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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 8 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 140 67 111
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 16.36% 15.12% 13.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.89% 34.01% 44.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 45 71
10th Percentile £290 £263 £338
25th Percentile £400 £325 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year +12.94% -12.82% -11.36%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £591
90th Percentile £636 £550 £669
West Yorkshire median daily rate £484 £425 £489
% change year-on-year +13.82% -13.04% -11.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £80.00 - -

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 360 197 252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 42.06% 44.47% 31.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 134 175
10th Percentile £313 £263 £275
25th Percentile £413 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -11.36%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £591
90th Percentile £600 £725 £669
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 0
10th Percentile - £31.64 -
25th Percentile - £36.13 -
Median hourly rate £14.25 £90.42 -
Median % change year-on-year -84.24% - -
75th Percentile £74.00 £100.28 -
90th Percentile £75.80 £102.00 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.25 £65.71 £15.00
% change year-on-year -78.31% +338.05% -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 16 April 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 (7.86%) Confluence
2 9 (6.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (6.43%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.14%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.43%) Apache
4 2 (1.43%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.71%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.71%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 11 (7.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.71%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (41.43%) AWS
2 28 (20.00%) GCP
3 22 (15.71%) GitHub
4 21 (15.00%) Entra ID
4 21 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
4 21 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (12.86%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (12.14%) Power Platform
6 17 (12.14%) Serverless
7 16 (11.43%) PaaS
8 14 (10.00%) SaaS
9 12 (8.57%) PowerApps
10 11 (7.86%) Azure AKS
11 10 (7.14%) Azure Storage
12 9 (6.43%) Azure Functions
12 9 (6.43%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (5.71%) IaaS
14 7 (5.00%) Power Automate
15 6 (4.29%) Azure Data Factory
16 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.00%) LAN
1 7 (5.00%) WAN
2 6 (4.29%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (3.57%) DNS
3 5 (3.57%) IPsec
3 5 (3.57%) Kerberos
3 5 (3.57%) SSL
4 4 (2.86%) Firewall
4 4 (2.86%) Network Security
4 4 (2.86%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.86%) Unified Communications
4 4 (2.86%) VoIP
5 3 (2.14%) DHCP
5 3 (2.14%) PSTN
6 1 (0.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.71%) Power BI
3 7 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (3.57%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.86%) Metadata
7 3 (2.14%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.43%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.43%) Cloud Spanner
8 2 (1.43%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.71%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.71%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 21 (15.00%) Jenkins
2 17 (12.14%) JIRA
3 12 (8.57%) Git
4 6 (4.29%) Gatling
5 3 (2.14%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.14%) Maven
6 2 (1.43%) GitLab
6 2 (1.43%) MSI
7 1 (0.71%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.71%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.71%) Vite
7 1 (0.71%) webpack
General
1 32 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 25 (17.86%) Public Sector
3 14 (10.00%) Finance
4 9 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.29%) Legal
6 5 (3.57%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.14%) Law
7 3 (2.14%) Military
8 2 (1.43%) Banking
8 2 (1.43%) Retail
8 2 (1.43%) Social Science
9 1 (0.71%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (20.71%) Senior
2 26 (18.57%) Architect
3 16 (11.43%) Developer
4 13 (9.29%) Analyst
5 11 (7.86%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (5.71%) Lead
6 8 (5.71%) Senior Architect
6 8 (5.71%) Software Engineer
6 8 (5.71%) Technical Architect
7 7 (5.00%) Data Engineer
8 6 (4.29%) Data Analyst
8 6 (4.29%) Senior Manager
8 6 (4.29%) Senior Technical Architect
8 6 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.57%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 5 (3.57%) Data Modeller
9 5 (3.57%) Delivery Manager
9 5 (3.57%) IT Support
9 5 (3.57%) Support Engineer
9 5 (3.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.00%) OAuth
2 12 (8.57%) .NET
2 12 (8.57%) SAML
3 11 (7.86%) React
4 10 (7.14%) REST
5 9 (6.43%) Web Services
6 8 (5.71%) RESTful
7 7 (5.00%) FHIR
7 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Graph
7 7 (5.00%) OAuth2
7 7 (5.00%) OpenID
8 6 (4.29%) JWT
8 6 (4.29%) Playwright
9 5 (3.57%) XACML
10 4 (2.86%) AngularJS
10 4 (2.86%) CSS
10 4 (2.86%) HTML
10 4 (2.86%) LDAP
10 4 (2.86%) Node.js
11 3 (2.14%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.71%) Cloud Native
1 15 (10.71%) Product Ownership
2 12 (8.57%) NHS
3 9 (6.43%) Security Posture
4 6 (4.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (2.86%) Cloud Security Posture
5 4 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.14%) IoT
6 3 (2.14%) iPhone
6 3 (2.14%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.43%) Blockchain
7 2 (1.43%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.43%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.43%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.43%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.86%) Windows
2 7 (5.00%) Linux
3 5 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.14%) Android
4 3 (2.14%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.43%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.71%) Unix
6 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (40.71%) CI/CD
2 56 (40.00%) DevOps
3 48 (34.29%) Agile
4 29 (20.71%) Roadmaps
5 25 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
7 19 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (12.86%) Platform Engineering
8 18 (12.86%) Software Engineering
9 17 (12.14%) Analytics
10 16 (11.43%) Microservices
11 15 (10.71%) Data Modelling
11 15 (10.71%) Identity Access Management
11 15 (10.71%) Migration
12 14 (10.00%) AI
12 14 (10.00%) Containerisation
12 14 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (9.29%) Collaborative Working
13 13 (9.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 13 (9.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (23.57%) Python
2 22 (15.71%) SQL
3 20 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 16 (11.43%) JavaScript
5 14 (10.00%) C#
6 13 (9.29%) Java
7 7 (5.00%) Bash
8 6 (4.29%) Scala
8 6 (4.29%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.14%) Bicep
9 3 (2.14%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (2.14%) PHP
10 2 (1.43%) Rust
10 2 (1.43%) Solidity
11 1 (0.71%) ABAP
11 1 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.71%) Go
11 1 (0.71%) Groovy
11 1 (0.71%) Ruby
11 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 21 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.57%) CISSP
4 5 (3.57%) Degree
5 3 (2.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (2.14%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.14%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.14%) CCSP
5 3 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.43%) CCSK
6 2 (1.43%) CEH
6 2 (1.43%) CISA
6 2 (1.43%) CISM
6 2 (1.43%) OSCP
7 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.71%) CSPO
7 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.29%) GDPR
2 6 (4.29%) HL7
2 6 (4.29%) NIST
3 5 (3.57%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (2.14%) HIPAA
5 3 (2.14%) PSD2
5 3 (2.14%) QA
6 2 (1.43%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (1.43%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.71%) NCSC
7 1 (0.71%) PMO
7 1 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (17.14%) Docker
2 17 (12.14%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.57%) RACF
4 2 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (18.57%) Terraform
2 25 (17.86%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (4.29%) HAProxy
6 5 (3.57%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (2.86%) Grafana
7 4 (2.86%) Istio
8 3 (2.14%) Ansible
9 1 (0.71%) Oracle Identity Manager
9 1 (0.71%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.71%) WSUS
Vendors
1 65 (46.43%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.57%) Google
3 9 (6.43%) Splunk
4 8 (5.71%) Brio
4 8 (5.71%) ServiceNow
5 7 (5.00%) Oracle
6 4 (2.86%) CyberArk
6 4 (2.86%) SAP
7 3 (2.14%) Databricks
7 3 (2.14%) Foundry
8 2 (1.43%) Apple
8 2 (1.43%) Cribl.io
8 2 (1.43%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.43%) HP
8 2 (1.43%) IBM
8 2 (1.43%) MobileIron
8 2 (1.43%) Nexthink
8 2 (1.43%) Okta
8 2 (1.43%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.71%) Centrify