Azure Software Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South East

Software Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > South East

The median Software Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the South East is £456, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 185 172 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Software Engineer 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.045% 0.028% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.030% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £419 - -
25th Percentile £430 £618 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £635 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.15% - -
75th Percentile £480 £653 -
90th Percentile £488 - -
England median daily rate £625 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -

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 3,997 3,359 4,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.51% 92.76% 93.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,599 2,109 3,047
10th Percentile £221 £239 £205
25th Percentile £400 £400 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +0.80% -
75th Percentile £600 £620 £608
90th Percentile £676 £675 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -3.81% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 125 252
10th Percentile £13.75 £18.58 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £24.18 £26.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -22.73% +46.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.69 £66.06
90th Percentile £84.50 £71.64 £76.53
England median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.86% -22.22% +38.46%

Azure Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Azure Software Engineer job vacancy trend in the South East

Azure Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Azure Software 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 Software Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 December 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
Thames Valley -11 1 £488 -23.23%
Berkshire -12 1 £488 -23.23%
Surrey - 1 £425 -
Azure Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 December 2025, Azure Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Python

Azure Software 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft