Azure Specialist Jobs

Microsoft Azure Specialist
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Specialist salary in the UK is £58,500 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 834 813 1183
Rank change year-on-year -21 +370 -273
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Specialist 73 134 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.14% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.16% 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 63 25 56
10th Percentile £44,100 £55,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,000 £60,000 £60,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £73,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -20.41% -0.34% +22.92%
75th Percentile £63,250 £78,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £66,125 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,500 £73,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -20.41% +5.00% +43.59%

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 Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Specialist in the UK

Azure Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Azure Specialist in the UK

Azure Specialist
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Azure Specialist in the UK

Azure Specialist
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Specialist 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 -25 73 £58,500 -20.41% 9
UK excluding London -98 59 £58,500 -20.41% 6
South East +15 35 £55,000 -25.17% 4
Work from Home +52 32 £59,000 -19.73% 4
North of England -2 17 £59,500 -40.50% 2
London +119 14 £58,528 -8.19% 3
Yorkshire +48 13 £59,500 -40.50%
Midlands -48 5 £50,000 -14.89%
North West -20 4 - - 2
East Midlands -47 4 £65,000 +23.81%
South West -35 2 £65,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Azure Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 73 (100.00%) Azure
2 47 (64.38%) Active Directory
3 37 (50.68%) Microsoft
4 35 (47.95%) Entra ID
5 34 (46.58%) Microsoft 365
6 33 (45.21%) Windows
6 33 (45.21%) Windows Server
7 30 (41.10%) Social Skills
8 29 (39.73%) Security Cleared
8 29 (39.73%) DNS
9 27 (36.99%) DV Cleared
10 26 (35.62%) PowerShell
11 24 (32.88%) Degree
12 23 (31.51%) PKI
12 23 (31.51%) C#
12 23 (31.51%) VBScript
12 23 (31.51%) VB
12 23 (31.51%) DHCP
12 23 (31.51%) Release Management
12 23 (31.51%) Analytics
12 23 (31.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 23 (31.51%) Log Analytics
12 23 (31.51%) Azure Monitor
13 21 (28.77%) Microsoft Intune
13 21 (28.77%) Kubernetes
13 21 (28.77%) Agile
13 21 (28.77%) Firewall
14 20 (27.40%) ITIL
14 20 (27.40%) DevOps
15 19 (26.03%) Virtual Desktop

Azure Specialist 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 18 (24.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 73 (100.00%) Azure
2 35 (47.95%) Entra ID
3 34 (46.58%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (31.51%) Azure Monitor
5 17 (23.29%) Azure Storage
6 8 (10.96%) OneDrive
7 4 (5.48%) Azure AKS
7 4 (5.48%) PaaS
8 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.11%) IaaS
9 2 (2.74%) AWS
9 2 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.74%) GCP
9 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (2.74%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.37%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.37%) ChatGPT
10 1 (1.37%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 29 (39.73%) DNS
2 23 (31.51%) DHCP
3 21 (28.77%) Firewall
4 6 (8.22%) LAN
4 6 (8.22%) WAN
4 6 (8.22%) Wireless
5 2 (2.74%) NAS
5 2 (2.74%) SAN
5 2 (2.74%) VPN
6 1 (1.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.37%) Delta Lake
2 1 (1.37%) Power BI
2 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (41.10%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.33%) Law
3 4 (5.48%) Finance
3 4 (5.48%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.37%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.37%) Games
4 1 (1.37%) Legal
4 1 (1.37%) Marketing
4 1 (1.37%) Military
4 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.37%) Social Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (23.29%) ARM Templates
2 4 (5.48%) .NET
3 1 (1.37%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 23 (31.51%) PKI
2 17 (23.29%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.37%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.37%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 33 (45.21%) Windows
1 33 (45.21%) Windows Server
2 18 (24.66%) Linux
3 17 (23.29%) Windows Server 2016
3 17 (23.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (31.51%) Analytics
1 23 (31.51%) Log Analytics
1 23 (31.51%) Release Management
2 21 (28.77%) Agile
3 20 (27.40%) DevOps
3 20 (27.40%) ITIL
4 18 (24.66%) CI/CD
5 17 (23.29%) Identity Management
5 17 (23.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (23.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 17 (23.29%) Privileged Identity Management
5 17 (23.29%) RBAC
5 17 (23.29%) Service Management
6 10 (13.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (6.85%) Cloud Security
9 4 (5.48%) Customer Experience
9 4 (5.48%) Migration
9 4 (5.48%) Project Delivery
9 4 (5.48%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (35.62%) PowerShell
2 23 (31.51%) C#
2 23 (31.51%) VB
2 23 (31.51%) VBScript
3 17 (23.29%) Bicep
4 2 (2.74%) Python
5 1 (1.37%) R
5 1 (1.37%) SQL
5 1 (1.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (39.73%) Security Cleared
2 27 (36.99%) DV Cleared
3 24 (32.88%) Degree
4 17 (23.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 16 (21.92%) SC Cleared
6 7 (9.59%) Azure Certification
7 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.74%) CISSP
8 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.37%) CISA
9 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.37%) CISM
9 1 (1.37%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.37%) OSCP
9 1 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.74%) ISO 9001
1 2 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.37%) Def Stans
2 1 (1.37%) NIST
System Software
1 47 (64.38%) Active Directory
2 19 (26.03%) Virtual Desktop
3 17 (23.29%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.74%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.37%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 23 (31.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 21 (28.77%) Kubernetes
2 21 (28.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (26.03%) SCCM
4 17 (23.29%) SCOM
4 17 (23.29%) WSUS
5 3 (4.11%) Terraform
6 2 (2.74%) Packer
6 2 (2.74%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (50.68%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.11%) VMware
3 2 (2.74%) Google
4 1 (1.37%) Citrix
4 1 (1.37%) Databricks