Azure Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475 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 369 427 474
Rank change year-on-year +58 +47 -74
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Infrastructure Engineer 16 29 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.13% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 24 25
10th Percentile £143 £412 £331
25th Percentile £261 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £523
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -13.96% +23.06%
75th Percentile £619 £500 £575
90th Percentile £647 £559 £588
UK median daily rate £550 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +11.11%

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 18,985 22,167 29,345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,554 15,534 20,562
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £399 £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 2,259 1,145 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.03 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.55 £65.00 £42.57
90th Percentile £73.80 £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 Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London 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 of England +32 8 £588 +38.24%
North West +28 7 £600 +45.45%
South West +21 3 £550 +57.14% 2
South East +9 3 £145 -73.02% 2
Midlands +22 2 £400 -11.11% 1
West Midlands +20 2 £400 -11.11% 1
Yorkshire +26 1 £475 +11.76%
Azure Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Azure Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (93.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
4 9 (56.25%) Windows
5 7 (43.75%) Active Directory
6 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
7 5 (31.25%) SQL
7 5 (31.25%) SharePoint
8 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
8 4 (25.00%) Windows 7
8 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (25.00%) Windows 10
8 4 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
8 4 (25.00%) DevOps
8 4 (25.00%) Terraform
9 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
9 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
9 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
9 3 (18.75%) VMware
9 3 (18.75%) Network Security
9 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (18.75%) Firewall
9 3 (18.75%) Migration
10 2 (12.50%) Scrum
10 2 (12.50%) Change Management
10 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
10 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared

Azure Infrastructure 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 5 (31.25%) SharePoint
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (6.25%) Confluence
3 1 (6.25%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Stack
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) IaaS
4 1 (6.25%) PaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
1 3 (18.75%) Network Security
2 1 (6.25%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Hudson
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
1 1 (6.25%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Private Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 4 (25.00%) Windows 7
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (6.25%) VMS
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (18.75%) Migration
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) Change Management
5 2 (12.50%) ITIL
5 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 2 (12.50%) Scrum
6 1 (6.25%) API Management
6 1 (6.25%) B2C
6 1 (6.25%) Containerisation
6 1 (6.25%) Cost Management
6 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (6.25%) Network Management
6 1 (6.25%) Security Monitoring
6 1 (6.25%) Server Management
6 1 (6.25%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Bicep
3 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) SCCM
2 1 (6.25%) SCOM
2 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.25%) CA
3 1 (6.25%) LogicMonitor