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 4 January 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 572 501
Rank change year-on-year +53 -71 +104
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Architect 126 141 221
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.26% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.28% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 101 87 196
10th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £82,500 £70,625 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £74,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +14.86% -10.30% -2.94%

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 53,448 50,590 50,228
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.53% 92.97% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 32,896 26,513 38,772
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,738 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.69% -1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,261
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

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 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Architect in the UK

Azure Architect
Top 13 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 4 January 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 +87 123 £90,000 +5.88% 84
UK excluding London +58 66 £85,000 +14.86% 78
London +65 57 £100,000 +9.29% 13
Work from Home +60 46 £100,000 +17.65% 10
South East +36 22 £90,000 +38.46% 21
North of England +17 19 £75,000 +3.45% 15
South West +17 15 £80,000 +18.52% 8
North West +21 13 £77,500 -10.14% 7
Midlands +3 11 £92,500 +23.33% 16
North East - 6 £73,750 - 1
West Midlands +8 5 £92,500 +23.33% 9
East Midlands +4 5 - - 6
East of England +26 4 £70,000 - 14

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

For the 6 months to 4 January 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.

1 126 (100.00%) Azure
2 51 (40.48%) Microsoft
3 41 (32.54%) Databricks
3 41 (32.54%) SQL
4 30 (23.81%) Data Modelling
5 29 (23.02%) DevOps
5 29 (23.02%) PaaS
5 29 (23.02%) Roadmaps
6 28 (22.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 28 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
7 27 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (19.84%) Data Warehouse
8 25 (19.84%) SaaS
9 24 (19.05%) Enterprise Architecture
10 22 (17.46%) AI
10 22 (17.46%) Data Lake
10 22 (17.46%) Stakeholder Management
11 20 (15.87%) Mentoring
12 19 (15.08%) ETL
13 18 (14.29%) Data Strategy
13 18 (14.29%) Power Platform
14 17 (13.49%) Data Governance
15 16 (12.70%) IaaS
15 16 (12.70%) Python
16 15 (11.90%) Agile
16 15 (11.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 15 (11.90%) Azure SQL Database
16 15 (11.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 14 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
17 14 (11.11%) Azure AKS

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 7 (5.56%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.79%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 126 (100.00%) Azure
2 29 (23.02%) PaaS
3 28 (22.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 25 (19.84%) SaaS
5 18 (14.29%) Power Platform
6 16 (12.70%) IaaS
7 15 (11.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 14 (11.11%) Azure AKS
8 14 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (11.11%) Serverless
9 13 (10.32%) AWS
10 10 (7.94%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (7.14%) Azure Event Grid
11 9 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (6.35%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (6.35%) Azure Stack
13 7 (5.56%) GCP
13 7 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
14 6 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (4.76%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.97%) Firewall
2 4 (3.17%) Network Security
3 3 (2.38%) VPN
4 2 (1.59%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.59%) VLAN
4 2 (1.59%) VoIP
5 1 (0.79%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (19.84%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (17.46%) Data Lake
3 15 (11.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (7.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 10 (7.94%) SQL Server
5 9 (7.14%) Power BI
6 8 (6.35%) Data Mining
6 8 (6.35%) Data Vault
7 4 (3.17%) Metadata
8 2 (1.59%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (1.59%) GitLab
2 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (21.43%) Finance
2 26 (20.63%) Social Skills
3 16 (12.70%) Retail
4 11 (8.73%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.94%) Legal
6 9 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.97%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.97%) Law
9 3 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.59%) .NET
1 2 (1.59%) REST
2 1 (0.79%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.79%) JSON
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (8.73%) Cloud Native
3 9 (7.14%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.97%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.17%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.59%) IoT
7 2 (1.59%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.59%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.79%) Life Science
8 1 (0.79%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.79%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.79%) Linux
1 1 (0.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (23.81%) Data Modelling
2 29 (23.02%) DevOps
2 29 (23.02%) Roadmaps
3 28 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
4 27 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (19.05%) Enterprise Architecture
6 22 (17.46%) AI
6 22 (17.46%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (15.87%) Mentoring
8 19 (15.08%) ETL
9 18 (14.29%) Data Strategy
10 17 (13.49%) Data Governance
11 15 (11.90%) Agile
11 15 (11.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 14 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
12 14 (11.11%) Data Architecture
12 14 (11.11%) Presales
13 13 (10.32%) Migration
14 12 (9.52%) Analytics
14 12 (9.52%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 41 (32.54%) SQL
2 16 (12.70%) Python
3 6 (4.76%) Bicep
4 2 (1.59%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.79%) Bash
5 1 (0.79%) C#
5 1 (0.79%) Go
Qualifications
1 11 (8.73%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (7.94%) Azure Certification
3 7 (5.56%) Degree
3 7 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
5 5 (3.97%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.59%) CCNA
7 2 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.79%) CISM
8 1 (0.79%) CISSP
8 1 (0.79%) MCP
8 1 (0.79%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.97%) GDPR
3 2 (1.59%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.59%) QA
4 1 (0.79%) NCSC
4 1 (0.79%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (3.97%) Docker
2 2 (1.59%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.35%) Terraform
3 1 (0.79%) Ansible
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (40.48%) Microsoft
2 41 (32.54%) Databricks
3 10 (7.94%) Oracle
4 9 (7.14%) Informatica
5 6 (4.76%) BiZZdesign
6 3 (2.38%) VMware
7 2 (1.59%) Foundry
7 2 (1.59%) Google
7 2 (1.59%) Intapp
7 2 (1.59%) SonicWALL
8 1 (0.79%) Cisco
8 1 (0.79%) EMC
8 1 (0.79%) F5
8 1 (0.79%) iManage
8 1 (0.79%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.79%) Splunk