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 £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 May 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
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 132 120
Rank change year-on-year +40 -12 +7
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 30 39 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.39% 1.13% 1.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.46% 1.19% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 31 54
10th Percentile £414 £450 £472
25th Percentile £481 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -3.30% +13.75%
75th Percentile £675 £644 £648
90th Percentile £765 £738 £818
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £581
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.38% +16.25%

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 2,050 3,283 3,970
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.08% 95.08% 94.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,430 2,222 2,976
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% +6.67% +5.14%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £788 £813 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 20 51
10th Percentile £14.18 £15.37 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £19.94
Median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -1.41% +97.50%
75th Percentile £29.38 £61.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £40.00 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -22.86% -3.45% +101.67%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 30 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (36.67%) SQL
2 11 (36.67%) Microsoft
3 10 (33.33%) DevOps
4 9 (30.00%) PowerShell
4 9 (30.00%) Active Directory
4 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (26.67%) Terraform
5 8 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
5 8 (26.67%) Windows
5 8 (26.67%) Python
6 7 (23.33%) SQL Server
6 7 (23.33%) Firewall
6 7 (23.33%) Banking
7 6 (20.00%) Kubernetes
7 6 (20.00%) Entra ID
7 6 (20.00%) Agile
8 5 (16.67%) Finance
8 5 (16.67%) C#
8 5 (16.67%) Linux
8 5 (16.67%) DNS
8 5 (16.67%) Databricks
8 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
9 4 (13.33%) Azure AKS
9 4 (13.33%) Roadmaps
9 4 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (13.33%) Investment Banking

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 2 (6.67%) Luigi
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 30 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (13.33%) Azure AKS
4 4 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (10.00%) Azure App Service
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Event Grid
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.67%) AWS
6 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (6.67%) GCP
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub
6 2 (6.67%) OneDrive
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (3.33%) IaaS
7 1 (3.33%) Mimecast
7 1 (3.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (23.33%) Firewall
2 5 (16.67%) DNS
3 4 (13.33%) Network Security
4 2 (6.67%) VPN
5 1 (3.33%) SD-WAN
5 1 (3.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (13.33%) NoSQL
3 3 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.67%) Data Mart
4 2 (6.67%) Delta Lake
4 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.67%) Power BI
4 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.33%) MySQL
5 1 (3.33%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) GitLab
2 3 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (3.33%) AppScan
3 1 (3.33%) Burp Suite
3 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.33%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.33%) Subversion
3 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Banking
3 5 (16.67%) Finance
4 4 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (13.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) .NET
1 3 (10.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (10.00%) Kafka
1 3 (10.00%) PySpark
1 3 (10.00%) YAML
2 2 (6.67%) ARM Templates
2 2 (6.67%) Pandas
3 1 (3.33%) CSS
3 1 (3.33%) CSS3
3 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.33%) HTML
3 1 (3.33%) HTML5
3 1 (3.33%) JSON
3 1 (3.33%) OAuth
3 1 (3.33%) OpenID
3 1 (3.33%) React
3 1 (3.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.33%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
1 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (26.67%) Windows
2 5 (16.67%) Linux
3 2 (6.67%) Windows 10
3 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) DevOps
2 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (20.00%) Agile
4 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 4 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (13.33%) Data Engineering
5 4 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (13.33%) Roadmaps
6 3 (10.00%) Cloud Security
6 3 (10.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (10.00%) Data Modelling
6 3 (10.00%) ETL
6 3 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (10.00%) Secrets Management
7 2 (6.67%) Architectural Patterns
7 2 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (6.67%) Design Patterns
7 2 (6.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) SQL
2 9 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 8 (26.67%) Python
4 5 (16.67%) C#
5 3 (10.00%) Bicep
6 2 (6.67%) Bash
6 2 (6.67%) Perl
6 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
6 2 (6.67%) T-SQL
7 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.33%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) GDPR
1 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 9 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.33%) Docker
3 2 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) Terraform
2 6 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (6.67%) SCCM
5 1 (3.33%) Ansible
5 1 (3.33%) Grafana
5 1 (3.33%) Graylog
5 1 (3.33%) HP Fortify
5 1 (3.33%) Nagios
5 1 (3.33%) Nessus
5 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.33%) Puppet
5 1 (3.33%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) Databricks
3 1 (3.33%) Checkmarx
3 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.33%) Guidewire
3 1 (3.33%) Splunk
3 1 (3.33%) Veracode