Azure Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the UK excluding London is £569, 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 327 380 432
Rank change year-on-year +53 +52 +44
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Infrastructure Engineer 9 19 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.091% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.099% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 24
10th Percentile £452 £143 £412
25th Percentile £529 £366 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £563 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +25.00% -13.96%
75th Percentile £623 £639 £500
90th Percentile - £650 £559
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -4.35% +21.05% -5.00%

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 Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure 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 +49 6 £592 +308.10% 3
North of England +14 3 £423 -28.09% 2
Yorkshire +9 2 £320 -32.63%
North West +11 1 £525 -12.50% 2
Azure Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Azure Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (88.89%) VMware
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 8 (88.89%) Windows
3 7 (77.78%) SAN
3 7 (77.78%) Firewall
3 7 (77.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (77.78%) IaaS
3 7 (77.78%) vSphere
4 6 (66.67%) DFS Replication
4 6 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (66.67%) Security Patching
4 6 (66.67%) ITIL
4 6 (66.67%) DHCP
4 6 (66.67%) DNS
4 6 (66.67%) SLA
4 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (55.56%) DevOps
6 4 (44.44%) PaaS
7 3 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
7 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
8 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
9 1 (11.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server

Azure Infrastructure 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 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (77.78%) IaaS
3 4 (44.44%) PaaS
4 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (11.11%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) Firewall
1 7 (77.78%) SAN
2 6 (66.67%) DHCP
2 6 (66.67%) DNS
3 3 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (11.11%) Network Security
General
1 1 (11.11%) Legal
1 1 (11.11%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Unix
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (66.67%) ITIL
2 6 (66.67%) Security Patching
3 5 (55.56%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) E-Discovery
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (11.11%) RBAC
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CCNA
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (11.11%) MCSE
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (77.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (77.78%) vSphere
3 6 (66.67%) DFS Replication
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
1 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
1 1 (11.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
1 8 (88.89%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) Meraki
2 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
2 1 (11.11%) Veeam