Azure Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Azure Security Engineer
England > London

The median Azure Security Engineer daily rate in London is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 365 447
Rank change year-on-year -7 +82 +138
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Security Engineer 1 12 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.007% 0.074% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% 0.078% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 6
10th Percentile - £405 £419
25th Percentile £350 £506 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £600 £584
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +2.78% -22.17%
75th Percentile £450 £643 £644
90th Percentile - £665 -
England median daily rate £475 £593 £600
% change year-on-year -19.83% -1.25% -10.45%

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 12,486 15,331 20,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.03% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,366 10,240 15,087
10th Percentile £331 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 180 230
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.48 £18.15
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £22.26
Median hourly rate £30.25 £35.00 £36.94
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% -5.25% +15.44%
75th Percentile £51.81 £56.38 £63.44
90th Percentile £66.54 £72.19 £76.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

Azure Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Security Engineer in London

Azure Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Security Engineer job vacancies in London

Azure Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Azure Security 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 Security Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security

Azure Security 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft