Azure Architect Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Microsoft Azure Architect
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in Birmingham is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 September 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
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 62 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.17% 0.28% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.29% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
West Midlands median daily rate £600 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +9.47%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 521 678 827
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.37% 95.63% 96.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 455 558
10th Percentile £184 £206 £260
25th Percentile £350 £368 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £540 £622 £600
90th Percentile £642 £729 £702
West Midlands median daily rate £487 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.55% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 16 29
10th Percentile - £15.61 £13.46
25th Percentile £12.62 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £31.81 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year -55.99% +51.70% +16.50%
75th Percentile £26.51 £50.63 £35.08
90th Percentile £33.72 £55.13 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £19.59 £20.99
% change year-on-year +28.38% -6.65% +16.58%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in Birmingham

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Architect job vacancies in Birmingham.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Architect job vacancies in Birmingham

Azure Architect Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 8 September 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 Birmingham region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Zachman Framework
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Records Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Records Management
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Zachman Framework
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft