Azure Platform Engineer Contracts in England

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 517 604 727
Rank change year-on-year +87 +123 -135
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 20 27 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.055% 0.056% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.060% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 31
10th Percentile £377 £481 £500
25th Percentile £400 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +6.82% +5.77%
75th Percentile £538 £619 £584
90th Percentile £618 £680 £675
UK median daily rate £458 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -22.13% +6.82% +0.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,784 45,257 67,201
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.58% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,405 32,145 47,943
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.27% +7.11%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £646
90th Percentile £750 £763 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,479 1,329 1,839
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.47 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.52
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +6.98%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%

Azure Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Platform Engineer in England

Azure Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Platform Engineer in England

Azure Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Platform Engineer in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Platform Engineer in England

Azure Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Platform Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 23 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
London +93 12 £475 -8.43% 5
Midlands - 4 £375 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £375 - 1
North of England +23 3 £500 -14.89% 5
Yorkshire +20 3 £500 -18.37%
South East - 2 £525 - 1
South West - 1 £500 - 2
Azure Platform Engineer
UK

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, Azure Platform 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 England region featuring Azure Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Azure
1 20 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 17 (85.00%) DevOps
2 17 (85.00%) Terraform
3 15 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (35.00%) PaaS
7 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
7 6 (30.00%) YAML
7 6 (30.00%) IaaS
8 5 (25.00%) Agile
8 5 (25.00%) Git
8 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
8 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
9 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
9 4 (20.00%) DNS
9 4 (20.00%) Firewall
9 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
9 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
10 3 (15.00%) JSON
10 3 (15.00%) VMware
10 3 (15.00%) Python
10 3 (15.00%) VPN
10 3 (15.00%) IPv4
10 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
10 3 (15.00%) Dependency Management
10 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
10 3 (15.00%) ARM Templates

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (5.00%) Confluence
1 1 (5.00%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (35.00%) PaaS
4 6 (30.00%) IaaS
5 3 (15.00%) Azure AKS
5 3 (15.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (10.00%) GCP
6 2 (10.00%) Serverless
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (5.00%) AWS
7 1 (5.00%) Azure API Management
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (5.00%) GitHub
7 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) DNS
1 4 (20.00%) Firewall
2 3 (15.00%) IPv4
2 3 (15.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.00%) MySQL
1 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Git
2 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.00%) GitLab
4 1 (5.00%) GoCD
4 1 (5.00%) JIRA
4 1 (5.00%) Snyk
4 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (5.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) YAML
2 3 (15.00%) ARM Templates
2 3 (15.00%) JSON
3 1 (5.00%) Kafka
3 1 (5.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.00%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 17 (85.00%) DevOps
3 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (25.00%) Agile
6 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (15.00%) Cloud Security
7 3 (15.00%) Dependency Management
8 2 (10.00%) Analytics
8 2 (10.00%) Configuration Management
8 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (10.00%) Log Analytics
8 2 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
8 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
9 1 (5.00%) B2C
9 1 (5.00%) Identity Management
9 1 (5.00%) Migration
9 1 (5.00%) Scrum
9 1 (5.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) Bicep
4 1 (5.00%) Bash
4 1 (5.00%) C
4 1 (5.00%) C++
4 1 (5.00%) Go
4 1 (5.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) Rust
4 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (85.00%) Terraform
2 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (15.00%) Ansible
4 1 (5.00%) Argo
4 1 (5.00%) Consul
4 1 (5.00%) Grafana
4 1 (5.00%) Packer
4 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) VMware
2 2 (10.00%) Databricks
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) BMC
3 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.00%) New Relic
3 1 (5.00%) Remedy
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow