Azure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Microsoft Azure Engineer
Suffolk > Ipswich

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Ipswich is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - 18
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 3.77% - 3.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.08% - 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.38%
Suffolk median daily rate £550 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -15.38%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Ipswich

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Ipswich. 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 Ipswich with a recognized job title 49 40 66
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 81.63% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 19 38
10th Percentile £360 £350 £272
25th Percentile £450 £363 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% -17.39%
75th Percentile £688 £528 £581
90th Percentile £740 £701 £665
Suffolk median daily rate £400 £419 £475
% change year-on-year -4.48% -11.84% -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £16.18 - £16.23
25th Percentile £17.21 - £20.31
Median hourly rate £18.92 £70.00 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year -72.97% +152.25% +70.77%
75th Percentile £20.96 - £35.31
90th Percentile £22.18 - £39.48
Suffolk median hourly rate £21.00 £52.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year -60.00% +275.00% -17.65%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in Ipswich

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

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

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich

For the 6 months to 31 January 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 Ipswich region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) OCR
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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 AI
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) OCR
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI