Azure Architect Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Azure Architect
South East > Berkshire

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in Berkshire is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 118 108
Rank change year-on-year +30 -10 -9
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 5 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.43% 0.30% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.32% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 6
10th Percentile - £605 £550
25th Percentile £563 - £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £688
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £606 £788 £725
90th Percentile £618 - £731
South East median daily rate £600 £650 £689
% change year-on-year -7.69% -5.66% +14.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,085 1,866 1,720
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.05% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 992 1,104
10th Percentile £311 £213 £325
25th Percentile £413 £381 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 116 56
10th Percentile £27.46 £18.75 £17.61
25th Percentile £50.06 £41.44 £22.66
Median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%
75th Percentile £76.77 £70.42 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £86.32 £79.72
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in Berkshire

Azure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Architect in Berkshire

Azure Architect
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Wokingham -12 2 £625 -19.35% 1
Windsor - 2 £575 -
Reading +30 1 - - 2
Azure Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Berkshire region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) C#
3 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 3 (60.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Value Proposition
4 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (40.00%) Business Case
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (40.00%) Power BI
4 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (40.00%) RBAC
4 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (40.00%) API Management

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (40.00%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure API Management
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) IaaS
3 2 (40.00%) PaaS
3 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (40.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure AI
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (40.00%) Power BI
3 1 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (20.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (20.00%) Big Data
3 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (20.00%) HBase
3 1 (20.00%) HDInsight
3 1 (20.00%) Impala
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata
3 1 (20.00%) Tableau
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) OAuth
1 2 (40.00%) OpenID
1 2 (40.00%) SAML
2 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) IoT
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) API Management
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Business Case
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (40.00%) RBAC
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Value Proposition
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (20.00%) Apache Flume
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (20.00%) StreamSets