Azure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Eastleigh

Microsoft Azure Engineer
Hampshire > Eastleigh

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Eastleigh is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Eastleigh 9.52% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 10.53% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £488 £513 £556
% change year-on-year -4.88% -7.87% +11.25%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Eastleigh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Eastleigh. 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 Eastleigh with a recognized job title 19 12 15
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.48% 92.31% 93.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 10
10th Percentile - - £395
25th Percentile £450 £281 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £294 £450
Median % change year-on-year +78.72% -34.72% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £494
90th Percentile - £534 £520
Hampshire median daily rate £538 £545 £563
% change year-on-year -1.38% -3.11% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.00
Median hourly rate £20.71 - £12.75
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.54%
75th Percentile - - £13.00
90th Percentile - - £13.86
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.15 £54.94 £47.50
% change year-on-year -54.22% +15.66% -4.04%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Eastleigh

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 Eastleigh.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in Eastleigh

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Eastleigh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Eastleigh.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Eastleigh

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 12 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Eastleigh

For the 6 months to 16 March 2026, 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 Eastleigh region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (50.00%) OCI
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Eastleigh 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle