Azure Data Architect Contracts in England

Data Architect - Azure
UK > England

The median Data Architect - Azure daily rate in England is £650 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 511 596 732
Rank change year-on-year +85 +136 -171
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Architect 32 42 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.087% 0.088% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.094% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 35 34
10th Percentile £459 £517 £565
25th Percentile £566 £556 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £750 £788 £716
90th Percentile £795 £865 £871
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +2.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,161 44,903 67,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.57% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,530 31,932 48,137
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,560 1,303 1,794
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

Azure Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Architect in England

Azure Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Architect in England

Azure Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Architect in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Architect in England

Azure Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Data Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 31 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +77 23 £625 -6.72% 4
North of England +28 5 £650 +18.18% 2
Midlands +22 3 £675 - 1
North West +19 3 £750 +36.36% 2
East Midlands +14 2 £675 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £450 -
West Midlands +16 1 £600 -
South East +10 1 - -
Azure Data Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Azure Data 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 England region featuring Azure Data Architect in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) Azure
2 21 (65.63%) Data Lake
3 20 (62.50%) Data Modelling
4 17 (53.13%) Microsoft
4 17 (53.13%) Databricks
4 17 (53.13%) Analytics
5 13 (40.63%) Big Data
5 13 (40.63%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (40.63%) Data Architecture
6 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
7 11 (34.38%) SQL
8 10 (31.25%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (28.13%) Power Platform
9 9 (28.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (28.13%) Power BI
9 9 (28.13%) ETL
10 8 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (25.00%) Data Governance
10 8 (25.00%) DevOps
11 7 (21.88%) Data Strategy
12 6 (18.75%) Machine Learning
12 6 (18.75%) Data Quality
12 6 (18.75%) NoSQL
12 6 (18.75%) Visualisation
13 5 (15.63%) Agile
13 5 (15.63%) Finance
13 5 (15.63%) Migration
13 5 (15.63%) Performance Optimisation
13 5 (15.63%) Data Ingestion
14 4 (12.50%) Product Roadmap

Azure Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (9.38%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.25%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Aladdin
1 1 (3.13%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 32 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (31.25%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (28.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 9 (28.13%) Power Platform
4 3 (9.38%) IaaS
4 3 (9.38%) PaaS
4 3 (9.38%) SaaS
5 2 (6.25%) AWS
5 2 (6.25%) dbt
5 2 (6.25%) GCP
5 2 (6.25%) GitHub
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (6.25%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (65.63%) Data Lake
2 13 (40.63%) Big Data
2 13 (40.63%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (28.13%) Power BI
4 6 (18.75%) NoSQL
5 4 (12.50%) OLAP
5 4 (12.50%) OLTP
6 3 (9.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (3.13%) Data Mining
7 1 (3.13%) Delta Lake
7 1 (3.13%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
7 1 (3.13%) HDInsight
7 1 (3.13%) Metadata
7 1 (3.13%) Parquet
7 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Git
General
1 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Finance
3 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.25%) Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Local Government
6 1 (3.13%) Marketing
6 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) Middleware
2 2 (6.25%) ADO
2 2 (6.25%) JSON
2 2 (6.25%) JSON Schema
2 2 (6.25%) PySpark
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Avro
3 1 (3.13%) Kafka
3 1 (3.13%) XML
3 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (9.38%) Grid Computing
3 2 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.13%) NHS
4 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (62.50%) Data Modelling
2 17 (53.13%) Analytics
3 13 (40.63%) Data Architecture
4 9 (28.13%) ETL
5 8 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 8 (25.00%) DevOps
6 7 (21.88%) Data Strategy
7 6 (18.75%) Machine Learning
7 6 (18.75%) Visualisation
8 5 (15.63%) Agile
8 5 (15.63%) Data Ingestion
8 5 (15.63%) Migration
8 5 (15.63%) Performance Optimisation
9 4 (12.50%) Data Analytics
9 4 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
9 4 (12.50%) Logical Data Model
9 4 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
9 4 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) SQL
2 4 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (3.13%) R
3 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.38%) Azure Certification
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 3 (9.38%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (53.13%) Databricks
1 17 (53.13%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.13%) Google