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 1 May 2026.

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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 114 170
Rank change year-on-year -21 +56 -29
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 80 45 35
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.37% 1.50% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.49% 1.63% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 33 27
10th Percentile £413 £415 £267
25th Percentile £419 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% +11.11% -7.91%
75th Percentile £613 £608 £556
90th Percentile £688 £655 £623
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.16%

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 5,362 2,767 5,141
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.91% 91.93% 92.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,331 1,821 3,084
10th Percentile £300 £250 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% - -
75th Percentile £613 £600 £613
90th Percentile £713 £663 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 509 163 481
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.78
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.06 £18.32
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% -31.58% -1.86%
75th Percentile £81.05 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.78 £36.31
% change year-on-year +52.70% -15.22% -19.32%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -21 56 £492 -14.43% 11
Berkshire -34 28 £425 -26.09% 4
Buckinghamshire -3 27 £492 +17.00% 4
Surrey - 13 £675 -
East Sussex +4 4 £600 +26.32%
Kent -11 3 £550 -7.06%
Hampshire -31 3 £450 -12.20% 6
West Sussex - 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 £525 - 3
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 80 (100.00%) Azure
2 52 (65.00%) DevOps
3 39 (48.75%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (46.25%) Security Cleared
5 36 (45.00%) SC Cleared
6 31 (38.75%) CI/CD
7 24 (30.00%) Microsoft
8 22 (27.50%) Terraform
9 19 (23.75%) Python
10 18 (22.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 18 (22.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 13 (16.25%) Agile
11 13 (16.25%) C#
11 13 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (16.25%) SQL
12 12 (15.00%) ARM Templates
12 12 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (15.00%) Bicep
12 12 (15.00%) Power Platform
13 11 (13.75%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (13.75%) Cybersecurity
13 11 (13.75%) Databricks
14 10 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
14 10 (12.50%) Entra ID
14 10 (12.50%) Kubernetes
14 10 (12.50%) Power BI
15 9 (11.25%) Analytics
15 9 (11.25%) GitHub
15 9 (11.25%) Log Analytics
16 8 (10.00%) PowerShell

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:

Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 80 (100.00%) Azure
2 39 (48.75%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 12 (15.00%) Power Platform
4 11 (13.75%) Azure Monitor
5 10 (12.50%) Entra ID
6 9 (11.25%) GitHub
7 7 (8.75%) Azure Functions
7 7 (8.75%) Azure Key Vault
7 7 (8.75%) Serverless
8 6 (7.50%) Azure AKS
8 6 (7.50%) IaaS
8 6 (7.50%) PaaS
9 5 (6.25%) Azure API Management
9 5 (6.25%) Azure Storage
10 4 (5.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (3.75%) AWS
11 3 (3.75%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (2.50%) Azure Cognitive Search
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.50%) Firewall
2 3 (3.75%) DNS
3 2 (2.50%) DHCP
3 2 (2.50%) VPN
4 1 (1.25%) FTP
4 1 (1.25%) Network Security
4 1 (1.25%) SAN
4 1 (1.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.50%) Power BI
2 7 (8.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (3.75%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.25%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.25%) Parquet
4 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.25%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Git
2 1 (1.25%) JIRA
2 1 (1.25%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.50%) Legal
5 1 (1.25%) Finance
5 1 (1.25%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.25%) Retail
5 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.00%) ARM Templates
2 7 (8.75%) REST
3 6 (7.50%) .NET
4 4 (5.00%) YAML
5 3 (3.75%) JSON
6 2 (2.50%) Node.js
7 1 (1.25%) ADO
7 1 (1.25%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.25%) Kafka
7 1 (1.25%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.25%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.25%) scikit-learn
7 1 (1.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.75%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.75%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.75%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Windows
2 3 (3.75%) VMS
3 2 (2.50%) Linux
4 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (65.00%) DevOps
2 31 (38.75%) CI/CD
3 18 (22.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (22.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (16.25%) Agile
4 13 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (13.75%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (11.25%) Analytics
7 9 (11.25%) Log Analytics
8 8 (10.00%) Software Engineering
9 7 (8.75%) ETL
9 7 (8.75%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (7.50%) Cloud Security
10 6 (7.50%) Containerisation
10 6 (7.50%) Machine Learning
10 6 (7.50%) RBAC
10 6 (7.50%) Workflow
11 5 (6.25%) Data Pipeline
11 5 (6.25%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 19 (23.75%) Python
2 13 (16.25%) C#
2 13 (16.25%) SQL
3 12 (15.00%) Bicep
4 8 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 6 (7.50%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.75%) Bash
7 1 (1.25%) Go
7 1 (1.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 37 (46.25%) Security Cleared
2 36 (45.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) NCSC
2 1 (1.25%) GDPR
2 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (7.50%) Docker
2 3 (3.75%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.25%) DFS Replication
4 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (27.50%) Terraform
2 10 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.25%) Ansible
4 1 (1.25%) Grafana
4 1 (1.25%) PaperCut
4 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.25%) Rancher
4 1 (1.25%) SCCM
4 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.75%) Databricks
3 3 (3.75%) Foundry
3 3 (3.75%) VMware
4 2 (2.50%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.25%) Autodesk
5 1 (1.25%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.25%) Citrix
5 1 (1.25%) Cognos
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle
5 1 (1.25%) Splunk
5 1 (1.25%) Virgin Media