Azure Architect Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Azure Architect
England > South West

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in the South West is £450, 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 107 152 154
Rank change year-on-year +45 +2 +11
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 4 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.24% 0.16% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.17% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 12
10th Percentile - £505 £589
25th Percentile - £513 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -19.23% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £678
90th Percentile £690 £645 £834
England median daily rate £615 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -5.38% - +4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 1,546 2,986 3,354
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 93.34% 92.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 1,903 2,516
10th Percentile £220 £208 £263
25th Percentile £386 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £620 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 400 267
10th Percentile £18.51 £14.00 £18.09
25th Percentile £26.62 £27.50 £50.62
Median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £85.00
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in the South West

Azure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Architect in the South West

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Architect in the South West

Azure Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol +18 2 £450 -12.20% 2
Gloucestershire +17 1 - -
Dorset - 1 £700 -
Azure Architect
England

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

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 South West region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Azure App Service
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Storage
3 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Bicep
3 2 (50.00%) ARM Templates
3 2 (50.00%) RBAC
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (25.00%) NCSC
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (25.00%) Databricks

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure App Service
2 2 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Android
2 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) VB
2 1 (25.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) MCP
2 1 (25.00%) MCSA
2 1 (25.00%) MCSE
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) BitLocker
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) McAfee
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Symantec
1 1 (25.00%) VMware