Azure Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > North of England

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 129 140
Rank change year-on-year -6 +11 -9
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 49 86 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.04% 1.51% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 1.58% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 75 77
10th Percentile £344 £456 £360
25th Percentile £445 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £625
90th Percentile £619 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £566 £550
% change year-on-year -7.16% +2.82% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,373 5,442 6,917
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.34% 96.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,731 3,843 5,087
10th Percentile £263 £285 £200
25th Percentile £382 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £554
90th Percentile £672 £687 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 155 280
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.54 £14.19
Median hourly rate £20.60 £30.76 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +65.42% +3.87%
75th Percentile £46.18 £51.19 £28.94
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.41 £51.48
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in the North of England

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in the North of England

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in the North of England

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West -6 29 £506 -3.57% 12
Yorkshire +20 19 £475 -20.83% 5
North East +14 1 £500 -16.67%
Azure Engineer
England

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 8 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 North of England region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 49 (100.00%) Azure
2 23 (46.94%) DevOps
3 20 (40.82%) Microsoft
4 18 (36.73%) CI/CD
5 15 (30.61%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (28.57%) Terraform
7 12 (24.49%) Active Directory
8 11 (22.45%) SQL
8 11 (22.45%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (20.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (20.41%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (18.37%) Python
10 9 (18.37%) Kubernetes
11 8 (16.33%) Analytics
11 8 (16.33%) PowerShell
11 8 (16.33%) Data Modelling
11 8 (16.33%) Data Lake
11 8 (16.33%) Data Pipeline
12 7 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
12 7 (14.29%) Databricks
12 7 (14.29%) ETL
12 7 (14.29%) Windows
12 7 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (14.29%) Docker
13 6 (12.24%) Entra ID
13 6 (12.24%) Data Security
13 6 (12.24%) Data Integration
14 5 (10.20%) Migration
14 5 (10.20%) SQL Server
14 5 (10.20%) Data Warehouse

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (8.16%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 49 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (30.61%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (20.41%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (12.24%) Entra ID
6 5 (10.20%) IaaS
7 4 (8.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (6.12%) SaaS
9 2 (4.08%) AWS
9 2 (4.08%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (4.08%) Azure Storage
9 2 (4.08%) PaaS
10 1 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (2.04%) Azure AKS
10 1 (2.04%) GitHub
10 1 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.12%) DNS
2 2 (4.08%) BGP
2 2 (4.08%) Firewall
2 2 (4.08%) OSPF
2 2 (4.08%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.04%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (2.04%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.33%) Data Lake
2 5 (10.20%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (10.20%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.12%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (6.12%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.08%) Redis
5 1 (2.04%) MySQL
5 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.04%) Power BI
5 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.12%) GitLab
3 2 (4.08%) Selenium
4 1 (2.04%) AppScan
4 1 (2.04%) Burp Suite
4 1 (2.04%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (2.04%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.04%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (10.20%) Public Sector
2 4 (8.16%) Finance
3 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.12%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.08%) Banking
4 2 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Automotive
5 1 (2.04%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.12%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.08%) pytest
2 2 (4.08%) YAML
3 1 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (6.12%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.04%) NHS
4 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.29%) Windows
2 4 (8.16%) Linux
2 4 (8.16%) Windows 10
3 2 (4.08%) Alpine Linux
3 2 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.08%) Windows 7
3 2 (4.08%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.94%) DevOps
2 18 (36.73%) CI/CD
3 11 (22.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (20.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (16.33%) Analytics
5 8 (16.33%) Data Modelling
5 8 (16.33%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (14.29%) ETL
6 7 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
7 6 (12.24%) Data Integration
7 6 (12.24%) Data Security
8 5 (10.20%) Containerisation
8 5 (10.20%) Migration
8 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (8.16%) Agile
9 4 (8.16%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (8.16%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 4 (8.16%) Decision-Making
9 4 (8.16%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (8.16%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.45%) SQL
2 9 (18.37%) Python
3 8 (16.33%) PowerShell
4 5 (10.20%) Bash
5 2 (4.08%) Bicep
5 2 (4.08%) Go
5 2 (4.08%) Java
6 1 (2.04%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (6.12%) Azure Certification
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.04%) MCSE
2 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (24.49%) Active Directory
2 7 (14.29%) Docker
3 3 (6.12%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (28.57%) Terraform
2 9 (18.37%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (6.12%) Grafana
4 3 (6.12%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.12%) SCCM
5 2 (4.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.04%) Ansible
6 1 (2.04%) Graylog
6 1 (2.04%) HP Fortify
6 1 (2.04%) Nessus
6 1 (2.04%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.04%) Puppet
6 1 (2.04%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 20 (40.82%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.29%) Databricks
3 3 (6.12%) VMware
4 2 (4.08%) SolarWinds
4 2 (4.08%) Virgin Media
5 1 (2.04%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.04%) Cisco
5 1 (2.04%) Splunk
5 1 (2.04%) Veracode