Azure Software Engineer Contract Job Trends

Software Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median Software Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the UK is £586, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 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
9 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 537 546 624
Rank change year-on-year +9 +78 +203
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Software Engineer 16 16 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.049% 0.042% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.045% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 18
10th Percentile £491 £515 £503
25th Percentile £530 £613 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.19% +8.00% -1.19%
75th Percentile £725 £688 £700
90th Percentile - £725 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £635 £554
% change year-on-year -21.26% +14.62% +8.10%

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 29,807 35,446 47,661
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.04% 93.03% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,776 22,034 32,764
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,551 1,735 1,478
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.73 £14.56
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +63.46%
75th Percentile £53.13 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £40.41
% change year-on-year -44.11% +11.35% +83.69%

Azure Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Software Engineer in the UK

Azure Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Azure Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Software Engineer over the 6 months to 9 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Software Engineer in the UK

Azure Software Engineer
Top 7 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 Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +10 15 £631 -6.59% 3
London +20 13 £675 -
UK excluding London -7 3 £500 -21.26% 4
Work from Home +21 2 £490 +3.16% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £495 - 2
North of England - 2 £495 - 2
Scotland - 1 £575 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 featuring Azure Software Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (56.25%) .NET
3 8 (50.00%) C#
4 7 (43.75%) Front Office
5 6 (37.50%) Java
5 6 (37.50%) Investment Banking
5 6 (37.50%) Agile
5 6 (37.50%) Banking
6 5 (31.25%) Git
6 5 (31.25%) Big Data
6 5 (31.25%) SQL
6 5 (31.25%) Python
6 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
7 4 (25.00%) XML
7 4 (25.00%) Unix
7 4 (25.00%) Windows
7 4 (25.00%) C
7 4 (25.00%) HTML
7 4 (25.00%) Code Coverage
7 4 (25.00%) JSON
7 4 (25.00%) Waterfall
7 4 (25.00%) Spring
7 4 (25.00%) TDD
7 4 (25.00%) GitHub
7 4 (25.00%) GitLab
7 4 (25.00%) HPCC
7 4 (25.00%) DevOps
7 4 (25.00%) Terraform
7 4 (25.00%) Data Lake

Azure Software 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 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) GitHub
3 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Big Data
2 4 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (25.00%) HPCC
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Git
2 4 (25.00%) GitLab
3 3 (18.75%) Gradle
3 3 (18.75%) Maven
4 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (43.75%) Front Office
2 6 (37.50%) Banking
2 6 (37.50%) Investment Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) .NET
2 4 (25.00%) HTML
2 4 (25.00%) JSON
2 4 (25.00%) Spring
2 4 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
3 1 (6.25%) FHIR
3 1 (6.25%) Next.js
3 1 (6.25%) Node.js
3 1 (6.25%) PySpark
3 1 (6.25%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (6.25%) React
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) NHS
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Unix
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Code Coverage
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Product Requirements
3 4 (25.00%) TDD
3 4 (25.00%) Waterfall
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (18.75%) Multithreading
5 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 2 (12.50%) Data Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (12.50%) Microservices
5 2 (12.50%) Order Management
6 1 (6.25%) Clean Code
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security
6 1 (6.25%) Containerisation
6 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) C#
2 6 (37.50%) Java
3 5 (31.25%) Python
3 5 (31.25%) SQL
4 4 (25.00%) Bicep
4 4 (25.00%) C
5 2 (12.50%) C++
6 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Brio
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks
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