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 24 June 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 110 153
Rank change year-on-year -22 +43 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 87 47 51
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.40% 1.54% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.53% 1.69% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 37 37
10th Percentile £413 £375 £420
25th Percentile £425 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £613 £603 £608
90th Percentile £688 £623 £623
England median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -

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 5,680 2,777 5,274
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.60% 91.05% 92.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,433 1,813 3,098
10th Percentile £303 £220 £250
25th Percentile £417 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.28% +1.30%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £705 £660 £688
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 583 204 556
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.20 £12.88
25th Percentile £25.00 £15.50 £18.82
Median hourly rate £50.00 £31.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.29% -38.00% -
75th Percentile £78.75 £62.50 £68.19
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.55
% change year-on-year +56.52% -27.31% -9.35%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 60 £492 -1.60% 5
Buckinghamshire -7 34 £492 +17.00% 3
Berkshire -29 24 £435 -13.00%
Surrey - 16 £450 - 3
Hampshire -27 5 £450 -12.20% 7
East Sussex -1 3 £600 +26.32%
Kent -8 2 £550 -3.25% 1
Oxfordshire - 2 £525 - 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 24 June 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 87 (100.00%) Azure
2 50 (57.47%) DevOps
3 39 (44.83%) Security Cleared
4 38 (43.68%) SC Cleared
5 36 (41.38%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (39.08%) CI/CD
7 29 (33.33%) Terraform
8 26 (29.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 26 (29.89%) Microsoft
9 20 (22.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 16 (18.39%) Python
11 15 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (16.09%) ARM Templates
12 14 (16.09%) Entra ID
13 13 (14.94%) Bicep
14 12 (13.79%) Agile
14 12 (13.79%) C#
14 12 (13.79%) Power Platform
15 11 (12.64%) Cybersecurity
15 11 (12.64%) Kubernetes
15 11 (12.64%) PowerShell
15 11 (12.64%) SQL
16 10 (11.49%) Azure Data Factory
16 10 (11.49%) Business Intelligence
16 10 (11.49%) Power BI
17 9 (10.34%) Azure Monitor
17 9 (10.34%) Containerisation
17 9 (10.34%) Databricks
17 9 (10.34%) GitHub
18 8 (9.20%) Azure Certification

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 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 87 (100.00%) Azure
2 36 (41.38%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (16.09%) Entra ID
4 12 (13.79%) Power Platform
5 10 (11.49%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (10.34%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (10.34%) GitHub
7 7 (8.05%) Azure AKS
7 7 (8.05%) Azure Functions
7 7 (8.05%) IaaS
7 7 (8.05%) Serverless
8 6 (6.90%) PaaS
9 5 (5.75%) Azure API Management
9 5 (5.75%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (5.75%) Azure Storage
10 4 (4.60%) AWS
10 4 (4.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (4.60%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.90%) Firewall
2 5 (5.75%) VPN
3 3 (3.45%) DNS
4 1 (1.15%) DHCP
4 1 (1.15%) FTP
4 1 (1.15%) Network Security
4 1 (1.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.49%) Power BI
2 6 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.30%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.15%) Parquet
4 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.15%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Git
2 1 (1.15%) GitLab
2 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.15%) JIRA
2 1 (1.15%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 14 (16.09%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.79%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.45%) Health Technology
6 2 (2.30%) Legal
7 1 (1.15%) Finance
7 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.09%) ARM Templates
2 7 (8.05%) REST
3 6 (6.90%) .NET
4 3 (3.45%) JSON
4 3 (3.45%) YAML
5 2 (2.30%) Node.js
6 1 (1.15%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.15%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.15%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.15%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.64%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.60%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.60%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.45%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.45%) Linux
1 3 (3.45%) Windows
2 2 (2.30%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (57.47%) DevOps
2 34 (39.08%) CI/CD
3 26 (29.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (22.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 15 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (13.79%) Agile
7 11 (12.64%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (11.49%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (10.34%) Containerisation
10 8 (9.20%) Cloud Security
10 8 (9.20%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (8.05%) DevSecOps
11 7 (8.05%) RBAC
11 7 (8.05%) Software Engineering
12 6 (6.90%) Analytics
12 6 (6.90%) ETL
12 6 (6.90%) Log Analytics
12 6 (6.90%) Machine Learning
13 5 (5.75%) Data Pipeline
13 5 (5.75%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.39%) Python
2 13 (14.94%) Bicep
3 12 (13.79%) C#
4 11 (12.64%) PowerShell
4 11 (12.64%) SQL
5 5 (5.75%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.45%) Bash
7 1 (1.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 39 (44.83%) Security Cleared
2 38 (43.68%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.20%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.15%) Degree
4 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.20%) NCSC
2 1 (1.15%) GDPR
2 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (9.20%) Docker
2 4 (4.60%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.45%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (33.33%) Terraform
2 11 (12.64%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.30%) Grafana
3 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.15%) Ansible
4 1 (1.15%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.15%) Puppet
4 1 (1.15%) Rancher
Vendors
1 26 (29.89%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.34%) Databricks
3 5 (5.75%) VMware
4 3 (3.45%) Foundry
5 2 (2.30%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.15%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.15%) Cisco
6 1 (1.15%) Cognos
6 1 (1.15%) Okta
6 1 (1.15%) Oracle
6 1 (1.15%) Splunk
6 1 (1.15%) Virgin Media