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 19 July 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 119 131
Rank change year-on-year -26 +12 +20
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 91 46 59
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.39% 1.34% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.50% 1.48% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 35 41
10th Percentile £413 £375 £425
25th Percentile £450 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £593
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -15.61% +11.53%
75th Percentile £561 £603 £608
90th Percentile £655 £623 £653
England median daily rate £500 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +2.56% -11.36% -

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 6,053 3,100 5,082
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 90.54% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,611 2,005 3,030
10th Percentile £303 £213 £250
25th Percentile £425 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £622 £600 £629
90th Percentile £713 £663 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 661 242 472
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £15.50 £19.25
Median hourly rate £52.43 £27.63 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year +89.74% -49.65% +9.75%
75th Percentile £77.50 £62.24 £70.23
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £45.50 £27.50 £40.33
% change year-on-year +65.45% -31.80% -8.35%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 -9 66 £492 -1.60% 12
Buckinghamshire - 38 £492 - 2
Berkshire -30 23 £425 -15.00% 2
Hampshire -34 10 £450 -12.20% 5
Surrey - 10 £500 - 4
Oxfordshire - 5 £525 - 8
East Sussex +3 2 £600 +26.32%
Kent -10 2 £550 -3.25% 2
West Sussex - 1 - -
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 July 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 91 (100.00%) Azure
2 44 (48.35%) DevOps
3 37 (40.66%) Security Cleared
4 34 (37.36%) Microsoft
4 34 (37.36%) SC Cleared
5 31 (34.07%) Terraform
6 29 (31.87%) CI/CD
7 27 (29.67%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (29.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 26 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (23.08%) PowerShell
10 17 (18.68%) Entra ID
11 15 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (15.38%) Agile
12 14 (15.38%) Bicep
13 12 (13.19%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (13.19%) Power Platform
14 11 (12.09%) Containerisation
14 11 (12.09%) Python
15 10 (10.99%) ARM Templates
15 10 (10.99%) Business Intelligence
15 10 (10.99%) Docker
15 10 (10.99%) Kubernetes
15 10 (10.99%) Power BI
16 9 (9.89%) Platform Engineering
17 8 (8.79%) Azure Monitor
17 8 (8.79%) Cloud Security
17 8 (8.79%) IaaS
18 7 (7.69%) Analytics
18 7 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement

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 (6.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 91 (100.00%) Azure
2 27 (29.67%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (18.68%) Entra ID
4 12 (13.19%) Power Platform
5 8 (8.79%) Azure Monitor
5 8 (8.79%) IaaS
6 7 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (6.59%) AWS
8 5 (5.49%) Azure AKS
8 5 (5.49%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (4.40%) Azure AI
9 4 (4.40%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (3.30%) Azure Functions
10 3 (3.30%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (3.30%) PaaS
10 3 (3.30%) Serverless
11 2 (2.20%) Azure Cognitive Search
11 2 (2.20%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (2.20%) GitHub
11 2 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.69%) VPN
2 5 (5.49%) DNS
2 5 (5.49%) Firewall
3 2 (2.20%) DHCP
4 1 (1.10%) FTP
4 1 (1.10%) Network Security
4 1 (1.10%) SSH
4 1 (1.10%) SSL
4 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.99%) Power BI
2 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.10%) Parquet
2 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (1.10%) Star Schema
2 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Git
2 1 (1.10%) GitLab
2 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.10%) JIRA
2 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (16.48%) Public Sector
2 14 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.30%) Health Technology
6 2 (2.20%) Legal
7 1 (1.10%) Finance
7 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.99%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.30%) JSON
2 3 (3.30%) YAML
3 2 (2.20%) Node.js
3 2 (2.20%) REST
4 1 (1.10%) .NET
4 1 (1.10%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.10%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.10%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.10%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.49%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (5.49%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.40%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.30%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.30%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.10%) ARM Cortex
6 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.59%) Linux
1 6 (6.59%) Windows
2 4 (4.40%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (48.35%) DevOps
2 29 (31.87%) CI/CD
3 27 (29.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 26 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (15.38%) Agile
7 12 (13.19%) Cybersecurity
8 11 (12.09%) Containerisation
9 10 (10.99%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (9.89%) Platform Engineering
11 8 (8.79%) Cloud Security
12 7 (7.69%) Analytics
12 7 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (6.59%) DevSecOps
13 6 (6.59%) Machine Learning
13 6 (6.59%) Observability
14 5 (5.49%) Log Analytics
14 5 (5.49%) Network Virtualisation
14 5 (5.49%) Runbook
14 5 (5.49%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 14 (15.38%) Bicep
3 11 (12.09%) Python
4 6 (6.59%) Bash
4 6 (6.59%) C#
5 5 (5.49%) SQL
6 1 (1.10%) Go
Qualifications
1 37 (40.66%) Security Cleared
2 34 (37.36%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.59%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.40%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.10%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.40%) NCSC
2 1 (1.10%) GDPR
2 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (10.99%) Docker
2 7 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (6.59%) Active Directory
4 3 (3.30%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (34.07%) Terraform
2 10 (10.99%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.20%) Ansible
4 2 (2.20%) Grafana
4 2 (2.20%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.20%) Puppet
4 2 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.10%) Rancher
5 1 (1.10%) SCCM
Vendors
1 34 (37.36%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.49%) VMware
3 4 (4.40%) Databricks
4 3 (3.30%) Foundry
5 2 (2.20%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.10%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.10%) Cisco
6 1 (1.10%) Cognos
6 1 (1.10%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.10%) Okta
6 1 (1.10%) Oracle
6 1 (1.10%) Splunk
6 1 (1.10%) Virgin Media