Azure Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 September 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
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 498 530
Rank change year-on-year +13 +32 +172
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Infrastructure Engineer 30 30 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.091% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.098% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 28 44
10th Percentile £375 £363 £396
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £505
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +11.39% +1.00%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £600
UK median daily rate £538 £563 £500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +12.50% -

All DemandTrendContract 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 25,061 30,761 40,671
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.51% 93.04% 94.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,168 19,699 28,571
10th Percentile £281 £302 £304
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,351 1,622 1,327
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.16 £15.23
25th Percentile £17.33 £21.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +2.86% +68.27%
75th Percentile £55.00 £66.94 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +63.46%

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in England

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in England

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in England

Azure Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 September 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
South East - 11 £413 - 4
London +15 9 £400 -32.49% 3
South West +30 7 £700 +12.00% 1
Midlands -7 7 £700 +36.59%
West Midlands -10 7 £700 +36.59%
Yorkshire -14 2 - -
North of England -20 2 - - 1
Azure Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 September 2025, Azure Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Azure
2 29 (96.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (46.67%) Windows
4 11 (36.67%) DevOps
5 10 (33.33%) DNS
5 10 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 9 (30.00%) VMware
6 9 (30.00%) Terraform
6 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure Management
7 8 (26.67%) vSphere
7 8 (26.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (26.67%) Entra ID
7 8 (26.67%) SC Cleared
7 8 (26.67%) Security Cleared
7 8 (26.67%) Active Directory
7 8 (26.67%) DHCP
8 7 (23.33%) Azure Stack
8 7 (23.33%) Azure Certification
9 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
9 6 (20.00%) VPN
9 6 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (16.67%) Hyper-V
10 5 (16.67%) Veeam
10 5 (16.67%) SolarWinds
10 5 (16.67%) Confluence
10 5 (16.67%) SaaS
10 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
10 5 (16.67%) VLAN
10 5 (16.67%) JIRA
10 5 (16.67%) TCP/IP

Azure Infrastructure 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 5 (16.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 30 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (26.67%) Entra ID
3 7 (23.33%) Azure Stack
4 5 (16.67%) SaaS
5 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (10.00%) Azure AKS
6 3 (10.00%) IaaS
7 2 (6.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (6.67%) GitHub
8 1 (3.33%) AWS
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Fabric
8 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
8 1 (3.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (33.33%) DNS
2 8 (26.67%) DHCP
3 6 (20.00%) VPN
4 5 (16.67%) SSL
4 5 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 5 (16.67%) VLAN
5 4 (13.33%) Firewall
6 3 (10.00%) SAN
7 1 (3.33%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (3.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) GitLab
2 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.33%) Finance
2 1 (3.33%) iGaming
2 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.33%) ADO
2 1 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (13.33%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.33%) Clustering
5 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.33%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.33%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (46.67%) Windows
2 5 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.33%) Linux
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (96.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (36.67%) DevOps
3 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (13.33%) Analytics
5 4 (13.33%) Cloud Security
5 4 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (13.33%) Information Security
5 4 (13.33%) ITIL
5 4 (13.33%) Log Analytics
5 4 (13.33%) Service Delivery
6 3 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (10.00%) Migration
6 3 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
6 3 (10.00%) Security Patching
7 2 (6.67%) Cloud Operations
7 2 (6.67%) Containerisation
7 2 (6.67%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) Bicep
2 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (23.33%) Azure Certification
3 6 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.33%) CCNA
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.33%) CISM
5 1 (3.33%) CISSP
5 1 (3.33%) Degree
5 1 (3.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.33%) Server+ Certification
5 1 (3.33%) VCAP
5 1 (3.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) SLA
2 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) NIST
2 1 (3.33%) NIST 800
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 8 (26.67%) Active Directory
1 8 (26.67%) vSphere
2 5 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 4 (13.33%) Docker
3 4 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (10.00%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 9 (30.00%) Terraform
2 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (16.67%) Tivoli
3 2 (6.67%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.33%) Argo
4 1 (3.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (30.00%) VMware
3 5 (16.67%) Citrix
3 5 (16.67%) SolarWinds
3 5 (16.67%) Veeam
4 2 (6.67%) Netskope
4 2 (6.67%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.33%) Atempo
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco
5 1 (3.33%) Databricks
5 1 (3.33%) F5
5 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.33%) IBM
5 1 (3.33%) Mellanox
5 1 (3.33%) OpenAI