Azure Architect Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in the Thames Valley is £575, 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 97 138 138
Rank change year-on-year +41 0 -12
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 5 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.33% 0.26% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.28% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 10
10th Percentile - £533 £565
25th Percentile £563 £594 £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £606 £753 £808
90th Percentile £618 £788 £831
South East median daily rate £600 £650 £689
% change year-on-year -7.69% -5.66% +14.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,405 2,505 2,767
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 93.26% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 1,430 1,916
10th Percentile £300 £206 £313
25th Percentile £409 £370 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 189 76
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.78 £17.31
25th Percentile £16.94 £19.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £45.65 £45.00 £46.70
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -3.64% +166.86%
75th Percentile £65.62 £62.50 £66.21
90th Percentile £77.47 £84.57 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in the Thames Valley

Azure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Architect in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Azure Architect in the Thames Valley

Azure Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +30 5 £575 -11.54% 5
Azure Architect
South East

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

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 Thames Valley region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) C#
3 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 3 (60.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Value Proposition
4 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (40.00%) Business Case
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (40.00%) Power BI
4 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (40.00%) RBAC
4 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (40.00%) API Management

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (40.00%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure API Management
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) IaaS
3 2 (40.00%) PaaS
3 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (40.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure AI
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (40.00%) Power BI
3 1 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (20.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (20.00%) Big Data
3 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (20.00%) HBase
3 1 (20.00%) HDInsight
3 1 (20.00%) Impala
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata
3 1 (20.00%) Tableau
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) OAuth
1 2 (40.00%) OpenID
1 2 (40.00%) SAML
2 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) IoT
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) API Management
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Business Case
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (40.00%) RBAC
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Value Proposition
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (20.00%) Apache Flume
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (20.00%) StreamSets