Azure Specialist Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Specialist
UK > England

The median Microsoft Azure Specialist daily rate in England is £605 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 500 637 727
Rank change year-on-year +137 +90 -137
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Specialist 45 22 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.043% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.046% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 15 34
10th Percentile £533 £410 £424
25th Percentile £603 £450 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% -12.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £608 £550 £650
90th Percentile £688 - £684
UK median daily rate £605 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +15.24% -12.50% +23.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,467 47,939 67,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.60% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,885 33,999 48,181
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,421 1,437 1,912
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.62
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.35 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

Azure Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Specialist in England

Azure Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Specialist in England

Azure Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Specialist in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Specialist in England

Azure Specialist
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
South East +55 31 £605 -
London +110 9 £675 +50.00%
East of England +14 2 £538 -2.27%
West Midlands +31 1 - -
Midlands +27 1 - - 1
North of England +25 1 - - 2
Yorkshire +20 1 - - 1
Azure Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 across the England region featuring Azure Specialist in the job title.

1 45 (100.00%) Azure
2 31 (68.89%) Active Directory
3 28 (62.22%) SC Cleared
3 28 (62.22%) DV Cleared
3 28 (62.22%) Security Cleared
4 23 (51.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (48.89%) PowerShell
6 20 (44.44%) DevOps
6 20 (44.44%) CI/CD
7 19 (42.22%) Entra ID
7 19 (42.22%) Microsoft
7 19 (42.22%) ITIL
8 18 (40.00%) Analytics
9 17 (37.78%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (37.78%) Social Skills
9 17 (37.78%) ARM Templates
10 16 (35.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 16 (35.56%) Azure Monitor
10 16 (35.56%) Microsoft Intune
10 16 (35.56%) Kubernetes
10 16 (35.56%) Virtual Desktop
10 16 (35.56%) Windows
10 16 (35.56%) C#
11 15 (33.33%) Service Management
11 15 (33.33%) Firewall
11 15 (33.33%) Identity Management
11 15 (33.33%) VBScript
11 15 (33.33%) VB
11 15 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 15 (33.33%) DHCP

Azure Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 15 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 45 (100.00%) Azure
2 19 (42.22%) Entra ID
3 17 (37.78%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (35.56%) Azure Monitor
5 15 (33.33%) Azure Storage
6 6 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (4.44%) AWS
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.22%) Azure API Management
8 1 (2.22%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.22%) NuGet
8 1 (2.22%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.22%) PaaS
8 1 (2.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (33.33%) DHCP
1 15 (33.33%) DNS
1 15 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Axure RP
1 1 (2.22%) Git
General
1 17 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.89%) Law
3 1 (2.22%) Finance
3 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (37.78%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.22%) GraphQL
2 1 (2.22%) REST
2 1 (2.22%) SOAP
2 1 (2.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (33.33%) PKI
1 15 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.22%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 16 (35.56%) Windows
2 14 (31.11%) Linux
2 14 (31.11%) Windows Server
2 14 (31.11%) Windows Server 2016
2 14 (31.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (51.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 20 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 20 (44.44%) DevOps
3 19 (42.22%) ITIL
4 18 (40.00%) Analytics
5 15 (33.33%) Agile
5 15 (33.33%) Identity Management
5 15 (33.33%) Log Analytics
5 15 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 15 (33.33%) Privileged Identity Management
5 15 (33.33%) RBAC
5 15 (33.33%) Release Management
5 15 (33.33%) Service Management
6 5 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (8.89%) Problem Management
8 3 (6.67%) Asset Management
8 3 (6.67%) Change Control
8 3 (6.67%) Mentoring
9 2 (4.44%) Data Analysis
9 2 (4.44%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (48.89%) PowerShell
2 16 (35.56%) C#
3 15 (33.33%) Bicep
3 15 (33.33%) VB
3 15 (33.33%) VBScript
4 4 (8.89%) Bash
5 2 (4.44%) Python
5 2 (4.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (62.22%) DV Cleared
1 28 (62.22%) SC Cleared
1 28 (62.22%) Security Cleared
2 15 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 14 (31.11%) Degree
4 3 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.44%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) SLA
2 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 31 (68.89%) Active Directory
2 16 (35.56%) Virtual Desktop
3 15 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (35.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 16 (35.56%) Kubernetes
1 16 (35.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (33.33%) SCCM
2 15 (33.33%) SCOM
2 15 (33.33%) WSUS
3 9 (20.00%) Terraform
4 2 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.22%) Ansible
5 1 (2.22%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 19 (42.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.44%) Oracle
3 1 (2.22%) Citrix
3 1 (2.22%) New Relic
3 1 (2.22%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow