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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 80 119 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 13.47% 16.50% 14.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.37% 38.39% 43.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 89 122
10th Percentile £343 £400 £376
25th Percentile £396 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £541 £588 £614
90th Percentile £679 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

All Cloud 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 282 310 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 47.47% 43.00% 32.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 228 278
10th Percentile £325 £343 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £514
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.54% -1.20%
75th Percentile £539 £564 £600
90th Percentile £600 £650 £688
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% +0.98%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Azure 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 17 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.75%) Apache Spark
1 3 (3.75%) CMS
1 3 (3.75%) Confluence
2 2 (2.50%) Apache
2 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (3.75%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.25%) Magento
2 1 (1.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 41 (51.25%) AWS
2 30 (37.50%) GCP
3 15 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (16.25%) Serverless
5 12 (15.00%) Power Platform
6 7 (8.75%) Azure Functions
6 7 (8.75%) GitHub
6 7 (8.75%) PaaS
7 5 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.00%) PowerApps
9 3 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.75%) dbt
9 3 (3.75%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.75%) Figma
9 3 (3.75%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.75%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.00%) Firewall
2 2 (2.50%) Network Security
2 2 (2.50%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.25%) HTTP
3 1 (1.25%) SSL
3 1 (1.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.75%) SQL Server
2 9 (11.25%) Power BI
3 7 (8.75%) Relational Database
4 6 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (7.50%) NoSQL
5 5 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (6.25%) Tableau
6 4 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 4 (5.00%) MySQL
6 4 (5.00%) RDBMS
7 3 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.75%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.50%) Bigtable
8 2 (2.50%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.50%) Power Query
9 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.25%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 13 (16.25%) Git
2 9 (11.25%) Jenkins
3 8 (10.00%) JIRA
4 6 (7.50%) GitLab
4 6 (7.50%) SonarQube
5 4 (5.00%) Artifactory
5 4 (5.00%) Maven
5 4 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (3.75%) Storybook
7 2 (2.50%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.50%) Gradle
7 2 (2.50%) JUnit
7 2 (2.50%) Log4j
7 2 (2.50%) Mockito
7 2 (2.50%) Selenium
7 2 (2.50%) Subversion
8 1 (1.25%) JMeter
8 1 (1.25%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.25%) webpack
General
1 23 (28.75%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 11 (13.75%) Finance
4 8 (10.00%) Banking
5 7 (8.75%) Retail
6 5 (6.25%) Legal
7 4 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Digital Health
9 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.25%) Local Government
9 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.25%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 18 (22.50%) Developer
2 11 (13.75%) Architect
3 8 (10.00%) Lead
3 8 (10.00%) Senior
3 8 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 7 (8.75%) .NET Software Engineer
4 7 (8.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (8.75%) NetBackup Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Analyst
6 4 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Data Architect
6 4 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Java Developer
6 4 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.75%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 3 (3.75%) Senior Developer
7 3 (3.75%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (21.25%) .NET
2 10 (12.50%) Node.js
2 10 (12.50%) RESTful
3 9 (11.25%) React
4 5 (6.25%) CSS
4 5 (6.25%) HTML
5 4 (5.00%) AngularJS
5 4 (5.00%) Kafka
5 4 (5.00%) Next.js
6 3 (3.75%) .NET Core
6 3 (3.75%) Bootstrap
6 3 (3.75%) CSS3
6 3 (3.75%) Express.js
6 3 (3.75%) FHIR
6 3 (3.75%) HTML5
6 3 (3.75%) Redux
6 3 (3.75%) REST
6 3 (3.75%) Spring
6 3 (3.75%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.25%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.75%) NHS
3 4 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.75%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.50%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.50%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.25%) CCTV
6 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.25%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.25%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (13.75%) Linux
2 6 (7.50%) Windows
3 3 (3.75%) Unix
4 2 (2.50%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.25%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (33.75%) DevOps
2 22 (27.50%) CI/CD
3 16 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 14 (17.50%) Agile
5 12 (15.00%) Microservices
5 12 (15.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 11 (13.75%) Analytics
7 10 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (12.50%) Software Engineering
8 9 (11.25%) Data Protection
8 9 (11.25%) Security Monitoring
9 8 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (10.00%) Business Strategy
9 8 (10.00%) Data Governance
9 8 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (10.00%) Test Automation
10 7 (8.75%) Clean Code
10 7 (8.75%) RBAC
10 7 (8.75%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (32.50%) SQL
2 22 (27.50%) Python
3 13 (16.25%) C#
4 12 (15.00%) Java
5 11 (13.75%) Bash
5 11 (13.75%) JavaScript
6 10 (12.50%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.75%) Bicep
7 3 (3.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.50%) ANSI SQL
8 2 (2.50%) Scala
8 2 (2.50%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.50%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.25%) Go
9 1 (1.25%) PHP
9 1 (1.25%) R
9 1 (1.25%) Rust
9 1 (1.25%) VB
9 1 (1.25%) VB6
Qualifications
1 11 (13.75%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.25%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.25%) BC Cleared
4 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.25%) Degree
4 1 (1.25%) OCP
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.75%) NCSC
2 3 (3.75%) QA
3 2 (2.50%) COBIT
3 2 (2.50%) GDPR
4 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.25%) HL7
4 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.25%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (22.50%) Docker
2 7 (8.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.75%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (27.50%) Terraform
2 8 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.75%) NetBackup
3 7 (8.75%) Oracle RMAN
4 4 (5.00%) Ansible
4 4 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.75%) Grafana
6 2 (2.50%) Control-M
7 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.25%) Puppet
7 1 (1.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (28.75%) Microsoft
2 15 (18.75%) Google
3 10 (12.50%) Oracle
4 8 (10.00%) Databricks
5 7 (8.75%) CyberArk
5 7 (8.75%) Veritas
5 7 (8.75%) VMware
6 6 (7.50%) Salesforce
7 3 (3.75%) Brio
7 3 (3.75%) Dynatrace
7 3 (3.75%) HP
8 2 (2.50%) CheckPoint
8 2 (2.50%) Cisco
8 2 (2.50%) Citrix
8 2 (2.50%) Dell
8 2 (2.50%) F5
8 2 (2.50%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (2.50%) McAfee
8 2 (2.50%) SAP
8 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow