Azure Consultant Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Consultant
UK > England

The median Microsoft Azure Consultant daily rate in England is £585 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 482 577 671
Rank change year-on-year +95 +94 -125
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Consultant 49 63 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.14% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 43 66
10th Percentile £413 £475 £463
25th Percentile £485 £491 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £543 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.83% -9.58% +14.29%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £675
90th Percentile £638 £663 £709
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £75.00
Median hourly rate - £8.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -90.00% +30.08%
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £8.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - -87.88% +38.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 33,787 45,579 67,163
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.59% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,417 32,381 47,891
10th Percentile £284 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,334 1,845
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Azure Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Consultant in England

Azure Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Consultant in England.

Daily rate trend for Azure Consultant in England

Azure Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Consultant in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Consultant in England

Azure Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Consultant in England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Consultant in England

Azure Consultant
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +103 30 £585 +11.43% 2
North of England +31 8 £625 +25.00% 5
North West +19 8 £625 +25.00% 3
Midlands +16 3 £625 - 5
South West +8 3 - - 2
South East +29 2 £441 -19.22% 1
East Midlands +14 2 £625 +4.17% 4
East of England - 2 £538 -
West Midlands +21 1 £550 -13.73% 1
Azure Consultant
UK

Azure Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Azure Consultant contract 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 contract job ads across the England region featuring Azure Consultant in the job title.

1 49 (100.00%) Azure
2 23 (46.94%) Microsoft
3 14 (28.57%) DevOps
4 10 (20.41%) Cloud Security
4 10 (20.41%) IaaS
5 9 (18.37%) PowerShell
5 9 (18.37%) Finance
6 8 (16.33%) Entra ID
6 8 (16.33%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (16.33%) Migration
6 8 (16.33%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (14.29%) Agile
7 7 (14.29%) Active Directory
7 7 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (14.29%) Terraform
8 6 (12.24%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 6 (12.24%) DevSecOps
8 6 (12.24%) VPN
8 6 (12.24%) Windows
8 6 (12.24%) WAN
8 6 (12.24%) Degree
9 5 (10.20%) AWS
9 5 (10.20%) PaaS
9 5 (10.20%) SQL Server
9 5 (10.20%) DNS
9 5 (10.20%) Risk Assessment
9 5 (10.20%) Firewall
9 5 (10.20%) Data Encryption

Azure Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (20.41%) IaaS
3 8 (16.33%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (16.33%) Entra ID
4 7 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (12.24%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 5 (10.20%) AWS
6 5 (10.20%) PaaS
7 4 (8.16%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (8.16%) Power Platform
8 3 (6.12%) Azure Pipelines
8 3 (6.12%) Azure Storage
8 3 (6.12%) Power Automate
9 2 (4.08%) Azure API Management
9 2 (4.08%) Azure Batch
9 2 (4.08%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (4.08%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (4.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.24%) VPN
1 6 (12.24%) WAN
2 5 (10.20%) DNS
2 5 (10.20%) Firewall
3 4 (8.16%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.04%) LAN
4 1 (2.04%) MPLS
4 1 (2.04%) Network Security
4 1 (2.04%) PBX
4 1 (2.04%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.16%) Data Lake
3 3 (6.12%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.08%) Big Data
4 2 (4.08%) OLTP
4 2 (4.08%) Power BI
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Git
1 2 (4.08%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 9 (18.37%) Finance
2 3 (6.12%) Manufacturing
2 3 (6.12%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.08%) .NET
1 2 (4.08%) ARM Templates
1 2 (4.08%) JSON
1 2 (4.08%) Web Services
1 2 (4.08%) XML
2 1 (2.04%) OAuth
2 1 (2.04%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.16%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (8.16%) PKI
3 3 (6.12%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.12%) Tandem
4 2 (4.08%) Clustering
4 2 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.04%) Replication
5 1 (2.04%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.24%) Windows
2 4 (8.16%) Linux
3 3 (6.12%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.04%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.04%) Unix
4 1 (2.04%) VMS
4 1 (2.04%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (28.57%) DevOps
2 10 (20.41%) Cloud Security
3 8 (16.33%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (16.33%) Migration
4 7 (14.29%) Agile
4 7 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (12.24%) DevSecOps
6 5 (10.20%) Data Encryption
6 5 (10.20%) Database Security
6 5 (10.20%) Risk Assessment
7 4 (8.16%) CI/CD
7 4 (8.16%) Ethical Hacking
7 4 (8.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (8.16%) Key Management
7 4 (8.16%) Knowledge Transfer
7 4 (8.16%) Penetration Testing
7 4 (8.16%) SDLC
7 4 (8.16%) Security Auditing
7 4 (8.16%) SIEM
8 3 (6.12%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.37%) PowerShell
2 4 (8.16%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (4.08%) C#
3 2 (4.08%) Java
3 2 (4.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (12.24%) Degree
2 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.04%) CISSP
2 1 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (8.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 7 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.16%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (4.08%) Docker
3 2 (4.08%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.04%) XenApp
4 1 (2.04%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (14.29%) Terraform
2 3 (6.12%) Grafana
2 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.08%) Ansible
3 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.04%) Proxmox
4 1 (2.04%) SCCM
4 1 (2.04%) SCOM
4 1 (2.04%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 23 (46.94%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.20%) Databricks
3 3 (6.12%) OpenAI
3 3 (6.12%) Virgin Media
4 2 (4.08%) Google
4 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.08%) VMware
5 1 (2.04%) Citrix
5 1 (2.04%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.04%) F5
5 1 (2.04%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle
5 1 (2.04%) Workday