Azure Software Engineer Contracts in England

Software Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The median Software Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in England is £575, 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 471 523 618
Rank change year-on-year +52 +95 +133
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Software Engineer 14 19 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.057% 0.051% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.055% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 34
10th Percentile £445 £475 £570
25th Percentile £550 £594 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £725 £700 £700
90th Percentile - £740 £726
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% +7.00%

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 Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Software Engineer in England

Azure Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Software Engineer in England

Azure Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Software Engineer in England

Azure Software 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 Software 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 +29 9 £700 +12.00% 6
South East - 3 £575 - 4
North of England - 2 £494 - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £550 -
North West - 1 £438 - 3
Azure Software Engineer
UK

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

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

1 14 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) C#
2 8 (57.14%) .NET
3 7 (50.00%) Python
4 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
4 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
5 5 (35.71%) Front Office
5 5 (35.71%) Agile
5 5 (35.71%) Databricks
5 5 (35.71%) DevOps
6 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
6 4 (28.57%) Investment Banking
6 4 (28.57%) Banking
6 4 (28.57%) Bicep
7 3 (21.43%) Design Patterns
7 3 (21.43%) Generative AI
7 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
7 3 (21.43%) CQRS
7 3 (21.43%) Virgin Media
7 3 (21.43%) Docker
8 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
8 2 (14.29%) Terraform
8 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (14.29%) Low Latency
8 2 (14.29%) GitHub
8 2 (14.29%) Finance
8 2 (14.29%) Scrum
8 2 (14.29%) Microsoft

Azure Software 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 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Azure AKS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Functions
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Stack
2 2 (14.29%) GitHub
2 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (14.29%) Serverless
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Big Data
1 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
1 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Front Office
3 4 (28.57%) Banking
3 4 (28.57%) Investment Banking
4 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
5 2 (14.29%) Finance
6 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
2 1 (7.14%) FastAPI
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) NumPy
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
2 1 (7.14%) OpenID
2 1 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (7.14%) Pandas
2 1 (7.14%) PySpark
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) NHS
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 5 (35.71%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (21.43%) CQRS
4 3 (21.43%) Design Patterns
4 3 (21.43%) Generative AI
5 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Low Latency
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Scrum
6 1 (7.14%) Data Integration
6 1 (7.14%) Electronic Trading
6 1 (7.14%) ETL
6 1 (7.14%) Multithreading
6 1 (7.14%) Performance Testing
6 1 (7.14%) Software Testing
6 1 (7.14%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) C#
2 7 (50.00%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) Bicep
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Databricks
2 3 (21.43%) Virgin Media
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft