Azure Specialist Jobs in England

Microsoft Azure Specialist
UK > England

The median Microsoft Azure Specialist salary in England is £59,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 758 891 1059
Rank change year-on-year +133 +168 -214
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Specialist 65 59 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.076% 0.064% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.070% 0.067%
Number of salaries quoted 61 18 55
10th Percentile £43,875 £52,125 £47,876
25th Percentile £52,000 £55,000 £61,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% -10.34% +10.27%
75th Percentile £63,250 £96,875 £92,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £100,000 -
UK median annual salary £58,750 £69,250 £73,750
% change year-on-year -15.16% -6.10% +15.23%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 80,480 84,673 126,830
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,246 53,649 75,658
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,635 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.45% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Azure Specialist in England

Azure Specialist
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Specialist in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Specialist in England

Azure Specialist
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 30 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +42 31 £55,000 -25.17% 1
London +135 14 £58,528 -6.36%
Yorkshire +94 13 £59,500 -40.50% 1
North of England +46 13 £59,500 -40.50% 2
Midlands -19 5 £50,000 -23.08% 1
East Midlands -35 4 £65,000 - 1
South West -17 2 £65,000 -
Azure Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 England region featuring Azure Specialist in the job title.

1 65 (100.00%) Azure
2 43 (66.15%) Active Directory
3 35 (53.85%) Microsoft
4 33 (50.77%) Entra ID
5 31 (47.69%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (46.15%) Windows Server
6 30 (46.15%) Windows
7 27 (41.54%) Social Skills
8 26 (40.00%) DNS
9 24 (36.92%) DV Cleared
9 24 (36.92%) Security Cleared
10 23 (35.38%) PowerShell
11 21 (32.31%) Degree
12 20 (30.77%) Release Management
12 20 (30.77%) Analytics
12 20 (30.77%) PKI
12 20 (30.77%) C#
12 20 (30.77%) VBScript
12 20 (30.77%) VB
12 20 (30.77%) DHCP
12 20 (30.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 20 (30.77%) Log Analytics
12 20 (30.77%) Azure Monitor
13 18 (27.69%) Agile
13 18 (27.69%) Firewall
13 18 (27.69%) Microsoft Intune
13 18 (27.69%) Kubernetes
14 17 (26.15%) DevOps
14 17 (26.15%) ITIL
14 17 (26.15%) Virtual Desktop

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 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.08%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 65 (100.00%) Azure
2 33 (50.77%) Entra ID
3 31 (47.69%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (30.77%) Azure Monitor
5 14 (21.54%) Azure Storage
6 8 (12.31%) OneDrive
7 4 (6.15%) Azure AKS
7 4 (6.15%) PaaS
8 3 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.62%) IaaS
9 2 (3.08%) AWS
9 2 (3.08%) GCP
9 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (3.08%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.54%) Azure Table
10 1 (1.54%) ChatGPT
10 1 (1.54%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.54%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (40.00%) DNS
2 20 (30.77%) DHCP
3 18 (27.69%) Firewall
4 6 (9.23%) LAN
4 6 (9.23%) WAN
4 6 (9.23%) Wireless
5 2 (3.08%) NAS
5 2 (3.08%) SAN
5 2 (3.08%) VPN
6 1 (1.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.54%) Delta Lake
2 1 (1.54%) Power BI
2 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (41.54%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.85%) Law
3 4 (6.15%) Finance
3 4 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.54%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.54%) Games
4 1 (1.54%) Legal
4 1 (1.54%) Marketing
4 1 (1.54%) Military
4 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.54%) Social Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (21.54%) ARM Templates
2 4 (6.15%) .NET
3 1 (1.54%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 20 (30.77%) PKI
2 14 (21.54%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.54%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 30 (46.15%) Windows
1 30 (46.15%) Windows Server
2 15 (23.08%) Linux
3 14 (21.54%) Windows Server 2016
3 14 (21.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (30.77%) Analytics
1 20 (30.77%) Log Analytics
1 20 (30.77%) Release Management
2 18 (27.69%) Agile
3 17 (26.15%) DevOps
3 17 (26.15%) ITIL
4 15 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 14 (21.54%) Identity Management
5 14 (21.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (21.54%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 14 (21.54%) Privileged Identity Management
5 14 (21.54%) RBAC
5 14 (21.54%) Service Management
6 10 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (7.69%) Cloud Security
9 4 (6.15%) Customer Experience
9 4 (6.15%) Customer-Centricity
9 4 (6.15%) Migration
9 4 (6.15%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 23 (35.38%) PowerShell
2 20 (30.77%) C#
2 20 (30.77%) VB
2 20 (30.77%) VBScript
3 14 (21.54%) Bicep
4 2 (3.08%) Python
5 1 (1.54%) R
5 1 (1.54%) SQL
5 1 (1.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (36.92%) DV Cleared
1 24 (36.92%) Security Cleared
2 21 (32.31%) Degree
3 14 (21.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 11 (16.92%) SC Cleared
5 7 (10.77%) Azure Certification
6 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (3.08%) CISSP
7 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.54%) CISA
8 1 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.54%) CISM
8 1 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.54%) OSCP
8 1 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) ISO 9001
1 2 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.54%) Def Stans
2 1 (1.54%) NIST
System Software
1 43 (66.15%) Active Directory
2 17 (26.15%) Virtual Desktop
3 15 (23.08%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.08%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (30.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 18 (27.69%) Kubernetes
2 18 (27.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (24.62%) SCCM
4 14 (21.54%) SCOM
4 14 (21.54%) WSUS
5 3 (4.62%) Terraform
6 2 (3.08%) Packer
6 2 (3.08%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.62%) VMware
3 2 (3.08%) Google
4 1 (1.54%) Citrix
4 1 (1.54%) Databricks