Azure Specialist Contracts

Microsoft Azure Specialist
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Specialist daily rate in the UK is £605, 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 532 677 816
Rank change year-on-year +145 +139 -111
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Specialist 52 20 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.036% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.038% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 13 28
10th Percentile £519 £400 £450
25th Percentile £591 £425 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +27.37% -13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £629
90th Percentile £688 £708 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +15.24% +5.00% +17.65%

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 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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Specialist in the UK

Azure Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Specialist in the UK

Azure Specialist
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Specialist 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
England +115 46 £605 +30.81% 9
UK excluding London +59 40 £605 +15.24% 5
Work from Home +141 30 £605 +10.00% 2
South East - 27 £605 - 1
London +85 11 £675 +58.73% 4
Scotland +53 5 £550 +83.33%
North West +17 3 £650 - 3
North of England +16 3 £650 +44.44% 4
West Midlands +19 2 £525 -
Midlands +17 2 £525 +5.00%
East of England +6 2 £538 -2.27%
South West - 1 £625 -

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

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

1 52 (100.00%) Azure
2 32 (61.54%) Active Directory
3 29 (55.77%) Security Cleared
4 27 (51.92%) SC Cleared
4 27 (51.92%) DV Cleared
5 24 (46.15%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (44.23%) Microsoft
7 20 (38.46%) PowerShell
7 20 (38.46%) Entra ID
8 19 (36.54%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (36.54%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (36.54%) Windows
8 19 (36.54%) Social Skills
9 18 (34.62%) CI/CD
9 18 (34.62%) Firewall
9 18 (34.62%) DevOps
10 17 (32.69%) Virtual Machines
10 17 (32.69%) ARM Templates
11 16 (30.77%) Analytics
11 16 (30.77%) ITIL
11 16 (30.77%) Degree
11 16 (30.77%) Agile
12 15 (28.85%) PKI
12 15 (28.85%) SCCM
12 15 (28.85%) Identity Management
12 15 (28.85%) Microsoft Intune
12 15 (28.85%) Windows Server
12 15 (28.85%) Azure Storage
12 15 (28.85%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (26.92%) RBAC

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 14 (26.92%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 52 (100.00%) Azure
2 24 (46.15%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (38.46%) Entra ID
4 15 (28.85%) Azure Monitor
4 15 (28.85%) Azure Storage
5 6 (11.54%) AWS
6 5 (9.62%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 5 (9.62%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (9.62%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (7.69%) IaaS
8 3 (5.77%) PaaS
8 3 (5.77%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (3.85%) SaaS
10 1 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.92%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.92%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (1.92%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (34.62%) Firewall
2 14 (26.92%) DHCP
2 14 (26.92%) DNS
3 1 (1.92%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.62%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.92%) Power BI
General
1 19 (36.54%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.69%) Law
3 2 (3.85%) Finance
3 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (32.69%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.92%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 15 (28.85%) PKI
2 14 (26.92%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (36.54%) Windows
2 15 (28.85%) Windows Server
3 14 (26.92%) Linux
3 14 (26.92%) Windows Server 2016
3 14 (26.92%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (1.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (36.54%) Infrastructure as Code
2 18 (34.62%) CI/CD
2 18 (34.62%) DevOps
3 16 (30.77%) Agile
3 16 (30.77%) Analytics
3 16 (30.77%) ITIL
4 15 (28.85%) Identity Management
5 14 (26.92%) Log Analytics
5 14 (26.92%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 14 (26.92%) Privileged Identity Management
5 14 (26.92%) RBAC
5 14 (26.92%) Release Management
5 14 (26.92%) Service Management
6 6 (11.54%) Migration
7 5 (9.62%) Cloud Operations
7 5 (9.62%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
8 4 (7.69%) Cost Control
8 4 (7.69%) Information Security
8 4 (7.69%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 20 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 14 (26.92%) Bicep
2 14 (26.92%) C#
2 14 (26.92%) VB
2 14 (26.92%) VBScript
3 4 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (1.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (55.77%) Security Cleared
2 27 (51.92%) DV Cleared
2 27 (51.92%) SC Cleared
3 16 (30.77%) Degree
4 14 (26.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 7 (13.46%) Azure Certification
6 5 (9.62%) AWS Certification
7 4 (7.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.92%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (61.54%) Active Directory
2 19 (36.54%) Virtual Desktop
3 17 (32.69%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.92%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (28.85%) Microsoft Intune
1 15 (28.85%) SCCM
2 14 (26.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 14 (26.92%) Kubernetes
2 14 (26.92%) SCOM
2 14 (26.92%) WSUS
3 5 (9.62%) Terraform
4 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.92%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 23 (44.23%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.62%) Oracle
3 4 (7.69%) Citrix
4 1 (1.92%) Google
4 1 (1.92%) New Relic
4 1 (1.92%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.92%) Zscaler