Azure Architect Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft Azure Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Microsoft Azure Architect salary in the West Midlands is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 234 247
Rank change year-on-year +48 +13 +11
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Architect 6 15 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.14% 0.20% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.22% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 5 13 20
10th Percentile £77,850 - £67,500
25th Percentile £84,000 - £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £78,125
90th Percentile £108,000 £104,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £100,000 £87,500 £95,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% +11.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,926 6,958 5,666
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.92% 94.26% 90.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,756 5,214 3,238
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in the West Midlands

Azure Architect
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Azure Architect in the West Midlands

Azure Architect
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Architect in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Architect in the West Midlands

Azure Architect
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Architect within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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
Birmingham +38 4 £95,000 +26.67% 4
Warwickshire - 2 £82,750 - 1
Azure Architect
England

Azure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 16 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 West Midlands region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Databricks
4 2 (33.33%) Data Lake
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (33.33%) SaaS
4 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 2 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (33.33%) Retail
5 1 (16.67%) Local Government
5 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
5 1 (16.67%) Network Security
5 1 (16.67%) Time Management
5 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
5 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
5 1 (16.67%) Adobe
5 1 (16.67%) Apple
5 1 (16.67%) ERwin
5 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (16.67%) Migration

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Storage
3 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) ERwin
General
1 2 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Local Government
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) IoT
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Analytics
1 3 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) ArchiMate
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Contract Negotiation
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) Data Science
3 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Kimball Methodology
3 1 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) DBS Check
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Databricks
3 1 (16.67%) Adobe
3 1 (16.67%) Apple