Azure Engineer Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Azure Engineer
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 155 165
Rank change year-on-year -89 +10 +15
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 400 575 738
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.14% 1.59% 1.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 1.71% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 433 553
10th Percentile £369 £365 £389
25th Percentile £413 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -7.49%
75th Percentile £587 £625 £625
90th Percentile £656 £675 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £35.00
Median hourly rate - - £35.63
75th Percentile - - £60.00
90th Percentile - - £61.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £62.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 31,989 33,651 43,674
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.92% 92.86% 93.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,308 20,292 29,666
10th Percentile £279 £300 £294
25th Percentile £402 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,833 1,257 1,539
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.10 £14.99
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +60.48%
75th Percentile £51.80 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.92 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +87.37%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in the UK

Azure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Azure Engineer
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 November 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
England -93 330 £500 -9.09% 133
London -54 201 £525 -6.04% 74
UK excluding London -74 146 £500 -4.76% 84
Work from Home -48 137 £475 -9.52% 85
Midlands -25 38 £500 -11.11% 23
South East -26 32 £425 -29.75% 27
North of England -71 29 £495 +10.00% 13
Scotland +21 27 £550 +49.25% 9
West Midlands -36 25 £529 -11.32% 13
South West -2 18 £670 +24.65% 9
North West -33 15 £438 -10.26% 8
East Midlands 0 13 £463 +15.48% 10
Yorkshire -47 12 £506 +22.73% 4
East of England -11 8 £450 +63.64% 4
North East -8 2 £563 +257.14% 1
Wales -17 2 £538 -2.27%

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 November 2025, Azure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 400 (100.00%) Azure
2 206 (51.50%) DevOps
3 173 (43.25%) CI/CD
4 147 (36.75%) Azure DevOps
5 144 (36.00%) Terraform
6 122 (30.50%) Microsoft
7 115 (28.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 109 (27.25%) Python
9 103 (25.75%) SQL
10 91 (22.75%) Databricks
11 88 (22.00%) Azure Data Factory
12 80 (20.00%) Security Cleared
13 75 (18.75%) PowerShell
14 71 (17.75%) SC Cleared
15 70 (17.50%) Analytics
16 69 (17.25%) Data Engineering
17 66 (16.50%) Data Pipeline
18 63 (15.75%) Entra ID
19 62 (15.50%) Kubernetes
20 56 (14.00%) Migration
21 55 (13.75%) GitHub
22 54 (13.50%) Azure Certification
23 52 (13.00%) Windows
24 49 (12.25%) Azure Monitor
25 47 (11.75%) Agile
25 47 (11.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
25 47 (11.75%) Bicep
26 45 (11.25%) Azure AKS
26 45 (11.25%) Data Lake
26 45 (11.25%) Infrastructure Engineering

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (4.50%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.25%) Apache
3 5 (1.25%) Confluence
4 3 (0.75%) CMS
4 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.50%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.25%) DataSynapse
6 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.25%) IIS
6 1 (0.25%) JBoss
6 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.75%) Maximo
3 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 400 (100.00%) Azure
2 147 (36.75%) Azure DevOps
3 88 (22.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 63 (15.75%) Entra ID
5 55 (13.75%) GitHub
6 49 (12.25%) Azure Monitor
7 47 (11.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 45 (11.25%) Azure AKS
9 44 (11.00%) AWS
10 39 (9.75%) GitHub Actions
11 38 (9.50%) Power Platform
12 30 (7.50%) PaaS
13 27 (6.75%) Microsoft 365
14 26 (6.50%) IaaS
15 25 (6.25%) Snowflake
16 21 (5.25%) Azure Key Vault
17 20 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
17 20 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
17 20 (5.00%) Serverless
18 16 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 40 (10.00%) Firewall
2 26 (6.50%) VPN
3 21 (5.25%) DNS
4 15 (3.75%) Network Security
5 8 (2.00%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.00%) WAN
6 7 (1.75%) DHCP
6 7 (1.75%) VLAN
7 6 (1.50%) SSL
8 5 (1.25%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.00%) BGP
9 4 (1.00%) MPLS
9 4 (1.00%) OSPF
10 2 (0.50%) IPsec
10 2 (0.50%) LAN
10 2 (0.50%) Wireless
11 1 (0.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 1 (0.25%) HTTP
11 1 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (11.25%) Data Lake
2 42 (10.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 40 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (7.75%) Power BI
5 20 (5.00%) SQL Server
6 10 (2.50%) Delta Lake
6 10 (2.50%) Metadata
7 9 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (2.00%) Big Data
8 8 (2.00%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.75%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.75%) Star Schema
10 5 (1.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.25%) HPCC
11 4 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.75%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.50%) Data Vault
13 2 (0.50%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 37 (9.25%) Git
2 25 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 22 (5.50%) GitLab
4 9 (2.25%) JIRA
5 7 (1.75%) Maven
6 6 (1.50%) Gradle
6 6 (1.50%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.75%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.75%) MLflow
8 3 (0.75%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.75%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.50%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.50%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.50%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.50%) JMeter
9 2 (0.50%) PyCharm
9 2 (0.50%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.25%) Postman
General
1 84 (21.00%) Social Skills
2 59 (14.75%) Finance
3 45 (11.25%) Public Sector
4 28 (7.00%) Banking
5 15 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.00%) Investment Banking
7 9 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.50%) Retail
10 5 (1.25%) Aviation
11 4 (1.00%) Billing
11 4 (1.00%) Law
11 4 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.75%) French Language
12 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.50%) Legal
13 2 (0.50%) Marketing
13 2 (0.50%) Military
13 2 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (9.75%) ARM Templates
2 29 (7.25%) PySpark
3 25 (6.25%) ADO
4 14 (3.50%) .NET
4 14 (3.50%) YAML
5 11 (2.75%) Kafka
6 10 (2.50%) Spring
7 9 (2.25%) FastAPI
7 9 (2.25%) JSON
7 9 (2.25%) SAML
8 8 (2.00%) OpenID
8 8 (2.00%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.75%) REST
9 7 (1.75%) XML
10 6 (1.50%) HTML
10 6 (1.50%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.50%) RESTful
11 5 (1.25%) .NET Core
11 5 (1.25%) GraphQL
12 4 (1.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.75%) Cloud Native
2 19 (4.75%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (3.00%) Security Posture
5 10 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (1.50%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (1.25%) NHS
8 5 (1.25%) PKI
9 4 (1.00%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.00%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.75%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.75%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.75%) Replication
10 3 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (13.00%) Windows
2 26 (6.50%) Linux
3 15 (3.75%) VMS
4 11 (2.75%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.50%) Unix
6 4 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.00%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.00%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.50%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.25%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (51.50%) DevOps
2 173 (43.25%) CI/CD
3 115 (28.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (17.50%) Analytics
5 69 (17.25%) Data Engineering
6 66 (16.50%) Data Pipeline
7 56 (14.00%) Migration
8 47 (11.75%) Agile
9 45 (11.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 42 (10.50%) ETL
10 42 (10.50%) Platform Engineering
11 41 (10.25%) Cloud Security
11 41 (10.25%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (9.50%) AI
12 38 (9.50%) Business Intelligence
13 37 (9.25%) Data Governance
13 37 (9.25%) Data Modelling
14 36 (9.00%) RBAC
15 33 (8.25%) Containerisation
16 31 (7.75%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 109 (27.25%) Python
2 103 (25.75%) SQL
3 75 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 47 (11.75%) Bicep
5 31 (7.75%) Bash
6 23 (5.75%) Java
7 22 (5.50%) C#
8 18 (4.50%) Scala
9 10 (2.50%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.50%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (1.25%) C
11 5 (1.25%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.00%) C++
12 4 (1.00%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.75%) PHP
14 2 (0.50%) R
15 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.25%) Go
15 1 (0.25%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 80 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 71 (17.75%) SC Cleared
3 54 (13.50%) Azure Certification
4 20 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (2.50%) Degree
6 7 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.75%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.50%) CISSP
7 6 (1.50%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.00%) CISM
9 3 (0.75%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 2 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.50%) CCNA
11 1 (0.25%) CCIE
11 1 (0.25%) CCNP
11 1 (0.25%) CCSP
11 1 (0.25%) CWNA
11 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.25%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.25%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.00%) NIST
3 15 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.50%) GDPR
5 8 (2.00%) QA
6 6 (1.50%) NCSC
7 5 (1.25%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.75%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.75%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.50%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.50%) SLA
10 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.25%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 42 (10.50%) Docker
2 38 (9.50%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.25%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.75%) vSphere
5 6 (1.50%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.25%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 144 (36.00%) Terraform
2 62 (15.50%) Kubernetes
3 18 (4.50%) Ansible
4 11 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (2.00%) Grafana
5 8 (2.00%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.25%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.00%) Packer
7 4 (1.00%) Podman
7 4 (1.00%) QRadar
7 4 (1.00%) Tivoli
8 3 (0.75%) Argo
8 3 (0.75%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.50%) Fluentd
9 2 (0.50%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.50%) Istio
9 2 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.50%) Nessus
Vendors
1 122 (30.50%) Microsoft
2 91 (22.75%) Databricks
3 10 (2.50%) Virgin Media
4 8 (2.00%) Cisco
4 8 (2.00%) Zscaler
5 7 (1.75%) VMware
6 6 (1.50%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.25%) Citrix
7 5 (1.25%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.25%) Oracle
7 5 (1.25%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.00%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.00%) Darktrace
8 4 (1.00%) Foundry
8 4 (1.00%) Google
8 4 (1.00%) Qualys
8 4 (1.00%) SAP
8 4 (1.00%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.00%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.00%) Veeam