Azure Engineer Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 123 110
Rank change year-on-year +52 -13 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 31 22 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.05% 0.82% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.21% 0.88% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 15 33
10th Percentile £413 £405 £420
25th Percentile £457 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £480 £550
Median % change year-on-year +19.79% -12.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £616 £610 £613
90th Percentile £665 £628 £675
South East median daily rate £550 £495 £538
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.91% +2.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,405 2,505 2,767
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 93.26% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 1,430 1,916
10th Percentile £300 £206 £313
25th Percentile £409 £370 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 189 76
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.78 £17.31
25th Percentile £16.94 £19.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £45.65 £45.00 £46.70
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -3.64% +166.86%
75th Percentile £65.62 £62.50 £66.21
90th Percentile £77.47 £84.57 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in the Thames Valley

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in the Thames Valley

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in the Thames Valley

Azure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Engineer in the Thames Valley

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +47 29 £575 +4.55% 4
Buckinghamshire +17 2 £421 -1.06% 4
Azure Engineer
South East

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Thames Valley region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) Azure
2 23 (74.19%) DevOps
3 20 (64.52%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (41.94%) Python
5 12 (38.71%) SQL
5 12 (38.71%) CI/CD
6 11 (35.48%) Databricks
6 11 (35.48%) PowerShell
7 10 (32.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (32.26%) Telecoms
7 10 (32.26%) Terraform
8 9 (29.03%) Azure AKS
8 9 (29.03%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (29.03%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (29.03%) Security Cleared
8 9 (29.03%) SC Cleared
8 9 (29.03%) Kubernetes
9 8 (25.81%) GitHub
9 8 (25.81%) Microsoft
9 8 (25.81%) Finance
9 8 (25.81%) Bicep
9 8 (25.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (22.58%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (22.58%) Public Sector
10 7 (22.58%) IaaS
11 6 (19.35%) PaaS
11 6 (19.35%) Manufacturing
11 6 (19.35%) Programme Management
11 6 (19.35%) Electronics
11 6 (19.35%) Marketing

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (3.23%) Apache
1 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 31 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (64.52%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (29.03%) Azure AKS
4 8 (25.81%) GitHub
5 7 (22.58%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (22.58%) IaaS
6 6 (19.35%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (19.35%) Azure Storage
6 6 (19.35%) PaaS
7 3 (9.68%) AWS
7 3 (9.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (9.68%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (6.45%) Azure Table
8 2 (6.45%) Entra ID
8 2 (6.45%) Power Automate
8 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
9 1 (3.23%) Azure API Management
9 1 (3.23%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) DHCP
2 1 (3.23%) DNS
2 1 (3.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (32.26%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (16.13%) Big Data
3 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.45%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.45%) Power BI
5 1 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (3.23%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Git
1 4 (12.90%) Jenkins
2 3 (9.68%) SpecFlow
3 1 (3.23%) GitLab
3 1 (3.23%) Selenium
General
1 10 (32.26%) Telecoms
2 8 (25.81%) Finance
3 7 (22.58%) Public Sector
4 6 (19.35%) Electronics
4 6 (19.35%) Manufacturing
4 6 (19.35%) Marketing
5 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) ADO
2 4 (12.90%) ARM Templates
2 4 (12.90%) PySpark
3 3 (9.68%) Gherkin
3 3 (9.68%) YAML
4 2 (6.45%) .NET
4 2 (6.45%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.23%) OAuth
5 1 (3.23%) PyTorch
5 1 (3.23%) scikit-learn
5 1 (3.23%) TensorFlow
5 1 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.45%) Replication
3 1 (3.23%) IoT
3 1 (3.23%) PKI
3 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Linux
1 5 (16.13%) Windows
2 3 (9.68%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.45%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.23%) VMS
4 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (74.19%) DevOps
2 12 (38.71%) CI/CD
3 9 (29.03%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (29.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (25.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 6 (19.35%) Digital Marketing
5 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (19.35%) Programme Management
6 5 (16.13%) Agile
6 5 (16.13%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (16.13%) Configuration Management
6 5 (16.13%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (16.13%) High Availability
7 4 (12.90%) Analytics
7 4 (12.90%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (12.90%) ETL
7 4 (12.90%) Identity Management
7 4 (12.90%) Migration
7 4 (12.90%) Software Engineering
8 3 (9.68%) Data-Driven Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (41.94%) Python
2 12 (38.71%) SQL
3 11 (35.48%) PowerShell
4 8 (25.81%) Bicep
5 3 (9.68%) Bash
5 3 (9.68%) C#
6 1 (3.23%) R
6 1 (3.23%) VB
6 1 (3.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) SC Cleared
1 9 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.90%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.23%) Degree
4 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.45%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.23%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (32.26%) Terraform
2 9 (29.03%) Kubernetes
3 3 (9.68%) Puppet
4 2 (6.45%) Ansible
4 2 (6.45%) Grafana
4 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.23%) SCCM
5 1 (3.23%) SCOM
5 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (35.48%) Databricks
2 8 (25.81%) Microsoft
3 6 (19.35%) SAP
4 5 (16.13%) Virgin Media
5 1 (3.23%) UiPath