Azure Engineer Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Microsoft Azure Engineer
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Tyne and Wear is £545, 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 31 31 50
Rank change year-on-year 0 +19 -11
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 6 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 2.46% 0.41% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.54% 0.45% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £466 - -
25th Percentile £480 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -16.67% -17.24%
75th Percentile £612 £525 £650
90th Percentile £656 - £680
North East median daily rate £550 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Tyne and Wear

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. 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 Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 236 221 342
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.72% 90.95% 98.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 102 266
10th Percentile £223 £271 £311
25th Percentile £350 £377 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £555
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -9.91% +11.00%
75th Percentile £558 £588 £650
90th Percentile £625 £650 £734
North East median daily rate £461 £475 £540
% change year-on-year -2.89% -12.04% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 41 0
10th Percentile £11.60 £11.50 -
25th Percentile £12.50 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £13.00 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% - -
75th Percentile £23.69 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £49.08 £60.00 -
North East median hourly rate £13.00 £13.99 £40.75
% change year-on-year -7.08% -65.67% +139.71%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings that featured Azure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -4 6 £545 +9.00% 3
Azure Engineer
North East

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) PaaS
2 3 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 3 (50.00%) Selenium
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) IaaS
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) GitLab
2 3 (50.00%) pytest
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (33.33%) Grafana
3 2 (33.33%) Docker
3 2 (33.33%) Electronics
3 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Marketing

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) IaaS
2 3 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
1 3 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (33.33%) Electronics
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 2 (33.33%) Marketing
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) pytest
2 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Programme Management
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) SFIA
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Bicep
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Grafana
2 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (33.33%) SAP