Azure Architect Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure Architect
England > Yorkshire

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in Yorkshire is £550, 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 135 80 103
Rank change year-on-year -55 +23 +30
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 2 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.10% 0.43% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.46% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £510 - £580
25th Percentile £525 £425 £813
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £1,300
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -65.38% +76.27%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £1,400
90th Percentile £590 £655 -
England median daily rate £600 £625 £663
% change year-on-year -4.00% -5.66% +1.92%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,810 865 1,748
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.91% 92.32% 93.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,216 519 1,095
10th Percentile £290 £212 £219
25th Percentile £400 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -2.70% -11.06%
75th Percentile £550 £565 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 33 55
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.64 £11.14
25th Percentile £15.88 £16.25 £12.39
Median hourly rate £27.50 £24.18 £14.41
Median % change year-on-year +13.73% +67.86% -33.77%
75th Percentile £56.31 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £42.30 £53.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -3.19%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in 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 Yorkshire.

Azure Architect job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Azure Architect
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
West Yorkshire -27 1 £500 +11.11% 2
Azure Architect
England

Azure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 Yorkshire region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Istio
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) SnapLogic
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Istio
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) SnapLogic