Azure Architect Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Architect
UK > England

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in England is £615, 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 361 402 379
Rank change year-on-year +41 -23 -64
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 124 140 298
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.38% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.41% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 103 230
10th Percentile £478 £505 £513
25th Percentile £538 £575 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £725 £750 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £826
UK median daily rate £600 £630 £650
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.08% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66.75
Median hourly rate - - £68.50
75th Percentile - - £70.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £68.50
% change year-on-year - - +3.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in England

Azure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Architect in England

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Architect in England

Azure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Architect in England

Azure Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +41 89 £625 -8.76% 23
South East +45 8 £600 -7.69% 41
Midlands +9 8 £600 -11.11% 36
North of England +9 8 £525 -16.00% 37
North West +11 7 £538 -14.00% 17
South West +45 4 £450 -14.29% 19
East Midlands +8 4 £669 -0.93% 13
West Midlands +2 3 £600 -9.09% 21
East of England - 2 £751 - 24
Yorkshire +4 1 £525 -8.70% 15
Azure Architect
UK

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

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 England region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 124 (100.00%) Azure
2 43 (34.68%) Microsoft
3 42 (33.87%) DevOps
4 38 (30.65%) Social Skills
5 30 (24.19%) Finance
5 30 (24.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 29 (23.39%) Terraform
7 28 (22.58%) CI/CD
8 26 (20.97%) Migration
8 26 (20.97%) SQL
9 25 (20.16%) Serverless
10 23 (18.55%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (18.55%) Cloud Security
11 21 (16.94%) AWS
12 20 (16.13%) PaaS
12 20 (16.13%) Security Cleared
12 20 (16.13%) Kubernetes
13 19 (15.32%) SC Cleared
13 19 (15.32%) SaaS
13 19 (15.32%) IaaS
13 19 (15.32%) Analytics
13 19 (15.32%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (15.32%) Enterprise Architecture
14 18 (14.52%) ARM Templates
15 17 (13.71%) Bicep
15 17 (13.71%) PowerShell
16 16 (12.90%) Firewall
16 16 (12.90%) Agile
16 16 (12.90%) Cloud Native
17 15 (12.10%) Public Cloud

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.23%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.61%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.61%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.61%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.81%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 124 (100.00%) Azure
2 25 (20.16%) Serverless
3 23 (18.55%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (16.94%) AWS
5 20 (16.13%) PaaS
6 19 (15.32%) IaaS
6 19 (15.32%) SaaS
7 14 (11.29%) Entra ID
8 13 (10.48%) GCP
9 12 (9.68%) Azure App Service
9 12 (9.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 12 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (8.87%) Azure AKS
10 11 (8.87%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (8.87%) Azure Functions
10 11 (8.87%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (8.87%) Azure Storage
11 9 (7.26%) Azure API Management
11 9 (7.26%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (5.65%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 16 (12.90%) Firewall
2 5 (4.03%) WAN
3 4 (3.23%) DNS
3 4 (3.23%) VPN
4 3 (2.42%) LAN
5 2 (1.61%) Network Security
6 1 (0.81%) BGP
6 1 (0.81%) DHCP
6 1 (0.81%) HTTP
6 1 (0.81%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.81%) MPLS
6 1 (0.81%) OSPF
6 1 (0.81%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.81%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.10%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (8.06%) Data Lake
2 10 (8.06%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (5.65%) Power BI
4 5 (4.03%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.23%) Metadata
6 3 (2.42%) Big Data
7 2 (1.61%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.61%) Neo4j
7 2 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.61%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.61%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.81%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.81%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.81%) HBase
8 1 (0.81%) Impala
8 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.81%) NewSQL
8 1 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (3.23%) JIRA
2 2 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.81%) GitLab
General
1 38 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 30 (24.19%) Finance
3 11 (8.87%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.23%) Banking
6 4 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.42%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.42%) Retail
8 2 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.61%) Law
8 2 (1.61%) Legal
8 2 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.61%) Publishing
9 1 (0.81%) Back Office
9 1 (0.81%) Billing
9 1 (0.81%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.81%) French Language
9 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.81%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.52%) ARM Templates
2 9 (7.26%) Middleware
3 5 (4.03%) React
4 4 (3.23%) .NET
4 4 (3.23%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (3.23%) Node.js
5 3 (2.42%) Kafka
5 3 (2.42%) SAML
6 2 (1.61%) Express.js
6 2 (1.61%) GraphQL
6 2 (1.61%) OAuth
6 2 (1.61%) OpenID
6 2 (1.61%) Plotly
6 2 (1.61%) RESTful
7 1 (0.81%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.81%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.81%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.81%) PySpark
7 1 (0.81%) REST
7 1 (0.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.90%) Cloud Native
2 15 (12.10%) Public Cloud
3 8 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (6.45%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.84%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.42%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.61%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.61%) IoT
7 2 (1.61%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.81%) AS400
8 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.81%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.81%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.81%) Replication
8 1 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.29%) Windows
2 10 (8.06%) Windows Server
3 8 (6.45%) Linux
4 2 (1.61%) Android
4 2 (1.61%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.61%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.61%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (33.87%) DevOps
2 30 (24.19%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (22.58%) CI/CD
4 26 (20.97%) Migration
5 23 (18.55%) Cloud Security
6 19 (15.32%) Analytics
6 19 (15.32%) Enterprise Architecture
6 19 (15.32%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (12.90%) Agile
8 14 (11.29%) Data Architecture
9 13 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (10.48%) RBAC
10 12 (9.68%) API Management
10 12 (9.68%) Machine Learning
11 11 (8.87%) Artificial Intelligence
11 11 (8.87%) Containerisation
11 11 (8.87%) Data Modelling
12 10 (8.06%) Microservices
12 10 (8.06%) Security Architecture
13 9 (7.26%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 26 (20.97%) SQL
2 17 (13.71%) Bicep
2 17 (13.71%) PowerShell
3 12 (9.68%) Python
4 10 (8.06%) Java
5 7 (5.65%) C#
6 6 (4.84%) Bash
7 5 (4.03%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.61%) VB
8 2 (1.61%) VBScript
9 1 (0.81%) Perl
9 1 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.32%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.06%) Azure Certification
3 10 (8.06%) Degree
4 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.42%) CISSP
6 2 (1.61%) CISM
6 2 (1.61%) MCP
6 2 (1.61%) MCSA
6 2 (1.61%) MCSE
7 1 (0.81%) CCNP
7 1 (0.81%) CCSA
7 1 (0.81%) CISA
7 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.06%) GDPR
2 4 (3.23%) NIST
2 4 (3.23%) QA
2 4 (3.23%) SOC 2
3 3 (2.42%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.61%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.61%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.61%) NCSC
4 2 (1.61%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.81%) GRC
5 1 (0.81%) HL7
5 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.81%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.81%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (12.10%) Active Directory
2 14 (11.29%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (4.84%) Docker
3 6 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (4.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.61%) BitLocker
5 2 (1.61%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.81%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 29 (23.39%) Terraform
2 20 (16.13%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.23%) VxRail
4 3 (2.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (2.42%) Ansible
4 3 (2.42%) SCCM
4 3 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.81%) Nagios
Vendors
1 43 (34.68%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.29%) Databricks
3 6 (4.84%) Google
3 6 (4.84%) VMware
4 4 (3.23%) Oracle
4 4 (3.23%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.61%) BiZZdesign
5 2 (1.61%) EMC
5 2 (1.61%) McAfee
5 2 (1.61%) SAP
5 2 (1.61%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.61%) Symantec
5 2 (1.61%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.81%) F5
6 1 (0.81%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.81%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.81%) Rapid7
6 1 (0.81%) Snow
6 1 (0.81%) StreamSets