Azure Engineer Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > North West

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in the North West 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 104 107 98
Rank change year-on-year +3 -9 +25
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 16 30 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.81% 1.09% 1.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 1.15% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 29 51
10th Percentile £258 £403 £456
25th Percentile £400 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £550 £600 £594
90th Percentile £595 £644 £693
England median daily rate £500 £525 £566
% change year-on-year -4.76% -7.16% +2.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 1,821 2,603 3,030
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 94.48% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,205 1,698 2,172
10th Percentile £250 £281 £300
25th Percentile £378 £393 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £588
90th Percentile £652 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 266 133
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.07 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%
75th Percentile £59.24 £46.18 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.41 £63.75 £65.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in the North West

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in the North West

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in the North West

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +5 11 £450 -14.29% 9
Merseyside +5 3 £175 +4.48%
Cheshire 0 1 - - 2
Lancashire - 1 £525 - 3
Azure Engineer
England

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

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 West region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 7 (43.75%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (43.75%) Entra ID
4 6 (37.50%) DevOps
4 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
5 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
5 5 (31.25%) Terraform
5 5 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (25.00%) Windows
6 4 (25.00%) Linux
6 4 (25.00%) Python
6 4 (25.00%) SharePoint
6 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (25.00%) Finance
6 4 (25.00%) Docker
7 3 (18.75%) Data Quality
7 3 (18.75%) IaaS
7 3 (18.75%) GitLab
7 3 (18.75%) SaaS
7 3 (18.75%) PaaS
7 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (18.75%) Banking
7 3 (18.75%) Firewall
7 3 (18.75%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 2 (12.50%) Windows 10

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) Entra ID
2 7 (43.75%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) IaaS
4 3 (18.75%) PaaS
4 3 (18.75%) SaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
5 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
1 3 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (6.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) GitLab
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Legal
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) pytest
2 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
2 1 (6.25%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Windows 10
3 2 (12.50%) Windows 7
4 1 (6.25%) Unix
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) DevOps
2 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (18.75%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 2 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (12.50%) Identity Management
4 2 (12.50%) Information Security
4 2 (12.50%) ITIL
4 2 (12.50%) Privileged Identity Management
4 2 (12.50%) Security Operations
5 1 (6.25%) Agile
5 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security
5 1 (6.25%) E-Discovery
5 1 (6.25%) High Availability
5 1 (6.25%) Process Improvement
5 1 (6.25%) RBAC
5 1 (6.25%) Release Management
5 1 (6.25%) Server Hardening
5 1 (6.25%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Bicep
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) MCSE
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 4 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (31.25%) Terraform
3 2 (12.50%) Grafana
3 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 2 (12.50%) SCCM
4 1 (6.25%) vCenter Server
4 1 (6.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Citrix
2 1 (6.25%) VMware