Azure Architect Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Azure Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in the City of London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 118 139
Rank change year-on-year +7 +21 +24
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 8 12 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.45% 0.57% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.61% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 13
10th Percentile £515 £474 £520
25th Percentile £578 £505 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £566 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.79% -5.63% +14.29%
75th Percentile £723 £687 £675
90th Percentile £736 £815 £695
Central London median daily rate £650 £595 £600
% change year-on-year +9.24% -0.83% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,653 1,976 2,818
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 94.18% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,112 1,248 1,946
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 12
10th Percentile £17.35 £16.49 £16.65
25th Percentile £23.98 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -23.94% -14.97%
75th Percentile £53.50 £85.63 £44.87
90th Percentile £65.39 £137.50 £67.13
Central London median hourly rate £28.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.57% - -15.66%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in the City of London

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Architect job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Architect job vacancies in the City of London

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Architect in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Architect in the City of London

Azure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 18 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 City of London region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Databricks
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (25.00%) PaaS
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
4 1 (12.50%) ITSM
4 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
4 1 (12.50%) Middleware
4 1 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) SAP
4 1 (12.50%) Web Services
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) Windows
4 1 (12.50%) Linux

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (12.50%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) PaaS
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) IaaS
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) LAN
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
1 1 (12.50%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
2 2 (25.00%) Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (25.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) ArchiMate
3 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
3 1 (12.50%) Product Management
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) COBIT
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Databricks
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Workday