Azure Platform Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > Midlands

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the Midlands is £375 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 - 204
Rank change year-on-year - - -47
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.15% - 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% - 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.77%
75th Percentile - - £588
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £488 £581 £540
% change year-on-year -16.13% +7.64% +4.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,525 3,237 4,820
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.95% 94.65% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,706 2,279 3,531
10th Percentile £213 £220 £210
25th Percentile £325 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £462
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +2.93% +15.38%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £688 £680 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 127 170
10th Percentile £11.86 £12.30 £10.69
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.17 £14.37
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +14.42% +15.08%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.25 £22.08
90th Percentile £52.56 £60.50 £34.55
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%

Azure Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Platform Engineer in the Midlands

Azure Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Platform Engineer in the Midlands

Azure Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 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
West Midlands - 4 £375 - 1
Azure Platform Engineer
England

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 6 May 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 Midlands region featuring Azure Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) YAML
2 2 (50.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform