Azure Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > South West

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in the South West is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 August 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
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 123 112
Rank change year-on-year +26 -11 +30
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 17 22 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.88% 0.81% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 0.87% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 19 37
10th Percentile £355 £435 £458
25th Percentile £408 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £700 £613 £625
90th Percentile - £650 £688
England median daily rate £489 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.14% - -4.35%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,725 2,516 3,168
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.92% 92.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 991 1,592 2,192
10th Percentile £225 £228 £300
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +0.96%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £719
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 289 275
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.82 £18.16
25th Percentile £18.13 £33.00 £39.55
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +9.76% +13.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £70.92
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -44.11% +2.60% +68.69%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies 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 30 August 2025.

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 30 August 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
Gloucestershire +15 9 £700 +27.27% 2
Bristol +7 6 £370 -35.65% 4
Wiltshire - 2 £450 -
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 August 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 West region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (76.47%) Azure Certification
3 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
3 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (41.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (35.29%) Network+ Certification
4 6 (35.29%) Finance
4 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (35.29%) Degree
4 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Management
4 6 (35.29%) Entra ID
4 6 (35.29%) Azure Stack
5 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
6 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
6 4 (23.53%) Terraform
6 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
6 4 (23.53%) User Experience
6 4 (23.53%) GCP
6 4 (23.53%) Software Delivery
6 4 (23.53%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (23.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (23.53%) Programme Management
6 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
6 4 (23.53%) Google
6 4 (23.53%) Marketing
6 4 (23.53%) TDD
6 4 (23.53%) Web Development
6 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
6 4 (23.53%) Digital Marketing

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) Azure Stack
2 6 (35.29%) Entra ID
3 4 (23.53%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) GCP
4 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (11.76%) GitHub
6 1 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Electronics
3 4 (23.53%) Manufacturing
3 4 (23.53%) Marketing
3 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
3 4 (23.53%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) .NET
1 4 (23.53%) CSS
1 4 (23.53%) HTML
2 3 (17.65%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (23.53%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
1 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
3 4 (23.53%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (23.53%) Digital Marketing
3 4 (23.53%) Programme Management
3 4 (23.53%) Service Delivery
3 4 (23.53%) Service Management
3 4 (23.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (23.53%) Software Delivery
3 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
3 4 (23.53%) TDD
3 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
3 4 (23.53%) User Experience
3 4 (23.53%) Web Development
4 3 (17.65%) DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) C#
1 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.76%) Bicep
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (76.47%) Azure Certification
2 6 (35.29%) Degree
2 6 (35.29%) Network+ Certification
3 4 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.88%) CISM
5 1 (5.88%) CISSP
5 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) NIST
1 1 (5.88%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
1 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Google
1 4 (23.53%) SAP
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) Databricks
3 2 (11.76%) NetApp
4 1 (5.88%) IBM
4 1 (5.88%) Red Hat