Azure Administrator Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Azure Administrator daily rate in the UK excluding London is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 429 513
Rank change year-on-year +45 +84 -78
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Administrator 14 26 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.068% 0.11% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.12% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 5
10th Percentile £463 - £337
25th Percentile £613 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -15.79% +111.11%
75th Percentile £652 £466 £495
90th Percentile £667 £636 -
UK median daily rate £625 £400 £490
% change year-on-year +56.25% -18.37% -10.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,163 22,551 29,607
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 94.20% 95.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,700 15,818 20,751
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,248 1,160 1,483
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.20
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

Azure Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Administrator in the UK excluding London

Azure Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Administrator in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Administrator in the UK excluding London

Azure Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Administrator in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Administrator in the UK excluding London

Azure Administrator
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Administrator within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. 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
Midlands +28 7 £625 - 1
West Midlands +25 7 £625 - 1
South West +13 3 - -
Wales - 3 £645 -
North of England +31 1 - - 2
North West +18 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 £475 - 1
Azure Administrator
UK

Azure Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Azure Administrator 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 UK excluding London region featuring Azure Administrator in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (42.86%) Proactive Management
3 6 (42.86%) Web SSO
3 6 (42.86%) Windows
3 6 (42.86%) SharePoint
4 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
4 5 (35.71%) PaaS
5 4 (28.57%) AWS
5 4 (28.57%) Identity Management
5 4 (28.57%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (28.57%) Terraform
6 3 (21.43%) Grafana
6 3 (21.43%) Prometheus
6 3 (21.43%) Ansible
6 3 (21.43%) DevOps
6 3 (21.43%) Graylog
6 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (21.43%) Public Cloud
6 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
6 3 (21.43%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (21.43%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
6 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (21.43%) Migration
6 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
6 3 (21.43%) Nagios

Azure Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (42.86%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (35.71%) PaaS
4 4 (28.57%) AWS
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
5 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Storage
6 1 (7.14%) IaaS
6 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
1 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
1 3 (21.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (21.43%) MySQL
3 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Public Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Linux
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Proactive Management
1 6 (42.86%) Web SSO
2 4 (28.57%) Identity Management
3 3 (21.43%) Change Control
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (21.43%) Migration
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Project Management
4 2 (14.29%) Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) Data Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Computer Science
5 1 (7.14%) Data Management
5 1 (7.14%) Data Science
5 1 (7.14%) Database Optimisation
5 1 (7.14%) High Availability
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Single Sign-On
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 3 (21.43%) Ansible
2 3 (21.43%) Grafana
2 3 (21.43%) Graylog
2 3 (21.43%) Nagios
2 3 (21.43%) Prometheus
3 2 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks