Azure Engineer Contracts in Merseyside

Microsoft Azure Engineer
North West > Merseyside

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Merseyside is £375, 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 26 28 39
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 +7
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 4 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 1.81% 1.49% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.96% 1.63% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £189 £453 -
25th Percentile £228 £494 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.78% - -
75th Percentile £528 £650 -
90th Percentile £580 £688 -
North West median daily rate £531 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.19% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 204 184 294
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 91.09% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 110 195
10th Percentile £153 £219 £253
25th Percentile £200 £306 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -8.11% +3.06%
75th Percentile £501 £525 £550
90th Percentile £600 £589 £626
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 26
10th Percentile £15.22 £13.13 -
25th Percentile £17.11 £16.25 £10.09
Median hourly rate £18.10 £18.25 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% +32.73% -14.06%
75th Percentile £23.40 £23.38 £17.56
90th Percentile £27.73 £40.00 £19.31
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% +55.56% +25.00%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in Merseyside

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in Merseyside

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in Merseyside

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside 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
Liverpool +1 4 £375 -34.78% 1
Azure Engineer
North West

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

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 Merseyside region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) SCCM
3 1 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) Microservices
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft