Azure Administrator Contracts

Microsoft Azure Administrator
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Administrator daily rate in the UK is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 564 654
Rank change year-on-year +43 +90 +174
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Administrator 5 19 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.044% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.047% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 34
10th Percentile £390 £455 £385
25th Percentile £394 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £625 £400
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% +56.25% -18.37%
75th Percentile £406 £667 £447
90th Percentile £410 £680 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £625 £400
% change year-on-year -36.00% +56.25% -15.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,094 40,274 56,187
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 92.76% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,701 26,219 39,262
10th Percentile £300 £276 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,044 2,672 1,567
10th Percentile £14.15 £12.86 £14.28
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.38
Median hourly rate £28.88 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% -19.07% +94.45%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.25 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.22% -6.94% +117.95%

Azure Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Administrator in the UK

Azure Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Administrator.

Daily rate trend for Azure Administrator in the UK

Azure Administrator
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 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
England +59 5 £400 -36.00%
London +45 4 £400 -37.94%
UK excluding London +47 1 £400 -36.00%
Work from Home +36 1 £400 -36.00% 1
North of England +11 1 £400 -
Yorkshire - 1 £400 -

Azure Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, 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 featuring Azure Administrator in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (20.00%) Database Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Privileged Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (20.00%) Netskope
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Backlog Management
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) ADO

Azure Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (20.00%) Database Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Privileged Identity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Netskope
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle