Azure Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Azure Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 675 583 668
Rank change year-on-year -92 +85 -201
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Architect 83 168 191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.28% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.32% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 68 133 141
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £87,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £87,188 £97,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% +5.88% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,966 52,773 69,497
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 89.23% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 47,979 30,132 42,817
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in the UK excluding London

Azure Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Azure Architect in the UK excluding London

Azure Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Architect in the UK excluding London

Azure Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +34 22 £68,125 -22.14% 4
Midlands -24 20 £75,000 +3.45% 5
West Midlands +7 16 £75,000 - 5
South East -44 15 £60,000 -36.84% 14
Scotland -68 13 £67,500 -15.63%
North West -1 12 £70,000 -22.22% 4
Yorkshire +80 10 £67,500 -21.74%
South West -26 6 £91,250 -6.41% 3
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
Wales +10 3 £50,000 -20.00%
East Midlands -30 3 £70,000 -3.45%
Azure Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Azure Architect 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 permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 83 (100.00%) Azure
2 33 (39.76%) Microsoft
3 26 (31.33%) Roadmaps
4 21 (25.30%) DevOps
5 18 (21.69%) Finance
5 18 (21.69%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (21.69%) Social Skills
6 17 (20.48%) SQL
7 16 (19.28%) Kubernetes
7 16 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (18.07%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (18.07%) Cloud Security
9 13 (15.66%) Migration
10 11 (13.25%) Azure Certification
10 11 (13.25%) Azure AKS
10 11 (13.25%) Public Cloud
10 11 (13.25%) C#
11 10 (12.05%) Presales
12 9 (10.84%) .NET Core
12 9 (10.84%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (10.84%) Design Patterns
12 9 (10.84%) .NET
12 9 (10.84%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (10.84%) JavaScript
12 9 (10.84%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (10.84%) Agile
12 9 (10.84%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (9.64%) Analytics
13 8 (9.64%) HTML5
13 8 (9.64%) Entity Framework

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (3.61%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 83 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (21.69%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (13.25%) Azure AKS
4 9 (10.84%) Azure Service Bus
5 8 (9.64%) Azure App Service
5 8 (9.64%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (9.64%) Power Platform
6 7 (8.43%) AWS
7 6 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (7.23%) OneDrive
7 6 (7.23%) Serverless
8 4 (4.82%) Azure API Management
8 4 (4.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (4.82%) PaaS
9 3 (3.61%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.61%) IaaS
9 3 (3.61%) SaaS
10 2 (2.41%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.82%) DNS
1 4 (4.82%) Network Security
2 2 (2.41%) Firewall
2 2 (2.41%) SD-WAN
2 2 (2.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.84%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (9.64%) Data Lake
2 8 (9.64%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.02%) Power BI
4 4 (4.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (3.61%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.61%) Big Data
5 3 (3.61%) OLAP
5 3 (3.61%) Spark SQL
6 2 (2.41%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (2.41%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.20%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (9.64%) Git
2 2 (2.41%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (21.69%) Finance
1 18 (21.69%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.07%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.64%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (8.43%) Banking
4 7 (8.43%) Retail Banking
5 4 (4.82%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.20%) Legal
8 1 (1.20%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.84%) .NET
1 9 (10.84%) .NET Core
2 8 (9.64%) .NET Framework
2 8 (9.64%) ASP.NET
2 8 (9.64%) ASP.NET 2.0
2 8 (9.64%) ASP.NET Web API
2 8 (9.64%) Blazor
2 8 (9.64%) CSS
2 8 (9.64%) Entity Framework
2 8 (9.64%) HTML
2 8 (9.64%) HTML5
2 8 (9.64%) JSON
2 8 (9.64%) Razor View Engine
2 8 (9.64%) RESTful
2 8 (9.64%) XML
2 8 (9.64%) YAML
3 3 (3.61%) REST
3 3 (3.61%) SOAP
4 1 (1.20%) J2EE
4 1 (1.20%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.25%) Public Cloud
2 5 (6.02%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.02%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.82%) Blog
3 4 (4.82%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.82%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (4.82%) Replication
4 3 (3.61%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.20%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.41%) Linux
1 2 (2.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (31.33%) Roadmaps
2 21 (25.30%) DevOps
3 16 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (18.07%) Cloud Security
5 13 (15.66%) Migration
6 10 (12.05%) Presales
7 9 (10.84%) Agile
7 9 (10.84%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (10.84%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (10.84%) Design Patterns
8 8 (9.64%) Analytics
8 8 (9.64%) Artificial Intelligence
8 8 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (9.64%) High Availability
8 8 (9.64%) OO
8 8 (9.64%) Product Management
8 8 (9.64%) Product Roadmap
8 8 (9.64%) Technology Roadmap
8 8 (9.64%) Web Development
9 7 (8.43%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 17 (20.48%) SQL
2 11 (13.25%) C#
3 9 (10.84%) JavaScript
4 8 (9.64%) T-SQL
5 7 (8.43%) Python
6 4 (4.82%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.82%) R
7 3 (3.61%) Scala
8 1 (1.20%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (13.25%) Azure Certification
2 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.61%) Degree
4 2 (2.41%) CCNA
4 2 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.41%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.20%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.20%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.82%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (8.43%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.41%) vSphere
4 1 (1.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (19.28%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.23%) Terraform
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.20%) Ansible
4 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 33 (39.76%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.43%) Databricks
3 6 (7.23%) VMware
4 4 (4.82%) Adobe
4 4 (4.82%) Apple
5 2 (2.41%) Cisco
5 2 (2.41%) Veeam
6 1 (1.20%) BiZZdesign