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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 285 136 386
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 14.00% 17.85% 19.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.03% 39.77% 47.07%
Number of salaries quoted 188 114 334
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,150 £37,575
25th Percentile £32,750 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.84% -8.05%
75th Percentile £77,443 £68,063 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,375 £83,675 £82,534
West Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £53,250 £56,500
% change year-on-year -1.41% -5.75% -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 712 342 820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 34.97% 44.88% 40.43%
Number of salaries quoted 493 282 684
10th Percentile £28,800 £32,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,063 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,826 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.41% +5.14% -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 6 April 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 (2.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.46%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.11%) IIS
4 4 (1.40%) Confluence
5 3 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.05%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.70%) Apache
7 1 (0.35%) CMS
7 1 (0.35%) SAS
7 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (7.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (4.56%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.35%) FrameMaker
3 1 (0.35%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 14 (4.91%) SAP ERP
2 4 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.40%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 125 (43.86%) AWS
2 44 (15.44%) Serverless
3 42 (14.74%) GCP
4 41 (14.39%) GitHub
5 30 (10.53%) Power Platform
6 28 (9.82%) Microsoft 365
7 23 (8.07%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (7.37%) Azure AI
9 19 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (4.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (4.91%) Amazon S3
11 13 (4.56%) Amazon EventBridge
11 13 (4.56%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (4.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (4.56%) AWS Step Functions
12 11 (3.86%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (3.86%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (3.51%) SaaS
14 9 (3.16%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.07%) DNS
2 21 (7.37%) DHCP
2 21 (7.37%) Internet
3 19 (6.67%) TCP/IP
4 15 (5.26%) Firewall
5 13 (4.56%) WAN
6 12 (4.21%) LAN
7 11 (3.86%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (2.46%) VPN
9 5 (1.75%) NGFW
9 5 (1.75%) VXLAN
9 5 (1.75%) Wireshark
10 4 (1.40%) Network Security
10 4 (1.40%) VoIP
11 3 (1.05%) NAS
11 3 (1.05%) SAN
12 2 (0.70%) VLAN
13 1 (0.35%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.47%) Power BI
2 21 (7.37%) Tableau
3 18 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (5.96%) NoSQL
4 17 (5.96%) SQL Server
5 14 (4.91%) DynamoDB
5 14 (4.91%) Metadata
6 9 (3.16%) MySQL
7 8 (2.81%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.11%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.75%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.40%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.05%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.05%) Spark SQL
11 3 (1.05%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 45 (15.79%) Git
2 8 (2.81%) GitLab
2 8 (2.81%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.05%) JIRA
4 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 145 (50.88%) Social Skills
2 28 (9.82%) Public Sector
3 23 (8.07%) Finance
4 21 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.37%) Multimedia
5 8 (2.81%) Legal
6 6 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.40%) Retail
8 2 (0.70%) Agriculture
8 2 (0.70%) Automotive
8 2 (0.70%) Law
9 1 (0.35%) Billing
9 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (18.25%) Developer
2 46 (16.14%) Analyst
3 39 (13.68%) Junior
4 36 (12.63%) Junior Analyst
5 35 (12.28%) Architect
6 33 (11.58%) Lead
7 32 (11.23%) Senior
8 21 (7.37%) Trainee
9 20 (7.02%) IT Support
10 19 (6.67%) Data Engineer
11 18 (6.32%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 18 (6.32%) Data Analyst
11 18 (6.32%) Junior Data Analyst
11 18 (6.32%) Junior Security Analyst
11 18 (6.32%) Security Analyst
12 17 (5.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (4.91%) .NET Developer
14 12 (4.21%) Ethical Hacker
14 12 (4.21%) Software Developer
15 11 (3.86%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (12.63%) React
2 23 (8.07%) CSS
2 23 (8.07%) HTML
3 22 (7.72%) .NET
4 18 (6.32%) RESTful
5 15 (5.26%) .NET Core
5 15 (5.26%) Blazor
6 13 (4.56%) AngularJS
6 13 (4.56%) ASP.NET
6 13 (4.56%) ASP.NET Core
6 13 (4.56%) AWS CDK
7 11 (3.86%) Node.js
7 11 (3.86%) PySpark
7 11 (3.86%) REST
8 9 (3.16%) Web Services
9 8 (2.81%) Spring
9 8 (2.81%) Spring Boot
10 6 (2.11%) Vue
11 5 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (1.05%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.93%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.02%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (5.61%) Data Centre
4 12 (4.21%) Cyberattack
5 10 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.46%) Driving Licence
6 7 (2.46%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.75%) PKI
7 5 (1.75%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.75%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.40%) Taxonomies
9 3 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.05%) Replication
9 3 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.70%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 23 (8.07%) Windows
1 23 (8.07%) Windows Server
2 5 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
2 5 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (1.05%) Android
3 3 (1.05%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.05%) Windows 10
3 3 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.35%) Linux
4 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (41.75%) Mentoring
2 71 (24.91%) Agile
3 65 (22.81%) DevOps
4 58 (20.35%) CI/CD
5 55 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (18.95%) Cybersecurity
7 46 (16.14%) Microservices
8 37 (12.98%) AI
9 36 (12.63%) Data Modelling
10 34 (11.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (11.58%) Migration
11 33 (11.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 32 (11.23%) Infrastructure as Code
13 31 (10.88%) Application Security
14 29 (10.18%) Business Intelligence
15 28 (9.82%) Stakeholder Management
16 27 (9.47%) Containerisation
16 27 (9.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 24 (8.42%) ERP
18 22 (7.72%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 94 (32.98%) Python
2 77 (27.02%) SQL
3 66 (23.16%) JavaScript
4 35 (12.28%) C#
4 35 (12.28%) TypeScript
5 30 (10.53%) Java
6 13 (4.56%) R
7 11 (3.86%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.46%) PHP
9 6 (2.11%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.40%) Bash
10 4 (1.40%) Scala
11 3 (1.05%) Go
12 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 98 (34.39%) Azure Certification
2 54 (18.95%) AWS Certification
3 45 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 28 (9.82%) Degree
5 26 (9.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 18 (6.32%) CompTIA CySA+
6 18 (6.32%) CompTIA Security+
6 18 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (5.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 17 (5.96%) TOGAF Certification
8 12 (4.21%) CEH
9 11 (3.86%) AWS Certified Developer
10 9 (3.16%) Security Cleared
11 8 (2.81%) SC Cleared
12 7 (2.46%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (1.40%) CCNA
13 4 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (1.05%) Network+ Certification
15 1 (0.35%) CCNP
15 1 (0.35%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.21%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.51%) QA
3 2 (0.70%) GDPR
3 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.35%) HL7
4 1 (0.35%) NIST
4 1 (0.35%) PMO
4 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (10.53%) Docker
2 26 (9.12%) Active Directory
3 22 (7.72%) Hyper-V
4 18 (6.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (15.44%) Terraform
2 27 (9.47%) Kubernetes
3 16 (5.61%) Ansible
4 7 (2.46%) Grafana
4 7 (2.46%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (1.05%) Kibana
6 3 (1.05%) VxRail
6 3 (1.05%) WSUS
7 2 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 140 (49.12%) Microsoft
2 33 (11.58%) ForeScout
2 33 (11.58%) VMware
3 18 (6.32%) Databricks
3 18 (6.32%) SAP
4 12 (4.21%) Google
5 9 (3.16%) Citrix
5 9 (3.16%) Veeam
6 7 (2.46%) Cisco
7 6 (2.11%) Oracle
8 5 (1.75%) Adobe
8 5 (1.75%) Arista
8 5 (1.75%) Aruba
8 5 (1.75%) NetScout
9 4 (1.40%) Palantir
10 3 (1.05%) HP
10 3 (1.05%) Meraki
10 3 (1.05%) Pega
10 3 (1.05%) WSO2
10 3 (1.05%) Zerto