Azure Architect Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Microsoft Azure Architect
West Midlands > Coventry

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in Coventry is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 0.50% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £613 £600 £660
% change year-on-year +2.08% -9.09% +7.76%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Coventry

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Coventry. 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 Coventry with a recognized job title 192 99 162
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.52% 100.00% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 68 127
10th Percentile £263 £200 £233
25th Percentile £305 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% -9.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £600
90th Percentile £638 £617 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 1
10th Percentile £15.20 - -
25th Percentile £25.00 £14.50 £76.59
Median hourly rate £26.00 £15.00 £78.19
Median % change year-on-year +73.33% -80.81% +525.48%
75th Percentile £27.21 £15.50 £79.78
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £23.71 £22.50
% change year-on-year +6.07% +5.38% +26.98%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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 Coventry.

Azure Architect job vacancy trend in Coventry

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Architect job vacancies in Coventry.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Architect job vacancies in Coventry

Azure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry

For the 6 months to 29 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 Coventry region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Macie
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Anycast
1 1 (100.00%) AppScan
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) COBIT
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) DMVPN
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Management

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Macie
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Anycast
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DMVPN
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) AppScan
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (100.00%) Metasploit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Kali Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Lisp
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) COBIT
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (100.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable
1 1 (100.00%) Veracode