Azure Architect Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure Architect
England > Midlands

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in the Midlands 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 103 112 162
Rank change year-on-year +9 +50 +23
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 8 21 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.42% 0.76% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.83% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 3
10th Percentile £580 £600 £514
25th Percentile £588 £603 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £538
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +25.58% -14.00%
75th Percentile £683 £750 £572
90th Percentile £725 £768 £581
England median daily rate £615 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -5.38% - +4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 1,725 2,532 3,256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 91.84% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,707 2,290
10th Percentile £200 £213 £223
25th Percentile £356 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.26%
75th Percentile £552 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 213 128
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.84 £12.35
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £15.21
Median hourly rate £18.82 £19.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -2.05% +16.33%
75th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £28.88
90th Percentile £35.58 £54.60 £61.50
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in the Midlands

Azure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Architect in the Midlands

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Architect in the Midlands

Azure Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
East Midlands +8 4 £669 -0.93% 1
West Midlands +2 3 £600 -9.09% 5
Azure Architect
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
4 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
5 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (25.00%) Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
6 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 1 (12.50%) SaaS
6 1 (12.50%) PaaS
6 1 (12.50%) Bash
6 1 (12.50%) OpenID
6 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
6 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics
6 1 (12.50%) IaaS
6 1 (12.50%) Analytics
6 1 (12.50%) OAuth
6 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
5 1 (12.50%) Azure API Management
5 1 (12.50%) Azure App Service
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (12.50%) IaaS
5 1 (12.50%) PaaS
5 1 (12.50%) SaaS
5 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth
1 1 (12.50%) OpenID
1 1 (12.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) API Management
3 1 (12.50%) Business Case
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) RBAC
3 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft