Azure Engineer Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Engineer
UK > England

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 199 150 166
Rank change year-on-year -49 +16 -5
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 439 875 1,235
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.19% 1.78% 1.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 1.88% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 692 892
10th Percentile £407 £450 £413
25th Percentile £456 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.94% +3.68% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £71.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year - -9.84% +215.00%
UK median hourly rate £110.00 £61.00 £78.75
% change year-on-year +80.33% -22.54% +215.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,105 46,424 66,840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.64% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,627 32,967 47,588
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £640
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,373 1,839
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.26 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.92 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in England

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in England

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in England

Azure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Engineer in England

Azure 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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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 -39 283 £550 -6.78% 66
North of England -9 49 £500 -9.09% 18
South East -12 38 £500 -4.76% 20
North West -15 30 £513 -2.38% 13
South West -16 24 £525 -6.67% 12
Yorkshire +11 18 £488 -18.75% 5
Midlands +6 17 £438 -16.67% 14
West Midlands 0 14 £438 -20.45% 10
East of England -5 8 £450 -10.00% 4
East Midlands +22 3 £444 -0.84% 4
North East +11 1 £500 -16.67%
Azure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Azure 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 439 (100.00%) Azure
2 210 (47.84%) DevOps
3 144 (32.80%) Azure DevOps
4 137 (31.21%) SQL
4 137 (31.21%) Microsoft
5 135 (30.75%) Python
6 127 (28.93%) CI/CD
7 105 (23.92%) Terraform
8 96 (21.87%) Databricks
9 95 (21.64%) PowerShell
10 93 (21.18%) Azure Data Factory
11 86 (19.59%) Finance
12 80 (18.22%) Social Skills
13 75 (17.08%) Infrastructure as Code
14 74 (16.86%) Kubernetes
15 72 (16.40%) Agile
16 70 (15.95%) Windows
16 70 (15.95%) Analytics
17 66 (15.03%) ETL
18 63 (14.35%) Active Directory
19 58 (13.21%) Business Intelligence
19 58 (13.21%) Data Lake
20 54 (12.30%) Data Pipeline
21 53 (12.07%) Docker
22 52 (11.85%) Data Engineering
23 51 (11.62%) Public Sector
24 49 (11.16%) Linux
25 48 (10.93%) .NET
25 48 (10.93%) C#
25 48 (10.93%) PySpark

Azure 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 16 (3.64%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.51%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.28%) IIS
5 8 (1.82%) Apache
6 4 (0.91%) Confluence
6 4 (0.91%) Luigi
7 2 (0.46%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) JBoss
8 1 (0.23%) SAS
8 1 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 439 (100.00%) Azure
2 144 (32.80%) Azure DevOps
3 93 (21.18%) Azure Data Factory
4 47 (10.71%) Power Platform
5 44 (10.02%) Entra ID
6 43 (9.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 31 (7.06%) PaaS
8 29 (6.61%) Azure AKS
9 28 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
10 27 (6.15%) AWS
11 24 (5.47%) Serverless
12 23 (5.24%) Azure Monitor
12 23 (5.24%) GitHub
12 23 (5.24%) IaaS
13 17 (3.87%) Azure Logic Apps
13 17 (3.87%) Azure Service Bus
14 16 (3.64%) Azure Functions
15 13 (2.96%) Azure Storage
15 13 (2.96%) Cloud Computing
16 12 (2.73%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 39 (8.88%) Firewall
2 30 (6.83%) DNS
3 17 (3.87%) VPN
4 13 (2.96%) Network Security
5 7 (1.59%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.37%) HTTP
7 5 (1.14%) BGP
7 5 (1.14%) MPLS
7 5 (1.14%) OSPF
7 5 (1.14%) SSH
8 4 (0.91%) Internet
8 4 (0.91%) IPv4
8 4 (0.91%) WAN
9 3 (0.68%) DHCP
9 3 (0.68%) Wireless
10 2 (0.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 2 (0.46%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (0.46%) VRRP
11 1 (0.23%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.23%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (13.21%) Data Lake
2 47 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
3 45 (10.25%) Power BI
4 40 (9.11%) SQL Server
5 34 (7.74%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (3.19%) NoSQL
7 13 (2.96%) Delta Lake
8 12 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (2.51%) Big Data
9 11 (2.51%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.59%) Spark SQL
12 6 (1.37%) Data Mart
12 6 (1.37%) Power Query
12 6 (1.37%) Redis
12 6 (1.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (1.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 5 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.91%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (7.06%) Git
2 24 (5.47%) GitLab
3 23 (5.24%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.05%) Selenium
5 7 (1.59%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.37%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.37%) JIRA
7 5 (1.14%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.68%) Burp Suite
8 3 (0.68%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.68%) NUnit
8 3 (0.68%) Postman
8 3 (0.68%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.46%) AppScan
9 2 (0.46%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.46%) Deequ
9 2 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.46%) Snyk
9 2 (0.46%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 86 (19.59%) Finance
2 80 (18.22%) Social Skills
3 51 (11.62%) Public Sector
4 27 (6.15%) Marketing
5 24 (5.47%) Banking
6 19 (4.33%) Telecoms
7 18 (4.10%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (3.42%) Electronics
8 15 (3.42%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.59%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.14%) Law
10 5 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.91%) Legal
12 3 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.68%) Retail
13 2 (0.46%) Back Office
13 2 (0.46%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.23%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (10.93%) .NET
1 48 (10.93%) PySpark
2 29 (6.61%) ARM Templates
3 24 (5.47%) YAML
4 21 (4.78%) JSON
5 16 (3.64%) Kafka
6 13 (2.96%) Node.js
7 12 (2.73%) React
8 10 (2.28%) .NET Core
8 10 (2.28%) CSS
8 10 (2.28%) HTML
9 7 (1.59%) HTML5
10 6 (1.37%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.37%) XML
11 5 (1.14%) AngularJS
11 5 (1.14%) GraphQL
11 5 (1.14%) pytest
11 5 (1.14%) TensorFlow
12 4 (0.91%) Apache Avro
12 4 (0.91%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 16 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (2.28%) Data Centre
3 9 (2.05%) Product Ownership
4 7 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (1.37%) Onboarding
5 6 (1.37%) Public Cloud
5 6 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.14%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.14%) Market Risk
7 4 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (0.91%) Smart Meter
8 3 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.68%) PKI
8 3 (0.68%) Tandem
9 2 (0.46%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.46%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.46%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.46%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 70 (15.95%) Windows
2 49 (11.16%) Linux
3 32 (7.29%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.73%) Windows 10
5 11 (2.51%) Unix
6 9 (2.05%) Windows 7
7 7 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (1.14%) Alpine Linux
9 5 (1.14%) VMS
10 3 (0.68%) CentOS
10 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.23%) Debian
11 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (47.84%) DevOps
2 127 (28.93%) CI/CD
3 75 (17.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (16.40%) Agile
5 70 (15.95%) Analytics
6 66 (15.03%) ETL
7 58 (13.21%) Business Intelligence
8 54 (12.30%) Data Pipeline
9 52 (11.85%) Data Engineering
10 47 (10.71%) Data Modelling
11 45 (10.25%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (9.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 39 (8.88%) Migration
14 37 (8.43%) Software Engineering
15 31 (7.06%) Continuous Integration
16 27 (6.15%) Scrum
17 26 (5.92%) Containerisation
18 24 (5.47%) Platform Engineering
19 23 (5.24%) Artificial Intelligence
19 23 (5.24%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 137 (31.21%) SQL
2 135 (30.75%) Python
3 95 (21.64%) PowerShell
4 48 (10.93%) C#
5 26 (5.92%) Bicep
6 23 (5.24%) Bash
7 15 (3.42%) Java
8 12 (2.73%) T-SQL
9 11 (2.51%) JavaScript
9 11 (2.51%) Scala
9 11 (2.51%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.59%) Go
10 7 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (1.37%) C++
12 5 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.14%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.91%) Perl
14 3 (0.68%) C
14 3 (0.68%) VB
15 2 (0.46%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 40 (9.11%) Azure Certification
2 39 (8.88%) Security Cleared
3 31 (7.06%) SC Cleared
4 27 (6.15%) Degree
5 15 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.28%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.91%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (0.91%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.46%) CISSP
11 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.23%) CCIE
11 1 (0.23%) CISA
11 1 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.23%) CISM
11 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.23%) MCSE
11 1 (0.23%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.19%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.37%) GDPR
2 6 (1.37%) QA
3 5 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.68%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.23%) GRC
6 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 63 (14.35%) Active Directory
2 53 (12.07%) Docker
3 21 (4.78%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (3.87%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (1.59%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.37%) vSphere
7 5 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (0.91%) NFS
9 3 (0.68%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 105 (23.92%) Terraform
2 74 (16.86%) Kubernetes
3 23 (5.24%) Ansible
4 19 (4.33%) SCCM
5 18 (4.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (2.28%) Grafana
6 10 (2.28%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.05%) SCOM
8 7 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (1.59%) Puppet
9 5 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.91%) Argo
10 4 (0.91%) WSUS
11 2 (0.46%) Graylog
11 2 (0.46%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.46%) Nessus
11 2 (0.46%) Netcool
11 2 (0.46%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.46%) WebInspect
12 1 (0.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 137 (31.21%) Microsoft
2 96 (21.87%) Databricks
3 15 (3.42%) SAP
4 14 (3.19%) VMware
5 8 (1.82%) F5
5 8 (1.82%) Oracle
6 5 (1.14%) Ab Initio
6 5 (1.14%) Cisco
6 5 (1.14%) HP
6 5 (1.14%) Splunk
7 4 (0.91%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.68%) CA
8 3 (0.68%) Checkmarx
8 3 (0.68%) Informatica
8 3 (0.68%) Palo Alto
8 3 (0.68%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.68%) Veracode
9 2 (0.46%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.46%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.46%) Virgin Media