Azure Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London 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 338 370 335
Rank change year-on-year +32 -35 -38
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 56 79 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.34% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.36% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 64 139
10th Percentile £503 £513 £473
25th Percentile £600 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +6.12% +11.36%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £675
90th Percentile - £831 £775
UK median daily rate £628 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.46% +4.00% +7.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,765 21,693 29,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,441 15,152 20,402
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,107 1,452
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in the UK excluding London

Azure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Architect in the UK excluding London

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Architect in the UK excluding London

Azure Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
Midlands +42 21 £675 +21.35% 5
North of England +35 20 £625 +4.17% 6
West Midlands +37 15 £660 +18.65% 5
North West +26 15 £625 +9.65% 6
South East -20 10 £625 -10.46% 11
East Midlands +17 6 £675 +22.73%
South West +5 6 £513 -21.15% 1
Yorkshire +17 5 £575 -25.81%
Scotland +31 2 £700 - 1
Azure Architect
UK

Azure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 56 (100.00%) Azure
2 22 (39.29%) Agile
3 17 (30.36%) Microsoft
4 16 (28.57%) DevOps
5 13 (23.21%) Social Skills
5 13 (23.21%) Migration
5 13 (23.21%) Analytics
6 12 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (19.64%) Databricks
7 11 (19.64%) SQL
8 10 (17.86%) Finance
9 9 (16.07%) Machine Learning
9 9 (16.07%) Azure Certification
10 8 (14.29%) Kubernetes
10 8 (14.29%) Public Cloud
10 8 (14.29%) Power Platform
10 8 (14.29%) Big Data
10 8 (14.29%) Data Architecture
11 7 (12.50%) Degree
11 7 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (12.50%) CI/CD
12 6 (10.71%) Technology Strategy
12 6 (10.71%) Business Strategy
12 6 (10.71%) API Management
12 6 (10.71%) Data Lake
12 6 (10.71%) Terraform
12 6 (10.71%) IT Strategy
12 6 (10.71%) Data Strategy
12 6 (10.71%) ETL

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.79%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (7.14%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.79%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 56 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 7 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (10.71%) AWS
5 6 (10.71%) IaaS
6 5 (8.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (8.93%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (7.14%) PaaS
8 3 (5.36%) Azure Stack
9 2 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.57%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.57%) GCP
9 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.57%) SaaS
10 1 (1.79%) Azure App Service
10 1 (1.79%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.79%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.93%) WAN
2 4 (7.14%) Firewall
2 4 (7.14%) LAN
3 1 (1.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.29%) Big Data
2 6 (10.71%) Data Lake
3 4 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (7.14%) Power BI
4 3 (5.36%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.57%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.79%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.79%) GIS
6 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) JIRA
2 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.86%) Finance
3 4 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.14%) German Language
3 4 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.57%) Retail
5 1 (1.79%) Local Government
5 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.14%) Middleware
2 3 (5.36%) .NET
3 2 (3.57%) .NET Core
3 2 (3.57%) ARM Templates
3 2 (3.57%) React Native
4 1 (1.79%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.79%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (1.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 4 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.36%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.79%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.79%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.93%) Windows
2 4 (7.14%) Linux
3 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (39.29%) Agile
2 16 (28.57%) DevOps
3 13 (23.21%) Analytics
3 13 (23.21%) Migration
4 9 (16.07%) Machine Learning
5 8 (14.29%) Data Architecture
6 7 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 6 (10.71%) API Management
7 6 (10.71%) Business Strategy
7 6 (10.71%) Data Strategy
7 6 (10.71%) ETL
7 6 (10.71%) IT Strategy
7 6 (10.71%) Open Source
7 6 (10.71%) Technology Strategy
8 5 (8.93%) Architectural Patterns
8 5 (8.93%) Data Analytics
8 5 (8.93%) Data Modelling
8 5 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (8.93%) TOGAF
8 5 (8.93%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 11 (19.64%) SQL
2 6 (10.71%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.36%) Python
4 2 (3.57%) Bicep
4 2 (3.57%) C#
5 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (16.07%) Azure Certification
2 7 (12.50%) Degree
3 4 (7.14%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) QA
2 2 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (7.14%) Docker
1 4 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.71%) Terraform
3 1 (1.79%) Ansible
3 1 (1.79%) PowerCLI
3 1 (1.79%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (30.36%) Microsoft
2 11 (19.64%) Databricks
3 2 (3.57%) VMware
4 1 (1.79%) Google
4 1 (1.79%) Sparx