Azure Engineer Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in the East Midlands is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 55 57
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +31
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 13 3 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.50% 0.50% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.63% 0.54% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 5
10th Percentile £354 £413 -
25th Percentile £409 £431 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +11.76% -15.00%
75th Percentile £581 £488 £525
90th Percentile £611 - £540
England median daily rate £511 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.05% - -4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 799 557 693
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 91.91% 94.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 334 487
10th Percentile £171 £236 £200
25th Percentile £350 £325 £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% -5.56% -2.17%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £572
90th Percentile £625 £621 £690
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 27 49
10th Percentile £16.17 £15.10 £12.93
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.64 £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.71% +12.50% +16.79%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.90 £25.18
90th Percentile £25.62 £55.00 £57.80
England median hourly rate £26.40 £36.08 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.83% -19.82% +38.46%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in the East Midlands

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
Leicestershire - 7 £450 - 8
Derbyshire +5 6 £475 -
Azure Engineer
England

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 15 December 2025, Azure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East Midlands region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (76.92%) Azure DevOps
2 10 (76.92%) DevOps
3 7 (53.85%) ADO
3 7 (53.85%) Terraform
4 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
4 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
5 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (30.77%) Azure AKS
6 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
6 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
6 4 (30.77%) RBAC
6 4 (30.77%) VMS
7 3 (23.08%) Azure Certification
7 3 (23.08%) Databricks
7 3 (23.08%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 3 (23.08%) Entra ID
7 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow
7 3 (23.08%) SQL
8 2 (15.38%) Agile
8 2 (15.38%) API Management
8 2 (15.38%) Azure App Service
8 2 (15.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (15.38%) Azure Storage
8 2 (15.38%) Cloud Operations
8 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
8 2 (15.38%) dbt

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Synapse
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (76.92%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Azure AKS
4 3 (23.08%) Entra ID
5 2 (15.38%) Azure App Service
5 2 (15.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Storage
5 2 (15.38%) dbt
5 2 (15.38%) GitHub
5 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (15.38%) IaaS
5 2 (15.38%) PaaS
5 2 (15.38%) Snowflake
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.69%) Delta Lake
2 1 (7.69%) Spark SQL
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Virtual Team
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (30.77%) RBAC
5 3 (23.08%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (15.38%) Agile
6 2 (15.38%) API Management
6 2 (15.38%) Cloud Operations
6 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Identity Management
6 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (15.38%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (15.38%) Release Management
6 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
6 2 (15.38%) Scrum
7 1 (7.69%) Data Cleansing
7 1 (7.69%) ETL
7 1 (7.69%) Incident Response
7 1 (7.69%) Knowledge Management
7 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Terraform
2 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 2 (15.38%) Grafana
3 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Databricks
1 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft