Azure Software Engineer Contracts in London

Software Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > London

The median Software Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in London is £700, 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 344 373 460
Rank change year-on-year +29 +87 +113
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Software Engineer 9 18 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.072% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 32
10th Percentile £494 £475 £601
25th Percentile £644 £594 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £725 £700 £700
90th Percentile £778 £740 £734
England median daily rate £575 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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 Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Software Engineer in London

Azure Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Software Engineer in London

Azure Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Software Engineer in London

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

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

1 9 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (77.78%) C#
2 7 (77.78%) .NET
3 5 (55.56%) Front Office
4 4 (44.44%) Agile
4 4 (44.44%) Banking
4 4 (44.44%) Investment Banking
4 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
4 4 (44.44%) Bicep
5 3 (33.33%) DevOps
5 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
5 3 (33.33%) Python
6 2 (22.22%) Finance
6 2 (22.22%) Scrum
6 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (22.22%) Terraform
6 2 (22.22%) Databricks
6 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (22.22%) Serverless
6 2 (22.22%) Low Latency
6 2 (22.22%) Docker
6 2 (22.22%) GitHub
6 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (22.22%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (22.22%) Azure Functions
6 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
7 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
7 1 (11.11%) Containerisation

Azure Software 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 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Functions
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (22.22%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Stack
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Big Data
1 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 5 (55.56%) Front Office
2 4 (44.44%) Banking
2 4 (44.44%) Investment Banking
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) NumPy
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
2 1 (11.11%) OpenID
2 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (11.11%) Pandas
2 1 (11.11%) PySpark
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (11.11%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Low Latency
4 2 (22.22%) Scrum
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
5 1 (11.11%) Code Quality
5 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 1 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (11.11%) Digital Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
5 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) C#
2 4 (44.44%) Bicep
3 3 (33.33%) Python
4 1 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft