Azure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Microsoft Azure Engineer
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Leicestershire is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 17 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 2.63% 1.01% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.96% 1.06% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% - -
75th Percentile £603 - -
90th Percentile £609 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +18.68% +0.06% -20.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leicestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leicestershire. 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 Leicestershire with a recognized job title 135 94 166
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.82% 94.95% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 71 120
10th Percentile £126 £200 £158
25th Percentile £179 £291 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% +12.15%
75th Percentile £528 £514 £575
90th Percentile £637 £659 £696
East Midlands median daily rate £415 £445 £474
% change year-on-year -6.74% -6.07% +2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 10
10th Percentile £17.05 - £13.04
25th Percentile £20.44 £23.50 £13.37
Median hourly rate £23.00 £24.00 £19.69
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +21.89% +10.93%
75th Percentile £29.31 £24.50 £23.19
90th Percentile £30.25 - £56.90
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.39 £24.18 £18.16
% change year-on-year -11.54% +33.13% +7.04%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

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

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in Leicestershire

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Leicester +4 4 £513 +28.13% 4
Azure Engineer
East Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 4 November 2025, 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 Leicestershire region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) RBAC
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) VMS
3 2 (50.00%) Azure App Service
3 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Storage
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (50.00%) Databricks
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) IaaS
3 2 (50.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (50.00%) PaaS
3 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (50.00%) VPN
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Apache
4 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
4 1 (25.00%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (25.00%) API Management
4 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Synapse
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure App Service
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) dbt
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Spark SQL
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) API Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks