Azure Architect Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure Architect
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in West Yorkshire is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 56 77
Rank change year-on-year -27 +21 +36
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 1 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.11% 0.71% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.75% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -35.71%
75th Percentile - £588 £475
90th Percentile - £655 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £450 £1,300
% change year-on-year +22.22% -65.38% +76.27%

All Contract IT Job Roles
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 858 535 1,127
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.60% 94.86% 94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 571 321 701
10th Percentile £290 £243 £263
25th Percentile £400 £359 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £656 £675 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +8.33% -2.70% -11.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 26 27
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.41 £12.05
25th Percentile £14.25 £19.50 £12.53
Median hourly rate £19.00 £25.84 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% +66.71% -54.11%
75th Percentile £46.25 £38.75 £37.77
90th Percentile £74.00 £69.57 £53.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £24.18 £14.41
% change year-on-year +13.73% +67.86% -33.77%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Azure Architect job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Architect job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Architect job vacancies in West Yorkshire

Azure Architect
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Architect within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds -27 1 £500 +11.11% 2
Azure Architect
Yorkshire

Azure Architect Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 7 February 2026, Azure Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Yorkshire region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google