Azure Architect Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Architect
UK > England

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in England is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 402 353 344
Rank change year-on-year -49 -9 -57
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 148 307 557
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.65% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.69% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 246 386
10th Percentile £494 £519 £513
25th Percentile £556 £575 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +5.65%
75th Percentile £726 £747 £725
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £68.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £68.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year - +3.79% +38.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in England

Azure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Architect in England

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Architect in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Architect in England

Azure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Architect in England

Azure Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London -28 88 £650 -3.70% 13
North of England +27 22 £600 -4.00% 5
North West +24 17 £600 +5.26% 5
Midlands +23 14 £675 +17.39% 2
South East -19 12 £600 -14.04% 10
West Midlands +25 11 £663 +19.10%
South West 0 10 £600 -7.69% 2
Yorkshire +16 5 £575 -23.33%
East Midlands +6 3 £675 +8.00% 2
East of England +1 1 - -
Azure Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 across the England region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 148 (100.00%) Azure
2 46 (31.08%) Microsoft
3 36 (24.32%) DevOps
3 36 (24.32%) Agile
4 34 (22.97%) Social Skills
5 32 (21.62%) Analytics
6 31 (20.95%) SQL
7 30 (20.27%) Finance
8 29 (19.59%) Migration
9 28 (18.92%) Databricks
10 25 (16.89%) Data Lake
11 23 (15.54%) Azure Certification
11 23 (15.54%) Data Modelling
12 22 (14.86%) IaaS
13 21 (14.19%) PaaS
13 21 (14.19%) Data Architecture
14 20 (13.51%) Azure Data Factory
15 19 (12.84%) Security Cleared
16 18 (12.16%) Kubernetes
16 18 (12.16%) Entra ID
16 18 (12.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 18 (12.16%) Roadmaps
17 17 (11.49%) CI/CD
17 17 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
17 17 (11.49%) Terraform
17 17 (11.49%) SC Cleared
18 15 (10.14%) AWS
18 15 (10.14%) Public Cloud
18 15 (10.14%) Microservices
18 15 (10.14%) Azure DevOps

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.35%) Apache
3 1 (0.68%) CMS
3 1 (0.68%) IIS
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.68%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.68%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.68%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 148 (100.00%) Azure
2 22 (14.86%) IaaS
3 21 (14.19%) PaaS
4 20 (13.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 18 (12.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 18 (12.16%) Entra ID
6 15 (10.14%) AWS
6 15 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (9.46%) SaaS
8 13 (8.78%) Power Platform
9 10 (6.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 10 (6.76%) GCP
10 9 (6.08%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (6.08%) Serverless
11 8 (5.41%) Azure Functions
12 7 (4.73%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (3.38%) Azure API Management
14 5 (3.38%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (3.38%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.11%) Firewall
2 7 (4.73%) WAN
3 6 (4.05%) LAN
4 3 (2.03%) DNS
4 3 (2.03%) Network Security
5 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (16.89%) Data Lake
2 14 (9.46%) Big Data
2 14 (9.46%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (7.43%) Power BI
4 9 (6.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (4.73%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.38%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.70%) OLAP
7 4 (2.70%) OLTP
8 3 (2.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.35%) Data Hub
9 2 (1.35%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.35%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.35%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.68%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (0.68%) GIS
10 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.68%) MySQL
10 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.03%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.35%) Git
2 2 (1.35%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.68%) JIRA
3 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (22.97%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.27%) Finance
3 10 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.08%) Banking
5 7 (4.73%) Financial Institution
5 7 (4.73%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.38%) German Language
6 5 (3.38%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.35%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.68%) Automotive
9 1 (0.68%) Billing
9 1 (0.68%) Legal
9 1 (0.68%) Local Government
9 1 (0.68%) Marketing
9 1 (0.68%) Police
9 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.43%) .NET
2 10 (6.76%) Middleware
3 7 (4.73%) REST
4 6 (4.05%) OAuth
5 5 (3.38%) AngularJS
5 5 (3.38%) ARM Templates
5 5 (3.38%) OpenID
5 5 (3.38%) SAML
6 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (2.70%) RESTful
7 3 (2.03%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.03%) JSON
7 3 (2.03%) PySpark
7 3 (2.03%) YAML
8 2 (1.35%) ADO
8 2 (1.35%) JSON Schema
8 2 (1.35%) SOAP
8 2 (1.35%) XML
9 1 (0.68%) MSMQ
9 1 (0.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.14%) Public Cloud
2 8 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.05%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.38%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.70%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (2.70%) PKI
5 4 (2.70%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.03%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.03%) Grid Computing
6 3 (2.03%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.03%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.03%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.35%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.35%) NHS
8 1 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.68%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.08%) Windows
2 6 (4.05%) Linux
3 2 (1.35%) VMS
4 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (24.32%) Agile
1 36 (24.32%) DevOps
2 32 (21.62%) Analytics
3 29 (19.59%) Migration
4 23 (15.54%) Data Modelling
5 21 (14.19%) Data Architecture
6 18 (12.16%) Roadmaps
7 17 (11.49%) CI/CD
7 17 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (10.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (10.14%) Microservices
9 14 (9.46%) Machine Learning
10 13 (8.78%) API Management
10 13 (8.78%) Business Strategy
10 13 (8.78%) Data Strategy
11 12 (8.11%) Architectural Patterns
11 12 (8.11%) Project Delivery
12 11 (7.43%) Data Migration
12 11 (7.43%) ETL
13 10 (6.76%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 31 (20.95%) SQL
2 14 (9.46%) PowerShell
3 11 (7.43%) Python
4 7 (4.73%) C#
5 6 (4.05%) Bicep
6 5 (3.38%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.03%) Java
8 2 (1.35%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.68%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (15.54%) Azure Certification
2 19 (12.84%) Security Cleared
3 17 (11.49%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.08%) Degree
5 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.70%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.35%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.68%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.68%) CITP
8 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.41%) QA
2 7 (4.73%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.03%) GDPR
5 1 (0.68%) NIST
5 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (8.78%) Docker
2 10 (6.76%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.05%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.68%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 18 (12.16%) Kubernetes
2 17 (11.49%) Terraform
3 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.35%) Ansible
5 1 (0.68%) NetIQ Identity Manager
5 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 46 (31.08%) Microsoft
2 28 (18.92%) Databricks
3 5 (3.38%) MuleSoft
4 4 (2.70%) Google
4 4 (2.70%) VMware
5 3 (2.03%) SAP
6 2 (1.35%) Cloudera
6 2 (1.35%) Oracle
7 1 (0.68%) Citrix
7 1 (0.68%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.68%) NetIQ
7 1 (0.68%) Sparx
7 1 (0.68%) Splunk