Azure Engineer Contracts in Kent

Microsoft Azure Engineer
South East > Kent

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Kent is £569, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 26 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 10 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 8.77% 0.48% -
As % of the Job Titles category 9.71% 0.52% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile £373 - -
25th Percentile £375 £473 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £495 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.85% - -
75th Percentile £618 £518 -
90th Percentile £623 - -
South East median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.57% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Kent

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Kent. 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 Kent with a recognized job title 103 192 205
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.35% 92.31% 98.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 112 169
10th Percentile £160 £193 £135
25th Percentile £205 £254 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £388 £350
Median % change year-on-year -14.19% +10.71% -18.60%
75th Percentile £488 £525 £494
90th Percentile £618 £598 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 31 7
10th Percentile £28.71 £11.45 £42.78
25th Percentile £39.63 £12.88 £50.38
Median hourly rate £57.84 £58.91 £56.47
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.31% +144.99%
75th Percentile £76.04 £75.16 £62.25
90th Percentile £86.96 £82.43 £71.72
South East median hourly rate £33.47 £48.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -30.28% -4.00% +143.90%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in Kent

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in Kent

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in Kent over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in Kent

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent region over the 6 months to 30 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
Dover - 4 £375 -
Maidstone - 4 £615 - 6
Azure Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, 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 Kent region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) DHCP
1 10 (100.00%) DNS
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) vSphere
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) IaaS
2 6 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (60.00%) Security Patching
2 6 (60.00%) DFS Replication
2 6 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (60.00%) ITIL
2 6 (60.00%) Firewall
2 6 (60.00%) SAN
2 6 (60.00%) SLA
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (50.00%) DevOps
4 4 (40.00%) Confluence
4 4 (40.00%) Citrix
4 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
4 4 (40.00%) VPN
4 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (40.00%) Tivoli
4 4 (40.00%) SSL
4 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
4 4 (40.00%) Veeam
4 4 (40.00%) SolarWinds

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 4 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) IaaS
3 3 (30.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) DHCP
1 10 (100.00%) DNS
2 6 (60.00%) Firewall
2 6 (60.00%) SAN
3 4 (40.00%) SSL
3 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (40.00%) VLAN
3 4 (40.00%) VPN
4 3 (30.00%) Fibre Channel
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (60.00%) ITIL
2 6 (60.00%) Security Patching
3 5 (50.00%) DevOps
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) vSphere
2 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (60.00%) DFS Replication
2 6 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (40.00%) Citrix
3 4 (40.00%) SolarWinds
3 4 (40.00%) Veeam