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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 5 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 130 95 136
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 17.81% 17.12% 15.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.53% 36.12% 44.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 67 89
10th Percentile £290 £360 £385
25th Percentile £400 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -10.91% -
75th Percentile £545 £567 £600
90th Percentile £646 £670 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £62.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £80.00 - £62.00
% change year-on-year - - +90.77%

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 313 263 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 42.88% 47.39% 34.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 177 230
10th Percentile £350 £342 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £540 £567 £600
90th Percentile £617 £713 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 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% +65.33%
75th Percentile £21.50 £102.00 -
90th Percentile £49.25 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.25 £41.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -65.24% -33.87% +148.00%

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 11 January 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 9 (6.92%) Confluence
2 7 (5.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.85%) Apache
3 5 (3.85%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.08%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.31%) CMS
6 1 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 7 (5.38%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.77%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.31%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 64 (49.23%) AWS
2 46 (35.38%) GCP
3 21 (16.15%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (13.08%) GitHub
5 15 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (11.54%) Serverless
6 14 (10.77%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (9.23%) Entra ID
8 10 (7.69%) PaaS
9 9 (6.92%) Power Platform
10 8 (6.15%) Azure Functions
11 7 (5.38%) Azure AKS
12 6 (4.62%) Azure Storage
13 5 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (3.85%) SaaS
14 4 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (3.08%) Figma
14 4 (3.08%) Power Automate
14 4 (3.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (12.31%) Firewall
2 6 (4.62%) Network Security
3 5 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (3.08%) DNS
4 4 (3.08%) LAN
4 4 (3.08%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.08%) WAN
5 3 (2.31%) DHCP
5 3 (2.31%) VoIP
6 2 (1.54%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.54%) VLAN
7 1 (0.77%) BGP
7 1 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.77%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.77%) IPsec
7 1 (0.77%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.77%) OSPF
7 1 (0.77%) SSL
7 1 (0.77%) VPN
7 1 (0.77%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.46%) NoSQL
2 10 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 8 (6.15%) Power BI
4 5 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.85%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.08%) Redis
5 4 (3.08%) Tableau
6 3 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.31%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.31%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.54%) Cloud Spanner
7 2 (1.54%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.54%) Power Query
7 2 (1.54%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.77%) Big Data
8 1 (0.77%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.77%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (12.31%) Jenkins
2 12 (9.23%) Git
3 10 (7.69%) JIRA
4 6 (4.62%) CircleCI
5 4 (3.08%) Mocha
6 3 (2.31%) GitLab
6 3 (2.31%) Maven
6 3 (2.31%) Storybook
7 2 (1.54%) Gradle
7 2 (1.54%) JUnit
7 2 (1.54%) Log4j
7 2 (1.54%) Mockito
7 2 (1.54%) MSI
7 2 (1.54%) Subversion
8 1 (0.77%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.77%) JMeter
8 1 (0.77%) Selenium
8 1 (0.77%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.77%) webpack
General
1 42 (32.31%) Social Skills
2 28 (21.54%) Public Sector
3 18 (13.85%) Finance
4 12 (9.23%) Banking
5 8 (6.15%) Legal
6 7 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.85%) Health Technology
7 5 (3.85%) Retail
8 4 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.54%) Local Government
9 2 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.77%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.77%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.77%) Law
10 1 (0.77%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (17.69%) Senior
2 17 (13.08%) Architect
2 17 (13.08%) Developer
3 12 (9.23%) Lead
3 12 (9.23%) Software Engineer
4 10 (7.69%) Analyst
4 10 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (6.92%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (5.38%) .NET Software Engineer
6 7 (5.38%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (5.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.62%) Data Engineer
7 6 (4.62%) NetBackup Engineer
7 6 (4.62%) Security Architect
7 6 (4.62%) Tester
8 5 (3.85%) IT Engineer
8 5 (3.85%) Senior Developer
8 5 (3.85%) Support Analyst
9 4 (3.08%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (17.69%) React
2 16 (12.31%) RESTful
3 15 (11.54%) .NET
4 13 (10.00%) Node.js
5 12 (9.23%) CSS
5 12 (9.23%) HTML
6 9 (6.92%) FHIR
6 9 (6.92%) OAuth
7 7 (5.38%) AngularJS
7 7 (5.38%) JWT
7 7 (5.38%) SAML
8 6 (4.62%) Express.js
8 6 (4.62%) Jest
9 5 (3.85%) .NET Core
9 5 (3.85%) CSS3
9 5 (3.85%) HTML5
10 4 (3.08%) ARM Templates
10 4 (3.08%) Kafka
10 4 (3.08%) Spring
10 4 (3.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 16 (12.31%) NHS
3 7 (5.38%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.38%) Security Posture
4 6 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.62%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.08%) Cloud Security Posture
5 4 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.31%) iPhone
6 3 (2.31%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.54%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.54%) Blockchain
7 2 (1.54%) CMDB
7 2 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.54%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.54%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.31%) Windows
2 14 (10.77%) Linux
3 4 (3.08%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.31%) Android
4 3 (2.31%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.54%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.54%) Unix
6 1 (0.77%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (31.54%) DevOps
2 40 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 32 (24.62%) Agile
4 26 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 26 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (17.69%) Microservices
6 18 (13.85%) Roadmaps
7 17 (13.08%) Cloud Security
7 17 (13.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (11.54%) Clean Code
9 15 (11.54%) Software Engineering
10 14 (10.77%) Disaster Recovery
10 14 (10.77%) ITIL
11 13 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (9.23%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (9.23%) DevSecOps
12 12 (9.23%) Test Automation
12 12 (9.23%) Translating Business Requirements
13 11 (8.46%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 33 (25.38%) Python
2 28 (21.54%) SQL
3 21 (16.15%) JavaScript
4 17 (13.08%) PowerShell
5 15 (11.54%) C#
6 14 (10.77%) Bash
6 14 (10.77%) TypeScript
7 11 (8.46%) Java
8 7 (5.38%) Bicep
9 3 (2.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (2.31%) PHP
9 3 (2.31%) Rust
10 2 (1.54%) Go
10 2 (1.54%) Solidity
11 1 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (3.85%) CISSP
4 4 (3.08%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.08%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.08%) Degree
5 3 (2.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (2.31%) CCSP
6 2 (1.54%) CCNA
6 2 (1.54%) CCSK
6 2 (1.54%) CEH
6 2 (1.54%) CISA
6 2 (1.54%) CISM
6 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.54%) OSCP
7 1 (0.77%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.77%) OCP
7 1 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.62%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.62%) GDPR
2 6 (4.62%) HL7
3 5 (3.85%) NIST
3 5 (3.85%) PCI DSS
4 4 (3.08%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.08%) QA
4 4 (3.08%) WCAG
5 3 (2.31%) PSD2
6 2 (1.54%) COBIT
6 2 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.54%) GRC
6 2 (1.54%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.77%) PMO
7 1 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.77%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (25.38%) Docker
2 15 (11.54%) Active Directory
3 8 (6.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.77%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.77%) RACF
4 1 (0.77%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (24.62%) Terraform
2 25 (19.23%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.92%) Grafana
4 7 (5.38%) Ansible
4 7 (5.38%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.62%) NetBackup
5 6 (4.62%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.77%) Istio
7 1 (0.77%) Oracle Identity Manager
7 1 (0.77%) SCCM
7 1 (0.77%) SCOM
Vendors
1 36 (27.69%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.31%) Google
3 11 (8.46%) Oracle
4 9 (6.92%) VMware
5 8 (6.15%) Databricks
5 8 (6.15%) Splunk
6 7 (5.38%) CyberArk
6 7 (5.38%) HP
7 6 (4.62%) ServiceNow
7 6 (4.62%) Veritas
8 5 (3.85%) Apple
8 5 (3.85%) MobileIron
9 4 (3.08%) Brio
9 4 (3.08%) Cisco
9 4 (3.08%) Salesforce
10 3 (2.31%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.54%) Cribl.io
11 2 (1.54%) McAfee
11 2 (1.54%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.54%) SAP