Azure Specialist Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Azure Specialist
England > South East

The median Microsoft Azure Specialist daily rate in the South East is £605 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 225 259
Rank change year-on-year +56 +34 -50
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Specialist 31 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.56% 0.017% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.018% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 0 2
10th Percentile - - £377
25th Percentile £603 - £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 - £460
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.24%
75th Percentile £608 - £526
90th Percentile £615 - £556
England median daily rate £605 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +15.24% -12.50% +23.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,114 5,511 7,446
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.54% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,065 3,843 5,039
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £615 £606 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 478 238 337
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.18 £15.63
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.45 £43.50
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Azure Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Specialist in the South East

Azure Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Specialist in the South East

Azure Specialist
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Thames Valley +34 27 £605 -
Berkshire +20 26 £605 -
Kent - 3 £638 -
Surrey - 1 £605 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £605 -
Azure Specialist
England

Azure Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 27 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 South East region featuring Azure Specialist in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) Azure
2 28 (90.32%) SC Cleared
2 28 (90.32%) DV Cleared
2 28 (90.32%) Security Cleared
2 28 (90.32%) Active Directory
3 18 (58.06%) ITIL
4 17 (54.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (48.39%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 15 (48.39%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (48.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (48.39%) Privileged Identity Management
5 15 (48.39%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (48.39%) Kubernetes
5 15 (48.39%) Entra ID
5 15 (48.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (48.39%) Analytics
5 15 (48.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 15 (48.39%) Azure Storage
5 15 (48.39%) Social Skills
5 15 (48.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 15 (48.39%) Log Analytics
5 15 (48.39%) Azure Monitor
5 15 (48.39%) RBAC
5 15 (48.39%) Windows
5 15 (48.39%) C#
5 15 (48.39%) VBScript
5 15 (48.39%) VB
5 15 (48.39%) DHCP
5 15 (48.39%) DNS
5 15 (48.39%) Service Management

Azure Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (45.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 31 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (48.39%) Azure Monitor
2 15 (48.39%) Azure Storage
2 15 (48.39%) Entra ID
3 14 (45.16%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (48.39%) DHCP
1 15 (48.39%) DNS
1 15 (48.39%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Axure RP
General
1 15 (48.39%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (45.16%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 15 (48.39%) PKI
1 15 (48.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (48.39%) Windows
2 14 (45.16%) Linux
2 14 (45.16%) Windows Server
2 14 (45.16%) Windows Server 2016
2 14 (45.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (58.06%) ITIL
2 17 (54.84%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (48.39%) Agile
3 15 (48.39%) Analytics
3 15 (48.39%) Identity Management
3 15 (48.39%) Log Analytics
3 15 (48.39%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 15 (48.39%) Privileged Identity Management
3 15 (48.39%) RBAC
3 15 (48.39%) Release Management
3 15 (48.39%) Service Management
4 14 (45.16%) CI/CD
4 14 (45.16%) DevOps
5 3 (9.68%) Asset Management
5 3 (9.68%) Change Control
5 3 (9.68%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (9.68%) Mentoring
5 3 (9.68%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (48.39%) C#
1 15 (48.39%) PowerShell
1 15 (48.39%) VB
1 15 (48.39%) VBScript
2 14 (45.16%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 28 (90.32%) DV Cleared
1 28 (90.32%) SC Cleared
1 28 (90.32%) Security Cleared
2 15 (48.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 14 (45.16%) Degree
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (90.32%) Active Directory
2 15 (48.39%) Virtual Desktop
2 15 (48.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (48.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 15 (48.39%) Kubernetes
1 15 (48.39%) Microsoft Intune
1 15 (48.39%) SCCM
1 15 (48.39%) SCOM
1 15 (48.39%) WSUS
2 3 (9.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (45.16%) Microsoft