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 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 252 315 274
Rank change year-on-year +63 -41 +11
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 98 89 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.78% 0.51% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.54% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 68 166
10th Percentile £500 £506 £519
25th Percentile £553 £550 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £631 £665
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -5.08% +3.91%
75th Percentile £726 £711 £750
90th Percentile £775 £804 £844
England median daily rate £600 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% +8.00%

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 11,759 16,474 23,813
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.77% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,963 11,827 17,372
10th Percentile £338 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £676 £700
90th Percentile £798 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 321 274
10th Percentile £19.28 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £33.45 £27.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% -25.21% +5.06%
75th Percentile £50.50 £46.50 £63.94
90th Percentile £64.63 £67.00 £82.43
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £43.63
% change year-on-year -27.31% -9.35% +78.37%

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 24 June 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 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
Central London +8 17 £700 +9.80% 8
Azure Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 London region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 98 (100.00%) Azure
2 40 (40.82%) Microsoft
3 35 (35.71%) Finance
4 33 (33.67%) DevOps
5 32 (32.65%) Terraform
6 31 (31.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (31.63%) Social Skills
7 26 (26.53%) Migration
7 26 (26.53%) Cloud Security
8 22 (22.45%) CI/CD
8 22 (22.45%) Security Cleared
8 22 (22.45%) Firewall
9 21 (21.43%) IaaS
9 21 (21.43%) Serverless
10 20 (20.41%) AWS
10 20 (20.41%) SC Cleared
10 20 (20.41%) PaaS
10 20 (20.41%) Enterprise Architecture
11 18 (18.37%) Entra ID
11 18 (18.37%) Azure Certification
12 17 (17.35%) GCP
13 16 (16.33%) Kubernetes
13 16 (16.33%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (16.33%) Analytics
13 16 (16.33%) Bicep
13 16 (16.33%) ARM Templates
14 15 (15.31%) SaaS
14 15 (15.31%) SQL
15 14 (14.29%) PowerShell
15 14 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management

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 3 (3.06%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.02%) Confluence
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.02%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.02%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 98 (100.00%) Azure
2 21 (21.43%) IaaS
2 21 (21.43%) Serverless
3 20 (20.41%) AWS
3 20 (20.41%) PaaS
4 18 (18.37%) Entra ID
5 17 (17.35%) GCP
6 16 (16.33%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (15.31%) SaaS
8 13 (13.27%) Azure AKS
9 12 (12.24%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 9 (9.18%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (9.18%) Azure Functions
10 9 (9.18%) Azure Sentinel
10 9 (9.18%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (8.16%) Azure Storage
12 7 (7.14%) Azure App Service
13 6 (6.12%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (5.10%) Power Platform
14 5 (5.10%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (22.45%) Firewall
2 5 (5.10%) HTTPS
2 5 (5.10%) VPN
2 5 (5.10%) WAN
3 4 (4.08%) SSL
4 3 (3.06%) DNS
4 3 (3.06%) LAN
5 2 (2.04%) DHCP
5 2 (2.04%) Network Security
6 1 (1.02%) BGP
6 1 (1.02%) HTTP
6 1 (1.02%) OSPF
6 1 (1.02%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.02%) VLAN
6 1 (1.02%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.24%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (9.18%) Data Lake
3 8 (8.16%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (5.10%) Power BI
4 5 (5.10%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.04%) Metadata
6 2 (2.04%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.02%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.02%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.02%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.02%) Flink
7 1 (1.02%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.02%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 3 (3.06%) ERwin
1 3 (3.06%) Jenkins
1 3 (3.06%) SonarQube
2 2 (2.04%) JIRA
3 1 (1.02%) GitLab
General
1 35 (35.71%) Finance
2 31 (31.63%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.18%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.10%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (4.08%) Banking
5 4 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.06%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.06%) Retail
7 2 (2.04%) Law
7 2 (2.04%) Marketing
7 2 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.02%) French Language
8 1 (1.02%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.02%) Legal
8 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.02%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.33%) ARM Templates
2 9 (9.18%) Middleware
3 4 (4.08%) REST
4 3 (3.06%) .NET
4 3 (3.06%) Azure Blueprints
4 3 (3.06%) Kafka
5 1 (1.02%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.02%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.02%) Plotly
5 1 (1.02%) React
5 1 (1.02%) RESTful
5 1 (1.02%) SAML
5 1 (1.02%) Web Services
5 1 (1.02%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.20%) Cloud Native
1 10 (10.20%) Public Cloud
2 6 (6.12%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (5.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.08%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (3.06%) Reinsurance
6 2 (2.04%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.04%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.04%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.02%) AS400
7 1 (1.02%) CMDB
7 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.02%) Replication
7 1 (1.02%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.18%) Linux
2 8 (8.16%) Windows
3 3 (3.06%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.02%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (33.67%) DevOps
2 31 (31.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 26 (26.53%) Cloud Security
3 26 (26.53%) Migration
4 22 (22.45%) CI/CD
5 20 (20.41%) Enterprise Architecture
6 16 (16.33%) Analytics
7 14 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (12.24%) Agile
8 12 (12.24%) Containerisation
9 11 (11.22%) Data Architecture
9 11 (11.22%) RBAC
10 10 (10.20%) Data Modelling
10 10 (10.20%) ETL
10 10 (10.20%) Identity Access Management
10 10 (10.20%) Security Architecture
11 9 (9.18%) High Availability
12 8 (8.16%) Data Strategy
12 8 (8.16%) Zero Trust
13 7 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.33%) Bicep
2 15 (15.31%) SQL
3 14 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.08%) Python
4 4 (4.08%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.06%) Bash
5 3 (3.06%) Java
6 2 (2.04%) C#
7 1 (1.02%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 22 (22.45%) Security Cleared
2 20 (20.41%) SC Cleared
3 18 (18.37%) Azure Certification
4 6 (6.12%) Degree
5 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.04%) CISSP
7 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.02%) CCDP
7 1 (1.02%) CCNP
7 1 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.02%) CISM
7 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.02%) Postgraduate
7 1 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.24%) GDPR
2 4 (4.08%) SOC 2
3 3 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.06%) QA
4 2 (2.04%) NIST
5 1 (1.02%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.02%) COBIT
5 1 (1.02%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.02%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.02%) HL7
5 1 (1.02%) NCSC
5 1 (1.02%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (13.27%) Active Directory
2 10 (10.20%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.08%) Docker
4 1 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.02%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.02%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (32.65%) Terraform
2 16 (16.33%) Kubernetes
3 7 (7.14%) Ansible
4 3 (3.06%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 40 (40.82%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.18%) Databricks
3 5 (5.10%) Google
4 3 (3.06%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.06%) VMware
5 1 (1.02%) Aveksa
5 1 (1.02%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.02%) IBM
5 1 (1.02%) NetApp
5 1 (1.02%) Oracle
5 1 (1.02%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.02%) SAP
5 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.02%) Splunk
5 1 (1.02%) Workday