Azure Architect Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Azure Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 273 278
Rank change year-on-year +30 +5 +15
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 62 68 178
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.64% 0.46% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.49% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 50 149
10th Percentile £485 £498 £513
25th Percentile £516 £555 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -1.92% +3.17%
75th Percentile £709 £750 £725
90th Percentile £751 £754 £810
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66.75
Median hourly rate - - £68.50
75th Percentile - - £70.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £68.50
% change year-on-year - - +3.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 9,163 13,828 22,652
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.89% 93.61% 95.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,173 9,294 16,070
10th Percentile £330 £325 £357
25th Percentile £413 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £634 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 570 529
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.00 £22.59 £25.00
Median hourly rate £34.48 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -14.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.80
UK median hourly rate £27.45 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.80% -16.67% +76.47%

Azure Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Azure Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Architect trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Azure Architect over the 6 months to 18 June 2025.

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 remote working options 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 18 June 2025, 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 62 (100.00%) Azure
2 21 (33.87%) Microsoft
3 18 (29.03%) Finance
3 18 (29.03%) DevOps
4 16 (25.81%) Social Skills
4 16 (25.81%) Security Cleared
5 14 (22.58%) AWS
5 14 (22.58%) SC Cleared
5 14 (22.58%) SQL
5 14 (22.58%) IaaS
6 13 (20.97%) Terraform
6 13 (20.97%) CI/CD
7 12 (19.35%) Cloud Security
7 12 (19.35%) Migration
8 11 (17.74%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (17.74%) Analytics
8 11 (17.74%) GCP
8 11 (17.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (17.74%) Azure Certification
9 10 (16.13%) Entra ID
9 10 (16.13%) SaaS
9 10 (16.13%) PaaS
10 9 (14.52%) Data Architecture
10 9 (14.52%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (14.52%) GDPR
10 9 (14.52%) Data Lake
10 9 (14.52%) Serverless
11 8 (12.90%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (12.90%) Databricks
11 8 (12.90%) Power Platform

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 (1.61%) Apache
1 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 62 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (22.58%) AWS
2 14 (22.58%) IaaS
3 11 (17.74%) GCP
4 10 (16.13%) Entra ID
4 10 (16.13%) PaaS
4 10 (16.13%) SaaS
5 9 (14.52%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (14.52%) Serverless
6 8 (12.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (12.90%) Power Platform
7 6 (9.68%) Azure AKS
7 6 (9.68%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (9.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (8.06%) Azure Event Grid
8 5 (8.06%) Azure Functions
8 5 (8.06%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (6.45%) Azure API Management
9 4 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (4.84%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.29%) Firewall
2 4 (6.45%) HTTPS
3 3 (4.84%) SSL
3 3 (4.84%) WAN
4 2 (3.23%) DNS
4 2 (3.23%) LAN
4 2 (3.23%) NetScaler
4 2 (3.23%) VPN
5 1 (1.61%) BGP
5 1 (1.61%) DHCP
5 1 (1.61%) HTTP
5 1 (1.61%) Network Security
5 1 (1.61%) OSPF
5 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.74%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (14.52%) Data Lake
3 8 (12.90%) Power BI
4 7 (11.29%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (8.06%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (4.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (3.23%) Big Data
7 2 (3.23%) Metadata
7 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.61%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.61%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.61%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.61%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (4.84%) ERwin
1 3 (4.84%) SonarQube
2 2 (3.23%) Hudson
3 1 (1.61%) GitLab
3 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.61%) JIRA
General
1 18 (29.03%) Finance
2 16 (25.81%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Banking
5 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.61%) French Language
6 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.61%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.06%) Middleware
2 3 (4.84%) .NET
2 3 (4.84%) ARM Templates
2 3 (4.84%) Azure Blueprints
2 3 (4.84%) REST
3 2 (3.23%) Express.js
3 2 (3.23%) Node.js
4 1 (1.61%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.61%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.61%) Plotly
4 1 (1.61%) PySpark
4 1 (1.61%) React
4 1 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.68%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.84%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.84%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.84%) Reinsurance
4 2 (3.23%) AS400
4 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.23%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.61%) CMDB
5 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.61%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.90%) Linux
2 5 (8.06%) Windows
3 3 (4.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (29.03%) DevOps
2 13 (20.97%) CI/CD
3 12 (19.35%) Cloud Security
3 12 (19.35%) Migration
4 11 (17.74%) Analytics
4 11 (17.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (14.52%) Data Architecture
6 8 (12.90%) Data Modelling
6 8 (12.90%) Security Architecture
7 7 (11.29%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (9.68%) Data Protection
8 6 (9.68%) ETL
8 6 (9.68%) High Availability
8 6 (9.68%) Machine Learning
8 6 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (8.06%) Cost Management
9 5 (8.06%) Data Strategy
9 5 (8.06%) DevSecOps
9 5 (8.06%) Enterprise Architecture
9 5 (8.06%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 14 (22.58%) SQL
2 8 (12.90%) PowerShell
3 5 (8.06%) Bicep
4 4 (6.45%) Java
5 3 (4.84%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.23%) C#
7 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.61%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 14 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 11 (17.74%) Azure Certification
4 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.61%) Degree
5 1 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.52%) GDPR
2 3 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.84%) SOC 2
3 2 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.23%) QA
4 1 (1.61%) HL7
System Software
1 6 (9.68%) Active Directory
1 6 (9.68%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.23%) Docker
2 2 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (20.97%) Terraform
2 8 (12.90%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.84%) Ansible
4 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (33.87%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.90%) Databricks
3 3 (4.84%) IBM
4 2 (3.23%) Citrix
4 2 (3.23%) Google
4 2 (3.23%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.61%) Aveksa
5 1 (1.61%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle
5 1 (1.61%) Qualys
5 1 (1.61%) VMware