Azure Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in England

Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 500 592 663
Rank change year-on-year +92 +71 -98
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Infrastructure Engineer 38 63 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.13% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 44 76
10th Percentile £160 £400 £369
25th Percentile £363 £413 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £563 £569
90th Percentile £768 £603 £631
UK median daily rate £575 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +21.05% -5.00% +11.11%

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 34,279 47,758 67,889
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,753 33,910 48,235
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,414 1,409 1,903
10th Percentile £12.94 £14.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.60 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in England

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in England

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in England

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
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 Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
London +95 21 £588 +17.50% 6
North of England +34 8 £588 +38.24% 2
North West +27 7 £600 +45.45% 1
South East +19 3 £145 -73.02% 2
South West +17 3 £550 +57.14% 3
West Midlands +25 2 £400 -11.11% 1
Midlands +18 2 £400 -11.11% 1
Yorkshire +21 1 £475 +11.76%
Azure Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Azure Infrastructure 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 England region featuring Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 38 (100.00%) Azure
2 35 (92.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 26 (68.42%) Windows
4 25 (65.79%) Active Directory
5 20 (52.63%) Microsoft
6 17 (44.74%) Windows Server
7 15 (39.47%) DevOps
8 12 (31.58%) Entra ID
9 10 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (26.32%) Firewall
10 9 (23.68%) SharePoint
10 9 (23.68%) Microsoft Exchange
11 8 (21.05%) Migration
11 8 (21.05%) PowerShell
11 8 (21.05%) CI/CD
12 7 (18.42%) DNS
12 7 (18.42%) SQL Server
12 7 (18.42%) VMware
13 6 (15.79%) Finance
13 6 (15.79%) vSphere
13 6 (15.79%) Windows 7
13 6 (15.79%) Terraform
13 6 (15.79%) Network Virtualisation
13 6 (15.79%) Windows 10
13 6 (15.79%) Project Delivery
14 5 (13.16%) Public Sector
14 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
14 5 (13.16%) Data Centre
14 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (13.16%) IaaS

Azure Infrastructure Engineer 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 9 (23.68%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (23.68%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.63%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) IIS
2 1 (2.63%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (2.63%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 38 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (31.58%) Entra ID
3 10 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (13.16%) IaaS
5 4 (10.53%) AWS
5 4 (10.53%) Azure AKS
5 4 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (7.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (7.89%) OneDrive
7 2 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (5.26%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Stack
8 1 (2.63%) GCP
8 1 (2.63%) GitHub
8 1 (2.63%) PaaS
8 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (26.32%) Firewall
2 7 (18.42%) DNS
3 4 (10.53%) Network Security
4 3 (7.89%) MPLS
5 1 (2.63%) BGP
5 1 (2.63%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (2.63%) iSCSI
5 1 (2.63%) NAS
5 1 (2.63%) SAN
5 1 (2.63%) VPN
5 1 (2.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Hudson
1 1 (2.63%) JIRA
1 1 (2.63%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 6 (15.79%) Finance
2 5 (13.16%) Public Sector
2 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Banking
3 3 (7.89%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Law
4 2 (5.26%) Legal
5 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) YAML
2 1 (2.63%) JSON
2 1 (2.63%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.89%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (7.89%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.26%) Replication
4 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.63%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (68.42%) Windows
2 17 (44.74%) Windows Server
3 6 (15.79%) Windows 10
3 6 (15.79%) Windows 7
4 4 (10.53%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (10.53%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (7.89%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (5.26%) VMS
7 1 (2.63%) Linux
7 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (92.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (39.47%) DevOps
3 8 (21.05%) CI/CD
3 8 (21.05%) Migration
4 6 (15.79%) Network Virtualisation
4 6 (15.79%) Project Delivery
5 3 (7.89%) Agile
5 3 (7.89%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (7.89%) Scrum
5 3 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (7.89%) Time Management
6 2 (5.26%) Change Management
6 2 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (5.26%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (5.26%) ITIL
6 2 (5.26%) Roadmaps
6 2 (5.26%) Storage Management
7 1 (2.63%) Containerisation
7 1 (2.63%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.05%) PowerShell
2 5 (13.16%) SQL
3 4 (10.53%) Python
4 2 (5.26%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (7.89%) Azure Certification
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.63%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (2.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 25 (65.79%) Active Directory
2 6 (15.79%) vSphere
3 2 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.63%) Docker
4 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) Terraform
2 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 4 (10.53%) SCCM
4 1 (2.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.63%) SCOM
4 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (52.63%) Microsoft
2 7 (18.42%) VMware
3 5 (13.16%) HP
4 3 (7.89%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.63%) Aruba
5 1 (2.63%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.63%) CA
5 1 (2.63%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.63%) Google
5 1 (2.63%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.63%) ProCurve
5 1 (2.63%) Synology
5 1 (2.63%) Veeam
5 1 (2.63%) Zerto