Azure Architect Contracts in Edinburgh

Microsoft Azure Architect
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in Edinburgh is £644, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 70 110
Rank change year-on-year +5 +40 +7
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.32% 0.25% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.26% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £582 - -
25th Percentile £602 £650 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.04% +7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £677 £750 £675
90th Percentile £691 - -
Scotland median daily rate £700 £700 £700
% change year-on-year - - +25.84%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 581 778 1,245
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 95.46% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 441 887
10th Percentile £211 £206 £247
25th Percentile £400 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £479 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% +0.84% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £545
90th Percentile £638 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 55 12
10th Percentile - £16.10 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.86 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £50.00 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -55.13% +135.18% -10.48%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 £66.00 £54.43
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
% change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Azure Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in Edinburgh

Azure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Architect in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Azure Architect in Edinburgh

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Architect in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Architect in Edinburgh

Azure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Azure Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Hitachi
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Pega
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) VMware