Azure Specialist Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure Specialist
England > London

The median Microsoft Azure Specialist daily rate in London is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 484 571
Rank change year-on-year +98 +87 -126
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Specialist 8 8 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.045% 0.031% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.032% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 24
10th Percentile £524 £420 £475
25th Percentile £525 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £450 £609
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -26.08% +26.82%
75th Percentile £688 £550 £656
90th Percentile £714 £700 £740
England median daily rate £605 £525 £588
% change year-on-year +15.24% -10.64% +23.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,468 24,945 36,702
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 95.22% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,900 18,104 26,876
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 282 440
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.79 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.64%
75th Percentile £46.48 £62.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.02 £79.80 £68.19
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.23% +94.63% +4.55%

Azure Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Specialist in London

Azure Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Specialist in London

Azure Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Specialist in London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Specialist in London

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, 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 London region featuring Azure Specialist in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Bash
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) Law
2 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) ARM Templates
3 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
4 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (25.00%) Cost Control
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
5 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse

Azure Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
General
1 4 (50.00%) Law
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (25.00%) Cost Control
2 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) B2B
3 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (12.50%) Data Transformation
3 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Bash
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle