Azure Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 380 334
Rank change year-on-year +46 -46 -47
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 57 81 184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.34% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.36% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 66 139
10th Percentile £500 £513 £473
25th Percentile £600 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +6.12% +15.02%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £666
90th Percentile £775 £803 £780
UK median daily rate £630 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.08% +4.00% +8.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,262 22,750 29,627
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.10% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,825 15,940 20,711
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,216 1,193 1,496
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £15.67 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Azure Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in the UK excluding London

Azure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Architect in the UK excluding London

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Architect in the UK excluding London

Azure Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 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
Midlands +42 22 £675 +21.35% 2
North of England +37 18 £625 +4.17% 4
West Midlands +38 15 £660 +14.78% 2
North West +19 13 £625 +7.30% 4
South East -18 11 £650 -6.88% 8
East Midlands +24 7 £713 +35.71%
Yorkshire +29 5 £575 -25.81%
South West +14 5 £525 -19.23% 1
Scotland +22 2 £700 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 - 1
Azure Architect
UK

Azure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 25 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 UK excluding London region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 57 (100.00%) Azure
2 23 (40.35%) Agile
3 16 (28.07%) Microsoft
4 15 (26.32%) Social Skills
5 14 (24.56%) Migration
5 14 (24.56%) DevOps
6 13 (22.81%) Analytics
7 12 (21.05%) Databricks
8 11 (19.30%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (19.30%) Finance
9 10 (17.54%) SQL
9 10 (17.54%) Data Architecture
10 9 (15.79%) Azure Certification
10 9 (15.79%) Kubernetes
10 9 (15.79%) Machine Learning
10 9 (15.79%) Big Data
11 8 (14.04%) Public Cloud
11 8 (14.04%) Power Platform
12 7 (12.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (12.28%) IT Strategy
12 7 (12.28%) Data Strategy
12 7 (12.28%) Data Lake
12 7 (12.28%) Technology Strategy
12 7 (12.28%) Degree
12 7 (12.28%) Data Modelling
13 6 (10.53%) ETL
13 6 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (10.53%) Data Analytics
13 6 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
13 6 (10.53%) AWS

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (3.51%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.75%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (7.02%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.75%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 57 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (19.30%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (14.04%) Power Platform
4 7 (12.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (10.53%) AWS
5 6 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (8.77%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (8.77%) IaaS
7 4 (7.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 4 (7.02%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (5.26%) Azure Stack
8 3 (5.26%) PaaS
9 2 (3.51%) GCP
9 2 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.75%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.75%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
10 1 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.75%) SaaS
10 1 (1.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.02%) Firewall
1 4 (7.02%) LAN
1 4 (7.02%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.79%) Big Data
2 7 (12.28%) Data Lake
3 6 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (7.02%) Power BI
5 3 (5.26%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.51%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.75%) DB2
7 1 (1.75%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.75%) GIS
7 1 (1.75%) IDMS
7 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (5.26%) JIRA
2 2 (3.51%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 11 (19.30%) Finance
3 6 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.02%) German Language
4 4 (7.02%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.51%) Retail
6 1 (1.75%) Local Government
6 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.02%) Middleware
2 3 (5.26%) .NET
3 2 (3.51%) .NET Core
3 2 (3.51%) React Native
4 1 (1.75%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.75%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.75%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.75%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.75%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (1.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Public Cloud
2 4 (7.02%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.26%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.75%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.75%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.75%) NHS
4 1 (1.75%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.75%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.77%) Windows
2 4 (7.02%) Linux
3 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (40.35%) Agile
2 14 (24.56%) DevOps
2 14 (24.56%) Migration
3 13 (22.81%) Analytics
4 10 (17.54%) Data Architecture
5 9 (15.79%) Machine Learning
6 7 (12.28%) Data Modelling
6 7 (12.28%) Data Strategy
6 7 (12.28%) IT Strategy
6 7 (12.28%) Technology Strategy
7 6 (10.53%) Business Strategy
7 6 (10.53%) Data Analytics
7 6 (10.53%) ETL
7 6 (10.53%) Open Source
7 6 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (8.77%) CI/CD
8 5 (8.77%) Containerisation
8 5 (8.77%) TOGAF
8 5 (8.77%) Translating Business Requirements
8 5 (8.77%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.54%) SQL
2 6 (10.53%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.26%) Python
4 2 (3.51%) C#
5 1 (1.75%) Bicep
5 1 (1.75%) COBOL
5 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (15.79%) Azure Certification
2 7 (12.28%) Degree
3 4 (7.02%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.26%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.51%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.77%) QA
2 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (7.02%) Docker
1 4 (7.02%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.77%) Terraform
3 1 (1.75%) Ansible
3 1 (1.75%) PowerCLI
3 1 (1.75%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (28.07%) Microsoft
2 12 (21.05%) Databricks
3 2 (3.51%) VMware
4 1 (1.75%) Google
4 1 (1.75%) IBM
4 1 (1.75%) Sparx