Azure Engineer Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Azure Engineer
London > Central London

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Central London is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 127 118
Rank change year-on-year +22 -9 +11
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 28 45 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.16% 1.17% 1.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 1.23% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 36 63
10th Percentile £418 £441 £464
25th Percentile £497 £494 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -2.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £750 £653 £634
90th Percentile £784 £738 £760
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,302 3,663 4,303
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.32% 95.27% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,641 2,508 3,274
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £560
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +4.91% +6.67%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 27 51
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.63 £19.36 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -5.41% +105.84%
75th Percentile £27.81 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £40.00 £86.32 £65.75
London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.54% +1.43% +9.38%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured Azure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in Central London

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in Central London

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in Central London

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 4 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
City of London +33 26 £613 +11.36% 9
Camden - 1 £450 - 1
Azure Engineer
London

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Azure Engineer 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 Central London region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (32.14%) SQL
4 8 (28.57%) Active Directory
4 8 (28.57%) DevOps
4 8 (28.57%) Power Platform
5 7 (25.00%) Power BI
5 7 (25.00%) Databricks
5 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 7 (25.00%) Windows
5 7 (25.00%) Firewall
6 6 (21.43%) Python
6 6 (21.43%) Data Modelling
6 6 (21.43%) DNS
6 6 (21.43%) Analytics
6 6 (21.43%) Terraform
6 6 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
7 5 (17.86%) Delta Lake
7 5 (17.86%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (17.86%) Data Engineering
7 5 (17.86%) PySpark
7 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
7 5 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (17.86%) Finance
8 4 (14.29%) Data Mart
8 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (14.29%) Data Warehouse

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.14%) Luigi
3 1 (3.57%) IIS
3 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 6 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (14.29%) Entra ID
6 3 (10.71%) OneDrive
7 2 (7.14%) AWS
7 2 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (7.14%) GitHub
8 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.57%) Azure App Service
8 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (3.57%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (3.57%) GCP
8 1 (3.57%) IaaS
8 1 (3.57%) Mimecast
8 1 (3.57%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.00%) Firewall
2 6 (21.43%) DNS
3 3 (10.71%) Network Security
4 2 (7.14%) VPN
5 1 (3.57%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (3.57%) iSCSI
5 1 (3.57%) NAS
5 1 (3.57%) SAN
5 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
5 1 (3.57%) WAN
5 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) Power BI
2 5 (17.86%) Delta Lake
3 4 (14.29%) Data Mart
3 4 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (10.71%) Data Lake
4 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
5 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (7.14%) Star Schema
6 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.57%) Metadata
6 1 (3.57%) MySQL
6 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) GitLab
2 2 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (3.57%) AppScan
3 1 (3.57%) Burp Suite
3 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.57%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.57%) Subversion
3 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 4 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) PySpark
2 2 (7.14%) ARM Templates
2 2 (7.14%) Pandas
2 2 (7.14%) YAML
3 1 (3.57%) .NET
3 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
3 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.57%) JSON
3 1 (3.57%) Kafka
3 1 (3.57%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Market Risk
2 1 (3.57%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Replication
2 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Windows
2 4 (14.29%) Linux
3 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
4 2 (7.14%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.57%) VMS
5 1 (3.57%) Windows 7
5 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) DevOps
2 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (21.43%) Analytics
3 6 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
4 5 (17.86%) Data Engineering
4 5 (17.86%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 3 (10.71%) Agile
6 3 (10.71%) Containerisation
7 2 (7.14%) Cloud Security
7 2 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (7.14%) ETL
7 2 (7.14%) Microservices
7 2 (7.14%) Migration
7 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (7.14%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) SQL
2 7 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (21.43%) Python
4 4 (14.29%) C#
5 3 (10.71%) Bicep
6 1 (3.57%) Bash
6 1 (3.57%) R
6 1 (3.57%) Scala
6 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
1 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.57%) Degree
1 1 (3.57%) SANS
1 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) GDPR
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.71%) Docker
3 2 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Terraform
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
3 3 (10.71%) SCCM
4 1 (3.57%) Ansible
4 1 (3.57%) Grafana
4 1 (3.57%) Graylog
4 1 (3.57%) HP Fortify
4 1 (3.57%) Nagios
4 1 (3.57%) Nessus
4 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.57%) Puppet
4 1 (3.57%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 14 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (25.00%) Databricks
3 2 (7.14%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.57%) Aruba
4 1 (3.57%) Checkmarx
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco
4 1 (3.57%) Meraki
4 1 (3.57%) ProCurve
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk
4 1 (3.57%) Synology
4 1 (3.57%) Veeam
4 1 (3.57%) Veracode
4 1 (3.57%) VMware
4 1 (3.57%) Zerto