Azure Architect Contracts

Microsoft Azure Architect
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in the UK is £630 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 400 380 306
Rank change year-on-year -20 -74 -28
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 182 351 794
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.59% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.62% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 272 532
10th Percentile £489 £500 £513
25th Percentile £563 £563 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £725
90th Percentile £788 £810 £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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

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 26 April 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 14 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 26 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
England -22 145 £650 - 35
London -1 88 £695 +6.92% 18
Work from Home +24 75 £650 - 26
UK excluding London +48 57 £625 -3.85% 16
Midlands +45 22 £675 +25.58%
North of England +32 18 £625 +5.04% 5
West Midlands +42 15 £660 +18.65%
North West +24 13 £625 +8.70% 5
South East -4 11 £650 -6.88% 8
East Midlands +28 7 £713 +35.71%
Yorkshire +22 5 £575 -25.81%
South West +15 5 £525 -19.23% 2
Scotland +30 2 £700 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 182 (100.00%) Azure
2 55 (30.22%) Microsoft
3 43 (23.63%) Migration
4 42 (23.08%) DevOps
5 41 (22.53%) Agile
6 39 (21.43%) Social Skills
7 37 (20.33%) Finance
8 36 (19.78%) Analytics
9 35 (19.23%) SQL
10 31 (17.03%) Databricks
11 28 (15.38%) Data Architecture
12 27 (14.84%) Data Modelling
13 26 (14.29%) Security Cleared
14 25 (13.74%) Data Lake
15 24 (13.19%) Kubernetes
15 24 (13.19%) Azure Certification
16 23 (12.64%) Azure Data Factory
16 23 (12.64%) SC Cleared
17 22 (12.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 21 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
18 21 (11.54%) IaaS
18 21 (11.54%) AWS
18 21 (11.54%) PaaS
19 20 (10.99%) Roadmaps
19 20 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
20 19 (10.44%) Terraform
20 19 (10.44%) Microservices
21 18 (9.89%) Data Warehouse
21 18 (9.89%) Python
21 18 (9.89%) Big Data

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 (2.20%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.65%) Apache
2 3 (1.65%) Camunda
3 2 (1.10%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.55%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.55%) IIS
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.55%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.85%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.55%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.55%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.55%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 182 (100.00%) Azure
2 23 (12.64%) Azure Data Factory
3 22 (12.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 21 (11.54%) AWS
4 21 (11.54%) IaaS
4 21 (11.54%) PaaS
5 20 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (9.34%) Power Platform
7 13 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
7 13 (7.14%) Entra ID
8 12 (6.59%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (6.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 11 (6.04%) SaaS
10 10 (5.49%) GCP
11 9 (4.95%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (4.40%) Azure Key Vault
12 8 (4.40%) Serverless
13 7 (3.85%) Azure Functions
14 6 (3.30%) Azure Stack
15 5 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.79%) Firewall
2 5 (2.75%) LAN
2 5 (2.75%) Network Security
2 5 (2.75%) VPN
2 5 (2.75%) WAN
3 2 (1.10%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.74%) Data Lake
2 18 (9.89%) Big Data
2 18 (9.89%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (6.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (6.04%) Power BI
4 7 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.30%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.75%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.20%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.65%) OLAP
8 3 (1.65%) OLTP
9 2 (1.10%) DB2
9 2 (1.10%) GIS
9 2 (1.10%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.55%) IDMS
10 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.55%) Parquet
10 1 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (1.65%) Git
1 3 (1.65%) Jenkins
1 3 (1.65%) JIRA
2 2 (1.10%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.55%) Appium
3 1 (0.55%) Selenium
3 1 (0.55%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 39 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 37 (20.33%) Finance
3 16 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.49%) Banking
5 6 (3.30%) Financial Institution
5 6 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (2.75%) German Language
6 5 (2.75%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.65%) Retail
9 2 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.10%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.10%) Police
9 2 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Automotive
10 1 (0.55%) Billing
10 1 (0.55%) Games
10 1 (0.55%) Legal
10 1 (0.55%) Local Government
10 1 (0.55%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.79%) .NET
2 9 (4.95%) Middleware
3 6 (3.30%) .NET Core
3 6 (3.30%) ARM Templates
3 6 (3.30%) REST
4 5 (2.75%) OpenID
5 4 (2.20%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.20%) OAuth
5 4 (2.20%) PySpark
5 4 (2.20%) SAML
5 4 (2.20%) YAML
6 3 (1.65%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.65%) ADO
6 3 (1.65%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (1.65%) JSON
6 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (1.65%) React
6 3 (1.65%) XML
7 2 (1.10%) JSON Schema
7 2 (1.10%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.49%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (4.95%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.30%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.30%) PKI
3 6 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.20%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (2.20%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.20%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.20%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.65%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.65%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.65%) Grid Computing
5 3 (1.65%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.65%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.10%) NHS
6 2 (1.10%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.55%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.85%) Windows
2 5 (2.75%) Linux
3 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (23.63%) Migration
2 42 (23.08%) DevOps
3 41 (22.53%) Agile
4 36 (19.78%) Analytics
5 28 (15.38%) Data Architecture
6 27 (14.84%) Data Modelling
7 21 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (10.99%) Roadmaps
9 19 (10.44%) Microservices
10 16 (8.79%) CI/CD
10 16 (8.79%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (7.69%) Architectural Patterns
11 14 (7.69%) Cloud Security
11 14 (7.69%) Data Migration
12 13 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
12 13 (7.14%) Data Strategy
12 13 (7.14%) ETL
12 13 (7.14%) Machine Learning
12 13 (7.14%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 35 (19.23%) SQL
2 18 (9.89%) PowerShell
2 18 (9.89%) Python
3 12 (6.59%) C#
4 7 (3.85%) Bicep
5 6 (3.30%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.75%) Java
7 1 (0.55%) Bash
7 1 (0.55%) COBOL
7 1 (0.55%) R
7 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 24 (13.19%) Azure Certification
3 23 (12.64%) SC Cleared
4 17 (9.34%) Degree
5 7 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.20%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.65%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.65%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.55%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.55%) CISSP
8 1 (0.55%) CITP
8 1 (0.55%) SANS
8 1 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.85%) Data Quality
1 7 (3.85%) QA
2 5 (2.75%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.10%) GDPR
4 1 (0.55%) GRC
4 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (7.14%) Docker
2 10 (5.49%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (4.40%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.55%) UAG
4 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (13.19%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.44%) Terraform
3 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.55%) Ansible
4 1 (0.55%) PowerCLI
4 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 55 (30.22%) Microsoft
2 31 (17.03%) Databricks
3 5 (2.75%) MuleSoft
4 4 (2.20%) Google
4 4 (2.20%) Oracle
4 4 (2.20%) Palo Alto
4 4 (2.20%) SAP
5 3 (1.65%) VMware
6 2 (1.10%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.55%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.55%) IBM
7 1 (0.55%) Okta
7 1 (0.55%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.55%) Solace
7 1 (0.55%) Sparx
7 1 (0.55%) Virgin Media