Azure Platform Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > UK excluding London

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the UK excluding London is £470 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 383 438 492
Rank change year-on-year +55 +54 -63
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 10 13 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.049% 0.054% 0.061%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.058% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 12
10th Percentile £408 £556 £463
25th Percentile £440 £563 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year -18.26% +12.20% -1.91%
75th Percentile £519 £594 £569
90th Percentile £531 £596 £588
UK median daily rate £440 £581 £550
% change year-on-year -24.30% +5.68% -2.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,031 22,516 29,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.26% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,791 20,746
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £398 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,244 1,158 1,469
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.92 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.93
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Azure Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Azure Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

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

Azure Platform 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 Platform Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
Midlands - 4 £375 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £375 - 1
North of England +25 3 £500 -13.04% 3
Yorkshire +20 3 £500 -13.04% 1
Scotland +42 2 £440 -
South East +22 2 £525 +5.00% 1
South West - 1 £500 - 2
Azure Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Azure Platform 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 9 (90.00%) DevOps
3 7 (70.00%) Terraform
4 5 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
5 4 (40.00%) YAML
5 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (30.00%) GitOps
6 3 (30.00%) Databricks
6 3 (30.00%) Git
6 3 (30.00%) AWS
6 3 (30.00%) PaaS
6 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (30.00%) DNS
6 3 (30.00%) Firewall
6 3 (30.00%) Agile
6 3 (30.00%) Docker
7 2 (20.00%) IaaS
7 2 (20.00%) Dependency Management
7 2 (20.00%) Scala
7 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
7 2 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (20.00%) Java
7 2 (20.00%) Python
7 2 (20.00%) VPN
7 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (20.00%) JSON

Azure Platform 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 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) PaaS
4 2 (20.00%) IaaS
4 2 (20.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (10.00%) Azure API Management
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (10.00%) GCP
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) DNS
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Snyk
2 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) YAML
2 2 (20.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 9 (90.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (30.00%) GitOps
5 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (20.00%) DataOps
5 2 (20.00%) Dependency Management
5 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (20.00%) MLOps
6 1 (10.00%) API Management
6 1 (10.00%) Change Advisory Board
6 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
6 1 (10.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
6 1 (10.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) Bicep
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Terraform
2 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) BMC
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Remedy
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) VMware