Azure Software Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Software Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The median Software Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in England is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 525 494 537
Rank change year-on-year -31 +43 +167
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Software Engineer 14 11 18
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.044% 0.039% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.042% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 14
10th Percentile £481 £575 £543
25th Percentile £511 £602 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £631 £688 £694
90th Percentile £688 £775 £728
UK median daily rate £613 £675 £645
% change year-on-year -9.26% +4.65% -0.77%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 28,855 26,419 34,294
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.37% 92.90% 93.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,399 16,416 23,451
10th Percentile £295 £300 £285
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -0.94% -3.64%
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 1,769 832 1,438
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.92 £14.75
25th Percentile £18.26 £21.25 £19.62
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -22.22% +38.46%
75th Percentile £61.18 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.60 £74.40 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.63% -27.78% +44.81%

Azure Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Azure Software Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Azure Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Software Engineer job vacancies 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 28 December 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 28 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 -7 11 £625 -7.41% 6
South East -13 2 £456 -28.15% 2
North of England - 1 £500 - 12
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 2
Azure Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 December 2025, Azure Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Azure
1 14 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 6 (42.86%) Data Lake
2 6 (42.86%) Python
2 6 (42.86%) Terraform
3 5 (35.71%) .NET
3 5 (35.71%) C#
3 5 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (35.71%) Databricks
3 5 (35.71%) Kafka
3 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (28.57%) Analytics
4 4 (28.57%) Apache Spark
4 4 (28.57%) Architecture Governance
4 4 (28.57%) AWS
4 4 (28.57%) Data Architecture
4 4 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) Data Quality
4 4 (28.57%) Data Strategy
4 4 (28.57%) GCP
4 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 4 (28.57%) Metadata
4 4 (28.57%) Observability
4 4 (28.57%) PySpark
4 4 (28.57%) SQL
4 4 (28.57%) Validation
5 3 (21.43%) GitHub
5 3 (21.43%) Java

Azure Software 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) GCP
3 3 (21.43%) GitHub
4 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Azure API Management
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Storage
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Data Lake
2 4 (28.57%) Metadata
3 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (7.14%) Big Data
4 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (7.14%) HPCC
4 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
1 1 (7.14%) Gradle
1 1 (7.14%) Maven
General
1 4 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Investment Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Front Office
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) .NET
1 5 (35.71%) Kafka
2 4 (28.57%) PySpark
3 2 (14.29%) HTML
3 2 (14.29%) Node.js
4 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
4 1 (7.14%) JSON
4 1 (7.14%) Next.js
4 1 (7.14%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (7.14%) React
4 1 (7.14%) REST
4 1 (7.14%) Spring
4 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (7.14%) NHS
1 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
1 1 (7.14%) VMS
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 5 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (28.57%) Analytics
4 4 (28.57%) Architecture Governance
4 4 (28.57%) Data Architecture
4 4 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) Data Strategy
4 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 4 (28.57%) Observability
4 4 (28.57%) Validation
5 2 (14.29%) Agile
5 2 (14.29%) API Development
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (14.29%) Microservices
5 2 (14.29%) Multithreading
5 2 (14.29%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) C#
3 4 (28.57%) SQL
4 3 (21.43%) Java
4 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
5 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 1 (7.14%) C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Databricks
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft