Azure Architect Jobs in England

Microsoft Azure Architect
UK > England

The median Microsoft Azure Architect salary in England is £92,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 629 650 546
Rank change year-on-year +21 -104 +200
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Architect 54 194 411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.22% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.23% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 34 155 335
10th Percentile £74,800 £63,750 £68,750
25th Percentile £84,250 £75,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £87,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -7.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £113,813 £107,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £114,500
UK median annual salary £92,500 £87,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +5.71% -2.78% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 43,919 83,679 79,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.64% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 23,116 62,210 50,998
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in England

Azure Architect
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Architect in England.

Salary trend for Azure Architect in England

Azure Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Architect in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Architect in England

Azure Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +51 41 £100,000 +5.26% 21
South East +74 4 £105,000 +75.00% 8
Midlands +42 4 £82,750 +10.33% 4
North of England +22 4 £80,000 +16.36% 6
North West -8 4 £80,000 +14.29% 2
West Midlands +49 3 £88,000 +17.33% 2
South West +112 1 - - 1
East Midlands +37 1 £72,500 +3.57% 2
Azure Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Azure Architect 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 permanent job ads across the England region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 54 (100.00%) Azure
2 23 (42.59%) Microsoft
3 18 (33.33%) AWS
3 18 (33.33%) Migration
4 17 (31.48%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (29.63%) DevOps
5 16 (29.63%) Roadmaps
6 15 (27.78%) Social Skills
7 13 (24.07%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (20.37%) Terraform
9 10 (18.52%) Analytics
9 10 (18.52%) Finance
10 9 (16.67%) CI/CD
10 9 (16.67%) Architectural Design
10 9 (16.67%) Scrum
10 9 (16.67%) SQL
10 9 (16.67%) Agile
10 9 (16.67%) TOGAF
10 9 (16.67%) Software Engineering
10 9 (16.67%) Waterfall
10 9 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (16.67%) Data Governance
10 9 (16.67%) GCP
10 9 (16.67%) Cloud Native
10 9 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 8 (14.81%) Databricks
11 8 (14.81%) Decision-Making
11 8 (14.81%) ArchiMate
11 8 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (7.41%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.85%) Apache
3 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.85%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (5.56%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 54 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (33.33%) AWS
3 9 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (16.67%) GCP
4 6 (11.11%) Azure AKS
4 6 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 5 (9.26%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (9.26%) PaaS
6 4 (7.41%) Azure Storage
6 4 (7.41%) SaaS
7 3 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (3.70%) Azure AI
8 2 (3.70%) GitHub
8 2 (3.70%) IaaS
8 2 (3.70%) OneDrive
8 2 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (1.85%) DNS
2 1 (1.85%) MPLS
2 1 (1.85%) Network Security
2 1 (1.85%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.85%) VPN
2 1 (1.85%) WAN
2 1 (1.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.96%) SQL Server
2 6 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (5.56%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.85%) Big Data
5 1 (1.85%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.85%) Metadata
5 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.85%) Power BI
5 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) GitLab
1 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.85%) ERwin
2 1 (1.85%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) NUnit
General
1 15 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.52%) Finance
3 6 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.41%) Financial Institution
5 2 (3.70%) Banking
5 2 (3.70%) Law
5 2 (3.70%) Legal
5 2 (3.70%) Local Government
6 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Private Banking
6 1 (1.85%) Publishing
6 1 (1.85%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.41%) ARM Templates
2 2 (3.70%) .NET
3 1 (1.85%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.85%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.85%) Dapper ORM
3 1 (1.85%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.85%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.85%) gRPC
3 1 (1.85%) Kafka
3 1 (1.85%) Middleware
3 1 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.85%) React
3 1 (1.85%) REST
3 1 (1.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 7 (12.96%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (12.96%) Management Information System
3 5 (9.26%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.85%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Android
1 1 (1.85%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.85%) Mac OS
1 1 (1.85%) Windows
1 1 (1.85%) Windows 10
1 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
1 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (33.33%) Migration
2 17 (31.48%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (29.63%) DevOps
3 16 (29.63%) Roadmaps
4 13 (24.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (18.52%) Analytics
6 9 (16.67%) Agile
6 9 (16.67%) Architectural Design
6 9 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 9 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (16.67%) Data Governance
6 9 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 9 (16.67%) Scrum
6 9 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 9 (16.67%) TOGAF
6 9 (16.67%) Waterfall
7 8 (14.81%) Architecture Roadmap
7 8 (14.81%) Decision-Making
7 8 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (14.81%) UML
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.67%) SQL
2 7 (12.96%) PowerShell
2 7 (12.96%) Python
3 5 (9.26%) Bicep
4 4 (7.41%) C#
5 3 (5.56%) Bash
6 2 (3.70%) Java
7 1 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.85%) Scala
7 1 (1.85%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.85%) VB
7 1 (1.85%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (14.81%) Azure Certification
2 5 (9.26%) AWS Certification
2 5 (9.26%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (7.41%) Degree
3 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.85%) CCNP
5 1 (1.85%) CCSA
5 1 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.85%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.85%) MCP
5 1 (1.85%) MCSA
5 1 (1.85%) MCSE
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.85%) COBIT
1 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.85%) NCSC
1 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) Docker
2 5 (9.26%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (5.56%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.85%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (20.37%) Terraform
2 4 (7.41%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.56%) Ansible
3 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (5.56%) SCCM
4 2 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 23 (42.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.81%) Databricks
3 6 (11.11%) Google
4 5 (9.26%) IBM
4 5 (9.26%) Oracle
4 5 (9.26%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.70%) iManage
6 1 (1.85%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.85%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.85%) Cisco
6 1 (1.85%) F5
6 1 (1.85%) McAfee
6 1 (1.85%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.85%) Symantec
6 1 (1.85%) VMware