Azure Architect Contracts in Birmingham

Microsoft Azure Architect
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in Birmingham is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

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

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 74 80
Rank change year-on-year +19 +6 -18
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 8 2 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.08% 0.22% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 0.23% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 12
10th Percentile - - £556
25th Percentile £600 £563 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £594
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -3.16% -1.04%
75th Percentile £750 £588 £650
90th Percentile - - £684
West Midlands median daily rate £663 £556 £628
% change year-on-year +19.10% -11.35% +4.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 696 862 1,249
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.80% 96.64% 95.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 564 902
10th Percentile £250 £263 £225
25th Percentile £338 £375 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £480 £500 £483
% change year-on-year -4.00% +3.57% +13.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 35 21
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.20 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.63 £13.10 £13.75
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £48.75 £24.94 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £60.50 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.77 £20.00 £17.24
% change year-on-year -1.15% +16.01% +13.50%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in Birmingham

Azure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Architect in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Azure Architect in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Azure Architect contract 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 contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Firewall
4 2 (25.00%) Retail
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (25.00%) Windows
4 2 (25.00%) Linux
4 2 (25.00%) MS Visio
4 2 (25.00%) LAN
4 2 (25.00%) WAN
4 2 (25.00%) Middleware
4 2 (25.00%) Degree
4 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (25.00%) German Language
4 2 (25.00%) QA
4 2 (25.00%) Time Management
4 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) User Stories
4 2 (25.00%) Mobile App
4 2 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (25.00%) Data Science
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) LAN
1 2 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) German Language
2 2 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Retail
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Middleware
1 2 (25.00%) React Native
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Data Science
3 2 (25.00%) Data Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Time Management
3 2 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (25.00%) User Stories
3 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (25.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Databricks