Azure Engineer Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > North West

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in the North West is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 95 125
Rank change year-on-year -16 +30 -13
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 30 66 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.12% 2.15% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 2.26% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 58 43
10th Percentile £403 £456 £353
25th Percentile £450 £475 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £625
90th Percentile £639 £680 £698
England median daily rate £525 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 2,525 2,915 3,889
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 94.95% 96.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,640 2,070 2,834
10th Percentile £276 £300 £213
25th Percentile £390 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +13.10%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £569
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 124 179
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.58 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.50 £19.22 £15.51
Median hourly rate £27.75 £30.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% +22.16% +38.45%
75th Percentile £46.91 £48.91 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.70 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in the North West

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in the North West

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in the North West

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Manchester -7 23 £525 - 13
Merseyside +11 2 £168 -74.23%
Cheshire -2 1 £600 +29.73%
Cumbria - 1 £500 -
Azure Engineer
England

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 16 May 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 North West region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 14 (46.67%) DevOps
4 13 (43.33%) CI/CD
5 11 (36.67%) Active Directory
6 10 (33.33%) Terraform
6 10 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (23.33%) Network Virtualisation
10 6 (20.00%) SQL
10 6 (20.00%) Python
10 6 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (20.00%) Entra ID
11 5 (16.67%) Analytics
12 4 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
12 4 (13.33%) Data Lake
12 4 (13.33%) Databricks
12 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (13.33%) IaaS
12 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (13.33%) SharePoint
12 4 (13.33%) Windows
12 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (13.33%) Data Modelling
12 4 (13.33%) ETL
12 4 (13.33%) Data Security
12 4 (13.33%) Data Integration
13 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
13 3 (10.00%) Agile

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 30 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (13.33%) IaaS
4 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Storage
6 2 (6.67%) PaaS
6 2 (6.67%) SaaS
7 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.33%) Azure App Service
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.33%) GitHub
7 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) BGP
1 2 (6.67%) DNS
1 2 (6.67%) Firewall
1 2 (6.67%) Network Security
1 2 (6.67%) OSPF
1 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Data Lake
2 3 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.67%) Redis
4 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) GitLab
1 2 (6.67%) Selenium
2 1 (3.33%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (3.33%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (10.00%) Finance
1 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Banking
2 2 (6.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Automotive
3 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (6.67%) pytest
2 2 (6.67%) YAML
3 1 (3.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
1 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Windows
2 3 (10.00%) Linux
3 2 (6.67%) Alpine Linux
3 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.67%) Windows 10
3 2 (6.67%) Windows 7
4 1 (3.33%) VMS
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) DevOps
2 13 (43.33%) CI/CD
3 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (23.33%) Network Virtualisation
6 5 (16.67%) Analytics
7 4 (13.33%) Data Integration
7 4 (13.33%) Data Modelling
7 4 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (13.33%) Data Security
7 4 (13.33%) ETL
7 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (10.00%) Agile
8 3 (10.00%) Software Delivery
9 2 (6.67%) Data Architecture
9 2 (6.67%) Data Management
9 2 (6.67%) Data Transformation
9 2 (6.67%) Mentoring
9 2 (6.67%) Migration
9 2 (6.67%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) Python
1 6 (20.00%) SQL
2 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.67%) Bicep
4 1 (3.33%) Bash
4 1 (3.33%) C#
4 1 (3.33%) Go
4 1 (3.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.33%) MCSE
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) QA
1 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (36.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.33%) Docker
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.67%) Grafana
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
3 2 (6.67%) SCCM
4 1 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 15 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Databricks
3 2 (6.67%) SolarWinds
3 2 (6.67%) Virgin Media
3 2 (6.67%) VMware