Azure Consultant Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure Consultant
South East > Thames Valley

The median Microsoft Azure Consultant daily rate in the Thames Valley is £550, 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 98 - 148
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Consultant 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.26% - 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £515 - -
25th Percentile £538 - £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £543
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.52%
75th Percentile £559 - £563
90th Percentile £576 - £569
South East median daily rate £550 £441 £550
% change year-on-year +24.65% -19.77% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,405 2,505 2,767
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 93.26% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 1,430 1,916
10th Percentile £300 £206 £313
25th Percentile £409 £370 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 189 76
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.78 £17.31
25th Percentile £16.94 £19.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £45.65 £45.00 £46.70
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -3.64% +166.86%
75th Percentile £65.62 £62.50 £66.21
90th Percentile £77.47 £84.57 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Azure Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Consultant in the Thames Valley

Azure Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Consultant in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Azure Consultant in the Thames Valley

Azure Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire - 4 £550 - 1
Azure Consultant
South East

Azure Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 1 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 Thames Valley region featuring Azure Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) MLOps
3 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) SOAR
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) API Management
3 1 (25.00%) Azure API Management
3 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Power Automate

Azure Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure API Management
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) API Design
1 1 (25.00%) API Integration
1 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Event Correlation
1 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (25.00%) SIEM
1 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) R
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) GCFA
1 1 (25.00%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft