Azure Security Engineer Contracts

Azure Security Engineer
UK

The median Azure Security Engineer daily rate in the UK is £438, 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 510 575 708
Rank change year-on-year +65 +133 +87
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Security Engineer 10 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.016% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.017% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 6
10th Percentile £406 £637 £541
25th Percentile £408 £692 £639
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £745 £675
Median % change year-on-year -41.28% +10.37% +28.57%
75th Percentile £500 £768 £716
90th Percentile £559 - £725
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £450
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Azure Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Security Engineer in the UK

Azure Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Security Engineer in the UK

Azure Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Security Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Security Engineer in the UK

Azure Security Engineer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Security Engineer within the UK 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
England +58 6 £419 -43.79% 1
London +39 5 £419 -43.79% 1
Work from Home +40 4 £525 -29.53% 2
UK excluding London +63 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -

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

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

1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (60.00%) Cloud Security
3 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (40.00%) Analytics
4 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
5 3 (30.00%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (30.00%) Security Posture
5 3 (30.00%) Zscaler
5 3 (30.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
5 3 (30.00%) .NET
6 2 (20.00%) Windows
6 2 (20.00%) Python
6 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 2 (20.00%) Finance
6 2 (20.00%) Migration
6 2 (20.00%) JSON
6 2 (20.00%) Splunk
6 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
6 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (20.00%) DevOps
6 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (20.00%) Databricks
6 2 (20.00%) Log Analytics
6 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (20.00%) Application Security
6 2 (20.00%) CI/CD

Azure Security 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 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (10.00%) AWS
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (10.00%) Big Data
1 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) Parquet
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Application Security
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Log Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Architectural Design
4 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (10.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (10.00%) GitOps
4 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) RBAC
4 1 (10.00%) Server Migrations
4 1 (10.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Bicep
3 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Zscaler
3 2 (20.00%) Databricks
3 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (20.00%) Splunk
4 1 (10.00%) Qualys