Azure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft Azure Engineer
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Cambridgeshire is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.28% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
East of England median daily rate £450 £275 £525
% change year-on-year +63.64% -47.62% -12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 307 293 408
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.48% 76.30% 79.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 122 202
10th Percentile £211 £251 £187
25th Percentile £364 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £621 £559 £558
90th Percentile £700 £636 £613
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 39 108
10th Percentile £13.80 £14.70 -
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.92 £13.41
Median hourly rate £16.15 £22.90 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -29.46% +29.20% +14.32%
75th Percentile £31.00 £48.75 £20.56
90th Percentile £44.25 £63.75 £33.76
East of England median hourly rate £30.00 £47.50 £40.38
% change year-on-year -36.84% +17.65% +100.32%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Cambridgeshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Cambridgeshire

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 27 October 2025. 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
Cambridge - 1 £550 - 1
Azure Engineer
East of England

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire

For the 6 months to 27 October 2025, Azure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cambridgeshire region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) EU AI Act
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Kernel
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Kernel
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) EU AI Act
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft