Azure Engineer Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Engineer
UK > England

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 194 151
Rank change year-on-year -3 -43 +11
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 335 446 905
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.38% 1.20% 1.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.49% 1.29% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 350 709
10th Percentile £388 £400 £450
25th Percentile £413 £455 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £566
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -7.16% +2.82%
75th Percentile £589 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £498 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -5.24% -6.67% +2.27%
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 - £61.00
% change year-on-year - - -22.54%

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 May 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 May 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 -13 209 £500 -9.09% 63
South East +56 45 £550 +11.11% 43
North of England +1 33 £475 -5.00% 19
Midlands +23 18 £468 +6.86% 6
South West +37 16 £450 -14.29% 15
North West +3 16 £450 -12.20% 13
West Midlands +14 13 £460 +8.24% 2
Yorkshire -3 9 £425 -10.53% 5
North East +6 7 £550 +10.00% 1
East Midlands +11 5 £475 +2.70% 4
Azure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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.

1 335 (100.00%) Azure
2 159 (47.46%) DevOps
3 125 (37.31%) Azure DevOps
4 117 (34.93%) Terraform
5 104 (31.04%) CI/CD
6 91 (27.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 88 (26.27%) Microsoft
8 85 (25.37%) Python
9 79 (23.58%) Finance
10 69 (20.60%) PowerShell
11 67 (20.00%) SQL
11 67 (20.00%) Kubernetes
11 67 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
12 65 (19.40%) Databricks
13 61 (18.21%) Social Skills
14 57 (17.01%) Firewall
15 53 (15.82%) Security Cleared
15 53 (15.82%) Agile
16 51 (15.22%) Migration
16 51 (15.22%) Windows
17 47 (14.03%) Active Directory
18 45 (13.43%) Azure AKS
18 45 (13.43%) Public Sector
19 42 (12.54%) Analytics
20 41 (12.24%) Entra ID
20 41 (12.24%) DNS
20 41 (12.24%) SC Cleared
21 40 (11.94%) C#
22 39 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
22 39 (11.64%) Azure Monitor

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 14 (4.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.99%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.49%) Apache
5 2 (0.60%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.60%) IIS
5 2 (0.60%) nginx
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.30%) JBoss
6 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 335 (100.00%) Azure
2 125 (37.31%) Azure DevOps
3 67 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 45 (13.43%) Azure AKS
5 41 (12.24%) Entra ID
6 39 (11.64%) Azure Monitor
7 34 (10.15%) GitHub
8 33 (9.85%) IaaS
9 31 (9.25%) AWS
9 31 (9.25%) Microsoft 365
9 31 (9.25%) PaaS
10 29 (8.66%) Power Platform
11 25 (7.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 22 (6.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 18 (5.37%) Serverless
14 17 (5.07%) Azure Sentinel
15 13 (3.88%) GCP
16 12 (3.58%) Azure Functions
17 11 (3.28%) Azure Key Vault
18 10 (2.99%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 57 (17.01%) Firewall
2 41 (12.24%) DNS
3 23 (6.87%) VPN
4 16 (4.78%) NGFW
5 11 (3.28%) Network Security
6 9 (2.69%) SAN
7 7 (2.09%) DHCP
7 7 (2.09%) MPLS
8 4 (1.19%) WAN
9 3 (0.90%) Fibre Channel
9 3 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.60%) FTP
10 2 (0.60%) HTTP
10 2 (0.60%) Internet
10 2 (0.60%) LAN
10 2 (0.60%) SMTP
10 2 (0.60%) SSL
10 2 (0.60%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.60%) VLAN
10 2 (0.60%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (9.25%) SQL Server
2 25 (7.46%) Power BI
3 23 (6.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 18 (5.37%) Data Lake
5 12 (3.58%) Big Data
5 12 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.99%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.09%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.79%) Delta Lake
9 5 (1.49%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (1.19%) Neo4j
11 3 (0.90%) Metadata
11 3 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.60%) Apache Hive
12 2 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (0.60%) Tableau
13 1 (0.30%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 22 (6.57%) GitLab
2 15 (4.48%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.18%) Git
4 7 (2.09%) Selenium
5 6 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.19%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.90%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.90%) JIRA
7 3 (0.90%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.60%) JMeter
8 2 (0.60%) Maven
8 2 (0.60%) Postman
8 2 (0.60%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.30%) Ant
9 1 (0.30%) Gradle
9 1 (0.30%) NUnit
9 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.30%) Poetry
9 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 79 (23.58%) Finance
2 61 (18.21%) Social Skills
3 45 (13.43%) Public Sector
4 27 (8.06%) Banking
5 21 (6.27%) Telecoms
6 20 (5.97%) Marketing
7 18 (5.37%) Manufacturing
8 17 (5.07%) Electronics
9 9 (2.69%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (2.39%) Investment Banking
11 7 (2.09%) Front Office
12 5 (1.49%) Law
12 5 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.19%) Retail
14 3 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.90%) Local Government
15 2 (0.60%) Legal
15 2 (0.60%) Spanish Language
16 1 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
16 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (9.85%) .NET
2 23 (6.87%) ADO
3 20 (5.97%) ARM Templates
4 14 (4.18%) PySpark
4 14 (4.18%) YAML
5 8 (2.39%) CSS
5 8 (2.39%) HTML
6 7 (2.09%) pytest
6 7 (2.09%) REST
7 6 (1.79%) .NET Core
7 6 (1.79%) JSON
7 6 (1.79%) React
7 6 (1.79%) Web Services
8 5 (1.49%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (1.19%) Entity Framework
9 4 (1.19%) Kafka
9 4 (1.19%) Plotly
9 4 (1.19%) WCF
10 3 (0.90%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.90%) Autofac
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.78%) Anti-Spyware
2 13 (3.88%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.28%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.28%) Onboarding
4 8 (2.39%) Replication
5 7 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.19%) Clustering
7 4 (1.19%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.19%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.90%) BYOD
8 3 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (0.90%) N-Tier
8 3 (0.90%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.60%) Derivative
9 2 (0.60%) Equities
9 2 (0.60%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.60%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 51 (15.22%) Windows
2 34 (10.15%) Linux
3 21 (6.27%) Windows Server
4 16 (4.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.09%) Unix
6 5 (1.49%) VMS
6 5 (1.49%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.90%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.90%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.30%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.30%) Android
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (47.46%) DevOps
2 104 (31.04%) CI/CD
3 91 (27.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (15.82%) Agile
5 51 (15.22%) Migration
6 42 (12.54%) Analytics
7 39 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (10.75%) Business Intelligence
9 32 (9.55%) ETL
10 31 (9.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 30 (8.96%) Cloud Security
11 30 (8.96%) Data Engineering
12 26 (7.76%) Data Pipeline
13 24 (7.16%) Data Integration
13 24 (7.16%) Software Engineering
14 23 (6.87%) Platform Engineering
15 22 (6.57%) Continuous Integration
15 22 (6.57%) Infrastructure Automation
16 21 (6.27%) High Availability
17 20 (5.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 85 (25.37%) Python
2 69 (20.60%) PowerShell
3 67 (20.00%) SQL
4 40 (11.94%) C#
5 34 (10.15%) Bicep
6 26 (7.76%) Bash
7 22 (6.57%) JavaScript
8 15 (4.48%) Java
9 8 (2.39%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (1.19%) Scala
12 3 (0.90%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.60%) R
13 2 (0.60%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.30%) Groovy
14 1 (0.30%) Perl
14 1 (0.30%) PHP
14 1 (0.30%) VB
14 1 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 53 (15.82%) Security Cleared
2 41 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 31 (9.25%) Azure Certification
4 22 (6.57%) Degree
5 11 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.39%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.90%) CISSP
8 3 (0.90%) MCPD
8 3 (0.90%) MCSD
8 3 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.60%) CCNA
9 2 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.60%) VCAP
10 1 (0.30%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.30%) CCNP
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 13 (3.88%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.79%) SLA
3 4 (1.19%) GDPR
4 3 (0.90%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.90%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.60%) NIST
5 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.60%) 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 47 (14.03%) Active Directory
2 31 (9.25%) Docker
3 14 (4.18%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.69%) vSphere
5 6 (1.79%) DFS Replication
5 6 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.30%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 117 (34.93%) Terraform
2 67 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 24 (7.16%) Ansible
4 20 (5.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (4.48%) Puppet
6 10 (2.99%) SCCM
7 9 (2.69%) Grafana
8 7 (2.09%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.49%) Salt
10 4 (1.19%) WSUS
11 3 (0.90%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.60%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.30%) Packer
13 1 (0.30%) Podman
13 1 (0.30%) SCOM
13 1 (0.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 88 (26.27%) Microsoft
2 65 (19.40%) Databricks
3 21 (6.27%) SAP
4 18 (5.37%) CheckPoint
5 17 (5.07%) Infoblox
5 17 (5.07%) Palo Alto
6 15 (4.48%) VMware
7 8 (2.39%) Cloudera
8 7 (2.09%) Virgin Media
9 6 (1.79%) Google
9 6 (1.79%) SolarWinds
10 5 (1.49%) Informatica
10 5 (1.49%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.19%) Citrix
11 4 (1.19%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.19%) Palantir
12 3 (0.90%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.90%) Meraki
12 3 (0.90%) Splunk
13 2 (0.60%) Qualys