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 14 September 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 138 124
Rank change year-on-year -2 -14 +31
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 89 34 62
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.35% 0.98% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 1.09% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 25 43
10th Percentile £436 £375 £430
25th Percentile £462 £413 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.76% -29.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £567 £500 £608
90th Percentile £638 £606 £650
England median daily rate £501 £490 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -10.91% -
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 6,044 3,124 4,272
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.69% 90.11% 92.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,494 2,019 2,558
10th Percentile £305 £204 £250
25th Percentile £431 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £625
90th Percentile £720 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 768 278 326
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £15.50 £31.44
Median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £57.43
Median % change year-on-year +98.81% -56.20% +14.85%
75th Percentile £69.77 £57.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £71.95 £80.00
England median hourly rate £43.08 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +71.27% -47.05% +5.56%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -7 61 £492 +15.76% 35
Buckinghamshire - 40 £492 - 9
Hampshire -19 20 £650 +30.00% 6
Berkshire -27 15 £500 +17.65% 15
Surrey - 7 £450 - 7
Oxfordshire - 6 - - 11
West Sussex - 1 - - 2
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 September 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 89 (100.00%) Azure
2 41 (46.07%) DevOps
3 40 (44.94%) Microsoft
4 39 (43.82%) Security Cleared
5 35 (39.33%) SC Cleared
6 31 (34.83%) PowerShell
6 31 (34.83%) Terraform
7 29 (32.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 27 (30.34%) Entra ID
9 26 (29.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 25 (28.09%) CI/CD
11 22 (24.72%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (21.35%) Bicep
13 16 (17.98%) Agile
14 15 (16.85%) Cybersecurity
15 14 (15.73%) IaaS
16 13 (14.61%) Platform Engineering
17 12 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
18 11 (12.36%) ARM Templates
18 11 (12.36%) Databricks
18 11 (12.36%) Python
18 11 (12.36%) Virtual Machines
18 11 (12.36%) Windows
19 10 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
19 10 (11.24%) DevSecOps
19 10 (11.24%) Linux
20 9 (10.11%) Bash
20 9 (10.11%) Cloud Security
20 9 (10.11%) Containerisation
20 9 (10.11%) Data Pipeline

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 (6.74%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 89 (100.00%) Azure
2 27 (30.34%) Entra ID
3 22 (24.72%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (15.73%) IaaS
5 9 (10.11%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (8.99%) Power Platform
7 7 (7.87%) AWS
7 7 (7.87%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (4.49%) Azure Databricks
8 4 (4.49%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (3.37%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.37%) Azure Batch
10 2 (2.25%) Azure AI
10 2 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.25%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.25%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.25%) PaaS
11 1 (1.12%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (1.12%) GitHub
11 1 (1.12%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.11%) DNS
2 7 (7.87%) VPN
3 6 (6.74%) Firewall
4 4 (4.49%) DHCP
5 3 (3.37%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.12%) FTP
6 1 (1.12%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.12%) SSH
6 1 (1.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.99%) Power BI
2 1 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.12%) Parquet
2 1 (1.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.12%) GitLab
1 1 (1.12%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (13.48%) Public Sector
2 11 (12.36%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.37%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.12%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (34.83%) Terraform
2 11 (12.36%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.12%) .NET
3 1 (1.12%) JSON
3 1 (1.12%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.12%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.12%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.99%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (7.87%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.74%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.37%) ARM Cortex
4 3 (3.37%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.37%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.25%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.36%) Windows
2 10 (11.24%) Linux
3 8 (8.99%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (46.07%) DevOps
2 29 (32.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 26 (29.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 25 (28.09%) CI/CD
5 16 (17.98%) Agile
6 15 (16.85%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (14.61%) Platform Engineering
8 12 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (11.24%) DevSecOps
10 9 (10.11%) Cloud Security
10 9 (10.11%) Containerisation
10 9 (10.11%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (8.99%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (7.87%) Analytics
12 7 (7.87%) Zero Trust
13 5 (5.62%) Infrastructure Monitoring
13 5 (5.62%) Log Analytics
13 5 (5.62%) Observability
13 5 (5.62%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 31 (34.83%) PowerShell
2 19 (21.35%) Bicep
3 11 (12.36%) Python
4 9 (10.11%) Bash
5 3 (3.37%) Scala
6 2 (2.25%) SQL
7 1 (1.12%) C#
Qualifications
1 39 (43.82%) Security Cleared
2 35 (39.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.87%) Azure Certification
4 6 (6.74%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.12%) Degree
5 1 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.62%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (12.36%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (10.11%) Docker
3 8 (8.99%) Active Directory
4 5 (5.62%) Hyper-V
4 5 (5.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (10.11%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.62%) Ansible
3 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.37%) Progress Chef
4 3 (3.37%) Puppet
4 3 (3.37%) SCCM
5 2 (2.25%) Grafana
5 2 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.12%) Istio
6 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 40 (44.94%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.36%) Databricks
3 7 (7.87%) VMware
4 3 (3.37%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.12%) Cisco
5 1 (1.12%) Foundry
5 1 (1.12%) Okta
5 1 (1.12%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.12%) Splunk