Azure Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 548 650 744
Rank change year-on-year +102 +94 -106
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Infrastructure Engineer 32 64 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.12% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 44 76
10th Percentile £157 £374 £369
25th Percentile £363 £414 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £514
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -7.54% +4.31%
75th Percentile £594 £563 £575
90th Percentile £658 £588 £622
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £523
% change year-on-year +5.56% -13.96% +19.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,595 53,688 83,596
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.62% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,759 37,488 58,802
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,752 1,485 1,990
10th Percentile £12.79 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +7.26%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.94 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Infrastructure Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 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
England +85 32 £550 +18.92% 15
London +85 17 £569 +13.75% 8
UK excluding London +44 15 £475 +5.56% 11
Work from Home +104 12 £588 +6.82% 6
North of England +39 8 £588 +42.42% 2
North West +31 7 £600 +45.45% 1
South East +14 3 £145 -73.02% 6
South West +12 3 £550 +57.14% 3
Midlands +20 1 £400 -11.11%
Yorkshire +17 1 £475 - 1
West Midlands +9 1 £400 -11.11%

Azure Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 May 2024, 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 featuring Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) Azure
2 29 (90.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 23 (71.88%) Active Directory
4 22 (68.75%) Windows
5 17 (53.13%) Microsoft
6 13 (40.63%) DevOps
6 13 (40.63%) Windows Server
7 10 (31.25%) Entra ID
8 9 (28.13%) SharePoint
9 8 (25.00%) Firewall
9 8 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (21.88%) SQL Server
10 7 (21.88%) VMware
10 7 (21.88%) Migration
10 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
11 6 (18.75%) Windows 7
11 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
11 6 (18.75%) vSphere
11 6 (18.75%) Network Virtualisation
11 6 (18.75%) Windows 10
12 5 (15.63%) Terraform
12 5 (15.63%) DNS
12 5 (15.63%) SQL
12 5 (15.63%) HP
13 4 (12.50%) Finance
13 4 (12.50%) SCCM
13 4 (12.50%) Network Security
13 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019

Azure Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (28.13%) SharePoint
2 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.13%) Confluence
3 1 (3.13%) IIS
3 1 (3.13%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (3.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 32 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (31.25%) Entra ID
3 8 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (9.38%) IaaS
4 3 (9.38%) OneDrive
5 2 (6.25%) Azure AKS
5 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Storage
6 1 (3.13%) AWS
6 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Stack
6 1 (3.13%) GitHub
6 1 (3.13%) PaaS
6 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.00%) Firewall
2 5 (15.63%) DNS
3 4 (12.50%) Network Security
4 1 (3.13%) BGP
4 1 (3.13%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (3.13%) iSCSI
4 1 (3.13%) MPLS
4 1 (3.13%) NAS
4 1 (3.13%) SAN
4 1 (3.13%) VPN
4 1 (3.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Hudson
1 1 (3.13%) JIRA
1 1 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 4 (12.50%) Finance
2 3 (9.38%) Banking
2 3 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
2 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Law
3 2 (6.25%) Legal
4 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) JSON
1 1 (3.13%) LAMP
1 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.25%) Replication
3 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (68.75%) Windows
2 13 (40.63%) Windows Server
3 6 (18.75%) Windows 10
3 6 (18.75%) Windows 7
4 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (9.38%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (6.25%) VMS
7 1 (3.13%) Linux
7 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
7 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (90.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (40.63%) DevOps
3 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
3 7 (21.88%) Migration
4 6 (18.75%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (9.38%) Project Delivery
6 2 (6.25%) Agile
6 2 (6.25%) Change Management
6 2 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (6.25%) Scrum
6 2 (6.25%) Storage Management
7 1 (3.13%) Capacity Management
7 1 (3.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (3.13%) Data Loss Prevention
7 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (3.13%) ITIL
7 1 (3.13%) Network Management
7 1 (3.13%) Security Monitoring
7 1 (3.13%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (3.13%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 5 (15.63%) SQL
3 2 (6.25%) Bicep
3 2 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Azure Certification
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (71.88%) Active Directory
2 6 (18.75%) vSphere
3 2 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.13%) Docker
4 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Terraform
2 4 (12.50%) SCCM
3 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.13%) SCOM
4 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (53.13%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.88%) VMware
3 5 (15.63%) HP
4 1 (3.13%) Aruba
4 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.13%) CA
4 1 (3.13%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.13%) ProCurve
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.13%) Synology
4 1 (3.13%) Veeam
4 1 (3.13%) Zerto