Azure Architect Job Trends

Microsoft Azure Architect
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Architect salary in the UK is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 June 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 591 664
Rank change year-on-year +58 +73 -151
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Architect 199 65 251
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.15% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.16% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 137 45 208
10th Percentile £77,100 £72,250 £63,750
25th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £95,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +8.57% -5.41%
75th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £103,750
90th Percentile £111,300 £115,000 £118,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +20.00% -16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 87,868 39,889 102,707
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.97% 89.49% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 60,280 22,587 74,092
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,524
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Azure Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Azure Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure Architect
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Azure Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Azure Architect job vacancies in the UK

Azure Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Architect over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Architect in the UK

Azure Architect
Top 14 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 17 June 2026. 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 +63 187 £90,000 -2.70% 51
London +34 106 £95,000 -11.63% 24
Work from Home +73 87 £92,500 +8.82% 31
UK excluding London -8 80 £85,000 -5.56% 28
South East +23 42 £87,500 -16.67% 7
North of England -20 19 £80,000 -11.11% 6
South West -42 12 £80,000 - 6
North West +3 11 £75,000 -16.67% 2
East of England -7 7 £80,000 -3.03% 2
Midlands -19 5 £75,000 -9.37% 6
North East - 4 - - 1
Yorkshire - 4 £90,000 - 3
East Midlands -27 3 - - 1
West Midlands -18 2 £75,000 -14.77% 5

Azure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 June 2026, Azure Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 199 (100.00%) Azure
2 81 (40.70%) Microsoft
3 68 (34.17%) Databricks
4 52 (26.13%) AI
4 52 (26.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 45 (22.61%) Roadmaps
6 44 (22.11%) SQL
7 42 (21.11%) Data Governance
8 40 (20.10%) DevOps
9 36 (18.09%) Migration
10 30 (15.08%) Data Modelling
11 28 (14.07%) Python
11 28 (14.07%) Technical Leadership
12 26 (13.07%) Azure AI
12 26 (13.07%) Infrastructure as Code
13 25 (12.56%) Security Cleared
14 24 (12.06%) Data Architecture
14 24 (12.06%) Entra ID
15 22 (11.06%) Data Security
15 22 (11.06%) Data Warehouse
15 22 (11.06%) Machine Learning
15 22 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (11.06%) SC Cleared
15 22 (11.06%) Serverless
15 22 (11.06%) Stakeholder Management
15 22 (11.06%) Terraform
16 21 (10.55%) Agile
16 21 (10.55%) CI/CD
16 21 (10.55%) Data Quality
16 21 (10.55%) Enterprise Architecture

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.51%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.51%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.50%) CMS
2 1 (0.50%) Confluence
2 1 (0.50%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (3.52%) PlantUML
2 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 199 (100.00%) Azure
2 52 (26.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 26 (13.07%) Azure AI
4 24 (12.06%) Entra ID
5 22 (11.06%) Serverless
6 21 (10.55%) Power Platform
7 20 (10.05%) PaaS
8 19 (9.55%) AWS
9 17 (8.54%) IaaS
10 16 (8.04%) Azure Machine Learning
11 15 (7.54%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (6.53%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (6.53%) Snowflake
13 11 (5.53%) Azure Functions
13 11 (5.53%) SaaS
14 10 (5.03%) Azure AKS
15 7 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (3.52%) Azure Service Bus
16 6 (3.02%) PowerApps
17 5 (2.51%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.52%) Firewall
2 6 (3.02%) Network Security
3 3 (1.51%) Kerberos
3 3 (1.51%) VPN
4 1 (0.50%) DNS
4 1 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.50%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.06%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (8.54%) SQL Server
3 16 (8.04%) Data Lake
4 12 (6.03%) Power BI
5 9 (4.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.51%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.01%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.01%) Metadata
7 2 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.01%) Redis
8 1 (0.50%) GIS
8 1 (0.50%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.51%) GitLab
1 3 (1.51%) MLflow
2 2 (1.01%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.50%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.50%) JIRA
General
1 38 (19.10%) Finance
2 37 (18.59%) Social Skills
3 5 (2.51%) Public Sector
3 5 (2.51%) Retail
4 4 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (2.01%) Legal
5 3 (1.51%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.51%) Law
6 2 (1.01%) Advertising
6 2 (1.01%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.01%) Marketing
7 1 (0.50%) Back Office
7 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.03%) .NET
2 6 (3.02%) ARM Templates
2 6 (3.02%) OAuth
2 6 (3.02%) OpenID
2 6 (3.02%) REST
3 4 (2.01%) PySpark
4 3 (1.51%) Kafka
4 3 (1.51%) LDAP
4 3 (1.51%) SAML
5 2 (1.01%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.01%) Django
5 2 (1.01%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.50%) FHIR
6 1 (0.50%) Node.js
6 1 (0.50%) React
6 1 (0.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.08%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.52%) Enterprise Cloud
3 7 (3.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.02%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.51%) IoT
6 4 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.51%) Data Fabric
7 3 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.01%) PKI
9 1 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.50%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.50%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.50%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.50%) PropTech
9 1 (0.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.51%) Windows
2 3 (1.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (26.13%) AI
2 45 (22.61%) Roadmaps
3 42 (21.11%) Data Governance
4 40 (20.10%) DevOps
5 36 (18.09%) Migration
6 30 (15.08%) Data Modelling
7 28 (14.07%) Technical Leadership
8 26 (13.07%) Infrastructure as Code
9 24 (12.06%) Data Architecture
10 22 (11.06%) Data Security
10 22 (11.06%) Machine Learning
10 22 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (11.06%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (10.55%) Agile
11 21 (10.55%) CI/CD
11 21 (10.55%) Enterprise Architecture
11 21 (10.55%) Performance Tuning
12 19 (9.55%) ETL
12 19 (9.55%) Generative AI
12 19 (9.55%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 44 (22.11%) SQL
2 28 (14.07%) Python
3 11 (5.53%) Bicep
4 9 (4.52%) C#
5 5 (2.51%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.50%) Bash
6 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.50%) R
6 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (12.56%) Security Cleared
2 22 (11.06%) SC Cleared
3 20 (10.05%) Degree
4 18 (9.05%) Azure Certification
5 14 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (5.53%) CISSP
7 7 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.51%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.01%) CISA
11 2 (1.01%) CISM
12 1 (0.50%) BC Cleared
12 1 (0.50%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.55%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.51%) NIST
3 2 (1.01%) GRC
3 2 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.01%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.50%) GDPR
4 1 (0.50%) HL7
System Software
1 13 (6.53%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (5.03%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.02%) Docker
4 6 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.50%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 22 (11.06%) Terraform
2 18 (9.05%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (5.03%) Ansible
3 10 (5.03%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.01%) Grafana
Vendors
1 81 (40.70%) Microsoft
2 68 (34.17%) Databricks
3 11 (5.53%) OpenAI
4 7 (3.52%) Cisco
5 6 (3.02%) VMware
6 2 (1.01%) Aderant
6 2 (1.01%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.01%) iManage
6 2 (1.01%) Intapp
6 2 (1.01%) SAP
7 1 (0.50%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.50%) Calypso
7 1 (0.50%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.50%) FXall
7 1 (0.50%) GoldenSource
7 1 (0.50%) Informatica
7 1 (0.50%) OutSystems
7 1 (0.50%) Tradeweb
7 1 (0.50%) Workday