Azure Specialist Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Azure Specialist
England > London

The median Microsoft Azure Specialist daily rate in London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 370 409
Rank change year-on-year -1 +39 +167
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Specialist 4 12 16
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.029% 0.077% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.031% 0.082% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 6
10th Percentile - £300 £441
25th Percentile - £411 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £491 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -14.57% +75.57%
75th Percentile £519 £636 £761
90th Percentile £530 £705 £800
England median daily rate £550 £531 £610
% change year-on-year +3.53% -12.91% +20.79%

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 12,705 14,579 19,099
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 93.97% 93.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,430 9,421 13,857
10th Percentile £333 £338 £344
25th Percentile £425 £450 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -3.93% -0.43%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £795
England median daily rate £510 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 152 224
10th Percentile £17.46 £17.25 £18.38
25th Percentile £21.25 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.68 £37.50 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% -0.66% +17.05%
75th Percentile £47.50 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.20 £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 Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Azure Specialist job vacancy trend in London

Azure Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Specialist job vacancies 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 9 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
West London -10 1 £500 +21.21%
Azure Specialist
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 November 2025, Azure Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (50.00%) Log Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Apache
4 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Stack
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Budget Control
4 1 (25.00%) Budget Management
4 1 (25.00%) Celery
4 1 (25.00%) Change Advisory Board
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity

Azure Specialist 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Stack
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
1 1 (25.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Local Government
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Celery
1 1 (25.00%) Regular Expression
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Budget Management
2 1 (25.00%) Change Advisory Board
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Discovery
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Release Management
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) NetApp
2 1 (25.00%) Qualys
2 1 (25.00%) Varonis