Microsoft Azure Specialist
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Specialist salary in the UK is £58,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

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

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 699 1041 1014
Rank change year-on-year +342 -27 -329
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Specialist 42 35 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.028% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% 0.030% 0.069%
Number of salaries quoted 42 33 30
10th Percentile £46,256 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £65,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +10.64% -28.79%
75th Percentile £74,250 £73,750 £67,188
90th Percentile - £76,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.38% -28.79%

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 50,797 118,142 122,028
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.42% 95.32% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 37,144 73,821 84,079
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

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 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Azure Specialist in the UK

Azure Specialist
Top 12 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 4 December 2023. 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 +334 32 £60,000 - 23
UK excluding London +247 28 £60,000 +9.09% 13
Work from Home +258 21 £73,500 +50.77% 12
South East +168 16 £73,500 +10.94% 6
London +268 8 £57,500 -13.21% 11
Midlands - 4 £52,500 - 1
Scotland - 4 £47,557 -
East Midlands - 3 £52,500 - 1
North of England +144 2 £47,500 -9.52% 5
North West +99 2 £47,500 -9.52%
East of England - 2 £60,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 4 December 2023, 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 42 (100.00%) Azure
2 26 (61.90%) Microsoft
3 21 (50.00%) Windows
4 20 (47.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (45.24%) PowerShell
6 18 (42.86%) Active Directory
7 17 (40.48%) ITIL
7 17 (40.48%) Social Skills
8 16 (38.10%) Azure Certification
8 16 (38.10%) Agile
9 15 (35.71%) C#
9 15 (35.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (33.33%) Entra ID
10 14 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
10 14 (33.33%) VB
10 14 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (30.95%) SCCM
11 13 (30.95%) Degree
11 13 (30.95%) Kubernetes
12 12 (28.57%) Virtual Desktop
12 12 (28.57%) RBAC
12 12 (28.57%) Firewall
13 11 (26.19%) Identity Management
13 11 (26.19%) Service Management
13 11 (26.19%) WSUS
13 11 (26.19%) PKI
13 11 (26.19%) VBScript
13 11 (26.19%) DNS
13 11 (26.19%) DHCP
13 11 (26.19%) SCOM

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 7 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 14 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (26.19%) Azure Monitor
3 11 (26.19%) Azure Storage
4 10 (23.81%) PaaS
5 8 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (11.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (11.90%) SaaS
7 4 (9.52%) Boomi
8 3 (7.14%) AWS
8 3 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
9 2 (4.76%) IaaS
9 2 (4.76%) iPaaS
9 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (2.38%) Azure Table
Communications & Networking
1 12 (28.57%) Firewall
2 11 (26.19%) DHCP
2 11 (26.19%) DNS
3 1 (2.38%) Internet
3 1 (2.38%) LAN
3 1 (2.38%) NetScaler
3 1 (2.38%) Network Security
3 1 (2.38%) VPN
3 1 (2.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) Data Lake
1 4 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.38%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (26.19%) Axure RP
2 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.38%) GitLab
General
1 17 (40.48%) Social Skills
2 9 (21.43%) Finance
3 8 (19.05%) Banking
4 7 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.38%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) .NET
2 1 (2.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.19%) PKI
1 11 (26.19%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (9.52%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.38%) Blockchain
3 1 (2.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Licensing
3 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.38%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (40.48%) ITIL
2 16 (38.10%) Agile
3 12 (28.57%) RBAC
4 11 (26.19%) Analytics
4 11 (26.19%) DevOps
4 11 (26.19%) Identity Management
4 11 (26.19%) Log Analytics
4 11 (26.19%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 11 (26.19%) Privileged Identity Management
4 11 (26.19%) Release Management
4 11 (26.19%) Service Management
5 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
6 6 (14.29%) IT Strategy
7 5 (11.90%) Business Continuity
7 5 (11.90%) CI/CD
7 5 (11.90%) Load Balancing
7 5 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (11.90%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (45.24%) PowerShell
2 15 (35.71%) C#
3 14 (33.33%) VB
4 11 (26.19%) VBScript
5 9 (21.43%) SQL
6 8 (19.05%) Bicep
7 2 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (38.10%) Azure Certification
2 13 (30.95%) Degree
3 11 (26.19%) DV Cleared
3 11 (26.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 11 (26.19%) SC Cleared
3 11 (26.19%) Security Cleared
4 6 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) NIST
1 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 14 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (28.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (9.52%) BitLocker
5 3 (7.14%) Hyper-V
6 2 (4.76%) Docker
7 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (47.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (35.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 13 (30.95%) Kubernetes
3 13 (30.95%) SCCM
4 11 (26.19%) SCOM
4 11 (26.19%) WSUS
5 2 (4.76%) Ansible
5 2 (4.76%) Terraform
6 1 (2.38%) Packer
6 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (61.90%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.52%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.38%) Aruba
3 1 (2.38%) Cisco
3 1 (2.38%) Citrix
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle
3 1 (2.38%) SAP
3 1 (2.38%) VMware
3 1 (2.38%) Wyse