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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 11 5
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 167 78 118
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 15.46% 13.04% 16.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.78% 27.56% 38.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 47 88
10th Percentile £344 £340 £400
25th Percentile £405 £400 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £581 £544 £589
90th Percentile £700 £680 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -9.09%

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 442 283 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 40.93% 47.32% 42.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 185 227
10th Percentile £363 £335 £340
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £559
90th Percentile £644 £600 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £469
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £26.38 £37.07 -
25th Percentile - £45.03 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £62.40 -
Median % change year-on-year -43.91% - -
75th Percentile - £82.53 -
90th Percentile - £92.15 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £91.69 £27.50
% change year-on-year -61.83% +233.42% -

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 12 September 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 11 (6.59%) Confluence
2 10 (5.99%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.40%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (41.32%) AWS
2 38 (22.75%) Power Platform
3 37 (22.16%) GCP
4 33 (19.76%) GitHub
5 28 (16.77%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (16.17%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (12.57%) PowerApps
8 20 (11.98%) Microsoft Copilot
9 15 (8.98%) Entra ID
10 14 (8.38%) Copilot Studio
10 14 (8.38%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (6.59%) Azure AI
12 9 (5.39%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (5.39%) Power Automate
13 8 (4.79%) SaaS
13 8 (4.79%) Serverless
14 6 (3.59%) Azure Key Vault
15 5 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
15 5 (2.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 5 (2.99%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.19%) Firewall
2 5 (2.99%) WAN
2 5 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.40%) DNS
3 4 (2.40%) VPN
4 3 (1.80%) BGP
4 3 (1.80%) BIG-IP
4 3 (1.80%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (1.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (1.80%) OSPF
4 3 (1.80%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.80%) VXLAN
4 3 (1.80%) WLAN
5 2 (1.20%) LAN
5 2 (1.20%) Network Security
5 2 (1.20%) PSTN
5 2 (1.20%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.60%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (7.78%) SQL Server
2 12 (7.19%) Power BI
3 10 (5.99%) Metadata
4 7 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.40%) SAP HANA
5 4 (2.40%) Tableau
6 3 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.80%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.80%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.20%) Big Data
7 2 (1.20%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.20%) Parquet
7 2 (1.20%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.20%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.60%) MySQL
8 1 (0.60%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 23 (13.77%) JIRA
2 20 (11.98%) Jenkins
3 13 (7.78%) Git
4 8 (4.79%) Gatling
4 8 (4.79%) GitLab
5 4 (2.40%) Artifactory
5 4 (2.40%) JMeter
5 4 (2.40%) LoadRunner
5 4 (2.40%) Maven
5 4 (2.40%) Selenium
6 3 (1.80%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.80%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.20%) Postman
7 2 (1.20%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.60%) eggPlant
8 1 (0.60%) JUnit
8 1 (0.60%) MLflow
8 1 (0.60%) Mockito
8 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.60%) WebDriver
General
1 42 (25.15%) Social Skills
2 38 (22.75%) Finance
3 19 (11.38%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.99%) Banking
6 8 (4.79%) Law
7 7 (4.19%) Retail
8 6 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.59%) Social Science
8 6 (3.59%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.40%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.40%) Military
10 3 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.20%) Legal
11 2 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.60%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.60%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 34 (20.36%) Senior
2 33 (19.76%) Architect
3 16 (9.58%) Developer
4 14 (8.38%) Analyst
5 13 (7.78%) Delivery Manager
5 13 (7.78%) Lead
6 12 (7.19%) Data Engineer
6 12 (7.19%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (6.59%) Technical Architect
8 10 (5.99%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.79%) Agile Delivery Manager
10 7 (4.19%) Data Analyst
10 7 (4.19%) Data Architect
10 7 (4.19%) Data Modeller
10 7 (4.19%) Senior Manager
11 6 (3.59%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.59%) Microsoft 365 Architect
11 6 (3.59%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (26.95%) Terraform
2 12 (7.19%) REST
3 10 (5.99%) Playwright
4 9 (5.39%) Kafka
5 8 (4.79%) React
6 7 (4.19%) YAML
7 6 (3.59%) .NET
7 6 (3.59%) PySpark
8 5 (2.99%) SOAP
9 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Graph
9 4 (2.40%) Middleware
9 4 (2.40%) Node.js
9 4 (2.40%) RESTful
9 4 (2.40%) SAP Basis
9 4 (2.40%) SAP Fiori
9 4 (2.40%) SAPUI5
10 3 (1.80%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (1.80%) Jest
10 3 (1.80%) OAuth
10 3 (1.80%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.37%) Cloud Native
2 18 (10.78%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.99%) AI Agents
4 6 (3.59%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.59%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.99%) NHS
5 5 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.80%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.80%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.20%) IoT
7 2 (1.20%) Replication
8 1 (0.60%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.60%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.99%) Linux
2 7 (4.19%) Windows
3 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.60%) Unix
3 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (41.92%) CI/CD
2 65 (38.92%) DevOps
3 61 (36.53%) Agile
4 40 (23.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 39 (23.35%) AI
5 39 (23.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (21.56%) Roadmaps
7 27 (16.17%) Observability
8 23 (13.77%) Data Modelling
9 21 (12.57%) Data Engineering
9 21 (12.57%) Migration
10 20 (11.98%) Analytics
11 19 (11.38%) Software Engineering
12 18 (10.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 17 (10.18%) Sprint Planning
14 16 (9.58%) Test Automation
14 16 (9.58%) User Experience
15 15 (8.98%) Problem-Solving
15 15 (8.98%) Validation
16 14 (8.38%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 33 (19.76%) Python
2 17 (10.18%) PowerShell
3 14 (8.38%) Java
4 10 (5.99%) SQL
5 9 (5.39%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.19%) Bash
6 7 (4.19%) C#
6 7 (4.19%) Scala
7 6 (3.59%) Bicep
7 6 (3.59%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.40%) ABAP
9 2 (1.20%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.20%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 41 (24.55%) Security Cleared
2 32 (19.16%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.99%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.40%) Degree
6 2 (1.20%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.20%) CISM
6 2 (1.20%) CISSP
6 2 (1.20%) CRISC
6 2 (1.20%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.20%) PMP
7 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.59%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.79%) QA
3 7 (4.19%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.19%) GDPR
4 6 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 6 (3.59%) WCAG
5 5 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.40%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.80%) GxP
7 3 (1.80%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.20%) GRC
8 2 (1.20%) NIST
9 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 22 (13.17%) Docker
2 12 (7.19%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.99%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.60%) NFS
5 1 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (17.37%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.19%) Grafana
2 7 (4.19%) HAProxy
2 7 (4.19%) Jamf Pro
2 7 (4.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (2.99%) Ansible
4 3 (1.80%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.20%) Podman
6 1 (0.60%) SELinux
6 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (40.72%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.58%) Google
3 15 (8.98%) Foundry
4 13 (7.78%) Databricks
4 13 (7.78%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.79%) Dynatrace
5 8 (4.79%) SAP
6 7 (4.19%) Oracle
7 6 (3.59%) Splunk
8 5 (2.99%) IBM
9 4 (2.40%) New Relic
9 4 (2.40%) Palantir
9 4 (2.40%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.80%) Arista
10 3 (1.80%) Aruba
10 3 (1.80%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.80%) F5
10 3 (1.80%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.80%) Workday
11 2 (1.20%) Red Hat