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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 136 87 128
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 17.44% 18.95% 14.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.09% 41.04% 43.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 58 80
10th Percentile £290 £311 £349
25th Percentile £389 £389 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £554 £550 £600
90th Percentile £648 £574 £700
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 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 331 212 296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 42.44% 46.19% 33.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 138 209
10th Percentile £311 £263 £275
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -1.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £621 £725 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 1
10th Percentile - £28.86 -
25th Percentile - £33.73 -
Median hourly rate £14.25 £65.71 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.31% +5.98% -7.46%
75th Percentile £74.00 £100.66 -
90th Percentile £75.20 £102.00 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.25 £32.81 £15.00
% change year-on-year -56.57% +118.73% -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 7 March 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 (8.82%) Confluence
1 12 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (6.62%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.94%) Apache
3 4 (2.94%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.47%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.74%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.74%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (3.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.74%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (44.85%) AWS
2 39 (28.68%) GCP
3 22 (16.18%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (16.18%) GitHub
3 22 (16.18%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (13.97%) Entra ID
4 19 (13.97%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (12.50%) PaaS
6 16 (11.76%) Serverless
7 14 (10.29%) SaaS
8 12 (8.82%) Azure AKS
9 10 (7.35%) IaaS
10 8 (5.88%) Azure Functions
10 8 (5.88%) Azure Storage
11 7 (5.15%) Power Platform
12 6 (4.41%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (3.68%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (3.68%) PowerApps
14 4 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (2.94%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.35%) Firewall
2 7 (5.15%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (4.41%) LAN
3 6 (4.41%) Network Security
3 6 (4.41%) WAN
4 5 (3.68%) DNS
4 5 (3.68%) IPsec
4 5 (3.68%) Kerberos
4 5 (3.68%) SSL
5 4 (2.94%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.94%) VoIP
6 3 (2.21%) DHCP
7 2 (1.47%) Unified Communications
7 2 (1.47%) VLAN
8 1 (0.74%) BGP
8 1 (0.74%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.74%) OSPF
8 1 (0.74%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.74%) VPN
8 1 (0.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.35%) NoSQL
2 5 (3.68%) Power BI
3 4 (2.94%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.94%) Redis
4 3 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.21%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.47%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.47%) Cloud Spanner
5 2 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.47%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.47%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.47%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.74%) Big Data
6 1 (0.74%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.74%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.74%) Metadata
6 1 (0.74%) Parquet
6 1 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.74%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 13 (9.56%) JIRA
3 11 (8.09%) Git
4 4 (2.94%) CircleCI
4 4 (2.94%) Mocha
5 2 (1.47%) GitLab
5 2 (1.47%) Gradle
5 2 (1.47%) JUnit
5 2 (1.47%) Log4j
5 2 (1.47%) Maven
5 2 (1.47%) Mockito
5 2 (1.47%) MSI
5 2 (1.47%) Subversion
6 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.74%) JMeter
6 1 (0.74%) Postman
6 1 (0.74%) Selenium
6 1 (0.74%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.74%) Vite
6 1 (0.74%) webpack
General
1 37 (27.21%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.12%) Public Sector
3 14 (10.29%) Finance
4 8 (5.88%) Banking
5 7 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.41%) Legal
7 5 (3.68%) Health Technology
8 4 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Law
9 1 (0.74%) Local Government
9 1 (0.74%) Military
9 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Retail
9 1 (0.74%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (22.79%) Senior
2 28 (20.59%) Architect
3 17 (12.50%) Developer
4 11 (8.09%) Analyst
5 10 (7.35%) Senior Architect
5 10 (7.35%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (6.62%) Lead
6 9 (6.62%) Software Engineer
7 7 (5.15%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (4.41%) Senior Technical Architect
8 6 (4.41%) Technical Architect
8 6 (4.41%) Tester
9 5 (3.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 5 (3.68%) Data Engineer
9 5 (3.68%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (3.68%) Security Architect
9 5 (3.68%) Support Analyst
10 4 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (2.94%) IT Engineer
10 4 (2.94%) Security Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.50%) React
2 13 (9.56%) OAuth
2 13 (9.56%) RESTful
3 12 (8.82%) .NET
4 11 (8.09%) SAML
4 11 (8.09%) Web Services
5 10 (7.35%) Node.js
5 10 (7.35%) REST
6 9 (6.62%) CSS
6 9 (6.62%) HTML
7 8 (5.88%) FHIR
8 6 (4.41%) Jest
8 6 (4.41%) JWT
8 6 (4.41%) OAuth2
8 6 (4.41%) OpenID
9 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (3.68%) XACML
10 4 (2.94%) Kafka
10 4 (2.94%) SOAP
10 4 (2.94%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.29%) NHS
3 10 (7.35%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.88%) Security Posture
5 6 (4.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 6 (4.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (4.41%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.94%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.21%) iPhone
7 3 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.21%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.47%) Blockchain
8 2 (1.47%) CMDB
8 2 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.47%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.47%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.47%) IoT
8 2 (1.47%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.24%) Windows
2 7 (5.15%) Linux
3 4 (2.94%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.21%) Android
4 3 (2.21%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.47%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 50 (36.76%) DevOps
3 42 (30.88%) Agile
4 28 (20.59%) Microservices
5 23 (16.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (16.18%) Roadmaps
7 18 (13.24%) Containerisation
7 18 (13.24%) Cybersecurity
8 17 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (11.76%) Software Engineering
9 16 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
10 15 (11.03%) Cloud Security
11 13 (9.56%) Analytics
11 13 (9.56%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 13 (9.56%) Migration
12 12 (8.82%) Clean Code
12 12 (8.82%) ITIL
12 12 (8.82%) Mentoring
12 12 (8.82%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (22.79%) Python
2 27 (19.85%) SQL
3 19 (13.97%) JavaScript
3 19 (13.97%) PowerShell
4 13 (9.56%) C#
5 12 (8.82%) TypeScript
6 10 (7.35%) Bash
7 9 (6.62%) Java
8 4 (2.94%) Bicep
9 3 (2.21%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (2.21%) PHP
10 2 (1.47%) Rust
10 2 (1.47%) Solidity
11 1 (0.74%) ABAP
11 1 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.74%) Go
11 1 (0.74%) Groovy
11 1 (0.74%) Ruby
11 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.68%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (3.68%) CISSP
4 4 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.94%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.94%) Degree
5 3 (2.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (2.21%) CCSP
6 2 (1.47%) CCNA
6 2 (1.47%) CCSK
6 2 (1.47%) CEH
6 2 (1.47%) CISA
6 2 (1.47%) CISM
6 2 (1.47%) OSCP
7 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.74%) CSPO
7 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.41%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.41%) GDPR
2 6 (4.41%) HL7
2 6 (4.41%) NIST
3 5 (3.68%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.94%) QA
4 4 (2.94%) WCAG
5 3 (2.21%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.21%) PSD2
6 2 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.47%) GRC
6 2 (1.47%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.74%) COBIT
7 1 (0.74%) NCSC
7 1 (0.74%) PMO
7 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (16.91%) Docker
2 16 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.68%) RACF
4 4 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.74%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (17.65%) Kubernetes
1 24 (17.65%) Terraform
2 10 (7.35%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (4.41%) Grafana
5 5 (3.68%) Ansible
6 4 (2.94%) Istio
6 4 (2.94%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.21%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.47%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.47%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.74%) Oracle Identity Manager
9 1 (0.74%) SCCM
9 1 (0.74%) SCOM
Vendors
1 42 (30.88%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.09%) Google
3 8 (5.88%) Splunk
4 7 (5.15%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.41%) Brio
5 6 (4.41%) HP
6 5 (3.68%) Apple
6 5 (3.68%) Databricks
6 5 (3.68%) MobileIron
6 5 (3.68%) Oracle
6 5 (3.68%) VMware
7 3 (2.21%) CyberArk
7 3 (2.21%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.21%) SAP
8 2 (1.47%) Cisco
8 2 (1.47%) IBM
8 2 (1.47%) Nexthink
8 2 (1.47%) Okta
8 2 (1.47%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.47%) Veritas