Azure Architect Contracts in Manchester

Microsoft Azure Architect
North West > Manchester

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in Manchester is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 109 125
Rank change year-on-year +25 +16 -42
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 10 7 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.69% 0.38% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.40% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 18
10th Percentile £498 £480 £523
25th Percentile £506 £525 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.20% +11.36%
75th Percentile £628 £605 £638
90th Percentile £750 £636 £694
North West median daily rate £625 £550 £613
% change year-on-year +13.64% -10.20% +11.36%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,389 1,762 2,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.79% 96.39% 97.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 966 1,309 1,966
10th Percentile £313 £313 £226
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £585 £594 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £660
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 45 58
10th Percentile £12.05 £15.44 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £18.50 £12.02
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +100.00% +7.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £24.69
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £34.13
North West median hourly rate £27.00 £30.76 £21.00
% change year-on-year -12.21% +46.45% +16.99%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in Manchester

Azure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Architect in Manchester

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Architect in Manchester over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Architect in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 Manchester region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Data Architecture
4 3 (30.00%) Databricks
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (20.00%) Hadoop
5 2 (20.00%) API Management
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Apache Spark
5 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
5 2 (20.00%) Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Time Management
5 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Firewall
5 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
5 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (20.00%) ETL
5 2 (20.00%) Data Management

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure App Service
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) Big Data
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (10.00%) GIS
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (20.00%) German Language
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) API Management
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Data Management
3 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) ETL
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Time Management
4 1 (10.00%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Bicep
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) Google