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 £600, 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 306 345 384
Rank change year-on-year +39 +39 -54
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 30 54 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.26% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.28% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 40 63
10th Percentile £483 £500 £513
25th Percentile £538 £594 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +6.12%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £698
90th Percentile £743 £753 £815
UK median daily rate £600 £630 £650
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.08% +4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
South East +45 8 £600 -7.69% 44
Midlands +9 8 £600 -11.11% 40
North of England +9 8 £525 -16.00% 38
North West +11 7 £538 -14.00% 17
South West +45 4 £450 -14.29% 20
Scotland +15 4 £700 - 6
East Midlands +8 4 £669 -0.93% 14
West Midlands +2 3 £600 -9.09% 24
East of England - 2 £751 - 24
Yorkshire +4 1 £525 -8.70% 15
Azure Architect
UK

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

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 UK excluding London region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (43.33%) Microsoft
3 11 (36.67%) DevOps
4 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 9 (30.00%) SQL
4 9 (30.00%) Migration
5 8 (26.67%) Active Directory
5 8 (26.67%) Analytics
5 8 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (20.00%) Agile
6 6 (20.00%) Windows
6 6 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (20.00%) PowerShell
6 6 (20.00%) Databricks
6 6 (20.00%) Entra ID
6 6 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (16.67%) RBAC
7 5 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (16.67%) Terraform
7 5 (16.67%) Python
7 5 (16.67%) Java
7 5 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (16.67%) Finance
8 4 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
8 4 (13.33%) Linux
8 4 (13.33%) SaaS
8 4 (13.33%) PaaS
8 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
8 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared

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 (6.67%) Apache Spark
1 2 (6.67%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
1 2 (6.67%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 30 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (13.33%) IaaS
4 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (13.33%) PaaS
4 4 (13.33%) SaaS
4 4 (13.33%) Serverless
5 3 (10.00%) Azure AKS
5 3 (10.00%) Azure App Service
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Event Grid
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Storage
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (6.67%) AWS
6 2 (6.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) DNS
1 3 (10.00%) Firewall
2 2 (6.67%) LAN
2 2 (6.67%) WAN
3 1 (3.33%) HTTP
3 1 (3.33%) SSL
3 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.67%) Big Data
3 2 (6.67%) Data Lake
3 2 (6.67%) Metadata
3 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.67%) Power BI
3 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (3.33%) Apache Hive
4 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.33%) HBase
4 1 (3.33%) HDInsight
4 1 (3.33%) Impala
4 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.33%) NewSQL
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.67%) Publishing
5 1 (3.33%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) ARM Templates
2 2 (6.67%) Express.js
2 2 (6.67%) Middleware
2 2 (6.67%) Node.js
2 2 (6.67%) OAuth
2 2 (6.67%) OpenID
2 2 (6.67%) PySpark
2 2 (6.67%) SAML
3 1 (3.33%) .NET
3 1 (3.33%) .NET Core
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (3.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.67%) IoT
4 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Reinsurance
4 1 (3.33%) Replication
4 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Windows
2 4 (13.33%) Linux
3 3 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.67%) Android
4 2 (6.67%) Apple iOS
4 2 (6.67%) Mac OS
4 2 (6.67%) Windows 10
4 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) DevOps
2 9 (30.00%) Migration
3 8 (26.67%) Analytics
4 6 (20.00%) Agile
4 6 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (16.67%) RBAC
6 4 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (13.33%) Machine Learning
6 4 (13.33%) Microservices
7 3 (10.00%) Cloud Security
7 3 (10.00%) Data Strategy
7 3 (10.00%) ETL
7 3 (10.00%) Event-Driven
7 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (10.00%) Test Automation
7 3 (10.00%) Use Case
7 3 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) SQL
2 6 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (16.67%) Java
3 5 (16.67%) Python
4 4 (13.33%) C#
5 3 (10.00%) Bicep
6 2 (6.67%) Bash
6 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.67%) VB
6 2 (6.67%) VBScript
7 1 (3.33%) Perl
7 1 (3.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.67%) MCP
3 2 (6.67%) MCSA
3 2 (6.67%) MCSE
4 1 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (10.00%) GDPR
2 2 (6.67%) NCSC
2 2 (6.67%) QA
3 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.33%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.33%) NIST
3 1 (3.33%) PMO
3 1 (3.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (6.67%) BitLocker
4 2 (6.67%) Docker
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (3.33%) Apache Flume
5 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Terraform
2 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.67%) SCCM
4 1 (3.33%) Ansible
4 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (43.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.00%) Databricks
3 3 (10.00%) VMware
4 2 (6.67%) McAfee
4 2 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 2 (6.67%) Symantec
4 2 (6.67%) Virgin Media
5 1 (3.33%) Google
5 1 (3.33%) Hitachi
5 1 (3.33%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.33%) Pega
5 1 (3.33%) SAP
5 1 (3.33%) StreamSets