Azure Specialist Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Azure Specialist salary in the UK excluding London is £58,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

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

 6 months to
28 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 718 698 830
Rank change year-on-year -20 +132 -148
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Specialist 57 56 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.077% 0.096% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.11% 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 49 16 29
10th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £46,400
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £73,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.41% -18.33% +84.62%
75th Percentile £59,000 £83,125 £92,500
90th Percentile £63,600 £100,000 -
UK median annual salary £58,013 £73,500 £76,250
% change year-on-year -21.07% -3.61% +27.08%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

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

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 70,239 51,739 70,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 89.07% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 49,597 29,705 42,866
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Azure Specialist in the UK excluding London

Azure Specialist
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Specialist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Specialist in the UK excluding London

Azure Specialist
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
South East +23 34 £55,000 -25.17% 2
North of England +60 16 £59,500 -40.50% 2
Yorkshire +88 13 £59,500 -40.50%
Midlands -22 5 £50,000 -14.89%
East Midlands -32 4 £65,000 +23.81%
North West - 3 - - 2
South West -35 2 £65,000 -
Azure Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Azure Specialist in the job title.

1 57 (100.00%) Azure
2 45 (78.95%) Active Directory
3 32 (56.14%) Windows
3 32 (56.14%) Windows Server
4 31 (54.39%) Entra ID
5 29 (50.88%) Microsoft 365
5 29 (50.88%) Microsoft
6 28 (49.12%) Security Cleared
7 27 (47.37%) DV Cleared
8 26 (45.61%) DNS
8 26 (45.61%) PowerShell
9 25 (43.86%) Social Skills
10 23 (40.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 23 (40.35%) Log Analytics
10 23 (40.35%) Azure Monitor
10 23 (40.35%) Release Management
10 23 (40.35%) Analytics
10 23 (40.35%) DHCP
10 23 (40.35%) C#
10 23 (40.35%) VBScript
10 23 (40.35%) VB
10 23 (40.35%) PKI
11 20 (35.09%) Microsoft Intune
12 19 (33.33%) SCCM
12 19 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
13 18 (31.58%) Kubernetes
13 18 (31.58%) Degree
14 17 (29.82%) WSUS
14 17 (29.82%) Service Management
14 17 (29.82%) Firewall

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 17 (29.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 57 (100.00%) Azure
2 31 (54.39%) Entra ID
3 29 (50.88%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (40.35%) Azure Monitor
5 17 (29.82%) Azure Storage
6 8 (14.04%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.75%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (45.61%) DNS
2 23 (40.35%) DHCP
3 17 (29.82%) Firewall
4 6 (10.53%) LAN
4 6 (10.53%) WAN
5 2 (3.51%) NAS
5 2 (3.51%) SAN
5 2 (3.51%) VPN
5 2 (3.51%) Wireless
6 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
General
1 25 (43.86%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.04%) Law
3 1 (1.75%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (29.82%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 23 (40.35%) PKI
2 17 (29.82%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 32 (56.14%) Windows
1 32 (56.14%) Windows Server
2 17 (29.82%) Linux
2 17 (29.82%) Windows Server 2016
2 17 (29.82%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (40.35%) Analytics
1 23 (40.35%) Log Analytics
1 23 (40.35%) Release Management
2 17 (29.82%) Agile
2 17 (29.82%) CI/CD
2 17 (29.82%) DevOps
2 17 (29.82%) Identity Management
2 17 (29.82%) Infrastructure as Code
2 17 (29.82%) ITIL
2 17 (29.82%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 17 (29.82%) Privileged Identity Management
2 17 (29.82%) RBAC
2 17 (29.82%) Service Management
3 10 (17.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (5.26%) Migration
4 3 (5.26%) Presales
5 2 (3.51%) Mentoring
5 2 (3.51%) Process Improvement
5 2 (3.51%) Project Management
5 2 (3.51%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 26 (45.61%) PowerShell
2 23 (40.35%) C#
2 23 (40.35%) VB
2 23 (40.35%) VBScript
3 17 (29.82%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 28 (49.12%) Security Cleared
2 27 (47.37%) DV Cleared
3 18 (31.58%) Degree
4 17 (29.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 15 (26.32%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.75%) CISA
6 1 (1.75%) CISM
6 1 (1.75%) CISSP
6 1 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.75%) Def Stans
1 1 (1.75%) NIST
System Software
1 45 (78.95%) Active Directory
2 19 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 17 (29.82%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.51%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.75%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 23 (40.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 20 (35.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (33.33%) SCCM
4 18 (31.58%) Kubernetes
5 17 (29.82%) SCOM
5 17 (29.82%) WSUS
6 2 (3.51%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (50.88%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.26%) VMware
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