Azure Engineer Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > East of England

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 98 111
Rank change year-on-year +12 +13 +16
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 6 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.45% 0.27% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.30% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 6
10th Percentile £419 - £425
25th Percentile £439 - £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £275 £563
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% -51.11% -13.46%
75th Percentile £575 £425 £678
90th Percentile £620 £515 £738
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.00
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
75th Percentile - - £63.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £35.63
% change year-on-year - - -32.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 1,122 1,331 1,672
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.49% 89.27% 89.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 547 987
10th Percentile £196 £213 £193
25th Percentile £369 £306 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £625 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 301 277
10th Percentile £13.80 £14.84 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.12 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.76 £43.90 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.93% +33.03% +66.58%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £81.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £45.94
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.40% +74.41%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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 of England.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 6 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in the East of England

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
Bedfordshire - 4 £431 - 5
Hertfordshire -1 1 £650 +18.18% 3
Cambridgeshire - 1 £550 - 1
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 October 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 of England region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) PaaS
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) Aviation
3 4 (66.67%) OpenID
3 4 (66.67%) AWS
3 4 (66.67%) SAML
3 4 (66.67%) Migration
3 4 (66.67%) Observability
4 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (33.33%) NIST
5 2 (33.33%) GitHub
5 2 (33.33%) Python
5 2 (33.33%) CRM
5 2 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (16.67%) Degree
6 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
6 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
6 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 1 (16.67%) RESTful
6 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
6 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (16.67%) .NET
6 1 (16.67%) MCP

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) PaaS
3 4 (66.67%) AWS
3 4 (66.67%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (33.33%) GitHub
5 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
5 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (16.67%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 4 (66.67%) Aviation
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) OpenID
1 4 (66.67%) SAML
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) Semantic Kernel
2 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Migration
2 4 (66.67%) Observability
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) CRM
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (16.67%) Deep Learning
5 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
5 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
5 1 (16.67%) Network Design
5 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) SIEM
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Bicep
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) MCP
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (16.67%) EU AI Act
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Cribl.io
2 1 (16.67%) Foundry