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

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 230 235 296
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 19.66% 19.14% 21.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 46.94% 47.76% 43.59%
Number of salaries quoted 182 178 245
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,350 £39,150
25th Percentile £35,750 £43,188 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £76,625 £82,529
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -3.40%

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 490 492 679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 41.88% 40.07% 49.56%
Number of salaries quoted 376 353 549
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,133 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,430 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -7.62% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,750 £88,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.60% +8.23%

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 8 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 13 (5.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.91%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.04%) Confluence
4 4 (1.74%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.30%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.43%) Apache
7 1 (0.43%) CMS
7 1 (0.43%) FileNet
7 1 (0.43%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) FrameMaker
3 1 (0.43%) MadCap Flare
3 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.30%) SAP ERP
1 3 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.87%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 116 (50.43%) AWS
2 39 (16.96%) GitHub
3 34 (14.78%) Serverless
4 32 (13.91%) GCP
5 25 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (9.13%) Entra ID
8 16 (6.96%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (5.65%) SaaS
10 12 (5.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (5.22%) Power Platform
11 9 (3.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (3.91%) Amazon S3
11 9 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (3.48%) Amazon EventBridge
12 8 (3.48%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (3.48%) AWS Step Functions
12 8 (3.48%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (3.04%) Microsoft Purview
14 5 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 25 (10.87%) Firewall
2 19 (8.26%) Internet
2 19 (8.26%) VLAN
3 13 (5.65%) SAN
3 13 (5.65%) VoIP
4 12 (5.22%) DNS
4 12 (5.22%) VPN
5 11 (4.78%) TCP/IP
6 9 (3.91%) DHCP
7 7 (3.04%) Network Security
8 1 (0.43%) BGP
8 1 (0.43%) HTTP
8 1 (0.43%) Junos
8 1 (0.43%) WAN
8 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (6.96%) Metadata
2 16 (6.96%) SQL Server
3 15 (6.52%) NoSQL
4 14 (6.09%) MongoDB
5 10 (4.35%) Power BI
6 9 (3.91%) DynamoDB
6 9 (3.91%) MySQL
7 6 (2.61%) Data Vault
7 6 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.61%) Tableau
8 5 (2.17%) Delta Lake
8 5 (2.17%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.30%) TIBCO EBX
11 2 (0.87%) Big Data
11 2 (0.87%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (17.39%) Git
2 9 (3.91%) JIRA
3 8 (3.48%) GitLab
4 5 (2.17%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.87%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.43%) Appium
6 1 (0.43%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.43%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.43%) Postman
6 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.43%) Selenium
6 1 (0.43%) Snyk
6 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
General
1 90 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 19 (8.26%) Multimedia
2 19 (8.26%) Public Sector
3 17 (7.39%) Finance
4 11 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (4.78%) Retail
5 7 (3.04%) Legal
6 4 (1.74%) Marketing
7 3 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.87%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.87%) Law
9 1 (0.43%) Billing
9 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 56 (24.35%) Developer
2 43 (18.70%) Architect
3 40 (17.39%) Lead
4 32 (13.91%) Senior
5 22 (9.57%) Software Developer
6 21 (9.13%) Data Engineer
7 19 (8.26%) Trainee
8 17 (7.39%) Support Technician
9 15 (6.52%) Lead Developer
10 13 (5.65%) Analyst
11 12 (5.22%) .NET Developer
12 11 (4.78%) Applications Architect
12 11 (4.78%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (4.78%) Engineering Manager
12 11 (4.78%) IT Support
12 11 (4.78%) Junior
13 10 (4.35%) IT Support Technician
13 10 (4.35%) IT Technician
13 10 (4.35%) Trainee Developer
13 10 (4.35%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (16.52%) .NET
2 24 (10.43%) CSS
2 24 (10.43%) HTML
3 22 (9.57%) React
4 15 (6.52%) RESTful
5 14 (6.09%) AngularJS
6 13 (5.65%) .NET Core
7 11 (4.78%) Blazor
7 11 (4.78%) Node.js
8 10 (4.35%) PySpark
9 9 (3.91%) ASP.NET
10 8 (3.48%) ASP.NET Core
10 8 (3.48%) AWS CDK
11 6 (2.61%) Spring
11 6 (2.61%) Spring Boot
12 3 (1.30%) Apache Camel
12 3 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (1.30%) REST
12 3 (1.30%) Vue
12 3 (1.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (15.22%) Cloud Native
2 19 (8.26%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (5.65%) Clustering
4 11 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.48%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.04%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.17%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.17%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.17%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.74%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.30%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.30%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.87%) IoT
11 1 (0.43%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.74%) Windows
2 20 (8.70%) Linux
3 16 (6.96%) Windows 10
4 13 (5.65%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (3.04%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.87%) Check Point GAiA
6 2 (0.87%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.43%) Android
7 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (41.74%) Mentoring
2 68 (29.57%) DevOps
3 65 (28.26%) CI/CD
4 59 (25.65%) Agile
5 44 (19.13%) Data Modelling
6 41 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (17.39%) Microservices
8 35 (15.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 32 (13.91%) Cybersecurity
9 32 (13.91%) Infrastructure as Code
10 30 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (12.17%) Migration
11 28 (12.17%) Roadmaps
12 27 (11.74%) Architectural Patterns
13 26 (11.30%) Application Security
13 26 (11.30%) Data Engineering
13 26 (11.30%) Data Pipeline
14 25 (10.87%) Analytics
14 25 (10.87%) Data Governance
15 24 (10.43%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 92 (40.00%) Python
2 72 (31.30%) SQL
3 61 (26.52%) JavaScript
4 49 (21.30%) C#
5 35 (15.22%) Java
6 27 (11.74%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.78%) R
8 7 (3.04%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.61%) Bash
10 5 (2.17%) Scala
10 5 (2.17%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.87%) PHP
12 1 (0.43%) Bicep
12 1 (0.43%) Go
Qualifications
1 56 (24.35%) Microsoft Certification
2 50 (21.74%) Azure Certification
3 48 (20.87%) AWS Certification
4 39 (16.96%) Degree
5 21 (9.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 20 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (7.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 18 (7.83%) TOGAF Certification
8 12 (5.22%) Security Cleared
9 11 (4.78%) SC Cleared
10 8 (3.48%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (1.74%) CompTIA CySA+
11 4 (1.74%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.87%) CCSA
12 2 (0.87%) CCSE
13 1 (0.43%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.43%) JNCIS
13 1 (0.43%) MCITP
13 1 (0.43%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.22%) QA
2 7 (3.04%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.43%) GDPR
4 1 (0.43%) GRC
4 1 (0.43%) NIST
4 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (13.48%) Docker
2 24 (10.43%) Hyper-V
3 10 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.48%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (14.78%) Terraform
2 26 (11.30%) Kubernetes
3 20 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (5.22%) Ansible
5 9 (3.91%) Grafana
5 9 (3.91%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.74%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.43%) Kibana
7 1 (0.43%) Nmap
7 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 96 (41.74%) Microsoft
2 30 (13.04%) Databricks
3 14 (6.09%) Dell
4 13 (5.65%) HP
4 13 (5.65%) SonicWALL
4 13 (5.65%) Supermicro
5 11 (4.78%) VMware
6 6 (2.61%) Oracle
6 6 (2.61%) SAP
7 5 (2.17%) Adobe
7 5 (2.17%) Google
7 5 (2.17%) Palantir
8 4 (1.74%) ForeScout
9 3 (1.30%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.30%) Informatica
9 3 (1.30%) Pega
9 3 (1.30%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.30%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.30%) TIBCO
9 3 (1.30%) WSO2