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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 11 4
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 155 63 115
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 16.25% 12.50% 13.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.85% 27.51% 41.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 37 81
10th Percentile £313 £290 £400
25th Percentile £413 £373 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.84% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £600
90th Percentile £741 £630 £655
West Yorkshire median daily rate £489 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.89% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 - -

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 399 229 275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 41.82% 45.44% 33.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 145 204
10th Percentile £325 £311 £288
25th Percentile £413 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +2.63% -13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £594
90th Percentile £638 £650 £654
West Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +3.16% - -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 0
10th Percentile £17.05 £31.53 -
25th Percentile - £31.62 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.11 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% - -
75th Percentile £74.00 £66.51 -
90th Percentile £75.20 £85.74 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £32.96 £15.00
% change year-on-year +6.19% +119.73% -65.32%

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 18 June 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 14 (9.03%) SharePoint
2 9 (5.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (4.52%) Confluence
4 2 (1.29%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (1.29%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.65%) Apache
5 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.65%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.29%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (5.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.65%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 60 (38.71%) AWS
2 30 (19.35%) Power Platform
3 28 (18.06%) GitHub
3 28 (18.06%) GitHub Actions
4 26 (16.77%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (14.19%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (13.55%) Entra ID
7 20 (12.90%) PowerApps
8 17 (10.97%) GCP
8 17 (10.97%) Serverless
9 16 (10.32%) SaaS
10 15 (9.68%) Microsoft Copilot
10 15 (9.68%) PaaS
11 12 (7.74%) Power Automate
12 9 (5.81%) Azure Functions
12 9 (5.81%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (5.81%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (5.81%) Copilot Studio
13 8 (5.16%) Azure AKS
13 8 (5.16%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.52%) WAN
1 7 (4.52%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (3.87%) Firewall
3 5 (3.23%) IPsec
3 5 (3.23%) Kerberos
3 5 (3.23%) SSL
4 4 (2.58%) DNS
4 4 (2.58%) LAN
4 4 (2.58%) Network Security
4 4 (2.58%) Unified Communications
5 3 (1.94%) BGP
5 3 (1.94%) BIG-IP
5 3 (1.94%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (1.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (1.94%) OSPF
5 3 (1.94%) PSTN
5 3 (1.94%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.94%) VPN
5 3 (1.94%) VXLAN
5 3 (1.94%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.39%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.10%) Power BI
3 9 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.16%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (5.16%) Metadata
5 5 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.58%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.94%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.29%) Parquet
9 1 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.65%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 17 (10.97%) Jenkins
2 14 (9.03%) JIRA
3 10 (6.45%) Git
4 7 (4.52%) Gatling
5 6 (3.87%) GitLab
6 4 (2.58%) Artifactory
6 4 (2.58%) Maven
General
1 29 (18.71%) Social Skills
2 23 (14.84%) Finance
3 20 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.52%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (4.52%) Law
6 5 (3.23%) Social Science
7 4 (2.58%) Military
8 3 (1.94%) Banking
8 3 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.29%) Legal
9 2 (1.29%) Retail
10 1 (0.65%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.65%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 38 (24.52%) Senior
2 36 (23.23%) Architect
3 21 (13.55%) Developer
4 14 (9.03%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (8.39%) Analyst
6 11 (7.10%) Delivery Manager
6 11 (7.10%) Lead
7 10 (6.45%) Data Engineer
8 9 (5.81%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (5.16%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 8 (5.16%) Data Analyst
9 8 (5.16%) Data Architect
9 8 (5.16%) Senior Architect
9 8 (5.16%) Technical Architect
10 7 (4.52%) Data Modeller
10 7 (4.52%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.52%) Senior Manager
11 6 (3.87%) Microsoft 365 Architect
11 6 (3.87%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
11 6 (3.87%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.39%) REST
2 10 (6.45%) Web Services
3 9 (5.81%) .NET
3 9 (5.81%) Microsoft Graph
4 8 (5.16%) OAuth
4 8 (5.16%) OpenID
5 7 (4.52%) Playwright
5 7 (4.52%) SAML
6 6 (3.87%) OAuth2
7 5 (3.23%) PySpark
7 5 (3.23%) React
7 5 (3.23%) XACML
7 5 (3.23%) YAML
8 4 (2.58%) JSP
9 3 (1.94%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.94%) CSS
9 3 (1.94%) HTML
9 3 (1.94%) JSON
9 3 (1.94%) LDAP
9 3 (1.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.03%) Product Ownership
2 12 (7.74%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 6 (3.87%) NHS
4 4 (2.58%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.58%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.94%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.94%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.94%) IoT
5 3 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.94%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.29%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.29%) Replication
6 2 (1.29%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.29%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.65%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.10%) Windows
2 7 (4.52%) Linux
3 2 (1.29%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.65%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (42.58%) DevOps
2 61 (39.35%) CI/CD
3 56 (36.13%) Agile
4 37 (23.87%) Roadmaps
5 29 (18.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (14.84%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (12.90%) AI
7 20 (12.90%) Data Modelling
8 19 (12.26%) Identity Access Management
8 19 (12.26%) Migration
9 18 (11.61%) Analytics
9 18 (11.61%) Observability
10 16 (10.32%) Platform Engineering
10 16 (10.32%) Software Engineering
11 15 (9.68%) Data Governance
12 14 (9.03%) Data Architecture
12 14 (9.03%) Data Engineering
12 14 (9.03%) Enterprise Architecture
13 13 (8.39%) Cybersecurity
13 13 (8.39%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 31 (20.00%) Python
2 21 (13.55%) SQL
3 20 (12.90%) PowerShell
4 13 (8.39%) Java
5 11 (7.10%) C#
6 8 (5.16%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.52%) Scala
8 6 (3.87%) Bash
9 3 (1.94%) Bicep
9 3 (1.94%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.94%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.29%) PHP
11 1 (0.65%) ABAP
11 1 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.65%) Groovy
11 1 (0.65%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.19%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.94%) Degree
5 2 (1.29%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.29%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.29%) CISM
5 2 (1.29%) CISSP
5 2 (1.29%) CRISC
5 2 (1.29%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.29%) PMP
6 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.87%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.23%) GDPR
2 5 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 5 (3.23%) WCAG
3 3 (1.94%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.94%) NIST
3 3 (1.94%) QA
3 3 (1.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.29%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.29%) GRC
5 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.65%) HL7
5 1 (0.65%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.65%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (9.68%) Active Directory
2 13 (8.39%) Docker
3 5 (3.23%) RACF
3 5 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.65%) NFS
6 1 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 37 (23.87%) Terraform
2 18 (11.61%) Kubernetes
3 12 (7.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (6.45%) Jamf Pro
5 8 (5.16%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (4.52%) HAProxy
7 5 (3.23%) Ansible
8 3 (1.94%) Istio
9 1 (0.65%) Grafana
9 1 (0.65%) Podman
9 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.65%) SELinux
9 1 (0.65%) WSUS
Vendors
1 78 (50.32%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.39%) Google
3 10 (6.45%) Databricks
3 10 (6.45%) ServiceNow
4 8 (5.16%) Foundry
5 7 (4.52%) Oracle
6 4 (2.58%) Brio
6 4 (2.58%) Okta
6 4 (2.58%) SAP
7 3 (1.94%) Arista
7 3 (1.94%) Aruba
7 3 (1.94%) CyberArk
7 3 (1.94%) F5
7 3 (1.94%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.29%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.29%) IBM
8 2 (1.29%) Palantir
8 2 (1.29%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.29%) VMware
8 2 (1.29%) Workday