Azure Job Trends in Leeds

Microsoft Azure
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 2 4
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 250 186 303
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 8.13% 20.51% 17.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.66% 55.19% 47.94%
Number of salaries quoted 172 153 238
10th Percentile £40,375 £31,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £55,430
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +17.27% +0.78%
75th Percentile £90,000 £72,500 £69,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £84,125
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 701 337 632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 22.80% 37.16% 36.22%
Number of salaries quoted 499 272 479
10th Percentile £37,350 £31,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +2.56% +1.74%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Leeds

Azure
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in Leeds over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in Leeds

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 11 (4.40%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.20%) IIS
3 5 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.20%) CMS
4 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.80%) Apache
5 2 (0.80%) Confluence
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.40%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 13 (5.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.20%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.20%) Shopify
3 2 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.40%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 60 (24.00%) AWS
2 43 (17.20%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (14.80%) GCP
4 34 (13.60%) Power Platform
5 23 (9.20%) Entra ID
6 20 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (7.60%) Azure AI
8 15 (6.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (5.60%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (4.40%) Microsoft Copilot
11 10 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 10 (4.00%) SaaS
12 9 (3.60%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (3.60%) PaaS
12 9 (3.60%) Power Automate
13 7 (2.80%) Azure Databricks
13 7 (2.80%) GitHub
13 7 (2.80%) PowerApps
14 6 (2.40%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.00%) LAN
2 14 (5.60%) WAN
3 9 (3.60%) DHCP
3 9 (3.60%) DNS
4 8 (3.20%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.80%) Firewall
5 7 (2.80%) VPN
6 6 (2.40%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (2.00%) NAS
7 5 (2.00%) SAN
7 5 (2.00%) VLAN
8 3 (1.20%) HTTP
8 3 (1.20%) Wireless
9 2 (0.80%) BGP
9 2 (0.80%) Network Security
9 2 (0.80%) OSPF
9 2 (0.80%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.40%) Power BI
2 17 (6.80%) SQL Server
3 15 (6.00%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (4.80%) Metadata
5 11 (4.40%) BigQuery
6 9 (3.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (3.60%) Tableau
7 6 (2.40%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (2.40%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.00%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.60%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.60%) MySQL
9 4 (1.60%) Spark SQL
10 3 (1.20%) Redis
11 2 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.80%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.80%) Semantic Layer
12 1 (0.40%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 13 (5.20%) Git
2 8 (3.20%) GitLab
3 7 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.20%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.80%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.80%) ERwin
5 2 (0.80%) JIRA
5 2 (0.80%) MLflow
General
1 70 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 59 (23.60%) Finance
3 22 (8.80%) Public Sector
4 20 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.00%) Legal
6 9 (3.60%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.40%) Retail
8 5 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.60%) Agriculture
9 4 (1.60%) Automotive
10 3 (1.20%) Law
11 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 56 (22.40%) Lead
2 49 (19.60%) Architect
3 43 (17.20%) Senior
4 28 (11.20%) Solutions Architect
5 27 (10.80%) Azure Engineer
6 20 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (7.20%) Analyst
7 18 (7.20%) Lead Architect
7 18 (7.20%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 17 (6.80%) Data Engineer
9 16 (6.40%) Junior
9 16 (6.40%) Junior Analyst
10 15 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
10 15 (6.00%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (5.60%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 14 (5.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 14 (5.60%) Developer
11 14 (5.60%) Software Engineer
12 10 (4.00%) Account Manager
13 9 (3.60%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.80%) Terraform
2 16 (6.40%) React
3 14 (5.60%) .NET
4 12 (4.80%) Node.js
5 10 (4.00%) AngularJS
6 8 (3.20%) Middleware
6 8 (3.20%) RESTful
7 7 (2.80%) Vue
8 6 (2.40%) PySpark
8 6 (2.40%) REST
8 6 (2.40%) XML
9 5 (2.00%) Web Services
9 5 (2.00%) XBRL
10 4 (1.60%) CSS
10 4 (1.60%) HTML
10 4 (1.60%) JSON
11 3 (1.20%) ASP.NET
11 3 (1.20%) Entity Framework
11 3 (1.20%) Playwright
11 3 (1.20%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.20%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (3.20%) Cyberattack
3 7 (2.80%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.40%) AI Agents
4 6 (2.40%) Low-Code
5 5 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.60%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.20%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.20%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.20%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.20%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.00%) Windows
2 10 (4.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.00%) Linux
3 5 (2.00%) Unix
3 5 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (24.80%) Mentoring
2 51 (20.40%) Agile
3 50 (20.00%) AI
4 42 (16.80%) CI/CD
5 41 (16.40%) DevOps
6 39 (15.60%) Technical Leadership
7 38 (15.20%) Cybersecurity
8 31 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (11.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 27 (10.80%) Business Intelligence
10 27 (10.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 27 (10.80%) Software Engineering
11 26 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (10.00%) Coaching
12 25 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 24 (9.60%) Decision-Making
13 24 (9.60%) Migration
13 24 (9.60%) Roadmaps
14 21 (8.40%) Analytics
15 19 (7.60%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 59 (23.60%) SQL
2 48 (19.20%) Python
3 25 (10.00%) C#
4 23 (9.20%) JavaScript
5 18 (7.20%) Java
6 16 (6.40%) TypeScript
7 14 (5.60%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.80%) Scala
9 5 (2.00%) Bicep
9 5 (2.00%) PHP
10 3 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.20%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.80%) Bash
11 2 (0.80%) Go
11 2 (0.80%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.40%) C++
12 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 41 (16.40%) Azure Certification
2 14 (5.60%) CompTIA CySA+
2 14 (5.60%) CompTIA Security+
3 11 (4.40%) Degree
4 9 (3.60%) Security Cleared
5 8 (3.20%) CEH
5 8 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.80%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.40%) CCNA
7 6 (2.40%) Network+ Certification
8 5 (2.00%) SAP Certification
9 4 (1.60%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.80%) SSCP
12 1 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.40%) CISM
12 1 (0.40%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.20%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 10 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 8 (3.20%) GDPR
4 5 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.60%) QA
5 4 (1.60%) SLA
6 3 (1.20%) PMO
7 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.80%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.40%) HL7
8 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (5.20%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.20%) Hyper-V
2 8 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.60%) Docker
4 3 (1.20%) vSphere
5 2 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (6.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.60%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.60%) Ansible
3 4 (1.60%) VxRail
3 4 (1.60%) WSUS
4 3 (1.20%) Argo
4 3 (1.20%) Autotask
5 2 (0.80%) Kibana
5 2 (0.80%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.80%) Puppet
6 1 (0.40%) Avamar
Vendors
1 120 (48.00%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.60%) Databricks
3 22 (8.80%) ForeScout
4 17 (6.80%) Cisco
5 13 (5.20%) VMware
6 6 (2.40%) Foundry
6 6 (2.40%) Google
7 5 (2.00%) Dell
7 5 (2.00%) SAP
7 5 (2.00%) Veeam
7 5 (2.00%) Zerto
8 4 (1.60%) Commvault
8 4 (1.60%) HP
8 4 (1.60%) Meraki
8 4 (1.60%) Oracle
8 4 (1.60%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.60%) Tenable
9 3 (1.20%) Adobe
9 3 (1.20%) ConnectWise
9 3 (1.20%) Remedy