Azure Architect Contracts

Microsoft Azure Architect
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in the UK is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 416 397 308
Rank change year-on-year -19 -89 -26
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 177 350 791
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.59% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.63% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 272 527
10th Percentile £488 £500 £513
25th Percentile £563 £563 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £747 £725 £725
90th Percentile £788 £824 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £650 £613
% change year-on-year -3.85% +6.12% +11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £68.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.79% +38.95%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in the UK

Azure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Architect in the UK

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Architect over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Architect in the UK

Azure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Architect.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Architect in the UK

Azure Architect
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 May 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
England -31 142 £650 - 32
London -14 87 £695 +6.92% 14
Work from Home +36 74 £650 - 28
UK excluding London +43 55 £625 -3.85% 17
Midlands +44 21 £675 +21.35% 1
North of England +35 19 £613 +2.94% 5
West Midlands +36 15 £660 +18.65% 1
North West +26 14 £613 +11.36% 5
South East -9 10 £625 -10.46% 9
East Midlands +27 6 £675 +22.73%
South West +16 6 £513 -21.15% 1
Yorkshire +24 5 £575 -25.81%
Scotland +36 2 £700 -

Azure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 May 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 featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 177 (100.00%) Azure
2 56 (31.64%) Microsoft
3 42 (23.73%) DevOps
4 39 (22.03%) Migration
4 39 (22.03%) Agile
5 38 (21.47%) Social Skills
6 36 (20.34%) Analytics
7 35 (19.77%) Finance
8 34 (19.21%) SQL
9 31 (17.51%) Databricks
10 25 (14.12%) Data Lake
10 25 (14.12%) Security Cleared
10 25 (14.12%) Data Architecture
11 24 (13.56%) Data Modelling
11 24 (13.56%) Kubernetes
11 24 (13.56%) Azure Certification
12 23 (12.99%) PaaS
12 23 (12.99%) IaaS
13 22 (12.43%) SC Cleared
13 22 (12.43%) Roadmaps
13 22 (12.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 22 (12.43%) Azure Data Factory
14 20 (11.30%) AWS
14 20 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (10.73%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (10.73%) Terraform
16 18 (10.17%) Microservices
16 18 (10.17%) PowerShell
16 18 (10.17%) Big Data
16 18 (10.17%) Python

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (2.26%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.69%) Apache
3 2 (1.13%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.56%) Camunda
4 1 (0.56%) CMS
4 1 (0.56%) IIS
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.56%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.95%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (3.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.56%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 177 (100.00%) Azure
2 23 (12.99%) IaaS
2 23 (12.99%) PaaS
3 22 (12.43%) Azure Data Factory
3 22 (12.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 20 (11.30%) AWS
5 19 (10.73%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (9.60%) Power Platform
7 15 (8.47%) Entra ID
8 13 (7.34%) Azure Service Bus
8 13 (7.34%) SaaS
9 12 (6.78%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (6.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 11 (6.21%) GCP
11 9 (5.08%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (5.08%) Serverless
12 8 (4.52%) Azure Functions
12 8 (4.52%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (3.39%) Azure Stack
14 5 (2.82%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.04%) Firewall
2 5 (2.82%) LAN
2 5 (2.82%) Network Security
2 5 (2.82%) WAN
3 4 (2.26%) VPN
4 2 (1.13%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.12%) Data Lake
2 18 (10.17%) Big Data
3 17 (9.60%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (6.21%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (6.21%) Power BI
5 7 (3.95%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.82%) Delta Lake
6 5 (2.82%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.26%) OLAP
7 4 (2.26%) OLTP
8 3 (1.69%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.13%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.56%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.56%) DB2
10 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.56%) GIS
10 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.56%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Git
1 3 (1.69%) Jenkins
1 3 (1.69%) JIRA
2 2 (1.13%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 38 (21.47%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.77%) Finance
3 14 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.08%) Banking
5 7 (3.95%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.82%) German Language
8 4 (2.26%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.13%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.13%) Police
10 2 (1.13%) Retail
11 1 (0.56%) Automotive
11 1 (0.56%) Billing
11 1 (0.56%) Legal
11 1 (0.56%) Local Government
11 1 (0.56%) Marketing
11 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.04%) .NET
2 10 (5.65%) Middleware
3 7 (3.95%) REST
4 6 (3.39%) .NET Core
4 6 (3.39%) ARM Templates
5 5 (2.82%) OAuth
5 5 (2.82%) OpenID
6 4 (2.26%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.26%) PySpark
6 4 (2.26%) SAML
6 4 (2.26%) YAML
7 3 (1.69%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.69%) ADO
7 3 (1.69%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (1.69%) JSON
7 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (1.69%) React
7 3 (1.69%) RESTful
7 3 (1.69%) XML
8 2 (1.13%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.65%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (5.08%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.39%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.39%) PKI
3 6 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.26%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (2.26%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.26%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.26%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.69%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.69%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.69%) Grid Computing
5 3 (1.69%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.69%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.13%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.13%) NHS
6 2 (1.13%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.95%) Windows
2 5 (2.82%) Linux
3 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (23.73%) DevOps
2 39 (22.03%) Agile
2 39 (22.03%) Migration
3 36 (20.34%) Analytics
4 25 (14.12%) Data Architecture
5 24 (13.56%) Data Modelling
6 22 (12.43%) Roadmaps
7 20 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (10.17%) Microservices
9 17 (9.60%) CI/CD
10 16 (9.04%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (8.47%) Architectural Patterns
11 15 (8.47%) Cloud Security
12 13 (7.34%) API Management
12 13 (7.34%) Data Migration
12 13 (7.34%) ETL
12 13 (7.34%) Machine Learning
13 12 (6.78%) Business Intelligence
13 12 (6.78%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (6.78%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 34 (19.21%) SQL
2 18 (10.17%) PowerShell
2 18 (10.17%) Python
3 11 (6.21%) C#
4 7 (3.95%) Bicep
5 6 (3.39%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.82%) Java
7 1 (0.56%) Bash
7 1 (0.56%) R
7 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (14.12%) Security Cleared
2 24 (13.56%) Azure Certification
3 22 (12.43%) SC Cleared
4 16 (9.04%) Degree
5 7 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.26%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.69%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.13%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.56%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.56%) CISSP
9 1 (0.56%) CITP
9 1 (0.56%) SANS
9 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.52%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.95%) QA
3 4 (2.26%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.13%) GDPR
5 1 (0.56%) GRC
5 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (7.91%) Docker
2 10 (5.65%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (4.52%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.56%) UAG
4 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (13.56%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.73%) Terraform
3 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.56%) Ansible
4 1 (0.56%) PowerCLI
4 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (31.64%) Microsoft
2 31 (17.51%) Databricks
3 5 (2.82%) MuleSoft
4 4 (2.26%) Google
4 4 (2.26%) Oracle
4 4 (2.26%) SAP
5 3 (1.69%) Palo Alto
5 3 (1.69%) VMware
6 2 (1.13%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.56%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.56%) Okta
7 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.56%) Solace
7 1 (0.56%) Sparx
7 1 (0.56%) Virgin Media