Azure Consultant Contracts

Microsoft Azure Consultant
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Consultant daily rate in the UK is £575, 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 489 522 620
Rank change year-on-year +33 +98 +64
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Consultant 31 60 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.15% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 41 65
10th Percentile £455 £413 £455
25th Percentile £500 £485 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +8.33% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £613
90th Percentile £650 £638 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £625 £543
% change year-on-year -12.00% +15.21% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £8.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £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 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £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 -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Azure Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Consultant in the UK

Azure Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Consultant in the UK

Azure Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Consultant over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Consultant in the UK

Azure Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Consultant.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Consultant in the UK

Azure Consultant
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +29 26 £600 +2.56% 9
Work from Home +24 20 £600 +5.49% 1
London +19 14 £600 +2.56% 3
UK excluding London +54 11 £550 -12.00% 10
South East +48 4 £550 +24.65% 1
Midlands +23 4 £663 +6.00% 2
North of England +16 3 £450 -28.00% 3
West Midlands +15 2 £613 +11.36% 2
North West +13 2 £463 -26.00% 1
East Midlands +10 2 £700 +12.00%
South West +42 1 £450 -11.76%
Yorkshire - 1 £350 - 1

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

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 featuring Azure Consultant in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (41.94%) Migration
3 10 (32.26%) DevOps
4 9 (29.03%) Microsoft
5 7 (22.58%) CI/CD
6 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
6 6 (19.35%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (16.13%) Terraform
7 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (16.13%) Active Directory
7 5 (16.13%) Finance
7 5 (16.13%) Entra ID
7 5 (16.13%) PowerShell
8 4 (12.90%) AWS
8 4 (12.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (12.90%) SQL
8 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
8 4 (12.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (12.90%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (12.90%) Containerisation
9 3 (9.68%) Incident Response
9 3 (9.68%) Azure Certification
9 3 (9.68%) Cloud Security
9 3 (9.68%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (9.68%) Serverless
9 3 (9.68%) GDPR
9 3 (9.68%) Security Monitoring
9 3 (9.68%) Power Platform
9 3 (9.68%) Azure Functions

Azure Consultant 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (9.68%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.23%) Apache
3 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 31 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (19.35%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (16.13%) Entra ID
4 4 (12.90%) AWS
5 3 (9.68%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (9.68%) Azure Functions
5 3 (9.68%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (9.68%) GCP
5 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (9.68%) PaaS
5 3 (9.68%) Power Platform
5 3 (9.68%) Serverless
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (6.45%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (6.45%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (3.23%) DKIM
2 1 (3.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.45%) Power BI
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.23%) Big Data
3 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) JIRA
1 1 (3.23%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (3.23%) Postman
General
1 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Finance
3 3 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.45%) Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
5 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) .NET
1 2 (6.45%) .NET Framework
1 2 (6.45%) YAML
2 1 (3.23%) LDAP
2 1 (3.23%) PyTorch
2 1 (3.23%) RESTful
2 1 (3.23%) scikit-learn
2 1 (3.23%) SOAP
2 1 (3.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (9.68%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.68%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (6.45%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Licensing
4 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.23%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.23%) PKI
4 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) VMS
2 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) Migration
2 10 (32.26%) DevOps
3 7 (22.58%) CI/CD
4 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (12.90%) Containerisation
5 4 (12.90%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (12.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (9.68%) Analytics
6 3 (9.68%) Cloud Security
6 3 (9.68%) Identity Management
6 3 (9.68%) Incident Management
6 3 (9.68%) Incident Response
6 3 (9.68%) RBAC
6 3 (9.68%) Security Monitoring
6 3 (9.68%) Test Automation
7 2 (6.45%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (6.45%) B2B
7 2 (6.45%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (6.45%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.13%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.90%) SQL
3 3 (9.68%) Python
4 2 (6.45%) Bicep
4 2 (6.45%) C#
5 1 (3.23%) Bash
5 1 (3.23%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (3.23%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.23%) CISSP
2 1 (3.23%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) GCFA
2 1 (3.23%) GCIH
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) GDPR
1 3 (9.68%) NIST
2 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.23%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Terraform
2 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) Google
3 1 (3.23%) CyberArk
3 1 (3.23%) Databricks
3 1 (3.23%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (3.23%) Okta
3 1 (3.23%) OpenText
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.23%) Virgin Media