Microsoft Azure Administrator
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Administrator salary in the UK is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 885 932 1191
Rank change year-on-year +47 +259 -309
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Administrator 25 47 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.045% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.050% 0.030%
Number of salaries quoted 23 43 37
10th Percentile £43,150 £41,500 £34,450
25th Percentile £55,625 £45,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile - £77,500 £68,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £50,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year +35.00% +14.94% -3.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,479 94,643 151,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,031 59,595 85,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Azure Administrator in the UK

Azure Administrator
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Administrator over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Administrator in the UK

Azure Administrator
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Administrator within the UK over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +83 25 £67,500 +28.57% 5
Work from Home +64 19 £67,500 +35.00% 1
UK excluding London -29 17 £67,500 +35.00% 6
South East +18 15 £67,500 +38.46% 1
London +123 6 £65,000 -13.33% 1
South West - 2 £57,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Azure Administrator 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 featuring Azure Administrator in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Azure
2 17 (68.00%) Microsoft
3 16 (64.00%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
5 11 (44.00%) Roadmaps
5 11 (44.00%) Asset Management
5 11 (44.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 11 (44.00%) Degree
6 8 (32.00%) PowerShell
7 7 (28.00%) Active Directory
8 6 (24.00%) SQL
9 5 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (20.00%) Finance
9 5 (20.00%) DevOps
10 4 (16.00%) Entra ID
10 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
11 3 (12.00%) Windows
11 3 (12.00%) DNS
11 3 (12.00%) Data Security
11 3 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (12.00%) High Availability
11 3 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
12 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
12 2 (8.00%) Power BI
12 2 (8.00%) Terraform
12 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
12 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
12 2 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (8.00%) Virtual Team
12 2 (8.00%) Accessibility

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (64.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (16.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.00%) Power Automate
4 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (8.00%) SaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.00%) IaaS
5 1 (4.00%) PaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) DNS
2 2 (8.00%) DHCP
2 2 (8.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (8.00%) VPN
3 1 (4.00%) NAS
3 1 (4.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (8.00%) Power BI
3 2 (8.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.00%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) JSON
2 1 (4.00%) .NET
2 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (8.00%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Replication
1 2 (8.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (4.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 11 (44.00%) Asset Management
1 11 (44.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (20.00%) DevOps
2 5 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (12.00%) Data Security
3 3 (12.00%) High Availability
3 3 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (8.00%) Information Security
4 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (8.00%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (8.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (8.00%) Statistics
4 2 (8.00%) Task Automation
5 1 (4.00%) Change Management
5 1 (4.00%) ERP
5 1 (4.00%) IT Governance
5 1 (4.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (24.00%) SQL
3 2 (8.00%) Bash
3 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (44.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (68.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Fortinet