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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 240 204 321
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 16.93% 19.94% 21.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.04% 45.54% 45.73%
Number of salaries quoted 175 150 265
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £38,806
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,750 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.74% -8.26% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,125 £83,453
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 545 448 702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 38.43% 43.79% 46.03%
Number of salaries quoted 381 306 569
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £35,886
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,813 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.65% -1.74%

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 21 January 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 12 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.75%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.92%) Confluence
4 5 (2.08%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.25%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.83%) IIS
7 1 (0.42%) Apache
7 1 (0.42%) CMS
7 1 (0.42%) FileNet
Applications
1 9 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) FrameMaker
2 1 (0.42%) MadCap Flare
2 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (5.83%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.83%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 125 (52.08%) AWS
2 47 (19.58%) Serverless
3 46 (19.17%) GitHub
4 33 (13.75%) GCP
5 29 (12.08%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (11.25%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (7.92%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (5.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (5.83%) Amazon S3
10 14 (5.83%) Power Platform
11 13 (5.42%) Amazon EventBridge
11 13 (5.42%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (5.42%) AWS Step Functions
12 12 (5.00%) Entra ID
13 11 (4.58%) SaaS
14 8 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (2.92%) Google Workspace
15 7 (2.92%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.00%) Internet
2 19 (7.92%) Firewall
3 16 (6.67%) DNS
4 13 (5.42%) DHCP
4 13 (5.42%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.75%) VLAN
6 8 (3.33%) VoIP
6 8 (3.33%) VPN
6 8 (3.33%) WAN
7 7 (2.92%) LAN
7 7 (2.92%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (2.08%) SAN
9 4 (1.67%) Network Security
10 2 (0.83%) NGFW
10 2 (0.83%) VXLAN
10 2 (0.83%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.42%) BGP
11 1 (0.42%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.50%) SQL Server
2 17 (7.08%) Metadata
2 17 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 14 (5.83%) DynamoDB
5 12 (5.00%) Power BI
6 8 (3.33%) MySQL
6 8 (3.33%) Tableau
7 6 (2.50%) Data Vault
7 6 (2.50%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.50%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.08%) Delta Lake
9 4 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.25%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.25%) Spark SQL
10 3 (1.25%) TIBCO EBX
11 2 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.83%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 52 (21.67%) Git
2 10 (4.17%) GitLab
3 8 (3.33%) JIRA
4 4 (1.67%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.42%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.42%) Snyk
5 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
General
1 116 (48.33%) Social Skills
2 24 (10.00%) Multimedia
3 21 (8.75%) Public Sector
4 16 (6.67%) Finance
5 13 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.33%) Legal
7 7 (2.92%) Retail
8 6 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.83%) Law
9 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Billing
10 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Marketing
10 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (22.50%) Developer
2 44 (18.33%) Architect
3 31 (12.92%) Lead
4 29 (12.08%) Senior
5 24 (10.00%) Trainee
6 19 (7.92%) Analyst
6 19 (7.92%) Data Engineer
7 17 (7.08%) .NET Developer
7 17 (7.08%) IT Support
8 15 (6.25%) Junior
9 14 (5.83%) Applications Architect
9 14 (5.83%) Software Developer
10 12 (5.00%) Junior Analyst
10 12 (5.00%) Support Technician
10 12 (5.00%) Trainee Developer
10 12 (5.00%) Trainee Software Developer
11 11 (4.58%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (4.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (4.58%) Software Architect
12 10 (4.17%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (13.75%) .NET
2 28 (11.67%) CSS
2 28 (11.67%) HTML
2 28 (11.67%) React
3 16 (6.67%) Blazor
3 16 (6.67%) RESTful
4 15 (6.25%) .NET Core
5 13 (5.42%) ASP.NET
5 13 (5.42%) ASP.NET Core
5 13 (5.42%) AWS CDK
6 11 (4.58%) AngularJS
6 11 (4.58%) PySpark
7 7 (2.92%) Node.js
8 6 (2.50%) Spring
8 6 (2.50%) Spring Boot
9 5 (2.08%) REST
10 4 (1.67%) Vue
11 3 (1.25%) Apache Camel
11 3 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (15.42%) Cloud Native
2 26 (10.83%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (4.58%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.92%) Driving Licence
6 5 (2.08%) Clustering
6 5 (2.08%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.08%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.25%) Replication
7 3 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.25%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.83%) IoT
8 2 (0.83%) PKI
8 2 (0.83%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.42%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.25%) Windows
2 16 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 11 (4.58%) Linux
4 9 (3.75%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (2.92%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.67%) Android
6 4 (1.67%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (43.75%) Mentoring
2 78 (32.50%) DevOps
3 72 (30.00%) Agile
3 72 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 53 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (20.42%) Microservices
6 47 (19.58%) Data Modelling
7 41 (17.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 38 (15.83%) Application Security
9 37 (15.42%) Cybersecurity
10 36 (15.00%) Migration
11 34 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 33 (13.75%) Infrastructure as Code
13 31 (12.92%) Architectural Patterns
13 31 (12.92%) Stakeholder Management
14 29 (12.08%) Computer Science
15 28 (11.67%) Enterprise Architecture
16 25 (10.42%) Containerisation
16 25 (10.42%) TOGAF
17 24 (10.00%) EAI
Programming Languages
1 95 (39.58%) Python
2 68 (28.33%) JavaScript
3 67 (27.92%) SQL
4 47 (19.58%) C#
5 35 (14.58%) Java
5 35 (14.58%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.83%) R
7 8 (3.33%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.08%) Scala
8 5 (2.08%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.67%) PHP
10 3 (1.25%) Bash
11 2 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.42%) Bicep
12 1 (0.42%) Go
Qualifications
1 67 (27.92%) Azure Certification
2 64 (26.67%) AWS Certification
3 59 (24.58%) Microsoft Certification
4 39 (16.25%) Degree
5 29 (12.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 26 (10.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
8 11 (4.58%) AWS Certified Developer
8 11 (4.58%) Security Cleared
9 10 (4.17%) SC Cleared
10 7 (2.92%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (2.50%) CompTIA CySA+
11 6 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.42%) CISSP
12 1 (0.42%) MCITP
12 1 (0.42%) MCSE
12 1 (0.42%) OSCP
12 1 (0.42%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.00%) QA
2 8 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.42%) GDPR
4 1 (0.42%) GRC
4 1 (0.42%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (13.75%) Docker
2 24 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 18 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (6.67%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.25%) vSphere
6 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (16.67%) Terraform
2 26 (10.83%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.25%) Ansible
4 11 (4.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (3.75%) Grafana
5 9 (3.75%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.42%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.42%) Kibana
7 1 (0.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 110 (45.83%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.83%) Databricks
3 25 (10.42%) VMware
4 17 (7.08%) SAP
5 11 (4.58%) Google
6 7 (2.92%) SonicWALL
7 6 (2.50%) ForeScout
7 6 (2.50%) Oracle
7 6 (2.50%) Veeam
8 5 (2.08%) Adobe
8 5 (2.08%) Citrix
8 5 (2.08%) Dell
8 5 (2.08%) HP
8 5 (2.08%) Palantir
8 5 (2.08%) Supermicro
9 3 (1.25%) Informatica
9 3 (1.25%) Pega
9 3 (1.25%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.25%) TIBCO
9 3 (1.25%) WSO2