Azure Architect Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Azure Architect
England > South East

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in the South East 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 148 189 170
Rank change year-on-year +41 -19 +41
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 8 14 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.26% 0.24% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.26% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 35
10th Percentile £516 £505 £518
25th Percentile £563 £575 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £698
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.46% +12.58%
75th Percentile £634 £750 £719
90th Percentile £638 £780 £831
England median daily rate £600 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% +8.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 2,769 5,311 5,424
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 92.38% 94.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,814 3,109 3,758
10th Percentile £220 £250 £222
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £601
90th Percentile £660 £688 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 568 243
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.88 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.55 £18.98 £21.81
Median hourly rate £31.00 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.00% - +138.10%
75th Percentile £62.31 £67.86 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.13 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.88 £39.53 £44.00
% change year-on-year -26.94% -10.17% +80.66%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in the South East

Azure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Architect in the South East

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Architect in the South East

Azure Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 23 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
Thames Valley +28 5 £575 -4.17% 29
Berkshire +25 5 £575 -8.00% 18
West Sussex +10 3 £625 -23.08% 4
Azure Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 South East region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) Python
3 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (37.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (37.50%) Data Security
4 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (37.50%) ETL
4 3 (37.50%) Java
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (25.00%) SaaS
5 2 (25.00%) PaaS
5 2 (25.00%) Bash
5 2 (25.00%) OpenID
5 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (25.00%) OAuth
5 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
5 2 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (25.00%) SAML
5 2 (25.00%) Salesforce
5 2 (25.00%) Finance
5 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
5 2 (25.00%) IaaS

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure API Management
3 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (25.00%) IaaS
3 2 (25.00%) PaaS
3 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Azure AI
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (12.50%) Big Data
3 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (12.50%) Metadata
3 1 (12.50%) NewSQL
3 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (12.50%) Tableau
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) OAuth
1 2 (25.00%) OpenID
1 2 (25.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Data Security
2 3 (37.50%) ETL
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) API Management
3 2 (25.00%) Business Case
3 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (25.00%) RBAC
3 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (25.00%) Value Proposition
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) Bash
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (12.50%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Databricks
2 2 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (12.50%) OpenAI