Azure Specialist Jobs

Microsoft Azure Specialist
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Specialist salary in the UK is £81,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 April 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 674 817 926
Rank change year-on-year +143 +109 +200
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Specialist 10 68 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.069% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.073% 0.064%
Number of salaries quoted 2 64 20
10th Percentile £68,875 £38,250 £52,375
25th Percentile £72,813 £52,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £58,750 £69,250
Median % change year-on-year +38.30% -15.16% -6.10%
75th Percentile £90,313 £63,250 £90,625
90th Percentile £94,625 £66,063 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £59,000 £69,250
% change year-on-year +14.41% -14.80% -23.06%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 46,971 93,051 95,196
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.06% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,308 66,827 59,871
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -12.08% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,344 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.69% -4.76% +5.00%

Azure Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Specialist in the UK

Azure Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Azure Specialist in the UK

Azure Specialist
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Specialist over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Specialist in the UK

Azure Specialist
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +134 10 £81,250 +37.71% 4
UK excluding London +164 8 £67,500 +14.41% 4
North of England +79 8 £67,500 +13.45%
North West - 8 £67,500 -
London +91 1 £95,000 +62.32%

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 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 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