Microsoft Azure Specialist
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Specialist salary in the UK is £58,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 821 933 1147
Rank change year-on-year +112 +214 -266
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Specialist 67 62 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.068% 0.061% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.067% 0.058%
Number of salaries quoted 63 21 60
10th Percentile £38,000 £52,500 £49,844
25th Percentile £52,000 £55,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £73,500 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year -20.41% -3.61% +19.14%
75th Percentile £63,250 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £66,125 £100,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £73,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -19.73% -18.33% +50.00%

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 93,864 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,182 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 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 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Specialist in the UK

Azure Specialist
Top 10 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 8 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 +84 65 £59,000 -9.23% 4
UK excluding London -11 51 £59,000 -19.73% 3
Work from Home +80 31 £59,000 -19.73%
South East +38 31 £55,000 -25.17%
London +131 14 £58,528 -6.36% 1
Yorkshire +89 13 £59,500 -40.50%
North of England +48 13 £59,500 -40.50% 3
Midlands -12 5 £50,000 -23.08%
East Midlands -29 4 £65,000 -
South West -34 2 £65,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, 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 67 (100.00%) Azure
2 45 (67.16%) Active Directory
3 35 (52.24%) Microsoft
4 33 (49.25%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (49.25%) Entra ID
5 30 (44.78%) Windows Server
5 30 (44.78%) Windows
6 27 (40.30%) Social Skills
7 26 (38.81%) DNS
8 25 (37.31%) PowerShell
9 24 (35.82%) DV Cleared
9 24 (35.82%) Security Cleared
10 21 (31.34%) Degree
11 20 (29.85%) PKI
11 20 (29.85%) Release Management
11 20 (29.85%) Microsoft Intune
11 20 (29.85%) Analytics
11 20 (29.85%) DHCP
11 20 (29.85%) C#
11 20 (29.85%) VBScript
11 20 (29.85%) VB
11 20 (29.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 20 (29.85%) Log Analytics
11 20 (29.85%) Azure Monitor
12 18 (26.87%) Firewall
12 18 (26.87%) Agile
12 18 (26.87%) Kubernetes
13 17 (25.37%) DevOps
13 17 (25.37%) ITIL
13 17 (25.37%) Virtual Desktop

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 15 (22.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.97%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 67 (100.00%) Azure
2 33 (49.25%) Entra ID
2 33 (49.25%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (29.85%) Azure Monitor
4 14 (20.90%) Azure Storage
5 8 (11.94%) OneDrive
6 4 (5.97%) Azure AKS
6 4 (5.97%) PaaS
7 3 (4.48%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.48%) IaaS
8 2 (2.99%) AWS
8 2 (2.99%) GCP
8 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (2.99%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.49%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.49%) Azure Table
9 1 (1.49%) ChatGPT
9 1 (1.49%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 26 (38.81%) DNS
2 20 (29.85%) DHCP
3 18 (26.87%) Firewall
4 6 (8.96%) LAN
4 6 (8.96%) WAN
4 6 (8.96%) Wireless
5 2 (2.99%) NAS
5 2 (2.99%) SAN
5 2 (2.99%) VPN
6 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.49%) Delta Lake
2 1 (1.49%) Power BI
2 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (40.30%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.43%) Law
3 4 (5.97%) Finance
3 4 (5.97%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.49%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.49%) Games
4 1 (1.49%) Legal
4 1 (1.49%) Marketing
4 1 (1.49%) Military
4 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.49%) Social Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.90%) ARM Templates
2 4 (5.97%) .NET
3 1 (1.49%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 20 (29.85%) PKI
2 14 (20.90%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.49%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 30 (44.78%) Windows
1 30 (44.78%) Windows Server
2 15 (22.39%) Linux
3 14 (20.90%) Windows Server 2016
3 14 (20.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (29.85%) Analytics
1 20 (29.85%) Log Analytics
1 20 (29.85%) Release Management
2 18 (26.87%) Agile
3 17 (25.37%) DevOps
3 17 (25.37%) ITIL
4 15 (22.39%) CI/CD
5 14 (20.90%) Identity Management
5 14 (20.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (20.90%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 14 (20.90%) Privileged Identity Management
5 14 (20.90%) RBAC
5 14 (20.90%) Service Management
6 10 (14.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (7.46%) Cloud Security
9 4 (5.97%) Customer Experience
9 4 (5.97%) Customer-Centricity
9 4 (5.97%) Migration
9 4 (5.97%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 25 (37.31%) PowerShell
2 20 (29.85%) C#
2 20 (29.85%) VB
2 20 (29.85%) VBScript
3 14 (20.90%) Bicep
4 2 (2.99%) Python
5 1 (1.49%) R
5 1 (1.49%) SQL
5 1 (1.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (35.82%) DV Cleared
1 24 (35.82%) Security Cleared
2 21 (31.34%) Degree
3 14 (20.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 11 (16.42%) SC Cleared
5 7 (10.45%) Azure Certification
6 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.99%) CISSP
7 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.49%) CISA
8 1 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.49%) CISM
8 1 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.49%) OSCP
8 1 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.99%) ISO 9001
1 2 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.49%) Def Stans
2 1 (1.49%) NIST
System Software
1 45 (67.16%) Active Directory
2 17 (25.37%) Virtual Desktop
3 15 (22.39%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.49%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (29.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 20 (29.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (26.87%) Kubernetes
3 16 (23.88%) SCCM
4 14 (20.90%) SCOM
4 14 (20.90%) WSUS
5 3 (4.48%) Terraform
6 2 (2.99%) Packer
6 2 (2.99%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (52.24%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.48%) VMware
3 2 (2.99%) Google
4 1 (1.49%) Citrix
4 1 (1.49%) Databricks