Azure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Preston

Microsoft Azure Engineer
Lancashire > Preston

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Preston is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 16 18
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 3.13% 1.47% 1.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.49% 1.54% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £588 £538 £488
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median daily rate £575 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +9.52% +10.53% -32.14%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Preston

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Preston. 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 Preston with a recognized job title 86 65 49
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.58% 95.59% 70.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 45 31
10th Percentile £278 £350 £241
25th Percentile £575 £447 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £712 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +32.38% -6.43% +29.93%
75th Percentile £950 £600 £639
90th Percentile - £671 £775
Lancashire median daily rate £600 £530 £500
% change year-on-year +13.21% +6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 12
10th Percentile £31.66 £24.48 -
25th Percentile £37.25 £26.88 £11.77
Median hourly rate £42.69 £28.75 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +48.47% -28.57% -2.71%
75th Percentile £71.48 £30.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.71 £44.13 £47.82
Lancashire median hourly rate £45.56 £28.75 £40.33
% change year-on-year +58.45% -28.70% -4.73%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in Preston

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Preston.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Preston

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston

For the 6 months to 5 June 2026, Azure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Preston region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Middleware
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) Packer
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Teamcenter
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft