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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 3 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 216 262 329
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 19.42% 18.65% 22.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 50.00% 50.29% 45.57%
Number of salaries quoted 176 198 258
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,875 £37,125
25th Percentile £35,750 £46,563 £44,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,215 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.72% -3.97% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,100 £81,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £58,750 £55,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year +5.86% -1.77% -0.88%

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 432 521 722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 38.85% 37.08% 48.82%
Number of salaries quoted 347 369 565
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,600 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,625 £47,231 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% -6.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £88,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £57,826 £59,526
% change year-on-year +3.76% -2.86% +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 9 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 (6.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.24%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.24%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.85%) Confluence
4 3 (1.39%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.46%) Apache
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.46%) FileNet
5 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.46%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 108 (50.00%) AWS
2 34 (15.74%) GCP
3 26 (12.04%) GitHub
3 26 (12.04%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (11.57%) Entra ID
5 24 (11.11%) Serverless
6 20 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (6.48%) SaaS
8 9 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (3.70%) Power Platform
10 7 (3.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (3.24%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (3.24%) OCI
11 5 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.31%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.85%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 33 (15.28%) Firewall
2 27 (12.50%) VLAN
3 20 (9.26%) VPN
4 18 (8.33%) TCP/IP
5 15 (6.94%) Network Security
6 13 (6.02%) Internet
6 13 (6.02%) SAN
6 13 (6.02%) VoIP
7 12 (5.56%) DNS
8 10 (4.63%) DHCP
9 7 (3.24%) BGP
10 6 (2.78%) OSPF
11 1 (0.46%) HTTP
11 1 (0.46%) Junos
11 1 (0.46%) MQTT
11 1 (0.46%) WAN
11 1 (0.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (7.41%) MongoDB
3 13 (6.02%) NoSQL
4 11 (5.09%) Metadata
4 11 (5.09%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.70%) MySQL
6 6 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.78%) Power BI
7 5 (2.31%) Data Vault
7 5 (2.31%) Delta Lake
7 5 (2.31%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.85%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.93%) Big Data
9 2 (0.93%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.93%) Redis
9 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.93%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 27 (12.50%) Git
2 11 (5.09%) JIRA
3 6 (2.78%) GitLab
4 5 (2.31%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.93%) 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 67 (31.02%) Social Skills
2 16 (7.41%) Public Sector
3 14 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.02%) Finance
4 13 (6.02%) Multimedia
5 10 (4.63%) Retail
6 7 (3.24%) Legal
7 4 (1.85%) Marketing
7 4 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.39%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.93%) Banking
9 2 (0.93%) 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 48 (22.22%) Developer
2 45 (20.83%) Lead
3 34 (15.74%) Architect
4 30 (13.89%) Senior
5 20 (9.26%) Software Developer
6 18 (8.33%) Lead Developer
7 17 (7.87%) Data Engineer
7 17 (7.87%) Support Technician
8 13 (6.02%) Engineering Manager
8 13 (6.02%) Trainee
9 12 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (5.09%) Lead Software Developer
11 10 (4.63%) Data Architect
11 10 (4.63%) Data Manager
11 10 (4.63%) IT Support
11 10 (4.63%) IT Support Technician
11 10 (4.63%) IT Technician
11 10 (4.63%) Lead DevOps
11 10 (4.63%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (16.20%) .NET
2 18 (8.33%) CSS
2 18 (8.33%) HTML
3 17 (7.87%) React
4 15 (6.94%) Node.js
5 13 (6.02%) AngularJS
6 11 (5.09%) RESTful
7 8 (3.70%) .NET Core
8 7 (3.24%) PySpark
9 6 (2.78%) Blazor
10 5 (2.31%) Spring
10 5 (2.31%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.85%) ASP.NET
12 3 (1.39%) Apache Camel
12 3 (1.39%) ASP.NET Core
12 3 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (1.39%) Kafka
12 3 (1.39%) REST
12 3 (1.39%) Vue
12 3 (1.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.96%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.02%) Clustering
2 13 (6.02%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.31%) Driving Licence
5 5 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.85%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.85%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.39%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.93%) IoT
8 2 (0.93%) NHS
8 2 (0.93%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.93%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (15.74%) Windows
2 20 (9.26%) Linux
3 18 (8.33%) Windows 10
4 13 (6.02%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (3.70%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.93%) Check Point GAiA
6 2 (0.93%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.46%) Android
7 1 (0.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (38.43%) Mentoring
2 60 (27.78%) DevOps
3 57 (26.39%) CI/CD
4 49 (22.69%) Agile
5 45 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (16.20%) Data Modelling
7 32 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (13.89%) Microservices
9 28 (12.96%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (12.04%) Data Engineering
10 26 (12.04%) Data Pipeline
10 26 (12.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 25 (11.57%) Software Engineering
12 24 (11.11%) Roadmaps
13 22 (10.19%) Data Governance
14 21 (9.72%) Architectural Patterns
14 21 (9.72%) Cybersecurity
14 21 (9.72%) Technical Leadership
15 20 (9.26%) Analytics
15 20 (9.26%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 80 (37.04%) Python
2 64 (29.63%) SQL
3 50 (23.15%) JavaScript
4 44 (20.37%) C#
5 31 (14.35%) Java
6 21 (9.72%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.70%) R
8 6 (2.78%) Bash
8 6 (2.78%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.85%) Scala
10 3 (1.39%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.93%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.93%) Go
11 2 (0.93%) SOQL
12 1 (0.46%) Bicep
12 1 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 44 (20.37%) Microsoft Certification
2 35 (16.20%) Degree
3 30 (13.89%) AWS Certification
4 29 (13.43%) Azure Certification
5 15 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (6.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 14 (6.48%) Security Cleared
7 13 (6.02%) SC Cleared
8 12 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.93%) CCSA
11 2 (0.93%) CCSE
11 2 (0.93%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.46%) CREST Certified
12 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.46%) OSCE
12 1 (0.46%) OSCP
12 1 (0.46%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.56%) QA
2 5 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.85%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.39%) 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 26 (12.04%) Docker
2 25 (11.57%) Hyper-V
3 15 (6.94%) Active Directory
4 9 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (13.43%) Terraform
2 25 (11.57%) Kubernetes
3 22 (10.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (7.87%) Ansible
5 11 (5.09%) Grafana
5 11 (5.09%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.85%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.46%) Kibana
7 1 (0.46%) Nmap
7 1 (0.46%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 78 (36.11%) Microsoft
2 34 (15.74%) Databricks
3 14 (6.48%) Dell
4 13 (6.02%) HP
4 13 (6.02%) SonicWALL
4 13 (6.02%) Supermicro
5 9 (4.17%) VMware
6 5 (2.31%) Oracle
6 5 (2.31%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.85%) Adobe
7 4 (1.85%) Google
7 4 (1.85%) Palantir
8 3 (1.39%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.39%) Pega
8 3 (1.39%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.39%) WSO2
9 2 (0.93%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.93%) Informatica
9 2 (0.93%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.93%) TIBCO