Azure Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 264 308 462
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 15.87% 16.59% 21.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 46.81% 48.13% 47.68%
Number of salaries quoted 210 224 381
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,225 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,500 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +0.32% -2.06%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -8.70%

All Cloud Skills
West Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 564 640 969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 33.89% 34.46% 45.97%
Number of salaries quoted 422 424 783
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,937 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% +2.50% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,313 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £49,250 £55,000 £53,250
% change year-on-year -10.45% +3.29% -3.18%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Azure job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Azure
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure in West Yorkshire

Azure
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds +1 222 £65,000 +17.72% 122
Batley - 15 £47,500 - 1
Bradford -10 11 £41,500 -40.71% 11
Sowerby Bridge - 5 - -
Wakefield -6 3 £67,500 +27.36% 7
Huddersfield -6 1 £52,500 +6.08% 9
Knottingley - 1 - -
Castleford - 1 - - 1
Mirfield - 1 £35,000 -
Pontefract - 1 - - 2
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
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 32 (12.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (5.30%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.65%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.65%) Confluence
4 3 (1.14%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.38%) Apache
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.38%) FileNet
Applications
1 8 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Markit EDM
1 2 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 122 (46.21%) AWS
2 58 (21.97%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (14.39%) GCP
4 32 (12.12%) SaaS
5 30 (11.36%) GitHub
6 29 (10.98%) Entra ID
7 27 (10.23%) Serverless
8 23 (8.71%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (5.30%) IaaS
9 14 (5.30%) PaaS
10 11 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (3.03%) Power Platform
12 6 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (2.27%) OCI
13 5 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.89%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.89%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 42 (15.91%) Firewall
2 33 (12.50%) DNS
2 33 (12.50%) VLAN
3 32 (12.12%) TCP/IP
4 31 (11.74%) DHCP
5 19 (7.20%) VPN
6 15 (5.68%) Internet
7 14 (5.30%) Network Security
8 13 (4.92%) SAN
8 13 (4.92%) VoIP
9 7 (2.65%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (2.27%) BGP
11 5 (1.89%) OSPF
12 2 (0.76%) Wireless
13 1 (0.38%) HTTP
13 1 (0.38%) Junos
13 1 (0.38%) LAN
13 1 (0.38%) WAN
13 1 (0.38%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (7.20%) MongoDB
3 18 (6.82%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.92%) Metadata
4 13 (4.92%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.03%) MySQL
6 6 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.27%) Power BI
7 5 (1.89%) Data Vault
7 5 (1.89%) Delta Lake
7 5 (1.89%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.89%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.76%) Big Data
9 2 (0.76%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.76%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.76%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 29 (10.98%) Git
2 15 (5.68%) JIRA
3 10 (3.79%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.65%) GitLab
5 2 (0.76%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.38%) Appium
6 1 (0.38%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.38%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.38%) Postman
6 1 (0.38%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.38%) Selenium
6 1 (0.38%) Snyk
6 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 94 (35.61%) Social Skills
2 17 (6.44%) Documentation Skills
2 17 (6.44%) Finance
2 17 (6.44%) Public Sector
3 16 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.68%) Multimedia
5 10 (3.79%) Retail
6 8 (3.03%) Legal
6 8 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.52%) Marketing
7 4 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.14%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.76%) Banking
9 2 (0.76%) Law
9 2 (0.76%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.38%) Billing
10 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (20.08%) Developer
2 47 (17.80%) Lead
3 45 (17.05%) Architect
4 33 (12.50%) Senior
5 24 (9.09%) IT Support
6 21 (7.95%) Software Developer
7 19 (7.20%) Data Engineer
8 18 (6.82%) Lead Developer
9 17 (6.44%) Support Technician
10 15 (5.68%) Trainee
11 13 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
11 13 (4.92%) Engineering Manager
12 11 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (4.17%) Lead DevOps
12 11 (4.17%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 11 (4.17%) Lead Software Developer
13 10 (3.79%) Data Architect
13 10 (3.79%) IT Engineer
13 10 (3.79%) IT Support Technician
13 10 (3.79%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (14.02%) .NET
2 20 (7.58%) CSS
2 20 (7.58%) HTML
3 18 (6.82%) React
4 16 (6.06%) RESTful
5 14 (5.30%) AngularJS
5 14 (5.30%) Node.js
6 10 (3.79%) .NET Core
7 9 (3.41%) PySpark
8 7 (2.65%) Blazor
9 6 (2.27%) GraphQL
9 6 (2.27%) Kafka
10 5 (1.89%) ASP.NET
10 5 (1.89%) Spring
10 5 (1.89%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.52%) Celery
11 4 (1.52%) Django
11 4 (1.52%) Flask
11 4 (1.52%) REST
11 4 (1.52%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.74%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.68%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (5.30%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.92%) Clustering
5 12 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (3.79%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.27%) FMCG
7 6 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.27%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.89%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.89%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.52%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.52%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (1.52%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.76%) IoT
11 2 (0.76%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 58 (21.97%) Windows
2 30 (11.36%) Windows Server
3 20 (7.58%) Linux
4 18 (6.82%) Windows 10
5 13 (4.92%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.76%) Check Point GAiA
6 2 (0.76%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.38%) Android
7 1 (0.38%) Unix
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (35.23%) Mentoring
2 65 (24.62%) CI/CD
2 65 (24.62%) DevOps
3 57 (21.59%) Agile
4 49 (18.56%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 39 (14.77%) Data Modelling
7 37 (14.02%) Microservices
8 30 (11.36%) Migration
8 30 (11.36%) Roadmaps
8 30 (11.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 29 (10.98%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (10.61%) Data Engineering
11 27 (10.23%) Cybersecurity
11 27 (10.23%) Data Pipeline
12 25 (9.47%) Software Engineering
13 23 (8.71%) Architectural Patterns
13 23 (8.71%) Data Governance
14 22 (8.33%) Analytics
14 22 (8.33%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (34.09%) Python
2 68 (25.76%) SQL
3 56 (21.21%) JavaScript
4 46 (17.42%) C#
5 33 (12.50%) Java
6 24 (9.09%) PowerShell
7 23 (8.71%) TypeScript
8 8 (3.03%) R
9 6 (2.27%) Bash
10 4 (1.52%) Scala
10 4 (1.52%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.76%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.76%) SOQL
12 1 (0.38%) Bicep
12 1 (0.38%) Go
12 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 49 (18.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 40 (15.15%) Degree
3 36 (13.64%) AWS Certification
4 34 (12.88%) Azure Certification
5 30 (11.36%) Security Cleared
6 29 (10.98%) SC Cleared
7 18 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (6.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 14 (5.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (5.30%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.52%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.76%) CCSA
11 2 (0.76%) CCSE
12 1 (0.38%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.38%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.38%) OSCE
12 1 (0.38%) OSCP
12 1 (0.38%) PMP
12 1 (0.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.92%) QA
2 5 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.52%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.14%) NIST
5 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.38%) GRC
5 1 (0.38%) PMO
5 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (15.15%) Active Directory
2 39 (14.77%) Hyper-V
3 30 (11.36%) Docker
4 22 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (13.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (10.98%) Kubernetes
2 29 (10.98%) Terraform
3 17 (6.44%) Ansible
4 11 (4.17%) Grafana
4 11 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.89%) SCCM
6 4 (1.52%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.38%) Kibana
7 1 (0.38%) Nmap
7 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 114 (43.18%) Microsoft
2 33 (12.50%) Databricks
3 25 (9.47%) VMware
4 14 (5.30%) Dell
5 13 (4.92%) HP
5 13 (4.92%) SonicWALL
5 13 (4.92%) Supermicro
6 6 (2.27%) Sophos
7 5 (1.89%) Google
7 5 (1.89%) Oracle
7 5 (1.89%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.52%) Adobe
8 4 (1.52%) Palantir
9 3 (1.14%) Citrix
9 3 (1.14%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.14%) Pega
9 3 (1.14%) SAP
9 3 (1.14%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.14%) WSO2
10 2 (0.76%) TIBCO