Azure Data Architect Contracts in England

Data Architect - Azure
UK > England

The median Data Architect - Azure daily rate in England is £600, 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 467 511 602
Rank change year-on-year +44 +91 +120
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Architect 18 31 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.074% 0.083% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.090% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 22 42
10th Percentile £485 £439 £523
25th Percentile £506 £553 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +3.17%
75th Percentile £691 £750 £750
90th Percentile £700 £795 £825
UK median daily rate £575 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -14.81% +3.85% +1.76%

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 Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Architect in England

Azure Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Architect in England

Azure Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Architect in England

Azure Data 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 Data 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 +27 12 £581 -16.37% 9
North West +16 2 £613 -18.33% 14
North of England +16 2 £613 -5.77% 32
South East - 2 £548 - 34
Azure Data Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Azure Data 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 Data Architect in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (55.56%) Data Architecture
2 10 (55.56%) Data Modelling
3 8 (44.44%) SQL
3 8 (44.44%) Data Lake
4 7 (38.89%) Databricks
5 6 (33.33%) Data Governance
5 6 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
6 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
6 5 (27.78%) AWS
6 5 (27.78%) Python
6 5 (27.78%) ETL
6 5 (27.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
7 4 (22.22%) Analytics
7 4 (22.22%) Data Integration
7 4 (22.22%) Finance
8 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
8 3 (16.67%) Data Security
8 3 (16.67%) Migration
8 3 (16.67%) Power BI
8 3 (16.67%) Apache Spark
8 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
8 3 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
8 3 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (16.67%) Snowflake
8 3 (16.67%) Metadata

Azure Data 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 3 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 3 (16.67%) Snowflake
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (11.11%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Storage
5 1 (5.56%) SaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) Data Lake
2 6 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (16.67%) Metadata
3 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 3 (16.67%) Power BI
4 2 (11.11%) Big Data
4 2 (11.11%) Neo4j
5 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
5 1 (5.56%) Data Mining
5 1 (5.56%) Data Vault
5 1 (5.56%) Flink
5 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.56%) NewSQL
5 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Billing
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Middleware
1 2 (11.11%) Plotly
1 2 (11.11%) React
2 1 (5.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
1 1 (5.56%) IoT
1 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.56%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (5.56%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Data Architecture
1 10 (55.56%) Data Modelling
2 6 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 5 (27.78%) ETL
4 4 (22.22%) Analytics
4 4 (22.22%) Data Integration
5 3 (16.67%) Data Security
5 3 (16.67%) Migration
5 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (11.11%) Data Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Data Management
6 2 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (11.11%) Data Strategy
6 2 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (11.11%) Machine Learning
6 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (11.11%) Storage Management
6 2 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) SQL
2 5 (27.78%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
2 1 (5.56%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Databricks
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Hitachi
3 1 (5.56%) Pega
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.56%) SAP