Azure Specialist Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Specialist
UK > England

The median Microsoft Azure Specialist daily rate in England is £605 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 489 616 733
Rank change year-on-year +127 +117 -112
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Specialist 42 24 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.050% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.053% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 17 33
10th Percentile £525 £415 £450
25th Percentile £603 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% -8.70% +20.42%
75th Percentile £608 £550 £650
90th Percentile £688 £630 £685
UK median daily rate £605 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +12.56% -6.52% +21.05%

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 Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Specialist in England

Azure Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Specialist in England

Azure Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Specialist in England

Azure Specialist
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 Specialist 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
South East +61 29 £605 - 2
London +97 8 £675 +50.00% 2
West Midlands +24 2 £525 -
Midlands +23 2 £525 +5.00%
East of England +5 2 £538 -2.27%
North of England +31 1 - - 2
Yorkshire +15 1 - -
Azure Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Azure Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 42 (100.00%) Azure
2 30 (71.43%) Active Directory
3 28 (66.67%) Security Cleared
4 27 (64.29%) SC Cleared
4 27 (64.29%) DV Cleared
5 20 (47.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (45.24%) PowerShell
7 18 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (42.86%) Microsoft
7 18 (42.86%) CI/CD
7 18 (42.86%) DevOps
7 18 (42.86%) Entra ID
8 17 (40.48%) ARM Templates
8 17 (40.48%) ITIL
9 16 (38.10%) Microsoft Intune
9 16 (38.10%) Analytics
9 16 (38.10%) Virtual Desktop
10 15 (35.71%) Social Skills
10 15 (35.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 15 (35.71%) Virtual Machines
10 15 (35.71%) Windows
10 15 (35.71%) Microsoft Exchange
10 15 (35.71%) Firewall
10 15 (35.71%) Identity Management
10 15 (35.71%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (33.33%) RBAC
11 14 (33.33%) Service Management
11 14 (33.33%) DHCP
11 14 (33.33%) DNS
11 14 (33.33%) Linux

Azure Specialist 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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (35.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (42.86%) Entra ID
2 18 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (35.71%) Azure Monitor
4 14 (33.33%) Azure Storage
5 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (4.76%) AWS
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.38%) IaaS
7 1 (2.38%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (35.71%) Firewall
2 14 (33.33%) DHCP
2 14 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.38%) Power BI
General
1 15 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.52%) Law
3 1 (2.38%) Finance
3 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (40.48%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.38%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 14 (33.33%) PKI
1 14 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (35.71%) Windows
2 14 (33.33%) Linux
2 14 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 14 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 14 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (2.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (47.62%) Infrastructure as Code
2 18 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 18 (42.86%) DevOps
3 17 (40.48%) ITIL
4 16 (38.10%) Analytics
5 15 (35.71%) Identity Management
6 14 (33.33%) Agile
6 14 (33.33%) Log Analytics
6 14 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 14 (33.33%) Privileged Identity Management
6 14 (33.33%) RBAC
6 14 (33.33%) Release Management
6 14 (33.33%) Service Management
7 3 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (7.14%) Problem Management
8 2 (4.76%) Asset Management
8 2 (4.76%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (4.76%) Change Control
8 2 (4.76%) Migration
8 2 (4.76%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 19 (45.24%) PowerShell
2 14 (33.33%) Bicep
2 14 (33.33%) C#
2 14 (33.33%) VB
2 14 (33.33%) VBScript
3 4 (9.52%) Bash
4 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 27 (64.29%) DV Cleared
2 27 (64.29%) SC Cleared
3 14 (33.33%) Degree
3 14 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 3 (7.14%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 16 (38.10%) Virtual Desktop
3 15 (35.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (38.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (35.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 14 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 14 (33.33%) SCCM
3 14 (33.33%) SCOM
3 14 (33.33%) WSUS
4 6 (14.29%) Terraform
5 2 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.38%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 18 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (2.38%) Citrix
3 1 (2.38%) New Relic
3 1 (2.38%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.38%) Zscaler