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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 5 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 240 180 350
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 16.25% 18.89% 20.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.86% 42.35% 46.24%
Number of salaries quoted 174 124 298
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,500 £45,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,875 £82,548
West Yorkshire median annual salary £56,367 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.48% -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 560 425 757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 37.91% 44.60% 43.71%
Number of salaries quoted 391 279 628
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £34,700
25th Percentile £41,625 £42,875 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £55,500 £55,837
Median % change year-on-year +10.81% -0.60% -2.89%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,057 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 3 February 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 9 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.92%) Confluence
3 7 (2.92%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.25%) IIS
4 3 (1.25%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.42%) Apache
6 1 (0.42%) CMS
6 1 (0.42%) FileNet
Applications
1 11 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) FrameMaker
3 1 (0.42%) MadCap Flare
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
Cloud Services
1 126 (52.50%) AWS
2 47 (19.58%) Serverless
3 46 (19.17%) GitHub
4 30 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (12.08%) GCP
6 24 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (7.08%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (7.08%) Power Platform
9 15 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (5.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (5.83%) Amazon S3
11 13 (5.42%) Amazon EventBridge
11 13 (5.42%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (5.42%) AWS Step Functions
12 11 (4.58%) SaaS
13 10 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (4.17%) Entra ID
14 8 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (3.33%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.00%) Internet
2 17 (7.08%) DNS
2 17 (7.08%) Firewall
3 15 (6.25%) DHCP
4 14 (5.83%) TCP/IP
5 11 (4.58%) WAN
5 11 (4.58%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (4.17%) LAN
7 8 (3.33%) VPN
8 5 (2.08%) NGFW
8 5 (2.08%) VoIP
8 5 (2.08%) VXLAN
8 5 (2.08%) Wireshark
9 4 (1.67%) Network Security
9 4 (1.67%) VLAN
10 2 (0.83%) SAN
11 1 (0.42%) Cisco Firepower
11 1 (0.42%) HTTP
11 1 (0.42%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.50%) SQL Server
2 17 (7.08%) Metadata
3 16 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (6.25%) NoSQL
5 14 (5.83%) DynamoDB
5 14 (5.83%) Power BI
6 9 (3.75%) Tableau
7 7 (2.92%) MySQL
7 7 (2.92%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.50%) Data Vault
8 6 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.08%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.67%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.67%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.25%) Spark SQL
11 3 (1.25%) TIBCO EBX
12 2 (0.83%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 52 (21.67%) Git
2 8 (3.33%) GitLab
3 7 (2.92%) JIRA
4 5 (2.08%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.42%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.42%) Snyk
General
1 119 (49.58%) Social Skills
2 25 (10.42%) Public Sector
3 24 (10.00%) Multimedia
4 17 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.08%) Finance
5 10 (4.17%) Legal
6 6 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.08%) Retail
8 3 (1.25%) Law
9 1 (0.42%) Billing
9 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (23.33%) Developer
2 43 (17.92%) Architect
3 26 (10.83%) Lead
3 26 (10.83%) Senior
4 24 (10.00%) Trainee
5 20 (8.33%) Analyst
6 17 (7.08%) Data Engineer
6 17 (7.08%) Junior
7 16 (6.67%) .NET Developer
7 16 (6.67%) IT Support
8 14 (5.83%) Applications Architect
8 14 (5.83%) Junior Analyst
9 13 (5.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (5.42%) Software Developer
10 12 (5.00%) Trainee Developer
10 12 (5.00%) Trainee Software Developer
11 11 (4.58%) Software Architect
12 10 (4.17%) Data Architect
12 10 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (13.75%) .NET
2 30 (12.50%) React
3 27 (11.25%) CSS
3 27 (11.25%) HTML
4 15 (6.25%) .NET Core
4 15 (6.25%) Blazor
5 14 (5.83%) RESTful
6 13 (5.42%) ASP.NET
6 13 (5.42%) ASP.NET Core
6 13 (5.42%) AWS CDK
7 12 (5.00%) AngularJS
8 11 (4.58%) PySpark
9 7 (2.92%) Node.js
10 6 (2.50%) REST
10 6 (2.50%) Spring
10 6 (2.50%) Spring Boot
11 5 (2.08%) Vue
12 3 (1.25%) Apache Camel
12 3 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (1.25%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.92%) Cloud Native
2 28 (11.67%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 10 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.92%) Driving Licence
5 7 (2.92%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.08%) PKI
6 5 (2.08%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.67%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.25%) Replication
8 3 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.25%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.83%) IoT
9 2 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.83%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.58%) Windows
2 17 (7.08%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (2.08%) Linux
4 5 (2.08%) Mac OS
4 5 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.67%) Android
5 4 (1.67%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (46.67%) Mentoring
2 72 (30.00%) DevOps
3 66 (27.50%) Agile
4 63 (26.25%) CI/CD
5 57 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (20.42%) Microservices
7 46 (19.17%) Data Modelling
8 40 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 39 (16.25%) Cybersecurity
10 38 (15.83%) Application Security
11 36 (15.00%) Migration
12 32 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
12 32 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
13 31 (12.92%) Continuous Improvement
14 30 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
15 29 (12.08%) Computer Science
15 29 (12.08%) 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 71 (29.58%) JavaScript
3 65 (27.08%) SQL
4 48 (20.00%) C#
5 36 (15.00%) TypeScript
6 35 (14.58%) Java
7 14 (5.83%) R
8 10 (4.17%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.08%) Bash
9 5 (2.08%) PHP
9 5 (2.08%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.67%) Scala
11 2 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.83%) Go
12 1 (0.42%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 70 (29.17%) Azure Certification
2 64 (26.67%) AWS Certification
3 55 (22.92%) 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
9 8 (3.33%) SC Cleared
9 8 (3.33%) Security Cleared
10 7 (2.92%) CompTIA CySA+
10 7 (2.92%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (2.92%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.42%) CCNA
11 1 (0.42%) CCNP
11 1 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.42%) CISSP
11 1 (0.42%) OSCP
11 1 (0.42%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.00%) QA
2 10 (4.17%) 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 30 (12.50%) Docker
2 22 (9.17%) Hyper-V
3 20 (8.33%) Active Directory
4 18 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (16.67%) Terraform
2 24 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.25%) Ansible
4 7 (2.92%) Grafana
4 7 (2.92%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.42%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.42%) Kibana
8 1 (0.42%) VxRail
8 1 (0.42%) WSUS
Vendors
1 109 (45.42%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.42%) VMware
3 24 (10.00%) Databricks
4 17 (7.08%) SAP
5 12 (5.00%) Google
6 8 (3.33%) ForeScout
7 7 (2.92%) Veeam
8 5 (2.08%) Adobe
8 5 (2.08%) Arista
8 5 (2.08%) Aruba
8 5 (2.08%) Citrix
8 5 (2.08%) NetScout
9 4 (1.67%) Oracle
9 4 (1.67%) Palantir
10 3 (1.25%) Informatica
10 3 (1.25%) Pega
10 3 (1.25%) SonicWALL
10 3 (1.25%) TIBCO
10 3 (1.25%) WSO2
11 2 (0.83%) ServiceNow