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 £494, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
20 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 122 159
Rank change year-on-year -20 +37 -6
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 43 40 41
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.98% 1.23% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 1.33% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 27 37
10th Percentile £412 £389 £333
25th Percentile £413 £469 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.23% +10.00% -13.98%
75th Percentile £622 £649 £613
90th Percentile £688 £666 £643
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%

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 3,991 3,018 4,794
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.52% 92.78% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,595 1,878 3,048
10th Percentile £255 £234 £205
25th Percentile £400 £400 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £613 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 107 319
10th Percentile £13.88 £19.70 £13.90
25th Percentile £16.55 £24.34 £23.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -15.00% +12.99%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £64.75
90th Percentile £81.50 £71.51 £76.53
England median hourly rate £28.65 £35.00 £40.28
% change year-on-year -18.16% -13.10% +15.07%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 -24 28 £470 -21.99% 9
Berkshire -23 24 £454 -25.82% 4
Surrey - 10 £425 - 7
Buckinghamshire -4 4 £550 +30.80% 3
East Sussex +4 2 £600 +26.32% 3
Hampshire -24 2 £525 +7.69% 2
Kent - 1 £600 - 4
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 January 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 43 (100.00%) Azure
2 37 (86.05%) DevOps
3 32 (74.42%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (58.14%) CI/CD
5 18 (41.86%) Python
6 17 (39.53%) Terraform
7 16 (37.21%) Security Cleared
8 14 (32.56%) Analytics
9 13 (30.23%) ARM Templates
9 13 (30.23%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (30.23%) GitHub
9 13 (30.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (30.23%) Kubernetes
9 13 (30.23%) SC Cleared
9 13 (30.23%) SQL
10 12 (27.91%) Azure Monitor
10 12 (27.91%) Log Analytics
11 11 (25.58%) Bicep
12 10 (23.26%) Azure AKS
12 10 (23.26%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (23.26%) C#
12 10 (23.26%) Entra ID
13 9 (20.93%) Azure Storage
13 9 (20.93%) Docker
13 9 (20.93%) JavaScript
13 9 (20.93%) Microsoft
13 9 (20.93%) PowerShell
14 8 (18.60%) .NET
14 8 (18.60%) Azure API Management
14 8 (18.60%) Azure Functions

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 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 43 (100.00%) Azure
2 32 (74.42%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (30.23%) Azure Data Factory
3 13 (30.23%) GitHub
4 12 (27.91%) Azure Monitor
5 10 (23.26%) Azure AKS
5 10 (23.26%) Entra ID
6 9 (20.93%) Azure Storage
7 8 (18.60%) Azure API Management
7 8 (18.60%) Azure Functions
7 8 (18.60%) IaaS
7 8 (18.60%) Serverless
8 7 (16.28%) PaaS
9 6 (13.95%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (11.63%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (6.98%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (6.98%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (2.33%) SaaS
12 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) DNS
1 4 (9.30%) Firewall
2 2 (4.65%) SSL
3 1 (2.33%) DHCP
3 1 (2.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.26%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (6.98%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.65%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.33%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.33%) Metadata
4 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.33%) Git
2 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (20.93%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Billing
3 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.98%) Retail
4 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.23%) ARM Templates
2 8 (18.60%) .NET
2 8 (18.60%) REST
3 6 (13.95%) ADO
4 3 (6.98%) .NET Core
4 3 (6.98%) GraphQL
4 3 (6.98%) OAuth
4 3 (6.98%) OAuth2
4 3 (6.98%) OpenID
4 3 (6.98%) SAML
5 2 (4.65%) .NET Framework
5 2 (4.65%) ASP.NET
5 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.33%) Kafka
6 1 (2.33%) PySpark
6 1 (2.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.98%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (6.98%) PKI
2 3 (6.98%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.65%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.98%) Linux
1 3 (6.98%) VMS
1 3 (6.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (86.05%) DevOps
2 25 (58.14%) CI/CD
3 14 (32.56%) Analytics
4 13 (30.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (27.91%) Log Analytics
6 7 (16.28%) ETL
6 7 (16.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (13.95%) Agile
7 6 (13.95%) AI
7 6 (13.95%) Containerisation
7 6 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (13.95%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (13.95%) DevSecOps
7 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Automation
7 6 (13.95%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (13.95%) RBAC
7 6 (13.95%) Software Engineering
8 4 (9.30%) Network Virtualisation
8 4 (9.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (41.86%) Python
2 13 (30.23%) SQL
3 11 (25.58%) Bicep
4 10 (23.26%) C#
5 9 (20.93%) JavaScript
5 9 (20.93%) PowerShell
6 4 (9.30%) Bash
7 3 (6.98%) Java
7 3 (6.98%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (37.21%) Security Cleared
2 13 (30.23%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.30%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.98%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) NCSC
2 4 (9.30%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (20.93%) Docker
2 3 (6.98%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.33%) DFS Replication
3 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (39.53%) Terraform
2 13 (30.23%) Kubernetes
3 5 (11.63%) Ansible
4 3 (6.98%) Podman
4 3 (6.98%) Proxmox
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.33%) PaperCut
5 1 (2.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) Microsoft
2 7 (16.28%) Databricks
3 3 (6.98%) Zscaler
4 1 (2.33%) Autodesk
4 1 (2.33%) Citrix
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle
4 1 (2.33%) RedGate
4 1 (2.33%) VMware
38 Azure Engineer jobs in the South East