Azure Architect Jobs

Microsoft Azure Architect
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Architect salary in the UK is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 650 536 752
Rank change year-on-year -114 +216 -222
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Architect 194 392 574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.49% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.53% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 159 308 395
10th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £95,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,500 £115,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +20.00% -3.23%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in the UK

Azure Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Azure Architect in the UK

Azure Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Architect over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Architect in the UK

Azure Architect
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
England -132 153 £83,750 -11.84% 17
UK excluding London -67 89 £80,000 -11.11% 8
Work from Home -77 82 £98,750 +6.76% 18
London -54 74 £95,000 -5.00% 11
North of England +3 24 £77,500 -13.89% 1
South East -18 19 £80,000 -21.95% 2
South West +1 18 £80,000 -14.67% 1
Scotland -40 14 £67,500 -10.00% 1
North West -4 13 £80,000 -11.11% 1
Yorkshire +47 10 £67,500 -22.86%
West Midlands -5 10 £80,000 +6.67% 2
Midlands -33 10 £80,000 +10.34% 2
Channel Islands - 2 £85,000 -
Wales +27 1 £100,000 +42.86%
Northern Ireland +20 1 £100,000 - 1
North East - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 194 (100.00%) Azure
2 93 (47.94%) Microsoft
3 52 (26.80%) Roadmaps
4 50 (25.77%) DevOps
5 41 (21.13%) Finance
6 40 (20.62%) Microsoft 365
7 36 (18.56%) Azure Certification
7 36 (18.56%) Social Skills
8 32 (16.49%) Infrastructure as Code
9 30 (15.46%) SQL
10 26 (13.40%) AWS
10 26 (13.40%) Terraform
11 25 (12.89%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (12.37%) SaaS
12 24 (12.37%) PaaS
12 24 (12.37%) Migration
13 23 (11.86%) Kubernetes
13 23 (11.86%) Technology Roadmap
14 21 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
14 21 (10.82%) Technical Leadership
14 21 (10.82%) Public Sector
14 21 (10.82%) Cloud Native
14 21 (10.82%) Azure DevOps
15 20 (10.31%) CI/CD
15 20 (10.31%) Agile
16 19 (9.79%) Mentoring
16 19 (9.79%) IaaS
16 19 (9.79%) Cloud Security
17 18 (9.28%) Analytics
17 18 (9.28%) Cybersecurity

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (2.58%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.55%) Confluence
2 3 (1.55%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.03%) Apache
3 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.03%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.52%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.06%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 194 (100.00%) Azure
2 40 (20.62%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (13.40%) AWS
4 24 (12.37%) PaaS
4 24 (12.37%) SaaS
5 21 (10.82%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (9.79%) IaaS
7 17 (8.76%) Azure AKS
8 12 (6.19%) Azure App Service
9 10 (5.15%) GCP
10 9 (4.64%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (4.12%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (3.61%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (3.61%) Entra ID
12 7 (3.61%) Serverless
13 6 (3.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (2.58%) Microsoft Purview
15 4 (2.06%) Azure Functions
15 4 (2.06%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.12%) DNS
2 6 (3.09%) Network Security
3 4 (2.06%) Firewall
4 3 (1.55%) DHCP
5 2 (1.03%) Internet
5 2 (1.03%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (5.67%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.64%) Big Data
4 8 (4.12%) Data Lake
5 7 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.55%) MySQL
7 3 (1.55%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.55%) Power BI
7 3 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (1.55%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.52%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 9 (4.64%) Git
2 8 (4.12%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.58%) JIRA
4 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.52%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.52%) GitLab
4 1 (0.52%) JUnit
4 1 (0.52%) Selenium
4 1 (0.52%) Subversion
4 1 (0.52%) TestNG
4 1 (0.52%) Travis CI
General
1 41 (21.13%) Finance
2 36 (18.56%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (10.82%) Public Sector
4 17 (8.76%) Retail Banking
5 14 (7.22%) Banking
6 11 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.06%) Marketing
10 4 (2.06%) Retail
11 3 (1.55%) Law
12 2 (1.03%) Electronics
12 2 (1.03%) Legal
12 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.03%) Public Speaking
12 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.73%) .NET
2 9 (4.64%) .NET Core
2 9 (4.64%) .NET Framework
2 9 (4.64%) ASP.NET
2 9 (4.64%) JSON
3 8 (4.12%) ASP.NET 2.0
3 8 (4.12%) ASP.NET Web API
3 8 (4.12%) Blazor
3 8 (4.12%) CSS
3 8 (4.12%) Entity Framework
3 8 (4.12%) HTML
3 8 (4.12%) HTML5
3 8 (4.12%) Razor View Engine
3 8 (4.12%) RESTful
3 8 (4.12%) XML
3 8 (4.12%) YAML
4 7 (3.61%) PySpark
5 6 (3.09%) OAuth
6 3 (1.55%) OpenID
6 3 (1.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.82%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.15%) Data Centre
2 10 (5.15%) Public Cloud
3 8 (4.12%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.09%) Security Posture
5 5 (2.58%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.06%) Blog
7 3 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.03%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.03%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.03%) Replication
9 1 (0.52%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.52%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.12%) Windows
2 5 (2.58%) Linux
3 3 (1.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (26.80%) Roadmaps
2 50 (25.77%) DevOps
3 32 (16.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (12.89%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (12.37%) Migration
6 23 (11.86%) Technology Roadmap
7 21 (10.82%) Technical Leadership
8 20 (10.31%) Agile
8 20 (10.31%) CI/CD
9 19 (9.79%) Cloud Security
9 19 (9.79%) Mentoring
10 18 (9.28%) Analytics
10 18 (9.28%) Cybersecurity
11 17 (8.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 14 (7.22%) Design Patterns
13 12 (6.19%) Identity Access Management
13 12 (6.19%) Presales
13 12 (6.19%) TOGAF
14 11 (5.67%) Architectural Design
14 11 (5.67%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 30 (15.46%) SQL
2 17 (8.76%) C#
3 16 (8.25%) Python
4 13 (6.70%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.12%) PowerShell
5 8 (4.12%) T-SQL
6 7 (3.61%) Java
7 2 (1.03%) Bicep
8 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (18.56%) Azure Certification
2 16 (8.25%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.73%) Degree
4 10 (5.15%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (3.61%) CISSP
7 6 (3.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 6 (3.09%) CCSP
7 6 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.58%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.03%) CCNA
9 2 (1.03%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.52%) CEH
10 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.55%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (6.19%) Active Directory
1 12 (6.19%) Docker
2 8 (4.12%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.52%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 26 (13.40%) Terraform
2 23 (11.86%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.06%) Ansible
4 3 (1.55%) NetIQ Identity Manager
4 3 (1.55%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.52%) Kibana
6 1 (0.52%) logstash
6 1 (0.52%) Nagios
6 1 (0.52%) Puppet
6 1 (0.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 93 (47.94%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.76%) Databricks
3 8 (4.12%) Citrix
4 6 (3.09%) Oracle
5 5 (2.58%) VMware
6 4 (2.06%) Okta
6 4 (2.06%) SAP
7 3 (1.55%) ForgeRock
7 3 (1.55%) NetIQ
8 2 (1.03%) Cisco
8 2 (1.03%) iManage
8 2 (1.03%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.03%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.03%) Sparx
9 1 (0.52%) Aderant
9 1 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.52%) Intapp
9 1 (0.52%) LogRhythm
9 1 (0.52%) New Relic
9 1 (0.52%) Splunk