Azure Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Microsoft Azure Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 70 103
Rank change year-on-year +3 +33 -34
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 24 42 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.65% 2.32% 1.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.73% 2.41% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 39 37
10th Percentile £450 £463 £385
25th Percentile £463 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £581 £625
90th Percentile £642 £650 £693
North West median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.57% - +5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,389 1,745 2,537
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.73% 96.30% 97.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 964 1,295 1,978
10th Percentile £313 £313 £226
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +12.94%
75th Percentile £585 £590 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £660
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 46 68
10th Percentile £12.05 £15.19 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £17.92 £13.83
Median hourly rate £27.00 £31.35 £18.06
Median % change year-on-year -13.88% +73.61% +11.26%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.94 £33.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £27.00 £32.88 £24.75
% change year-on-year -17.88% +32.84% +36.63%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in Manchester

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in Manchester

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 Manchester region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (62.50%) DevOps
3 13 (54.17%) CI/CD
4 11 (45.83%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (45.83%) Microsoft
5 10 (41.67%) Terraform
6 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (29.17%) Network Virtualisation
7 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (29.17%) Active Directory
8 6 (25.00%) SQL
8 6 (25.00%) Python
9 4 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (16.67%) SharePoint
9 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
10 3 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (12.50%) IaaS
10 3 (12.50%) Analytics
10 3 (12.50%) Linux
10 3 (12.50%) Agile
10 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
10 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
10 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
10 3 (12.50%) Software Delivery
10 3 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (12.50%) ARM Templates
11 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
11 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
11 2 (8.33%) Bicep

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (45.83%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 3 (12.50%) IaaS
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Storage
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.17%) Azure App Service
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.17%) PaaS
6 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) DNS
1 2 (8.33%) Network Security
2 1 (4.17%) BGP
2 1 (4.17%) OSPF
2 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.33%) Redis
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) GitLab
1 2 (8.33%) Selenium
2 1 (4.17%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (4.17%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Automotive
2 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Finance
2 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) ARM Templates
2 2 (8.33%) pytest
2 2 (8.33%) YAML
3 1 (4.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
1 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Alpine Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.17%) VMS
3 1 (4.17%) Windows
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) DevOps
2 13 (54.17%) CI/CD
3 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (29.17%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (12.50%) Agile
5 3 (12.50%) Analytics
5 3 (12.50%) Software Delivery
6 2 (8.33%) Cloud Operations
6 2 (8.33%) Data Integration
6 2 (8.33%) Data Modelling
6 2 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (8.33%) Data Security
6 2 (8.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 2 (8.33%) Decision-Making
6 2 (8.33%) ETL
6 2 (8.33%) Migration
6 2 (8.33%) Resource Management
6 2 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 1 (4.17%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Python
1 6 (25.00%) SQL
2 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.33%) Bicep
4 1 (4.17%) Bash
4 1 (4.17%) C#
4 1 (4.17%) Go
4 1 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.17%) MCSE
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.17%) Docker
3 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (41.67%) Terraform
2 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.33%) Grafana
3 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Databricks
2 2 (8.33%) Virgin Media
3 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds
3 1 (4.17%) VMware
15 Azure Engineer jobs in the North West