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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 171 78 112
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 16.12% 13.22% 14.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.78% 28.16% 38.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 48 82
10th Percentile £349 £325 £378
25th Percentile £410 £377 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £518 £595
90th Percentile £695 £623 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.00% -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 441 277 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 41.56% 46.95% 39.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 186 213
10th Percentile £363 £350 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -11.90%
75th Percentile £572 £550 £550
90th Percentile £640 £600 £655
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% -11.90%
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 -
% change year-on-year -61.83% - -

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 27 August 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 13 (7.60%) SharePoint
2 11 (6.43%) Confluence
3 7 (4.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.34%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.58%) CMS
5 1 (0.58%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (4.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.58%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 70 (40.94%) AWS
2 39 (22.81%) Power Platform
3 36 (21.05%) GCP
4 34 (19.88%) GitHub
5 29 (16.96%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (12.87%) PowerApps
8 20 (11.70%) Microsoft Copilot
9 18 (10.53%) Entra ID
10 17 (9.94%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (8.19%) Copilot Studio
12 11 (6.43%) Azure AI
13 10 (5.85%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (5.85%) Power Automate
13 10 (5.85%) SaaS
14 9 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
15 8 (4.68%) PaaS
15 8 (4.68%) Serverless
16 5 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
16 5 (2.92%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.92%) Firewall
1 5 (2.92%) WAN
1 5 (2.92%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (2.34%) DNS
2 4 (2.34%) VPN
3 3 (1.75%) BGP
3 3 (1.75%) BIG-IP
3 3 (1.75%) Ethernet VPN
3 3 (1.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (1.75%) OSPF
3 3 (1.75%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.75%) VXLAN
3 3 (1.75%) WLAN
4 2 (1.17%) LAN
4 2 (1.17%) Network Security
4 2 (1.17%) PSTN
4 2 (1.17%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.58%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.60%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (7.60%) SQL Server
2 12 (7.02%) Power BI
3 10 (5.85%) Metadata
4 7 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.92%) SAP HANA
6 4 (2.34%) Tableau
7 3 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.75%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.17%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.17%) Parquet
8 2 (1.17%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.17%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.58%) Big Data
9 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.58%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.58%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.58%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 23 (13.45%) JIRA
2 20 (11.70%) Jenkins
3 13 (7.60%) Git
4 8 (4.68%) Gatling
5 6 (3.51%) GitLab
6 4 (2.34%) Artifactory
6 4 (2.34%) JMeter
6 4 (2.34%) LoadRunner
6 4 (2.34%) Maven
6 4 (2.34%) Selenium
7 3 (1.75%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.75%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.17%) Postman
8 2 (1.17%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.58%) eggPlant
9 1 (0.58%) JUnit
9 1 (0.58%) Mockito
9 1 (0.58%) WebDriver
General
1 43 (25.15%) Social Skills
2 37 (21.64%) Finance
3 20 (11.70%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.85%) Banking
6 8 (4.68%) Law
7 7 (4.09%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.51%) Social Science
8 6 (3.51%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.92%) Retail
10 4 (2.34%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.34%) Military
11 3 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.17%) Legal
12 2 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.58%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.58%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 34 (19.88%) Senior
2 33 (19.30%) Architect
3 21 (12.28%) Developer
4 15 (8.77%) Lead
5 14 (8.19%) Analyst
6 13 (7.60%) Delivery Manager
7 12 (7.02%) Data Engineer
7 12 (7.02%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (5.26%) Technical Architect
9 8 (4.68%) Agile Delivery Manager
10 7 (4.09%) Data Analyst
10 7 (4.09%) Data Architect
10 7 (4.09%) Data Modeller
10 7 (4.09%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.09%) Senior Manager
11 6 (3.51%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.51%) Consultant
11 6 (3.51%) Microsoft 365 Architect
11 6 (3.51%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.51%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (23.98%) Terraform
2 14 (8.19%) REST
3 10 (5.85%) .NET
3 10 (5.85%) Playwright
4 9 (5.26%) Kafka
5 8 (4.68%) React
6 7 (4.09%) Microsoft Graph
7 6 (3.51%) PySpark
7 6 (3.51%) SOAP
7 6 (3.51%) YAML
8 5 (2.92%) Middleware
8 5 (2.92%) SAP Fiori
8 5 (2.92%) SAPUI5
9 4 (2.34%) Node.js
9 4 (2.34%) RESTful
9 4 (2.34%) SAP Basis
9 4 (2.34%) Web Services
10 3 (1.75%) .NET Framework
10 3 (1.75%) OAuth
10 3 (1.75%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.87%) Cloud Native
2 19 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.26%) AI Agents
4 6 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.92%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.92%) NHS
5 5 (2.92%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.92%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.75%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.75%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.17%) IoT
8 2 (1.17%) Replication
8 2 (1.17%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.58%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.58%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.68%) Linux
2 7 (4.09%) Windows
3 2 (1.17%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (39.18%) CI/CD
2 66 (38.60%) DevOps
3 64 (37.43%) Agile
4 41 (23.98%) Stakeholder Management
5 36 (21.05%) AI
5 36 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (21.05%) Roadmaps
6 24 (14.04%) Observability
7 21 (12.28%) Analytics
7 21 (12.28%) Data Modelling
7 21 (12.28%) Migration
8 20 (11.70%) Data Engineering
9 19 (11.11%) Software Engineering
10 18 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 17 (9.94%) Sprint Planning
12 16 (9.36%) User Experience
13 14 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (8.19%) Data Governance
13 14 (8.19%) Identity Access Management
13 14 (8.19%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 31 (18.13%) Python
2 19 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 15 (8.77%) Java
4 11 (6.43%) C#
4 11 (6.43%) SQL
5 10 (5.85%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.09%) Scala
7 6 (3.51%) Bash
7 6 (3.51%) Bicep
7 6 (3.51%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.92%) ABAP
9 3 (1.75%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.17%) Groovy
11 1 (0.58%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 44 (25.73%) Security Cleared
2 34 (19.88%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.34%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.34%) Degree
5 2 (1.17%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.17%) CISM
5 2 (1.17%) CISSP
5 2 (1.17%) CRISC
5 2 (1.17%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.17%) PMP
6 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.58%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.85%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.09%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.09%) QA
3 6 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 6 (3.51%) WCAG
4 5 (2.92%) GDPR
4 5 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.34%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.75%) GxP
6 3 (1.75%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.75%) NIST
6 3 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.17%) GRC
8 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.58%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.58%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (12.87%) Docker
2 12 (7.02%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.92%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.58%) NFS
5 1 (0.58%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 27 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.09%) HAProxy
2 7 (4.09%) Jamf Pro
2 7 (4.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (2.92%) Ansible
3 5 (2.92%) Grafana
4 2 (1.17%) Podman
5 1 (0.58%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.58%) SELinux
5 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.58%) WSUS
Vendors
1 70 (40.94%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.77%) Foundry
2 15 (8.77%) Google
3 12 (7.02%) Databricks
3 12 (7.02%) ServiceNow
4 9 (5.26%) SAP
5 7 (4.09%) Oracle
6 6 (3.51%) Dynatrace
6 6 (3.51%) IBM
7 5 (2.92%) Splunk
8 4 (2.34%) New Relic
8 4 (2.34%) Palantir
9 3 (1.75%) Arista
9 3 (1.75%) Aruba
9 3 (1.75%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.75%) F5
9 3 (1.75%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.75%) Workday
10 2 (1.17%) ForgeRock
10 2 (1.17%) Okta