Azure Architect Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Architect
UK > England

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 401 372 319
Rank change year-on-year -29 -53 -40
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 142 298 619
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.59% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.62% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 230 425
10th Percentile £508 £513 £513
25th Percentile £575 £569 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £725
90th Percentile £796 £826 £850
UK median daily rate £630 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.08% +4.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £68.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £68.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year - +3.79% +38.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,513 47,748 67,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,922 33,906 48,257
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,408 1,904
10th Percentile £12.96 £14.34 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.65 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in England

Azure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Architect in England

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Architect in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Architect in England

Azure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Architect in England

Azure Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
London -3 88 £695 +6.92% 18
Midlands +44 21 £675 +25.58%
North of England +35 18 £625 +5.93% 5
West Midlands +39 15 £660 +18.65%
North West +29 13 £625 +11.11% 5
South East -14 9 £650 -5.66% 10
East Midlands +27 6 £675 +28.57%
Yorkshire +25 5 £575 -25.81%
South West +4 5 £525 -19.23% 1
Azure Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 England region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 142 (100.00%) Azure
2 46 (32.39%) Microsoft
3 37 (26.06%) Agile
4 35 (24.65%) DevOps
5 31 (21.83%) Finance
6 30 (21.13%) Migration
6 30 (21.13%) Analytics
7 29 (20.42%) SQL
7 29 (20.42%) Social Skills
8 24 (16.90%) Databricks
9 23 (16.20%) Data Lake
9 23 (16.20%) Data Modelling
10 22 (15.49%) Data Architecture
11 21 (14.79%) Azure Data Factory
11 21 (14.79%) Azure Certification
12 19 (13.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 18 (12.68%) Big Data
13 18 (12.68%) Kubernetes
14 17 (11.97%) Security Cleared
14 17 (11.97%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (11.97%) Roadmaps
15 16 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (11.27%) Power Platform
15 16 (11.27%) PowerShell
15 16 (11.27%) AWS
15 16 (11.27%) PaaS
15 16 (11.27%) IaaS
15 16 (11.27%) Degree
16 15 (10.56%) SC Cleared
16 15 (10.56%) CI/CD

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.82%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.11%) Camunda
3 2 (1.41%) Apache
4 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.70%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (4.23%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.70%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (3.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.70%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.70%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 142 (100.00%) Azure
2 21 (14.79%) Azure Data Factory
3 19 (13.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 17 (11.97%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (11.27%) AWS
5 16 (11.27%) IaaS
5 16 (11.27%) PaaS
5 16 (11.27%) Power Platform
6 12 (8.45%) SaaS
7 10 (7.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 10 (7.04%) Azure Service Bus
8 9 (6.34%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (6.34%) Entra ID
8 9 (6.34%) GCP
9 8 (5.63%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (4.93%) Serverless
11 6 (4.23%) Azure Functions
11 6 (4.23%) Azure Stack
12 4 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.75%) Firewall
2 3 (2.11%) LAN
2 3 (2.11%) WAN
3 2 (1.41%) DNS
3 2 (1.41%) Network Security
3 2 (1.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (16.20%) Data Lake
2 18 (12.68%) Big Data
3 14 (9.86%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (7.75%) Power BI
5 8 (5.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (4.93%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.52%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.82%) OLAP
8 4 (2.82%) OLTP
9 3 (2.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.41%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.41%) GIS
10 2 (1.41%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.70%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.70%) Metadata
11 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.70%) Parquet
11 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.11%) Git
1 3 (2.11%) Jenkins
1 3 (2.11%) JIRA
2 2 (1.41%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (21.83%) Finance
2 29 (20.42%) Social Skills
3 11 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.04%) Banking
5 7 (4.93%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.52%) German Language
7 4 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.82%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.11%) Retail
9 2 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.41%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.41%) Police
9 2 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Automotive
10 1 (0.70%) Billing
10 1 (0.70%) Legal
10 1 (0.70%) Local Government
10 1 (0.70%) Marketing
10 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.75%) .NET
2 7 (4.93%) Middleware
3 6 (4.23%) REST
4 5 (3.52%) OpenID
5 4 (2.82%) .NET Core
5 4 (2.82%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.82%) ARM Templates
5 4 (2.82%) OAuth
5 4 (2.82%) PySpark
5 4 (2.82%) SAML
5 4 (2.82%) YAML
6 3 (2.11%) ADO
6 3 (2.11%) JSON
6 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (1.41%) JSON Schema
7 2 (1.41%) React Native
7 2 (1.41%) RESTful
7 2 (1.41%) SOAP
7 2 (1.41%) XML
8 1 (0.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.93%) Public Cloud
2 6 (4.23%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.82%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (2.82%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.82%) PKI
4 4 (2.82%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.11%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.11%) Grid Computing
5 3 (2.11%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.11%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.11%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.41%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.41%) NHS
7 1 (0.70%) CCTV
7 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.70%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.52%) Windows
2 3 (2.11%) Linux
3 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (26.06%) Agile
2 35 (24.65%) DevOps
3 30 (21.13%) Analytics
3 30 (21.13%) Migration
4 23 (16.20%) Data Modelling
5 22 (15.49%) Data Architecture
6 17 (11.97%) Roadmaps
7 16 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (10.56%) CI/CD
9 13 (9.15%) Data Migration
9 13 (9.15%) Project Delivery
10 12 (8.45%) ETL
10 12 (8.45%) Microservices
11 11 (7.75%) Data Analytics
12 10 (7.04%) API Management
12 10 (7.04%) Data Strategy
13 9 (6.34%) Architectural Patterns
13 9 (6.34%) Data Governance
13 9 (6.34%) Machine Learning
13 9 (6.34%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 29 (20.42%) SQL
2 16 (11.27%) PowerShell
3 13 (9.15%) Python
4 8 (5.63%) C#
5 5 (3.52%) Bicep
6 4 (2.82%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.11%) Java
8 1 (0.70%) Bash
8 1 (0.70%) R
8 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (14.79%) Azure Certification
2 17 (11.97%) Security Cleared
3 16 (11.27%) Degree
4 15 (10.56%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.11%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.11%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.70%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.70%) CITP
8 1 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.63%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.52%) QA
3 4 (2.82%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.41%) GDPR
5 1 (0.70%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (8.45%) Docker
2 7 (4.93%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.93%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (12.68%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.86%) Terraform
3 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.70%) Ansible
4 1 (0.70%) PowerCLI
4 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 46 (32.39%) Microsoft
2 24 (16.90%) Databricks
3 4 (2.82%) MuleSoft
4 3 (2.11%) Google
5 2 (1.41%) Cloudera
5 2 (1.41%) VMware
6 1 (0.70%) Okta
6 1 (0.70%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.70%) Sparx
6 1 (0.70%) Virgin Media
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