Azure Architect Contracts

Microsoft Azure Architect
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in the UK is £630 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 424 392 306
Rank change year-on-year -32 -86 -25
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 178 351 796
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.59% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.62% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 274 532
10th Percentile £488 £501 £513
25th Percentile £563 £563 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £725
90th Percentile £788 £810 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £650 £613
% change year-on-year -3.85% +6.12% +11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £68.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.79% +38.95%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,448 56,471 84,729
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,348 39,474 59,497
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,658 1,569 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.94
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -9.41% +117.95% +2.63%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in the UK

Azure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Architect in the UK

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Architect over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Architect in the UK

Azure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Architect in the UK

Azure Architect
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England -29 142 £650 - 36
London -3 88 £695 +6.92% 18
Work from Home +21 74 £650 - 29
UK excluding London +42 54 £625 -3.85% 17
Midlands +44 21 £675 +25.58%
North of England +35 18 £625 +5.93% 5
West Midlands +39 15 £660 +18.65%
North West +29 13 £625 +11.11% 5
South East -14 9 £650 -5.66% 10
East Midlands +27 6 £675 +28.57%
Yorkshire +25 5 £575 -25.81%
South West +4 5 £525 -19.23% 1
Scotland +32 2 £700 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 178 (100.00%) Azure
2 55 (30.90%) Microsoft
3 42 (23.60%) Migration
4 41 (23.03%) DevOps
5 40 (22.47%) Agile
6 38 (21.35%) Social Skills
7 37 (20.79%) Finance
8 36 (20.22%) Analytics
9 34 (19.10%) SQL
10 31 (17.42%) Databricks
11 26 (14.61%) Data Modelling
11 26 (14.61%) Data Architecture
12 25 (14.04%) Security Cleared
12 25 (14.04%) Data Lake
13 24 (13.48%) Azure Certification
14 23 (12.92%) Azure Data Factory
14 23 (12.92%) Kubernetes
15 22 (12.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 22 (12.36%) SC Cleared
15 22 (12.36%) PaaS
15 22 (12.36%) IaaS
16 21 (11.80%) AWS
16 21 (11.80%) Roadmaps
17 20 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
18 19 (10.67%) Azure DevOps
18 19 (10.67%) Terraform
18 19 (10.67%) Microservices
19 18 (10.11%) Python
19 18 (10.11%) PowerShell
19 18 (10.11%) Big Data

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (2.25%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.69%) Apache
2 3 (1.69%) Camunda
3 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.56%) IIS
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.56%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.93%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.56%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 178 (100.00%) Azure
2 23 (12.92%) Azure Data Factory
3 22 (12.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 22 (12.36%) IaaS
3 22 (12.36%) PaaS
4 21 (11.80%) AWS
5 19 (10.67%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (10.11%) Power Platform
7 13 (7.30%) Azure Service Bus
7 13 (7.30%) Entra ID
8 12 (6.74%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (6.74%) SaaS
9 11 (6.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (5.62%) GCP
11 9 (5.06%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (4.49%) Azure Key Vault
12 8 (4.49%) Serverless
13 7 (3.93%) Azure Functions
14 6 (3.37%) Azure Stack
15 5 (2.81%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.99%) Firewall
2 5 (2.81%) LAN
2 5 (2.81%) Network Security
2 5 (2.81%) VPN
2 5 (2.81%) WAN
3 2 (1.12%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.04%) Data Lake
2 18 (10.11%) Big Data
3 17 (9.55%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (6.74%) Power BI
5 11 (6.18%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (3.93%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.81%) Delta Lake
7 5 (2.81%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.25%) OLAP
8 4 (2.25%) OLTP
9 3 (1.69%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.12%) DB2
10 2 (1.12%) GIS
10 2 (1.12%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.56%) IDMS
11 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.56%) Parquet
11 1 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Git
1 3 (1.69%) Jenkins
1 3 (1.69%) JIRA
2 2 (1.12%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 38 (21.35%) Social Skills
2 37 (20.79%) Finance
3 14 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.62%) Banking
5 7 (3.93%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.81%) German Language
7 5 (2.81%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.69%) Retail
9 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.12%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.12%) Police
9 2 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Automotive
10 1 (0.56%) Billing
10 1 (0.56%) Legal
10 1 (0.56%) Local Government
10 1 (0.56%) Marketing
10 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.99%) .NET
2 10 (5.62%) Middleware
3 6 (3.37%) .NET Core
3 6 (3.37%) ARM Templates
3 6 (3.37%) REST
4 5 (2.81%) OpenID
5 4 (2.25%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.25%) OAuth
5 4 (2.25%) PySpark
5 4 (2.25%) SAML
5 4 (2.25%) YAML
6 3 (1.69%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.69%) ADO
6 3 (1.69%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (1.69%) JSON
6 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (1.69%) React
6 3 (1.69%) XML
7 2 (1.12%) JSON Schema
7 2 (1.12%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.62%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (5.06%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.37%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.37%) PKI
3 6 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.25%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (2.25%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.25%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.25%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.69%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.69%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.69%) Grid Computing
5 3 (1.69%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.69%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.12%) NHS
6 2 (1.12%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.56%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.93%) Windows
2 5 (2.81%) Linux
3 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (23.60%) Migration
2 41 (23.03%) DevOps
3 40 (22.47%) Agile
4 36 (20.22%) Analytics
5 26 (14.61%) Data Architecture
5 26 (14.61%) Data Modelling
6 21 (11.80%) Roadmaps
7 20 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (10.67%) Microservices
9 16 (8.99%) CI/CD
9 16 (8.99%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (8.43%) Architectural Patterns
10 15 (8.43%) Cloud Security
11 14 (7.87%) Data Migration
12 13 (7.30%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (7.30%) ETL
12 13 (7.30%) Machine Learning
12 13 (7.30%) Project Delivery
13 12 (6.74%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (6.74%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 34 (19.10%) SQL
2 18 (10.11%) PowerShell
2 18 (10.11%) Python
3 11 (6.18%) C#
4 7 (3.93%) Bicep
5 6 (3.37%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.81%) Java
7 1 (0.56%) Bash
7 1 (0.56%) COBOL
7 1 (0.56%) R
7 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (14.04%) Security Cleared
2 24 (13.48%) Azure Certification
3 22 (12.36%) SC Cleared
4 17 (9.55%) Degree
5 7 (3.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.25%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.69%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.56%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.56%) CISSP
8 1 (0.56%) CITP
8 1 (0.56%) SANS
8 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.49%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.93%) QA
3 4 (2.25%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.12%) GDPR
5 1 (0.56%) GRC
5 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (7.30%) Docker
2 10 (5.62%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (4.49%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.56%) UAG
4 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (12.92%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.67%) Terraform
3 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.56%) Ansible
4 1 (0.56%) PowerCLI
4 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 55 (30.90%) Microsoft
2 31 (17.42%) Databricks
3 5 (2.81%) MuleSoft
4 4 (2.25%) Google
4 4 (2.25%) Oracle
4 4 (2.25%) SAP
5 3 (1.69%) Palo Alto
5 3 (1.69%) VMware
6 2 (1.12%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.56%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.56%) IBM
7 1 (0.56%) Okta
7 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.56%) Solace
7 1 (0.56%) Sparx
7 1 (0.56%) Virgin Media