Azure Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Azure Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 561 667 596
Rank change year-on-year +106 -71 +74
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Architect 16 104 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.041% 0.14% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.15% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 12 87 125
10th Percentile £71,500 £60,000 £67,500
25th Percentile £81,438 £63,750 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £88,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -14.77% +17.33%
75th Percentile £103,125 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £102,500 £107,000
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
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,540 70,800 51,694
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.25% 94.95% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 17,956 49,914 29,611
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in the UK excluding London

Azure Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Azure Architect in the UK excluding London

Azure Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Architect in the UK excluding London

Azure Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
North of England +30 5 £80,000 +14.29% 37
North West -1 5 £80,000 +6.67% 14
South East +69 4 £105,000 +40.00% 56
Midlands +67 4 £82,750 +10.33% 37
Scotland +107 3 £92,500 +37.04% 17
West Midlands +42 3 £88,000 +17.33% 18
South West +98 1 - - 21
East Midlands +44 1 £72,500 +3.57% 16
Azure Architect
UK

Azure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 30 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 UK excluding London region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
3 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
5 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (31.25%) Analytics
6 5 (31.25%) Agile
6 5 (31.25%) Data Architecture
7 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
7 4 (25.00%) Migration
7 4 (25.00%) GCP
7 4 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
7 4 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
8 3 (18.75%) Data Lake
8 3 (18.75%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 3 (18.75%) Azure Certification
8 3 (18.75%) Databricks
8 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
8 3 (18.75%) AWS
8 3 (18.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
8 3 (18.75%) SQL
8 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
8 3 (18.75%) Validation
8 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
8 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
8 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
9 2 (12.50%) Degree
9 2 (12.50%) Finance

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.25%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) GCP
3 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
4 2 (12.50%) Azure AKS
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 2 (12.50%) SaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Stack
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Storage
5 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (18.75%) Data Lake
2 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (12.50%) Power BI
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) ERwin
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 2 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Local Government
5 1 (6.25%) Publishing
5 1 (6.25%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) .NET
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (6.25%) PySpark
1 1 (6.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Android
1 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
1 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) Analytics
2 5 (31.25%) Data Architecture
3 4 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 4 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
3 4 (25.00%) Migration
4 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
4 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (18.75%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (18.75%) Validation
5 2 (12.50%) Architectural Design
5 2 (12.50%) Business Strategy
5 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (12.50%) DevSecOps
5 2 (12.50%) GitOps
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (12.50%) Observability
5 2 (12.50%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) C#
2 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) VB
2 1 (6.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) Azure Certification
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 2 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
4 1 (6.25%) MCP
4 1 (6.25%) MCSA
4 1 (6.25%) MCSE
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) NCSC
2 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (6.25%) BitLocker
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Databricks
3 2 (12.50%) Google
4 1 (6.25%) McAfee
4 1 (6.25%) Symantec
4 1 (6.25%) VMware