Hybrid/Remote Azure Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > Work from Home

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 307 379
Rank change year-on-year -3 +72 +169
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 8 9 12
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.079% 0.074% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.080% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 10
10th Percentile £480 £394 £349
25th Percentile £488 £448 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £506 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.17% -7.95% -10.93%
75th Percentile £594 £550 £576
90th Percentile £650 £558 -
UK median daily rate £550 £475 £638
% change year-on-year +15.79% -25.49% +6.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,503 11,296 16,780
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.31% 93.10% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,215 7,149 11,556
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 206 378
10th Percentile £15.18 £18.50 £17.60
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.26 £26.24
Median hourly rate £43.69 £38.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% -27.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.63
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%

Azure Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure Platform Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Azure Platform Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Azure Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Azure Platform Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Azure Platform Engineer job vacancies

Azure Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Azure Platform Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Azure Platform 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Azure Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Terraform
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) VMS
5 2 (25.00%) AWS
5 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (25.00%) GDPR
5 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (25.00%) Migration
5 2 (25.00%) NIST
6 1 (12.50%) Analytics
6 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
6 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (12.50%) Bash
6 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
6 1 (12.50%) GitHub
6 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
6 1 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 1 (12.50%) Python
6 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (25.00%) Migration
6 1 (12.50%) Analytics
6 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 1 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes