Azure Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Microsoft Azure Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £450, 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 68 73 81
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 +21
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 11 23 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.19% 1.52% 1.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.27% 1.58% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 22 34
10th Percentile £400 £450 £463
25th Percentile £422 £463 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £550 £600 £584
90th Percentile £625 £649 £633
North West median daily rate £450 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -12.20% -2.38% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 867 1,456 1,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 95.98% 96.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 1,007 1,360
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £588
90th Percentile £674 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 84 55
10th Percentile - £12.07 £14.10
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £25.10 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -28.30% +100.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £48.13
90th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £68.40
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in Manchester

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in Manchester

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Manchester region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
3 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 5 (45.45%) Terraform
4 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Python
4 4 (36.36%) Docker
5 3 (27.27%) GitLab
5 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
5 3 (27.27%) SaaS
5 3 (27.27%) PaaS
5 3 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
5 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (27.27%) IaaS
5 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
5 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (27.27%) Linux
5 3 (27.27%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
6 2 (18.18%) Privileged Identity Management
6 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
6 2 (18.18%) Grafana
6 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (18.18%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 2 (18.18%) Identity Management
6 2 (18.18%) Active Directory

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
3 3 (27.27%) IaaS
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (27.27%) PaaS
3 3 (27.27%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) pytest
2 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
2 1 (9.09%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
3 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (18.18%) Identity Management
3 2 (18.18%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 2 (18.18%) Privileged Identity Management
4 1 (9.09%) Information Security
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Release Management
4 1 (9.09%) Security Operations
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Bicep
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 5 (45.45%) Terraform
3 2 (18.18%) Grafana
3 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft