Azure Architect Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure Architect
England > London

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in London is £695 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 302 273
Rank change year-on-year -12 -29 -39
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 87 206 384
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.49% 0.77% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.80% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 156 244
10th Percentile £510 £511 £513
25th Percentile £563 £575 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £695 £650 £633
Median % change year-on-year +6.92% +2.77% +5.42%
75th Percentile £750 £738 £750
90th Percentile £833 £838 £888
England median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +7.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,596 25,593 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 95.28% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,994 18,537 27,104
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £680
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 292 449
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.45
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.60 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.13 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.72 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in London

Azure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Architect in London

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Architect in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Architect in London

Azure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Architect in London

Azure Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Central London +45 17 £700 +3.70% 4
Azure Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 London region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 87 (100.00%) Azure
2 30 (34.48%) Microsoft
3 21 (24.14%) DevOps
3 21 (24.14%) Finance
4 19 (21.84%) Analytics
5 18 (20.69%) SQL
5 18 (20.69%) Social Skills
6 17 (19.54%) Agile
7 16 (18.39%) Data Modelling
7 16 (18.39%) Data Lake
8 14 (16.09%) Databricks
8 14 (16.09%) Migration
8 14 (16.09%) Roadmaps
9 13 (14.94%) Data Architecture
9 13 (14.94%) Security Cleared
9 13 (14.94%) PaaS
10 12 (13.79%) SC Cleared
10 12 (13.79%) Azure Certification
11 11 (12.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (12.64%) SaaS
11 11 (12.64%) IaaS
11 11 (12.64%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (11.49%) Kubernetes
12 10 (11.49%) Big Data
12 10 (11.49%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (11.49%) Python
12 10 (11.49%) PowerShell
13 9 (10.34%) AWS
13 9 (10.34%) Banking

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (2.30%) Apache
1 2 (2.30%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.15%) Camunda
2 1 (1.15%) CMS
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.15%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.15%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 87 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (14.94%) PaaS
3 11 (12.64%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (12.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 11 (12.64%) IaaS
3 11 (12.64%) SaaS
4 9 (10.34%) AWS
4 9 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (10.34%) Entra ID
5 8 (9.20%) GCP
6 7 (8.05%) Azure Logic Apps
6 7 (8.05%) Power Platform
6 7 (8.05%) Serverless
7 6 (6.90%) Azure Functions
7 6 (6.90%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (5.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (4.60%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (3.45%) Azure Stack
10 3 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (3.45%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.90%) Firewall
2 2 (2.30%) DNS
2 2 (2.30%) Network Security
3 1 (1.15%) LAN
3 1 (1.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.39%) Data Lake
2 10 (11.49%) Big Data
2 10 (11.49%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (8.05%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (6.90%) Power BI
5 4 (4.60%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.60%) OLAP
5 4 (4.60%) OLTP
6 3 (3.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.45%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.15%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.15%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.15%) Metadata
7 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.15%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Git
2 2 (2.30%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (24.14%) Finance
2 18 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.34%) Banking
4 7 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.05%) Financial Institution
5 5 (5.75%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.30%) Police
8 1 (1.15%) Automotive
8 1 (1.15%) Billing
8 1 (1.15%) German Language
8 1 (1.15%) Legal
8 1 (1.15%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.20%) .NET
2 7 (8.05%) REST
3 5 (5.75%) Middleware
3 5 (5.75%) OAuth
3 5 (5.75%) OpenID
4 4 (4.60%) PySpark
4 4 (4.60%) SAML
5 3 (3.45%) ADO
5 3 (3.45%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.45%) ARM Templates
5 3 (3.45%) JSON
5 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (3.45%) RESTful
5 3 (3.45%) YAML
6 2 (2.30%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.30%) JSON Schema
6 2 (2.30%) SOAP
6 2 (2.30%) XML
7 1 (1.15%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.15%) MSMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.60%) Distributed Computing
1 4 (4.60%) PKI
1 4 (4.60%) Security Posture
2 3 (3.45%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.45%) Grid Computing
2 3 (3.45%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.45%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.45%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.30%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.30%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.30%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.15%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.15%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.30%) Windows
2 1 (1.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (24.14%) DevOps
2 19 (21.84%) Analytics
3 17 (19.54%) Agile
4 16 (18.39%) Data Modelling
5 14 (16.09%) Migration
5 14 (16.09%) Roadmaps
6 13 (14.94%) Data Architecture
7 11 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (10.34%) CI/CD
9 8 (9.20%) Data Governance
9 8 (9.20%) Microservices
9 8 (9.20%) Project Delivery
10 7 (8.05%) Data Migration
11 6 (6.90%) Architectural Design
11 6 (6.90%) Architectural Patterns
11 6 (6.90%) Data Analytics
11 6 (6.90%) Data Pipeline
11 6 (6.90%) Data Strategy
11 6 (6.90%) ETL
11 6 (6.90%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.69%) SQL
2 10 (11.49%) PowerShell
2 10 (11.49%) Python
3 6 (6.90%) C#
4 3 (3.45%) Bicep
4 3 (3.45%) Java
4 3 (3.45%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.15%) Bash
5 1 (1.15%) R
5 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (14.94%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.79%) Azure Certification
2 12 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.20%) Degree
4 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.30%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.15%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (1.15%) CITP
7 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.30%) GDPR
3 2 (2.30%) QA
4 1 (1.15%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (9.20%) Docker
2 6 (6.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (11.49%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.20%) Terraform
3 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 30 (34.48%) Microsoft
2 14 (16.09%) Databricks
3 4 (4.60%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.30%) Cloudera
4 2 (2.30%) Google
5 1 (1.15%) Okta
5 1 (1.15%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.15%) Virgin Media