Azure Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in London

Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > London

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 369 457
Rank change year-on-year +38 +88 +77
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Infrastructure Engineer 17 18 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 18
10th Percentile £400 £265 £389
25th Percentile £406 £394 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +17.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £594 £584
90th Percentile £686 £768 £588
England median daily rate £550 £550 £463
% change year-on-year - +18.92% -7.50%

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 11,530 16,334 24,760
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.31% 93.45% 95.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,871 11,818 17,998
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £428 £443 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 318 281
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.07 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.64% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £50.50 £46.05 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.88 £65.32 £82.25
England median hourly rate £29.15 £37.18 £44.77
% change year-on-year -21.60% -16.94% +94.63%

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in London

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in London

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Infrastructure Engineer in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in London

Azure Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 21 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 +12 6 £550 -29.03%
Azure Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 2025, Azure Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (94.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (64.71%) Windows
4 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
4 10 (58.82%) Active Directory
5 7 (41.18%) DevOps
5 7 (41.18%) Windows Server
6 6 (35.29%) Terraform
6 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
6 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
7 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
7 5 (29.41%) SaaS
7 5 (29.41%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (23.53%) Firewall
8 4 (23.53%) DNS
8 4 (23.53%) Service Delivery
8 4 (23.53%) Information Security
8 4 (23.53%) Entra ID
8 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (23.53%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Management
9 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (17.65%) VMware
9 3 (17.65%) Finance
10 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
10 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (11.76%) MPLS

Azure Infrastructure 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 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) SaaS
3 4 (23.53%) Entra ID
4 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (11.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (11.76%) GitHub
5 2 (11.76%) IaaS
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (5.88%) Nutanix
6 1 (5.88%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) DNS
1 4 (23.53%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) MPLS
2 2 (11.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Spanish Language
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (11.76%) Clustering
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Windows
2 7 (41.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (41.18%) DevOps
3 5 (29.41%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (23.53%) Information Security
4 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) Service Delivery
5 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (11.76%) Change Control
6 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
6 2 (11.76%) Cloud Operations
6 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
6 2 (11.76%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
6 2 (11.76%) Time Management
6 2 (11.76%) Virtual Environments
7 1 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (5.88%) Migration
7 1 (5.88%) Process Improvement
7 1 (5.88%) Runbook
7 1 (5.88%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) VCAP
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Terraform
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (11.76%) FortiGate
3 2 (11.76%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) VMware
3 2 (11.76%) Atempo
3 2 (11.76%) Databricks
3 2 (11.76%) F5
3 2 (11.76%) Fortinet
3 2 (11.76%) Mellanox
3 2 (11.76%) Netskope
3 2 (11.76%) Splunk
4 1 (5.88%) Commvault