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 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 4 7
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 88 117 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 14.17% 16.46% 14.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.83% 37.38% 43.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 87 118
10th Percentile £375 £400 £375
25th Percentile £403 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £555 £581 £614
90th Percentile £688 £652 £704
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 295 313 361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 47.50% 44.02% 33.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 229 274
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -2.38%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £600
90th Percentile £612 £650 £688
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £469 £513
% change year-on-year +6.67% -8.54% -

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 26 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 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.41%) Apache Spark
1 3 (3.41%) CMS
1 3 (3.41%) Confluence
1 3 (3.41%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.27%) Apache
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (3.41%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.14%) Magento
2 1 (1.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 47 (53.41%) AWS
2 34 (38.64%) GCP
3 17 (19.32%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (14.77%) Serverless
5 11 (12.50%) Power Platform
6 10 (11.36%) GitHub
7 8 (9.09%) PaaS
8 7 (7.95%) Azure Functions
8 7 (7.95%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (5.68%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (4.55%) PowerApps
11 3 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (3.41%) Azure AKS
11 3 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (3.41%) dbt
11 3 (3.41%) Entra ID
11 3 (3.41%) Figma
11 3 (3.41%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.77%) Firewall
2 3 (3.41%) Network Security
3 2 (2.27%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.14%) HTTP
4 1 (1.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 8 (9.09%) Power BI
3 7 (7.95%) Relational Database
4 6 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (6.82%) NoSQL
5 5 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (4.55%) MongoDB
6 4 (4.55%) MySQL
6 4 (4.55%) RDBMS
6 4 (4.55%) Tableau
7 3 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.41%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.27%) Bigtable
8 2 (2.27%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.27%) Power Query
9 1 (1.14%) SAP HANA
9 1 (1.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (15.91%) Git
2 12 (13.64%) Jenkins
3 8 (9.09%) JIRA
4 6 (6.82%) GitLab
4 6 (6.82%) SonarQube
5 5 (5.68%) CircleCI
6 4 (4.55%) Artifactory
6 4 (4.55%) Maven
6 4 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (3.41%) Storybook
8 2 (2.27%) Gradle
8 2 (2.27%) JUnit
8 2 (2.27%) Log4j
8 2 (2.27%) Mockito
8 2 (2.27%) Selenium
8 2 (2.27%) Subversion
9 1 (1.14%) JMeter
9 1 (1.14%) Postman
9 1 (1.14%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.14%) webpack
General
1 24 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.59%) Public Sector
3 11 (12.50%) Finance
4 8 (9.09%) Banking
5 7 (7.95%) Retail
6 5 (5.68%) Legal
7 4 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.41%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.27%) Local Government
10 1 (1.14%) Digital Health
10 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.14%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 19 (21.59%) Developer
2 13 (14.77%) Architect
3 10 (11.36%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (10.23%) Lead
4 9 (10.23%) Senior
5 8 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) .NET Software Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (7.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) NetBackup Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.68%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Data Architect
9 4 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Java Developer
10 3 (3.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 3 (3.41%) IT Director
10 3 (3.41%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.41%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.45%) .NET
2 11 (12.50%) RESTful
3 10 (11.36%) Node.js
4 9 (10.23%) React
5 5 (5.68%) CSS
5 5 (5.68%) HTML
6 4 (4.55%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.55%) FHIR
6 4 (4.55%) Kafka
6 4 (4.55%) Next.js
6 4 (4.55%) REST
7 3 (3.41%) .NET Core
7 3 (3.41%) Bootstrap
7 3 (3.41%) CSS3
7 3 (3.41%) Django
7 3 (3.41%) Express.js
7 3 (3.41%) HTML5
7 3 (3.41%) Redux
7 3 (3.41%) Spring
7 3 (3.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.77%) Cloud Native
2 11 (12.50%) NHS
3 5 (5.68%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.41%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.27%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.27%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.14%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.14%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.91%) Linux
2 4 (4.55%) Windows
3 3 (3.41%) Unix
4 1 (1.14%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (36.36%) DevOps
2 26 (29.55%) CI/CD
3 20 (22.73%) Agile
4 16 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 15 (17.05%) Microservices
6 14 (15.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
9 10 (11.36%) Analytics
9 10 (11.36%) Data Protection
9 10 (11.36%) Software Engineering
10 9 (10.23%) Cloud Security
10 9 (10.23%) Roadmaps
10 9 (10.23%) Security Monitoring
10 9 (10.23%) Test Automation
11 8 (9.09%) Business Strategy
11 8 (9.09%) Data Engineering
11 8 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (27.27%) Python
1 24 (27.27%) SQL
2 13 (14.77%) Bash
2 13 (14.77%) C#
3 12 (13.64%) Java
4 11 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 9 (10.23%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.55%) Bicep
7 3 (3.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (3.41%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.27%) ANSI SQL
8 2 (2.27%) Scala
8 2 (2.27%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.14%) Go
9 1 (1.14%) PHP
9 1 (1.14%) Rust
9 1 (1.14%) VB
9 1 (1.14%) VB6
Qualifications
1 11 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.23%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.27%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.14%) BC Cleared
4 1 (1.14%) CCNA
4 1 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.14%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.14%) OCP
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.41%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.41%) NCSC
1 3 (3.41%) QA
2 2 (2.27%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.27%) COBIT
2 2 (2.27%) GDPR
3 1 (1.14%) HL7
3 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.14%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (21.59%) Docker
2 7 (7.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.41%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.14%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (29.55%) Terraform
2 12 (13.64%) Kubernetes
3 8 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 7 (7.95%) NetBackup
4 7 (7.95%) Oracle RMAN
5 6 (6.82%) Grafana
6 4 (4.55%) Ansible
7 2 (2.27%) Control-M
7 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.27%) SCCM
8 1 (1.14%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 15 (17.05%) Google
3 10 (11.36%) Oracle
4 8 (9.09%) Databricks
4 8 (9.09%) VMware
5 7 (7.95%) CyberArk
5 7 (7.95%) Veritas
6 6 (6.82%) Salesforce
7 4 (4.55%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.41%) Brio
8 3 (3.41%) Cisco
8 3 (3.41%) Dynatrace
8 3 (3.41%) HP
9 2 (2.27%) CheckPoint
9 2 (2.27%) Citrix
9 2 (2.27%) Dell
9 2 (2.27%) F5
9 2 (2.27%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (2.27%) McAfee
9 2 (2.27%) SAP