Azure Architect Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Azure Architect
England > North of England

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in the North of England is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 203 198
Rank change year-on-year +32 -5 -34
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 18 13 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.38% 0.22% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.23% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 33
10th Percentile £488 £515 £484
25th Percentile £531 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £595 £613
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% -2.86% +6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £681 £675
90th Percentile £730 £745 £830
England median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 4,455 5,556 6,967
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.06% 95.15% 97.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,796 3,917 5,115
10th Percentile £263 £284 £200
25th Percentile £381 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £592 £550
90th Percentile £672 £677 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 167 297
10th Percentile £11.03 £13.77 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.70 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £30.54 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -34.51% +63.45% +3.15%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.19 £31.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £65.30 £50.31
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in the North of England

Azure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Architect in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Azure Architect in the North of England

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Architect in the North of England

Azure Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
North West +24 13 £625 +8.70% 5
Yorkshire +22 5 £575 -25.81%
Azure Architect
England

Azure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 North of England region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
3 5 (27.78%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) SQL
4 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 4 (22.22%) Data Architecture
4 4 (22.22%) Azure Certification
5 3 (16.67%) Databricks
5 3 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 3 (16.67%) Migration
5 3 (16.67%) TOGAF
6 2 (11.11%) Degree
6 2 (11.11%) Load Balancing
6 2 (11.11%) German Language
6 2 (11.11%) Data Management
6 2 (11.11%) Firewall
6 2 (11.11%) ETL
6 2 (11.11%) Python
6 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
6 2 (11.11%) Hadoop
6 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
6 2 (11.11%) Time Management
6 2 (11.11%) Data Migration
6 2 (11.11%) Data Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (11.11%) DevOps
6 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.56%) AWS
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (11.11%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.56%) Big Data
2 1 (5.56%) Delta Lake
2 1 (5.56%) GIS
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (11.11%) German Language
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
1 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.56%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Agile
2 4 (22.22%) Data Architecture
3 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 3 (16.67%) Migration
3 3 (16.67%) TOGAF
4 2 (11.11%) API Management
4 2 (11.11%) Data Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Data Management
4 2 (11.11%) Data Migration
4 2 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) ETL
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Load Balancing
4 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
4 2 (11.11%) Time Management
5 1 (5.56%) Business Strategy
5 1 (5.56%) CI/CD
5 1 (5.56%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Azure Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Google