Azure Engineer Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Engineer
UK > England

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 192 152 162
Rank change year-on-year -40 +10 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 435 854 1,221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.19% 1.77% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 1.88% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 675 890
10th Percentile £411 £450 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £552
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +1.90% +10.40%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £71.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year - -9.84% +215.00%
UK median hourly rate £110.00 £61.00 £78.75
% change year-on-year +80.33% -22.54% +215.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 33,809 45,522 67,131
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.60% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,413 32,346 47,872
10th Percentile £283 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,342 1,849
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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 17 May 2024.

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 17 May 2024. 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 -35 281 £550 -6.78% 71
North of England -15 50 £500 -9.09% 16
South East -16 36 £500 -4.76% 23
North West -18 31 £506 -3.57% 11
South West -29 23 £525 -5.62% 12
Yorkshire +5 18 £488 -18.75% 3
Midlands +3 16 £425 -15.00% 19
West Midlands +4 13 £425 -22.73% 10
East of England -2 7 £450 -10.00% 2
East Midlands +11 3 £444 -0.84% 9
North East +12 1 £500 -16.67% 2
Azure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, 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.

1 435 (100.00%) Azure
2 209 (48.05%) DevOps
3 143 (32.87%) Azure DevOps
4 137 (31.49%) Python
4 137 (31.49%) Microsoft
5 136 (31.26%) SQL
6 129 (29.66%) CI/CD
7 104 (23.91%) Terraform
8 94 (21.61%) PowerShell
8 94 (21.61%) Databricks
9 92 (21.15%) Azure Data Factory
10 89 (20.46%) Finance
11 77 (17.70%) Kubernetes
11 77 (17.70%) Infrastructure as Code
11 77 (17.70%) Social Skills
12 73 (16.78%) Agile
13 70 (16.09%) Analytics
14 66 (15.17%) Windows
15 65 (14.94%) ETL
16 61 (14.02%) Active Directory
17 57 (13.10%) Docker
17 57 (13.10%) Data Lake
18 55 (12.64%) Business Intelligence
19 53 (12.18%) Data Pipeline
20 51 (11.72%) Linux
21 50 (11.49%) C#
21 50 (11.49%) Data Engineering
22 49 (11.26%) PySpark
23 48 (11.03%) Public Sector
23 48 (11.03%) Azure SQL Database

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 16 (3.68%) Apache Spark
1 16 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (2.30%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.84%) Apache
3 8 (1.84%) IIS
4 4 (0.92%) Confluence
4 4 (0.92%) Luigi
5 3 (0.69%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.46%) nginx
7 1 (0.23%) JBoss
7 1 (0.23%) SAS
7 1 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 435 (100.00%) Azure
2 143 (32.87%) Azure DevOps
3 92 (21.15%) Azure Data Factory
4 45 (10.34%) Power Platform
5 43 (9.89%) Entra ID
6 42 (9.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 31 (7.13%) Azure AKS
8 30 (6.90%) PaaS
9 28 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
10 26 (5.98%) AWS
10 26 (5.98%) Azure Monitor
11 23 (5.29%) GitHub
11 23 (5.29%) Serverless
12 22 (5.06%) IaaS
13 17 (3.91%) Azure Logic Apps
13 17 (3.91%) Azure Service Bus
14 15 (3.45%) Azure Functions
14 15 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
15 14 (3.22%) Azure Storage
16 13 (2.99%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 39 (8.97%) Firewall
2 31 (7.13%) DNS
3 17 (3.91%) VPN
4 12 (2.76%) Network Security
5 7 (1.61%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.38%) HTTP
7 5 (1.15%) BGP
7 5 (1.15%) MPLS
7 5 (1.15%) OSPF
7 5 (1.15%) SSH
8 4 (0.92%) DHCP
8 4 (0.92%) Internet
8 4 (0.92%) IPv4
8 4 (0.92%) WAN
9 3 (0.69%) Wireless
10 2 (0.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 2 (0.46%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (0.46%) VRRP
11 1 (0.23%) MQTT
11 1 (0.23%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (13.10%) Data Lake
2 48 (11.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 43 (9.89%) Power BI
4 38 (8.74%) SQL Server
5 32 (7.36%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (4.14%) NoSQL
7 13 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (2.76%) Delta Lake
9 11 (2.53%) Big Data
9 11 (2.53%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.61%) Redis
11 7 (1.61%) Spark SQL
12 5 (1.15%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.15%) Data Mart
12 5 (1.15%) Power Query
12 5 (1.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 4 (0.92%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 30 (6.90%) Git
2 25 (5.75%) GitLab
3 23 (5.29%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.07%) Selenium
5 7 (1.61%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.38%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.38%) JIRA
7 5 (1.15%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.69%) Burp Suite
8 3 (0.69%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.69%) NUnit
8 3 (0.69%) Postman
8 3 (0.69%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.46%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.46%) Deequ
9 2 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.46%) Snyk
9 2 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.46%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 89 (20.46%) Finance
2 77 (17.70%) Social Skills
3 48 (11.03%) Public Sector
4 26 (5.98%) Marketing
5 24 (5.52%) Banking
6 19 (4.37%) Telecoms
7 17 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (3.45%) Electronics
8 15 (3.45%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.84%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.92%) Law
12 4 (0.92%) Legal
13 3 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.69%) Retail
14 2 (0.46%) Back Office
14 2 (0.46%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.23%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (11.26%) PySpark
2 46 (10.57%) .NET
3 31 (7.13%) ARM Templates
4 24 (5.52%) YAML
5 20 (4.60%) JSON
6 16 (3.68%) Kafka
7 12 (2.76%) HTML
7 12 (2.76%) Node.js
8 11 (2.53%) React
9 10 (2.30%) .NET Core
10 9 (2.07%) CSS
10 9 (2.07%) TensorFlow
11 7 (1.61%) HTML5
11 7 (1.61%) LangChain
11 7 (1.61%) PyTorch
12 6 (1.38%) XML
13 5 (1.15%) AngularJS
13 5 (1.15%) GraphQL
13 5 (1.15%) pytest
13 5 (1.15%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (2.07%) Data Centre
2 9 (2.07%) Product Ownership
3 7 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (1.38%) Public Cloud
5 5 (1.15%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.15%) Onboarding
6 4 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (0.92%) Market Risk
6 4 (0.92%) PKI
6 4 (0.92%) Smart Meter
7 3 (0.69%) Tandem
8 2 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.46%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.46%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.46%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 66 (15.17%) Windows
2 51 (11.72%) Linux
3 29 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.76%) Windows 10
5 11 (2.53%) Unix
6 9 (2.07%) Windows 7
7 7 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.15%) Alpine Linux
8 5 (1.15%) VMS
9 3 (0.69%) CentOS
9 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.23%) Debian
10 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (48.05%) DevOps
2 129 (29.66%) CI/CD
3 77 (17.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 73 (16.78%) Agile
5 70 (16.09%) Analytics
6 65 (14.94%) ETL
7 55 (12.64%) Business Intelligence
8 53 (12.18%) Data Pipeline
9 50 (11.49%) Data Engineering
10 46 (10.57%) Data Modelling
11 44 (10.11%) Problem-Solving
12 39 (8.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 39 (8.97%) Migration
13 38 (8.74%) Software Engineering
14 31 (7.13%) Continuous Integration
15 25 (5.75%) Containerisation
15 25 (5.75%) Scrum
16 24 (5.52%) Platform Engineering
17 23 (5.29%) Artificial Intelligence
18 22 (5.06%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 137 (31.49%) Python
2 136 (31.26%) SQL
3 94 (21.61%) PowerShell
4 50 (11.49%) C#
5 29 (6.67%) Bicep
6 23 (5.29%) Bash
7 18 (4.14%) Java
8 13 (2.99%) JavaScript
9 12 (2.76%) T-SQL
10 11 (2.53%) Scala
11 10 (2.30%) Go
11 10 (2.30%) TypeScript
12 7 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (1.38%) C++
14 4 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.92%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.92%) VB
15 3 (0.69%) C
15 3 (0.69%) Perl
15 3 (0.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 41 (9.43%) Azure Certification
2 39 (8.97%) Security Cleared
3 31 (7.13%) SC Cleared
4 29 (6.67%) Degree
5 15 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.30%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.92%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (0.92%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.46%) CISSP
11 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.23%) CCIE
11 1 (0.23%) CISA
11 1 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.23%) CISM
11 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.23%) MCSE
11 1 (0.23%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.22%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.38%) GDPR
2 6 (1.38%) QA
3 4 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.69%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.23%) GRC
6 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 61 (14.02%) Active Directory
2 57 (13.10%) Docker
3 23 (5.29%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (3.68%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (1.61%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.38%) vSphere
7 5 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (0.92%) NFS
9 3 (0.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 104 (23.91%) Terraform
2 77 (17.70%) Kubernetes
3 23 (5.29%) Ansible
4 16 (3.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (3.68%) SCCM
5 14 (3.22%) Grafana
6 11 (2.53%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 8 (1.84%) SCOM
8 7 (1.61%) Puppet
9 5 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.92%) Argo
10 4 (0.92%) WSUS
11 2 (0.46%) Graylog
11 2 (0.46%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.46%) Nessus
11 2 (0.46%) Netcool
11 2 (0.46%) Podman
11 2 (0.46%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.46%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 137 (31.49%) Microsoft
2 94 (21.61%) Databricks
3 15 (3.45%) SAP
4 14 (3.22%) VMware
5 8 (1.84%) Oracle
5 8 (1.84%) Splunk
6 6 (1.38%) F5
7 5 (1.15%) Ab Initio
7 5 (1.15%) Cisco
7 5 (1.15%) HP
8 3 (0.69%) CA
8 3 (0.69%) Checkmarx
8 3 (0.69%) Informatica
8 3 (0.69%) Palo Alto
8 3 (0.69%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.69%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.69%) Veracode
9 2 (0.46%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.46%) New Relic
9 2 (0.46%) Virgin Media