Azure Specialist Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Azure Specialist salary in the UK excluding London is £57,525 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary 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 715 606 835
Rank change year-on-year -109 +229 -138
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Specialist 65 122 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.081% 0.22% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.25% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 51 18 29
10th Percentile £45,000 £57,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,625 £48,440
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,525 £73,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.73% +5.00% +43.59%
75th Percentile £59,000 £76,688 £92,500
90th Percentile £63,250 £100,000 -
UK median annual salary £56,525 £73,500 £73,750
% change year-on-year -23.10% -0.34% +22.92%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Azure Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Specialist in the UK excluding London

Azure Specialist
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Specialist in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Azure Specialist in the UK excluding London

Azure Specialist
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Specialist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Specialist in the UK excluding London

Azure Specialist
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -2 40 £56,525 -23.10% 1
North of England -23 18 £59,500 -40.50% 4
Yorkshire +51 13 £59,500 -40.50% 1
North West -38 5 - - 3
Midlands -71 5 £50,000 -14.89%
East Midlands -57 4 £65,000 +23.81%
South West -49 2 £65,000 -
Azure Specialist
UK

Azure Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Azure Specialist in the job title.

1 65 (100.00%) Azure
2 51 (78.46%) Active Directory
3 34 (52.31%) Windows
3 34 (52.31%) Security Cleared
3 34 (52.31%) Windows Server
4 33 (50.77%) Entra ID
5 31 (47.69%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (47.69%) Microsoft
6 29 (44.62%) DV Cleared
7 28 (43.08%) PowerShell
7 28 (43.08%) DNS
8 27 (41.54%) Social Skills
9 25 (38.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 25 (38.46%) Log Analytics
9 25 (38.46%) Azure Monitor
9 25 (38.46%) DHCP
9 25 (38.46%) C#
9 25 (38.46%) VBScript
9 25 (38.46%) VB
9 25 (38.46%) PKI
9 25 (38.46%) Release Management
9 25 (38.46%) Analytics
10 22 (33.85%) Microsoft Intune
11 21 (32.31%) SCCM
11 21 (32.31%) SC Cleared
11 21 (32.31%) Virtual Desktop
12 20 (30.77%) Kubernetes
12 20 (30.77%) Degree
13 19 (29.23%) WSUS
13 19 (29.23%) Service Management

Azure Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 19 (29.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 65 (100.00%) Azure
2 33 (50.77%) Entra ID
3 31 (47.69%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (38.46%) Azure Monitor
5 19 (29.23%) Azure Storage
6 8 (12.31%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.54%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.54%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (43.08%) DNS
2 25 (38.46%) DHCP
3 19 (29.23%) Firewall
4 6 (9.23%) LAN
4 6 (9.23%) WAN
5 2 (3.08%) NAS
5 2 (3.08%) SAN
5 2 (3.08%) VPN
5 2 (3.08%) Wireless
6 1 (1.54%) TCP/IP
General
1 27 (41.54%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.31%) Law
3 1 (1.54%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (29.23%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 25 (38.46%) PKI
2 19 (29.23%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 34 (52.31%) Windows
1 34 (52.31%) Windows Server
2 19 (29.23%) Linux
2 19 (29.23%) Windows Server 2016
2 19 (29.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (38.46%) Analytics
1 25 (38.46%) Log Analytics
1 25 (38.46%) Release Management
2 19 (29.23%) Agile
2 19 (29.23%) CI/CD
2 19 (29.23%) DevOps
2 19 (29.23%) Identity Management
2 19 (29.23%) Infrastructure as Code
2 19 (29.23%) ITIL
2 19 (29.23%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 19 (29.23%) Privileged Identity Management
2 19 (29.23%) RBAC
2 19 (29.23%) Service Management
3 10 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (7.69%) Presales
5 3 (4.62%) Migration
6 2 (3.08%) Mentoring
6 2 (3.08%) Process Improvement
6 2 (3.08%) Project Management
6 2 (3.08%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 28 (43.08%) PowerShell
2 25 (38.46%) C#
2 25 (38.46%) VB
2 25 (38.46%) VBScript
3 19 (29.23%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 34 (52.31%) Security Cleared
2 29 (44.62%) DV Cleared
3 21 (32.31%) SC Cleared
4 20 (30.77%) Degree
5 19 (29.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.54%) CISA
6 1 (1.54%) CISM
6 1 (1.54%) CISSP
6 1 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.54%) Def Stans
1 1 (1.54%) NIST
System Software
1 51 (78.46%) Active Directory
2 21 (32.31%) Virtual Desktop
3 19 (29.23%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.08%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (38.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 22 (33.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (32.31%) SCCM
4 20 (30.77%) Kubernetes
5 19 (29.23%) SCOM
5 19 (29.23%) WSUS
6 2 (3.08%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (47.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.62%) VMware