Azure Platform Engineer Contracts in London

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > London

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in London is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 482 578
Rank change year-on-year +104 +96 -147
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 14 13 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.079% 0.048% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.050% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 11
10th Percentile £377 £392 £506
25th Percentile £406 £486 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.02% -1.19% +1.94%
75th Percentile £594 £666 £631
90th Percentile £639 £725 £713
England median daily rate £500 £581 £525
% change year-on-year -13.98% +10.71% +1.94%

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 16,618 25,758 37,088
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.21% 95.30% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,017 18,663 27,056
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 290 451
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.06
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% - +11.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.03 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.31 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.32% +100.00% +0.36%

Azure Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Platform Engineer in London

Azure Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Platform Engineer in London

Azure Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Platform Engineer in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Platform Engineer in London

Azure Platform 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 Platform Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 30 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
Central London +39 1 £638 +21.43% 1
Azure Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Azure Platform 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Azure
1 14 (100.00%) Terraform
1 14 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 12 (85.71%) Azure DevOps
2 12 (85.71%) DevOps
3 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (35.71%) IaaS
5 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
5 4 (28.57%) Python
5 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
5 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
5 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
5 4 (28.57%) PaaS
5 4 (28.57%) Azure Certification
6 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
6 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
6 3 (21.43%) IPv4
6 3 (21.43%) Ansible
6 3 (21.43%) Git
7 2 (14.29%) Docker
7 2 (14.29%) GitLab
7 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
7 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
7 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
7 2 (14.29%) Finance
7 2 (14.29%) YAML
7 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (14.29%) VMware
7 2 (14.29%) Agile

Azure Platform 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 1 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (85.71%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) IaaS
4 4 (28.57%) PaaS
5 2 (14.29%) Azure AKS
5 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 2 (14.29%) Serverless
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (7.14%) GCP
6 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) IPv4
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.14%) MariaDB
1 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 3 (21.43%) Git
3 2 (14.29%) GitLab
4 1 (7.14%) GoCD
4 1 (7.14%) JIRA
4 1 (7.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) ARM Templates
1 2 (14.29%) YAML
2 1 (7.14%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 12 (85.71%) DevOps
3 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
5 2 (14.29%) Agile
6 1 (7.14%) Analytics
6 1 (7.14%) Architectural Design
6 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (7.14%) Change Control
6 1 (7.14%) Change Management
6 1 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (7.14%) Dependency Management
6 1 (7.14%) Log Analytics
6 1 (7.14%) Machine Learning
6 1 (7.14%) Service Management
6 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) Software Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) Test Automation
6 1 (7.14%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) C
2 1 (7.14%) C++
2 1 (7.14%) Go
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) Rust
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Azure Certification
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
1 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (21.43%) Ansible
3 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 1 (7.14%) Consul
4 1 (7.14%) Grafana
4 1 (7.14%) Packer
4 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) New Relic