Microsoft Azure Consultant
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Consultant salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 842 906 1021
Rank change year-on-year +64 +115 -317
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Consultant 68 73 217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.069% 0.071% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.077% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 56 70 185
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £62,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,875 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £73,000 £60,750
% change year-on-year -4.11% +20.16% -10.00%

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 93,479 94,643 151,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,031 59,595 85,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +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 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Azure Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Consultant in the UK

Azure Consultant
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Azure Consultant in the UK

Azure Consultant
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Consultant over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Consultant in the UK

Azure Consultant
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 6 May 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 +103 63 £70,000 -6.67% 19
Work from Home +67 37 £60,000 -20.00% 14
UK excluding London -17 31 £70,000 -4.11% 17
London +127 24 £60,000 -29.41% 4
North of England +49 15 £92,500 +23.33% 5
North West +13 15 £92,500 +23.33% 3
South West -27 6 £47,500 -32.14% 2
West Midlands +27 5 £70,000 -4.11% 1
Midlands +15 5 £70,000 -2.10% 7
South East +13 2 £62,500 +4.17% 1
Wales - 2 £45,000 -
East of England +14 1 £80,000 +88.24%

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Azure Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 68 (100.00%) Azure
2 55 (80.88%) Microsoft
3 36 (52.94%) DevOps
4 35 (51.47%) CI/CD
5 32 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (44.12%) Terraform
7 26 (38.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (35.29%) Kubernetes
9 22 (32.35%) Windows
10 20 (29.41%) PaaS
10 20 (29.41%) IaaS
10 20 (29.41%) Bicep
11 17 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (23.53%) Azure Certification
12 16 (23.53%) Agile
13 14 (20.59%) PowerShell
14 13 (19.12%) Microsoft 365
15 12 (17.65%) Windows Server
15 12 (17.65%) Public Sector
15 12 (17.65%) Finance
16 11 (16.18%) Active Directory
16 11 (16.18%) SC Cleared
16 11 (16.18%) Security Cleared
16 11 (16.18%) Power Platform
17 10 (14.71%) ARM Templates
17 10 (14.71%) Azure Stack
17 10 (14.71%) Social Skills
17 10 (14.71%) Dynamics 365
17 10 (14.71%) Entra ID
17 10 (14.71%) AWS

Azure Consultant 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 7 (10.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (8.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 68 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (29.41%) IaaS
2 20 (29.41%) PaaS
3 17 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (19.12%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (16.18%) Power Platform
6 10 (14.71%) AWS
6 10 (14.71%) Azure Stack
6 10 (14.71%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (14.71%) Entra ID
7 6 (8.82%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (8.82%) Serverless
8 5 (7.35%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (7.35%) OneDrive
8 5 (7.35%) SaaS
9 3 (4.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (2.94%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 2 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (2.94%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.41%) DHCP
1 3 (4.41%) DNS
1 3 (4.41%) SAN
2 2 (2.94%) Firewall
3 1 (1.47%) 802.11
3 1 (1.47%) BGP
3 1 (1.47%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (1.47%) DWDM
3 1 (1.47%) GLBP
3 1 (1.47%) IGRP
3 1 (1.47%) LAN
3 1 (1.47%) MPLS
3 1 (1.47%) Multicast
3 1 (1.47%) OSPF
3 1 (1.47%) WAN
3 1 (1.47%) Wireless
3 1 (1.47%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.82%) Power BI
2 5 (7.35%) Data Lake
3 4 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.94%) Tableau
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.47%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 6 (8.82%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.35%) Git
2 5 (7.35%) GitLab
2 5 (7.35%) Octopus Deploy
2 5 (7.35%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (17.65%) Finance
1 12 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 10 (14.71%) Manufacturing
2 10 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.76%) Marketing
4 7 (10.29%) Retail
5 5 (7.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (7.35%) Law
6 4 (5.88%) Telecoms
7 3 (4.41%) Electronics
8 2 (2.94%) Advertising
8 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.71%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.47%) .NET
2 1 (1.47%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.47%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.47%) CSS
2 1 (1.47%) HTML
2 1 (1.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.35%) Cloud Native
1 5 (7.35%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.47%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 22 (32.35%) Windows
2 12 (17.65%) Windows Server
3 7 (10.29%) VMS
4 5 (7.35%) Windows 10
5 3 (4.41%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (4.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.47%) Linux
6 1 (1.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (52.94%) DevOps
2 35 (51.47%) CI/CD
3 32 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (23.53%) Agile
5 9 (13.24%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (8.82%) Project Delivery
6 6 (8.82%) Scrum
7 5 (7.35%) API Management
7 5 (7.35%) Build Automation
7 5 (7.35%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (7.35%) Configuration Management
7 5 (7.35%) Continuous Delivery
7 5 (7.35%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (7.35%) Digital Engineering
7 5 (7.35%) Integration Testing
7 5 (7.35%) People Management
7 5 (7.35%) Presales
7 5 (7.35%) SDLC
7 5 (7.35%) Software Engineering
7 5 (7.35%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (29.41%) Bicep
2 14 (20.59%) PowerShell
3 10 (14.71%) C#
4 6 (8.82%) Bash
4 6 (8.82%) SQL
5 3 (4.41%) Python
6 2 (2.94%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.47%) R
7 1 (1.47%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.47%) XAML
Qualifications
1 26 (38.24%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (23.53%) Azure Certification
3 11 (16.18%) SC Cleared
3 11 (16.18%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.41%) MCSA
4 3 (4.41%) MCSE
4 3 (4.41%) MCTS
5 2 (2.94%) Degree
6 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.47%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (1.47%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (16.18%) Active Directory
2 7 (10.29%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (8.82%) Docker
4 2 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (44.12%) Terraform
2 24 (35.29%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.47%) Ansible
Vendors
1 55 (80.88%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.82%) VMware
3 3 (4.41%) Citrix
3 3 (4.41%) Databricks
3 3 (4.41%) SAP
4 1 (1.47%) Ab Initio
4 1 (1.47%) Arista
4 1 (1.47%) Cisco
4 1 (1.47%) Juniper
4 1 (1.47%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.47%) Riverbed