Azure Engineer Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > South West

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in the South West is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 114 129
Rank change year-on-year -8 +15 -41
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 25 57 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.79% 1.58% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 1.71% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 48 32
10th Percentile £363 £443 £426
25th Percentile £469 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £556 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% +1.14% +15.79%
75th Percentile £580 £678 £618
90th Percentile £613 £725 £679
England median daily rate £525 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.12% +2.77% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,970 3,336 3,561
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.37% 92.51% 95.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,890 2,501 2,549
10th Percentile £210 £263 £225
25th Percentile £389 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +5.00% +8.84%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £714 £661
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 265 206
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.04 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £50.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +39.78% +9.41%
75th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £63.60
90th Percentile £77.50 £84.50 £69.49
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in the South West

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in the South West

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in the South West

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
Bristol +14 11 £500 -6.98% 5
Gloucestershire +7 9 £550 +10.00% 3
Wiltshire -6 3 £500 -16.67%
Dorset 0 1 £525 -22.22%
Somerset -1 1 £475 -34.48% 1
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, 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 West region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (52.00%) Python
3 12 (48.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (44.00%) Terraform
5 9 (36.00%) DevOps
5 9 (36.00%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (36.00%) Security Cleared
6 8 (32.00%) PowerShell
6 8 (32.00%) Power BI
6 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (32.00%) Power Platform
7 7 (28.00%) SQL
8 6 (24.00%) PaaS
8 6 (24.00%) DV Cleared
8 6 (24.00%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (20.00%) Bicep
9 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
9 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
9 5 (20.00%) Migration
10 4 (16.00%) ETL
10 4 (16.00%) Windows
10 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
10 4 (16.00%) Docker
10 4 (16.00%) Analytics
10 4 (16.00%) Databricks
10 4 (16.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (16.00%) Entra ID
10 4 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 4 (16.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (4.00%) Confluence
1 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.00%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (32.00%) Power Platform
3 6 (24.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (24.00%) PaaS
4 4 (16.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (16.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (16.00%) Entra ID
5 3 (12.00%) IaaS
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (8.00%) AWS
6 2 (8.00%) Azure AKS
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Stack
6 2 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (8.00%) GCP
6 2 (8.00%) GitHub
6 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (8.00%) PowerApps
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) BGP
2 1 (4.00%) IPv4
2 1 (4.00%) OSPF
2 1 (4.00%) VLAN
2 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) Power BI
2 3 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.00%) Tableau
4 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.00%) GitLab
2 2 (8.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) Snyk
2 2 (8.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.00%) Git
3 1 (4.00%) NUnit
3 1 (4.00%) Postman
3 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.00%) Electronics
2 2 (8.00%) Finance
2 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (8.00%) Marketing
2 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) ARM Templates
1 3 (12.00%) PySpark
2 1 (4.00%) .NET
2 1 (4.00%) ADO
2 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (4.00%) Playwright
2 1 (4.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Linux
3 1 (4.00%) VMS
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (36.00%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (36.00%) DevOps
3 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (20.00%) Migration
5 4 (16.00%) Analytics
5 4 (16.00%) ETL
5 4 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (12.00%) Budget Management
6 3 (12.00%) Budgeting
6 3 (12.00%) Cloud Security
6 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (12.00%) Cost Management
6 3 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (12.00%) Information Security
6 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (12.00%) Observability
6 3 (12.00%) Task Automation
7 2 (8.00%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) PowerShell
3 7 (28.00%) SQL
4 5 (20.00%) Bicep
5 3 (12.00%) Bash
6 2 (8.00%) Julia
6 2 (8.00%) Perl
6 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
7 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (12.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.00%) Degree
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.00%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (8.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (44.00%) Terraform
2 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (12.00%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (8.00%) Ansible
4 2 (8.00%) Argo
4 2 (8.00%) Grafana
4 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.00%) Puppet
5 1 (4.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Databricks
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) CA
3 2 (8.00%) SAP
3 2 (8.00%) VMware
4 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.00%) Citrix
4 1 (4.00%) Informatica