Azure Specialist Contracts

Microsoft Azure Specialist
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Specialist daily rate in the UK is £605 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 526 690 824
Rank change year-on-year +164 +134 -160
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Specialist 52 26 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.044% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.047% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 17 35
10th Percentile £525 £415 £450
25th Percentile £603 £450 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% -12.50% +26.32%
75th Percentile £611 £550 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% +4.76% +23.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,246 55,892 84,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,216 39,044 59,517
10th Percentile £279 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,569 2,074
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Specialist in the UK

Azure Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Specialist in the UK

Azure Specialist
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 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
England +132 46 £605 +15.24% 5
UK excluding London +87 40 £605 +10.00% 4
Work from Home +151 31 £605 +10.00%
South East +51 31 £605 -
London +111 9 £675 +50.00% 1
Scotland - 3 £550 -
Midlands +31 2 £525 +5.00%
West Midlands +21 2 £525 -
East of England +10 2 £538 -2.27%
North of England +25 1 - - 4
Yorkshire +21 1 - -
Wales +15 1 £650 -7.14%

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

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

1 52 (100.00%) Azure
2 33 (63.46%) Active Directory
3 30 (57.69%) Security Cleared
4 29 (55.77%) SC Cleared
5 28 (53.85%) DV Cleared
6 24 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (44.23%) Microsoft
8 22 (42.31%) Entra ID
8 22 (42.31%) DevOps
8 22 (42.31%) PowerShell
8 22 (42.31%) CI/CD
9 21 (40.38%) Microsoft 365
10 19 (36.54%) ITIL
11 18 (34.62%) Analytics
11 18 (34.62%) Social Skills
12 17 (32.69%) ARM Templates
12 17 (32.69%) Virtual Desktop
12 17 (32.69%) Microsoft Intune
13 16 (30.77%) Kubernetes
13 16 (30.77%) Windows
13 16 (30.77%) C#
13 16 (30.77%) Agile
13 16 (30.77%) Firewall
13 16 (30.77%) Identity Management
13 16 (30.77%) Azure Monitor
13 16 (30.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 16 (30.77%) Virtual Machines
14 15 (28.85%) Azure Storage
14 15 (28.85%) Bicep
14 15 (28.85%) RBAC

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 (28.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 52 (100.00%) Azure
2 22 (42.31%) Entra ID
3 21 (40.38%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (30.77%) Azure Monitor
5 15 (28.85%) Azure Storage
6 7 (13.46%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (9.62%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 5 (9.62%) AWS
7 5 (9.62%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (9.62%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (5.77%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.92%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.92%) IaaS
10 1 (1.92%) NuGet
10 1 (1.92%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (30.77%) Firewall
2 15 (28.85%) DHCP
2 15 (28.85%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.62%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.85%) Power BI
3 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.92%) Power Query
3 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Axure RP
1 1 (1.92%) Git
General
1 18 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.69%) Law
3 1 (1.92%) Finance
3 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (1.92%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (32.69%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.92%) GraphQL
2 1 (1.92%) REST
2 1 (1.92%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.92%) SOAP
2 1 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (28.85%) PKI
1 15 (28.85%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.92%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 16 (30.77%) Windows
2 14 (26.92%) Linux
2 14 (26.92%) Windows Server
2 14 (26.92%) Windows Server 2016
2 14 (26.92%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (1.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
2 22 (42.31%) CI/CD
2 22 (42.31%) DevOps
3 19 (36.54%) ITIL
4 18 (34.62%) Analytics
5 16 (30.77%) Agile
5 16 (30.77%) Identity Management
6 15 (28.85%) Log Analytics
6 15 (28.85%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 15 (28.85%) Privileged Identity Management
6 15 (28.85%) RBAC
6 15 (28.85%) Release Management
6 15 (28.85%) Service Management
7 5 (9.62%) Cloud Operations
7 5 (9.62%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
8 4 (7.69%) Cost Control
8 4 (7.69%) Problem Management
8 4 (7.69%) Service Delivery
9 3 (5.77%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 22 (42.31%) PowerShell
2 16 (30.77%) C#
3 15 (28.85%) Bicep
3 15 (28.85%) VB
3 15 (28.85%) VBScript
4 4 (7.69%) Bash
5 3 (5.77%) SQL
6 2 (3.85%) Python
7 1 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (57.69%) Security Cleared
2 29 (55.77%) SC Cleared
3 28 (53.85%) DV Cleared
4 15 (28.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 14 (26.92%) Degree
6 6 (11.54%) Azure Certification
7 4 (7.69%) AWS Certification
7 4 (7.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (1.92%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) SLA
2 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 33 (63.46%) Active Directory
2 17 (32.69%) Virtual Desktop
3 16 (30.77%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (32.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (30.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 16 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 15 (28.85%) SCCM
3 15 (28.85%) SCOM
3 15 (28.85%) WSUS
4 10 (19.23%) Terraform
5 2 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.92%) Ansible
6 1 (1.92%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 23 (44.23%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.62%) Oracle
3 1 (1.92%) Citrix
3 1 (1.92%) Databricks
3 1 (1.92%) New Relic
3 1 (1.92%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.92%) Zscaler