Azure Architect Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure Architect
England > London

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in London is £685 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 298 278
Rank change year-on-year -7 -20 -51
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 85 205 367
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.49% 0.79% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.83% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 160 235
10th Percentile £506 £503 £513
25th Percentile £559 £575 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £685 £656 £638
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% +2.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £750
90th Percentile £821 £850 £888
England median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +6.47%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,306 24,641 36,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 95.23% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,788 17,910 26,919
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 281 439
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.63 £22.94
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +10.62%
75th Percentile £46.05 £62.68 £49.92
90th Percentile £65.32 £80.00 £67.63
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in London

Azure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Architect in London

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Architect in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Architect in London

Azure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Architect in London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Architect in London

Azure Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Central London +34 17 £700 +7.69% 5
Azure Architect
England

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

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

1 85 (100.00%) Azure
2 29 (34.12%) Microsoft
3 21 (24.71%) Finance
4 20 (23.53%) DevOps
5 19 (22.35%) Analytics
6 17 (20.00%) Data Modelling
7 16 (18.82%) SQL
7 16 (18.82%) Agile
7 16 (18.82%) Data Lake
7 16 (18.82%) Social Skills
8 15 (17.65%) Databricks
9 14 (16.47%) Roadmaps
10 13 (15.29%) PaaS
11 12 (14.12%) IaaS
11 12 (14.12%) Migration
11 12 (14.12%) Data Architecture
11 12 (14.12%) Azure Certification
12 11 (12.94%) Security Cleared
12 11 (12.94%) SaaS
12 11 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (11.76%) Kubernetes
13 10 (11.76%) Entra ID
13 10 (11.76%) Big Data
13 10 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (11.76%) SC Cleared
13 10 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 9 (10.59%) CI/CD
14 9 (10.59%) PowerShell
14 9 (10.59%) AWS

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (2.35%) Apache
1 2 (2.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.18%) CMS
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.18%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.18%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 85 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (15.29%) PaaS
3 12 (14.12%) IaaS
4 11 (12.94%) SaaS
5 10 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 10 (11.76%) Entra ID
6 9 (10.59%) AWS
7 8 (9.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (9.41%) GCP
8 7 (8.24%) Power Platform
8 7 (8.24%) Serverless
9 6 (7.06%) Azure Functions
9 6 (7.06%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (4.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (4.71%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (3.53%) Azure API Management
12 3 (3.53%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (3.53%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.06%) Firewall
2 2 (2.35%) DNS
2 2 (2.35%) Network Security
3 1 (1.18%) LAN
3 1 (1.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.82%) Data Lake
2 10 (11.76%) Big Data
2 10 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (8.24%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (7.06%) Power BI
5 4 (4.71%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.71%) OLAP
5 4 (4.71%) OLTP
6 3 (3.53%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.53%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.18%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.18%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.18%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.18%) Metadata
7 1 (1.18%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.18%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Git
1 2 (2.35%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (24.71%) Finance
2 16 (18.82%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.59%) Banking
4 7 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.24%) Financial Institution
5 5 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.53%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.18%) Automotive
8 1 (1.18%) Billing
8 1 (1.18%) German Language
8 1 (1.18%) Legal
8 1 (1.18%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.59%) .NET
2 7 (8.24%) REST
3 6 (7.06%) OAuth
3 6 (7.06%) OpenID
4 5 (5.88%) Middleware
4 5 (5.88%) SAML
5 4 (4.71%) AngularJS
5 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (4.71%) PySpark
5 4 (4.71%) RESTful
6 3 (3.53%) ADO
6 3 (3.53%) ARM Templates
6 3 (3.53%) JSON
7 2 (2.35%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.35%) JSON Schema
7 2 (2.35%) SOAP
7 2 (2.35%) XML
7 2 (2.35%) YAML
8 1 (1.18%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.18%) MSMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.71%) Distributed Computing
1 4 (4.71%) PKI
1 4 (4.71%) Security Posture
2 3 (3.53%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.53%) Grid Computing
2 3 (3.53%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.53%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.53%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.35%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.35%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.18%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.18%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.18%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.35%) Windows
2 1 (1.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (23.53%) DevOps
2 19 (22.35%) Analytics
3 17 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 16 (18.82%) Agile
5 14 (16.47%) Roadmaps
6 12 (14.12%) Data Architecture
6 12 (14.12%) Migration
7 11 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (10.59%) CI/CD
9 8 (9.41%) Data Governance
9 8 (9.41%) Microservices
10 7 (8.24%) Project Delivery
11 6 (7.06%) API Management
11 6 (7.06%) Architectural Patterns
11 6 (7.06%) Data Migration
11 6 (7.06%) Data Strategy
11 6 (7.06%) ETL
11 6 (7.06%) Visualisation
12 5 (5.88%) B2C
12 5 (5.88%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.82%) SQL
2 9 (10.59%) PowerShell
2 9 (10.59%) Python
3 5 (5.88%) C#
4 4 (4.71%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.53%) Java
6 2 (2.35%) Bicep
7 1 (1.18%) Bash
7 1 (1.18%) R
7 1 (1.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (14.12%) Azure Certification
2 11 (12.94%) Security Cleared
3 10 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 7 (8.24%) Degree
5 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.35%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.18%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.18%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (1.18%) CITP
8 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.53%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.35%) GDPR
3 2 (2.35%) QA
4 1 (1.18%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (9.41%) Docker
2 6 (7.06%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.41%) Terraform
3 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 29 (34.12%) Microsoft
2 15 (17.65%) Databricks
3 5 (5.88%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.35%) Cloudera
4 2 (2.35%) Google
5 1 (1.18%) Okta
5 1 (1.18%) Virgin Media