Azure Certification Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure Certification
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 53 86
Rank change year-on-year -24 +33 +29
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 2 18 6
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.24% 2.26% 0.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.90% 9.68% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 16 6
10th Percentile - £384 £388
25th Percentile - £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -14.29% +17.98%
75th Percentile - £525 £600
90th Percentile - £556 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £575 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +27.78% -14.29% +31.25%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Yorkshire

Azure Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 222 186 234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 26.81% 23.34% 17.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 139 177
10th Percentile £350 £288 £340
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £613
90th Percentile £675 £600 £708
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 3
10th Percentile - £23.95 £27.42
25th Percentile - £36.25 £28.39
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% -
75th Percentile - £42.50 £30.04
90th Percentile - £50.75 £30.06
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% +33.33% +60.00%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Azure Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Azure Certification

Azure Certification
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 Certification within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 October 2025. 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 -27 1 £575 +27.78% 14
Bradford - 1 - - 5
Azure Certification
Yorkshire

Azure Certification
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Gradle
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Log4j
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Mockito
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Celery
2 1 (50.00%) Django
2 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (50.00%) Flask
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) gRPC
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (50.00%) PowerMock
2 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Spring WebFlux
2 1 (50.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Cache
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Memory Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes