Azure Engineer Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > London

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in London is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 July 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
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 141 145
Rank change year-on-year -29 +4 +14
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 217 321 483
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.64% 1.82% 1.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.76% 1.94% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 261 365
10th Percentile £388 £413 £400
25th Percentile £406 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £650
90th Percentile £683 £688 £725
England median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -2.22%

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 12,345 16,548 24,144
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.37% 93.91% 94.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,339 11,851 17,636
10th Percentile £332 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 310 273
10th Percentile £18.87 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.60 £20.31 £22.75
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.81 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +16.86% -25.52% +6.69%
75th Percentile £50.63 £46.05 £65.00
90th Percentile £64.25 £68.08 £82.45
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £43.69
% change year-on-year -30.00% -8.45% +74.76%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -3 33 £525 -6.67% 19
West London +10 4 £552 +16.21% 4
North London - 1 £413 - 4
South London - 1 £495 - 2
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 July 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.

1 217 (100.00%) Azure
2 102 (47.00%) DevOps
3 84 (38.71%) Terraform
4 74 (34.10%) Azure DevOps
5 73 (33.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 73 (33.64%) CI/CD
6 71 (32.72%) Python
7 56 (25.81%) SQL
8 54 (24.88%) Microsoft
9 52 (23.96%) Azure Data Factory
10 48 (22.12%) Finance
11 47 (21.66%) Databricks
12 46 (21.20%) Migration
13 44 (20.28%) Social Skills
14 42 (19.35%) Kubernetes
14 42 (19.35%) Agile
15 41 (18.89%) PowerShell
16 34 (15.67%) Analytics
17 33 (15.21%) Data Engineering
18 32 (14.75%) Azure Monitor
18 32 (14.75%) Security Cleared
18 32 (14.75%) Firewall
19 29 (13.36%) Banking
19 29 (13.36%) Bash
19 29 (13.36%) Data Pipeline
19 29 (13.36%) GitHub
20 28 (12.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 28 (12.90%) DNS
20 28 (12.90%) ETL
21 27 (12.44%) SC Cleared

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 (3.69%) Apache Spark
1 8 (3.69%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.30%) Apache
3 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.92%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.92%) JBoss
4 2 (0.92%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.46%) DataSynapse
5 1 (0.46%) IIS
5 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.46%) nginx
5 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Endur
1 1 (0.46%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.46%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 217 (100.00%) Azure
2 74 (34.10%) Azure DevOps
3 52 (23.96%) Azure Data Factory
4 32 (14.75%) Azure Monitor
5 29 (13.36%) GitHub
6 28 (12.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 26 (11.98%) Entra ID
8 25 (11.52%) AWS
8 25 (11.52%) Azure AKS
9 21 (9.68%) Power Platform
10 20 (9.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 13 (5.99%) Azure Sentinel
11 13 (5.99%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (5.53%) SaaS
13 9 (4.15%) IaaS
13 9 (4.15%) Microsoft Purview
13 9 (4.15%) PaaS
14 8 (3.69%) GCP
14 8 (3.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 32 (14.75%) Firewall
2 28 (12.90%) DNS
3 24 (11.06%) VPN
4 16 (7.37%) NGFW
5 10 (4.61%) Network Security
6 3 (1.38%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.92%) FTP
7 2 (0.92%) HTTP
7 2 (0.92%) MPLS
7 2 (0.92%) SMTP
7 2 (0.92%) SSL
7 2 (0.92%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.52%) Data Lake
2 19 (8.76%) Power BI
3 17 (7.83%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (7.37%) SQL Server
5 11 (5.07%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (4.15%) Big Data
6 9 (4.15%) Delta Lake
6 9 (4.15%) NoSQL
7 7 (3.23%) Metadata
8 4 (1.84%) HPCC
8 4 (1.84%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.38%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.38%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.46%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.46%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.46%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.46%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (9.22%) GitLab
2 16 (7.37%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.99%) Git
4 9 (4.15%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (3.23%) Maven
6 6 (2.76%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.30%) Gradle
8 3 (1.38%) JIRA
9 2 (0.92%) Ant
9 2 (0.92%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.46%) git-flow
10 1 (0.46%) MLflow
10 1 (0.46%) Poetry
10 1 (0.46%) Postman
10 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (22.12%) Finance
2 44 (20.28%) Social Skills
3 29 (13.36%) Banking
4 18 (8.29%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.15%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.30%) Front Office
8 4 (1.84%) Law
9 3 (1.38%) Local Government
9 3 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.92%) Retail
10 2 (0.92%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.46%) Games
11 1 (0.46%) iGaming
11 1 (0.46%) Legal
11 1 (0.46%) Marketing
11 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.46%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.44%) ARM Templates
2 22 (10.14%) ADO
3 16 (7.37%) .NET
4 12 (5.53%) PySpark
5 11 (5.07%) YAML
6 8 (3.69%) JSON
6 8 (3.69%) Kafka
7 5 (2.30%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (2.30%) REST
7 5 (2.30%) XML
8 4 (1.84%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.84%) Entity Framework
8 4 (1.84%) HTML
8 4 (1.84%) Web Services
9 3 (1.38%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.38%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (1.38%) Autofac
9 3 (1.38%) Dapper ORM
9 3 (1.38%) React
9 3 (1.38%) StructureMap
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.37%) Anti-Spyware
2 10 (4.61%) Cloud Native
3 6 (2.76%) Legacy Applications
4 5 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.30%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.84%) Clustering
6 3 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.38%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.38%) NHS
6 3 (1.38%) N-Tier
7 2 (0.92%) Data Fabric
7 2 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.92%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.46%) BYOD
8 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.46%) Life Science
8 1 (0.46%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.46%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.14%) Linux
2 21 (9.68%) Windows
3 12 (5.53%) Unix
4 9 (4.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (4.15%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.84%) VMS
6 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (47.00%) DevOps
2 73 (33.64%) CI/CD
2 73 (33.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 46 (21.20%) Migration
4 42 (19.35%) Agile
5 34 (15.67%) Analytics
6 33 (15.21%) Data Engineering
7 29 (13.36%) Data Pipeline
8 28 (12.90%) ETL
9 24 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (10.14%) Data Modelling
11 19 (8.76%) Containerisation
11 19 (8.76%) Infrastructure Automation
12 18 (8.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 16 (7.37%) Cloud Security
13 16 (7.37%) Data Integration
13 16 (7.37%) Kalman Filter
13 16 (7.37%) Machine Learning
14 15 (6.91%) Platform Engineering
15 14 (6.45%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 71 (32.72%) Python
2 56 (25.81%) SQL
3 41 (18.89%) PowerShell
4 29 (13.36%) Bash
5 22 (10.14%) Bicep
5 22 (10.14%) C#
6 15 (6.91%) Java
7 10 (4.61%) Scala
8 8 (3.69%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.76%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.84%) C
10 4 (1.84%) C++
11 3 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.38%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.92%) Groovy
13 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.46%) Go
13 1 (0.46%) Perl
13 1 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 27 (12.44%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.29%) Azure Certification
4 9 (4.15%) Degree
5 7 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.38%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.38%) MCPD
6 3 (1.38%) MCSD
7 2 (0.92%) VCAP
7 2 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.46%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.46%) CISSP
8 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.46%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.46%) RHCE
8 1 (0.46%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.07%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.23%) GDPR
2 7 (3.23%) PCI DSS
3 6 (2.76%) NIST
4 4 (1.84%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.38%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.38%) QA
6 1 (0.46%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.46%) GxP
6 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (10.14%) Docker
2 21 (9.68%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.69%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.84%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.92%) vSphere
6 1 (0.46%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 84 (38.71%) Terraform
2 42 (19.35%) Kubernetes
3 12 (5.53%) Ansible
4 9 (4.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (3.69%) Puppet
6 4 (1.84%) Grafana
6 4 (1.84%) Salt
7 3 (1.38%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.38%) Nessus
8 2 (0.92%) Argo
8 2 (0.92%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.92%) Istio
8 2 (0.92%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.92%) Podman
8 2 (0.92%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.92%) QRadar
8 2 (0.92%) SCCM
8 2 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.46%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 54 (24.88%) Microsoft
2 47 (21.66%) Databricks
3 16 (7.37%) CheckPoint
3 16 (7.37%) Infoblox
3 16 (7.37%) Palo Alto
4 8 (3.69%) Informatica
5 4 (1.84%) Cloudera
5 4 (1.84%) VMware
5 4 (1.84%) Zscaler
6 3 (1.38%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.38%) Palantir
6 3 (1.38%) Qualys
6 3 (1.38%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.38%) SAP
7 2 (0.92%) Atempo
7 2 (0.92%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.92%) F5
7 2 (0.92%) Oracle
7 2 (0.92%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.92%) SolarWinds