Azure Software Engineer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 September 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
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 369 417
Rank change year-on-year +3 +48 +99
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Software Engineer 3 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.020% 0.006% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.006% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £488 - -
25th Percentile £493 £618 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £635 £554
Median % change year-on-year -21.26% +14.62% +8.10%
75th Percentile £556 £653 £613
90th Percentile £590 - £667
UK median daily rate £586 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -13.19% +8.00% -1.19%

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 13,661 16,394 20,556
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.93% 92.38% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,376 9,700 13,820
10th Percentile £213 £225 £225
25th Percentile £363 £379 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,225 1,497 1,166
10th Percentile £13.30 £14.36 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.17 £19.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +15.45% +81.82%
75th Percentile £53.75 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.10 £75.00 £77.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £42.50
% change year-on-year -42.71% +3.29% +63.46%

Azure Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Azure Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Software Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Software Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Azure Software 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 Software Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 September 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
Yorkshire - 2 £495 -
North of England - 2 £495 -
Scotland - 1 £575 - 1
Azure Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 September 2025, Azure Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) NHS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Brio
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Spring
3 1 (33.33%) React
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (33.33%) Node.js
3 1 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) FHIR
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD

Azure Software 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Pipelines
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (33.33%) FHIR
2 1 (33.33%) Next.js
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) NHS
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Release Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Brio
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft