Microsoft Azure Administrator
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Administrator salary in the UK is £66,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 869 938 1160
Rank change year-on-year +69 +222 -292
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Administrator 25 47 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.045% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.049% 0.030%
Number of salaries quoted 24 43 35
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,500 £33,800
25th Percentile £52,688 £42,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.19% +16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £68,750 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile - £77,500 £68,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £50,000 £44,250
% change year-on-year +35.00% +12.99% -1.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,682 96,623 147,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,673 60,571 85,427
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Azure Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Administrator in the UK

Azure Administrator
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Azure Administrator in the UK

Azure Administrator
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Administrator over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Administrator in the UK

Azure Administrator
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Administrator within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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
England +104 25 £66,250 +26.19% 4
Work from Home +88 18 £67,500 +35.00% 2
UK excluding London +5 18 £67,500 +35.00% 6
South East +21 16 £67,500 +50.00% 1
London +155 5 £63,750 -15.00%
South West - 2 £57,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Azure Administrator 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 featuring Azure Administrator in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Azure
2 17 (68.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (68.00%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
4 12 (48.00%) Roadmaps
4 12 (48.00%) Degree
5 11 (44.00%) Asset Management
5 11 (44.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 8 (32.00%) Active Directory
7 6 (24.00%) SQL
7 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
8 5 (20.00%) Windows
8 5 (20.00%) Finance
8 5 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
9 4 (16.00%) High Availability
9 4 (16.00%) Entra ID
9 4 (16.00%) DevOps
9 4 (16.00%) Windows Server
10 3 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
10 3 (12.00%) VPN
10 3 (12.00%) DNS
10 3 (12.00%) Firewall
10 3 (12.00%) Replication
10 3 (12.00%) Hyper-V
10 3 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
11 2 (8.00%) Bash
11 2 (8.00%) Statistics
11 2 (8.00%) Fortinet

Azure Administrator 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 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) IIS
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) Azure
2 17 (68.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (16.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.00%) Power Automate
4 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.00%) IaaS
5 1 (4.00%) PaaS
5 1 (4.00%) SaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) DNS
1 3 (12.00%) Firewall
1 3 (12.00%) VPN
2 2 (8.00%) DHCP
2 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.00%) NAS
3 1 (4.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (8.00%) Power BI
3 2 (8.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) JSON
2 1 (4.00%) .NET
2 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Replication
2 2 (8.00%) Clustering
2 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Windows
2 4 (16.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Roadmaps
2 11 (44.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 11 (44.00%) Asset Management
3 5 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (16.00%) DevOps
4 4 (16.00%) High Availability
5 3 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (8.00%) Data Security
6 2 (8.00%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.00%) Statistics
6 2 (8.00%) Task Automation
7 1 (4.00%) Change Advisory Board
7 1 (4.00%) Change Management
7 1 (4.00%) Database Migration
7 1 (4.00%) Information Security
7 1 (4.00%) Migration
7 1 (4.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (4.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (24.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.00%) Bash
2 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (4.00%) Puppet
2 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (68.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (4.00%) VMware