Azure Specialist Jobs in England

Microsoft Azure Specialist
UK > England

The median Microsoft Azure Specialist salary in England is £81,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary 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 638 757 892
Rank change year-on-year +119 +135 +161
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Specialist 10 65 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.076% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.081% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 2 61 18
10th Percentile £68,875 £43,875 £52,125
25th Percentile £72,813 £52,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £59,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.71% -9.23% -10.34%
75th Percentile £90,313 £63,250 £96,875
90th Percentile £94,625 £66,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £81,250 £58,750 £69,250
% change year-on-year +38.30% -15.16% -6.10%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 41,506 80,486 84,681
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.46% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,507 60,251 53,657
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Azure Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Specialist in England

Azure Specialist
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Specialist in England.

Salary trend for Azure Specialist in England

Azure Specialist
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Specialist in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Specialist in England

Azure Specialist
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Specialist within the England 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +80 8 £67,500 +13.45%
North West - 8 £67,500 -
London +97 1 £95,000 +62.32%
Azure Specialist
UK

Azure Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Azure Specialist 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 permanent job ads across the England region featuring Azure Specialist in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (80.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (80.00%) Law
3 7 (70.00%) Legal
3 7 (70.00%) ITIL
3 7 (70.00%) Cisco
3 7 (70.00%) Capacity Planning
3 7 (70.00%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (70.00%) Mentoring
3 7 (70.00%) Coaching
3 7 (70.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 7 (70.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (70.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Terraform
5 2 (20.00%) Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Microservices
5 2 (20.00%) Agile
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (10.00%) SOC 2
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
6 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
6 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
6 1 (10.00%) Log Analytics
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust

Azure Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) IaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (80.00%) Law
2 7 (70.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Capacity Planning
1 7 (70.00%) Coaching
1 7 (70.00%) ITIL
1 7 (70.00%) Mentoring
1 7 (70.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (10.00%) ETL
4 1 (10.00%) Information Security
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) SDLC
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (10.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (70.00%) Cisco