Azure Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £438 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 120 130
Rank change year-on-year +6 +10 -25
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 17 46 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.63% 1.37% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 1.45% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 36 48
10th Percentile £365 £433 £404
25th Percentile £384 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -2.33% +24.64%
75th Percentile £492 £625 £600
90th Percentile £545 £681 £675
England median daily rate £525 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -7.94% +3.68% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,501 3,176 4,746
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.95% 94.72% 95.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,688 2,232 3,470
10th Percentile £213 £220 £213
25th Percentile £325 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +2.70% +15.63%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £554
90th Percentile £688 £680 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 123 164
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.10 £10.56
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.12 £14.24
Median hourly rate £19.36 £20.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year -3.21% +14.42% +15.08%
75th Percentile £35.00 £29.25 £22.25
90th Percentile £52.45 £63.50 £34.85
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
% change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in the Midlands

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in the Midlands

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in the Midlands

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
West Midlands 0 14 £438 -20.45% 10
East Midlands +22 3 £444 -0.84% 5
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, 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 Midlands region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (47.06%) DevOps
3 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
4 6 (35.29%) Public Sector
5 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
5 5 (29.41%) SQL
6 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
6 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (23.53%) Azure Certification
6 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (23.53%) Terraform
7 3 (17.65%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
7 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
7 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
7 3 (17.65%) JSON
7 3 (17.65%) Git
7 3 (17.65%) PaaS
7 3 (17.65%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (17.65%) IaaS
7 3 (17.65%) Windows
7 3 (17.65%) ETL
7 3 (17.65%) Firewall
7 3 (17.65%) DNS
7 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (17.65%) Agile
8 2 (11.76%) ITIL
8 2 (11.76%) Degree

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) IaaS
3 3 (17.65%) PaaS
3 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.88%) Azure App Service
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
5 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) DNS
1 3 (17.65%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) VPN
3 1 (5.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
2 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) Power BI
3 1 (5.88%) Big Data
3 1 (5.88%) OLAP
3 1 (5.88%) OLAP Cube
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Redis
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Hudson
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (5.88%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (35.29%) Public Sector
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Law
3 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) JSON
2 2 (11.76%) YAML
3 1 (5.88%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
1 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (5.88%) Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) DevOps
2 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
2 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
4 3 (17.65%) ETL
5 2 (11.76%) API Management
5 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (11.76%) Dependency Management
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) ITIL
5 2 (11.76%) Server Management
6 1 (5.88%) A/B Testing
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Operations
6 1 (5.88%) Compliance Management
6 1 (5.88%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (5.88%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.76%) Bicep
3 2 (11.76%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Azure Certification
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (5.88%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Terraform
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) Argo
3 1 (5.88%) Istio
3 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.88%) linkerd
3 1 (5.88%) SCCM
3 1 (5.88%) SELinux
3 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) Cognos
3 1 (5.88%) JD Edwards
3 1 (5.88%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.88%) VMware