Azure Engineer Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > London

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 150 124
Rank change year-on-year -13 -26 +26
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 209 285 552
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.67% 1.60% 2.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.78% 1.71% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 232 414
10th Percentile £388 £425 £450
25th Percentile £413 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £591 £638 £675
90th Percentile £683 £740 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £566
% change year-on-year -4.76% -7.16% +2.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in London

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in London

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in London

Azure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Engineer in London

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +7 32 £525 -12.50% 7
West London +13 6 £525 +4.48% 2
South London +7 1 £495 -12.78%
North London - 1 £413 - 1
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 London region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 209 (100.00%) Azure
2 92 (44.02%) DevOps
3 79 (37.80%) Terraform
4 77 (36.84%) Azure DevOps
5 66 (31.58%) CI/CD
6 65 (31.10%) Infrastructure as Code
7 55 (26.32%) Python
8 49 (23.44%) Finance
9 47 (22.49%) Kubernetes
10 46 (22.01%) Azure Data Factory
11 42 (20.10%) Microsoft
12 41 (19.62%) Migration
12 41 (19.62%) Social Skills
13 40 (19.14%) Agile
14 39 (18.66%) PowerShell
14 39 (18.66%) Firewall
15 38 (18.18%) SQL
16 36 (17.22%) Databricks
17 35 (16.75%) Security Cleared
18 33 (15.79%) Azure AKS
19 31 (14.83%) DNS
19 31 (14.83%) Analytics
20 30 (14.35%) Azure Monitor
21 29 (13.88%) Problem-Solving
22 25 (11.96%) SC Cleared
23 24 (11.48%) C#
23 24 (11.48%) Windows
23 24 (11.48%) GitHub
24 23 (11.00%) Entra ID
24 23 (11.00%) Power Platform

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 8 (3.83%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.87%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.91%) Apache
5 2 (0.96%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.96%) IIS
5 2 (0.96%) nginx
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.48%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.48%) JBoss
6 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 209 (100.00%) Azure
2 77 (36.84%) Azure DevOps
3 46 (22.01%) Azure Data Factory
4 33 (15.79%) Azure AKS
5 30 (14.35%) Azure Monitor
6 24 (11.48%) GitHub
7 23 (11.00%) Entra ID
7 23 (11.00%) Power Platform
8 22 (10.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 20 (9.57%) AWS
10 19 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 15 (7.18%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (6.22%) IaaS
12 13 (6.22%) Serverless
13 12 (5.74%) Azure Sentinel
13 12 (5.74%) PaaS
14 8 (3.83%) Azure Functions
14 8 (3.83%) Azure Machine Learning
14 8 (3.83%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (3.83%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 39 (18.66%) Firewall
2 31 (14.83%) DNS
3 23 (11.00%) VPN
4 16 (7.66%) NGFW
5 7 (3.35%) MPLS
5 7 (3.35%) Network Security
6 4 (1.91%) WAN
7 2 (0.96%) FTP
7 2 (0.96%) HTTP
7 2 (0.96%) Internet
7 2 (0.96%) LAN
7 2 (0.96%) SAN
7 2 (0.96%) SMTP
7 2 (0.96%) SSL
7 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.96%) VLAN
7 2 (0.96%) Wireless
8 1 (0.48%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.48%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.05%) Power BI
2 17 (8.13%) SQL Server
3 13 (6.22%) Data Lake
4 9 (4.31%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.87%) Delta Lake
7 5 (2.39%) Big Data
7 5 (2.39%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.91%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.91%) Neo4j
8 4 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.44%) Metadata
9 3 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.96%) Apache Hive
10 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.96%) Tableau
11 1 (0.48%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (7.18%) GitLab
2 10 (4.78%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.83%) Git
4 6 (2.87%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.44%) JIRA
6 2 (0.96%) Maven
6 2 (0.96%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.48%) Ant
7 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.48%) Gradle
7 1 (0.48%) Poetry
7 1 (0.48%) Postman
7 1 (0.48%) Selenium
7 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 49 (23.44%) Finance
2 41 (19.62%) Social Skills
3 23 (11.00%) Banking
4 21 (10.05%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.83%) Investment Banking
6 7 (3.35%) Front Office
7 6 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.39%) Law
8 5 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.91%) Marketing
10 2 (0.96%) Local Government
10 2 (0.96%) Retail
10 2 (0.96%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.48%) Electronics
11 1 (0.48%) Legal
11 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.48%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.09%) .NET
2 17 (8.13%) ADO
3 13 (6.22%) ARM Templates
4 11 (5.26%) YAML
5 7 (3.35%) REST
6 6 (2.87%) PySpark
6 6 (2.87%) React
7 5 (2.39%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (2.39%) Web Services
8 4 (1.91%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.91%) Entity Framework
8 4 (1.91%) JSON
8 4 (1.91%) Kafka
8 4 (1.91%) Plotly
8 4 (1.91%) WCF
9 3 (1.44%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.44%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (1.44%) Autofac
9 3 (1.44%) Dapper ORM
9 3 (1.44%) StructureMap
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.66%) Anti-Spyware
2 11 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.31%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.91%) Clustering
4 4 (1.91%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.91%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.91%) Replication
4 4 (1.91%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.44%) BYOD
5 3 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.44%) N-Tier
6 2 (0.96%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.96%) Derivative
6 2 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.96%) Equities
6 2 (0.96%) Fixed Income
6 2 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.96%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.48%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.48%) Windows
2 21 (10.05%) Linux
3 12 (5.74%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.87%) Unix
6 4 (1.91%) VMS
7 2 (0.96%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.48%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (44.02%) DevOps
2 66 (31.58%) CI/CD
3 65 (31.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (19.62%) Migration
5 40 (19.14%) Agile
6 31 (14.83%) Analytics
7 29 (13.88%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (10.05%) Cloud Security
8 21 (10.05%) Data Engineering
8 21 (10.05%) ETL
8 21 (10.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 18 (8.61%) Data Pipeline
10 16 (7.66%) Kalman Filter
11 15 (7.18%) Data Integration
12 14 (6.70%) Platform Engineering
13 13 (6.22%) Business Intelligence
14 12 (5.74%) Containerisation
14 12 (5.74%) DevSecOps
14 12 (5.74%) RBAC
15 11 (5.26%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (26.32%) Python
2 39 (18.66%) PowerShell
3 38 (18.18%) SQL
4 24 (11.48%) C#
5 21 (10.05%) Bicep
6 19 (9.09%) Bash
7 16 (7.66%) JavaScript
8 15 (7.18%) Java
9 7 (3.35%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.91%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (1.91%) Scala
11 3 (1.44%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.48%) Groovy
12 1 (0.48%) Perl
12 1 (0.48%) PHP
12 1 (0.48%) R
12 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (16.75%) Security Cleared
2 25 (11.96%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.70%) Azure Certification
4 12 (5.74%) Degree
5 5 (2.39%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.44%) MCPD
6 3 (1.44%) MCSD
7 2 (0.96%) VCAP
7 2 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.48%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.48%) CCNA
8 1 (0.48%) CCNP
8 1 (0.48%) CCSA
8 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.48%) CISSP
8 1 (0.48%) RHCE
8 1 (0.48%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.35%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.96%) GDPR
2 2 (0.96%) NIST
2 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.48%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 1 (0.48%) GxP
3 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 21 (10.05%) Docker
3 9 (4.31%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.96%) vSphere
5 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.48%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 79 (37.80%) Terraform
2 47 (22.49%) Kubernetes
3 15 (7.18%) Ansible
4 10 (4.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (4.31%) Puppet
6 5 (2.39%) Salt
7 3 (1.44%) Grafana
7 3 (1.44%) SCCM
8 2 (0.96%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.48%) Packer
9 1 (0.48%) Podman
9 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (20.10%) Microsoft
2 36 (17.22%) Databricks
3 18 (8.61%) CheckPoint
4 17 (8.13%) Infoblox
5 16 (7.66%) Palo Alto
6 8 (3.83%) Cloudera
7 6 (2.87%) VMware
8 5 (2.39%) Informatica
8 5 (2.39%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.91%) Palantir
10 3 (1.44%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.44%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.44%) SAP
10 3 (1.44%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.44%) Splunk
11 2 (0.96%) Atempo
11 2 (0.96%) Citrix
11 2 (0.96%) Forcepoint
11 2 (0.96%) Oracle
11 2 (0.96%) Qualys