Azure Data Architect Contracts in the South East

Data Architect - Azure
England > South East

The median Data Architect - Azure daily rate in the South East is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 August 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
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 189 211
Rank change year-on-year +29 +22 +61
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Architect 3 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.086% 0.060% 0.088%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.066% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £499 - £668
25th Percentile £541 - £676
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £680
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.80%
75th Percentile £638 - £753
90th Percentile - - £871
England median daily rate £625 £613 £650
% change year-on-year +2.04% -5.77% +4.00%

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 3,159 4,566 5,413
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.59% 91.95% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,044 2,783 3,707
10th Percentile £208 £250 £225
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £663 £697 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 379 238
10th Percentile £13.83 £15.96 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £26.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +134.25%
75th Percentile £58.72 £72.33 £64.41
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.32 £45.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -43.73% +5.88% +66.67%

Azure Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Architect in the South East

Azure Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Architect in the South East

Azure Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 5 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Architect in the South East

Azure Data 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 Data Architect within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 August 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
West Sussex - 3 £625 -
Azure Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 August 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 South East region featuring Azure Data Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (100.00%) Data Security
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Replication
3 1 (33.33%) Billing
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
3 1 (33.33%) ETRM
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Scala
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Big Data
3 1 (33.33%) NewSQL

Azure Data 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) NewSQL
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Billing
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Security
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Data Reconciliation
3 1 (33.33%) ETRM
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce