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 9 December 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 117 123
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 +58
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 9 11 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.50% 0.51% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.55% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 11
10th Percentile £504 £492 £525
25th Percentile £567 £505 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £638 £654 £691
90th Percentile £825 £732 £738
Central London median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%

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 1,677 1,989 2,476
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 93.12% 93.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,176 1,227 1,762
10th Percentile £325 £363 £353
25th Percentile £419 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £686 £688
90th Percentile £771 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 14
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.40 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £23.25 £19.51
Median hourly rate £34.00 £48.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +95.92% -42.35%
75th Percentile £52.19 £107.13 £44.56
90th Percentile £64.30 £129.85 £66.25
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £24.99
% change year-on-year -20.00% +40.08% -40.51%

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025, 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 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
3 4 (44.44%) Migration
3 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) Databricks
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) GDPR
4 3 (33.33%) IaaS
4 3 (33.33%) Network Security
4 3 (33.33%) TOGAF
5 2 (22.22%) AI
5 2 (22.22%) Analytics
5 2 (22.22%) Azure Certification
5 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Change Management
5 2 (22.22%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
5 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
5 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (22.22%) PaaS
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
5 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (11.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) IaaS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (22.22%) PaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (11.11%) Collibra
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (11.11%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) Metadata
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
General
1 7 (77.78%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (11.11%) Legal
4 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
1 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Data Fabric
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) FMCG
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Migration
1 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 2 (22.22%) AI
3 2 (22.22%) Change Management
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (22.22%) Translating Business Requirements
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) GDPR
2 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 2 (22.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (11.11%) COBIT
3 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (11.11%) NIST
3 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Databricks
3 2 (22.22%) Salesforce
3 2 (22.22%) VMware
4 1 (11.11%) Informatica
4 1 (11.11%) SAP
4 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (11.11%) Workday