Azure Engineer Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > London

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 June 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
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 129 158
Rank change year-on-year -25 +29 -20
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 293 493 728
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.67% 1.96% 1.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.79% 2.06% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 372 546
10th Percentile £425 £418 £425
25th Percentile £475 £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +11.65%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £723 £725 £800
England median daily rate £525 £563 £555
% change year-on-year -6.67% +1.35% +11.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
England median hourly rate - £71.00 £78.75
% change year-on-year - -9.84% +215.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,399 23,937 36,890
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.62% 95.15% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,820 17,465 27,145
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 274 411
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.64 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +6.54%
75th Percentile £46.86 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.60 £81.58 £67.50
England median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -15.56% +88.21% +11.73%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in London

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in London

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in London over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in London

Azure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Engineer in London

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 5 June 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
Central London +29 35 £575 +4.55% 8
West London +25 4 £475 +1.06% 3
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 June 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 London region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 293 (100.00%) Azure
2 138 (47.10%) DevOps
3 101 (34.47%) Azure DevOps
4 90 (30.72%) Python
5 87 (29.69%) SQL
6 84 (28.67%) CI/CD
7 77 (26.28%) Microsoft
8 76 (25.94%) Finance
9 74 (25.26%) Terraform
10 66 (22.53%) Databricks
11 60 (20.48%) Social Skills
12 59 (20.14%) PowerShell
13 57 (19.45%) Azure Data Factory
14 56 (19.11%) Agile
15 54 (18.43%) Kubernetes
16 50 (17.06%) Infrastructure as Code
17 44 (15.02%) C#
18 42 (14.33%) Active Directory
19 41 (13.99%) Docker
20 40 (13.65%) Data Engineering
21 39 (13.31%) PySpark
21 39 (13.31%) Data Lake
22 38 (12.97%) Analytics
22 38 (12.97%) ETL
22 38 (12.97%) .NET
23 37 (12.63%) Windows
23 37 (12.63%) Data Pipeline
24 36 (12.29%) Azure SQL Database
25 33 (11.26%) Entra ID
25 33 (11.26%) Software Engineering

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (5.12%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.39%) Apache
3 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.71%) IIS
5 4 (1.37%) Luigi
6 3 (1.02%) Jupyter
6 3 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.68%) Confluence
7 2 (0.68%) nginx
8 1 (0.34%) JBoss
8 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 293 (100.00%) Azure
2 101 (34.47%) Azure DevOps
3 57 (19.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 33 (11.26%) Entra ID
5 27 (9.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 26 (8.87%) Azure AKS
7 17 (5.80%) GitHub
7 17 (5.80%) PaaS
7 17 (5.80%) Power Platform
8 15 (5.12%) Azure Service Bus
8 15 (5.12%) Serverless
9 14 (4.78%) AWS
9 14 (4.78%) Azure Monitor
10 12 (4.10%) Azure App Service
10 12 (4.10%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (3.75%) Azure Key Vault
12 10 (3.41%) Azure Functions
12 10 (3.41%) IaaS
12 10 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (3.07%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.56%) Firewall
2 14 (4.78%) DNS
3 8 (2.73%) Network Security
3 8 (2.73%) VPN
4 4 (1.37%) HTTP
4 4 (1.37%) SSH
4 4 (1.37%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.02%) Internet
5 3 (1.02%) IPv4
5 3 (1.02%) MPLS
5 3 (1.02%) WAN
6 2 (0.68%) BGP
6 2 (0.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.68%) OSPF
6 2 (0.68%) VRRP
6 2 (0.68%) Wireless
7 1 (0.34%) LAN
7 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.34%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (13.31%) Data Lake
2 36 (12.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 30 (10.24%) SQL Server
4 22 (7.51%) NoSQL
5 20 (6.83%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (5.46%) Power BI
7 11 (3.75%) Big Data
8 8 (2.73%) Delta Lake
8 8 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (2.05%) Spark SQL
10 5 (1.71%) Power Query
10 5 (1.71%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.37%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.37%) Parquet
12 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 3 (1.02%) MySQL
12 3 (1.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (7.17%) Git
2 17 (5.80%) GitLab
3 12 (4.10%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.71%) Cypress.io
4 5 (1.71%) Selenium
5 4 (1.37%) Burp Suite
5 4 (1.37%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.02%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.02%) JIRA
6 3 (1.02%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.68%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.68%) Deequ
7 2 (0.68%) NUnit
7 2 (0.68%) Postman
7 2 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.34%) GoCD
8 1 (0.34%) MLflow
8 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 76 (25.94%) Finance
2 60 (20.48%) Social Skills
3 30 (10.24%) Banking
4 25 (8.53%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.10%) Investment Banking
5 12 (4.10%) Marketing
6 11 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.37%) Electronics
8 4 (1.37%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.37%) Retail
8 4 (1.37%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.02%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.02%) Law
10 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.68%) Legal
11 1 (0.34%) Front Office
11 1 (0.34%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (13.31%) PySpark
2 38 (12.97%) .NET
3 20 (6.83%) ARM Templates
4 16 (5.46%) Kafka
5 14 (4.78%) JSON
6 13 (4.44%) YAML
7 12 (4.10%) .NET Core
7 12 (4.10%) HTML
8 11 (3.75%) Node.js
9 9 (3.07%) CSS
9 9 (3.07%) React
10 7 (2.39%) HTML5
11 6 (2.05%) TensorFlow
12 5 (1.71%) scikit-learn
13 4 (1.37%) AngularJS
13 4 (1.37%) Apache Avro
13 4 (1.37%) GraphQL
13 4 (1.37%) Pandas
14 3 (1.02%) .NET Framework
14 3 (1.02%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (1.37%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.02%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.02%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.02%) Public Cloud
5 2 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (0.68%) Management Information System
5 2 (0.68%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.68%) Tandem
6 1 (0.34%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.34%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.34%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.34%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.34%) PKI
6 1 (0.34%) PropTech
6 1 (0.34%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 37 (12.63%) Windows
2 30 (10.24%) Linux
3 18 (6.14%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.39%) Unix
5 5 (1.71%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.37%) Windows 7
7 3 (1.02%) CentOS
7 3 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.68%) VMS
8 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.34%) Debian
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (47.10%) DevOps
2 84 (28.67%) CI/CD
3 56 (19.11%) Agile
4 50 (17.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (13.65%) Data Engineering
6 38 (12.97%) Analytics
6 38 (12.97%) ETL
7 37 (12.63%) Data Pipeline
8 33 (11.26%) Software Engineering
9 31 (10.58%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (9.56%) Data Modelling
11 25 (8.53%) Migration
12 24 (8.19%) Business Intelligence
13 21 (7.17%) Continuous Integration
14 20 (6.83%) Computer Science
15 18 (6.14%) Microservices
16 16 (5.46%) Containerisation
16 16 (5.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 16 (5.46%) Platform Engineering
16 16 (5.46%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 90 (30.72%) Python
2 87 (29.69%) SQL
3 59 (20.14%) PowerShell
4 44 (15.02%) C#
5 15 (5.12%) Bicep
6 14 (4.78%) Bash
7 13 (4.44%) T-SQL
8 12 (4.10%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.75%) Java
9 11 (3.75%) Scala
10 9 (3.07%) TypeScript
11 6 (2.05%) Go
12 5 (1.71%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.37%) C++
13 4 (1.37%) Perl
14 3 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.68%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.68%) Rust
15 2 (0.68%) VB.NET
16 1 (0.34%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 26 (8.87%) Azure Certification
2 21 (7.17%) Degree
3 19 (6.48%) Security Cleared
4 17 (5.80%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.71%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.02%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.02%) CISSP
9 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.34%) CEH
9 1 (0.34%) CISA
9 1 (0.34%) CISM
9 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.34%) PhD
9 1 (0.34%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.78%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.71%) GDPR
2 5 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.37%) QA
4 3 (1.02%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.02%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.68%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.68%) NIST
System Software
1 42 (14.33%) Active Directory
2 41 (13.99%) Docker
3 10 (3.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.71%) vSphere
5 4 (1.37%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.02%) Firmware
6 3 (1.02%) NFS
7 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 74 (25.26%) Terraform
2 54 (18.43%) Kubernetes
3 14 (4.78%) Ansible
4 9 (3.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (2.73%) SCCM
6 7 (2.39%) Grafana
7 4 (1.37%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.37%) Puppet
8 2 (0.68%) Netcool
8 2 (0.68%) Podman
8 2 (0.68%) SCOM
9 1 (0.34%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.34%) Graylog
9 1 (0.34%) Nagios
9 1 (0.34%) Nessus
9 1 (0.34%) Packer
9 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.34%) SCOrch
9 1 (0.34%) WebInspect
9 1 (0.34%) yum
Vendors
1 77 (26.28%) Microsoft
2 66 (22.53%) Databricks
3 7 (2.39%) Splunk
4 6 (2.05%) Oracle
4 6 (2.05%) VMware
5 5 (1.71%) F5
5 5 (1.71%) HP
6 4 (1.37%) Checkmarx
6 4 (1.37%) SAP
6 4 (1.37%) Veracode
7 3 (1.02%) Cisco
7 3 (1.02%) Juniper
7 3 (1.02%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.02%) Qualys
7 3 (1.02%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.68%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.68%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.68%) Informatica
8 2 (0.68%) New Relic
8 2 (0.68%) Salesforce