Azure Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > South East

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in the South East is £492, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 137 112
Rank change year-on-year -4 -25 +36
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 95 35 68
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.45% 0.98% 1.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.59% 1.10% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 26 48
10th Percentile £432 £375 £421
25th Percentile £462 £413 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £425 £605
Median % change year-on-year +15.76% -29.75% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £628
90th Percentile £638 £589 £662
England median daily rate £520 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
Median hourly rate £37.24 - -
England median hourly rate £37.24 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,974 3,192 4,061
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.12% 89.74% 92.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,382 2,066 2,417
10th Percentile £300 £204 £243
25th Percentile £425 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.48% -
75th Percentile £625 £588 £625
90th Percentile £725 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 808 286 266
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.19 £15.98
25th Percentile £20.43 £15.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £48.81 £25.15 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year +94.08% -57.00% +13.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £55.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £86.61 £71.13 £80.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.90
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.71% -4.44%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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 the South East.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in the South East

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in the South East

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 3 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in the South East

Azure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in the South East

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 3 October 2026. 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
Thames Valley 0 60 £492 +15.76% 32
Buckinghamshire +11 37 £492 -10.55% 13
Hampshire -15 26 £650 +30.00% 9
Berkshire -32 15 £475 +11.76% 10
Surrey -13 8 £450 - 6
Oxfordshire - 8 - - 9
West Sussex - 1 - - 2
Azure Engineer
England

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 3 October 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 South East region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 95 (100.00%) Azure
2 47 (49.47%) Microsoft
3 40 (42.11%) DevOps
3 40 (42.11%) Security Cleared
4 39 (41.05%) PowerShell
5 36 (37.89%) SC Cleared
6 35 (36.84%) Entra ID
7 29 (30.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 28 (29.47%) Terraform
9 26 (27.37%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (24.21%) CI/CD
11 22 (23.16%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (21.05%) IaaS
12 20 (21.05%) Virtual Machines
13 18 (18.95%) Microsoft 365
14 17 (17.89%) Bicep
15 16 (16.84%) Agile
16 15 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
16 15 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
17 13 (13.68%) Python
17 13 (13.68%) Windows
18 12 (12.63%) ARM Templates
18 12 (12.63%) Data Pipeline
19 11 (11.58%) Databricks
20 10 (10.53%) Active Directory
20 10 (10.53%) Containerisation
20 10 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
20 10 (10.53%) Docker
20 10 (10.53%) Kubernetes
20 10 (10.53%) Problem-Solving

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 95 (100.00%) Azure
2 35 (36.84%) Entra ID
3 22 (23.16%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (21.05%) IaaS
5 18 (18.95%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (9.47%) Power Platform
7 6 (6.32%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (5.26%) AWS
9 4 (4.21%) Azure Databricks
9 4 (4.21%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (3.16%) Azure AKS
10 3 (3.16%) Azure Batch
10 3 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (2.11%) Azure AI
11 2 (2.11%) Azure Functions
11 2 (2.11%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (2.11%) Azure Storage
11 2 (2.11%) OpenShift
11 2 (2.11%) Serverless
12 1 (1.05%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.47%) VPN
2 8 (8.42%) DNS
3 5 (5.26%) Firewall
4 4 (4.21%) DHCP
5 3 (3.16%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.05%) FTP
6 1 (1.05%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.05%) SSH
6 1 (1.05%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.42%) Power BI
2 2 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.05%) Big Data
3 1 (1.05%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.05%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.05%) Parquet
3 1 (1.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.05%) GitLab
1 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (12.63%) Public Sector
2 11 (11.58%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.16%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.05%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.05%) Banking
5 1 (1.05%) Finance
5 1 (1.05%) Military
5 1 (1.05%) Retail
5 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (29.47%) Terraform
2 12 (12.63%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.05%) .NET
3 1 (1.05%) JSON
3 1 (1.05%) PySpark
3 1 (1.05%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.05%) REST
3 1 (1.05%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.05%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.42%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (7.37%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.21%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.21%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.16%) ARM Cortex
4 3 (3.16%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.11%) Device Driver
5 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.05%) AS400
6 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.68%) Windows
2 9 (9.47%) Linux
3 8 (8.42%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.11%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.05%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (42.11%) DevOps
2 29 (30.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 26 (27.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (24.21%) CI/CD
5 16 (16.84%) Agile
6 15 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
7 12 (12.63%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (10.53%) Containerisation
8 10 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (8.42%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (8.42%) DevSecOps
10 7 (7.37%) Analytics
11 6 (6.32%) Cloud Security
12 5 (5.26%) Infrastructure Monitoring
12 5 (5.26%) Runbook
12 5 (5.26%) Zero Trust
13 4 (4.21%) Collaborative Working
13 4 (4.21%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (41.05%) PowerShell
2 17 (17.89%) Bicep
3 13 (13.68%) Python
4 9 (9.47%) Bash
5 3 (3.16%) Scala
5 3 (3.16%) SQL
6 1 (1.05%) C#
6 1 (1.05%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 40 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 36 (37.89%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.42%) Azure Certification
4 5 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.05%) Degree
6 1 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 20 (21.05%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 10 (10.53%) Docker
3 5 (5.26%) Hyper-V
3 5 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.11%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 10 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (5.26%) Ansible
4 3 (3.16%) Progress Chef
4 3 (3.16%) Puppet
4 3 (3.16%) SCCM
5 2 (2.11%) Grafana
5 2 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.05%) Istio
6 1 (1.05%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 47 (49.47%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.58%) Databricks
3 6 (6.32%) VMware
4 3 (3.16%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.05%) Cisco
5 1 (1.05%) Foundry
5 1 (1.05%) Okta
5 1 (1.05%) Red Hat