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 24 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 520 589
Rank change year-on-year +56 +69 +140
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Architect 28 31 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.083% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.089% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 36
10th Percentile £484 £475 £506
25th Percentile £517 £550 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £670
Median % change year-on-year - -10.45% +7.20%
75th Percentile £641 £738 £797
90th Percentile £703 £800 £913
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £650
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 23,106 34,702 44,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 92.89% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,171 22,647 31,568
10th Percentile £293 £291 £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 £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,050 2,652 1,333
10th Percentile £13.99 £12.86 £14.27
25th Percentile £18.11 £16.58 £19.51
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -27.31% -9.35% +78.37%
75th Percentile £58.66 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.44 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -27.03% -12.79% +72.00%

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 24 June 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 24 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 +49 17 £600 -9.09% 26
South East +49 3 £625 - 4
East of England - 2 £530 - 5
North of England +23 1 £525 +5.00%
Midlands +7 1 £400 -40.74% 1
North West +6 1 £525 +5.00%
West Midlands +5 1 £400 -33.33% 1
Azure Data Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 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 28 (100.00%) Azure
2 17 (60.71%) SQL
3 16 (57.14%) Data Modelling
4 15 (53.57%) Data Lake
5 14 (50.00%) ETL
5 14 (50.00%) Data Architecture
6 12 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (42.86%) Databricks
6 12 (42.86%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (39.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
9 9 (32.14%) Finance
9 9 (32.14%) Power Platform
9 9 (32.14%) Power BI
9 9 (32.14%) Data Governance
9 9 (32.14%) Analytics
10 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
10 8 (28.57%) Migration
10 8 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
11 7 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (21.43%) Data Management
12 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
13 5 (17.86%) Data Integration
13 5 (17.86%) AWS
13 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
13 5 (17.86%) Python
13 5 (17.86%) Data Security
13 5 (17.86%) Data Strategy
14 4 (14.29%) Process Improvement

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 4 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.57%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (42.86%) Azure Data Factory
3 11 (39.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 9 (32.14%) Power Platform
5 5 (17.86%) AWS
6 4 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (10.71%) Snowflake
8 2 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (7.14%) GCP
8 2 (7.14%) Serverless
9 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
9 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (3.57%) Azure Functions
9 1 (3.57%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (3.57%) Azure Storage
9 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
9 1 (3.57%) iPaaS
9 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (53.57%) Data Lake
2 12 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (32.14%) Power BI
4 7 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
6 4 (14.29%) Big Data
7 3 (10.71%) Metadata
7 3 (10.71%) NoSQL
7 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (7.14%) Delta Lake
9 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (3.57%) BigQuery
9 1 (3.57%) Data Mining
9 1 (3.57%) Data Vault
9 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
9 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
9 1 (3.57%) Neo4j
9 1 (3.57%) NewSQL
9 1 (3.57%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) ERwin
General
1 9 (32.14%) Finance
2 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Billing
4 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Kafka
1 2 (7.14%) Middleware
1 2 (7.14%) PySpark
2 1 (3.57%) Plotly
2 1 (3.57%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.57%) CMDB
1 1 (3.57%) IoT
1 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
1 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
1 1 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (3.57%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Data Modelling
2 14 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 14 (50.00%) ETL
3 9 (32.14%) Analytics
3 9 (32.14%) Data Governance
4 8 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (28.57%) Migration
5 6 (21.43%) Data Management
6 5 (17.86%) Data Integration
6 5 (17.86%) Data Security
6 5 (17.86%) Data Strategy
7 4 (14.29%) Data Design
7 4 (14.29%) Design Patterns
7 4 (14.29%) Master Data Management
7 4 (14.29%) Process Improvement
7 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (10.71%) Data Ingestion
8 3 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (10.71%) Data Science
8 3 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 17 (60.71%) SQL
2 5 (17.86%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) T-SQL
4 2 (7.14%) Java
4 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.57%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) Databricks
2 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.57%) Aveksa
3 1 (3.57%) CyberArk
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) Salesforce