Azure Data Architect Contracts

Data Architect - Azure
UK

The median Data Architect - Azure daily rate in the UK 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 498 547 659
Rank change year-on-year +49 +112 +107
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Architect 22 35 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.080% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.087% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 49
10th Percentile £479 £443 £525
25th Percentile £493 £563 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +3.85% +1.76%
75th Percentile £694 £750 £738
90th Percentile £700 £780 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -7.41% +22.73% -12.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Azure Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Architect in the UK

Azure Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Architect in the UK

Azure Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Architect in the UK

Azure Data Architect
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Data Architect within the UK 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
England +44 18 £600 -11.11% 138
London +27 12 £581 -16.37% 7
Work from Home +35 9 £520 -25.18% 147
UK excluding London +61 6 £625 -7.41% 144
Scotland - 3 £700 - 6
North of England +16 2 £613 -5.77% 32
North West +16 2 £613 -18.33% 14
South East - 2 £548 - 34

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Azure Data 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 Data Architect in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 10 (45.45%) Data Architecture
4 9 (40.91%) SQL
5 8 (36.36%) Data Lake
5 8 (36.36%) Databricks
6 7 (31.82%) Data Governance
6 7 (31.82%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (27.27%) ETL
7 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
7 6 (27.27%) AWS
8 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
8 5 (22.73%) Python
8 5 (22.73%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
9 4 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (18.18%) Power Platform
9 4 (18.18%) Analytics
9 4 (18.18%) Power BI
9 4 (18.18%) Apache Spark
9 4 (18.18%) Data Security
9 4 (18.18%) Finance
9 4 (18.18%) Data Integration
10 3 (13.64%) Snowflake
10 3 (13.64%) Metadata
10 3 (13.64%) Machine Learning
10 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
10 3 (13.64%) Migration
10 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
10 3 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database

Azure Data 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 (18.18%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) AWS
3 5 (22.73%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (18.18%) Power Platform
5 3 (13.64%) Snowflake
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (9.09%) GCP
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Functions
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Storage
7 1 (4.55%) GitHub
7 1 (4.55%) SaaS
7 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) Data Lake
2 7 (31.82%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (18.18%) Power BI
4 3 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (13.64%) Metadata
4 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
5 2 (9.09%) Big Data
5 2 (9.09%) Hadoop
5 2 (9.09%) Neo4j
6 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
6 1 (4.55%) Data Mining
6 1 (4.55%) Data Vault
6 1 (4.55%) Flink
6 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
6 1 (4.55%) NewSQL
6 1 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Billing
4 1 (4.55%) French Language
4 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Middleware
1 2 (9.09%) Plotly
1 2 (9.09%) React
2 1 (4.55%) Kafka
2 1 (4.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
1 1 (4.55%) IoT
1 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
1 1 (4.55%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (4.55%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 10 (45.45%) Data Architecture
3 7 (31.82%) Data Governance
4 6 (27.27%) ETL
5 4 (18.18%) Analytics
5 4 (18.18%) Data Integration
5 4 (18.18%) Data Security
6 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
6 3 (13.64%) Data Strategy
6 3 (13.64%) Data Transformation
6 3 (13.64%) Machine Learning
6 3 (13.64%) Migration
6 3 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (9.09%) Data Management
7 2 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (9.09%) Data Visualisation
7 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) SQL
2 5 (22.73%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) Java
3 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.55%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Databricks
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) Hitachi
3 1 (4.55%) Pega
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.55%) SAP