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 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 249 188
Rank change year-on-year +24 -61 +17
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 111 139 297
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.86% 0.68% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.74% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 117 246
10th Percentile £355 £363 £425
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £606
90th Percentile £625 £625 £684
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £560
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.25% +1.82%

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 11,886 18,771 21,693
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.89% 92.48% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,561 11,462 15,127
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.40% +3.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 2,267 1,104
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.73 £18.07
Median hourly rate £27.13 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.19% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.85 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.29% -18.89% +88.21%

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 19 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 19 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 +47 47 £550 +10.00% 47
North of England -10 23 £508 +1.50% 38
South West +32 15 £450 -14.29% 12
Midlands +17 15 £460 +8.24% 10
West Midlands +3 11 £460 +8.24% 2
North East +3 9 £525 +5.00% 5
North West -8 9 £488 -3.70% 25
Scotland +7 8 £400 -9.09% 6
Yorkshire 0 5 £466 -4.36% 8
East Midlands +13 4 £431 -2.82% 8
Wales +4 4 £313 -26.47%
Azure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 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.

1 111 (100.00%) Azure
2 58 (52.25%) DevOps
3 39 (35.14%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (34.23%) CI/CD
5 36 (32.43%) Microsoft
6 32 (28.83%) Terraform
7 28 (25.23%) SQL
8 27 (24.32%) Windows
9 25 (22.52%) Infrastructure as Code
10 24 (21.62%) PowerShell
11 23 (20.72%) Python
11 23 (20.72%) Finance
12 21 (18.92%) Business Intelligence
12 21 (18.92%) Active Directory
12 21 (18.92%) IaaS
13 20 (18.02%) Kubernetes
13 20 (18.02%) Public Sector
13 20 (18.02%) Databricks
14 19 (17.12%) Telecoms
15 18 (16.22%) PaaS
16 17 (15.32%) Firewall
16 17 (15.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 17 (15.32%) Azure Certification
17 16 (14.41%) Azure Data Factory
17 16 (14.41%) SAP
17 16 (14.41%) Manufacturing
17 16 (14.41%) Security Cleared
18 15 (13.51%) SC Cleared
18 15 (13.51%) Electronics
18 15 (13.51%) Programme Management

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 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.80%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 111 (100.00%) Azure
2 39 (35.14%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (18.92%) IaaS
4 18 (16.22%) PaaS
5 16 (14.41%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (12.61%) GitHub
7 13 (11.71%) Azure AKS
8 12 (10.81%) Entra ID
8 12 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (9.91%) AWS
10 9 (8.11%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (8.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (7.21%) Azure Storage
12 6 (5.41%) GCP
12 6 (5.41%) Power Platform
13 5 (4.50%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (3.60%) Azure Key Vault
14 4 (3.60%) Power Automate
15 3 (2.70%) Azure Table
15 3 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (15.32%) Firewall
2 14 (12.61%) DNS
3 9 (8.11%) DHCP
4 7 (6.31%) SAN
5 3 (2.70%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (2.70%) Network Security
6 2 (1.80%) SSL
6 2 (1.80%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.80%) VLAN
6 2 (1.80%) VPN
7 1 (0.90%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.90%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.61%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (8.11%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.60%) Power BI
4 3 (2.70%) Big Data
4 3 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.80%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.90%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.90%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 5 (4.50%) Git
1 5 (4.50%) Selenium
2 4 (3.60%) GitLab
3 3 (2.70%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.70%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.80%) JIRA
5 1 (0.90%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.90%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.90%) JMeter
5 1 (0.90%) NUnit
5 1 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.90%) Postman
5 1 (0.90%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (20.72%) Finance
2 20 (18.02%) Public Sector
3 19 (17.12%) Telecoms
4 16 (14.41%) Manufacturing
5 15 (13.51%) Electronics
5 15 (13.51%) Marketing
5 15 (13.51%) Social Skills
6 3 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.80%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.80%) Banking
8 1 (0.90%) Legal
8 1 (0.90%) Local Government
8 1 (0.90%) Police
8 1 (0.90%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.71%) .NET
2 8 (7.21%) ADO
3 7 (6.31%) ARM Templates
3 7 (6.31%) PySpark
4 6 (5.41%) CSS
4 6 (5.41%) HTML
5 4 (3.60%) pytest
6 3 (2.70%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.70%) Gherkin
6 3 (2.70%) YAML
7 1 (0.90%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.90%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.90%) OAuth
7 1 (0.90%) Playwright
7 1 (0.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.31%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.60%) Replication
3 3 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.70%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.80%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.90%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.90%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.90%) iPhone
5 1 (0.90%) NHS
5 1 (0.90%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.90%) PKI
5 1 (0.90%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 27 (24.32%) Windows
2 11 (9.91%) Linux
3 10 (9.01%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.80%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.80%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (1.80%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.90%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.90%) Android
6 1 (0.90%) Unix
6 1 (0.90%) VMS
6 1 (0.90%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (52.25%) DevOps
2 38 (34.23%) CI/CD
3 25 (22.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (18.92%) Business Intelligence
5 17 (15.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 15 (13.51%) Digital Marketing
6 15 (13.51%) Programme Management
7 13 (11.71%) Agile
7 13 (11.71%) Cloud Security
7 13 (11.71%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (11.71%) Test Automation
8 12 (10.81%) ETL
8 12 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 12 (10.81%) Migration
9 11 (9.91%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (9.91%) Software Engineering
10 10 (9.01%) High Availability
10 10 (9.01%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (8.11%) TDD
12 8 (7.21%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 28 (25.23%) SQL
2 24 (21.62%) PowerShell
3 23 (20.72%) Python
4 15 (13.51%) C#
5 12 (10.81%) Bicep
6 8 (7.21%) Bash
7 6 (5.41%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.90%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.90%) VB
8 1 (0.90%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 17 (15.32%) Azure Certification
2 16 (14.41%) Security Cleared
3 15 (13.51%) SC Cleared
4 11 (9.91%) Degree
5 7 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.80%) CISSP
7 2 (1.80%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.90%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.90%) CCNA
8 1 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.90%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.90%) MCSE
8 1 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.41%) SLA
2 4 (3.60%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.60%) QA
3 2 (1.80%) GDPR
3 2 (1.80%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (18.92%) Active Directory
2 9 (8.11%) vSphere
3 8 (7.21%) Docker
4 7 (6.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (6.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (5.41%) DFS Replication
5 6 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.80%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.90%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (28.83%) Terraform
2 20 (18.02%) Kubernetes
3 10 (9.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (6.31%) Ansible
4 7 (6.31%) Grafana
4 7 (6.31%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.50%) SCCM
6 4 (3.60%) Puppet
7 3 (2.70%) WSUS
8 2 (1.80%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.90%) Argo
9 1 (0.90%) Nagios
9 1 (0.90%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.90%) SCOM
9 1 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.90%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (32.43%) Microsoft
2 20 (18.02%) Databricks
3 16 (14.41%) SAP
4 11 (9.91%) VMware
5 6 (5.41%) Google
5 6 (5.41%) SolarWinds
6 5 (4.50%) Virgin Media
7 4 (3.60%) Citrix
8 3 (2.70%) Veeam
9 2 (1.80%) Cisco
9 2 (1.80%) Meraki
10 1 (0.90%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.90%) Ariba
10 1 (0.90%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.90%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.90%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.90%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.90%) Sophos
10 1 (0.90%) UiPath