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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 5 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 131 98 134
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 17.82% 17.75% 15.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.12% 37.40% 45.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 68 89
10th Percentile £290 £361 £385
25th Percentile £400 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -12.73% -
75th Percentile £540 £564 £600
90th Percentile £648 £656 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -
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 311 262 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 42.31% 47.46% 34.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 179 225
10th Percentile £350 £346 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £540 £567 £600
90th Percentile £620 £713 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -5.88%
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% +24.00%
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 16 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 10 (7.63%) Confluence
2 7 (5.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.82%) Apache
3 5 (3.82%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.05%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.29%) CMS
6 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 7 (5.34%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.76%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.29%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 62 (47.33%) AWS
2 48 (36.64%) GCP
3 21 (16.03%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (13.74%) GitHub
5 15 (11.45%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (11.45%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (10.69%) Serverless
7 12 (9.16%) Entra ID
8 9 (6.87%) Azure AKS
8 9 (6.87%) PaaS
8 9 (6.87%) Power Platform
9 7 (5.34%) Azure Functions
10 6 (4.58%) Azure Storage
10 6 (4.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (3.82%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (3.82%) SaaS
12 4 (3.05%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (3.05%) Power Automate
12 4 (3.05%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (12.21%) Firewall
2 8 (6.11%) Network Security
3 5 (3.82%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (3.05%) DNS
4 4 (3.05%) LAN
4 4 (3.05%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.05%) WAN
5 3 (2.29%) DHCP
5 3 (2.29%) VoIP
6 2 (1.53%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.53%) VLAN
7 1 (0.76%) BGP
7 1 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.76%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.76%) IPsec
7 1 (0.76%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.76%) OSPF
7 1 (0.76%) SSL
7 1 (0.76%) VPN
7 1 (0.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.63%) NoSQL
1 10 (7.63%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.11%) Power BI
3 5 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.82%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.05%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.05%) Redis
4 4 (3.05%) Tableau
5 3 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.29%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.53%) Cloud Spanner
6 2 (1.53%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.53%) Power Query
6 2 (1.53%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.76%) Big Data
7 1 (0.76%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.76%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (13.74%) Jenkins
2 12 (9.16%) Git
3 11 (8.40%) JIRA
4 6 (4.58%) CircleCI
5 4 (3.05%) Mocha
6 3 (2.29%) GitLab
6 3 (2.29%) Maven
6 3 (2.29%) Storybook
7 2 (1.53%) Gradle
7 2 (1.53%) JUnit
7 2 (1.53%) Log4j
7 2 (1.53%) Mockito
7 2 (1.53%) MSI
7 2 (1.53%) Subversion
8 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.76%) JMeter
8 1 (0.76%) Selenium
8 1 (0.76%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.76%) webpack
General
1 41 (31.30%) Social Skills
2 28 (21.37%) Public Sector
3 18 (13.74%) Finance
4 12 (9.16%) Banking
5 8 (6.11%) Legal
6 7 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.82%) Health Technology
7 5 (3.82%) Retail
8 4 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.53%) Local Government
9 2 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.76%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Law
10 1 (0.76%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (18.32%) Senior
2 20 (15.27%) Architect
3 17 (12.98%) Developer
4 12 (9.16%) Lead
5 10 (7.63%) Analyst
5 10 (7.63%) Software Engineer
6 9 (6.87%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.11%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (5.34%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (5.34%) Data Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) .NET Software Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (4.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) NetBackup Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) Security Architect
9 6 (4.58%) Tester
10 5 (3.82%) IT Engineer
10 5 (3.82%) Senior Architect
10 5 (3.82%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.82%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (16.79%) React
2 16 (12.21%) RESTful
3 15 (11.45%) .NET
4 13 (9.92%) Node.js
5 12 (9.16%) CSS
5 12 (9.16%) HTML
6 9 (6.87%) FHIR
6 9 (6.87%) OAuth
7 7 (5.34%) JWT
7 7 (5.34%) SAML
8 6 (4.58%) AngularJS
8 6 (4.58%) Express.js
8 6 (4.58%) Jest
9 5 (3.82%) CSS3
9 5 (3.82%) HTML5
10 4 (3.05%) .NET Core
10 4 (3.05%) Kafka
10 4 (3.05%) REST
10 4 (3.05%) Spring
10 4 (3.05%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.03%) Cloud Native
2 16 (12.21%) NHS
3 7 (5.34%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.34%) Public Cloud
3 7 (5.34%) Security Posture
4 6 (4.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.05%) Cloud Security Posture
5 4 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.29%) iPhone
6 3 (2.29%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.53%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.53%) Blockchain
7 2 (1.53%) CMDB
7 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.53%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.21%) Windows
2 14 (10.69%) Linux
3 4 (3.05%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.29%) Android
4 3 (2.29%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.53%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.53%) Unix
6 1 (0.76%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (32.82%) CI/CD
2 41 (31.30%) DevOps
3 32 (24.43%) Agile
4 27 (20.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (19.08%) Containerisation
6 23 (17.56%) Microservices
7 18 (13.74%) Roadmaps
8 17 (12.98%) Cloud Security
8 17 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (11.45%) Clean Code
11 14 (10.69%) Disaster Recovery
11 14 (10.69%) ITIL
11 14 (10.69%) Software Engineering
12 13 (9.92%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (9.16%) Analytics
13 12 (9.16%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (9.16%) Migration
13 12 (9.16%) Test Automation
13 12 (9.16%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 34 (25.95%) Python
2 28 (21.37%) SQL
3 21 (16.03%) JavaScript
4 17 (12.98%) PowerShell
5 14 (10.69%) Bash
5 14 (10.69%) C#
6 12 (9.16%) TypeScript
7 11 (8.40%) Java
8 6 (4.58%) Bicep
9 3 (2.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (2.29%) PHP
9 3 (2.29%) Rust
10 2 (1.53%) Go
10 2 (1.53%) Solidity
11 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (9.92%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.63%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.82%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (3.82%) CISSP
4 4 (3.05%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.05%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.05%) Degree
5 3 (2.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (2.29%) CCSP
6 2 (1.53%) CCNA
6 2 (1.53%) CCSK
6 2 (1.53%) CEH
6 2 (1.53%) CISA
6 2 (1.53%) CISM
6 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.53%) OSCP
7 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.76%) CSPO
7 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.58%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.58%) GDPR
2 6 (4.58%) HL7
3 5 (3.82%) NIST
3 5 (3.82%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.82%) QA
4 4 (3.05%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.05%) WCAG
5 3 (2.29%) PSD2
6 2 (1.53%) COBIT
6 2 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.53%) GRC
6 2 (1.53%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.76%) PMO
7 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (24.43%) Docker
2 15 (11.45%) Active Directory
3 8 (6.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.76%) RACF
4 1 (0.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (23.66%) Terraform
2 26 (19.85%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.87%) Grafana
4 7 (5.34%) Ansible
4 7 (5.34%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.58%) NetBackup
5 6 (4.58%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (3.05%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.29%) Istio
8 1 (0.76%) Oracle Identity Manager
8 1 (0.76%) SCCM
8 1 (0.76%) SCOM
Vendors
1 37 (28.24%) Microsoft
2 18 (13.74%) Google
3 11 (8.40%) Oracle
4 9 (6.87%) Databricks
4 9 (6.87%) VMware
5 8 (6.11%) Splunk
6 7 (5.34%) CyberArk
6 7 (5.34%) HP
7 6 (4.58%) ServiceNow
7 6 (4.58%) Veritas
8 5 (3.82%) Apple
8 5 (3.82%) MobileIron
9 4 (3.05%) Brio
9 4 (3.05%) Cisco
9 4 (3.05%) Salesforce
10 3 (2.29%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.53%) Citrix
11 2 (1.53%) Dell
11 2 (1.53%) F5
11 2 (1.53%) SAP