Azure Architect Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Azure Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in the West Midlands is £660 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 133 150
Rank change year-on-year +35 +17 -46
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 15 7 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.78% 0.29% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.30% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 18
10th Percentile - £536 £561
25th Percentile £600 £563 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £625 £663
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% -5.66% +26.19%
75th Percentile £750 £650 £750
90th Percentile - £725 £805
England median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,754 2,304 3,516
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 94.54% 96.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,185 1,596 2,589
10th Percentile £258 £250 £213
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 69 83
10th Percentile £11.97 £12.50 £12.28
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% +9.95% +6.34%
75th Percentile £42.50 £26.38 £20.00
90th Percentile £56.00 £53.50 £23.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
% change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in the West Midlands

Azure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Architect in the West Midlands

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Architect in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Architect in the West Midlands

Azure Architect
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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
Birmingham +19 10 £643 +0.78%
Warwickshire +2 2 - -
Coventry - 2 £675 -
Azure Architect
England

Azure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 19 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (66.67%) Agile
3 6 (40.00%) Finance
4 5 (33.33%) DevOps
4 5 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 4 (26.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (26.67%) Databricks
5 4 (26.67%) Public Cloud
5 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
6 3 (20.00%) User Stories
6 3 (20.00%) Docker
6 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
6 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (20.00%) Migration
6 3 (20.00%) Terraform
6 3 (20.00%) Wireframes
6 3 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
6 3 (20.00%) Azure Certification
7 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
7 2 (13.33%) Design Patterns
7 2 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
7 2 (13.33%) API Management
7 2 (13.33%) Technology Strategy
7 2 (13.33%) Business Strategy
7 2 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (13.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (13.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 4 (26.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (6.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) LAN
1 2 (13.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
1 2 (13.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) German Language
3 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Middleware
1 2 (13.33%) React Native
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
4 3 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
4 3 (20.00%) Migration
4 3 (20.00%) User Stories
4 3 (20.00%) Wireframes
5 2 (13.33%) API Management
5 2 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (13.33%) Business Strategy
5 2 (13.33%) Data Science
5 2 (13.33%) Data Strategy
5 2 (13.33%) Design Patterns
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) IT Strategy
5 2 (13.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
5 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
5 2 (13.33%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (13.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) PowerCLI
2 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Databricks
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) VMware