Azure Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 529 488 530
Rank change year-on-year -41 +42 +175
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 20 23 27
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.064% 0.079% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.085% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 22
10th Percentile £478 £313 £525
25th Percentile £521 £403 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £644
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -26.21% +7.29%
75th Percentile £650 £538 £700
90th Percentile £716 £565 -
UK median daily rate £550 £475 £607
% change year-on-year +15.79% -21.71% +1.13%

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 28,658 27,111 34,658
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 92.91% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,308 16,895 23,809
10th Percentile £290 £300 £288
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,754 870 1,350
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £15.31
25th Percentile £18.20 £21.25 £19.62
Median hourly rate £26.30 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.94% -20.00% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.85 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.52 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.97% -25.51% +50.00%

Azure Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Azure Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Azure Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Platform Engineer job vacancies 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 17 December 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 17 December 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 -5 16 £550 +23.94%
South East -14 1 £475 -
Midlands -31 1 £625 +31.58% 2
North of England -51 1 - - 4
North West - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £625 - 2
Azure Platform Engineer
UK

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 17 December 2025, Azure Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Azure Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Azure
1 20 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 16 (80.00%) DevOps
2 16 (80.00%) Terraform
3 14 (70.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (55.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (35.00%) Bicep
7 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
7 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
8 5 (25.00%) Azure AKS
8 5 (25.00%) Bash
8 5 (25.00%) Cloud Security
8 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
9 4 (20.00%) Analytics
9 4 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
9 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
9 4 (20.00%) GitHub
9 4 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (20.00%) Python
10 3 (15.00%) AI
10 3 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (15.00%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (15.00%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (15.00%) Data Science
10 3 (15.00%) DNS
10 3 (15.00%) Firewall
10 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Management

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 4 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (20.00%) GitHub
4 4 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (15.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (15.00%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (10.00%) AWS
6 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (10.00%) IaaS
7 1 (5.00%) Apigee
7 1 (5.00%) GCP
7 1 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (5.00%) PaaS
7 1 (5.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) DNS
1 3 (15.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
2 1 (5.00%) MLflow
2 1 (5.00%) Spinnaker
General
1 1 (5.00%) Banking
1 1 (5.00%) Finance
1 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) .NET
1 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (5.00%) Node.js
1 1 (5.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (5.00%) REST
1 1 (5.00%) Swagger
1 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) VMS
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 16 (80.00%) DevOps
3 14 (70.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (55.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 4 (20.00%) Analytics
6 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (15.00%) AI
7 3 (15.00%) Data Science
7 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (15.00%) Machine Learning
8 2 (10.00%) Data Engineering
8 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
8 2 (10.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
8 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
8 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
8 2 (10.00%) Log Analytics
8 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
8 2 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Bicep
2 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (25.00%) Bash
4 4 (20.00%) Python
5 1 (5.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.00%) CCNA
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) GDPR
1 2 (10.00%) NCSC
1 2 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (80.00%) Terraform
2 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) Istio
3 1 (5.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco
3 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.00%) Foundry
3 1 (5.00%) OpenAI