Azure Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in Sheffield is £447, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
9 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.49% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £521 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £447 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 949 539 349
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 91.51% 87.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 360 192
10th Percentile £363 £290 £378
25th Percentile £425 £367 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £463 £536
Median % change year-on-year +8.81% -13.71% -8.72%
75th Percentile £589 £538 £594
90th Percentile £675 £608 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £461 £525
% change year-on-year +8.40% -12.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 5 6
10th Percentile - £15.55 £15.88
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.10 £20.13
Median hourly rate £32.40 £18.21 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.95% -13.31% +7.69%
75th Percentile £36.61 £18.50 £21.88
90th Percentile - £18.51 £22.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.40 £18.21 £21.00
% change year-on-year +77.95% -13.31% +5.00%

Azure Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Azure Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 9 September 2026, Azure Platform 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 Sheffield region featuring Azure Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Bicep
2 3 (60.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (60.00%) Packer
2 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (60.00%) RBAC
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Intranet
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Intranet
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (60.00%) RBAC
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bicep
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
Azure Platform Engineer jobs