Azure Consultant Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Azure Consultant
England > London

The median Microsoft Azure Consultant daily rate in London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 355 408
Rank change year-on-year -4 +53 +143
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Consultant 19 22 16
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.14% 0.14% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.15% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 15
10th Percentile £313 £538 £389
25th Percentile £406 £557 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £488 £601 £581
90th Percentile £548 £631 £750
England median daily rate £475 £571 £538
% change year-on-year -16.85% +6.28% -2.27%

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 13,007 14,697 18,713
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 93.96% 93.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,632 9,513 13,580
10th Percentile £333 £338 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -3.08% -1.30%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £792 £795
England median daily rate £510 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 156 221
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.16
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £26.57 £37.15 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.48% -2.24% +20.63%
75th Percentile £47.75 £56.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +50.00%

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 13 November 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 13 November 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 +5 1 - - 1
Azure Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 November 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 19 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (68.42%) Microsoft
3 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
3 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (31.58%) Migration
3 6 (31.58%) Power Platform
4 5 (26.32%) Active Directory
4 5 (26.32%) DevOps
4 5 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (26.32%) Python
4 5 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (21.05%) Cloud Security
5 4 (21.05%) GitHub
5 4 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
5 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
5 4 (21.05%) SQL
6 3 (15.79%) Analytics
6 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (15.79%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
6 3 (15.79%) Identity Management
6 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (15.79%) Power BI
6 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
6 3 (15.79%) Terraform
6 3 (15.79%) Validation

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 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) Power Platform
3 5 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (21.05%) GitHub
4 4 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
6 2 (10.53%) Azure AI
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (10.53%) Nutanix
6 2 (10.53%) Serverless
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
7 1 (5.26%) PowerApps
7 1 (5.26%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) DHCP
1 2 (10.53%) DNS
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
1 2 (10.53%) SAN
1 2 (10.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Power BI
2 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.26%) JMeter
1 1 (5.26%) Locust
1 1 (5.26%) Postman
1 1 (5.26%) Selenium
General
1 4 (21.05%) Finance
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (5.26%) OpenAPI
2 1 (5.26%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (5.26%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
1 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (31.58%) Migration
2 5 (26.32%) DevOps
2 5 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (21.05%) Cloud Security
4 3 (15.79%) Analytics
4 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (15.79%) Identity Management
4 3 (15.79%) Validation
4 3 (15.79%) Zero Trust
5 2 (10.53%) Anti-Money Laundering
5 2 (10.53%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 2 (10.53%) KYC
5 2 (10.53%) Runbook
5 2 (10.53%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Python
2 4 (21.05%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
4 2 (10.53%) Bicep
4 2 (10.53%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) CCNA
2 2 (10.53%) CCNP
2 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (10.53%) HP ASE
2 2 (10.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (5.26%) CISA
3 1 (5.26%) CISSP
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
1 2 (10.53%) GDPR
1 2 (10.53%) NCSC
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) Ansible
2 2 (10.53%) FortiGate
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (68.42%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) 3PAR
2 2 (10.53%) Citrix
2 2 (10.53%) Fortinet
2 2 (10.53%) Nimble Storage
2 2 (10.53%) ProCurve
2 2 (10.53%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.26%) UiPath