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 £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 101 111
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 +42
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 18 16 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.76% 0.94% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 1.00% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 11
10th Percentile £486 £639 £531
25th Percentile £513 £656 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +7.69% -0.95%
75th Percentile £538 £738 £788
90th Percentile £575 £751 £813
Central London median daily rate £525 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -25.00% +7.69% -1.89%

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 2,247 1,598 2,075
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.45% 93.72% 95.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,507 1,004 1,443
10th Percentile £355 £355 £345
25th Percentile £453 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 16 15
10th Percentile £17.45 £19.25 £15.62
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £29.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.38% +32.22% -35.71%
75th Percentile £52.33 £52.50 £34.69
90th Percentile £65.00 £94.38 £46.15
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.33 £27.00
% change year-on-year -7.82% +4.91% -22.86%

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

For the 6 months to 8 June 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 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (61.11%) Migration
3 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
4 7 (38.89%) AI
5 6 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 6 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 6 (33.33%) DevOps
5 6 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 5 (27.78%) Azure AKS
6 5 (27.78%) GitHub
6 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
7 4 (22.22%) Azure AI
7 4 (22.22%) OpenAI
7 4 (22.22%) Terraform
8 3 (16.67%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 3 (16.67%) Bicep
8 3 (16.67%) Data Engineering
8 3 (16.67%) Foundry
8 3 (16.67%) Generative AI
8 3 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (16.67%) Network Security
8 3 (16.67%) Observability
8 3 (16.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 3 (16.67%) SQL
8 3 (16.67%) Use Case
9 2 (11.11%) Agile

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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) Azure AKS
3 5 (27.78%) GitHub
4 4 (22.22%) Azure AI
5 3 (16.67%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 3 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (5.56%) AWS
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
7 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
General
1 1 (5.56%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Migration
2 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (38.89%) AI
4 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 6 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 6 (33.33%) DevOps
4 6 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (16.67%) Data Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) Generative AI
5 3 (16.67%) Observability
5 3 (16.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 3 (16.67%) Use Case
6 2 (11.11%) Agile
6 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 2 (11.11%) Data Governance
6 2 (11.11%) Data Migration
6 2 (11.11%) Machine Learning
6 2 (11.11%) Microservices
6 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Bicep
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (5.56%) Bash
3 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) OpenAI
3 3 (16.67%) Foundry
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco
4 1 (5.56%) Databricks