Azure Administrator Contracts

Microsoft Azure Administrator
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Administrator daily rate in the UK 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 566 657 831
Rank change year-on-year +91 +174 -134
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Administrator 18 40 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.072% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.076% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 24 12
10th Percentile £380 £385 £272
25th Percentile £500 - £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £400 £488
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -17.95% -11.36%
75th Percentile £658 £503 £509
90th Percentile £667 £618 £560
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £425 £300
% change year-on-year +47.06% +41.67% -15.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Azure Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Administrator in the UK

Azure Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Administrator in the UK

Azure Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Administrator in the UK

Azure Administrator
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Administrator within the UK 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
UK excluding London +21 14 £625 +47.06%
England +71 13 £625 +42.86% 2
Work from Home +96 10 £625 +56.25%
West Midlands +23 7 £625 -
Midlands +18 7 £625 -
London +78 3 £300 -50.00% 2
South West -7 3 - -
Wales - 3 £645 -
Scotland +49 1 £475 -
North of England +16 1 - -
North West +14 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Azure Administrator 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 Administrator in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 7 (38.89%) SharePoint
3 7 (38.89%) SQL Server
3 7 (38.89%) Windows
3 7 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (33.33%) Web SSO
4 6 (33.33%) Proactive Management
5 5 (27.78%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
5 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
6 4 (22.22%) Identity Management
6 4 (22.22%) DNS
6 4 (22.22%) Migration
6 4 (22.22%) AWS
6 4 (22.22%) PaaS
6 4 (22.22%) Entra ID
6 4 (22.22%) Terraform
6 4 (22.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (16.67%) Prometheus
7 3 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (16.67%) Grafana
7 3 (16.67%) Ansible
7 3 (16.67%) DevOps
7 3 (16.67%) Graylog
7 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (16.67%) Public Cloud
7 3 (16.67%) Splunk

Azure Administrator 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 (38.89%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (22.22%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 4 (22.22%) PaaS
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) DNS
2 3 (16.67%) DHCP
2 3 (16.67%) Firewall
2 3 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 3 (16.67%) VPN
3 1 (5.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) SQL Server
2 3 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (16.67%) MySQL
3 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.56%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Replication
3 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Linux
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Proactive Management
1 6 (33.33%) Web SSO
2 4 (22.22%) Identity Management
2 4 (22.22%) Migration
3 3 (16.67%) Change Control
3 3 (16.67%) DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (16.67%) Project Management
4 2 (11.11%) Analytics
4 2 (11.11%) Data Analytics
4 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.56%) Computer Science
5 1 (5.56%) Data Management
5 1 (5.56%) Data Science
5 1 (5.56%) Database Optimisation
5 1 (5.56%) High Availability
5 1 (5.56%) Incident Management
5 1 (5.56%) Information Security
5 1 (5.56%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (5.56%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (22.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (22.22%) Terraform
3 3 (16.67%) Ansible
3 3 (16.67%) Grafana
3 3 (16.67%) Graylog
3 3 (16.67%) Nagios
3 3 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Splunk
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Qualys
3 1 (5.56%) Siebel