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 £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 July 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
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 117 112
Rank change year-on-year -30 -5 +31
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 24 63 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.66% 1.30% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 1.41% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 57 88
10th Percentile £400 £318 £463
25th Percentile £413 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.64%
75th Percentile £541 £614 £600
90th Percentile £626 £643 £695
England median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -2.22%

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 3,368 4,477 5,234
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.12% 92.69% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,217 2,729 3,627
10th Percentile £261 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £388 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% -3.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 433 179
10th Percentile £12.76 £11.11 £14.49
25th Percentile £14.20 £13.31 £17.71
Median hourly rate £22.45 £24.19 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.21% -8.72% +32.50%
75th Percentile £50.00 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.02 £68.32 £56.62
England median hourly rate £28.34 £40.00 £43.93
% change year-on-year -29.15% -8.95% +75.72%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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
Yorkshire -14 11 £495 -1.00% 27
North West -19 8 £438 -16.67% 44
North East +1 5 £500 +207.69% 3
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 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 24 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (41.67%) Windows
2 10 (41.67%) DevOps
3 9 (37.50%) Terraform
4 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 8 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 8 (33.33%) PaaS
5 7 (29.17%) Finance
5 7 (29.17%) Windows Server
5 7 (29.17%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (29.17%) Entra ID
6 6 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (25.00%) IaaS
7 5 (20.83%) DNS
7 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (20.83%) Docker
7 5 (20.83%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
8 4 (16.67%) SharePoint
8 4 (16.67%) Firewall
8 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (16.67%) SolarWinds
8 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
8 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
8 4 (16.67%) Cloud Security
9 3 (12.50%) Azure Certification
9 3 (12.50%) Information Security
9 3 (12.50%) NHS
9 3 (12.50%) Migration
9 3 (12.50%) VMware

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 4 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) PaaS
3 7 (29.17%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (29.17%) Entra ID
4 6 (25.00%) IaaS
4 6 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Functions
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (8.33%) NuGet
6 2 (8.33%) Serverless
7 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Fabric
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Stack
7 1 (4.17%) OneDrive
7 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
7 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) DNS
2 4 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (4.17%) Network Security
3 1 (4.17%) SAN
3 1 (4.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Power BI
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Artifactory
1 2 (8.33%) JMeter
1 2 (8.33%) Selenium
1 2 (8.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (4.17%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 7 (29.17%) Finance
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Legal
5 1 (4.17%) Local Government
5 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.17%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (4.17%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.17%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.17%) FastAPI
2 1 (4.17%) FHIR
2 1 (4.17%) Next.js
2 1 (4.17%) Node.js
2 1 (4.17%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (4.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 3 (12.50%) NHS
2 2 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (41.67%) Windows
2 7 (29.17%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.17%) Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Unix
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) DevOps
2 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 3 (12.50%) Agile
4 3 (12.50%) Fintech
4 3 (12.50%) Information Security
4 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (12.50%) Migration
4 3 (12.50%) Security Operations
4 3 (12.50%) Server Hardening
5 2 (8.33%) Analytics
5 2 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (8.33%) Configuration Management
5 2 (8.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (8.33%) Data Loss Prevention
6 1 (4.17%) Clean Code
6 1 (4.17%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (4.17%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.33%) Bicep
2 2 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (4.17%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.17%) CCNA
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.17%) MCSE
3 1 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.17%) NIST
1 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (20.83%) Docker
2 5 (20.83%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Terraform
2 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.33%) Ansible
3 2 (8.33%) Progress Chef
3 2 (8.33%) Puppet
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.17%) QRadar
4 1 (4.17%) SCCM
4 1 (4.17%) vCenter Server
4 1 (4.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) SolarWinds
3 3 (12.50%) VMware
4 2 (8.33%) Darktrace
4 2 (8.33%) Dynatrace
4 2 (8.33%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (8.33%) Zscaler
5 1 (4.17%) Brio
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco
5 1 (4.17%) Citrix
5 1 (4.17%) Meraki
5 1 (4.17%) OpenAI
5 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.17%) Veeam