Azure Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > North of England

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £475, 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 133 134 133
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 33 51 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.00% 1.07% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 1.15% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 47 74
10th Percentile £382 £348 £456
25th Percentile £400 £447 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £600
90th Percentile £625 £625 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £566
% change year-on-year -4.76% -7.16% +2.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in the North of England

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in the North of England

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in the North of England

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +3 16 £450 -12.20% 13
Yorkshire -3 9 £425 -10.53% 5
North East +6 7 £550 +10.00% 1
Azure Engineer
England

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

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 North of England region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (48.48%) Microsoft
3 14 (42.42%) DevOps
4 12 (36.36%) Active Directory
4 12 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (33.33%) Entra ID
5 11 (33.33%) Terraform
6 10 (30.30%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (30.30%) Windows
7 9 (27.27%) Kubernetes
7 9 (27.27%) PaaS
8 8 (24.24%) Docker
8 8 (24.24%) Python
8 8 (24.24%) Finance
9 7 (21.21%) Linux
9 7 (21.21%) IaaS
9 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
10 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
10 6 (18.18%) GitLab
10 6 (18.18%) Firewall
11 5 (15.15%) SharePoint
11 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (15.15%) Selenium
11 5 (15.15%) pytest
11 5 (15.15%) Windows Server
11 5 (15.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
12 4 (12.12%) Prometheus
12 4 (12.12%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 4 (12.12%) Grafana

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (15.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 33 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 10 (30.30%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (27.27%) PaaS
6 7 (21.21%) IaaS
7 3 (9.09%) SaaS
8 2 (6.06%) Azure Functions
8 2 (6.06%) NuGet
8 2 (6.06%) Serverless
9 1 (3.03%) Azure AKS
9 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (3.03%) Azure Stack
9 1 (3.03%) OneDrive
9 1 (3.03%) Power Automate
9 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
9 1 (3.03%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.18%) Firewall
2 3 (9.09%) DNS
2 3 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (3.03%) Network Security
3 1 (3.03%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) GitLab
2 5 (15.15%) Selenium
3 2 (6.06%) Artifactory
3 2 (6.06%) JMeter
3 2 (6.06%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.03%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 8 (24.24%) Finance
2 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Banking
3 3 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.06%) Electronics
4 2 (6.06%) Marketing
4 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.06%) Retail
4 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.03%) Legal
5 1 (3.03%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) pytest
2 3 (9.09%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.03%) .NET
3 1 (3.03%) FastAPI
3 1 (3.03%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.03%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (30.30%) Windows
2 7 (21.21%) Linux
3 5 (15.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (15.15%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.06%) Windows 10
4 2 (6.06%) Windows 7
5 1 (3.03%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (3.03%) Unix
5 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) DevOps
2 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (12.12%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 3 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (9.09%) Identity Management
5 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (9.09%) Privileged Identity Management
5 3 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (6.06%) Agile
6 2 (6.06%) Configuration Management
6 2 (6.06%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (6.06%) Information Security
6 2 (6.06%) ITIL
6 2 (6.06%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (6.06%) Programme Management
6 2 (6.06%) Security Operations
6 2 (6.06%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (24.24%) Python
2 3 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.06%) Bicep
3 2 (6.06%) SQL
4 1 (3.03%) Bash
4 1 (3.03%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.03%) CCNA
2 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.03%) MCSE
2 1 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 8 (24.24%) Docker
3 3 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (33.33%) Terraform
2 9 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 4 (12.12%) Grafana
3 4 (12.12%) Prometheus
4 3 (9.09%) SCCM
4 3 (9.09%) WSUS
5 2 (6.06%) Ansible
5 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (6.06%) Progress Chef
5 2 (6.06%) Puppet
6 1 (3.03%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (48.48%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) SAP
3 3 (9.09%) SolarWinds
3 3 (9.09%) VMware
4 2 (6.06%) Ariba
4 2 (6.06%) Dynatrace
4 2 (6.06%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (3.03%) Cisco
5 1 (3.03%) Citrix
5 1 (3.03%) Databricks
5 1 (3.03%) Meraki
5 1 (3.03%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.03%) Veeam