Azure Architect Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Azure Architect
England > North West

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in the North West is £625 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 126 152 157
Rank change year-on-year +26 +5 -35
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 15 8 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.56% 0.26% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.27% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 20
10th Percentile £500 £488 £514
25th Percentile £531 £531 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £570 £613
Median % change year-on-year +9.65% -6.94% +11.36%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £638
90th Percentile £705 £724 £681
England median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +6.47%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 2,525 2,915 3,889
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 94.95% 96.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,640 2,070 2,834
10th Percentile £276 £300 £213
25th Percentile £390 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +13.10%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £569
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 124 179
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.58 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.50 £19.22 £15.51
Median hourly rate £27.75 £30.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% +22.16% +38.45%
75th Percentile £46.91 £48.91 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.70 £66.00 £75.00
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 the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in the North West

Azure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Architect in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Azure Architect in the North West

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Architect in the North West

Azure Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West 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
Manchester +17 10 £575 +0.88% 5
Cheshire - 5 £625 -
Azure Architect
England

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

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 North West region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 5 (33.33%) SQL
4 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
4 4 (26.67%) Agile
5 3 (20.00%) Data Architecture
5 3 (20.00%) Databricks
5 3 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (13.33%) Hadoop
6 2 (13.33%) DevOps
6 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) API Management
6 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
6 2 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
6 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
6 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
6 2 (13.33%) Analytics
6 2 (13.33%) Time Management
6 2 (13.33%) Data Migration
6 2 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (13.33%) Apache Spark
6 2 (13.33%) Firewall
6 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (13.33%) MS Visio
6 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
6 2 (13.33%) ETL

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (13.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (6.67%) AWS
5 1 (6.67%) Azure App Service
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.67%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) Network Security
2 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (13.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.67%) Big Data
2 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.67%) Delta Lake
2 1 (6.67%) GIS
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (13.33%) German Language
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
1 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Agile
2 3 (20.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (13.33%) Analytics
3 2 (13.33%) API Management
3 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (13.33%) Data Management
3 2 (13.33%) Data Migration
3 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) ETL
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (13.33%) Load Balancing
3 2 (13.33%) Migration
3 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (13.33%) Time Management
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (6.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (6.67%) Log Analytics
4 1 (6.67%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) Bicep
2 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) Google