Azure Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 272 281 296
Rank change year-on-year +9 +15 -75
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 69 180 382
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.47% 0.75% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.79% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 150 285
10th Percentile £500 £513 £522
25th Percentile £559 £575 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £630
Median % change year-on-year - +3.17% +7.97%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £725
90th Percentile £751 £810 £845
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
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

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 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 69 (100.00%) Azure
2 22 (31.88%) Social Skills
3 21 (30.43%) DevOps
4 20 (28.99%) Databricks
5 16 (23.19%) Agile
6 15 (21.74%) Microsoft
6 15 (21.74%) Finance
6 15 (21.74%) SQL
6 15 (21.74%) Analytics
6 15 (21.74%) Public Cloud
7 12 (17.39%) Entra ID
7 12 (17.39%) Migration
8 11 (15.94%) Terraform
8 11 (15.94%) Machine Learning
9 10 (14.49%) Data Science
9 10 (14.49%) .NET
9 10 (14.49%) Business Strategy
10 9 (13.04%) Architectural Patterns
10 9 (13.04%) Windows
10 9 (13.04%) WAN
10 9 (13.04%) Security Cleared
10 9 (13.04%) Data Strategy
10 9 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (13.04%) IaaS
10 9 (13.04%) Microservices
10 9 (13.04%) Kubernetes
11 8 (11.59%) Operational Acceptance Testing
11 8 (11.59%) Translating Business Requirements
11 8 (11.59%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (11.59%) IT Strategy

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 (1.45%) Apache
1 1 (1.45%) CMS
1 1 (1.45%) IIS
1 1 (1.45%) OpenStack
1 1 (1.45%) WebLogic
1 1 (1.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.45%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.45%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.45%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.45%) Markit EDM
2 1 (1.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 69 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (17.39%) Entra ID
3 9 (13.04%) IaaS
4 8 (11.59%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (11.59%) PaaS
5 7 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (10.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (10.14%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (8.70%) AWS
7 4 (5.80%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (5.80%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (4.35%) Azure Stack
8 3 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (4.35%) GCP
8 3 (4.35%) GitHub
8 3 (4.35%) Snowflake
9 2 (2.90%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.90%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.04%) WAN
2 8 (11.59%) LAN
3 5 (7.25%) Firewall
4 3 (4.35%) Network Security
4 3 (4.35%) VPN
5 2 (2.90%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.59%) Data Lake
2 6 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.35%) Power BI
4 2 (2.90%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.90%) Big Data
4 2 (2.90%) Data Hub
4 2 (2.90%) Delta Lake
4 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.45%) DB2
5 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Git
General
1 22 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 15 (21.74%) Finance
3 8 (11.59%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (5.80%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.35%) Banking
6 2 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.45%) Automotive
7 1 (1.45%) Games
7 1 (1.45%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.45%) Local Government
7 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.49%) .NET
2 8 (11.59%) Middleware
3 5 (7.25%) REST
4 4 (5.80%) .NET Core
4 4 (5.80%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (5.80%) OAuth
4 4 (5.80%) OpenID
4 4 (5.80%) SAML
5 3 (4.35%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.90%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.90%) ADO
6 2 (2.90%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (2.90%) CSS
6 2 (2.90%) Entity Framework
6 2 (2.90%) jQuery
6 2 (2.90%) React
6 2 (2.90%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 1 (1.45%) JSON
7 1 (1.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.74%) Public Cloud
2 4 (5.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.90%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.90%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.90%) Grid Computing
3 2 (2.90%) N-Tier
3 2 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.45%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.45%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.04%) Windows
2 8 (11.59%) Linux
3 1 (1.45%) VMS
3 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (30.43%) DevOps
2 16 (23.19%) Agile
3 15 (21.74%) Analytics
4 12 (17.39%) Migration
5 11 (15.94%) Machine Learning
6 10 (14.49%) Business Strategy
6 10 (14.49%) Data Science
7 9 (13.04%) Architectural Patterns
7 9 (13.04%) Data Strategy
7 9 (13.04%) Microservices
7 9 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (11.59%) Data Architecture
8 8 (11.59%) Data Modelling
8 8 (11.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (11.59%) IT Strategy
8 8 (11.59%) Operational Acceptance Testing
8 8 (11.59%) Roadmaps
8 8 (11.59%) Technology Strategy
8 8 (11.59%) Translating Business Requirements
8 8 (11.59%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 15 (21.74%) SQL
2 6 (8.70%) JavaScript
2 6 (8.70%) PowerShell
2 6 (8.70%) Python
3 4 (5.80%) Bicep
3 4 (5.80%) C#
4 1 (1.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.59%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.14%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.90%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.45%) CISSP
5 1 (1.45%) Degree
5 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.59%) QA
2 1 (1.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.45%) GDPR
2 1 (1.45%) GRC
System Software
1 6 (8.70%) Docker
2 4 (5.80%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.45%) UAG
4 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (15.94%) Terraform
2 9 (13.04%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (28.99%) Databricks
2 15 (21.74%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.80%) MuleSoft
3 4 (5.80%) VMware
4 3 (4.35%) Oracle
5 2 (2.90%) SAP
6 1 (1.45%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.45%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.45%) Google
6 1 (1.45%) Sparx
6 1 (1.45%) Splunk