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 18 August 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 130 126
Rank change year-on-year -10 -4 +22
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 98 32 58
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.46% 0.90% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.58% 1.00% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 23 41
10th Percentile £413 £375 £425
25th Percentile £462 £406 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £425 £593
Median % change year-on-year +15.76% -28.27% +7.73%
75th Percentile £558 £519 £608
90th Percentile £638 £607 £653
England median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -
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 6,209 3,208 4,462
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 90.49% 92.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,655 2,069 2,741
10th Percentile £303 £208 £250
25th Percentile £425 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £635
90th Percentile £714 £663 £688
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 754 272 369
10th Percentile £15.83 £13.75 £16.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £15.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -56.15% +15.01%
75th Percentile £73.06 £57.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £86.61 £75.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +8.43%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 68 £492 +15.76% 4
Buckinghamshire - 41 £492 - 1
Hampshire -11 22 £550 +7.32% 2
Berkshire -19 20 £435 +2.35% 2
Surrey - 7 £450 - 4
Oxfordshire - 7 £525 - 1
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 18 August 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 98 (100.00%) Azure
2 44 (44.90%) DevOps
3 42 (42.86%) Microsoft
4 39 (39.80%) Security Cleared
5 35 (35.71%) SC Cleared
6 33 (33.67%) PowerShell
6 33 (33.67%) Terraform
7 32 (32.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 30 (30.61%) Infrastructure as Code
9 28 (28.57%) CI/CD
10 27 (27.55%) Entra ID
11 25 (25.51%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (19.39%) Bicep
13 15 (15.31%) Agile
14 14 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
14 14 (14.29%) IaaS
14 14 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (13.27%) Python
16 12 (12.24%) Platform Engineering
16 12 (12.24%) Virtual Machines
17 11 (11.22%) ARM Templates
17 11 (11.22%) Databricks
17 11 (11.22%) Kubernetes
17 11 (11.22%) Linux
17 11 (11.22%) Windows
18 10 (10.20%) Bash
18 10 (10.20%) Containerisation
18 10 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
18 10 (10.20%) Docker
19 9 (9.18%) Business Intelligence

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 (6.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 98 (100.00%) Azure
2 27 (27.55%) Entra ID
3 25 (25.51%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (14.29%) IaaS
5 9 (9.18%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (9.18%) Power Platform
6 8 (8.16%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (7.14%) AWS
8 4 (4.08%) Azure AKS
8 4 (4.08%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (3.06%) Azure Batch
9 3 (3.06%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (3.06%) PaaS
10 2 (2.04%) Azure AI
10 2 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.04%) GitHub
10 2 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.04%) OpenShift
11 1 (1.02%) Azure Functions
11 1 (1.02%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.18%) DNS
2 8 (8.16%) VPN
3 7 (7.14%) Firewall
4 4 (4.08%) DHCP
5 3 (3.06%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.02%) FTP
6 1 (1.02%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.02%) SSH
6 1 (1.02%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.18%) Power BI
2 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.02%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.02%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.02%) Parquet
2 1 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Git
1 1 (1.02%) GitLab
1 1 (1.02%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.02%) JIRA
1 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.24%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.06%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.02%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.02%) Legal
6 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.22%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.04%) YAML
3 1 (1.02%) .NET
3 1 (1.02%) JSON
3 1 (1.02%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.02%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.02%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.02%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.10%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.06%) ARM Cortex
4 3 (3.06%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.06%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.06%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.22%) Linux
1 11 (11.22%) Windows
2 8 (8.16%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.02%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (44.90%) DevOps
2 32 (32.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 30 (30.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 15 (15.31%) Agile
6 14 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 14 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (12.24%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (10.20%) Containerisation
8 10 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (9.18%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (9.18%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (9.18%) DevSecOps
10 8 (8.16%) Analytics
10 8 (8.16%) Cloud Security
11 6 (6.12%) Log Analytics
11 6 (6.12%) Observability
11 6 (6.12%) Zero Trust
12 5 (5.10%) Network Virtualisation
12 5 (5.10%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 33 (33.67%) PowerShell
2 19 (19.39%) Bicep
3 13 (13.27%) Python
4 10 (10.20%) Bash
5 3 (3.06%) Scala
6 2 (2.04%) C#
6 2 (2.04%) SQL
7 1 (1.02%) Go
Qualifications
1 39 (39.80%) Security Cleared
2 35 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 6 (6.12%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.02%) Degree
5 1 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.08%) NCSC
2 1 (1.02%) GDPR
2 1 (1.02%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (12.24%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (10.20%) Docker
3 8 (8.16%) Active Directory
4 5 (5.10%) Hyper-V
4 5 (5.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (33.67%) Terraform
2 11 (11.22%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.10%) Ansible
4 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.06%) Grafana
5 3 (3.06%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.06%) Puppet
5 3 (3.06%) SCCM
6 2 (2.04%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.02%) Istio
7 1 (1.02%) Rancher
Vendors
1 42 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.22%) Databricks
3 7 (7.14%) VMware
4 3 (3.06%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.02%) Cisco
5 1 (1.02%) Foundry
5 1 (1.02%) Okta
5 1 (1.02%) Oracle
5 1 (1.02%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.02%) Splunk