Azure Engineer Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > South East

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in the South East is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 155 151
Rank change year-on-year +46 -4 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 46 53 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.46% 0.93% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.61% 1.01% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 37 51
10th Percentile £375 £420 £450
25th Percentile £413 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £603 £608 £600
90th Percentile £623 £613 £625
England median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -2.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 2,853 5,245 5,482
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 92.42% 94.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,852 3,086 3,784
10th Percentile £213 £250 £225
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +1.30% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £604
90th Percentile £661 £691 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 538 244
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.88 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.53 £18.39 £21.18
Median hourly rate £30.00 £48.70 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.40% -2.60% +138.10%
75th Percentile £62.24 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.18 £39.55 £43.93
% change year-on-year -28.75% -9.97% +75.72%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in the South East

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer 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 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in the South East

Azure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Engineer 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 1 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
Thames Valley +13 27 £500 -17.36% 34
Berkshire +13 25 £500 -17.36% 17
Kent - 12 £569 - 3
Hampshire +28 6 £513 -10.87% 19
Buckinghamshire +10 2 £421 -1.06% 16
East Sussex - 1 £475 - 5
Azure Engineer
England

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 1 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 South East region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 46 (100.00%) Azure
2 34 (73.91%) DevOps
3 23 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (41.30%) Microsoft
5 17 (36.96%) Windows
5 17 (36.96%) IaaS
6 16 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (34.78%) CI/CD
7 14 (30.43%) PowerShell
7 14 (30.43%) Python
8 13 (28.26%) DHCP
8 13 (28.26%) DNS
8 13 (28.26%) PaaS
9 12 (26.09%) vSphere
9 12 (26.09%) SQL
9 12 (26.09%) VMware
9 12 (26.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 12 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 11 (23.91%) Terraform
10 11 (23.91%) Firewall
10 11 (23.91%) Security Cleared
10 11 (23.91%) SC Cleared
10 11 (23.91%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (21.74%) Kubernetes
11 10 (21.74%) ADO
11 10 (21.74%) Azure Storage
11 10 (21.74%) Azure AKS
12 9 (19.57%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (17.39%) GitHub
13 8 (17.39%) ITIL

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (10.87%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 46 (100.00%) Azure
2 23 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (36.96%) IaaS
4 13 (28.26%) PaaS
5 10 (21.74%) Azure AKS
5 10 (21.74%) Azure Storage
6 8 (17.39%) GitHub
7 7 (15.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (13.04%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (8.70%) Power Platform
10 3 (6.52%) AWS
10 3 (6.52%) Azure Table
10 3 (6.52%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (6.52%) Power Automate
11 2 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (2.17%) Azure Pipelines
12 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (28.26%) DHCP
1 13 (28.26%) DNS
2 11 (23.91%) Firewall
3 7 (15.22%) SAN
4 5 (10.87%) SSL
4 5 (10.87%) TCP/IP
4 5 (10.87%) VLAN
4 5 (10.87%) VPN
5 3 (6.52%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (2.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (23.91%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (6.52%) Big Data
2 3 (6.52%) Power BI
3 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) JIRA
2 4 (8.70%) Git
3 3 (6.52%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.17%) MLflow
4 1 (2.17%) Selenium
General
1 5 (10.87%) Telecoms
2 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.52%) Finance
4 2 (4.35%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Electronics
5 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.17%) Marketing
5 1 (2.17%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.74%) ADO
2 5 (10.87%) ARM Templates
3 3 (6.52%) .NET
3 3 (6.52%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.35%) Replication
3 1 (2.17%) PKI
3 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (36.96%) Windows
2 5 (10.87%) Linux
2 5 (10.87%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (6.52%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.35%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.17%) VMS
5 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (73.91%) DevOps
2 16 (34.78%) CI/CD
2 16 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (26.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 9 (19.57%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (17.39%) ITIL
6 7 (15.22%) Security Patching
7 6 (13.04%) High Availability
7 6 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (10.87%) Agile
8 5 (10.87%) Configuration Management
8 5 (10.87%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (8.70%) Identity Management
9 4 (8.70%) Migration
10 3 (6.52%) Artificial Intelligence
10 3 (6.52%) Incident Management
10 3 (6.52%) Information Security
10 3 (6.52%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (30.43%) PowerShell
1 14 (30.43%) Python
2 12 (26.09%) SQL
3 7 (15.22%) Bicep
4 6 (13.04%) Bash
5 5 (10.87%) C#
6 1 (2.17%) VB
6 1 (2.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (23.91%) SC Cleared
1 11 (23.91%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.87%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.35%) CISSP
4 2 (4.35%) Degree
5 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.22%) SLA
2 2 (4.35%) GDPR
2 2 (4.35%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (26.09%) vSphere
2 8 (17.39%) Active Directory
3 7 (15.22%) DFS Replication
3 7 (15.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (10.87%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.17%) Docker
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (23.91%) Terraform
2 10 (21.74%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.87%) Tivoli
4 4 (8.70%) Ansible
5 3 (6.52%) Grafana
5 3 (6.52%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.52%) Puppet
6 1 (2.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.17%) SCCM
6 1 (2.17%) SCOM
6 1 (2.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (41.30%) Microsoft
2 12 (26.09%) VMware
3 8 (17.39%) Databricks
4 5 (10.87%) Citrix
4 5 (10.87%) SolarWinds
4 5 (10.87%) Veeam
4 5 (10.87%) Virgin Media
5 1 (2.17%) SAP