Azure Engineer Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Azure Engineer
London > Central London

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Central London is £590, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 95 136
Rank change year-on-year +16 +41 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 50 55 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.14% 1.82% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.30% 1.93% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 42 54
10th Percentile £441 £450 £457
25th Percentile £509 £481 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £675 £788 £709
London median daily rate £558 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -0.45% -6.67% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,175 2,847 4,613
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 94.24% 95.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,366 1,999 3,161
10th Percentile £361 £340 £350
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £687 £690 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 18 60
10th Percentile £21.29 £17.00 £16.20
25th Percentile £30.19 £19.51 £19.69
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -9.76% +28.13%
75th Percentile £82.19 £51.56 £57.50
90th Percentile £129.85 £70.25 £78.75
London median hourly rate £39.00 £40.50 £32.25
% change year-on-year -3.70% +25.58% +7.50%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in Central London

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in Central London

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in Central London

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
City of London +21 49 £593 +7.73% 8
City of Westminster - 1 £450 -
Azure Engineer
London

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Azure 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 across the Central London region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 50 (100.00%) Azure
2 24 (48.00%) Microsoft
3 19 (38.00%) DevOps
3 19 (38.00%) Terraform
4 17 (34.00%) Agile
5 16 (32.00%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (28.00%) CI/CD
7 14 (28.00%) Windows
8 13 (26.00%) Banking
9 12 (24.00%) Finance
9 12 (24.00%) SQL
9 12 (24.00%) Firewall
9 12 (24.00%) Docker
9 12 (24.00%) Kubernetes
10 11 (22.00%) PowerShell
10 11 (22.00%) Machine Learning
10 11 (22.00%) Python
10 11 (22.00%) Artificial Intelligence
10 11 (22.00%) SDLC
11 10 (20.00%) Entra ID
11 10 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (18.00%) SQL Server
12 9 (18.00%) Azure AKS
12 9 (18.00%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (16.00%) Active Directory
13 8 (16.00%) SC Cleared
13 8 (16.00%) Security Cleared
14 7 (14.00%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (14.00%) Analytics

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 50 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (32.00%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 10 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 9 (18.00%) Azure AKS
4 9 (18.00%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (12.00%) Azure AI
5 6 (12.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (10.00%) Azure App Service
6 5 (10.00%) Azure Event Grid
6 5 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (8.00%) IaaS
8 3 (6.00%) Azure API Management
8 3 (6.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (6.00%) Azure Functions
8 3 (6.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (6.00%) Azure Storage
8 3 (6.00%) Serverless
9 2 (4.00%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 12 (24.00%) Firewall
2 6 (12.00%) SSL
3 5 (10.00%) HTTP
3 5 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 4 (8.00%) DNS
4 4 (8.00%) Network Security
4 4 (8.00%) VPN
5 3 (6.00%) MPLS
6 1 (2.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (12.00%) NoSQL
3 5 (10.00%) Big Data
4 2 (4.00%) Power BI
4 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.00%) SAS EBI
5 1 (2.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Git
2 3 (6.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.00%) JIRA
3 2 (4.00%) GitLab
4 1 (2.00%) Gerrit
4 1 (2.00%) Gradle
4 1 (2.00%) Maven
General
1 13 (26.00%) Banking
2 12 (24.00%) Finance
3 6 (12.00%) Investment Banking
4 4 (8.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) .NET
1 5 (10.00%) .NET Core
1 5 (10.00%) Kafka
1 5 (10.00%) YAML
2 3 (6.00%) CSS
2 3 (6.00%) CSS3
2 3 (6.00%) HTML
2 3 (6.00%) HTML5
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 3 (6.00%) React
3 2 (4.00%) OpenID
3 2 (4.00%) SAML
3 2 (4.00%) Web Services
4 1 (2.00%) Node.js
4 1 (2.00%) OAuth
4 1 (2.00%) PySpark
4 1 (2.00%) RESTful
4 1 (2.00%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.00%) Private Cloud
1 3 (6.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.00%) PKI
3 1 (2.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (28.00%) Windows
2 7 (14.00%) Linux
3 4 (8.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (38.00%) DevOps
2 17 (34.00%) Agile
3 15 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (28.00%) CI/CD
5 11 (22.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 11 (22.00%) Machine Learning
5 11 (22.00%) SDLC
6 7 (14.00%) Analytics
6 7 (14.00%) Cloud Security
6 7 (14.00%) Data Science
6 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (12.00%) Load Balancing
7 6 (12.00%) MLOps
7 6 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (12.00%) Waterfall
8 5 (10.00%) Architectural Design
8 5 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
8 5 (10.00%) Design Patterns
8 5 (10.00%) Secure Coding
8 5 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.00%) SQL
2 11 (22.00%) PowerShell
2 11 (22.00%) Python
3 5 (10.00%) Bash
3 5 (10.00%) C#
4 4 (8.00%) Bicep
5 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.00%) Perl
6 2 (4.00%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.00%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.00%) Go
7 1 (2.00%) Java
7 1 (2.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 8 (16.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.00%) Azure Certification
3 5 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (24.00%) Docker
2 8 (16.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (8.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (38.00%) Terraform
2 12 (24.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (14.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (6.00%) Packer
5 1 (2.00%) Grafana
5 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.00%) Puppet
5 1 (2.00%) SCCM
5 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (48.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.00%) Databricks
3 3 (6.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.00%) Citrix
5 1 (2.00%) Brio
5 1 (2.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.00%) Google
5 1 (2.00%) Guidewire
5 1 (2.00%) Okta
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.00%) VMware