Azure Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the South East is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 September 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
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 - 205
Rank change year-on-year - - +70
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Infrastructure Engineer 11 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.31% - 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% - 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 3
10th Percentile £373 - £440
25th Percentile £375 - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.11%
75th Percentile £586 - -
90th Percentile £605 - -
England median daily rate £525 £563 £505
% change year-on-year -6.67% +11.39% +1.00%

All DemandTrendContract 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 3,162 4,376 5,309
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.27% 92.42% 94.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,030 2,636 3,637
10th Percentile £205 £253 £213
25th Percentile £375 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £630 £613
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 351 233
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.25 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £30.21 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +111.01%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -44.11% +2.86% +68.27%

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the South East

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 2 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Azure Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 September 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
Kent - 8 £375 -
Thames Valley - 3 £488 - 4
Berkshire - 3 £488 - 2
Azure Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 September 2025, Azure Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Azure
1 11 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (72.73%) vSphere
2 8 (72.73%) VMware
2 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 8 (72.73%) DHCP
2 8 (72.73%) DNS
3 6 (54.55%) DevOps
4 5 (45.45%) Confluence
4 5 (45.45%) SSL
4 5 (45.45%) TCP/IP
4 5 (45.45%) VPN
4 5 (45.45%) Citrix
4 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (45.45%) Tivoli
4 5 (45.45%) Hyper-V
4 5 (45.45%) Veeam
4 5 (45.45%) SolarWinds
4 5 (45.45%) VLAN
4 5 (45.45%) JIRA
5 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
5 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
6 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
6 3 (27.27%) Bicep
6 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (27.27%) Terraform
6 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (27.27%) IaaS
6 3 (27.27%) Docker
6 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity

Azure Infrastructure 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 (45.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) IaaS
3 2 (18.18%) Azure AKS
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (9.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) DHCP
1 8 (72.73%) DNS
2 5 (45.45%) SSL
2 5 (45.45%) TCP/IP
2 5 (45.45%) VLAN
2 5 (45.45%) VPN
3 3 (27.27%) Firewall
3 3 (27.27%) SAN
4 1 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) JIRA
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) ADO
1 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (27.27%) ITIL
3 3 (27.27%) Security Patching
4 2 (18.18%) Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Log Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (9.09%) Agile
5 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 1 (9.09%) Conflict Resolution
5 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (9.09%) Scrum
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) vSphere
2 5 (45.45%) Hyper-V
3 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
3 3 (27.27%) DFS Replication
3 3 (27.27%) Docker
3 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Tivoli
2 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 3 (27.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) VMware
2 5 (45.45%) Citrix
2 5 (45.45%) SolarWinds
2 5 (45.45%) Veeam
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft