Azure Architect Contracts in Birmingham

Microsoft Azure Architect
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in Birmingham is £643 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 76 74
Rank change year-on-year +23 -2 -12
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 10 2 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.33% 0.23% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.43% 0.23% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 12
10th Percentile £600 - £557
25th Percentile £603 £563 £567
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 £575 £628
Median % change year-on-year +11.74% -8.37% +4.58%
75th Percentile £735 £588 £700
90th Percentile £750 - £861
West Midlands median daily rate £660 £556 £650
% change year-on-year +18.65% -14.42% +10.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 698 854 1,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 96.61% 95.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 566 907
10th Percentile £254 £263 £225
25th Percentile £350 £376 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.70% +5.26% +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 35 21
10th Percentile £13.10 £11.40 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.88 £12.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +14.42% -2.89%
75th Percentile £48.75 £24.94 £18.00
90th Percentile £57.91 £60.50 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% +9.68%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured Azure Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in Birmingham

Azure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Architect in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Azure Architect in Birmingham

Azure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Azure Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (80.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Finance
4 3 (30.00%) Migration
4 3 (30.00%) User Stories
4 3 (30.00%) Wireframes
4 3 (30.00%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (30.00%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (20.00%) API Management
5 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (20.00%) Data Science
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) IT Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Data Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (20.00%) Databricks
5 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
5 2 (20.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 2 (20.00%) React Native
5 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) LAN
1 2 (20.00%) WAN
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) German Language
2 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Middleware
1 2 (20.00%) React Native
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
1 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Impact Assessments
2 3 (30.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) User Stories
2 3 (30.00%) Wireframes
3 2 (20.00%) API Management
3 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Data Science
3 2 (20.00%) Data Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) IT Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) Time Management
3 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) VMware