Microsoft Azure Architect
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Architect salary in the UK is £87,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 685 538 709
Rank change year-on-year -147 +171 -257
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Architect 231 509 589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.49% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.54% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 189 415 480
10th Percentile £63,500 £68,750 £62,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £87,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +16.67% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,221 94,676 150,515
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 66,838 59,581 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Architect in the UK

Azure Architect
Top 15 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 5 May 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 -99 199 £88,750 -6.58% 38
London +2 125 £95,000 - 17
Work from Home -59 97 £97,500 +8.33% 31
UK excluding London -110 80 £70,000 -20.00% 21
North of England +38 23 £68,750 -21.43% 5
Midlands -2 19 £75,000 +3.45% 2
West Midlands +11 14 £75,000 - 2
South East -36 14 £60,000 -36.84% 10
North West +9 13 £70,000 -20.00% 5
Scotland -69 12 £67,500 -20.59%
Yorkshire +82 10 £67,500 -22.86%
South West -32 5 £97,500 +8.33% 3
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
Wales +14 3 £50,000 -20.00%
East Midlands -23 3 £70,000 -3.45%

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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.

1 231 (100.00%) Azure
2 86 (37.23%) Microsoft
3 70 (30.30%) Azure Certification
4 68 (29.44%) Finance
5 56 (24.24%) Roadmaps
6 54 (23.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 53 (22.94%) PaaS
8 50 (21.65%) DevOps
9 49 (21.21%) IaaS
10 42 (18.18%) SQL
10 42 (18.18%) Social Skills
11 40 (17.32%) Public Cloud
12 39 (16.88%) Terraform
13 35 (15.15%) Databricks
14 33 (14.29%) Migration
14 33 (14.29%) Kubernetes
15 32 (13.85%) Agile
16 31 (13.42%) Azure Data Factory
16 31 (13.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 30 (12.99%) Citrix
17 30 (12.99%) Microsoft 365
17 30 (12.99%) Analytics
18 29 (12.55%) AWS
18 29 (12.55%) Data Lake
19 28 (12.12%) Asset Management
20 26 (11.26%) Azure DevOps
21 24 (10.39%) Cloud Security
21 24 (10.39%) Business Intelligence
22 23 (9.96%) SaaS
22 23 (9.96%) Analytical Skills

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 9 (3.90%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.43%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 231 (100.00%) Azure
2 53 (22.94%) PaaS
3 49 (21.21%) IaaS
4 31 (13.42%) Azure Data Factory
5 30 (12.99%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (12.55%) AWS
7 26 (11.26%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (9.96%) Power Platform
8 23 (9.96%) SaaS
9 20 (8.66%) Azure AKS
10 17 (7.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 15 (6.49%) Serverless
12 12 (5.19%) GCP
13 11 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (4.76%) Entra ID
14 10 (4.33%) Azure API Management
14 10 (4.33%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (4.33%) Microsoft Purview
15 9 (3.90%) Azure App Service
15 9 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.33%) DNS
2 8 (3.46%) Network Security
3 4 (1.73%) Firewall
4 2 (0.87%) Internet
4 2 (0.87%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.87%) SSL
4 2 (0.87%) VPN
5 1 (0.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.55%) Data Lake
2 20 (8.66%) Azure SQL Database
2 20 (8.66%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (8.66%) SQL Server
3 15 (6.49%) Power BI
4 6 (2.60%) Big Data
5 5 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.73%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.73%) Spark SQL
7 3 (1.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.30%) MySQL
7 3 (1.30%) OLAP
8 2 (0.87%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.87%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.87%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.43%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.43%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.43%) PolyBase
Development Applications
1 11 (4.76%) Git
2 6 (2.60%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.30%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.30%) CircleCI
3 3 (1.30%) GitLab
3 3 (1.30%) JUnit
3 3 (1.30%) Selenium
3 3 (1.30%) Subversion
3 3 (1.30%) TestNG
3 3 (1.30%) Travis CI
4 1 (0.43%) JIRA
General
1 68 (29.44%) Finance
2 42 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 31 (13.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.36%) Retail Banking
6 14 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (5.63%) Banking
8 11 (4.76%) Public Sector
9 10 (4.33%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.16%) Marketing
11 4 (1.73%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.30%) Legal
12 3 (1.30%) Retail
12 3 (1.30%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.87%) Brand Awareness
13 2 (0.87%) Electronics
13 2 (0.87%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.87%) Public Speaking
13 2 (0.87%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.23%) .NET
2 10 (4.33%) JSON
2 10 (4.33%) RESTful
2 10 (4.33%) XML
3 9 (3.90%) .NET Core
3 9 (3.90%) .NET Framework
3 9 (3.90%) ASP.NET
4 8 (3.46%) ASP.NET 2.0
4 8 (3.46%) ASP.NET Web API
4 8 (3.46%) Blazor
4 8 (3.46%) CSS
4 8 (3.46%) Entity Framework
4 8 (3.46%) HTML
4 8 (3.46%) HTML5
4 8 (3.46%) Razor View Engine
4 8 (3.46%) YAML
5 6 (2.60%) PySpark
6 3 (1.30%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.30%) OAuth
6 3 (1.30%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 40 (17.32%) Public Cloud
2 20 (8.66%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.19%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.16%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.73%) Blog
7 4 (1.73%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (1.73%) Replication
8 3 (1.30%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.87%) Social Media
10 1 (0.43%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.43%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.16%) Linux
2 4 (1.73%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (24.24%) Roadmaps
2 54 (23.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 50 (21.65%) DevOps
4 33 (14.29%) Migration
5 32 (13.85%) Agile
6 30 (12.99%) Analytics
7 28 (12.12%) Asset Management
8 24 (10.39%) Business Intelligence
8 24 (10.39%) Cloud Security
9 22 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (8.66%) Artificial Intelligence
10 20 (8.66%) CI/CD
10 20 (8.66%) Cybersecurity
10 20 (8.66%) Design Patterns
11 18 (7.79%) Identity Access Management
12 16 (6.93%) Presales
12 16 (6.93%) Technology Roadmap
13 14 (6.06%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 13 (5.63%) Data Governance
14 13 (5.63%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 42 (18.18%) SQL
2 20 (8.66%) Python
3 15 (6.49%) C#
4 10 (4.33%) T-SQL
5 9 (3.90%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.46%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.60%) Java
7 6 (2.60%) R
8 4 (1.73%) Scala
9 2 (0.87%) Bicep
10 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (30.30%) Azure Certification
2 10 (4.33%) SC Cleared
2 10 (4.33%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.90%) Degree
3 9 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (2.60%) AWS Certification
4 6 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.87%) CCNA
5 2 (0.87%) CEH
5 2 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (0.87%) CISSP
5 2 (0.87%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.43%) CISM
6 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.73%) Data Quality
1 4 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (1.73%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.43%) PMO
2 1 (0.43%) QA
System Software
1 17 (7.36%) Docker
2 16 (6.93%) Active Directory
3 12 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.73%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.30%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (16.88%) Terraform
2 33 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.16%) Ansible
4 4 (1.73%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.30%) Kibana
5 3 (1.30%) logstash
5 3 (1.30%) Nagios
5 3 (1.30%) Puppet
5 3 (1.30%) ZABBIX
6 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 86 (37.23%) Microsoft
2 35 (15.15%) Databricks
3 30 (12.99%) Citrix
4 12 (5.19%) VMware
5 6 (2.60%) Adobe
5 6 (2.60%) Apple
6 4 (1.73%) Google
6 4 (1.73%) Okta
6 4 (1.73%) SAP
7 3 (1.30%) New Relic
7 3 (1.30%) Oracle
7 3 (1.30%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.30%) Splunk
8 2 (0.87%) Cisco
8 2 (0.87%) iManage
8 2 (0.87%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.87%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.87%) Sparx
8 2 (0.87%) Veeam
9 1 (0.43%) Intapp