Azure Consultant Contracts

Microsoft Azure Consultant
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Consultant daily rate in the UK is £585 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 521 603 688
Rank change year-on-year +82 +85 -186
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Consultant 58 97 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.16% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.17% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 64 117
10th Percentile £413 £454 £463
25th Percentile £503 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -1.82% +8.64%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £644
90th Percentile £643 £671 £693
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £543 £550
% change year-on-year +15.21% -1.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 10
10th Percentile - - £50.40
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £8.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -87.88% +38.95%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £85.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £85.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 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
England +100 53 £585 +9.35% 13
Work from Home +92 37 £569 +5.08% 10
London +114 32 £585 +14.15% 4
UK excluding London +59 20 £625 +15.21% 11
North of England +20 6 £625 +25.00% 6
North West +15 6 £625 +25.00% 4
South West - 5 £510 -
East of England - 4 £538 -
Midlands +21 3 £625 - 2
East Midlands +23 2 £625 +19.05% 1
South East +20 2 £441 -19.77% 1
West Midlands +28 1 £550 -3.30% 1

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 58 (100.00%) Azure
2 25 (43.10%) Microsoft
3 15 (25.86%) DevOps
4 12 (20.69%) Cloud Security
4 12 (20.69%) PowerShell
5 11 (18.97%) Finance
5 11 (18.97%) Migration
6 10 (17.24%) Active Directory
7 9 (15.52%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (15.52%) IaaS
8 8 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (13.79%) Degree
8 8 (13.79%) Agile
8 8 (13.79%) Entra ID
8 8 (13.79%) Terraform
8 8 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (12.07%) Identity Access Management
9 7 (12.07%) Windows
10 6 (10.34%) WAN
10 6 (10.34%) Risk Assessment
10 6 (10.34%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (8.62%) Data Encryption
11 5 (8.62%) DevSecOps
11 5 (8.62%) Databricks
11 5 (8.62%) Data Centre
11 5 (8.62%) Database Security
11 5 (8.62%) VPN
11 5 (8.62%) DNS
11 5 (8.62%) AWS

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 (5.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (15.52%) IaaS
3 8 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (13.79%) Entra ID
3 8 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (8.62%) AWS
5 5 (8.62%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (6.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (5.17%) Azure Pipelines
7 3 (5.17%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (5.17%) PaaS
7 3 (5.17%) Power Automate
7 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.45%) Azure API Management
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Batch
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Storage
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (3.45%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.34%) WAN
2 5 (8.62%) DNS
2 5 (8.62%) VPN
3 4 (6.90%) Firewall
3 4 (6.90%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.72%) LAN
4 1 (1.72%) MPLS
4 1 (1.72%) Network Security
4 1 (1.72%) PBX
4 1 (1.72%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.17%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.45%) Big Data
3 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.45%) OLTP
4 1 (1.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Git
1 2 (3.45%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 11 (18.97%) Finance
2 4 (6.90%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.17%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Billing
5 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) .NET
1 2 (3.45%) ARM Templates
1 2 (3.45%) JSON
1 2 (3.45%) Web Services
1 2 (3.45%) XML
2 1 (1.72%) OAuth
2 1 (1.72%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.62%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (6.90%) PKI
3 3 (5.17%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.17%) Tandem
4 2 (3.45%) Clustering
4 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.07%) Windows
2 4 (6.90%) Linux
3 3 (5.17%) Ubuntu
3 3 (5.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.45%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.72%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.72%) Unix
5 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (25.86%) DevOps
2 12 (20.69%) Cloud Security
3 11 (18.97%) Migration
4 9 (15.52%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (13.79%) Agile
6 7 (12.07%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (10.34%) Risk Assessment
8 5 (8.62%) Data Encryption
8 5 (8.62%) Database Security
8 5 (8.62%) DevSecOps
9 4 (6.90%) Analytics
9 4 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence
9 4 (6.90%) Ethical Hacking
9 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (6.90%) Key Management
9 4 (6.90%) Knowledge Transfer
9 4 (6.90%) Penetration Testing
9 4 (6.90%) SDLC
9 4 (6.90%) Security Auditing
9 4 (6.90%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.69%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.90%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (3.45%) C#
3 2 (3.45%) Java
3 2 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (13.79%) Degree
2 2 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (1.72%) CISA
3 1 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.72%) CISM
3 1 (1.72%) CISSP
3 1 (1.72%) CRISC
3 1 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.72%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.72%) ISO 31000
2 1 (1.72%) NIST 800
2 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (17.24%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.34%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (5.17%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.45%) Docker
4 2 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.72%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (13.79%) Terraform
2 3 (5.17%) Grafana
2 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.45%) Ansible
3 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.45%) SCCM
4 1 (1.72%) Proxmox
4 1 (1.72%) QRadar
4 1 (1.72%) SCOM
4 1 (1.72%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 25 (43.10%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.62%) Databricks
3 4 (6.90%) OpenAI
4 3 (5.17%) Virgin Media
4 3 (5.17%) VMware
5 2 (3.45%) Clearswift
5 2 (3.45%) Google
5 2 (3.45%) Proofpoint
5 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.72%) Citrix
6 1 (1.72%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.72%) ESET
6 1 (1.72%) F5
6 1 (1.72%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.72%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle
6 1 (1.72%) Workday