Azure Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 255 186 202
Rank change year-on-year -69 +16 -16
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 143 302 401
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.70% 1.29% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 1.36% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 250 298
10th Percentile £363 £425 £371
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +1.19% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £610
90th Percentile £625 £688 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% +7.84%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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 of England -9 49 £500 -9.09% 18
South East -12 38 £500 -4.76% 20
North West -15 30 £513 -2.38% 13
South West -16 24 £525 -6.67% 12
Yorkshire +11 18 £488 -18.75% 5
Midlands +6 17 £438 -16.67% 14
West Midlands 0 14 £438 -20.45% 10
East of England -5 8 £450 -10.00% 4
Scotland +32 7 £440 -2.22% 2
East Midlands +22 3 £444 -0.84% 4
Wales +19 2 £425 -23.60% 5
North East +11 1 £500 -16.67%
Azure Engineer
UK

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 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 UK excluding London region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 143 (100.00%) Azure
2 61 (42.66%) DevOps
3 48 (33.57%) CI/CD
4 47 (32.87%) Microsoft
5 43 (30.07%) Terraform
6 42 (29.37%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (26.57%) SQL
8 35 (24.48%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (23.08%) Python
10 29 (20.28%) Kubernetes
10 29 (20.28%) Windows
10 29 (20.28%) PowerShell
11 28 (19.58%) Azure Data Factory
12 26 (18.18%) Analytics
13 23 (16.08%) Active Directory
14 22 (15.38%) ETL
15 21 (14.69%) Docker
15 21 (14.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 20 (13.99%) Power Platform
16 20 (13.99%) Databricks
16 20 (13.99%) Business Intelligence
17 19 (13.29%) Entra ID
17 19 (13.29%) Power BI
18 18 (12.59%) Agile
19 17 (11.89%) Microsoft 365
20 16 (11.19%) IaaS
20 16 (11.19%) Data Modelling
21 15 (10.49%) Azure Certification
21 15 (10.49%) Linux
21 15 (10.49%) Azure SQL Database

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 8 (5.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.90%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.10%) IIS
4 2 (1.40%) Apache
4 2 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.40%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.40%) Confluence
5 1 (0.70%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 143 (100.00%) Azure
2 42 (29.37%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (19.58%) Azure Data Factory
4 20 (13.99%) Power Platform
5 19 (13.29%) Entra ID
6 17 (11.89%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (11.19%) IaaS
8 12 (8.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (8.39%) PaaS
9 9 (6.29%) AWS
10 7 (4.90%) Azure AKS
10 7 (4.90%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (4.90%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (4.20%) Serverless
12 5 (3.50%) Azure Functions
12 5 (3.50%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (3.50%) GitHub
13 4 (2.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (2.80%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (2.80%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.79%) Firewall
2 12 (8.39%) DNS
3 8 (5.59%) Network Security
4 5 (3.50%) VPN
5 3 (2.10%) BGP
5 3 (2.10%) OSPF
6 2 (1.40%) DHCP
6 2 (1.40%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.40%) WAN
7 1 (0.70%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.70%) IPv4
7 1 (0.70%) MPLS
7 1 (0.70%) MQTT
7 1 (0.70%) RS-232
7 1 (0.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.29%) Power BI
2 15 (10.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (9.09%) Data Lake
4 12 (8.39%) SQL Server
5 9 (6.29%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.10%) Redis
8 3 (2.10%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.40%) DTS
9 2 (1.40%) Tableau
10 1 (0.70%) Big Data
10 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.70%) MySQL
10 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.70%) OLAP
10 1 (0.70%) OLAP Cube
10 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 7 (4.90%) Git
3 5 (3.50%) GitLab
4 3 (2.10%) JIRA
4 3 (2.10%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.40%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.40%) Selenium
5 2 (1.40%) Snyk
5 2 (1.40%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.40%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.70%) AppScan
6 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.70%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.70%) Hudson
6 1 (0.70%) NUnit
6 1 (0.70%) Postman
6 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 12 (8.39%) Public Sector
3 8 (5.59%) Finance
4 7 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.20%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.40%) Banking
6 2 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.40%) Electronics
6 2 (1.40%) Legal
6 2 (1.40%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.40%) Marketing
6 2 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.70%) Automotive
7 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.70%) Law
7 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.69%) ARM Templates
2 8 (5.59%) .NET
3 7 (4.90%) YAML
4 5 (3.50%) JSON
5 4 (2.80%) XML
6 3 (2.10%) PySpark
6 3 (2.10%) pytest
7 2 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.40%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.40%) React
8 1 (0.70%) ADO
8 1 (0.70%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.70%) CSS
8 1 (0.70%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.70%) HTML
8 1 (0.70%) J2EE
8 1 (0.70%) MFC
8 1 (0.70%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.70%) WinForms
8 1 (0.70%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.90%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (2.80%) Smart Meter
4 3 (2.10%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.10%) NHS
5 2 (1.40%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.40%) PKI
5 2 (1.40%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.70%) BYOD
6 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.70%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 29 (20.28%) Windows
2 15 (10.49%) Linux
3 10 (6.99%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.90%) Windows 10
5 5 (3.50%) Windows 7
5 5 (3.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (3.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (2.80%) Unix
7 3 (2.10%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (1.40%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.40%) VMS
8 2 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (42.66%) DevOps
2 48 (33.57%) CI/CD
3 35 (24.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (18.18%) Analytics
5 22 (15.38%) ETL
6 21 (14.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 20 (13.99%) Business Intelligence
8 18 (12.59%) Agile
9 16 (11.19%) Data Modelling
10 14 (9.79%) Cloud Security
11 13 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
12 12 (8.39%) Migration
12 12 (8.39%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (7.69%) Network Virtualisation
13 11 (7.69%) Scrum
14 10 (6.99%) Containerisation
14 10 (6.99%) Continuous Integration
15 9 (6.29%) Problem-Solving
15 9 (6.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 7 (4.90%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 38 (26.57%) SQL
2 33 (23.08%) Python
3 29 (20.28%) PowerShell
4 14 (9.79%) Bicep
5 9 (6.29%) Bash
6 7 (4.90%) Java
7 6 (4.20%) C#
8 4 (2.80%) Go
9 2 (1.40%) C
9 2 (1.40%) C++
9 2 (1.40%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.40%) Julia
9 2 (1.40%) Perl
9 2 (1.40%) Scala
9 2 (1.40%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.40%) VB
9 2 (1.40%) VBScript
10 1 (0.70%) C++/CLI
10 1 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (10.49%) Azure Certification
2 14 (9.79%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.29%) Degree
3 9 (6.29%) DV Cleared
3 9 (6.29%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.70%) CCIE
7 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.70%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.80%) GDPR
2 2 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.40%) QA
3 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.70%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.70%) GRC
3 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.70%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (16.08%) Active Directory
2 21 (14.69%) Docker
3 10 (6.99%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (4.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.40%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (30.07%) Terraform
2 29 (20.28%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.99%) Ansible
3 10 (6.99%) SCCM
4 9 (6.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (4.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (4.20%) SCOM
7 5 (3.50%) Grafana
7 5 (3.50%) Prometheus
8 4 (2.80%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.80%) WSUS
9 3 (2.10%) Argo
9 3 (2.10%) Puppet
10 1 (0.70%) Graylog
10 1 (0.70%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.70%) Istio
10 1 (0.70%) linkerd
10 1 (0.70%) Nessus
10 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.70%) SELinux
Vendors
1 47 (32.87%) Microsoft
2 20 (13.99%) Databricks
3 6 (4.20%) VMware
4 5 (3.50%) Ab Initio
5 3 (2.10%) CA
5 3 (2.10%) F5
6 2 (1.40%) Cisco
6 2 (1.40%) SAP
6 2 (1.40%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.40%) Virgin Media
6 2 (1.40%) WSO2
7 1 (0.70%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.70%) Citrix
7 1 (0.70%) Cognos
7 1 (0.70%) Informatica
7 1 (0.70%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.70%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.70%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.70%) Veracode
7 1 (0.70%) Zscaler