Azure Security Engineer Contracts

Azure Security Engineer
UK

The median Azure Security Engineer daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 670 790
Rank change year-on-year +103 +120 -105
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Security Engineer 8 12 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.021% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.023% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 31
10th Percentile £506 £450 £475
25th Percentile £522 £581 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £535
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +19.16% +8.63%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £869
90th Percentile £669 £725 £898
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Azure Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Security Engineer in the UK

Azure Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Security Engineer in the UK

Azure Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Security Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Security Engineer in the UK

Azure Security Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Security Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +81 7 £600 -5.88% 2
London +90 5 £600 -5.88% 2
Work from Home +111 3 £650 -3.70% 1
UK excluding London +37 2 £600 +9.09% 1
Midlands - 2 £600 -
West Midlands - 1 £600 -
East Midlands - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Azure Security 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 Security Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (37.50%) RBAC
3 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Certification
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) NIST
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (37.50%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (37.50%) Firewall
3 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
4 2 (25.00%) Network Security
4 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (25.00%) Degree
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (25.00%) SIEM
4 2 (25.00%) CISSP
4 2 (25.00%) Python
4 2 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (25.00%) Bicep
4 2 (25.00%) ARM Templates
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (25.00%) Entra ID

Azure Security 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (37.50%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (37.50%) RBAC
2 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (25.00%) DDoS Mitigation
3 2 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 2 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (25.00%) SIEM
3 2 (25.00%) SOAR
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Bicep
2 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Certification
2 2 (25.00%) CISSP
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (12.50%) CEH
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (37.50%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft