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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 2 4
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 265 188 316
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 8.72% 19.87% 17.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.06% 55.29% 48.54%
Number of salaries quoted 186 156 251
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,938 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,607 £60,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% +10.45% -
75th Percentile £88,148 £72,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £82,500
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 715 340 651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 23.54% 35.94% 35.15%
Number of salaries quoted 520 276 507
10th Percentile £37,425 £31,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £63,867 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.60% +6.44% -
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 £58,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +3.45% +0.87%

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 1 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 (4.15%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.02%) IIS
3 5 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.13%) CMS
4 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.75%) Apache
5 2 (0.75%) Confluence
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.38%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (5.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.13%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.13%) Shopify
3 2 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.38%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 63 (23.77%) AWS
2 44 (16.60%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (14.34%) GCP
4 37 (13.96%) Power Platform
5 23 (8.68%) Entra ID
6 21 (7.92%) Dynamics 365
7 20 (7.55%) Azure AI
7 20 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (6.42%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (5.66%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (4.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (4.15%) Microsoft Copilot
10 11 (4.15%) SaaS
11 10 (3.77%) Power Automate
12 9 (3.40%) PaaS
13 8 (3.02%) Azure Databricks
13 8 (3.02%) GitHub
14 7 (2.64%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (2.64%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (2.64%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.66%) LAN
2 14 (5.28%) WAN
3 10 (3.77%) DHCP
3 10 (3.77%) DNS
4 9 (3.40%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.64%) Firewall
5 7 (2.64%) VPN
6 6 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (1.89%) NAS
7 5 (1.89%) SAN
7 5 (1.89%) VLAN
8 3 (1.13%) HTTP
8 3 (1.13%) Wireless
9 2 (0.75%) BGP
9 2 (0.75%) Internet
9 2 (0.75%) Network Security
9 2 (0.75%) OSPF
9 2 (0.75%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.57%) Power BI
2 16 (6.04%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (5.66%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.53%) Metadata
5 11 (4.15%) BigQuery
6 10 (3.77%) Tableau
7 9 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.26%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (2.26%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.89%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.89%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.89%) Spark SQL
10 4 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.51%) MySQL
11 3 (1.13%) Redis
12 2 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.75%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.75%) Semantic Layer
13 1 (0.38%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 14 (5.28%) Git
2 8 (3.02%) GitLab
3 7 (2.64%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.13%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.75%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.75%) ERwin
5 2 (0.75%) JIRA
5 2 (0.75%) MLflow
General
1 75 (28.30%) Social Skills
2 61 (23.02%) Finance
3 22 (8.30%) Public Sector
4 19 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.77%) Legal
6 9 (3.40%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.26%) Retail
8 5 (1.89%) Agriculture
8 5 (1.89%) Automotive
8 5 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.75%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.75%) Law
9 2 (0.75%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 60 (22.64%) Lead
2 49 (18.49%) Architect
3 44 (16.60%) Senior
4 28 (10.57%) Solutions Architect
5 27 (10.19%) Azure Engineer
6 22 (8.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (7.92%) Data Engineer
8 20 (7.55%) Analyst
9 18 (6.79%) Junior
9 18 (6.79%) Junior Analyst
9 18 (6.79%) Lead Architect
9 18 (6.79%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 17 (6.42%) Developer
11 16 (6.04%) Platform Engineer
11 16 (6.04%) Software Engineer
12 15 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
13 14 (5.28%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 14 (5.28%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 10 (3.77%) Account Manager
14 10 (3.77%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.06%) Terraform
2 19 (7.17%) React
3 13 (4.91%) .NET
4 12 (4.53%) AngularJS
4 12 (4.53%) Node.js
5 9 (3.40%) PySpark
5 9 (3.40%) Vue
6 8 (3.02%) Middleware
6 8 (3.02%) RESTful
7 6 (2.26%) CSS
7 6 (2.26%) HTML
7 6 (2.26%) REST
7 6 (2.26%) XML
8 5 (1.89%) Web Services
8 5 (1.89%) XBRL
9 4 (1.51%) JSON
10 3 (1.13%) ASP.NET
10 3 (1.13%) HTML5 Canvas
10 3 (1.13%) Playwright
10 3 (1.13%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.04%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.40%) Cyberattack
3 8 (3.02%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (2.64%) AI Agents
4 7 (2.64%) Low-Code
4 7 (2.64%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.51%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.51%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.13%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.13%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.13%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.13%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.13%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (9.81%) Windows
2 11 (4.15%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.89%) Linux
3 5 (1.89%) Unix
3 5 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (26.79%) Mentoring
2 56 (21.13%) Agile
3 53 (20.00%) AI
4 45 (16.98%) CI/CD
5 43 (16.23%) DevOps
6 40 (15.09%) Technical Leadership
7 39 (14.72%) Cybersecurity
8 30 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 30 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (11.32%) Software Engineering
9 29 (10.94%) Business Intelligence
9 29 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (10.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 26 (9.81%) Roadmaps
12 25 (9.43%) Coaching
13 24 (9.06%) Migration
13 24 (9.06%) Stakeholder Management
14 23 (8.68%) Analytics
14 23 (8.68%) Decision-Making
15 21 (7.92%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 66 (24.91%) SQL
2 54 (20.38%) Python
3 28 (10.57%) C#
3 28 (10.57%) JavaScript
4 19 (7.17%) TypeScript
5 18 (6.79%) Java
6 15 (5.66%) PowerShell
7 7 (2.64%) PHP
7 7 (2.64%) Scala
8 5 (1.89%) Bicep
9 4 (1.51%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.13%) Bash
11 2 (0.75%) Go
11 2 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.75%) R
12 1 (0.38%) C++
12 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 47 (17.74%) Azure Certification
2 13 (4.91%) CompTIA CySA+
2 13 (4.91%) CompTIA Security+
3 11 (4.15%) Degree
4 9 (3.40%) CEH
4 9 (3.40%) Security Cleared
5 8 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.64%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.26%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.26%) CCNA
7 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.26%) Network+ Certification
8 5 (1.89%) SAP Certification
9 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.68%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials
2 10 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 8 (3.02%) GDPR
4 5 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.51%) QA
5 4 (1.51%) SLA
6 3 (1.13%) PMO
7 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.75%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.38%) HL7
8 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (5.28%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.02%) Hyper-V
2 8 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.89%) Docker
4 3 (1.13%) vSphere
5 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (6.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (4.15%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.51%) Ansible
3 4 (1.51%) VxRail
3 4 (1.51%) WSUS
4 3 (1.13%) Argo
4 3 (1.13%) Autotask
5 2 (0.75%) Kibana
5 2 (0.75%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.75%) Puppet
6 1 (0.38%) Avamar
Vendors
1 125 (47.17%) Microsoft
2 28 (10.57%) Databricks
3 24 (9.06%) ForeScout
4 17 (6.42%) Cisco
5 16 (6.04%) VMware
6 7 (2.64%) Google
7 6 (2.26%) Foundry
8 5 (1.89%) Dell
8 5 (1.89%) SAP
8 5 (1.89%) Veeam
8 5 (1.89%) Zerto
9 4 (1.51%) Commvault
9 4 (1.51%) HP
9 4 (1.51%) Meraki
9 4 (1.51%) Oracle
9 4 (1.51%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.51%) Tenable
10 3 (1.13%) Adobe
10 3 (1.13%) ConnectWise
10 3 (1.13%) Remedy