Azure Architect Contracts

Microsoft Azure Architect
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in the UK is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 399 369 325
Rank change year-on-year -30 -44 -49
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 179 355 734
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.63% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.67% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 280 491
10th Percentile £500 £503 £513
25th Percentile £569 £563 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £723
90th Percentile £788 £812 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £675 £613
% change year-on-year -7.41% +10.20% +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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 1 June 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 13 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 1 June 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 -47 148 £625 -7.41% 43
London -19 87 £650 -2.26% 20
Work from Home +14 74 £650 - 32
UK excluding London +16 59 £625 -7.41% 20
North of England +33 21 £613 +2.08% 6
Midlands +32 17 £675 +17.39% 5
North West +29 16 £613 +7.46% 5
West Midlands +23 13 £663 +19.10% 3
South East -21 12 £650 -6.88% 7
South West +5 10 £600 -7.69% 2
Yorkshire +21 5 £575 -25.81%
East Midlands +12 4 £675 +8.00% 2
Scotland +34 2 £700 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 179 (100.00%) Azure
2 55 (30.73%) Microsoft
3 43 (24.02%) Social Skills
4 41 (22.91%) Agile
5 39 (21.79%) DevOps
5 39 (21.79%) Analytics
6 35 (19.55%) Finance
7 34 (18.99%) Migration
7 34 (18.99%) SQL
7 34 (18.99%) Databricks
8 27 (15.08%) Data Lake
9 26 (14.53%) Azure Certification
10 25 (13.97%) Data Modelling
11 24 (13.41%) IaaS
11 24 (13.41%) Data Architecture
11 24 (13.41%) Security Cleared
11 24 (13.41%) Terraform
12 23 (12.85%) PaaS
13 22 (12.29%) Azure Data Factory
14 21 (11.73%) Entra ID
14 21 (11.73%) Roadmaps
14 21 (11.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 21 (11.73%) SC Cleared
15 20 (11.17%) AWS
15 20 (11.17%) Problem-Solving
16 19 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
16 19 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (10.61%) Kubernetes
17 18 (10.06%) Microservices
17 18 (10.06%) CI/CD

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 (2.23%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.68%) Apache
3 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) CMS
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 6 (3.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 8 (4.47%) 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
1 179 (100.00%) Azure
2 24 (13.41%) IaaS
3 23 (12.85%) PaaS
4 22 (12.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (11.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 21 (11.73%) Entra ID
6 20 (11.17%) AWS
7 19 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (9.50%) Power Platform
9 13 (7.26%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (7.26%) SaaS
10 11 (6.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 11 (6.15%) GCP
11 10 (5.59%) Azure Service Bus
11 10 (5.59%) Serverless
12 9 (5.03%) Azure Functions
13 8 (4.47%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (3.91%) Azure Key Vault
15 6 (3.35%) Azure Monitor
15 6 (3.35%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.94%) Firewall
2 9 (5.03%) WAN
3 8 (4.47%) LAN
4 5 (2.79%) Network Security
5 4 (2.23%) VPN
6 2 (1.12%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.08%) Data Lake
2 17 (9.50%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (8.38%) Big Data
4 13 (7.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (6.15%) Power BI
6 7 (3.91%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.79%) Delta Lake
8 4 (2.23%) OLAP
8 4 (2.23%) OLTP
8 4 (2.23%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.68%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.12%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.56%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.56%) DB2
11 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.56%) GIS
11 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.56%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.12%) Git
2 2 (1.12%) JIRA
2 2 (1.12%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 43 (24.02%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.55%) Finance
3 12 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.59%) Banking
5 9 (5.03%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (3.91%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.35%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.79%) German Language
9 3 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.12%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.12%) Retail
11 1 (0.56%) Automotive
11 1 (0.56%) Billing
11 1 (0.56%) Games
11 1 (0.56%) Legal
11 1 (0.56%) Local Government
11 1 (0.56%) Marketing
11 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.06%) .NET
2 13 (7.26%) Middleware
3 8 (4.47%) REST
4 7 (3.91%) ARM Templates
4 7 (3.91%) OAuth
5 6 (3.35%) .NET Core
5 6 (3.35%) AngularJS
5 6 (3.35%) OpenID
5 6 (3.35%) SAML
6 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (2.23%) RESTful
8 3 (1.68%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.68%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (1.68%) JSON
8 3 (1.68%) PySpark
8 3 (1.68%) React
8 3 (1.68%) XML
8 3 (1.68%) YAML
9 2 (1.12%) JSON Schema
9 2 (1.12%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.82%) Public Cloud
2 8 (4.47%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (3.91%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.79%) PKI
4 5 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.23%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.23%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (2.23%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.23%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.23%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.68%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.68%) Grid Computing
6 3 (1.68%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.68%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.12%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.12%) NHS
7 2 (1.12%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.59%) Windows
2 8 (4.47%) Linux
3 1 (0.56%) VMS
3 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (22.91%) Agile
2 39 (21.79%) Analytics
2 39 (21.79%) DevOps
3 34 (18.99%) Migration
4 25 (13.97%) Data Modelling
5 24 (13.41%) Data Architecture
6 21 (11.73%) Roadmaps
7 20 (11.17%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (10.06%) CI/CD
9 18 (10.06%) Microservices
10 17 (9.50%) Machine Learning
11 15 (8.38%) Data Strategy
12 14 (7.82%) Architectural Patterns
12 14 (7.82%) Business Strategy
13 13 (7.26%) API Management
13 13 (7.26%) Business Intelligence
14 12 (6.70%) Data Migration
14 12 (6.70%) ETL
14 12 (6.70%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 34 (18.99%) SQL
2 16 (8.94%) Python
3 15 (8.38%) PowerShell
4 10 (5.59%) C#
5 8 (4.47%) Bicep
5 8 (4.47%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.79%) Java
7 1 (0.56%) R
7 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (14.53%) Azure Certification
2 24 (13.41%) Security Cleared
3 21 (11.73%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.15%) Degree
5 8 (4.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.23%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.68%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.56%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.56%) CISSP
9 1 (0.56%) CITP
9 1 (0.56%) SANS
9 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.59%) QA
2 7 (3.91%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.23%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.68%) GDPR
5 1 (0.56%) GRC
5 1 (0.56%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (7.82%) Docker
2 10 (5.59%) Active Directory
3 9 (5.03%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.56%) UAG
4 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (13.41%) Terraform
2 19 (10.61%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.12%) Ansible
4 2 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.56%) Kibana
5 1 (0.56%) logstash
5 1 (0.56%) NetIQ Identity Manager
5 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 55 (30.73%) Microsoft
2 34 (18.99%) Databricks
3 7 (3.91%) MuleSoft
4 5 (2.79%) Google
4 5 (2.79%) Oracle
4 5 (2.79%) SAP
5 4 (2.23%) VMware
6 2 (1.12%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.56%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.56%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.56%) NetIQ
7 1 (0.56%) Solace
7 1 (0.56%) Sparx
7 1 (0.56%) Splunk
7 1 (0.56%) Virgin Media