Azure Specialist Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Azure Specialist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £520, 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 332 360 450
Rank change year-on-year +28 +90 +56
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Specialist 4 39 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.19% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.20% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 37 10
10th Percentile £504 £554 £459
25th Percentile £510 £603 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.05% +10.00% +4.76%
75th Percentile £530 £608 -
90th Percentile £536 £631 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £605 £525
% change year-on-year -17.36% +15.24% -12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Azure Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Specialist in the UK excluding London

Azure Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Specialist in the UK excluding London

Azure Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK excluding 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
South East +17 2 £520 -14.05% 1
North of England +19 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
South West - 1 - -
Azure Specialist
UK

Azure Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region featuring Azure Specialist in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (50.00%) Big Data
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (50.00%) Databricks
3 2 (50.00%) PySpark
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation

Azure Specialist 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (50.00%) Big Data
1 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) PySpark
2 1 (25.00%) ADO
2 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Blue Team
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Databricks