Azure Specialist Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Azure Specialist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £605 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 347 433 497
Rank change year-on-year +86 +64 -52
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Specialist 38 13 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.057% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.060% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 11 8
10th Percentile £522 £425 £413
25th Percentile £603 £488 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £608 - £575
90th Percentile - £725 £583
UK median daily rate £605 £538 £588
% change year-on-year +12.56% -8.51% +23.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,796 21,663 29,128
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,463 15,116 20,427
10th Percentile £213 £225 £203
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,267 1,107 1,446
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.02 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.92
90th Percentile £73.85 £75.00 £60.00
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Specialist in the UK excluding London

Azure Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Specialist in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Specialist in the UK excluding London

Azure Specialist
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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 +44 29 £605 - 1
Scotland +48 4 £550 +83.33%
Midlands +30 2 £525 +5.00%
West Midlands +26 2 £525 -
East of England +11 2 £538 -2.27%
North of England +25 1 - - 3
Yorkshire +13 1 - -
Azure Specialist
UK

Azure Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 17 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 UK excluding London region featuring Azure Specialist in the job title.

1 38 (100.00%) Azure
2 31 (81.58%) Active Directory
3 28 (73.68%) Security Cleared
4 27 (71.05%) SC Cleared
4 27 (71.05%) DV Cleared
5 20 (52.63%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (47.37%) ITIL
6 18 (47.37%) Microsoft
6 18 (47.37%) Entra ID
7 16 (42.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (42.11%) Windows
7 16 (42.11%) Firewall
7 16 (42.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 15 (39.47%) Analytics
8 15 (39.47%) PowerShell
8 15 (39.47%) SCCM
8 15 (39.47%) Degree
8 15 (39.47%) PKI
8 15 (39.47%) Agile
8 15 (39.47%) Identity Management
8 15 (39.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 15 (39.47%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (39.47%) Social Skills
8 15 (39.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 15 (39.47%) Azure Monitor
8 15 (39.47%) Windows Server
9 14 (36.84%) DevOps
9 14 (36.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 14 (36.84%) Kubernetes

Azure Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (39.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 38 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (52.63%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (47.37%) Entra ID
4 15 (39.47%) Azure Monitor
5 14 (36.84%) Azure Storage
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (7.89%) AWS
6 3 (7.89%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (7.89%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.63%) IaaS
8 1 (2.63%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (42.11%) Firewall
2 14 (36.84%) DHCP
2 14 (36.84%) DNS
3 1 (2.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.63%) Power BI
General
1 15 (39.47%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.63%) Finance
2 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (36.84%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.63%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 15 (39.47%) PKI
2 14 (36.84%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 16 (42.11%) Windows
2 15 (39.47%) Windows Server
3 14 (36.84%) Linux
3 14 (36.84%) Windows Server 2016
3 14 (36.84%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (2.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (47.37%) ITIL
2 16 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (39.47%) Agile
3 15 (39.47%) Analytics
3 15 (39.47%) Identity Management
4 14 (36.84%) CI/CD
4 14 (36.84%) DevOps
4 14 (36.84%) Log Analytics
4 14 (36.84%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 14 (36.84%) Privileged Identity Management
4 14 (36.84%) RBAC
4 14 (36.84%) Release Management
4 14 (36.84%) Service Management
5 3 (7.89%) Cloud Operations
5 3 (7.89%) Problem Management
6 2 (5.26%) Asset Management
6 2 (5.26%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (5.26%) Change Control
6 2 (5.26%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (5.26%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (39.47%) PowerShell
2 14 (36.84%) Bicep
2 14 (36.84%) C#
2 14 (36.84%) VB
2 14 (36.84%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 28 (73.68%) Security Cleared
2 27 (71.05%) DV Cleared
2 27 (71.05%) SC Cleared
3 15 (39.47%) Degree
4 14 (36.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (7.89%) Azure Certification
6 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
6 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.63%) MCSE
7 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (81.58%) Active Directory
2 16 (42.11%) Virtual Desktop
3 15 (39.47%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (42.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (39.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 15 (39.47%) SCCM
3 14 (36.84%) Kubernetes
3 14 (36.84%) SCOM
3 14 (36.84%) WSUS
4 2 (5.26%) Terraform
5 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.63%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 18 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) Oracle
3 1 (2.63%) Citrix
3 1 (2.63%) New Relic
3 1 (2.63%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.63%) Zscaler