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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 242 222 273
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 18.66% 20.18% 21.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 46.99% 47.64% 43.75%
Number of salaries quoted 183 169 223
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,537 £39,800
25th Percentile £35,750 £43,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £53,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.92% -7.83% -2.54%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £84,750 £75,000 £82,548
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

All Cloud 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 515 466 624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 39.71% 42.36% 49.60%
Number of salaries quoted 378 327 502
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,000 £36,375
25th Percentile £42,813 £42,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £69,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £88,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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 21 December 2025.

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 12 (4.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.72%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.89%) Confluence
4 4 (1.65%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.24%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.83%) IIS
7 1 (0.41%) Apache
7 1 (0.41%) CMS
7 1 (0.41%) FileNet
Applications
1 8 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) FrameMaker
3 1 (0.41%) MadCap Flare
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.31%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.83%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 127 (52.48%) AWS
2 46 (19.01%) GitHub
3 43 (17.77%) Serverless
4 37 (15.29%) GCP
5 29 (11.98%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (8.68%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (6.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (6.61%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (6.20%) SaaS
10 14 (5.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (5.79%) Amazon S3
10 14 (5.79%) Entra ID
11 13 (5.37%) Amazon EventBridge
11 13 (5.37%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (5.37%) AWS Step Functions
11 13 (5.37%) Power Platform
12 8 (3.31%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (2.89%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (2.89%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.09%) Internet
2 21 (8.68%) Firewall
3 12 (4.96%) VLAN
4 11 (4.55%) TCP/IP
5 10 (4.13%) DNS
5 10 (4.13%) VoIP
6 9 (3.72%) SAN
7 8 (3.31%) VPN
8 6 (2.48%) DHCP
8 6 (2.48%) Network Security
9 4 (1.65%) WAN
10 3 (1.24%) LAN
10 3 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.41%) BGP
11 1 (0.41%) HTTP
11 1 (0.41%) Junos
11 1 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.50%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (7.44%) NoSQL
2 18 (7.44%) SQL Server
3 16 (6.61%) Metadata
4 14 (5.79%) DynamoDB
5 12 (4.96%) MongoDB
6 11 (4.55%) MySQL
6 11 (4.55%) Power BI
7 7 (2.89%) Tableau
8 6 (2.48%) Data Vault
8 6 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.48%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.07%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.24%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.24%) Spark SQL
11 3 (1.24%) TIBCO EBX
12 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 49 (20.25%) Git
2 10 (4.13%) GitLab
3 9 (3.72%) JIRA
4 6 (2.48%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.41%) Appium
5 1 (0.41%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.41%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.41%) Postman
5 1 (0.41%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.41%) Selenium
5 1 (0.41%) Snyk
5 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
General
1 99 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 22 (9.09%) Multimedia
3 18 (7.44%) Public Sector
4 16 (6.61%) Finance
5 13 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.96%) Retail
7 6 (2.48%) Legal
8 4 (1.65%) Marketing
9 3 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.83%) Law
10 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Billing
11 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (25.62%) Developer
2 43 (17.77%) Architect
3 39 (16.12%) Lead
4 35 (14.46%) Senior
5 22 (9.09%) Trainee
6 21 (8.68%) Data Engineer
6 21 (8.68%) Software Developer
7 17 (7.02%) .NET Developer
8 16 (6.61%) Analyst
8 16 (6.61%) Support Technician
9 14 (5.79%) IT Support
10 13 (5.37%) Junior
10 13 (5.37%) Lead Developer
11 12 (4.96%) Applications Architect
11 12 (4.96%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (4.55%) IT Support Technician
12 11 (4.55%) IT Technician
12 11 (4.55%) Trainee Developer
12 11 (4.55%) Trainee Software Developer
13 10 (4.13%) Junior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (16.12%) .NET
2 28 (11.57%) React
3 27 (11.16%) CSS
3 27 (11.16%) HTML
4 20 (8.26%) RESTful
5 16 (6.61%) .NET Core
5 16 (6.61%) Blazor
6 13 (5.37%) AngularJS
6 13 (5.37%) ASP.NET
6 13 (5.37%) ASP.NET Core
6 13 (5.37%) AWS CDK
7 11 (4.55%) PySpark
8 10 (4.13%) Node.js
9 6 (2.48%) Spring
9 6 (2.48%) Spring Boot
10 5 (2.07%) REST
11 3 (1.24%) Apache Camel
11 3 (1.24%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.24%) Vue
11 3 (1.24%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 40 (16.53%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.72%) Clustering
4 9 (3.72%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.89%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.48%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.07%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.65%) Marketing Technology
8 4 (1.65%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.24%) Replication
9 3 (1.24%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.24%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.83%) IoT
10 2 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.92%) Windows
2 15 (6.20%) Linux
3 9 (3.72%) Windows 10
3 9 (3.72%) Windows Server
3 9 (3.72%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (1.65%) Android
5 2 (0.83%) Check Point GAiA
5 2 (0.83%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (42.56%) Mentoring
2 75 (30.99%) DevOps
3 74 (30.58%) CI/CD
4 71 (29.34%) Agile
5 49 (20.25%) Microservices
6 47 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (18.60%) Data Modelling
8 37 (15.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 35 (14.46%) Cybersecurity
9 35 (14.46%) Infrastructure as Code
10 33 (13.64%) Application Security
10 33 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (12.40%) Migration
12 27 (11.16%) Architectural Patterns
12 27 (11.16%) Containerisation
12 27 (11.16%) Roadmaps
13 26 (10.74%) Stakeholder Management
14 25 (10.33%) Analytics
14 25 (10.33%) Computer Science
14 25 (10.33%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 98 (40.50%) Python
2 74 (30.58%) SQL
3 67 (27.69%) JavaScript
4 47 (19.42%) C#
5 35 (14.46%) Java
6 31 (12.81%) TypeScript
7 13 (5.37%) R
8 9 (3.72%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.48%) Bash
10 5 (2.07%) Scala
10 5 (2.07%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.65%) PHP
12 2 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.83%) Go
13 1 (0.41%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 58 (23.97%) Azure Certification
2 57 (23.55%) AWS Certification
3 55 (22.73%) Microsoft Certification
4 36 (14.88%) Degree
5 25 (10.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 22 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (8.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 20 (8.26%) TOGAF Certification
8 11 (4.55%) AWS Certified Developer
8 11 (4.55%) Security Cleared
9 10 (4.13%) SC Cleared
10 7 (2.89%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (2.07%) CompTIA CySA+
11 5 (2.07%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.83%) CCSA
12 2 (0.83%) CCSE
13 1 (0.41%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.41%) JNCIS
13 1 (0.41%) MCITP
13 1 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.96%) QA
2 7 (2.89%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.41%) GDPR
4 1 (0.41%) GRC
4 1 (0.41%) NIST
4 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (14.88%) Docker
2 22 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 14 (5.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (3.72%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (16.53%) Terraform
2 27 (11.16%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.37%) Ansible
3 13 (5.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (4.13%) Grafana
4 10 (4.13%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.24%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.41%) Kibana
6 1 (0.41%) Nmap
6 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 97 (40.08%) Microsoft
2 28 (11.57%) Databricks
3 18 (7.44%) VMware
4 11 (4.55%) SAP
5 10 (4.13%) Dell
6 9 (3.72%) HP
6 9 (3.72%) SonicWALL
6 9 (3.72%) Supermicro
7 6 (2.48%) Google
7 6 (2.48%) Oracle
8 5 (2.07%) Adobe
8 5 (2.07%) ForeScout
8 5 (2.07%) Palantir
9 4 (1.65%) Veeam
10 3 (1.24%) Informatica
10 3 (1.24%) Pega
10 3 (1.24%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.24%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.24%) TIBCO
10 3 (1.24%) WSO2