Azure Administrator Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Administrator
UK > England

The median Microsoft Azure Administrator daily rate in England is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 529 612 765
Rank change year-on-year +83 +153 -143
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Administrator 13 33 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.036% 0.067% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.071% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 21 8
10th Percentile £583 - £367
25th Percentile £613 £400 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £425 £495
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -14.14% +84.19%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £544
90th Percentile £671 £625 £578
UK median daily rate £625 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +56.25% -20.00% -9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

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

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 33,916 46,484 67,372
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.64% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,507 32,994 47,972
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £639
90th Percentile £750 £758 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,425 1,382 1,859
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.37
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +100.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.45 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Administrator in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 7 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +33 6 £625 - 1
West Midlands +29 6 £625 - 1
London +83 4 £645 +22.76% 1
South West +4 3 - -
North of England +24 1 - - 2
North West +22 1 - - 1
Azure Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, 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 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 6 (46.15%) SQL Server
2 6 (46.15%) SharePoint
2 6 (46.15%) Proactive Management
2 6 (46.15%) Web SSO
3 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
4 4 (30.77%) Identity Management
4 4 (30.77%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (30.77%) PaaS
5 3 (23.08%) AWS
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Entra ID
5 3 (23.08%) Windows
5 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
6 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (15.38%) Migration
6 2 (15.38%) Replication
6 2 (15.38%) MySQL
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (15.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
7 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
7 1 (7.69%) Terraform
7 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
7 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (7.69%) Databricks

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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (46.15%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (30.77%) PaaS
4 3 (23.08%) AWS
4 3 (23.08%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (15.38%) MySQL
General
1 1 (7.69%) Finance
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Proactive Management
1 6 (46.15%) Web SSO
2 4 (30.77%) Identity Management
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (15.38%) Migration
5 1 (7.69%) Agile
5 1 (7.69%) Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Build Automation
5 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
5 1 (7.69%) Data Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Data Management
5 1 (7.69%) Data Science
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.69%) Release Automation
5 1 (7.69%) Release Management
5 1 (7.69%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (15.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks