Azure Specialist Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Specialist
UK > England

The median Microsoft Azure Specialist daily rate in England is £525, 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 472 497 631
Rank change year-on-year +25 +134 +112
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Specialist 13 45 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.053% 0.12% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.13% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 42 15
10th Percentile £394 £533 £410
25th Percentile £475 £603 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £605 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.22% +15.24% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £608 £550
90th Percentile - £688 -
UK median daily rate £500 £605 £525
% change year-on-year -17.36% +15.24% -12.50%

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 Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Specialist in England

Azure Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Specialist in England

Azure Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Specialist in England

Azure Specialist
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 Specialist 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 +38 9 £525 -22.22%
South East +17 2 £520 -14.05% 1
North of England +19 1 - -
South West - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
Azure Specialist
UK

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

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

1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
3 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
3 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
4 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
4 5 (38.46%) DevOps
4 5 (38.46%) Entra ID
5 4 (30.77%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (30.77%) Identity Management
5 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
5 4 (30.77%) Azure Certification
6 3 (23.08%) RBAC
6 3 (23.08%) Degree
6 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
6 3 (23.08%) B2B
6 3 (23.08%) B2C
6 3 (23.08%) Firewall
6 3 (23.08%) SQL
6 3 (23.08%) Windows
6 3 (23.08%) Python
6 3 (23.08%) Terraform
6 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
6 3 (23.08%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (23.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (15.38%) SIEM
7 2 (15.38%) Big Data

Azure Specialist 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 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Entra ID
3 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (7.69%) IaaS
5 1 (7.69%) PaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) SMTP
3 1 (7.69%) DNS
3 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (15.38%) Big Data
2 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (7.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) ARM Templates
1 2 (15.38%) PySpark
1 2 (15.38%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
1 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
2 2 (15.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (30.77%) Identity Management
4 3 (23.08%) B2B
4 3 (23.08%) B2C
4 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
4 3 (23.08%) RBAC
5 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (15.38%) Data Transformation
5 2 (15.38%) ITSM
5 2 (15.38%) Privileged Access Management
5 2 (15.38%) Privileged Identity Management
5 2 (15.38%) Security Auditing
5 2 (15.38%) SIEM
5 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 3 (23.08%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Azure Certification
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (23.08%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) CASB
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint
3 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto