Azure Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in Work from Home is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 275 304 274
Rank change year-on-year +29 -30 -50
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 74 173 425
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.48% 0.67% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.71% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 141 308
10th Percentile £425 £513 £513
25th Percentile £525 £575 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £725
90th Percentile £788 £810 £875
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £68.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.79% +35.38%
UK median hourly rate - £68.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year - +3.79% +38.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,327 24,531 42,707
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.34% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,575 17,328 30,855
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 565 611
10th Percentile £14.35 £18.22 £13.12
25th Percentile £23.34 £25.95 £18.75
Median hourly rate £44.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%

Azure Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Azure Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Architect.

Azure Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Azure Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Architect
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Architect.

Azure Architect hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 74 (100.00%) Azure
2 22 (29.73%) DevOps
3 17 (22.97%) Agile
3 17 (22.97%) Migration
3 17 (22.97%) Social Skills
4 16 (21.62%) Databricks
5 15 (20.27%) Microsoft
6 14 (18.92%) Finance
6 14 (18.92%) Security Cleared
7 13 (17.57%) SC Cleared
8 12 (16.22%) SQL
9 11 (14.86%) Analytics
9 11 (14.86%) Kubernetes
10 10 (13.51%) Microservices
10 10 (13.51%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (13.51%) Data Architecture
10 10 (13.51%) Architectural Patterns
11 9 (12.16%) Roadmaps
11 9 (12.16%) Data Modelling
11 9 (12.16%) Terraform
11 9 (12.16%) Entra ID
11 9 (12.16%) IaaS
12 8 (10.81%) Machine Learning
12 8 (10.81%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (10.81%) Public Cloud
12 8 (10.81%) Data Lake
12 8 (10.81%) Power Platform
12 8 (10.81%) .NET
12 8 (10.81%) PaaS
12 8 (10.81%) Cloud Security

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (1.35%) Apache
1 1 (1.35%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (1.35%) IIS
1 1 (1.35%) OpenStack
1 1 (1.35%) WebLogic
1 1 (1.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (2.70%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.35%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (6.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.35%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.35%) Markit EDM
2 1 (1.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 74 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (13.51%) Dynamics 365
3 9 (12.16%) Entra ID
3 9 (12.16%) IaaS
4 8 (10.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 8 (10.81%) PaaS
4 8 (10.81%) Power Platform
5 7 (9.46%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (8.11%) AWS
6 6 (8.11%) Azure Key Vault
7 5 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (6.76%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (5.41%) Azure AKS
9 3 (4.05%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (4.05%) Azure Stack
9 3 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (4.05%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.70%) GitHub
10 2 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.76%) Firewall
1 5 (6.76%) LAN
1 5 (6.76%) WAN
2 3 (4.05%) Network Security
2 3 (4.05%) VPN
3 2 (2.70%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.81%) Data Lake
2 7 (9.46%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (6.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (5.41%) Power BI
5 3 (4.05%) Delta Lake
6 2 (2.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.70%) Big Data
6 2 (2.70%) DB2
6 2 (2.70%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.35%) IDMS
7 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.35%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Git
General
1 17 (22.97%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.92%) Finance
3 5 (6.76%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (5.41%) Banking
4 4 (5.41%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.70%) Retail
7 1 (1.35%) Automotive
7 1 (1.35%) Games
7 1 (1.35%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.35%) Local Government
7 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.81%) .NET
2 5 (6.76%) Middleware
3 3 (4.05%) .NET Core
3 3 (4.05%) AngularJS
3 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (4.05%) OAuth
3 3 (4.05%) OpenID
3 3 (4.05%) REST
3 3 (4.05%) SAML
4 2 (2.70%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.70%) ADO
4 2 (2.70%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.70%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (2.70%) CSS
4 2 (2.70%) Entity Framework
4 2 (2.70%) jQuery
4 2 (2.70%) React
4 2 (2.70%) React Native
4 2 (2.70%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 1 (1.35%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Hybrid Cloud
1 8 (10.81%) Public Cloud
2 3 (4.05%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.70%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.70%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (2.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (2.70%) Grid Computing
3 2 (2.70%) N-Tier
3 2 (2.70%) PKI
3 2 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.35%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.35%) NHS
4 1 (1.35%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.11%) Windows
2 5 (6.76%) Linux
3 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (29.73%) DevOps
2 17 (22.97%) Agile
2 17 (22.97%) Migration
3 11 (14.86%) Analytics
4 10 (13.51%) Architectural Patterns
4 10 (13.51%) Data Architecture
4 10 (13.51%) Microservices
5 9 (12.16%) Data Modelling
5 9 (12.16%) Roadmaps
6 8 (10.81%) Cloud Security
6 8 (10.81%) Machine Learning
7 7 (9.46%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (9.46%) Business Strategy
7 7 (9.46%) Data Science
7 7 (9.46%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (8.11%) Data Strategy
8 6 (8.11%) Design Patterns
8 6 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (8.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.22%) SQL
2 7 (9.46%) Python
3 6 (8.11%) PowerShell
4 5 (6.76%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.41%) C#
6 2 (2.70%) Bicep
7 1 (1.35%) COBOL
7 1 (1.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 13 (17.57%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.46%) Azure Certification
4 3 (4.05%) Degree
5 2 (2.70%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.35%) CISSP
6 1 (1.35%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) QA
2 1 (1.35%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.35%) GDPR
2 1 (1.35%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (6.76%) Docker
2 4 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.05%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.35%) UAG
4 1 (1.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (14.86%) Kubernetes
2 9 (12.16%) Terraform
3 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (21.62%) Databricks
2 15 (20.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.05%) MuleSoft
3 3 (4.05%) Oracle
3 3 (4.05%) Palo Alto
3 3 (4.05%) SAP
4 2 (2.70%) VMware
5 1 (1.35%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.35%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.35%) Google
5 1 (1.35%) IBM
5 1 (1.35%) Sparx