Azure Security Engineer Contracts

Azure Security Engineer
UK

The median Azure Security Engineer daily rate in the UK is £745 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 591 702 792
Rank change year-on-year +111 +90 -145
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Security Engineer 7 10 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.017% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.018% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 34
10th Percentile £637 £541 £475
25th Percentile £692 £639 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £745 £675 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.37% +28.57% +7.14%
75th Percentile £768 £716 £728
90th Percentile - £725 £873
UK excluding London median daily rate - £450 £525
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +10.53%

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 40,362 56,304 84,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,261 39,350 59,476
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,668 1,565 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.40 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £42.43 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.91% +117.60% +2.63%

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
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 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 +129 5 £745 +10.37% 2
Work from Home +124 5 £745 +10.37%
London +99 4 £745 +10.37% 1
UK excluding London +46 1 - - 3
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, 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 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 4 (57.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (42.86%) YAML
3 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 3 (42.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) Windows
3 3 (42.86%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Azure AKS
3 3 (42.86%) Azure Certification
3 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
3 3 (42.86%) Onboarding
3 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
3 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
4 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
4 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (28.57%) CISSP
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (14.29%) Risk Assessment

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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (42.86%) Azure AKS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
1 3 (42.86%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (42.86%) Onboarding
2 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 1 (14.29%) Application Security
4 1 (14.29%) Compliance Management
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (14.29%) Information Security
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 1 (14.29%) Security Hardening
4 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
4 1 (14.29%) SIEM
4 1 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 3 (42.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Certification
2 2 (28.57%) CISSP
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (14.29%) GRC
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (42.86%) Red Hat