Azure Engineer Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > South East

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in the South East is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 132 148
Rank change year-on-year +8 +16 +21
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 43 59 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.25% 1.14% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 1.24% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 41 48
10th Percentile £375 £413 £450
25th Percentile £413 £480 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £593 £544
Median % change year-on-year -13.50% +8.97% +3.57%
75th Percentile £603 £608 £600
90th Percentile £623 £653 £636
England median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -2.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 3,109 4,763 5,432
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.48% 92.22% 95.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,023 2,892 3,746
10th Percentile £213 £255 £225
25th Percentile £375 £405 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £634 £610
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 419 244
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.85 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £22.07 £21.04
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +133.75%
75th Percentile £61.12 £71.50 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £26.30 £43.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -38.84% -1.71% +70.97%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Azure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in the South East

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer 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 28 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in the South East

Azure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Engineer 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 28 July 2025. 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
Berkshire -1 24 £500 -17.36% 4
Thames Valley -7 24 £500 -17.36% 10
Kent - 12 £569 - 2
Hampshire +27 7 £513 -10.87% 6
Azure Engineer
England

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 28 July 2025, Azure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 29 (67.44%) DevOps
3 21 (48.84%) Microsoft
4 19 (44.19%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (39.53%) IaaS
6 16 (37.21%) Windows
7 15 (34.88%) CI/CD
8 14 (32.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (32.56%) DNS
9 13 (30.23%) DHCP
9 13 (30.23%) PaaS
10 12 (27.91%) vSphere
10 12 (27.91%) PowerShell
10 12 (27.91%) VMware
10 12 (27.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 11 (25.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 11 (25.58%) Firewall
11 11 (25.58%) Python
11 11 (25.58%) SQL
11 11 (25.58%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (23.26%) Kubernetes
12 10 (23.26%) ADO
12 10 (23.26%) Azure Storage
12 10 (23.26%) Cybersecurity
13 9 (20.93%) Terraform
13 9 (20.93%) Azure AKS
13 9 (20.93%) Active Directory
13 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
13 9 (20.93%) Security Cleared
14 8 (18.60%) SLA

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (11.63%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 43 (100.00%) Azure
2 19 (44.19%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (39.53%) IaaS
4 13 (30.23%) PaaS
5 10 (23.26%) Azure Storage
6 9 (20.93%) Azure AKS
7 6 (13.95%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (11.63%) GitHub
8 5 (11.63%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (9.30%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (9.30%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (6.98%) Azure Table
10 3 (6.98%) Power Automate
10 3 (6.98%) Power Platform
11 2 (4.65%) AWS
11 2 (4.65%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (4.65%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
12 1 (2.33%) Collibra
12 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (32.56%) DNS
2 13 (30.23%) DHCP
3 11 (25.58%) Firewall
4 7 (16.28%) SAN
5 6 (13.95%) TCP/IP
6 5 (11.63%) SSL
6 5 (11.63%) VLAN
6 5 (11.63%) VPN
7 3 (6.98%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (4.65%) Network Security
9 1 (2.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.58%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (6.98%) Power BI
3 2 (4.65%) Big Data
3 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) JIRA
2 2 (4.65%) Git
3 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.33%) MLflow
General
1 4 (9.30%) Telecoms
2 3 (6.98%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.33%) Finance
4 1 (2.33%) French Language
4 1 (2.33%) German Language
4 1 (2.33%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.26%) ADO
2 5 (11.63%) ARM Templates
3 3 (6.98%) .NET
3 3 (6.98%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.33%) Web Services
4 1 (2.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.65%) Replication
2 2 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.33%) PKI
3 1 (2.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (37.21%) Windows
2 5 (11.63%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (6.98%) Linux
4 2 (4.65%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.33%) VMS
5 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (67.44%) DevOps
2 15 (34.88%) CI/CD
3 14 (32.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (27.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 11 (25.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 10 (23.26%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (18.60%) ITIL
8 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (16.28%) Security Patching
9 5 (11.63%) Agile
9 5 (11.63%) High Availability
10 4 (9.30%) Configuration Management
10 4 (9.30%) Identity Management
10 4 (9.30%) Migration
11 3 (6.98%) Artificial Intelligence
11 3 (6.98%) Continuous Integration
11 3 (6.98%) CQRS
11 3 (6.98%) Incident Management
11 3 (6.98%) Information Security
11 3 (6.98%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.91%) PowerShell
2 11 (25.58%) Python
2 11 (25.58%) SQL
3 7 (16.28%) Bicep
4 5 (11.63%) Bash
5 4 (9.30%) C#
6 1 (2.33%) VB
6 1 (2.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
1 9 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.63%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.65%) CISSP
4 2 (4.65%) Degree
5 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.60%) SLA
2 2 (4.65%) GDPR
2 2 (4.65%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (27.91%) vSphere
2 9 (20.93%) Active Directory
3 7 (16.28%) DFS Replication
3 7 (16.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (11.63%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.33%) Docker
5 1 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (23.26%) Kubernetes
2 9 (20.93%) Terraform
3 5 (11.63%) Tivoli
4 3 (6.98%) Ansible
4 3 (6.98%) Grafana
4 3 (6.98%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.98%) Puppet
5 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.33%) SCCM
6 1 (2.33%) SCOM
6 1 (2.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (48.84%) Microsoft
2 12 (27.91%) VMware
3 6 (13.95%) Databricks
4 5 (11.63%) Citrix
4 5 (11.63%) SolarWinds
4 5 (11.63%) Veeam
4 5 (11.63%) Virgin Media