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 6 October 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 111 112
Rank change year-on-year -13 +1 +21
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 13 7 13
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.60% 0.41% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.43% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 10
10th Percentile - £504 £474
25th Percentile £513 £567 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £566
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +10.38% -5.63%
75th Percentile £606 £735 £687
90th Percentile £650 £737 £815
Central London median daily rate £525 £625 £566
% change year-on-year -16.00% +10.38% -5.63%

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 2,031 1,618 1,972
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 94.18% 93.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,376 1,094 1,223
10th Percentile £363 £326 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 17
10th Percentile - £16.96 £17.90
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.09 £23.13
Median hourly rate £21.75 £27.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.91% -28.57% +4.05%
75th Percentile £36.81 £39.88 £112.00
90th Percentile £64.65 £64.11 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £26.13 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -4.98% -21.43% -2.78%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
4 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
4 5 (38.46%) DevOps
4 5 (38.46%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 5 (38.46%) Migration
5 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
5 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
5 4 (30.77%) Terraform
6 3 (23.08%) Analytics
6 3 (23.08%) AWS
6 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (23.08%) Bicep
6 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
7 2 (15.38%) AI
7 2 (15.38%) Azure AKS
7 2 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
7 2 (15.38%) Data Architecture
7 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
7 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
7 2 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
7 2 (15.38%) GitHub
7 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning

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 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Azure AKS
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.69%) Azure AI
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Stack
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
1 2 (15.38%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.69%) Data Hub
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) Metadata
2 1 (7.69%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (7.69%) Star Schema
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) General Ledger
2 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) AI Agents
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.69%) Data Fabric
1 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
3 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 5 (38.46%) Migration
4 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
5 3 (23.08%) Analytics
6 2 (15.38%) AI
6 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
6 2 (15.38%) Data Architecture
6 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
6 2 (15.38%) Observability
6 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (7.69%) Architectural Patterns
7 1 (7.69%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Bicep
2 2 (15.38%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) CISSP
2 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) OpenAI
2 1 (7.69%) SAP