Azure Specialist Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure Specialist
England > London

The median Microsoft Azure Specialist daily rate in London 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 344 382 483
Rank change year-on-year +38 +101 +84
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Specialist 9 9 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.072% 0.050% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% 0.054% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 6
10th Percentile £383 £524 £400
25th Percentile £440 £525 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £450
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +50.00% -28.00%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £525
90th Percentile - £745 £675
England median daily rate £525 £605 £525
% change year-on-year -13.22% +15.24% -12.50%

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Specialist in London

Azure Specialist
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 Specialist within the London 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
Central London - 2 £500 -
Azure Specialist
England

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

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 London region featuring Azure Specialist in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 5 (55.56%) Entra ID
3 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
4 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
4 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
5 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (33.33%) Identity Management
5 3 (33.33%) Windows
5 3 (33.33%) B2B
5 3 (33.33%) B2C
5 3 (33.33%) RBAC
5 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 3 (33.33%) Azure Certification
5 3 (33.33%) DevOps
5 3 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
6 2 (22.22%) Security Auditing
6 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (22.22%) Privileged Access Management
6 2 (22.22%) Privileged Identity Management
6 2 (22.22%) Ansible
6 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
6 2 (22.22%) VMS
6 2 (22.22%) SMTP
6 2 (22.22%) Firewall
6 2 (22.22%) ITSM

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 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Entra ID
3 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (11.11%) IaaS
4 1 (11.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
1 2 (22.22%) SMTP
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (22.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) B2B
2 3 (33.33%) B2C
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 3 (33.33%) RBAC
3 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
3 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
3 2 (22.22%) ITSM
3 2 (22.22%) Privileged Access Management
3 2 (22.22%) Privileged Identity Management
3 2 (22.22%) Security Auditing
3 2 (22.22%) SIEM
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Runbook
4 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) CASB
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
2 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto