Azure Consultant Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Azure Consultant
England > South East

The median Microsoft Azure Consultant daily rate in the South East is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 196 211
Rank change year-on-year +47 +15 +39
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Consultant 3 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.100% 0.036% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.039% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £510 £368 £521
25th Percentile £525 £394 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £441 £550
Median % change year-on-year +24.65% -19.77% +10.00%
75th Percentile £569 £492 £594
90th Percentile £580 £520 £613
England median daily rate £600 £585 £540
% change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% -10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 2,767 5,133 5,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.84% 92.49% 94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,823 3,082 3,806
10th Percentile £250 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.28%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 482 241
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.48 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.78 £36.02 £44.77
% change year-on-year -14.55% -19.53% +98.96%

Azure Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Azure Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Consultant in the South East

Azure Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Consultant in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Azure Consultant in the South East

Azure Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Berkshire - 3 £550 - 2
Thames Valley - 3 £550 - 2
Azure Consultant
England

Azure Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Azure Consultant 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 South East region featuring Azure Consultant in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (33.33%) SOAR
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) CISSP
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
3 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Power Automate

Azure Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) API Design
1 1 (33.33%) API Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Event Correlation
1 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) GCFA
1 1 (33.33%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft