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 £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 127 115
Rank change year-on-year +26 -12 +9
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 24 43 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.10% 1.21% 1.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.27% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 34 60
10th Percentile £415 £437 £461
25th Percentile £497 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -2.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £756 £653 £635
90th Percentile £788 £738 £778
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £563
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 2,071 3,377 3,976
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.04% 95.10% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,468 2,292 3,001
10th Percentile £348 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £590 £563
% change year-on-year -6.78% +4.89% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 52
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -2.78% +105.71%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.00
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.97 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +108.60%

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 8 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 8 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 24 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 8 (33.33%) SQL
4 7 (29.17%) Windows
4 7 (29.17%) Firewall
4 7 (29.17%) PowerShell
4 7 (29.17%) Databricks
4 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 6 (25.00%) Power Platform
5 6 (25.00%) Terraform
5 6 (25.00%) DevOps
5 6 (25.00%) DNS
6 5 (20.83%) Python
6 5 (20.83%) Data Modelling
6 5 (20.83%) Analytics
6 5 (20.83%) Data Engineering
6 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (20.83%) Power BI
6 5 (20.83%) PySpark
6 5 (20.83%) Delta Lake
7 4 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
7 4 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (16.67%) Continuous Integration

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 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.33%) Luigi
3 1 (4.17%) IIS
3 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 3 (12.50%) OneDrive
6 2 (8.33%) GitHub
7 1 (4.17%) AWS
7 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.17%) Azure App Service
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.17%) GCP
7 1 (4.17%) IaaS
7 1 (4.17%) PaaS
7 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) Firewall
2 6 (25.00%) DNS
3 3 (12.50%) Network Security
4 2 (8.33%) VPN
5 1 (4.17%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (4.17%) iSCSI
5 1 (4.17%) NAS
5 1 (4.17%) SAN
5 1 (4.17%) SD-WAN
5 1 (4.17%) WAN
5 1 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Delta Lake
1 5 (20.83%) Power BI
2 4 (16.67%) Data Mart
2 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (8.33%) Star Schema
5 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.17%) MySQL
5 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) GitLab
2 2 (8.33%) Git
3 1 (4.17%) AppScan
3 1 (4.17%) Burp Suite
3 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.17%) Subversion
3 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
3 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) PySpark
2 2 (8.33%) ARM Templates
2 2 (8.33%) Pandas
2 2 (8.33%) YAML
3 1 (4.17%) .NET
3 1 (4.17%) .NET Core
3 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.17%) JSON
3 1 (4.17%) Kafka
3 1 (4.17%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Market Risk
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Replication
2 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Windows
2 4 (16.67%) Linux
3 3 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 2 (8.33%) Windows 10
5 1 (4.17%) Ubuntu
5 1 (4.17%) VMS
5 1 (4.17%) Windows 7
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (25.00%) DevOps
3 5 (20.83%) Analytics
3 5 (20.83%) Data Engineering
3 5 (20.83%) Data Modelling
4 4 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 3 (12.50%) Agile
5 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 3 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 2 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (8.33%) Cloud Security
6 2 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (8.33%) ETL
6 2 (8.33%) Microservices
6 2 (8.33%) Migration
6 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.33%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) SQL
2 7 (29.17%) PowerShell
3 5 (20.83%) Python
4 3 (12.50%) Bicep
4 3 (12.50%) C#
5 1 (4.17%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
1 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
1 1 (4.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.50%) Docker
3 2 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Terraform
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (12.50%) SCCM
4 1 (4.17%) Ansible
4 1 (4.17%) Grafana
4 1 (4.17%) Graylog
4 1 (4.17%) HP Fortify
4 1 (4.17%) Nagios
4 1 (4.17%) Nessus
4 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.17%) Puppet
4 1 (4.17%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (29.17%) Databricks
3 1 (4.17%) Aruba
3 1 (4.17%) Checkmarx
3 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.17%) ProCurve
3 1 (4.17%) Splunk
3 1 (4.17%) Synology
3 1 (4.17%) Veeam
3 1 (4.17%) Veracode
3 1 (4.17%) VMware
3 1 (4.17%) Zerto