Azure Architect Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure Architect
England > Midlands

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £675, 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 127 150 177
Rank change year-on-year +23 +27 -41
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 14 8 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.47% 0.25% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.26% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 23
10th Percentile - £516 £556
25th Percentile £600 £530 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -6.12% +10.11%
75th Percentile £750 £663 £706
90th Percentile - £688 £750
England median daily rate £625 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +5.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,719 3,042 4,799
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 94.50% 95.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,809 2,147 3,499
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £338 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +1.05% +15.85%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £569
90th Percentile £675 £692 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 113 146
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.50 £11.63
25th Percentile £14.09 £15.00 £14.67
Median hourly rate £19.00 £20.71 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.23% +13.45% +21.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in the Midlands

Azure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Architect in the Midlands

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Architect in the Midlands

Azure Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +25 11 £663 +19.10%
East Midlands +6 3 £675 +8.00% 2
Azure Architect
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (64.29%) Agile
3 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
4 6 (42.86%) Machine Learning
5 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
5 5 (35.71%) Finance
5 5 (35.71%) SQL
6 4 (28.57%) ETL
6 4 (28.57%) Migration
6 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (28.57%) Data Architecture
6 4 (28.57%) Analytics
6 4 (28.57%) Public Cloud
6 4 (28.57%) DevOps
6 4 (28.57%) Power BI
6 4 (28.57%) Data Lake
6 4 (28.57%) Databricks
6 4 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (28.57%) Data Strategy
6 4 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
6 4 (28.57%) Azure Certification
7 3 (21.43%) Terraform
7 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
7 3 (21.43%) Docker
7 3 (21.43%) Windows
8 2 (14.29%) Linux
8 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
8 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
1 2 (14.29%) LAN
1 2 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Data Lake
1 4 (28.57%) Power BI
2 2 (14.29%) Big Data
2 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) German Language
3 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Public Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) Machine Learning
3 4 (28.57%) Analytics
3 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (28.57%) Data Architecture
3 4 (28.57%) Data Strategy
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) ETL
3 4 (28.57%) Migration
4 2 (14.29%) Data Acquisition
4 2 (14.29%) Data Migration
4 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 2 (14.29%) Data Science
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) IT Strategy
4 2 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 2 (14.29%) Open Source
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (14.29%) Time Management
4 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Databricks