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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 237 223 275
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 18.93% 19.79% 21.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 46.47% 47.45% 43.72%
Number of salaries quoted 182 170 224
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,667 £37,875
25th Percentile £35,750 £43,000 £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £53,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.92% -7.83% -0.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £84,875 £75,000 £82,534
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 510 470 629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 40.73% 41.70% 49.68%
Number of salaries quoted 382 331 505
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,813 £42,875 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £69,875 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £88,100
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 17 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 14 (5.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.80%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.95%) Confluence
4 5 (2.11%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.27%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.42%) Apache
7 1 (0.42%) CMS
7 1 (0.42%) FileNet
7 1 (0.42%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) FrameMaker
3 1 (0.42%) MadCap Flare
3 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.53%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.84%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 123 (51.90%) AWS
2 41 (17.30%) GitHub
2 41 (17.30%) Serverless
3 35 (14.77%) GCP
4 26 (10.97%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (10.55%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (7.17%) Entra ID
8 15 (6.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (6.33%) SaaS
9 14 (5.91%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (5.49%) Power Platform
11 12 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (5.06%) Amazon S3
12 11 (4.64%) Amazon EventBridge
12 11 (4.64%) Amazon SQS
12 11 (4.64%) AWS Step Functions
13 8 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (2.95%) Microsoft Purview
15 6 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.28%) Firewall
2 20 (8.44%) Internet
3 15 (6.33%) VLAN
4 12 (5.06%) TCP/IP
4 12 (5.06%) VoIP
5 11 (4.64%) DNS
5 11 (4.64%) SAN
6 9 (3.80%) VPN
7 7 (2.95%) DHCP
8 6 (2.53%) Network Security
9 4 (1.69%) WAN
10 3 (1.27%) LAN
10 3 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.42%) BGP
11 1 (0.42%) HTTP
11 1 (0.42%) Junos
11 1 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.86%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (6.75%) Metadata
2 16 (6.75%) NoSQL
2 16 (6.75%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.06%) DynamoDB
3 12 (5.06%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.64%) MySQL
4 11 (4.64%) Power BI
5 7 (2.95%) Tableau
6 6 (2.53%) Data Vault
6 6 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.53%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.11%) Delta Lake
8 4 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (1.27%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.27%) TIBCO EBX
10 2 (0.84%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (18.99%) Git
2 10 (4.22%) GitLab
3 9 (3.80%) JIRA
4 5 (2.11%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.42%) Appium
5 1 (0.42%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.42%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.42%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.42%) Postman
5 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.42%) Selenium
5 1 (0.42%) Snyk
5 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
General
1 97 (40.93%) Social Skills
2 20 (8.44%) Multimedia
3 18 (7.59%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.33%) Finance
5 11 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.64%) Retail
6 6 (2.53%) Legal
7 4 (1.69%) Marketing
8 3 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.84%) Law
9 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Billing
10 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (24.47%) Developer
2 43 (18.14%) Architect
3 40 (16.88%) Lead
4 34 (14.35%) Senior
5 21 (8.86%) Data Engineer
6 20 (8.44%) Software Developer
6 20 (8.44%) Trainee
7 18 (7.59%) Support Technician
8 16 (6.75%) Analyst
9 15 (6.33%) .NET Developer
9 15 (6.33%) IT Support
10 13 (5.49%) Junior
10 13 (5.49%) Lead Developer
11 12 (5.06%) Applications Architect
11 12 (5.06%) IT Support Technician
11 12 (5.06%) IT Technician
12 11 (4.64%) Engineering Manager
13 10 (4.22%) Data Architect
13 10 (4.22%) Software Architect
13 10 (4.22%) Trainee Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.61%) .NET
2 26 (10.97%) React
3 25 (10.55%) CSS
3 25 (10.55%) HTML
4 18 (7.59%) RESTful
5 14 (5.91%) .NET Core
5 14 (5.91%) Blazor
6 13 (5.49%) AngularJS
7 11 (4.64%) ASP.NET
7 11 (4.64%) ASP.NET Core
7 11 (4.64%) AWS CDK
8 10 (4.22%) PySpark
9 9 (3.80%) Node.js
10 6 (2.53%) Spring
10 6 (2.53%) Spring Boot
11 5 (2.11%) REST
12 3 (1.27%) Apache Camel
12 3 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (1.27%) Vue
12 3 (1.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (15.61%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.86%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (4.64%) Clustering
4 10 (4.22%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.80%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.95%) Driving Licence
7 6 (2.53%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.11%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (1.69%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.27%) Replication
10 3 (1.27%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.27%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.84%) IoT
11 2 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.97%) Windows
2 17 (7.17%) Linux
3 12 (5.06%) Windows 10
4 11 (4.64%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (3.80%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.69%) Android
7 2 (0.84%) Check Point GAiA
7 2 (0.84%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (41.77%) Mentoring
2 70 (29.54%) CI/CD
2 70 (29.54%) DevOps
3 68 (28.69%) Agile
4 47 (19.83%) Microservices
5 45 (18.99%) Data Modelling
5 45 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (15.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 33 (13.92%) Cybersecurity
7 33 (13.92%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (13.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (13.08%) Application Security
10 30 (12.66%) Migration
11 28 (11.81%) Roadmaps
12 27 (11.39%) Architectural Patterns
13 26 (10.97%) Data Pipeline
14 25 (10.55%) Analytics
14 25 (10.55%) Computer Science
14 25 (10.55%) Data Governance
14 25 (10.55%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 96 (40.51%) Python
2 73 (30.80%) SQL
3 63 (26.58%) JavaScript
4 47 (19.83%) C#
5 35 (14.77%) Java
6 31 (13.08%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.06%) R
8 8 (3.38%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.53%) Bash
10 5 (2.11%) Scala
10 5 (2.11%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.69%) PHP
12 2 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.42%) Bicep
13 1 (0.42%) Go
Qualifications
1 56 (23.63%) Azure Certification
1 56 (23.63%) Microsoft Certification
2 54 (22.78%) AWS Certification
3 37 (15.61%) Degree
4 23 (9.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 22 (9.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (8.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 20 (8.44%) TOGAF Certification
7 11 (4.64%) Security Cleared
8 10 (4.22%) AWS Certified Developer
8 10 (4.22%) SC Cleared
9 7 (2.95%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (2.11%) CompTIA CySA+
10 5 (2.11%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.84%) CCSA
11 2 (0.84%) CCSE
12 1 (0.42%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.42%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.42%) MCITP
12 1 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.64%) QA
2 7 (2.95%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.84%) 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
4 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (14.35%) Docker
2 25 (10.55%) Hyper-V
3 14 (5.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (4.22%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (16.03%) Terraform
2 26 (10.97%) Kubernetes
3 16 (6.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (5.49%) Ansible
5 10 (4.22%) Grafana
5 10 (4.22%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.27%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.42%) Kibana
7 1 (0.42%) Nmap
7 1 (0.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 98 (41.35%) Microsoft
2 29 (12.24%) Databricks
3 17 (7.17%) VMware
4 12 (5.06%) Dell
5 11 (4.64%) HP
5 11 (4.64%) SonicWALL
5 11 (4.64%) Supermicro
6 9 (3.80%) SAP
7 6 (2.53%) Google
7 6 (2.53%) Oracle
8 5 (2.11%) Adobe
8 5 (2.11%) ForeScout
8 5 (2.11%) Palantir
9 4 (1.69%) Veeam
10 3 (1.27%) Informatica
10 3 (1.27%) Pega
10 3 (1.27%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.27%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.27%) TIBCO
10 3 (1.27%) WSO2