Azure Architect Contracts

Microsoft Azure Architect
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in the UK is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 414 379 321
Rank change year-on-year -35 -58 -54
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 173 353 767
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.61% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.64% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 275 510
10th Percentile £500 £500 £513
25th Percentile £563 £563 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +7.11%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £725
90th Percentile £788 £825 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £650 £613
% change year-on-year -3.85% +6.12% +11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £68.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.79% +38.95%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 39,893 55,060 83,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,957 38,445 58,715
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,534 2,047
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in the UK

Azure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Architect in the UK

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Architect over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Architect in the UK

Azure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Architect in the UK

Azure Architect
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England -29 140 £650 - 44
London -21 84 £695 +5.90% 21
Work from Home +15 72 £650 - 38
UK excluding London +42 56 £625 -3.85% 21
Midlands +45 21 £675 +21.35% 3
North of England +34 20 £625 +5.04% 6
North West +30 15 £625 +13.64% 6
West Midlands +28 15 £660 +18.65% 3
South East -14 10 £625 -10.46% 9
East Midlands +26 6 £675 +22.73%
South West +7 6 £513 -21.15% 2
Yorkshire +24 5 £575 -25.81%
Scotland +39 2 £700 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 173 (100.00%) Azure
2 56 (32.37%) Microsoft
3 40 (23.12%) DevOps
4 38 (21.97%) Agile
5 36 (20.81%) Analytics
5 36 (20.81%) Social Skills
6 35 (20.23%) Finance
6 35 (20.23%) Migration
7 33 (19.08%) SQL
8 31 (17.92%) Databricks
9 25 (14.45%) Data Lake
10 24 (13.87%) Data Modelling
10 24 (13.87%) Data Architecture
11 23 (13.29%) Security Cleared
11 23 (13.29%) Azure Certification
12 22 (12.72%) Roadmaps
12 22 (12.72%) Azure Data Factory
12 22 (12.72%) Kubernetes
12 22 (12.72%) IaaS
13 21 (12.14%) PaaS
13 21 (12.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 20 (11.56%) AWS
14 20 (11.56%) SC Cleared
15 19 (10.98%) Terraform
15 19 (10.98%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (10.98%) Problem-Solving
16 18 (10.40%) Big Data
17 17 (9.83%) PowerShell
17 17 (9.83%) Data Warehouse
17 17 (9.83%) .NET

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.31%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.73%) Apache
3 2 (1.16%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.58%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.58%) CMS
4 1 (0.58%) IIS
4 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.58%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.58%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.58%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (3.47%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.58%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (4.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.58%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.58%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 173 (100.00%) Azure
2 22 (12.72%) Azure Data Factory
2 22 (12.72%) IaaS
3 21 (12.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 21 (12.14%) PaaS
4 20 (11.56%) AWS
5 19 (10.98%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (9.83%) Entra ID
6 17 (9.83%) Power Platform
7 13 (7.51%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (7.51%) SaaS
8 11 (6.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 11 (6.36%) Azure Service Bus
8 11 (6.36%) GCP
9 9 (5.20%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (5.20%) Serverless
10 8 (4.62%) Azure Functions
10 8 (4.62%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (3.47%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (3.47%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.25%) Firewall
2 6 (3.47%) Network Security
2 6 (3.47%) WAN
3 5 (2.89%) LAN
4 4 (2.31%) VPN
5 2 (1.16%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.45%) Data Lake
2 18 (10.40%) Big Data
3 17 (9.83%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (6.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (6.36%) Power BI
6 7 (4.05%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.89%) Delta Lake
7 5 (2.89%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.31%) OLAP
8 4 (2.31%) OLTP
9 3 (1.73%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.16%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.58%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.58%) DB2
11 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.58%) GIS
11 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.58%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 3 (1.73%) Jenkins
1 3 (1.73%) JIRA
2 2 (1.16%) Git
2 2 (1.16%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 36 (20.81%) Social Skills
2 35 (20.23%) Finance
3 14 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.78%) Banking
5 7 (4.05%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.89%) German Language
8 4 (2.31%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.16%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.16%) Retail
11 1 (0.58%) Automotive
11 1 (0.58%) Billing
11 1 (0.58%) Games
11 1 (0.58%) Legal
11 1 (0.58%) Local Government
11 1 (0.58%) Marketing
11 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.83%) .NET
2 10 (5.78%) Middleware
3 7 (4.05%) ARM Templates
3 7 (4.05%) REST
4 6 (3.47%) .NET Core
4 6 (3.47%) OAuth
4 6 (3.47%) OpenID
5 5 (2.89%) AngularJS
5 5 (2.89%) SAML
6 4 (2.31%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (2.31%) PySpark
7 3 (1.73%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.73%) ADO
7 3 (1.73%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (1.73%) JSON
7 3 (1.73%) React
7 3 (1.73%) RESTful
7 3 (1.73%) XML
7 3 (1.73%) YAML
8 2 (1.16%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.20%) Public Cloud
2 8 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (3.47%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.47%) PKI
3 6 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.31%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (2.31%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.31%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.31%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.73%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.73%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.73%) Grid Computing
5 3 (1.73%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.73%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.16%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.16%) NHS
6 2 (1.16%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.05%) Windows
2 5 (2.89%) Linux
3 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (23.12%) DevOps
2 38 (21.97%) Agile
3 36 (20.81%) Analytics
4 35 (20.23%) Migration
5 24 (13.87%) Data Architecture
5 24 (13.87%) Data Modelling
6 22 (12.72%) Roadmaps
7 19 (10.98%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (9.83%) CI/CD
9 16 (9.25%) Microservices
10 14 (8.09%) Cloud Security
10 14 (8.09%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (7.51%) Architectural Patterns
11 13 (7.51%) ETL
11 13 (7.51%) Machine Learning
12 12 (6.94%) API Management
12 12 (6.94%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (6.94%) Data Migration
12 12 (6.94%) Data Strategy
13 11 (6.36%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 33 (19.08%) SQL
2 17 (9.83%) PowerShell
2 17 (9.83%) Python
3 10 (5.78%) C#
4 7 (4.05%) Bicep
4 7 (4.05%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.89%) Java
6 1 (0.58%) Bash
6 1 (0.58%) R
6 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (13.29%) Azure Certification
1 23 (13.29%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.56%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.09%) Degree
4 7 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.31%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.73%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.58%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.58%) CISSP
8 1 (0.58%) CITP
8 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.58%) SANS
8 1 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.05%) Data Quality
1 7 (4.05%) QA
2 4 (2.31%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.16%) GDPR
4 1 (0.58%) GRC
4 1 (0.58%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (8.09%) Docker
2 9 (5.20%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.20%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.58%) UAG
3 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.58%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (12.72%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.98%) Terraform
3 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.58%) Ansible
4 1 (0.58%) Kibana
4 1 (0.58%) logstash
4 1 (0.58%) PowerCLI
4 1 (0.58%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (32.37%) Microsoft
2 31 (17.92%) Databricks
3 6 (3.47%) MuleSoft
4 4 (2.31%) Google
4 4 (2.31%) Oracle
4 4 (2.31%) SAP
5 3 (1.73%) VMware
6 2 (1.16%) Cloudera
6 2 (1.16%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.58%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.58%) Okta
7 1 (0.58%) Solace
7 1 (0.58%) Sparx
7 1 (0.58%) Virgin Media