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 £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 102 113
Rank change year-on-year -12 +11 +50
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 12 16 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.59% 0.89% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.95% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 12
10th Percentile £480 £635 £528
25th Percentile £492 £678 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £730 £663
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +10.19% -
75th Percentile £631 £751 £750
90th Percentile £763 £769 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £700 £656
% change year-on-year -21.43% +6.67% -0.94%

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 1,908 1,681 2,233
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 93.13% 94.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,313 1,045 1,600
10th Percentile £350 £361 £338
25th Percentile £440 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% +2.22% -5.06%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 19
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £16.15
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £17.97
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.08% +57.78% -35.71%
75th Percentile £52.16 £96.19 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £119.55 £49.05
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -25.40% +40.00% -25.93%

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 March 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 March 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 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 7 (58.33%) Migration
4 6 (50.00%) DevOps
5 5 (41.67%) AI
5 5 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (33.33%) Azure Certification
6 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 4 (33.33%) Network Security
7 3 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
7 3 (25.00%) Data Governance
7 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (25.00%) Terraform
7 3 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
8 2 (16.67%) Agile
8 2 (16.67%) Azure AI
8 2 (16.67%) Azure AKS
8 2 (16.67%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 2 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (16.67%) Change Management
8 2 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
8 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
8 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (16.67%) Data Engineering
8 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
8 2 (16.67%) Databricks
8 2 (16.67%) Degree
8 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps

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 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Azure AI
3 2 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Cognitive Search
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (8.33%) Collibra
4 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (8.33%) Metadata
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Data Fabric
3 1 (8.33%) FMCG
3 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Migration
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) AI
4 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 3 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 3 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (16.67%) Agile
6 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
6 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) Generative AI
6 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (16.67%) TOGAF
6 2 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Java
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
1 2 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Databricks
2 2 (16.67%) Foundry
2 2 (16.67%) OpenAI
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Informatica
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (8.33%) SAP