Azure Specialist Jobs

Microsoft Azure Specialist
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Specialist salary in the UK is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 691 835 835
Rank change year-on-year +144 0 +349
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Specialist 11 72 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.069% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.073% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3 63 24
10th Percentile £67,250 £44,100 £55,000
25th Percentile £68,750 £52,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £58,500 £73,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.93% -20.41% -3.61%
75th Percentile £85,625 £63,250 £80,938
90th Percentile £92,750 £66,125 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £58,500 £73,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% -20.41% -18.33%

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 50,444 98,297 87,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.33% 94.81% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 26,384 69,991 55,965
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,748 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.49%

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 31 May 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 31 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
England +110 11 £72,500 +23.93% 2
UK excluding London +133 8 £67,500 +15.38% 2
North of England +30 8 £67,500 +13.45%
North West +7 8 £67,500 -
London +93 2 £83,750 +43.09%

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 featuring Azure Specialist in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 9 (81.82%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (72.73%) Law
4 7 (63.64%) Legal
4 7 (63.64%) ITIL
4 7 (63.64%) Capacity Planning
4 7 (63.64%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (63.64%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (63.64%) Mentoring
4 7 (63.64%) Coaching
4 7 (63.64%) Cisco
4 7 (63.64%) Enterprise Cloud
4 7 (63.64%) Roadmaps
5 4 (36.36%) DevOps
6 3 (27.27%) Analytics
7 2 (18.18%) Microservices
7 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
7 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (18.18%) Agile
7 2 (18.18%) SQL
7 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (18.18%) Terraform
7 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
7 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
8 1 (9.09%) Zero Trust
8 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
8 1 (9.09%) Containerisation

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 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (63.64%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) IaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
1 1 (9.09%) Power Query
1 1 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (72.73%) Law
2 7 (63.64%) Legal
3 1 (9.09%) Automotive
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Capacity Planning
1 7 (63.64%) Coaching
1 7 (63.64%) ITIL
1 7 (63.64%) Mentoring
1 7 (63.64%) Roadmaps
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (18.18%) Microservices
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
5 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
5 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
5 1 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (9.09%) Log Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
3 1 (9.09%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) HIPAA
2 1 (9.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 7 (63.64%) Cisco