Azure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft Azure Engineer
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Cambridgeshire is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.56% - 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% - 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £438 - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £531 - -
90th Percentile £543 - -
East of England median daily rate £438 £275 £463
% change year-on-year +59.09% -40.54% -7.50%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 316 257 365
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.27% 81.59% 81.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 128 160
10th Percentile £190 £304 £211
25th Percentile £335 £400 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -1.42% -
75th Percentile £588 £557 £571
90th Percentile £675 £650 £653
East of England median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 31 135
10th Percentile £13.33 £15.92 £13.41
25th Percentile £13.80 £21.22 £14.16
Median hourly rate £15.41 £22.90 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.69% +43.09% +3.23%
75th Percentile £24.49 £26.38 £21.46
90th Percentile £38.42 £48.75 £62.95
East of England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £40.28
% change year-on-year -49.70% +24.15% +91.79%

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 25 January 2026. 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 - 2 £500 - 2
Azure Engineer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 25 January 2026, 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Deep Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) EU AI Act
2 1 (50.00%) Foundry
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) MCP
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS

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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Semantic Kernel
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) API Design
1 1 (50.00%) API Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) LLM
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) EU AI Act
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Foundry