Azure Platform Engineer Contracts in Central London

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
London > Central London

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in Central London is £320, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 August 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
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 - 171
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.15% - 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% - 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £434
25th Percentile £310 - £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 - £488
75th Percentile £330 - £522
90th Percentile - - £531
London median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -16.67%

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 1,915 2,181 3,353
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 94.70% 94.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,279 1,478 2,317
10th Percentile £325 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +4.91%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £813
London median daily rate £545 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 19 14
10th Percentile £21.51 £18.98 £14.91
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.56 £24.69
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -22.86% -15.66%
75th Percentile £50.06 £70.00 £49.96
90th Percentile £67.89 £137.50 £79.25
London median hourly rate £30.00 £33.07 £38.00
% change year-on-year -9.28% -12.97% +15.85%

Azure Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Platform Engineer in Central London

Azure Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Platform Engineer in Central London

Azure Platform 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 Platform Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 12 August 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 - 3 £320 - 1
Azure Platform Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 12 August 2025, Azure Platform 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (33.33%) Bicep
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) IaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) Go
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful

Azure Platform 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) IaaS
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) Go
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft