Azure Architect Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure Architect
England > Midlands

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 162 175
Rank change year-on-year +45 +13 -50
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 21 6 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.77% 0.18% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 0.19% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 21
10th Percentile £600 £514 £556
25th Percentile £603 £517 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £556 £625
Median % change year-on-year +21.35% -11.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £750 £588 £750
90th Percentile £768 - £775
England median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +7.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,498 3,180 4,757
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.97% 94.70% 95.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,687 2,235 3,467
10th Percentile £213 £220 £210
25th Percentile £325 £363 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +15.63%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £556
90th Percentile £688 £685 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 119 165
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.40 £10.93
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.12 £14.50
Median hourly rate £19.13 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £29.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £52.56 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +3.00%

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 12 May 2024.

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 12 May 2024. 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
West Midlands +28 15 £660 +18.65% 3
East Midlands +26 6 £675 +22.73%
Azure Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, 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 21 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (57.14%) Agile
3 8 (38.10%) Finance
3 8 (38.10%) Power Platform
3 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
4 6 (28.57%) Databricks
4 6 (28.57%) Migration
4 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 6 (28.57%) Machine Learning
4 6 (28.57%) Analytics
5 5 (23.81%) SQL
5 5 (23.81%) DevOps
5 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
6 4 (19.05%) Public Cloud
6 4 (19.05%) Power BI
6 4 (19.05%) Data Lake
6 4 (19.05%) Wireframes
6 4 (19.05%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (19.05%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (19.05%) IT Strategy
6 4 (19.05%) Data Strategy
6 4 (19.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (19.05%) Impact Assessments
6 4 (19.05%) Technology Strategy
6 4 (19.05%) Azure Certification
6 4 (19.05%) ETL
6 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (19.05%) Data Architecture
6 4 (19.05%) Big Data
6 4 (19.05%) User Stories

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:

Applications
1 2 (9.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (38.10%) Power Platform
3 4 (19.05%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (19.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 4 (19.05%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (14.29%) AWS
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.76%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
1 2 (9.52%) LAN
1 2 (9.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Big Data
1 4 (19.05%) Data Lake
1 4 (19.05%) Power BI
2 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (38.10%) Finance
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) German Language
2 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Middleware
1 2 (9.52%) React Native
2 1 (4.76%) .NET
2 1 (4.76%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Public Cloud
2 3 (14.29%) Mobile App
3 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (9.52%) Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Agile
2 6 (28.57%) Analytics
2 6 (28.57%) Machine Learning
2 6 (28.57%) Migration
3 5 (23.81%) DevOps
4 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (19.05%) Data Architecture
4 4 (19.05%) Data Strategy
4 4 (19.05%) ETL
4 4 (19.05%) Impact Assessments
4 4 (19.05%) IT Strategy
4 4 (19.05%) Technology Strategy
4 4 (19.05%) User Stories
4 4 (19.05%) Wireframes
5 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (9.52%) Business Strategy
6 2 (9.52%) Containerisation
6 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (9.52%) Project Delivery
6 2 (9.52%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) SQL
2 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Azure Certification
2 2 (9.52%) Degree
2 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
2 2 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) Ansible
3 1 (4.76%) PowerCLI
3 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Databricks
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) VMware