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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 6 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 274 138 383
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 14.14% 17.97% 19.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.71% 40.12% 47.05%
Number of salaries quoted 186 113 328
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,100 £37,750
25th Percentile £32,938 £42,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £56,337
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -11.25% -6.11%
75th Percentile £77,481 £67,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,200 £82,514
West Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year - -7.08% -5.83%

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 690 344 814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 35.60% 44.79% 40.50%
Number of salaries quoted 483 281 673
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -4.35%

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 31 March 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 8 (2.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.55%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.82%) Confluence
3 5 (1.82%) IIS
4 3 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.09%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.73%) Apache
6 1 (0.36%) CMS
6 1 (0.36%) SAS
6 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (7.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.36%) FrameMaker
3 1 (0.36%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 14 (5.11%) SAP ERP
2 4 (1.46%) Unit4 Business World
3 3 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.36%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 124 (45.26%) AWS
2 43 (15.69%) GitHub
3 42 (15.33%) Serverless
4 40 (14.60%) GCP
5 29 (10.58%) Power Platform
6 25 (9.12%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (6.93%) Azure AI
8 19 (6.93%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (6.20%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (5.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (5.11%) Amazon S3
11 13 (4.74%) Amazon EventBridge
11 13 (4.74%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (4.74%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (4.74%) AWS Step Functions
12 11 (4.01%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (4.01%) SaaS
13 9 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (3.28%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.39%) Internet
2 22 (8.03%) DNS
3 20 (7.30%) DHCP
4 18 (6.57%) TCP/IP
5 15 (5.47%) Firewall
6 12 (4.38%) WAN
7 11 (4.01%) LAN
7 11 (4.01%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (2.55%) VPN
9 5 (1.82%) NGFW
9 5 (1.82%) VXLAN
9 5 (1.82%) Wireshark
10 4 (1.46%) Network Security
10 4 (1.46%) VoIP
11 2 (0.73%) NAS
11 2 (0.73%) SAN
11 2 (0.73%) VLAN
12 1 (0.36%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.49%) Power BI
2 20 (7.30%) Tableau
3 18 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (6.20%) SQL Server
5 16 (5.84%) NoSQL
6 15 (5.47%) Metadata
7 14 (5.11%) DynamoDB
8 9 (3.28%) MySQL
9 7 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.19%) MongoDB
10 6 (2.19%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.82%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.46%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (1.09%) RDBMS
13 3 (1.09%) Spark SQL
13 3 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.09%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 46 (16.79%) Git
2 8 (2.92%) GitLab
3 6 (2.19%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.46%) JIRA
5 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 142 (51.82%) Social Skills
2 25 (9.12%) Public Sector
3 23 (8.39%) Finance
3 23 (8.39%) Multimedia
4 20 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.92%) Legal
6 6 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.46%) Retail
8 2 (0.73%) Agriculture
8 2 (0.73%) Automotive
8 2 (0.73%) Law
9 1 (0.36%) Billing
9 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (18.98%) Developer
2 44 (16.06%) Analyst
3 37 (13.50%) Junior
4 34 (12.41%) Architect
4 34 (12.41%) Junior Analyst
4 34 (12.41%) Lead
5 30 (10.95%) Senior
6 23 (8.39%) Trainee
7 20 (7.30%) IT Support
8 19 (6.93%) Data Engineer
9 17 (6.20%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 17 (6.20%) Data Analyst
9 17 (6.20%) Junior Data Analyst
9 17 (6.20%) Junior Security Analyst
9 17 (6.20%) Security Analyst
10 15 (5.47%) .NET Developer
10 15 (5.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (4.74%) Software Developer
12 11 (4.01%) Ethical Hacker
12 11 (4.01%) Trainee Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.77%) React
2 26 (9.49%) CSS
2 26 (9.49%) HTML
3 24 (8.76%) .NET
4 15 (5.47%) .NET Core
4 15 (5.47%) Blazor
4 15 (5.47%) RESTful
5 13 (4.74%) ASP.NET
5 13 (4.74%) ASP.NET Core
5 13 (4.74%) AWS CDK
6 12 (4.38%) AngularJS
7 11 (4.01%) Node.js
7 11 (4.01%) PySpark
8 8 (2.92%) REST
9 7 (2.55%) Web Services
10 6 (2.19%) Spring
10 6 (2.19%) Spring Boot
10 6 (2.19%) Vue
11 3 (1.09%) Apache Camel
11 3 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.41%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.30%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (5.47%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.01%) Cyberattack
5 9 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.55%) Driving Licence
6 7 (2.55%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.19%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.82%) PKI
8 5 (1.82%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.46%) Taxonomies
10 3 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.09%) Replication
10 3 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.73%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.73%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.03%) Windows
1 22 (8.03%) Windows Server
2 5 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
2 5 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (1.09%) Android
3 3 (1.09%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.09%) Windows 10
3 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.36%) Linux
4 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (44.53%) Mentoring
2 70 (25.55%) Agile
3 63 (22.99%) DevOps
4 56 (20.44%) CI/CD
5 54 (19.71%) Cybersecurity
5 54 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (16.42%) Microservices
7 36 (13.14%) Data Modelling
8 35 (12.77%) AI
8 35 (12.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 34 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (11.68%) Infrastructure as Code
10 32 (11.68%) Migration
11 31 (11.31%) Application Security
12 28 (10.22%) Business Intelligence
12 28 (10.22%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (9.85%) Containerisation
14 25 (9.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 24 (8.76%) ERP
16 23 (8.39%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 93 (33.94%) Python
2 74 (27.01%) SQL
3 69 (25.18%) JavaScript
4 37 (13.50%) C#
5 34 (12.41%) TypeScript
6 28 (10.22%) Java
7 14 (5.11%) R
8 10 (3.65%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.55%) PHP
10 5 (1.82%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.46%) Bash
11 4 (1.46%) Scala
12 3 (1.09%) Go
13 2 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 95 (34.67%) Azure Certification
2 56 (20.44%) AWS Certification
3 47 (17.15%) Microsoft Certification
4 28 (10.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 28 (10.22%) Degree
5 18 (6.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (6.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 17 (6.20%) CompTIA CySA+
6 17 (6.20%) CompTIA Security+
6 17 (6.20%) TOGAF Certification
7 11 (4.01%) AWS Certified Developer
7 11 (4.01%) CEH
8 7 (2.55%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (2.19%) SC Cleared
9 6 (2.19%) Security Cleared
10 3 (1.09%) CCNA
10 3 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.73%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.36%) CCNP
12 1 (0.36%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.01%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.65%) QA
3 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.36%) GDPR
4 1 (0.36%) NIST
4 1 (0.36%) PMO
4 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (10.22%) Docker
2 25 (9.12%) Active Directory
3 21 (7.66%) Hyper-V
4 17 (6.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.73%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (15.33%) Terraform
2 25 (9.12%) Kubernetes
3 14 (5.11%) Ansible
4 7 (2.55%) Grafana
4 7 (2.55%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.73%) VxRail
7 2 (0.73%) WSUS
8 1 (0.36%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.36%) Kibana
Vendors
1 135 (49.27%) Microsoft
2 31 (11.31%) VMware
3 30 (10.95%) ForeScout
4 19 (6.93%) Databricks
5 17 (6.20%) SAP
6 12 (4.38%) Google
7 9 (3.28%) Citrix
8 8 (2.92%) Veeam
9 5 (1.82%) Adobe
9 5 (1.82%) Arista
9 5 (1.82%) Aruba
9 5 (1.82%) Cisco
9 5 (1.82%) NetScout
10 4 (1.46%) Oracle
10 4 (1.46%) Palantir
11 3 (1.09%) Informatica
11 3 (1.09%) Pega
11 3 (1.09%) TIBCO
11 3 (1.09%) WSO2
12 2 (0.73%) Meraki