Azure Data Architect Contracts in London

Data Architect - Azure
England > London

The median Data Architect - Azure daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 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
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 385 442
Rank change year-on-year +48 +57 +128
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Architect 17 22 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.13% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 28
10th Percentile £515 £554 £500
25th Percentile £575 £575 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £660 £658
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.38% -2.59%
75th Percentile £644 £747 £825
90th Percentile £689 £835 £898
England median daily rate £600 £600 £670
% change year-on-year - -10.45% +7.20%

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 11,717 16,504 23,806
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.38% 93.77% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,942 11,846 17,365
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 £675 £700
90th Percentile £799 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 324 274
10th Percentile £19.25 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.17 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -24.37% +5.06%
75th Percentile £50.50 £46.49 £63.94
90th Percentile £64.75 £66.85 £82.43
England median hourly rate £28.88 £39.53 £44.00
% change year-on-year -26.94% -10.17% +80.66%

Azure Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Architect in London

Azure Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Architect in London

Azure Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Architect in London over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Architect in London

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 London region featuring Azure Data Architect in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (64.71%) Data Architecture
3 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
3 9 (52.94%) Data Modelling
3 9 (52.94%) Data Lake
4 8 (47.06%) ETL
4 8 (47.06%) SQL
4 8 (47.06%) Finance
4 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
5 7 (41.18%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (35.29%) Migration
6 6 (35.29%) Data Management
6 6 (35.29%) Data Governance
6 6 (35.29%) Analytics
6 6 (35.29%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (29.41%) Data Strategy
7 5 (29.41%) Power BI
7 5 (29.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (29.41%) Power Platform
7 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
8 4 (23.53%) T-SQL
8 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
8 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (23.53%) Master Data Management
8 4 (23.53%) Process Improvement
8 4 (23.53%) AWS
8 4 (23.53%) Data Integration
8 4 (23.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (23.53%) Azure Certification

Azure Data 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 (17.65%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (29.41%) Power Platform
4 4 (23.53%) AWS
4 4 (23.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (17.65%) Snowflake
6 2 (11.76%) GCP
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Storage
7 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
7 1 (5.88%) iPaaS
7 1 (5.88%) SaaS
7 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) Data Lake
2 7 (41.18%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (29.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (29.41%) Power BI
4 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
5 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (11.76%) Metadata
7 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (5.88%) BigQuery
7 1 (5.88%) Data Mining
7 1 (5.88%) Data Vault
7 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (5.88%) Flink
7 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
7 1 (5.88%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) ERwin
General
1 8 (47.06%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Kafka
1 2 (11.76%) Middleware
2 1 (5.88%) Plotly
2 1 (5.88%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) CMDB
1 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Data Architecture
2 9 (52.94%) Data Modelling
3 8 (47.06%) ETL
4 6 (35.29%) Analytics
4 6 (35.29%) Data Governance
4 6 (35.29%) Data Management
4 6 (35.29%) Migration
5 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (29.41%) Data Strategy
6 4 (23.53%) Data Design
6 4 (23.53%) Data Integration
6 4 (23.53%) Master Data Management
6 4 (23.53%) Process Improvement
7 3 (17.65%) Data Science
8 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
9 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1 (5.88%) Configuration Management
9 1 (5.88%) Data Security
9 1 (5.88%) E-Commerce
9 1 (5.88%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 4 (23.53%) T-SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) Azure Certification
3 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (11.76%) Degree
5 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) Aveksa
3 1 (5.88%) CyberArk
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle