Azure Consultant Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Azure Consultant
England > London

The median Microsoft Azure Consultant daily rate in London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 351 387
Rank change year-on-year -9 +36 +151
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Consultant 20 18 18
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.14% 0.12% 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.13% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 15
10th Percentile £325 £512 £389
25th Percentile £447 £525 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £544 £604 £594
90th Percentile £634 £635 £750
England median daily rate £500 £584 £531
% change year-on-year -14.35% +9.88% +0.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 13,283 14,093 17,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 93.53% 93.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,798 9,130 12,805
10th Percentile £343 £335 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -3.02%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £684
90th Percentile £760 £799 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 153 211
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.47 £17.75
25th Percentile £22.25 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.65 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.30% - -
75th Percentile £56.98 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.78 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.61% -20.00% +38.46%

Azure Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Azure Consultant job vacancy trend in London

Azure Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Consultant job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Consultant job vacancies in London

Azure Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Consultant in London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Consultant in London

Azure Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Azure Consultant job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Azure Consultant job vacancies in London

Azure Consultant
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Central London -2 1 £625 +4.17%
Azure Consultant
England

Azure Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, Azure Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Azure Consultant in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (35.00%) Power Platform
5 6 (30.00%) DevOps
5 6 (30.00%) GitHub
5 6 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (30.00%) Migration
5 6 (30.00%) Terraform
6 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (25.00%) Power BI
6 5 (25.00%) Python
6 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
6 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
7 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (20.00%) Cloud Security
7 4 (20.00%) ITIL
7 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
7 4 (20.00%) SQL
7 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
8 3 (15.00%) Agile
8 3 (15.00%) Analytics
8 3 (15.00%) Ansible
8 3 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (15.00%) CCNA
8 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (15.00%) Data Pipeline

Azure Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) Power Platform
3 6 (30.00%) GitHub
3 6 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (15.00%) Nutanix
6 3 (15.00%) Power Automate
6 3 (15.00%) PowerApps
7 2 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (10.00%) Serverless
8 1 (5.00%) Azure AI
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (5.00%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) DHCP
1 2 (10.00%) DNS
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
1 2 (10.00%) SAN
1 2 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.00%) JMeter
1 1 (5.00%) Locust
1 1 (5.00%) Postman
1 1 (5.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (15.00%) Finance
1 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (5.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (30.00%) DevOps
2 6 (30.00%) Migration
3 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 4 (20.00%) ITIL
4 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (15.00%) Agile
5 3 (15.00%) Analytics
5 3 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (15.00%) Validation
6 2 (10.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
6 2 (10.00%) API Integration
6 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 2 (10.00%) Issue Tracking
6 2 (10.00%) KYC
6 2 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) Bicep
3 2 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) CCNA
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (10.00%) CCNP
3 2 (10.00%) Degree
3 2 (10.00%) HP ASE
3 2 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (5.00%) CISA
4 1 (5.00%) CISSP
4 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
4 1 (5.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Terraform
2 3 (15.00%) Ansible
3 2 (10.00%) FortiGate
3 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) VMware
3 2 (10.00%) 3PAR
3 2 (10.00%) Citrix
3 2 (10.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (10.00%) Nimble Storage
3 2 (10.00%) ProCurve
4 1 (5.00%) Databricks
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce