Azure Platform Engineer Contracts in England

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in England is £475, 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 466 519 622
Rank change year-on-year +53 +103 +108
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 19 23 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.078% 0.062% 0.061%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.067% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 24
10th Percentile £313 £378 £487
25th Percentile £383 £413 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £581
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -13.98% +10.71%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £575 £649 £679
UK median daily rate £475 £488 £581
% change year-on-year -2.56% -16.13% +5.68%

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 Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Platform Engineer in England

Azure Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Platform Engineer in England

Azure Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Platform Engineer in England

Azure Platform 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 Platform 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 +34 10 £400 -17.95% 5
South East +47 3 £500 -4.76%
Midlands +21 3 £475 +26.67%
East Midlands - 3 £475 -
Azure Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Azure Platform 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Azure
1 19 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 15 (78.95%) DevOps
3 14 (73.68%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (52.63%) Terraform
5 7 (36.84%) GitHub
5 7 (36.84%) Finance
5 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
6 6 (31.58%) Bicep
6 6 (31.58%) Linux
6 6 (31.58%) PowerShell
6 6 (31.58%) High Availability
6 6 (31.58%) Databricks
6 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
7 5 (26.32%) API Management
8 4 (21.05%) Azure AKS
8 4 (21.05%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (21.05%) Open Source
8 4 (21.05%) Firewall
8 4 (21.05%) Serverless
8 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
9 3 (15.79%) Continuous Delivery
9 3 (15.79%) Server Building
9 3 (15.79%) API Integration
9 3 (15.79%) Windows Server
9 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
9 3 (15.79%) Ansible
9 3 (15.79%) Customer-Centricity
9 3 (15.79%) Customer-Centric Approach

Azure Platform 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:

Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (73.68%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (36.84%) GitHub
4 4 (21.05%) Azure AKS
4 4 (21.05%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (21.05%) Serverless
5 3 (15.79%) AWS
5 3 (15.79%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.26%) Azure API Management
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.26%) IaaS
6 1 (5.26%) PaaS
6 1 (5.26%) SaaS
6 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Big Data
2 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Git
1 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (36.84%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) .NET
1 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Ubuntu
2 3 (15.79%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 15 (78.95%) DevOps
3 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
4 6 (31.58%) High Availability
4 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (26.32%) API Management
6 4 (21.05%) Open Source
7 3 (15.79%) API Integration
7 3 (15.79%) Configuration Management
7 3 (15.79%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (15.79%) Customer-Centric Approach
7 3 (15.79%) Customer-Centricity
7 3 (15.79%) Data Protection
7 3 (15.79%) GitOps
7 3 (15.79%) RBAC
7 3 (15.79%) Server Building
7 3 (15.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (10.53%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Bicep
1 6 (31.58%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.79%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) C#
3 1 (5.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 10 (52.63%) Terraform
2 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
3 3 (15.79%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Databricks
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Red Hat