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 22 July 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 116 136
Rank change year-on-year -14 +20 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 93 45 60
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.41% 1.32% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.53% 1.46% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 34 42
10th Percentile £413 £375 £414
25th Percentile £450 £413 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £506 £584
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% -13.28% +8.60%
75th Percentile £561 £603 £608
90th Percentile £660 £623 £651
England median daily rate £500 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +2.56% -11.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 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 6,066 3,090 4,956
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 90.40% 92.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,621 1,998 2,978
10th Percentile £303 £212 £255
25th Percentile £425 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.71% +3.85%
75th Percentile £624 £600 £630
90th Percentile £713 £663 £689
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 668 244 449
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.20 £13.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £15.50 £20.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.90 £55.80
Median % change year-on-year +102.70% -53.58% +11.60%
75th Percentile £77.75 £60.56 £70.39
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £45.57 £27.21 £42.50
% change year-on-year +67.48% -35.98% -3.65%

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 22 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 22 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 -12 66 £492 -1.60% 15
Buckinghamshire - 38 £492 - 3
Berkshire -30 23 £425 -15.00% 4
Hampshire -31 12 £450 -12.20% 6
Surrey - 10 £500 - 6
Oxfordshire - 5 £525 - 8
Kent -9 2 £550 -3.25% 2
East Sussex - 2 £600 -
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 22 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 93 (100.00%) Azure
2 44 (47.31%) DevOps
3 38 (40.86%) Security Cleared
4 35 (37.63%) SC Cleared
5 34 (36.56%) Microsoft
6 31 (33.33%) Terraform
7 29 (31.18%) CI/CD
7 29 (31.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 27 (29.03%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (27.96%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (23.66%) PowerShell
11 18 (19.35%) Entra ID
12 15 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (15.05%) Agile
13 14 (15.05%) Bicep
14 12 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
15 11 (11.83%) Containerisation
15 11 (11.83%) Power Platform
15 11 (11.83%) Python
16 10 (10.75%) ARM Templates
16 10 (10.75%) Docker
16 10 (10.75%) Kubernetes
17 9 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
17 9 (9.68%) IaaS
17 9 (9.68%) Platform Engineering
17 9 (9.68%) Power BI
18 8 (8.60%) Azure Monitor
18 8 (8.60%) Cloud Security
18 8 (8.60%) Virtual Machines
19 7 (7.53%) Analytics

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 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 93 (100.00%) Azure
2 27 (29.03%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (19.35%) Entra ID
4 11 (11.83%) Power Platform
5 9 (9.68%) IaaS
6 8 (8.60%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (7.53%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (6.45%) AWS
9 5 (5.38%) Azure AKS
9 5 (5.38%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (4.30%) Azure AI
10 4 (4.30%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (3.23%) Azure Functions
11 3 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (3.23%) PaaS
11 3 (3.23%) Serverless
12 2 (2.15%) Azure Cognitive Search
12 2 (2.15%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (2.15%) GitHub
12 2 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.53%) VPN
2 5 (5.38%) DNS
2 5 (5.38%) Firewall
3 2 (2.15%) DHCP
4 1 (1.08%) FTP
4 1 (1.08%) Network Security
4 1 (1.08%) SSH
4 1 (1.08%) SSL
4 1 (1.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.68%) Power BI
2 1 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.08%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.08%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.08%) Parquet
2 1 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Git
2 1 (1.08%) GitLab
2 1 (1.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.08%) JIRA
2 1 (1.08%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.08%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (16.13%) Public Sector
2 14 (15.05%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.23%) Health Technology
6 2 (2.15%) Legal
7 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.75%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.23%) JSON
2 3 (3.23%) YAML
3 2 (2.15%) Node.js
3 2 (2.15%) REST
4 1 (1.08%) .NET
4 1 (1.08%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.08%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.08%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.08%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.53%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (5.38%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.30%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.23%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.15%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.08%) ARM Cortex
6 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.45%) Linux
1 6 (6.45%) Windows
2 4 (4.30%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (47.31%) DevOps
2 29 (31.18%) CI/CD
2 29 (31.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 26 (27.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (15.05%) Agile
6 12 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (11.83%) Containerisation
8 9 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (9.68%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (8.60%) Cloud Security
10 7 (7.53%) Analytics
10 7 (7.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (6.45%) DevSecOps
11 6 (6.45%) Machine Learning
11 6 (6.45%) Observability
12 5 (5.38%) Log Analytics
12 5 (5.38%) Network Virtualisation
12 5 (5.38%) Runbook
12 5 (5.38%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 22 (23.66%) PowerShell
2 14 (15.05%) Bicep
3 11 (11.83%) Python
4 6 (6.45%) Bash
4 6 (6.45%) C#
5 4 (4.30%) SQL
6 1 (1.08%) Go
Qualifications
1 38 (40.86%) Security Cleared
2 35 (37.63%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.45%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.30%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.30%) NCSC
2 1 (1.08%) GDPR
2 1 (1.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (10.75%) Docker
2 8 (8.60%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (6.45%) Active Directory
4 3 (3.23%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (33.33%) Terraform
2 10 (10.75%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.15%) Ansible
4 2 (2.15%) Grafana
4 2 (2.15%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.15%) Puppet
4 2 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.08%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.08%) Rancher
5 1 (1.08%) SCCM
Vendors
1 34 (36.56%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.38%) VMware
3 4 (4.30%) Databricks
4 3 (3.23%) Foundry
5 2 (2.15%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.08%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.08%) Cisco
6 1 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.08%) Okta
6 1 (1.08%) Oracle
6 1 (1.08%) Splunk
6 1 (1.08%) Virgin Media