Azure Engineer Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in the East Midlands is £419, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 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
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 68 72
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 +15
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 4 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.58% 0.23% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.24% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile £237 £406 -
25th Percentile £330 £414 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £431 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% -4.17% -21.74%
75th Percentile £481 £452 £488
90th Percentile £493 £462 £525
England median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -2.22%

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 606 822 960
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.60% 94.27% 95.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 520 748
10th Percentile £205 £187 £213
25th Percentile £329 £310 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -10.53% +8.57%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £595
90th Percentile £588 £623 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 93 47
10th Percentile £14.82 £11.83 £12.98
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.00 £14.76
Median hourly rate £21.39 £17.72 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.71% -15.62% +5.00%
75th Percentile £25.15 £27.50 £35.13
90th Percentile £37.41 £51.91 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.50 £43.63
% change year-on-year -27.22% -9.47% +74.52%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in the East Midlands

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +6 2 £419 +4.69% 3
Lincolnshire - 1 £180 - 2
Nottinghamshire - 1 £500 -
Azure Engineer
England

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 25 June 2025, 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 East Midlands region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Databricks
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Azure App Service
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) RBAC
4 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (25.00%) Server Building
4 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (25.00%) Linux
4 1 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (25.00%) ETL

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure App Service
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) iPhone
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (25.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Android
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (25.00%) VMS
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
2 1 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) PLM
2 1 (25.00%) RBAC
2 1 (25.00%) Server Building
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft