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 14 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
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 329 336
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 +48
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 38 46 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.25% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.27% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 34 71
10th Percentile £430 £490 £525
25th Percentile £509 £538 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +9.62%
75th Percentile £644 £728 £700
90th Percentile £685 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £658
% change year-on-year -4.00% -5.02% +5.28%

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 13,828 16,857 20,804
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.14% 92.07% 94.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,459 10,280 14,082
10th Percentile £215 £220 £225
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,233 1,735 1,133
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.05 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +23.29% +71.36%
75th Percentile £54.01 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.16
% change year-on-year -41.51% +2.00% +64.15%

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 14 August 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 14 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
South East +15 11 £625 +4.17% 3
North of England -17 9 £525 - 4
Midlands -7 8 £600 -14.29% 2
North West -11 8 £525 +2.44% 1
South West +26 5 £688 +22.22% 1
West Midlands -10 4 £600 -14.29%
East Midlands 0 3 £569 -3.19% 2
East of England +11 2 £530 -
Scotland -12 2 £700 -
Yorkshire -13 1 £525 -25.00%
Wales - 1 £700 - 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 14 August 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 38 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (42.11%) Microsoft
3 12 (31.58%) Social Skills
4 10 (26.32%) DevOps
5 8 (21.05%) SQL
6 7 (18.42%) Migration
6 7 (18.42%) Kubernetes
6 7 (18.42%) Terraform
7 6 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (15.79%) Databricks
7 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
7 6 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (15.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (15.79%) Analytics
8 5 (13.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (13.16%) Finance
8 5 (13.16%) Python
8 5 (13.16%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (13.16%) Data Modelling
8 5 (13.16%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (10.53%) Power Platform
9 4 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (10.53%) Azure Certification
9 4 (10.53%) Roadmaps
9 4 (10.53%) Bicep
9 4 (10.53%) IT Strategy
9 4 (10.53%) Power BI
9 4 (10.53%) Data Lake

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 1 (2.63%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 38 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (15.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 5 (13.16%) Azure Key Vault
4 4 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (10.53%) Entra ID
4 4 (10.53%) Power Platform
5 3 (7.89%) AWS
5 3 (7.89%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.26%) Azure AI
6 2 (5.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (5.26%) GCP
6 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (5.26%) PaaS
6 2 (5.26%) SaaS
6 2 (5.26%) Serverless
7 1 (2.63%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) Network Security
2 3 (7.89%) NetScaler
3 1 (2.63%) MQTT
3 1 (2.63%) VPN
3 1 (2.63%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (10.53%) Data Lake
2 4 (10.53%) Power BI
3 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.26%) Big Data
4 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.63%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.63%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.63%) GIS
5 1 (2.63%) Metadata
5 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.63%) NewSQL
5 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Hudson
2 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Finance
3 2 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (2.63%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.63%) Billing
4 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Local Government
4 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) .NET
2 2 (5.26%) Express.js
2 2 (5.26%) Node.js
3 1 (2.63%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.63%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.63%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.63%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (2.63%) Loki
3 1 (2.63%) PySpark
3 1 (2.63%) React
3 1 (2.63%) RESTful
3 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.89%) Security Posture
3 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.26%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Clustering
4 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.63%) IoT
4 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) VMS
1 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (26.32%) DevOps
2 7 (18.42%) Migration
3 6 (15.79%) Analytics
3 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
3 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (13.16%) Data Modelling
5 4 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (10.53%) ETL
5 4 (10.53%) IT Strategy
5 4 (10.53%) Roadmaps
5 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (7.89%) Architectural Design
6 3 (7.89%) Cloud Security
6 3 (7.89%) Event-Driven
6 3 (7.89%) Mentoring
6 3 (7.89%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (7.89%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.05%) SQL
2 5 (13.16%) Python
3 4 (10.53%) Bicep
4 3 (7.89%) Java
5 2 (5.26%) C#
6 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) Azure Certification
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
2 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (2.63%) CCSP
3 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.63%) CISM
3 1 (2.63%) CISSP
3 1 (2.63%) Degree
3 1 (2.63%) SSCP
3 1 (2.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.89%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.89%) NIST
3 2 (5.26%) GDPR
4 1 (2.63%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (2.63%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.63%) ISO 9001
4 1 (2.63%) JSP 440
4 1 (2.63%) NCSC
4 1 (2.63%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (7.89%) Docker
1 3 (7.89%) Virtual Desktop
1 3 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) Kubernetes
1 7 (18.42%) Terraform
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (2.63%) Ansible
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.79%) Databricks
3 3 (7.89%) Citrix
3 3 (7.89%) VMware
4 2 (5.26%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.26%) Virgin Media
5 1 (2.63%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle
5 1 (2.63%) Qualys
5 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.63%) Trapeze
5 1 (2.63%) Zscaler