Azure Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South East

Azure Security Engineer
England > South East

The median Azure Security Engineer daily rate in the South East is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 157 178
Rank change year-on-year -68 +21 -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Security Engineer 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.061% 0.029% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.032% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £596 - £462
25th Percentile £606 - £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £521
75th Percentile £638 - £573
90th Percentile - - £597
England median daily rate £625 - £593
% change year-on-year - - -1.25%

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 6,001 3,116 4,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.76% 90.21% 92.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,496 2,009 2,588
10th Percentile £303 £205 £250
25th Percentile £425 £375 £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 £713 £663 £688
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 750 282 342
10th Percentile £15.36 £13.75 £16.26
25th Percentile £23.00 £15.50 £32.50
Median hourly rate £52.21 £25.15 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +107.60% -56.15% +14.70%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £72.85 £80.00
England median hourly rate £42.58 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +69.28% -45.54% +5.29%

Azure Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure Security Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Azure Security Engineer job vacancy trend in the South East

Azure Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Azure Security 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 Security Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 4 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 -43 4 £625 - 1
Buckinghamshire - 4 £625 - 1
Azure Security Engineer
England

Azure Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 4 September 2026, Azure Security 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 Security Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Application Discovery
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) NCSC
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust

Azure Security 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
General
1 3 (75.00%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Application Discovery
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft