Azure Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Southwark

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
Central London > Southwark

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in Southwark is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026.

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

 6 months to
9 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southwark 5.88% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 6.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £640 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Southwark

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Southwark. 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 Southwark with a recognized job title 16 14 5
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 2
10th Percentile £375 - £478
25th Percentile £463 - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £155 £500
Median % change year-on-year +287.10% -69.02% +104.39%
75th Percentile £663 £388 £519
90th Percentile £750 £425 £523
Central London median daily rate £550 £555 £550
% change year-on-year -0.90% +0.91% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
Median hourly rate £58.92 £26.45 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +122.76% +11.13% -
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -22.89% +11.24% -22.86%

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southwark

For the 6 months to 9 July 2026, Azure Platform 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 Southwark region featuring Azure Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure App Service
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southwark 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure App Service
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
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