Azure Architect Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Azure Architect
London > Central London

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in Central London is £669, 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 111 117 154
Rank change year-on-year +6 +37 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 18 16 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.90% 0.65% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 0.69% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 13
10th Percentile £597 £533 £519
25th Percentile £622 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £669 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% - +22.73%
75th Percentile £723 £791 £750
90th Percentile £751 £811 £943
London median daily rate £625 £685 £650
% change year-on-year -8.76% +5.38% +2.36%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 1,852 2,329 3,676
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 95.22% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,658 2,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £454 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £725
90th Percentile £775 £794 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 32 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.81 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £43.38 £86.65
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in Central London

Azure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Architect in Central London

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Architect in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Architect in Central London

Azure Architect
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London 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
City of London +10 16 £688 +1.85%
Camden - 1 £550 -
Azure Architect
London

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

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 Central London region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (72.22%) Microsoft
3 10 (55.56%) DevOps
4 9 (50.00%) Finance
5 8 (44.44%) PaaS
5 8 (44.44%) Migration
5 8 (44.44%) Cloud Native
6 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (33.33%) Serverless
7 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
7 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
8 5 (27.78%) Public Cloud
8 5 (27.78%) Terraform
8 5 (27.78%) Agile
8 5 (27.78%) Enterprise Architecture
8 5 (27.78%) IaaS
9 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (22.22%) SaaS
9 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
9 4 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (22.22%) Service-Level Objective
9 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
9 4 (22.22%) Cloud Security
10 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (16.67%) GDPR
10 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
10 3 (16.67%) SQL

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

Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) PaaS
3 6 (33.33%) Serverless
4 5 (27.78%) IaaS
5 4 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (22.22%) SaaS
6 2 (11.11%) AWS
6 2 (11.11%) Azure AKS
6 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
6 2 (11.11%) GCP
7 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (5.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Back Office
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) .NET
1 2 (11.11%) ARM Templates
1 2 (11.11%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (5.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Cloud Native
2 5 (27.78%) Public Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (11.11%) Private Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Reinsurance
4 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (5.56%) Low-Code
4 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
4 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
1 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) DevOps
2 8 (44.44%) Migration
3 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 5 (27.78%) Agile
5 5 (27.78%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (22.22%) Cloud Security
6 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (22.22%) Service-Level Objective
6 4 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (11.11%) Cost Management
8 2 (11.11%) DevSecOps
8 2 (11.11%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 2 (11.11%) Service Migration
8 2 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
8 2 (11.11%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) Bicep
3 1 (5.56%) C#
3 1 (5.56%) Java
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.56%) CISA
1 1 (5.56%) CISM
1 1 (5.56%) CISSP
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) GDPR
2 2 (11.11%) NIST
2 2 (11.11%) SOC 2
3 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (5.56%) NIST 800
3 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Terraform
2 3 (16.67%) Ansible
2 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.56%) Nagios
3 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Qualys
2 1 (5.56%) Rapid7
2 1 (5.56%) SAP
2 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.56%) Snow