Azure Platform Engineer Contracts

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the UK is £440 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 563 665 766
Rank change year-on-year +102 +101 -134
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 23 33 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.053% 0.057% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.060% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 73
10th Percentile £345 £489 £463
25th Percentile £392 £563 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.11% +6.82% +0.92%
75th Percentile £513 £619 £600
90th Percentile £538 £707 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -18.26% +9.52% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,893 55,060 83,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,957 38,445 58,715
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,534 2,047
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%

Azure Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Platform Engineer in the UK

Azure Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Platform Engineer in the UK

Azure Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Platform Engineer in the UK

Azure Platform Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +98 19 £488 -17.02% 14
Work from Home +116 11 £440 -26.67% 10
London +91 11 £450 -13.25% 5
UK excluding London +63 10 £470 -18.26% 11
Midlands - 4 £375 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £375 - 1
Yorkshire +21 3 £500 -13.04% 1
North of England +17 3 £500 -13.04% 5
Scotland +44 2 £440 -
South East +20 2 £525 - 1
South West - 1 £500 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 featuring Azure Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) Azure
1 23 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 19 (82.61%) DevOps
3 18 (78.26%) Terraform
4 14 (60.87%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
6 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (30.43%) Kubernetes
7 7 (30.43%) PaaS
8 6 (26.09%) IaaS
8 6 (26.09%) YAML
9 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
9 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
9 5 (21.74%) Python
9 5 (21.74%) Git
9 5 (21.74%) PowerShell
9 5 (21.74%) Docker
9 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
10 4 (17.39%) Databricks
10 4 (17.39%) DNS
10 4 (17.39%) Firewall
10 4 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (17.39%) Agile
11 3 (13.04%) JSON
11 3 (13.04%) VMware
11 3 (13.04%) IPv4
11 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
11 3 (13.04%) VPN
11 3 (13.04%) Java
11 3 (13.04%) Jenkins

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (60.87%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (30.43%) PaaS
4 6 (26.09%) IaaS
5 3 (13.04%) AWS
5 3 (13.04%) Entra ID
6 2 (8.70%) Azure AKS
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (8.70%) GCP
6 2 (8.70%) Serverless
6 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (4.35%) GitHub
7 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) DNS
1 4 (17.39%) Firewall
2 3 (13.04%) IPv4
2 3 (13.04%) VPN
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Git
2 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.70%) GitLab
4 1 (4.35%) GoCD
4 1 (4.35%) JIRA
4 1 (4.35%) Snyk
4 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) YAML
2 3 (13.04%) JSON
3 2 (8.70%) ARM Templates
4 1 (4.35%) Kafka
4 1 (4.35%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 19 (82.61%) DevOps
3 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
4 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (17.39%) Agile
5 4 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (13.04%) Cloud Security
6 3 (13.04%) Dependency Management
6 3 (13.04%) GitOps
7 2 (8.70%) Computer Science
7 2 (8.70%) Data Engineering
7 2 (8.70%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (8.70%) DataOps
7 2 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (8.70%) MLOps
7 2 (8.70%) Network Virtualisation
7 2 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (8.70%) Software Engineering
7 2 (8.70%) Test Automation
8 1 (4.35%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) PowerShell
1 5 (21.74%) Python
2 3 (13.04%) Java
3 2 (8.70%) Bicep
3 2 (8.70%) Scala
4 1 (4.35%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) C
4 1 (4.35%) C++
4 1 (4.35%) Go
4 1 (4.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Docker
2 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (78.26%) Terraform
2 7 (30.43%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.70%) Ansible
4 1 (4.35%) Argo
4 1 (4.35%) Consul
4 1 (4.35%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Databricks
2 3 (13.04%) VMware
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.35%) BMC
4 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.35%) Remedy
4 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
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