Azure Architect Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure Architect
England > London

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in London is £625, 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 264 305 296
Rank change year-on-year +41 -9 -22
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 89 86 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.71% 0.48% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.52% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 64 156
10th Percentile £482 £508 £511
25th Percentile £525 £563 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £685 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.76% +5.38% +2.36%
75th Percentile £732 £750 £738
90th Percentile £798 £843 £838
England median daily rate £615 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -5.38% - +4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in London

Azure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Architect in London

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Architect in London

Azure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Architect in London

Azure Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +6 18 £669 -0.93% 3
Azure Architect
England

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

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 London region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 89 (100.00%) Azure
2 31 (34.83%) DevOps
3 28 (31.46%) Social Skills
4 27 (30.34%) Microsoft
5 26 (29.21%) Finance
6 25 (28.09%) Terraform
6 25 (28.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (23.60%) CI/CD
7 21 (23.60%) Cloud Security
7 21 (23.60%) Serverless
8 19 (21.35%) AWS
9 18 (20.22%) Migration
10 16 (17.98%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (17.98%) Security Cleared
10 16 (17.98%) Kubernetes
11 15 (16.85%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (16.85%) PaaS
11 15 (16.85%) SC Cleared
11 15 (16.85%) Enterprise Architecture
11 15 (16.85%) SQL
12 14 (15.73%) SaaS
12 14 (15.73%) IaaS
12 14 (15.73%) Bicep
12 14 (15.73%) ARM Templates
13 13 (14.61%) Firewall
14 12 (13.48%) Cloud Native
14 12 (13.48%) GCP
15 11 (12.36%) Agile
15 11 (12.36%) PowerShell
16 10 (11.24%) Data Architecture

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (2.25%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 89 (100.00%) Azure
2 21 (23.60%) Serverless
3 19 (21.35%) AWS
4 15 (16.85%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (16.85%) PaaS
5 14 (15.73%) IaaS
5 14 (15.73%) SaaS
6 12 (13.48%) GCP
7 10 (11.24%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 10 (11.24%) Azure Functions
8 8 (8.99%) Azure AKS
8 8 (8.99%) Azure App Service
8 8 (8.99%) Azure Storage
8 8 (8.99%) Entra ID
8 8 (8.99%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (7.87%) Azure API Management
9 7 (7.87%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (7.87%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (7.87%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (6.74%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.61%) Firewall
2 4 (4.49%) VPN
3 3 (3.37%) WAN
4 2 (2.25%) DNS
4 2 (2.25%) Network Security
5 1 (1.12%) BGP
5 1 (1.12%) DHCP
5 1 (1.12%) HTTP
5 1 (1.12%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.12%) LAN
5 1 (1.12%) MPLS
5 1 (1.12%) OSPF
5 1 (1.12%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (7.87%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (6.74%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.25%) Metadata
4 2 (2.25%) Neo4j
4 2 (2.25%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.25%) Power BI
5 1 (1.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.12%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.12%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.12%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.12%) Flink
5 1 (1.12%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.25%) JIRA
2 1 (1.12%) GitLab
General
1 28 (31.46%) Social Skills
2 26 (29.21%) Finance
3 9 (10.11%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.49%) Banking
6 3 (3.37%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.37%) Retail
7 2 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.25%) Law
7 2 (2.25%) Legal
7 2 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Back Office
8 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.12%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.73%) ARM Templates
2 7 (7.87%) Middleware
3 5 (5.62%) React
4 3 (3.37%) .NET
4 3 (3.37%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (2.25%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.25%) Kafka
5 2 (2.25%) Node.js
5 2 (2.25%) Plotly
5 2 (2.25%) RESTful
6 1 (1.12%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.12%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.12%) REST
6 1 (1.12%) SAML
6 1 (1.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.48%) Cloud Native
2 10 (11.24%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.62%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.62%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.37%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.25%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.25%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.12%) AS400
6 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.12%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.12%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.12%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.99%) Windows
2 7 (7.87%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (34.83%) DevOps
2 25 (28.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (23.60%) CI/CD
3 21 (23.60%) Cloud Security
4 18 (20.22%) Migration
5 16 (17.98%) Stakeholder Management
6 15 (16.85%) Enterprise Architecture
7 11 (12.36%) Agile
8 10 (11.24%) Analytics
8 10 (11.24%) Data Architecture
9 9 (10.11%) API Management
9 9 (10.11%) Containerisation
9 9 (10.11%) RBAC
9 9 (10.11%) Security Architecture
10 8 (8.99%) High Availability
10 8 (8.99%) Identity Management
10 8 (8.99%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (7.87%) Cost Management
11 7 (7.87%) Information Security
11 7 (7.87%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.85%) SQL
2 14 (15.73%) Bicep
3 11 (12.36%) PowerShell
4 7 (7.87%) Python
5 5 (5.62%) Java
6 4 (4.49%) Bash
7 3 (3.37%) C#
7 3 (3.37%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 16 (17.98%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.85%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.11%) Azure Certification
4 6 (6.74%) Degree
5 3 (3.37%) CISSP
6 2 (2.25%) CISM
7 1 (1.12%) CCNP
7 1 (1.12%) CCSA
7 1 (1.12%) CISA
7 1 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.87%) GDPR
2 3 (3.37%) NIST
2 3 (3.37%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.25%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.25%) QA
4 1 (1.12%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.12%) GRC
4 1 (1.12%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.12%) HL7
4 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (1.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 10 (11.24%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (7.87%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.49%) Docker
3 4 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (28.09%) Terraform
2 16 (17.98%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.49%) VxRail
4 3 (3.37%) Ansible
5 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.12%) Nagios
6 1 (1.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 27 (30.34%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.74%) Databricks
3 5 (5.62%) Google
4 4 (4.49%) Oracle
4 4 (4.49%) Red Hat
4 4 (4.49%) VMware
5 2 (2.25%) BiZZdesign
5 2 (2.25%) EMC
5 2 (2.25%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.25%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.12%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.12%) Cisco
6 1 (1.12%) F5
6 1 (1.12%) Foundry
6 1 (1.12%) IBM
6 1 (1.12%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.12%) Qualys
6 1 (1.12%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.12%) SAP
6 1 (1.12%) Snow