Azure AI Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Azure AI Platform
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Azure AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AI 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.11% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £575 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Yorkshire

Azure AI 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 362 247 384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 40.09% 44.50% 32.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 161 268
10th Percentile £309 £263 £272
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £545 £567 £600
90th Percentile £629 £713 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +0.41% -3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 5
10th Percentile - £23.46 -
25th Percentile - £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £14.25 £32.81 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.57% +118.73% -70.00%
75th Percentile £74.00 £96.64 -
90th Percentile £75.20 £102.00 £43.20
Yorkshire median hourly rate £55.75 £32.81 £15.00
% change year-on-year +69.92% +118.73% -63.64%

Azure AI
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure AI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Azure AI job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Azure AI
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure AI within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds - 1 £575 - 1
Azure AI
Yorkshire

Azure AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Sharing
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI