Azure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Microsoft Azure Engineer
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Hertfordshire is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 - 72
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.28% - 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £575
75th Percentile - - £613
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £450 £275 £463
% change year-on-year +63.64% -40.54% -7.50%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Hertfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hertfordshire. 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 Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 663 353 690
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 94.39% 91.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 168 338
10th Percentile £313 £263 £275
25th Percentile £413 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £458
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +9.29% -8.50%
75th Percentile £638 £603 £636
90th Percentile £750 £675 £750
East of England median daily rate £475 £483 £475
% change year-on-year -1.55% +1.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 76 192
10th Percentile £17.69 £27.33 £35.97
25th Percentile £18.66 £47.20 £42.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £66.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% +1.54% -
75th Percentile £67.75 £75.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £89.88
East of England median hourly rate £22.63 £59.40 £39.55
% change year-on-year -61.90% +50.19% +79.77%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Hertfordshire

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 14 February 2026. 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
Hatfield - 1 £650 - 1
Azure Engineer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 14 February 2026, Azure 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 Hertfordshire region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Cribl.io
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (50.00%) Low-Code
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cribl.io
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (50.00%) Pega
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow