Azure Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Azure Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 124 116
Rank change year-on-year +23 -8 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 28 48 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.26% 1.32% 1.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.33% 1.38% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 39 59
10th Percentile £429 £420 £460
25th Percentile £513 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -2.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £750 £681 £636
90th Percentile £783 £738 £780
Central London median daily rate £600 £550 £563
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.22% +12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 City of London with a recognized job title 2,111 3,471 3,990
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.00% 95.20% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,503 2,350 3,011
10th Percentile £350 £350 £369
25th Percentile £450 £470 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £792 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £560
% change year-on-year -5.17% +3.57% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 26 50
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +107.23%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.10 £86.65 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in the City of London

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in the City of London

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in the City of London

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 City of London region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 10 (35.71%) SQL
4 9 (32.14%) Databricks
4 9 (32.14%) Power Platform
5 8 (28.57%) Power BI
5 8 (28.57%) DevOps
6 7 (25.00%) Analytics
6 7 (25.00%) PowerShell
6 7 (25.00%) Windows
6 7 (25.00%) Python
6 7 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 7 (25.00%) Active Directory
6 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (21.43%) Delta Lake
7 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
7 6 (21.43%) Terraform
7 6 (21.43%) PySpark
7 6 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (21.43%) Firewall
7 6 (21.43%) Data Engineering
8 5 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (17.86%) Finance
8 5 (17.86%) Data Mart
8 5 (17.86%) DNS
8 5 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (17.86%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (17.86%) Linux
8 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.14%) Luigi
3 1 (3.57%) IIS
3 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (32.14%) Power Platform
3 6 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (10.71%) Entra ID
5 3 (10.71%) OneDrive
6 2 (7.14%) IaaS
7 1 (3.57%) AWS
7 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.57%) Azure App Service
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.57%) GCP
7 1 (3.57%) GitHub
7 1 (3.57%) Mimecast
7 1 (3.57%) PaaS
7 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (21.43%) Firewall
2 5 (17.86%) DNS
3 3 (10.71%) Network Security
4 2 (7.14%) VPN
5 1 (3.57%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (3.57%) iSCSI
5 1 (3.57%) NAS
5 1 (3.57%) SAN
5 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) Power BI
2 6 (21.43%) Delta Lake
3 5 (17.86%) Data Mart
3 5 (17.86%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
4 3 (10.71%) Star Schema
5 2 (7.14%) Data Lake
5 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.57%) Metadata
6 1 (3.57%) MySQL
6 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) GitLab
2 2 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (3.57%) AppScan
3 1 (3.57%) Burp Suite
3 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.57%) Subversion
3 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) PySpark
2 2 (7.14%) ARM Templates
2 2 (7.14%) Pandas
3 1 (3.57%) .NET
3 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
3 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.57%) JSON
3 1 (3.57%) Kafka
3 1 (3.57%) LAMP
3 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Market Risk
2 2 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Windows
2 5 (17.86%) Linux
3 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
4 2 (7.14%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.57%) VMS
5 1 (3.57%) Windows 7
5 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) DevOps
2 7 (25.00%) Analytics
2 7 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (21.43%) Data Engineering
4 5 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (17.86%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 3 (10.71%) Agile
6 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
6 3 (10.71%) Containerisation
6 3 (10.71%) ETL
7 2 (7.14%) Change Control
7 2 (7.14%) Change Management
7 2 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (7.14%) Migration
7 2 (7.14%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) SQL
2 7 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (25.00%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) C#
4 3 (10.71%) Bicep
5 1 (3.57%) Bash
5 1 (3.57%) R
5 1 (3.57%) Scala
5 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) GDPR
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.71%) Docker
3 2 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Terraform
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (10.71%) SCCM
4 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.57%) Ansible
5 1 (3.57%) Grafana
5 1 (3.57%) Graylog
5 1 (3.57%) HP Fortify
5 1 (3.57%) Nagios
5 1 (3.57%) Nessus
5 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.57%) Puppet
5 1 (3.57%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 14 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (32.14%) Databricks
3 1 (3.57%) Aruba
3 1 (3.57%) Checkmarx
3 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto
3 1 (3.57%) ProCurve
3 1 (3.57%) Splunk
3 1 (3.57%) Synology
3 1 (3.57%) Veeam
3 1 (3.57%) Veracode
3 1 (3.57%) VMware
3 1 (3.57%) Zerto