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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 7 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 301 134 389
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 12.17% 17.29% 18.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.92% 40.98% 47.15%
Number of salaries quoted 185 108 335
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,125 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £43,750 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £68,750 £72,212
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,925 £82,529
West Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,173
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.22% -8.05%

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 754 327 825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 30.49% 42.19% 39.34%
Number of salaries quoted 514 261 695
10th Percentile £29,225 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £84,451
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -6.38%

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 13 May 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 10 (3.32%) IIS
2 9 (2.99%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (2.33%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.33%) Apache
5 4 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.33%) CMS
6 1 (0.33%) Confluence
6 1 (0.33%) SAS
6 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (7.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.33%) FrameMaker
3 1 (0.33%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 14 (4.65%) SAP ERP
2 6 (1.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.33%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.33%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 104 (34.55%) AWS
2 48 (15.95%) GCP
3 40 (13.29%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (12.96%) Power Platform
5 30 (9.97%) Serverless
6 27 (8.97%) Azure AI
6 27 (8.97%) GitHub
7 21 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (3.65%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (3.32%) Entra ID
11 9 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (2.99%) Amazon EventBridge
11 9 (2.99%) Amazon S3
11 9 (2.99%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (2.99%) AWS Step Functions
12 8 (2.66%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.64%) DNS
2 24 (7.97%) DHCP
3 20 (6.64%) TCP/IP
4 19 (6.31%) LAN
5 18 (5.98%) WAN
6 14 (4.65%) Firewall
7 13 (4.32%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (3.65%) Internet
9 6 (1.99%) NAS
9 6 (1.99%) SAN
9 6 (1.99%) VPN
10 5 (1.66%) NGFW
10 5 (1.66%) VXLAN
10 5 (1.66%) Wireshark
11 4 (1.33%) VLAN
11 4 (1.33%) VoIP
12 2 (0.66%) BGP
12 2 (0.66%) OSPF
12 2 (0.66%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.96%) Power BI
2 25 (8.31%) Tableau
3 14 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (4.32%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.32%) SQL Server
5 12 (3.99%) Metadata
6 11 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (2.99%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.66%) BigQuery
8 8 (2.66%) MySQL
9 7 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.33%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.99%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.99%) Spark SQL
11 5 (1.66%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.33%) RDBMS
13 3 (1.00%) Amazon QuickSight
14 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.66%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (9.30%) Git
2 11 (3.65%) GitLab
3 6 (1.99%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 140 (46.51%) Social Skills
2 30 (9.97%) Finance
3 24 (7.97%) Public Sector
4 23 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.65%) Multimedia
6 8 (2.66%) Legal
7 6 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.66%) Agriculture
8 5 (1.66%) Automotive
8 5 (1.66%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.66%) Law
9 2 (0.66%) Retail
10 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (16.28%) Analyst
2 43 (14.29%) Junior
2 43 (14.29%) Lead
3 42 (13.95%) Junior Analyst
3 42 (13.95%) Senior
4 35 (11.63%) Developer
5 34 (11.30%) Architect
6 25 (8.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (6.98%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 21 (6.98%) Data Analyst
7 21 (6.98%) Junior Data Analyst
7 21 (6.98%) Junior Security Analyst
7 21 (6.98%) Security Analyst
8 18 (5.98%) Data Engineer
9 16 (5.32%) IT Support
10 15 (4.98%) Ethical Hacker
11 14 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
11 14 (4.65%) Software Engineer
12 11 (3.65%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (3.65%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (11.30%) React
2 15 (4.98%) AngularJS
3 14 (4.65%) RESTful
4 13 (4.32%) .NET
5 11 (3.65%) .NET Core
5 11 (3.65%) CSS
5 11 (3.65%) HTML
5 11 (3.65%) Node.js
5 11 (3.65%) Vue
6 9 (2.99%) ASP.NET
6 9 (2.99%) ASP.NET Core
6 9 (2.99%) AWS CDK
6 9 (2.99%) Blazor
6 9 (2.99%) PySpark
6 9 (2.99%) REST
7 6 (1.99%) Web Services
7 6 (1.99%) XML
8 5 (1.66%) Middleware
8 5 (1.66%) XBRL
9 4 (1.33%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.30%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.98%) Cyberattack
2 15 (4.98%) Data Centre
3 14 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (1.99%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.66%) PKI
6 4 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.33%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.33%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.33%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.00%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.00%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.00%) Replication
7 3 (1.00%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.66%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (11.30%) Windows
2 28 (9.30%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.99%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (1.66%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.33%) Linux
5 4 (1.33%) Unix
6 3 (1.00%) Android
6 3 (1.00%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.00%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (34.88%) Mentoring
2 69 (22.92%) Agile
3 60 (19.93%) DevOps
4 57 (18.94%) CI/CD
5 55 (18.27%) Cybersecurity
6 47 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (13.62%) AI
8 35 (11.63%) Business Intelligence
8 35 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 35 (11.63%) Microservices
9 32 (10.63%) Data Modelling
10 30 (9.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 29 (9.63%) Infrastructure as Code
12 27 (8.97%) Stakeholder Management
13 26 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (8.64%) Migration
14 21 (6.98%) Application Security
14 21 (6.98%) Coaching
15 20 (6.64%) Containerisation
15 20 (6.64%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 81 (26.91%) Python
1 81 (26.91%) SQL
2 51 (16.94%) JavaScript
3 33 (10.96%) TypeScript
4 29 (9.63%) C#
5 24 (7.97%) Java
6 14 (4.65%) PowerShell
7 9 (2.99%) PHP
8 7 (2.33%) R
9 5 (1.66%) Bash
10 4 (1.33%) Scala
11 3 (1.00%) Go
11 3 (1.00%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.66%) Bicep
12 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 95 (31.56%) Azure Certification
2 33 (10.96%) AWS Certification
3 27 (8.97%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (6.98%) CompTIA CySA+
4 21 (6.98%) CompTIA Security+
5 18 (5.98%) Degree
6 15 (4.98%) CEH
7 14 (4.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 14 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (3.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (3.65%) TOGAF Certification
9 10 (3.32%) Security Cleared
10 8 (2.66%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (2.66%) SC Cleared
11 7 (2.33%) AWS Certified Developer
11 7 (2.33%) CCNA
12 6 (1.99%) Network+ Certification
13 5 (1.66%) SAP Certification
14 3 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.98%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.99%) QA
3 8 (2.66%) GDPR
4 5 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.66%) SLA
7 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.33%) HL7
7 1 (0.33%) NIST
7 1 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 27 (8.97%) Active Directory
2 21 (6.98%) Docker
3 18 (5.98%) Hyper-V
4 14 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (12.62%) Terraform
2 18 (5.98%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.99%) Ansible
4 9 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.99%) VxRail
5 6 (1.99%) WSUS
6 5 (1.66%) Grafana
6 5 (1.66%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.00%) Argo
8 2 (0.66%) Kibana
8 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 144 (47.84%) Microsoft
2 42 (13.95%) ForeScout
3 29 (9.63%) VMware
4 19 (6.31%) SAP
5 15 (4.98%) Cisco
5 15 (4.98%) Databricks
6 12 (3.99%) Veeam
7 11 (3.65%) Google
8 9 (2.99%) Citrix
9 6 (1.99%) Commvault
9 6 (1.99%) Dell
9 6 (1.99%) HP
9 6 (1.99%) Meraki
9 6 (1.99%) Tenable
9 6 (1.99%) Zerto
10 5 (1.66%) Arista
10 5 (1.66%) Aruba
10 5 (1.66%) NetScout
11 4 (1.33%) Oracle
12 2 (0.66%) IBM