Azure Engineer Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Azure Engineer
London > Central London

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Central London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 104 125
Rank change year-on-year +7 +21 -7
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 32 29 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.60% 1.19% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.73% 1.25% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 25 38
10th Percentile £396 £419 £444
25th Percentile £413 £513 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £575 £750 £644
90th Percentile £668 £783 £738
London median daily rate £500 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -9.09% -6.78% +2.61%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 1,852 2,329 3,676
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 95.22% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,658 2,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £454 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £725
90th Percentile £775 £794 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 32 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.81 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £43.38 £86.65
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in Central London

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in Central London

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in Central London

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
City of London +12 31 £536 -14.20% 5
West End of London - 1 £425 -
Azure Engineer
London

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Central London region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (50.00%) Firewall
3 11 (34.38%) Migration
3 11 (34.38%) DNS
3 11 (34.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 10 (31.25%) VPN
4 10 (31.25%) Terraform
5 9 (28.13%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (28.13%) DevOps
5 9 (28.13%) CheckPoint
5 9 (28.13%) Microsoft
5 9 (28.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 8 (25.00%) Python
6 8 (25.00%) Infoblox
7 7 (21.88%) Kalman Filter
7 7 (21.88%) Palo Alto
7 7 (21.88%) ADO
7 7 (21.88%) Active Directory
7 7 (21.88%) Windows
7 7 (21.88%) Agile
7 7 (21.88%) NGFW
7 7 (21.88%) Anti-Spyware
7 7 (21.88%) Databricks
8 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (18.75%) Finance
9 5 (15.63%) SQL
9 5 (15.63%) Windows Server
9 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
9 5 (15.63%) PowerShell

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.13%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (34.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 9 (28.13%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (15.63%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (12.50%) Entra ID
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (9.38%) IaaS
6 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (6.25%) Azure AKS
7 2 (6.25%) Collibra
7 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.13%) AWS
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Functions
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (3.13%) GitHub
8 1 (3.13%) PaaS
8 1 (3.13%) SaaS
8 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (50.00%) Firewall
2 11 (34.38%) DNS
3 10 (31.25%) VPN
4 7 (21.88%) NGFW
5 4 (12.50%) Network Security
6 3 (9.38%) MPLS
7 2 (6.25%) Internet
7 2 (6.25%) LAN
7 2 (6.25%) VLAN
7 2 (6.25%) WAN
7 2 (6.25%) Wireless
8 1 (3.13%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Data Lake
1 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) Delta Lake
2 2 (6.25%) Metadata
3 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.13%) Power BI
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 6 (18.75%) Finance
2 2 (6.25%) Banking
2 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.25%) Spanish Language
3 1 (3.13%) Retail
3 1 (3.13%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) ADO
2 4 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (3.13%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.13%) EDI
3 1 (3.13%) JSON
3 1 (3.13%) OAuth
3 1 (3.13%) PySpark
3 1 (3.13%) REST
3 1 (3.13%) SOAP
3 1 (3.13%) WCF
3 1 (3.13%) Web Services
3 1 (3.13%) XML
3 1 (3.13%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Anti-Spyware
2 2 (6.25%) Clustering
2 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.13%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.88%) Windows
2 5 (15.63%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.25%) Linux
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Migration
2 9 (28.13%) DevOps
2 9 (28.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (21.88%) Agile
4 7 (21.88%) Kalman Filter
5 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (9.38%) Data Ingestion
6 3 (9.38%) Data Modelling
6 3 (9.38%) ETL
6 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (6.25%) Change Management
7 2 (6.25%) Configuration Management
7 2 (6.25%) Content Management
7 2 (6.25%) Data Engineering
7 2 (6.25%) Data Governance
7 2 (6.25%) High Availability
7 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (6.25%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) Python
2 5 (15.63%) PowerShell
2 5 (15.63%) SQL
3 4 (12.50%) Bicep
4 3 (9.38%) C#
5 2 (6.25%) Scala
6 1 (3.13%) Bash
6 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) Degree
3 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) VCAP
4 2 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.13%) CCNA
5 1 (3.13%) CCNP
5 1 (3.13%) CCSA
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (31.25%) Terraform
2 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.25%) FortiGate
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.13%) Puppet
4 1 (3.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) CheckPoint
1 9 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.00%) Infoblox
3 7 (21.88%) Databricks
3 7 (21.88%) Palo Alto
4 3 (9.38%) Fortinet
4 3 (9.38%) VMware
5 2 (6.25%) Arista
5 2 (6.25%) Atempo
5 2 (6.25%) F5
5 2 (6.25%) Forcepoint
5 2 (6.25%) Informatica
5 2 (6.25%) Mellanox
5 2 (6.25%) Meraki
5 2 (6.25%) SAP
6 1 (3.13%) Citrix
6 1 (3.13%) ForeScout
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle
6 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds