Azure Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, 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 213 253 195
Rank change year-on-year +40 -58 +7
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 123 147 315
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.96% 0.71% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 0.76% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 120 258
10th Percentile £355 £363 £425
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £613
90th Percentile £625 £625 £690
UK median daily rate £498 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -5.24% -6.67% +2.27%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Azure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +56 45 £550 +11.11% 44
North of England +1 33 £475 -5.00% 19
Midlands +23 18 £468 +6.86% 6
South West +37 16 £450 -14.29% 16
North West +3 16 £450 -12.20% 13
West Midlands +14 13 £460 +8.24% 2
Yorkshire -3 9 £425 -10.53% 5
Scotland +14 8 £400 -9.09% 6
North East +6 7 £550 +10.00% 1
East Midlands +11 5 £475 +2.70% 4
Wales 0 4 £425 -29.17%
Azure Engineer
UK

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 123 (100.00%) Azure
2 62 (50.41%) DevOps
3 45 (36.59%) Microsoft
4 43 (34.96%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (31.71%) CI/CD
6 33 (26.83%) Terraform
7 30 (24.39%) SQL
8 28 (22.76%) Python
9 26 (21.14%) Windows
9 26 (21.14%) Finance
9 26 (21.14%) PowerShell
10 25 (20.33%) Active Directory
10 25 (20.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 24 (19.51%) Databricks
12 23 (18.70%) Public Sector
13 22 (17.89%) Business Intelligence
14 21 (17.07%) Kubernetes
15 20 (16.26%) IaaS
15 20 (16.26%) Telecoms
16 19 (15.45%) Firewall
16 19 (15.45%) Social Skills
17 18 (14.63%) Azure Data Factory
17 18 (14.63%) SAP
17 18 (14.63%) Entra ID
17 18 (14.63%) PaaS
18 17 (13.82%) Manufacturing
18 17 (13.82%) Azure Certification
19 16 (13.01%) Electronics
19 16 (13.01%) Programme Management
19 16 (13.01%) Marketing

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (5.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.07%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.81%) Apache
3 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 123 (100.00%) Azure
2 43 (34.96%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (16.26%) IaaS
4 18 (14.63%) Azure Data Factory
4 18 (14.63%) Entra ID
4 18 (14.63%) PaaS
5 16 (13.01%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (11.38%) GitHub
7 12 (9.76%) Azure AKS
8 11 (8.94%) AWS
8 11 (8.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (6.50%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (4.88%) Azure Storage
10 6 (4.88%) GCP
11 5 (4.07%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (4.07%) Power Platform
12 4 (3.25%) SaaS
12 4 (3.25%) Serverless
13 3 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (2.44%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.45%) Firewall
2 10 (8.13%) DNS
3 7 (5.69%) DHCP
3 7 (5.69%) SAN
4 3 (2.44%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (2.44%) Network Security
4 3 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.81%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (9.76%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.88%) Data Lake
4 5 (4.07%) Big Data
5 4 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.44%) Power BI
7 1 (0.81%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.81%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 7 (5.69%) GitLab
2 6 (4.88%) Selenium
3 5 (4.07%) Git
4 4 (3.25%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.44%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.63%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.63%) JMeter
6 2 (1.63%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.63%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.81%) NUnit
7 1 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.81%) Postman
7 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (21.14%) Finance
2 23 (18.70%) Public Sector
3 20 (16.26%) Telecoms
4 19 (15.45%) Social Skills
5 17 (13.82%) Manufacturing
6 16 (13.01%) Electronics
6 16 (13.01%) Marketing
7 3 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.44%) Banking
7 3 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.63%) Retail
9 1 (0.81%) Legal
9 1 (0.81%) Local Government
9 1 (0.81%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.76%) .NET
2 9 (7.32%) PySpark
3 7 (5.69%) ARM Templates
4 6 (4.88%) ADO
4 6 (4.88%) CSS
4 6 (4.88%) HTML
5 5 (4.07%) pytest
6 3 (2.44%) Gherkin
6 3 (2.44%) YAML
7 2 (1.63%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.81%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.81%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.81%) OAuth
8 1 (0.81%) Playwright
8 1 (0.81%) PyTorch
8 1 (0.81%) scikit-learn
8 1 (0.81%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.81%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.69%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.25%) Replication
3 3 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.44%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.63%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.63%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.81%) IoT
5 1 (0.81%) iPhone
5 1 (0.81%) NHS
5 1 (0.81%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.81%) PKI
5 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.81%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 26 (21.14%) Windows
2 13 (10.57%) Linux
3 8 (6.50%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.44%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.63%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.63%) Windows 7
6 2 (1.63%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.81%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.81%) Android
7 1 (0.81%) Unix
7 1 (0.81%) VMS
7 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (50.41%) DevOps
2 39 (31.71%) CI/CD
3 25 (20.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (17.89%) Business Intelligence
5 16 (13.01%) Digital Marketing
5 16 (13.01%) Programme Management
6 15 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 14 (11.38%) ETL
8 13 (10.57%) Agile
8 13 (10.57%) Cloud Security
8 13 (10.57%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (10.57%) Migration
9 12 (9.76%) High Availability
9 12 (9.76%) Software Engineering
9 12 (9.76%) Test Automation
10 11 (8.94%) Analytics
10 11 (8.94%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (8.13%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (8.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 9 (7.32%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (24.39%) SQL
2 28 (22.76%) Python
3 26 (21.14%) PowerShell
4 14 (11.38%) C#
5 12 (9.76%) Bicep
6 6 (4.88%) Bash
6 6 (4.88%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.81%) R
7 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.81%) VB
7 1 (0.81%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 17 (13.82%) Azure Certification
2 16 (13.01%) Security Cleared
3 14 (11.38%) SC Cleared
4 11 (8.94%) Degree
5 7 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.44%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.63%) CISSP
9 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.81%) CCNA
9 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.81%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.81%) MCSE
9 1 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.88%) Data Quality
1 6 (4.88%) SLA
2 3 (2.44%) QA
3 2 (1.63%) GDPR
3 2 (1.63%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
System Software
1 25 (20.33%) Active Directory
2 11 (8.94%) Docker
3 7 (5.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.69%) vSphere
4 6 (4.88%) DFS Replication
4 6 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (4.07%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (26.83%) Terraform
2 21 (17.07%) Kubernetes
3 10 (8.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (5.69%) Ansible
4 7 (5.69%) Grafana
4 7 (5.69%) Prometheus
4 7 (5.69%) SCCM
5 5 (4.07%) Puppet
6 4 (3.25%) WSUS
7 2 (1.63%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.81%) Argo
8 1 (0.81%) Nagios
8 1 (0.81%) SCOM
8 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.81%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 45 (36.59%) Microsoft
2 24 (19.51%) Databricks
3 18 (14.63%) SAP
4 9 (7.32%) VMware
5 6 (4.88%) Google
6 5 (4.07%) Virgin Media
7 3 (2.44%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.63%) Ariba
8 2 (1.63%) Cisco
8 2 (1.63%) Citrix
8 2 (1.63%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.63%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.63%) Meraki
9 1 (0.81%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.81%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.81%) Sophos
9 1 (0.81%) UiPath
9 1 (0.81%) Veeam