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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 411 375 321
Rank change year-on-year -36 -54 -54
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 170 355 751
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.62% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.66% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 281 498
10th Percentile £500 £500 £513
25th Percentile £563 £563 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £725
90th Percentile £788 £825 £829
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 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%

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 20 May 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 20 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
England -26 140 £644 -3.20% 48
London -10 84 £675 +1.50% 21
Work from Home +12 69 £650 - 36
UK excluding London +23 56 £625 -7.41% 25
North of England +39 20 £625 +4.17% 4
Midlands +29 19 £668 +16.09% 5
West Midlands +32 15 £660 +18.65% 5
North West +23 15 £625 +9.65% 4
South East -14 11 £650 -5.66% 13
South West +4 7 £525 -19.23% 3
Yorkshire +22 5 £575 -25.81%
East Midlands +17 4 £675 +8.00%
Scotland +37 2 £700 -

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 170 (100.00%) Azure
2 56 (32.94%) Microsoft
3 39 (22.94%) Agile
4 38 (22.35%) DevOps
4 38 (22.35%) Social Skills
5 37 (21.76%) Analytics
6 34 (20.00%) Finance
7 33 (19.41%) SQL
8 32 (18.82%) Databricks
9 30 (17.65%) Migration
10 25 (14.71%) Data Modelling
10 25 (14.71%) Data Lake
11 24 (14.12%) Data Architecture
12 23 (13.53%) Azure Certification
13 22 (12.94%) Azure Data Factory
14 21 (12.35%) Roadmaps
14 21 (12.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 20 (11.76%) Terraform
15 20 (11.76%) Security Cleared
15 20 (11.76%) IaaS
16 19 (11.18%) PaaS
16 19 (11.18%) Azure DevOps
17 18 (10.59%) Kubernetes
17 18 (10.59%) Problem-Solving
17 18 (10.59%) CI/CD
17 18 (10.59%) AWS
18 17 (10.00%) PowerShell
18 17 (10.00%) SC Cleared
18 17 (10.00%) .NET
18 17 (10.00%) Python

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 (2.35%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.76%) Apache
3 2 (1.18%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.59%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.59%) CMS
4 1 (0.59%) IIS
4 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.59%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.59%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.59%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (3.53%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.59%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (4.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.59%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.59%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 170 (100.00%) Azure
2 22 (12.94%) Azure Data Factory
3 21 (12.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 20 (11.76%) IaaS
5 19 (11.18%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (11.18%) PaaS
6 18 (10.59%) AWS
7 17 (10.00%) Entra ID
7 17 (10.00%) Power Platform
8 13 (7.65%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (7.65%) SaaS
9 11 (6.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 11 (6.47%) Azure Service Bus
9 11 (6.47%) GCP
10 9 (5.29%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (5.29%) Serverless
11 8 (4.71%) Azure Functions
12 7 (4.12%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (3.53%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (3.53%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.41%) Firewall
2 8 (4.71%) WAN
3 7 (4.12%) LAN
4 5 (2.94%) Network Security
5 4 (2.35%) VPN
6 2 (1.18%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.71%) Data Lake
2 17 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (9.41%) Big Data
4 12 (7.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (6.47%) Power BI
6 7 (4.12%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.94%) Delta Lake
7 5 (2.94%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.35%) OLAP
8 4 (2.35%) OLTP
9 3 (1.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.18%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.59%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.59%) DB2
11 1 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.59%) GIS
11 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.59%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 3 (1.76%) Jenkins
1 3 (1.76%) JIRA
2 2 (1.18%) Git
2 2 (1.18%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 38 (22.35%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.00%) Finance
3 12 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.29%) Banking
5 8 (4.71%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (4.12%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.94%) German Language
8 4 (2.35%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.18%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.18%) Retail
11 1 (0.59%) Automotive
11 1 (0.59%) Billing
11 1 (0.59%) Games
11 1 (0.59%) Legal
11 1 (0.59%) Local Government
11 1 (0.59%) Marketing
11 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.00%) .NET
2 12 (7.06%) Middleware
3 7 (4.12%) ARM Templates
3 7 (4.12%) REST
4 6 (3.53%) .NET Core
4 6 (3.53%) OAuth
4 6 (3.53%) OpenID
5 5 (2.94%) AngularJS
5 5 (2.94%) SAML
6 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (2.35%) PySpark
6 4 (2.35%) RESTful
7 3 (1.76%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.76%) ADO
7 3 (1.76%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (1.76%) JSON
7 3 (1.76%) React
7 3 (1.76%) XML
7 3 (1.76%) YAML
8 2 (1.18%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.47%) Public Cloud
2 6 (3.53%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.94%) PKI
4 4 (2.35%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (2.35%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.35%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.35%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.76%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.76%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.76%) Grid Computing
5 3 (1.76%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.76%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.18%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.18%) NHS
6 2 (1.18%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.29%) Windows
2 7 (4.12%) Linux
3 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (22.94%) Agile
2 38 (22.35%) DevOps
3 37 (21.76%) Analytics
4 30 (17.65%) Migration
5 25 (14.71%) Data Modelling
6 24 (14.12%) Data Architecture
7 21 (12.35%) Roadmaps
8 18 (10.59%) CI/CD
8 18 (10.59%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (8.82%) Machine Learning
10 14 (8.24%) Data Strategy
10 14 (8.24%) Microservices
11 13 (7.65%) API Management
11 13 (7.65%) Architectural Patterns
11 13 (7.65%) ETL
11 13 (7.65%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (7.06%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (7.06%) Data Migration
13 11 (6.47%) Business Strategy
13 11 (6.47%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 33 (19.41%) SQL
2 17 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 17 (10.00%) Python
3 10 (5.88%) C#
4 7 (4.12%) Bicep
4 7 (4.12%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.94%) Java
6 1 (0.59%) Bash
6 1 (0.59%) R
6 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (13.53%) Azure Certification
2 20 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 17 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 14 (8.24%) Degree
5 7 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.35%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.76%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.59%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.59%) CISSP
9 1 (0.59%) CITP
9 1 (0.59%) SANS
9 1 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.29%) QA
2 7 (4.12%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.35%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.18%) GDPR
5 1 (0.59%) GRC
5 1 (0.59%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (8.24%) Docker
2 9 (5.29%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.29%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.59%) UAG
3 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.59%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (11.76%) Terraform
2 18 (10.59%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.59%) Ansible
4 1 (0.59%) Kibana
4 1 (0.59%) logstash
4 1 (0.59%) PowerCLI
4 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (32.94%) Microsoft
2 32 (18.82%) Databricks
3 6 (3.53%) MuleSoft
4 4 (2.35%) Google
4 4 (2.35%) Oracle
4 4 (2.35%) SAP
5 3 (1.76%) VMware
6 2 (1.18%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.59%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.59%) Okta
7 1 (0.59%) Solace
7 1 (0.59%) Sparx
7 1 (0.59%) Virgin Media