Azure Platform Engineer Contracts in London

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > London

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in London is £400, 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 343 377 480
Rank change year-on-year +34 +103 +98
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 10 14 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.080% 0.079% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.084% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 10
10th Percentile - £377 £392
25th Percentile £313 £406 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £488 £519
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% -6.02% -1.19%
75th Percentile £438 £594 £666
90th Percentile £600 £639 £725
England median daily rate £475 £500 £581
% change year-on-year -5.00% -13.98% +10.71%

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 Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Platform Engineer in London

Azure Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Platform Engineer in London

Azure Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Platform Engineer in London

Azure Platform 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 Platform 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 +5 2 £413 -35.29% 2
Azure Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Azure Platform 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 9 (90.00%) DevOps
2 9 (90.00%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (60.00%) Terraform
5 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
5 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (40.00%) Bicep
6 4 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (40.00%) API Management
6 4 (40.00%) Azure AKS
6 4 (40.00%) Firewall
6 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
6 4 (40.00%) Serverless
7 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
7 3 (30.00%) Azure Functions
7 3 (30.00%) API Integration
7 3 (30.00%) GitHub
7 3 (30.00%) Linux
7 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
7 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
7 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (30.00%) RBAC
7 3 (30.00%) GitOps
8 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
8 2 (20.00%) Finance
8 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (10.00%) Databricks
9 1 (10.00%) IaaS

Azure Platform 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (90.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Azure AKS
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (40.00%) Serverless
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Functions
4 3 (30.00%) GitHub
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (10.00%) IaaS
5 1 (10.00%) PaaS
5 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 9 (90.00%) DevOps
3 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (40.00%) API Management
6 3 (30.00%) API Integration
6 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
6 3 (30.00%) GitOps
6 3 (30.00%) RBAC
7 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (10.00%) Cost Management
8 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 1 (10.00%) Microservices
8 1 (10.00%) Migration
8 1 (10.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Bicep
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft