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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 3 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 219 262 319
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 19.23% 18.75% 22.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.24% 49.62% 45.57%
Number of salaries quoted 180 201 256
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £38,125
25th Percentile £35,750 £45,000 £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,617 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £85,000 £81,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -

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 454 528 700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 39.86% 37.80% 48.78%
Number of salaries quoted 366 380 552
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,938 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% -2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £76,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £58,153 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.18% +1.13% +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 22 November 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 13 (5.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.74%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.74%) Confluence
2 6 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.37%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.46%) Apache
4 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.46%) FileNet
4 1 (0.46%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.91%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.91%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 110 (50.23%) AWS
2 31 (14.16%) GitHub
3 29 (13.24%) GCP
4 27 (12.33%) Serverless
5 26 (11.87%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (10.50%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (10.50%) Entra ID
7 14 (6.39%) SaaS
8 12 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (3.65%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (3.20%) Power Platform
12 6 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (2.74%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.74%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (2.28%) Amazon EventBridge
13 5 (2.28%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (2.28%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (2.28%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 29 (13.24%) Firewall
2 23 (10.50%) VLAN
3 16 (7.31%) VPN
4 15 (6.85%) Internet
5 14 (6.39%) TCP/IP
6 13 (5.94%) SAN
6 13 (5.94%) VoIP
7 12 (5.48%) DNS
8 11 (5.02%) Network Security
9 10 (4.57%) DHCP
10 3 (1.37%) BGP
11 2 (0.91%) OSPF
12 1 (0.46%) HTTP
12 1 (0.46%) Junos
12 1 (0.46%) WAN
12 1 (0.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.68%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (6.85%) NoSQL
3 14 (6.39%) MongoDB
3 14 (6.39%) SQL Server
4 13 (5.94%) Metadata
5 7 (3.20%) MySQL
6 6 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.74%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.74%) Power BI
7 5 (2.28%) Data Vault
7 5 (2.28%) Delta Lake
7 5 (2.28%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.91%) Big Data
9 2 (0.91%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.91%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (14.16%) Git
2 10 (4.57%) JIRA
3 6 (2.74%) GitLab
4 5 (2.28%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.91%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.46%) Appium
6 1 (0.46%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.46%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.46%) Postman
6 1 (0.46%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.46%) Selenium
6 1 (0.46%) Snyk
6 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
General
1 78 (35.62%) Social Skills
2 16 (7.31%) Finance
3 15 (6.85%) Multimedia
3 15 (6.85%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.02%) Retail
6 8 (3.65%) Legal
7 4 (1.83%) Marketing
7 4 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.37%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.91%) Law
10 1 (0.46%) Billing
10 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 53 (24.20%) Developer
2 44 (20.09%) Lead
3 38 (17.35%) Architect
4 30 (13.70%) Senior
5 21 (9.59%) Software Developer
6 18 (8.22%) Data Engineer
6 18 (8.22%) Lead Developer
7 17 (7.76%) Support Technician
8 15 (6.85%) Trainee
9 12 (5.48%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (5.48%) Engineering Manager
10 11 (5.02%) Lead Software Developer
11 10 (4.57%) Analyst
11 10 (4.57%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (4.57%) Data Architect
11 10 (4.57%) IT Support
11 10 (4.57%) IT Support Technician
11 10 (4.57%) IT Technician
11 10 (4.57%) Lead DevOps
11 10 (4.57%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (16.89%) .NET
2 20 (9.13%) CSS
2 20 (9.13%) HTML
3 19 (8.68%) React
4 14 (6.39%) AngularJS
4 14 (6.39%) Node.js
5 13 (5.94%) RESTful
6 10 (4.57%) .NET Core
7 9 (4.11%) PySpark
8 8 (3.65%) Blazor
9 6 (2.74%) ASP.NET
9 6 (2.74%) Spring
9 6 (2.74%) Spring Boot
10 5 (2.28%) ASP.NET Core
10 5 (2.28%) AWS CDK
11 3 (1.37%) Apache Camel
11 3 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.37%) REST
11 3 (1.37%) Vue
11 3 (1.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (14.16%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.85%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (5.94%) Clustering
4 12 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.57%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.11%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.28%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.28%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.83%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.83%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.37%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.91%) IoT
10 2 (0.91%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.46%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (15.07%) Windows
2 20 (9.13%) Linux
3 18 (8.22%) Windows 10
4 13 (5.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (3.65%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.91%) Check Point GAiA
6 2 (0.91%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.46%) Android
7 1 (0.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (39.73%) Mentoring
2 64 (29.22%) DevOps
3 60 (27.40%) CI/CD
4 52 (23.74%) Agile
5 42 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (16.89%) Data Modelling
7 34 (15.53%) Microservices
8 32 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (14.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 29 (13.24%) Infrastructure as Code
11 28 (12.79%) Roadmaps
12 25 (11.42%) Data Engineering
12 25 (11.42%) Data Pipeline
12 25 (11.42%) Software Engineering
13 24 (10.96%) Architectural Patterns
13 24 (10.96%) Cybersecurity
14 23 (10.50%) Migration
15 22 (10.05%) Data Governance
16 21 (9.59%) Analytics
17 20 (9.13%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 81 (36.99%) Python
2 66 (30.14%) SQL
3 56 (25.57%) JavaScript
4 46 (21.00%) C#
5 34 (15.53%) Java
6 23 (10.50%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.11%) R
8 7 (3.20%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.74%) Bash
10 5 (2.28%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.37%) Scala
12 2 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.46%) Bicep
13 1 (0.46%) Go
13 1 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 50 (22.83%) Microsoft Certification
2 38 (17.35%) Degree
3 37 (16.89%) AWS Certification
4 36 (16.44%) Azure Certification
5 17 (7.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 16 (7.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (6.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 14 (6.39%) Security Cleared
7 14 (6.39%) TOGAF Certification
8 13 (5.94%) SC Cleared
9 5 (2.28%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.91%) CCSA
11 2 (0.91%) CCSE
12 1 (0.46%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.46%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.46%) MCITP
12 1 (0.46%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.94%) QA
2 5 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.83%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.91%) NIST
5 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.46%) GRC
5 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (12.33%) Docker
2 26 (11.87%) Hyper-V
3 12 (5.48%) Active Directory
4 10 (4.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (13.24%) Terraform
2 25 (11.42%) Kubernetes
3 22 (10.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (5.94%) Ansible
5 9 (4.11%) Grafana
5 9 (4.11%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.83%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.46%) Kibana
7 1 (0.46%) Nmap
7 1 (0.46%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 84 (38.36%) Microsoft
2 30 (13.70%) Databricks
3 14 (6.39%) Dell
4 13 (5.94%) HP
4 13 (5.94%) SonicWALL
4 13 (5.94%) Supermicro
5 10 (4.57%) VMware
6 5 (2.28%) Google
6 5 (2.28%) SAP
7 4 (1.83%) Adobe
7 4 (1.83%) Oracle
8 3 (1.37%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.37%) Palantir
8 3 (1.37%) Pega
8 3 (1.37%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.37%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.37%) WSO2
9 2 (0.91%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.91%) Informatica
9 2 (0.91%) Palo Alto