Azure Platform Engineer Contracts in Derbyshire

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in Derbyshire is £475, 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 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derbyshire 2.06% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £475 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Derbyshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Derbyshire. 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 Derbyshire with a recognized job title 82 161 179
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.54% 94.71% 84.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 111 112
10th Percentile £171 £150 £132
25th Percentile £275 £188 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £262 £450
Median % change year-on-year +62.02% -41.71% +21.21%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £540
90th Percentile £628 £588 £637
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £410 £450
% change year-on-year +9.02% -8.89% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 25 22
10th Percentile £21.65 £13.78 £11.94
25th Percentile £23.30 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £24.34 £17.72 £21.20
Median % change year-on-year +37.36% -16.42% +6.00%
75th Percentile £24.73 £20.00 £51.31
90th Percentile £24.95 £26.15 £65.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £23.21 £17.50 £20.36
% change year-on-year +32.60% -14.05% +19.03%

Azure Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire 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
Derby - 2 £475 -
Azure Platform Engineer
East Midlands

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 9 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derbyshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Derbyshire region featuring Azure Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derbyshire 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell