Azure Engineer Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Engineer
UK > England

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 July 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 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 212 183 149
Rank change year-on-year -29 -34 +26
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 330 490 804
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.29% 1.32% 1.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.40% 1.42% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 398 637
10th Percentile £375 £410 £414
25th Percentile £413 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £575 £614 £650
90th Percentile £650 £675 £717
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £70.50
Median hourly rate - - £71.00
75th Percentile - - £71.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £110.00 £71.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% +54.93% -9.84%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 23,627 34,496 44,733
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 92.91% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,455 22,543 31,717
10th Percentile £290 £298 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £748 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,101 2,588 1,360
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.86 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.88 £16.72 £19.50
Median hourly rate £28.18 £39.55 £43.93
Median % change year-on-year -28.75% -9.97% +75.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.51 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +69.37%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in England

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in England

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in England

Azure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Engineer in England

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
London -11 212 £488 -11.36% 186
South East +46 46 £500 -13.04% 119
Midlands +17 24 £450 -10.00% 80
North of England -30 22 £500 - 91
West Midlands +7 19 £460 -8.00% 48
South West +31 16 £450 -18.18% 44
Yorkshire -13 9 £490 -2.00% 35
North West -19 8 £438 -16.67% 52
East Midlands +7 5 £450 +4.35% 31
North East +4 5 £500 +207.69% 4
Azure Engineer
UK

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 July 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 England region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 330 (100.00%) Azure
2 158 (47.88%) DevOps
3 118 (35.76%) Terraform
4 113 (34.24%) Azure DevOps
5 104 (31.52%) CI/CD
6 96 (29.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 94 (28.48%) Python
8 88 (26.67%) Microsoft
9 84 (25.45%) SQL
10 72 (21.82%) Azure Data Factory
11 70 (21.21%) Databricks
12 68 (20.61%) Finance
12 68 (20.61%) PowerShell
13 63 (19.09%) Social Skills
14 59 (17.88%) Kubernetes
15 58 (17.58%) Migration
16 54 (16.36%) Windows
17 52 (15.76%) Agile
18 49 (14.85%) Security Cleared
18 49 (14.85%) Firewall
19 48 (14.55%) DNS
20 43 (13.03%) SC Cleared
20 43 (13.03%) Analytics
21 42 (12.73%) Active Directory
22 40 (12.12%) GitHub
22 40 (12.12%) Data Engineering
22 40 (12.12%) Azure Monitor
23 39 (11.82%) Azure AKS
23 39 (11.82%) Entra ID
24 37 (11.21%) AWS

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.42%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.52%) Apache
3 5 (1.52%) Confluence
4 2 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.61%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.61%) JBoss
4 2 (0.61%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.30%) DataSynapse
5 1 (0.30%) IIS
5 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.30%) nginx
5 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.30%) Endur
1 1 (0.30%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 330 (100.00%) Azure
2 113 (34.24%) Azure DevOps
3 72 (21.82%) Azure Data Factory
4 40 (12.12%) Azure Monitor
4 40 (12.12%) GitHub
5 39 (11.82%) Azure AKS
5 39 (11.82%) Entra ID
6 37 (11.21%) AWS
7 34 (10.30%) IaaS
8 33 (10.00%) PaaS
9 31 (9.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 28 (8.48%) Power Platform
11 23 (6.97%) Microsoft 365
12 22 (6.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 18 (5.45%) Azure Sentinel
13 18 (5.45%) Azure Storage
14 15 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (4.24%) GCP
16 13 (3.94%) SaaS
16 13 (3.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 49 (14.85%) Firewall
2 48 (14.55%) DNS
3 30 (9.09%) VPN
4 16 (4.85%) NGFW
5 14 (4.24%) Network Security
6 13 (3.94%) DHCP
7 8 (2.42%) SAN
8 7 (2.12%) SSL
8 7 (2.12%) TCP/IP
9 5 (1.52%) VLAN
10 3 (0.91%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (0.91%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (0.61%) FTP
11 2 (0.61%) HTTP
11 2 (0.61%) MPLS
11 2 (0.61%) SMTP
11 2 (0.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 26 (7.88%) Data Lake
3 25 (7.58%) Power BI
3 25 (7.58%) SQL Server
4 20 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (3.94%) Big Data
6 10 (3.03%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.73%) Delta Lake
8 7 (2.12%) Metadata
8 7 (2.12%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.21%) HPCC
10 3 (0.91%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.91%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.61%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.61%) Snowflake Schema
12 1 (0.30%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (6.36%) GitLab
1 21 (6.36%) Jenkins
2 18 (5.45%) Git
3 9 (2.73%) JIRA
3 9 (2.73%) SonarQube
3 9 (2.73%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (2.12%) Maven
5 5 (1.52%) Gradle
6 4 (1.21%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.91%) Selenium
8 2 (0.61%) Ant
8 2 (0.61%) JMeter
8 2 (0.61%) MLflow
9 1 (0.30%) git-flow
9 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.30%) Poetry
9 1 (0.30%) Postman
9 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (20.61%) Finance
2 63 (19.09%) Social Skills
3 31 (9.39%) Banking
4 30 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 12 (3.64%) Telecoms
6 9 (2.73%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.42%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.42%) Marketing
8 7 (2.12%) Electronics
9 6 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (1.52%) Front Office
11 4 (1.21%) Law
11 4 (1.21%) Local Government
12 3 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.91%) Retail
13 2 (0.61%) Legal
13 2 (0.61%) Spanish Language
14 1 (0.30%) Games
14 1 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (10.61%) ARM Templates
2 32 (9.70%) ADO
3 30 (9.09%) .NET
4 13 (3.94%) PySpark
5 11 (3.33%) YAML
6 10 (3.03%) HTML
7 9 (2.73%) JSON
8 8 (2.42%) .NET Core
8 8 (2.42%) Kafka
9 6 (1.82%) CSS
10 5 (1.52%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (1.52%) REST
10 5 (1.52%) Web Services
10 5 (1.52%) XML
11 4 (1.21%) Entity Framework
11 4 (1.21%) RESTful
12 3 (0.91%) ASP.NET MVC
12 3 (0.91%) ASP.NET Web API
12 3 (0.91%) Autofac
12 3 (0.91%) StructureMap
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.85%) Anti-Spyware
2 12 (3.64%) Cloud Native
3 9 (2.73%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.12%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.52%) NHS
7 5 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.21%) Clustering
8 4 (1.21%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.21%) Replication
9 3 (0.91%) N-Tier
10 2 (0.61%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.61%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.61%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.30%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 54 (16.36%) Windows
2 30 (9.09%) Linux
3 20 (6.06%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.94%) Unix
5 11 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.12%) VMS
7 5 (1.52%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (0.91%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.61%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.30%) Android
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (47.88%) DevOps
2 104 (31.52%) CI/CD
3 96 (29.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (17.58%) Migration
5 52 (15.76%) Agile
6 43 (13.03%) Analytics
7 40 (12.12%) Data Engineering
8 37 (11.21%) Data Pipeline
9 35 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 34 (10.30%) ETL
11 32 (9.70%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (8.79%) Business Intelligence
13 27 (8.18%) Data Modelling
14 26 (7.88%) Cloud Security
14 26 (7.88%) Infrastructure Automation
14 26 (7.88%) Software Engineering
15 25 (7.58%) Containerisation
15 25 (7.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 23 (6.97%) Platform Engineering
17 21 (6.36%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 94 (28.48%) Python
2 84 (25.45%) SQL
3 68 (20.61%) PowerShell
4 37 (11.21%) C#
5 36 (10.91%) Bash
6 32 (9.70%) Bicep
7 15 (4.55%) Java
8 14 (4.24%) JavaScript
9 10 (3.03%) Scala
10 6 (1.82%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.21%) C
11 4 (1.21%) C++
12 3 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.91%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.61%) Groovy
14 1 (0.30%) Go
14 1 (0.30%) Perl
14 1 (0.30%) R
14 1 (0.30%) VB
14 1 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (14.85%) Security Cleared
2 43 (13.03%) SC Cleared
3 35 (10.61%) Azure Certification
4 19 (5.76%) Degree
5 12 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.21%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.91%) CISSP
8 3 (0.91%) MCPD
8 3 (0.91%) MCSD
8 3 (0.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.61%) VCAP
10 1 (0.30%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.30%) CCNA
10 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.30%) MCSE
10 1 (0.30%) RHCE
10 1 (0.30%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.03%) GDPR
3 7 (2.12%) HIPAA
3 7 (2.12%) PCI DSS
3 7 (2.12%) SLA
4 5 (1.52%) NIST
5 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.91%) QA
6 1 (0.30%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.30%) GxP
6 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (12.73%) Active Directory
2 30 (9.09%) Docker
3 15 (4.55%) vSphere
4 14 (4.24%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (3.64%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (2.12%) DFS Replication
8 5 (1.52%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.30%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.30%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 118 (35.76%) Terraform
2 59 (17.88%) Kubernetes
3 21 (6.36%) Ansible
4 18 (5.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (3.94%) Puppet
6 7 (2.12%) Grafana
6 7 (2.12%) SCCM
7 5 (1.52%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.52%) Tivoli
8 4 (1.21%) HP Fortify
8 4 (1.21%) Nessus
8 4 (1.21%) Salt
9 2 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.61%) Argo
9 2 (0.61%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.61%) Istio
9 2 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.61%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 88 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 70 (21.21%) Databricks
3 19 (5.76%) VMware
4 17 (5.15%) Palo Alto
5 16 (4.85%) CheckPoint
5 16 (4.85%) Infoblox
6 11 (3.33%) SolarWinds
7 10 (3.03%) SAP
8 8 (2.42%) Citrix
8 8 (2.42%) Informatica
9 6 (1.82%) Google
9 6 (1.82%) Veeam
10 5 (1.52%) Virgin Media
11 4 (1.21%) Cloudera
11 4 (1.21%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.21%) Qualys
11 4 (1.21%) Zscaler
12 3 (0.91%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.91%) Palantir
12 3 (0.91%) Red Hat