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 £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 117 117
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +60
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 7 8 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.39% 0.42% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.45% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 12
10th Percentile £504 - £525
25th Percentile £567 £505 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £605 £663
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% -8.68% +1.92%
75th Percentile £638 £704 £750
90th Percentile £825 £760 £788
Central London median daily rate £600 £605 £663
% change year-on-year -0.83% -8.68% +1.92%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 1,710 1,789 2,312
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.16% 93.03% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,194 1,097 1,655
10th Percentile £340 £360 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £788
Central London median daily rate £533 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -7.39% +2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 15
10th Percentile £19.94 £14.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.21 £22.00 £20.09
Median hourly rate £34.00 £48.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +100.00% -28.89%
75th Percentile £42.65 £112.00 £42.38
90th Percentile £51.25 £134.95 £63.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +37.25% -21.54%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Azure Architect job vacancy trend 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 10 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Architect in the City of London

Azure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 10 January 2026, Azure Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
3 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Migration
4 3 (42.86%) Network Security
5 2 (28.57%) AI
5 2 (28.57%) Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
5 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (28.57%) Change Management
5 2 (28.57%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
5 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
5 2 (28.57%) Databricks
5 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
5 2 (28.57%) GDPR
5 2 (28.57%) IaaS
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (28.57%) Terraform
5 2 (28.57%) TOGAF

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) IaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (14.29%) Collibra
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) Metadata
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (14.29%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Fabric
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) FMCG
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) AI
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Change Management
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (28.57%) TOGAF
3 2 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Databricks
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Informatica
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
3 1 (14.29%) SAP