Azure Architect Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Architect
UK > England

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 June 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
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 407 342
Rank change year-on-year +59 -65 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 140 149 307
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.56% 0.40% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.43% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 118 245
10th Percentile £464 £500 £519
25th Percentile £523 £564 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £700 £714 £750
90th Percentile £761 £788 £831
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +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 23,029 34,989 44,402
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 92.85% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,126 22,793 31,523
10th Percentile £293 £290 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £633 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,040 2,704 1,331
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.58 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.31% -10.11% +80.18%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.42 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £37.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.07% -14.77% +76.00%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 +57 100 £625 -1.96% 118
North of England +3 10 £488 -18.75% 59
North West +3 9 £450 -25.00% 28
South East +44 8 £600 -4.00% 103
Midlands +4 8 £600 -11.11% 48
South West +39 6 £450 -25.00% 36
East Midlands +6 4 £575 -14.81% 19
East of England +23 3 £550 - 45
West Midlands +2 3 £600 -9.43% 28
Yorkshire +4 1 £525 -8.70% 27
Azure Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 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.

1 140 (100.00%) Azure
2 56 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 44 (31.43%) Social Skills
4 41 (29.29%) Finance
5 40 (28.57%) DevOps
6 39 (27.86%) Terraform
6 39 (27.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 35 (25.00%) Migration
8 30 (21.43%) Security Cleared
9 29 (20.71%) SQL
10 28 (20.00%) CI/CD
11 27 (19.29%) Cloud Security
11 27 (19.29%) SC Cleared
12 26 (18.57%) PaaS
12 26 (18.57%) IaaS
12 26 (18.57%) Enterprise Architecture
12 26 (18.57%) Serverless
13 24 (17.14%) Firewall
13 24 (17.14%) Analytics
14 22 (15.71%) AWS
15 21 (15.00%) SaaS
15 21 (15.00%) PowerShell
15 21 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
15 21 (15.00%) Kubernetes
15 21 (15.00%) Entra ID
16 20 (14.29%) Bicep
17 19 (13.57%) ARM Templates
17 19 (13.57%) Azure Certification
17 19 (13.57%) Databricks
18 18 (12.86%) GCP

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 (2.86%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.14%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.43%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (1.43%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.71%) Apache
4 1 (0.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.71%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 140 (100.00%) Azure
2 26 (18.57%) IaaS
2 26 (18.57%) PaaS
2 26 (18.57%) Serverless
3 22 (15.71%) AWS
4 21 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (15.00%) Entra ID
4 21 (15.00%) SaaS
5 18 (12.86%) GCP
6 17 (12.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 16 (11.43%) Azure AKS
8 14 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 12 (8.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 12 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (8.57%) Power Platform
10 11 (7.86%) Azure App Service
10 11 (7.86%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (7.14%) Azure Functions
11 10 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
11 10 (7.14%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 24 (17.14%) Firewall
2 5 (3.57%) DNS
2 5 (3.57%) HTTPS
2 5 (3.57%) VPN
2 5 (3.57%) WAN
3 4 (2.86%) SSL
4 3 (2.14%) LAN
5 2 (1.43%) DHCP
5 2 (1.43%) NetScaler
5 2 (1.43%) Network Security
6 1 (0.71%) BGP
6 1 (0.71%) HTTP
6 1 (0.71%) MQTT
6 1 (0.71%) OSPF
6 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.71%) VLAN
6 1 (0.71%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.86%) Azure SQL Database
2 17 (12.14%) Data Lake
3 13 (9.29%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (8.57%) Power BI
5 6 (4.29%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.57%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.86%) Big Data
8 3 (2.14%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.14%) Metadata
8 3 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.43%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.71%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.71%) GIS
10 1 (0.71%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.71%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.71%) NewSQL
10 1 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (2.86%) JIRA
2 3 (2.14%) ERwin
2 3 (2.14%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.14%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.43%) Hudson
4 1 (0.71%) GitLab
4 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 41 (29.29%) Finance
3 11 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.29%) Banking
5 6 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.14%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.14%) Retail
8 2 (1.43%) French Language
8 2 (1.43%) Law
8 2 (1.43%) Marketing
8 2 (1.43%) Publishing
9 1 (0.71%) Billing
9 1 (0.71%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.71%) Legal
9 1 (0.71%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.57%) ARM Templates
2 9 (6.43%) Middleware
3 5 (3.57%) .NET
4 4 (2.86%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (2.86%) REST
5 3 (2.14%) Kafka
5 3 (2.14%) Node.js
5 3 (2.14%) SAML
6 2 (1.43%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.43%) Express.js
6 2 (1.43%) OAuth
6 2 (1.43%) OpenID
6 2 (1.43%) PySpark
6 2 (1.43%) React
6 2 (1.43%) YAML
7 1 (0.71%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.71%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.71%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.71%) Loki
7 1 (0.71%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.57%) Public Cloud
3 10 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (4.29%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.86%) Reinsurance
7 3 (2.14%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.14%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (2.14%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.14%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.43%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.43%) Replication
8 2 (1.43%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.71%) AS400
9 1 (0.71%) CMDB
9 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.71%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.86%) Windows
2 10 (7.14%) Linux
3 6 (4.29%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.43%) Android
4 2 (1.43%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.43%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.43%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (28.57%) DevOps
2 39 (27.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 35 (25.00%) Migration
4 28 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 27 (19.29%) Cloud Security
6 26 (18.57%) Enterprise Architecture
7 24 (17.14%) Analytics
8 18 (12.86%) Data Modelling
9 17 (12.14%) Data Architecture
9 17 (12.14%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (11.43%) ETL
11 15 (10.71%) Agile
11 15 (10.71%) Containerisation
11 15 (10.71%) RBAC
12 13 (9.29%) Identity Access Management
13 12 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
13 12 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (7.86%) API Management
14 11 (7.86%) Security Architecture
15 10 (7.14%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 29 (20.71%) SQL
2 21 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 20 (14.29%) Bicep
4 10 (7.14%) Python
5 8 (5.71%) Java
6 5 (3.57%) Bash
6 5 (3.57%) C#
7 4 (2.86%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.14%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.43%) VB
9 2 (1.43%) VBScript
10 1 (0.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 27 (19.29%) SC Cleared
3 19 (13.57%) Azure Certification
4 10 (7.14%) Degree
5 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.43%) CISSP
6 2 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.43%) MCP
6 2 (1.43%) MCSA
6 2 (1.43%) MCSE
7 1 (0.71%) CCDP
7 1 (0.71%) CCNP
7 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.71%) CISM
7 1 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.71%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.71%) GDPR
2 5 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.57%) SOC 2
3 4 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.14%) NCSC
4 3 (2.14%) QA
5 2 (1.43%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.43%) NIST
6 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.71%) COBIT
6 1 (0.71%) HL7
6 1 (0.71%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.71%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (12.86%) Active Directory
2 13 (9.29%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (4.29%) Docker
4 5 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.43%) BitLocker
6 2 (1.43%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (27.86%) Terraform
2 21 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.00%) Ansible
4 4 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.43%) SCCM
7 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 56 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.57%) Databricks
3 7 (5.00%) VMware
4 5 (3.57%) Google
4 5 (3.57%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.43%) Citrix
5 2 (1.43%) McAfee
5 2 (1.43%) Symantec
5 2 (1.43%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.71%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.71%) IBM
6 1 (0.71%) NetApp
6 1 (0.71%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle
6 1 (0.71%) Qualys
6 1 (0.71%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.71%) SAP
6 1 (0.71%) Splunk
6 1 (0.71%) Trapeze
6 1 (0.71%) Workday