Azure Consultant Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Consultant
UK > England

The median Microsoft Azure Consultant daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 488 585
Rank change year-on-year +29 +97 +87
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Consultant 26 54 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.16% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 37 47
10th Percentile £468 £435 £454
25th Percentile £504 £505 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £585 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £606
90th Percentile £650 £648 £659
UK median daily rate £575 £585 £540
% change year-on-year -1.71% +8.33% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £8.00
UK median hourly rate - - £8.00
% change year-on-year - - -87.88%

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £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 £643 £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 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Azure Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Consultant in England

Azure Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Consultant in England

Azure Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Consultant in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Consultant in England

Azure Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Consultant in England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Consultant in England

Azure Consultant
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 Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +19 14 £600 +2.56% 7
South East +48 4 £550 +24.65% 1
Midlands +23 4 £663 +6.00% 3
North of England +16 3 £450 -28.00% 5
West Midlands +15 2 £613 +11.36% 3
North West +13 2 £463 -26.00% 2
East Midlands +10 2 £700 +12.00%
South West +42 1 £450 -11.76%
Yorkshire - 1 £350 - 1
Azure Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Azure Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (38.46%) Migration
3 8 (30.77%) DevOps
4 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
4 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (19.23%) Terraform
5 5 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (15.38%) SQL
6 4 (15.38%) Finance
6 4 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
7 3 (11.54%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (11.54%) Cloud Security
7 3 (11.54%) Azure Functions
7 3 (11.54%) NIST
7 3 (11.54%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (11.54%) GDPR
7 3 (11.54%) Security Monitoring
7 3 (11.54%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (11.54%) Serverless
7 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (11.54%) Incident Management
7 3 (11.54%) AWS
7 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
7 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
7 3 (11.54%) SQL Server

Azure Consultant 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 1 (3.85%) Apache
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.85%) Confluence
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (11.54%) AWS
3 3 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (11.54%) Azure Functions
3 3 (11.54%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (11.54%) Entra ID
3 3 (11.54%) Serverless
4 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (7.69%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) PaaS
4 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) DKIM
1 1 (3.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (7.69%) Power BI
3 1 (3.85%) Big Data
3 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
1 1 (3.85%) Postman
General
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (7.69%) Banking
4 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Legal
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) .NET
1 2 (7.69%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.85%) LDAP
2 1 (3.85%) PyTorch
2 1 (3.85%) RESTful
2 1 (3.85%) scikit-learn
2 1 (3.85%) SOAP
2 1 (3.85%) TensorFlow
2 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Data Centre
1 3 (11.54%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (11.54%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (7.69%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.85%) PKI
3 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Migration
2 8 (30.77%) DevOps
3 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 4 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (11.54%) Analytics
6 3 (11.54%) Cloud Security
6 3 (11.54%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (11.54%) Incident Management
6 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (11.54%) Security Monitoring
6 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
7 2 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (7.69%) Data Migration
7 2 (7.69%) Data Protection
7 2 (7.69%) Identity Management
7 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (15.38%) SQL
2 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.69%) Bicep
3 2 (7.69%) C#
3 2 (7.69%) Python
4 1 (3.85%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (3.85%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.85%) CISSP
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) GCFA
2 1 (3.85%) GCIH
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) GDPR
1 3 (11.54%) NIST
2 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Terraform
2 2 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (3.85%) CyberArk
3 1 (3.85%) Databricks
3 1 (3.85%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (3.85%) Okta
3 1 (3.85%) OpenText
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.85%) Virgin Media