Azure Consultant Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Azure Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median Microsoft Azure Consultant daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £600, 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 284 308 410
Rank change year-on-year +24 +102 +111
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Consultant 20 37 67
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.24% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.26% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 47
10th Percentile £465 £416 £458
25th Percentile £522 £468 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £569 £543
Median % change year-on-year +5.49% +4.84% -1.36%
75th Percentile £644 £619 £619
90th Percentile £695 £659 £668
UK median daily rate £575 £585 £540
% change year-on-year -1.71% +8.33% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £8.00
UK median hourly rate - - £8.00
% change year-on-year - - -87.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Azure Consultant
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Azure Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Consultant trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Azure Consultant
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure Consultant.

Azure Consultant daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure Consultant daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure Consultant.

Azure Consultant hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Azure Consultant in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (50.00%) Migration
2 10 (50.00%) DevOps
3 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
6 4 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
6 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
7 3 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (15.00%) RBAC
7 3 (15.00%) NIST
7 3 (15.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (15.00%) GDPR
7 3 (15.00%) Security Monitoring
7 3 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (15.00%) Terraform
7 3 (15.00%) Finance
7 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
7 3 (15.00%) AWS
7 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
7 3 (15.00%) Incident Management
7 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
7 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (15.00%) Incident Response
7 3 (15.00%) Azure Certification
7 3 (15.00%) Cloud Security

Azure Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (15.00%) AWS
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (10.00%) IaaS
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (10.00%) PaaS
5 2 (10.00%) Power Automate
5 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (5.00%) GCP
6 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
6 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (5.00%) DKIM
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Legal
3 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) YAML
2 1 (5.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Licensing
3 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) VMS
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) DevOps
1 10 (50.00%) Migration
2 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (15.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (15.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (15.00%) RBAC
4 3 (15.00%) Security Monitoring
4 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (10.00%) B2B
5 2 (10.00%) Data Migration
5 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (10.00%) Identity Management
5 2 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (10.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) Bicep
3 1 (5.00%) C#
3 1 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.00%) CISSP
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) GCFA
2 1 (5.00%) GCIH
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) GDPR
1 3 (15.00%) NIST
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Terraform
2 2 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (5.00%) OpenText
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow