Azure Platform Engineer Contracts in the South East

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > South East

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the South East is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 201 219 255
Rank change year-on-year +18 +36 -47
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 2 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.036% 0.034% 0.090%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% 0.036% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £470
25th Percentile £513 - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -
75th Percentile £538 - £544
90th Percentile - - £555
England median daily rate £500 £581 £525
% change year-on-year -13.98% +10.71% +1.45%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,140 5,495 7,438
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.56% 95.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,084 3,832 5,042
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £489
Median % change year-on-year - +2.16% +8.76%
75th Percentile £615 £604 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 479 240 336
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.04 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.16 £43.80
90th Percentile £76.89 £75.00 £60.75
England median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%

Azure Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Platform Engineer in the South East

Azure Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Platform Engineer in the South East

Azure Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 29 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
Thames Valley +10 1 £525 +5.00% 1
Berkshire - 1 £525 -
Hampshire - 1 - -
Azure Platform Engineer
England

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 29 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 South East region featuring Azure Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) YAML
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Change Advisory Board
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks

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

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) YAML
2 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (50.00%) Boundary Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Change Advisory Board
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) BMC
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow