Azure Administrator Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Administrator
UK > England

The median Microsoft Azure Administrator daily rate in England is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 463 522 619
Rank change year-on-year +59 +97 +150
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Administrator 5 14 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.021% 0.038% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.041% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 22
10th Percentile £390 £454 -
25th Percentile £394 £613 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £625 £413
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% +51.52% -14.51%
75th Percentile £406 £638 £531
90th Percentile £410 £669 £623
UK median daily rate £400 £625 £400
% change year-on-year -36.00% +56.25% -18.37%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 22,563 34,396 47,499
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.72% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,024 22,838 33,731
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 907 2,437 1,404
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.45 £36.34 £44.77
Median % change year-on-year -16.20% -18.83% +98.96%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.66 £76.85
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -19.07% +94.45%

Azure Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Administrator in England

Azure Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Administrator in England

Azure Administrator
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 Administrator within the England region over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. 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
London +45 4 £400 -37.94%
North of England +11 1 £400 -
Yorkshire - 1 £400 -
Azure Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Azure Administrator 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 Administrator in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (20.00%) Database Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Privileged Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (20.00%) Netskope
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Backlog Management
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) ADO

Azure Administrator 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (20.00%) Database Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Privileged Identity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Netskope
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle