Azure Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 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 259 187 199
Rank change year-on-year -72 +12 -19
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 138 302 403
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.68% 1.31% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 1.39% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 251 303
10th Percentile £363 £425 £376
25th Percentile £425 £463 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £576 £606 £613
90th Percentile £625 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% +7.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,765 21,693 29,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,441 15,152 20,402
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,107 1,452
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
North of England -17 49 £500 -9.09% 18
South East -20 36 £500 -4.76% 20
North West -16 30 £513 -2.38% 12
South West -23 23 £525 -4.55% 12
Yorkshire +5 18 £488 -18.75% 4
Midlands -2 16 £425 -22.73% 17
West Midlands +4 13 £425 -22.73% 9
Scotland +25 7 £440 -6.13% 3
East of England -3 7 £450 -10.00% 2
East Midlands +11 3 £444 -0.84% 8
Wales +18 2 £425 -23.60% 4
North East +8 1 £500 -16.67% 2
Azure Engineer
UK

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 138 (100.00%) Azure
2 60 (43.48%) DevOps
3 48 (34.78%) CI/CD
4 47 (34.06%) Microsoft
5 42 (30.43%) Terraform
6 40 (28.99%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (27.54%) SQL
8 35 (25.36%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (23.91%) Python
10 29 (21.01%) Kubernetes
10 29 (21.01%) Azure Data Factory
11 28 (20.29%) PowerShell
12 27 (19.57%) Windows
13 26 (18.84%) Analytics
14 22 (15.94%) Active Directory
14 22 (15.94%) ETL
15 21 (15.22%) Docker
16 20 (14.49%) Business Intelligence
16 20 (14.49%) Power Platform
16 20 (14.49%) Databricks
17 19 (13.77%) Power BI
17 19 (13.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 19 (13.77%) Agile
18 18 (13.04%) Entra ID
19 16 (11.59%) Bicep
19 16 (11.59%) Data Modelling
19 16 (11.59%) Linux
19 16 (11.59%) Microsoft 365
20 15 (10.87%) IaaS
20 15 (10.87%) Security Cleared

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 8 (5.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.45%) Apache
3 2 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.45%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.45%) Confluence
3 2 (1.45%) IIS
4 1 (0.72%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 138 (100.00%) Azure
2 40 (28.99%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (21.01%) Azure Data Factory
4 20 (14.49%) Power Platform
5 18 (13.04%) Entra ID
6 16 (11.59%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (10.87%) IaaS
8 13 (9.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (7.97%) PaaS
10 9 (6.52%) AWS
10 9 (6.52%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (5.80%) Azure AKS
12 7 (5.07%) Azure Sentinel
13 6 (4.35%) Serverless
14 5 (3.62%) Azure Functions
14 5 (3.62%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (3.62%) Azure Storage
14 5 (3.62%) GitHub
15 4 (2.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 4 (2.90%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.14%) Firewall
2 13 (9.42%) DNS
3 7 (5.07%) Network Security
4 5 (3.62%) VPN
5 3 (2.17%) BGP
5 3 (2.17%) DHCP
5 3 (2.17%) OSPF
6 2 (1.45%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.45%) WAN
7 1 (0.72%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.72%) IPv4
7 1 (0.72%) MPLS
7 1 (0.72%) MQTT
7 1 (0.72%) RS-232
7 1 (0.72%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.77%) Power BI
2 15 (10.87%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (9.42%) Data Lake
4 11 (7.97%) SQL Server
5 9 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.17%) Redis
8 3 (2.17%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.45%) DTS
9 2 (1.45%) Tableau
10 1 (0.72%) Big Data
10 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.72%) MySQL
10 1 (0.72%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.72%) OLAP
10 1 (0.72%) OLAP Cube
10 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (7.97%) Jenkins
2 7 (5.07%) Git
3 5 (3.62%) GitLab
4 3 (2.17%) JIRA
4 3 (2.17%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.45%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.45%) Selenium
5 2 (1.45%) Snyk
5 2 (1.45%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.45%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.72%) AppScan
6 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.72%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.72%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.72%) Hudson
6 1 (0.72%) NUnit
6 1 (0.72%) Postman
6 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 14 (10.14%) Social Skills
2 10 (7.25%) Public Sector
3 8 (5.80%) Finance
4 7 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.35%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.45%) Banking
6 2 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.45%) Electronics
6 2 (1.45%) Legal
6 2 (1.45%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.45%) Marketing
7 1 (0.72%) Automotive
7 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.72%) Law
7 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.42%) ARM Templates
2 7 (5.07%) .NET
2 7 (5.07%) YAML
3 4 (2.90%) JSON
3 4 (2.90%) PySpark
3 4 (2.90%) XML
4 3 (2.17%) pytest
5 2 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.45%) React
6 1 (0.72%) ADO
6 1 (0.72%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.72%) CSS
6 1 (0.72%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.72%) HTML
6 1 (0.72%) J2EE
6 1 (0.72%) MFC
6 1 (0.72%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.72%) WinForms
6 1 (0.72%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.07%) Product Ownership
1 7 (5.07%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (2.90%) Smart Meter
3 3 (2.17%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.17%) NHS
3 3 (2.17%) PKI
4 2 (1.45%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.45%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.72%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.72%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (19.57%) Windows
2 16 (11.59%) Linux
3 9 (6.52%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.07%) Windows 10
5 6 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.62%) Windows 7
7 4 (2.90%) Unix
8 3 (2.17%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (1.45%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.45%) VMS
9 2 (1.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (43.48%) DevOps
2 48 (34.78%) CI/CD
3 35 (25.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (18.84%) Analytics
5 22 (15.94%) ETL
6 20 (14.49%) Business Intelligence
7 19 (13.77%) Agile
7 19 (13.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (11.59%) Data Modelling
9 13 (9.42%) Cloud Security
9 13 (9.42%) Data Pipeline
10 12 (8.70%) Migration
10 12 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
11 11 (7.97%) Network Virtualisation
12 10 (7.25%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (7.25%) Scrum
13 9 (6.52%) Containerisation
13 9 (6.52%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (6.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 7 (5.07%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 38 (27.54%) SQL
2 33 (23.91%) Python
3 28 (20.29%) PowerShell
4 16 (11.59%) Bicep
5 9 (6.52%) Bash
6 7 (5.07%) C#
6 7 (5.07%) Java
7 4 (2.90%) Go
8 3 (2.17%) VB
8 3 (2.17%) VBScript
9 2 (1.45%) C
9 2 (1.45%) C++
9 2 (1.45%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.45%) Scala
10 1 (0.72%) C++/CLI
10 1 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.72%) Perl
10 1 (0.72%) Rust
10 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (10.87%) Azure Certification
1 15 (10.87%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.25%) Degree
2 10 (7.25%) DV Cleared
2 10 (7.25%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.72%) CCIE
6 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.72%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.90%) GDPR
2 2 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.45%) QA
3 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.72%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.72%) GRC
3 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.72%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (15.94%) Active Directory
2 21 (15.22%) Docker
3 12 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.45%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 42 (30.43%) Terraform
2 29 (21.01%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.25%) Ansible
4 8 (5.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 8 (5.80%) SCCM
5 7 (5.07%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (4.35%) SCOM
7 5 (3.62%) Grafana
7 5 (3.62%) Prometheus
8 4 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.90%) WSUS
9 3 (2.17%) Argo
9 3 (2.17%) Puppet
10 1 (0.72%) Graylog
10 1 (0.72%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.72%) Istio
10 1 (0.72%) Nessus
10 1 (0.72%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.72%) SELinux
10 1 (0.72%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 47 (34.06%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.49%) Databricks
3 6 (4.35%) VMware
4 5 (3.62%) Ab Initio
5 3 (2.17%) CA
6 2 (1.45%) Cisco
6 2 (1.45%) F5
6 2 (1.45%) SAP
6 2 (1.45%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.45%) Virgin Media
6 2 (1.45%) WSO2
7 1 (0.72%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.72%) BMC
7 1 (0.72%) Citrix
7 1 (0.72%) Cognos
7 1 (0.72%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.72%) Informatica
7 1 (0.72%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.72%) Splunk
7 1 (0.72%) Veracode