Azure Architect Jobs

Microsoft Azure Architect
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Architect salary in the UK is £87,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary 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 666 540 745
Rank change year-on-year -126 +205 -259
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Architect 246 461 574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.49% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.53% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 200 371 436
10th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £62,500
25th Percentile £74,375 £80,000 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £104,063 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £88,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -14.77% +17.33% -3.23%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Azure Architect in the UK

Azure Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Architect over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Architect in the UK

Azure Architect
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -126 206 £87,500 -7.89% 43
London -8 109 £95,000 - 20
UK excluding London -80 108 £75,000 -14.77% 20
Work from Home -81 102 £100,000 +11.11% 32
North of England +40 29 £70,000 -20.00% 6
South East -48 24 £77,500 -18.42% 7
Midlands -25 23 £75,000 +3.45% 5
West Midlands -15 19 £75,000 - 3
North West +3 16 £75,000 -16.67% 5
Scotland -68 14 £67,500 -10.00%
Yorkshire +62 12 £67,500 -22.86%
South West -26 9 £91,250 -6.41% 2
Wales +11 4 £50,000 -20.00%
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
East Midlands -30 3 £70,000 -3.45% 2
Northern Ireland +21 1 £100,000 -
North East - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Azure Architect 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 permanent job ads featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 246 (100.00%) Azure
2 92 (37.40%) Microsoft
3 67 (27.24%) Azure Certification
4 60 (24.39%) Finance
5 50 (20.33%) DevOps
6 49 (19.92%) Roadmaps
7 44 (17.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 41 (16.67%) SQL
9 39 (15.85%) PaaS
9 39 (15.85%) Social Skills
10 36 (14.63%) Terraform
10 36 (14.63%) IaaS
10 36 (14.63%) Migration
11 31 (12.60%) Kubernetes
11 31 (12.60%) Public Cloud
11 31 (12.60%) Microsoft 365
12 29 (11.79%) Databricks
13 28 (11.38%) Cybersecurity
14 27 (10.98%) Analytics
14 27 (10.98%) AWS
14 27 (10.98%) Agile
14 27 (10.98%) Azure Data Factory
15 26 (10.57%) Data Lake
15 26 (10.57%) Cloud Native
15 26 (10.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 26 (10.57%) Cloud Security
15 26 (10.57%) SaaS
16 25 (10.16%) Azure DevOps
17 24 (9.76%) Business Intelligence
18 22 (8.94%) Problem-Solving

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 7 (2.85%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.81%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.41%) Apache
4 1 (0.41%) CMS
4 1 (0.41%) Confluence
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 246 (100.00%) Azure
2 39 (15.85%) PaaS
3 36 (14.63%) IaaS
4 31 (12.60%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (10.98%) AWS
5 27 (10.98%) Azure Data Factory
6 26 (10.57%) SaaS
7 25 (10.16%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (8.54%) Azure AKS
9 19 (7.72%) Power Platform
10 15 (6.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 14 (5.69%) Serverless
12 12 (4.88%) Entra ID
13 11 (4.47%) Azure App Service
13 11 (4.47%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (4.07%) GCP
15 9 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
16 8 (3.25%) Azure API Management
16 8 (3.25%) Microsoft Purview
17 6 (2.44%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.07%) Network Security
2 8 (3.25%) DNS
3 4 (1.63%) Firewall
4 2 (0.81%) Internet
4 2 (0.81%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.81%) SSL
4 2 (0.81%) VPN
5 1 (0.41%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.57%) Data Lake
2 20 (8.13%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (6.91%) Azure SQL Database
4 16 (6.50%) SQL Server
5 15 (6.10%) Power BI
6 6 (2.44%) Big Data
7 4 (1.63%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.63%) Spark SQL
8 3 (1.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.22%) OLAP
8 3 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.81%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.81%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.81%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.41%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.41%) MySQL
10 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (4.47%) Git
2 7 (2.85%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.22%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.22%) CircleCI
3 3 (1.22%) GitLab
3 3 (1.22%) JIRA
3 3 (1.22%) JUnit
3 3 (1.22%) Selenium
3 3 (1.22%) Subversion
3 3 (1.22%) TestNG
3 3 (1.22%) Travis CI
General
1 60 (24.39%) Finance
2 39 (15.85%) Social Skills
3 26 (10.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.91%) Retail Banking
6 14 (5.69%) Banking
6 14 (5.69%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.28%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.44%) Marketing
10 4 (1.63%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.63%) Retail
11 3 (1.22%) Legal
11 3 (1.22%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.81%) Electronics
12 2 (0.81%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.81%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.10%) .NET
2 11 (4.47%) JSON
3 10 (4.07%) RESTful
3 10 (4.07%) XML
4 9 (3.66%) .NET Core
4 9 (3.66%) .NET Framework
4 9 (3.66%) ASP.NET
5 8 (3.25%) ASP.NET 2.0
5 8 (3.25%) ASP.NET Web API
5 8 (3.25%) Blazor
5 8 (3.25%) CSS
5 8 (3.25%) Entity Framework
5 8 (3.25%) HTML
5 8 (3.25%) HTML5
5 8 (3.25%) Razor View Engine
5 8 (3.25%) YAML
6 6 (2.44%) PySpark
7 4 (1.63%) OAuth
7 4 (1.63%) REST
7 4 (1.63%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.60%) Public Cloud
2 26 (10.57%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.88%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.63%) Blog
6 4 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (1.63%) Replication
7 3 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.22%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.81%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.81%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.81%) Social Media
9 1 (0.41%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.41%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.41%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.41%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.41%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.03%) Linux
1 5 (2.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (20.33%) DevOps
2 49 (19.92%) Roadmaps
3 44 (17.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (14.63%) Migration
5 28 (11.38%) Cybersecurity
6 27 (10.98%) Agile
6 27 (10.98%) Analytics
7 26 (10.57%) Cloud Security
8 24 (9.76%) Business Intelligence
9 22 (8.94%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (7.72%) Asset Management
10 19 (7.72%) Design Patterns
10 19 (7.72%) Presales
11 18 (7.32%) Artificial Intelligence
12 17 (6.91%) CI/CD
12 17 (6.91%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 17 (6.91%) Identity Access Management
13 16 (6.50%) Technology Roadmap
14 14 (5.69%) Mentoring
14 14 (5.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 41 (16.67%) SQL
2 20 (8.13%) Python
3 15 (6.10%) C#
4 11 (4.47%) JavaScript
4 11 (4.47%) PowerShell
5 10 (4.07%) T-SQL
6 6 (2.44%) Java
6 6 (2.44%) R
7 4 (1.63%) Scala
8 2 (0.81%) Bicep
9 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (27.24%) Azure Certification
2 13 (5.28%) Degree
3 12 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (4.88%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.88%) Security Cleared
4 8 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.03%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.22%) CISSP
8 2 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.81%) CCNA
8 2 (0.81%) CCSP
8 2 (0.81%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.41%) CEH
9 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.63%) Data Quality
1 4 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (1.63%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (6.91%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.50%) Docker
3 12 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.25%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.63%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.22%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (14.63%) Terraform
2 31 (12.60%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.44%) Ansible
4 5 (2.03%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.22%) Kibana
5 3 (1.22%) logstash
5 3 (1.22%) Nagios
5 3 (1.22%) Puppet
5 3 (1.22%) ZABBIX
6 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.41%) NetIQ Identity Manager
7 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (37.40%) Microsoft
2 29 (11.79%) Databricks
3 21 (8.54%) Citrix
4 12 (4.88%) VMware
5 6 (2.44%) Adobe
5 6 (2.44%) Apple
6 4 (1.63%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.63%) SAP
7 3 (1.22%) New Relic
7 3 (1.22%) Splunk
8 2 (0.81%) Cisco
8 2 (0.81%) iManage
8 2 (0.81%) Okta
8 2 (0.81%) Oracle
8 2 (0.81%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.81%) Sparx
8 2 (0.81%) Veeam
9 1 (0.41%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.41%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.41%) Intapp