker
2 14 (9.86%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.52%) RACF
4 4 (2.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.70%) NFS
7 1 (0.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 28 (19.72%) Terraform
2 21 (14.79%) Kubernetes
3 12 (8.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (6.34%) Jamf Pro
5 7 (4.93%) HAProxy
5 7 (4.93%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.82%) Ansible
7 3 (2.11%) Istio
8 2 (1.41%) Grafana
9 1 (0.70%) Podman
9 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.70%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.70%) SELinux
9 1 (0.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 74 (52.11%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.45%) Google
3 10 (7.04%) ServiceNow
4 8 (5.63%) Databricks
4 8 (5.63%) Oracle
5 6 (4.23%) Brio
6 4 (2.82%) Okta
7 3 (2.11%) CyberArk
7 3 (2.11%) Foundry
7 3 (2.11%) SAP
8 2 (1.41%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.41%) IBM
8 2 (1.41%) Nexthink
8 2 (1.41%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.41%) Splunk
8 2 (1.41%) VMware
9 1 (0.70%) Arista
9 1 (0.70%) Aruba
9 1 (0.70%) Centrify
9 1 (0.70%) F5