Azure Engineer Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Azure Engineer
London > Central London

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Central London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 126 125
Rank change year-on-year +23 -1 0
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 34 45 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.42% 1.21% 1.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.49% 1.27% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 35 59
10th Percentile £415 £458 £468
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £669 £669 £644
90th Percentile £754 £733 £805
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +11.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,287 3,547 4,256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.45% 95.09% 94.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,607 2,418 3,223
10th Percentile £340 £325 £354
25th Percentile £438 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £723 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 23 49
10th Percentile £20.07 £15.50 £15.38
25th Percentile £21.44 £18.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £27.41 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.70% -13.58% +125.31%
75th Percentile £28.98 £61.25 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.88 £87.64 £64.35
London median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in Central London

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in Central London

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in Central London

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 2 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
City of London +28 31 £575 +4.55% 7
Camden - 1 £450 -
City of Westminster - 1 £450 -
Azure Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 Central London region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (35.29%) DevOps
3 11 (32.35%) SQL
3 11 (32.35%) Microsoft
4 10 (29.41%) Active Directory
4 10 (29.41%) PowerShell
4 10 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (26.47%) Terraform
5 9 (26.47%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
6 8 (23.53%) Windows
6 8 (23.53%) Python
7 7 (20.59%) SQL Server
7 7 (20.59%) Firewall
7 7 (20.59%) Banking
7 7 (20.59%) Kubernetes
7 7 (20.59%) Entra ID
7 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
8 6 (17.65%) Agile
9 5 (14.71%) Docker
9 5 (14.71%) Finance
9 5 (14.71%) C#
9 5 (14.71%) Linux
9 5 (14.71%) DNS
9 5 (14.71%) Databricks
9 5 (14.71%) Data Pipeline
10 4 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (11.76%) Azure AKS
10 4 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (11.76%) Containerisation

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 2 (5.88%) Luigi
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 34 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (26.47%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (20.59%) Entra ID
4 4 (11.76%) Azure AKS
4 4 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (8.82%) AWS
5 3 (8.82%) Azure App Service
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Event Grid
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (5.88%) GCP
6 2 (5.88%) GitHub
6 2 (5.88%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.94%) IaaS
7 1 (2.94%) PaaS
7 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.59%) Firewall
2 5 (14.71%) DNS
3 4 (11.76%) Network Security
4 2 (5.88%) VPN
5 1 (2.94%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 3 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.88%) Data Lake
4 2 (5.88%) Data Mart
4 2 (5.88%) Delta Lake
4 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.88%) Power BI
4 2 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.94%) MySQL
5 1 (2.94%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) GitLab
2 3 (8.82%) Git
3 1 (2.94%) AppScan
3 1 (2.94%) Burp Suite
3 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.94%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.94%) Subversion
3 1 (2.94%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Banking
3 5 (14.71%) Finance
4 4 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (11.76%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) .NET
1 3 (8.82%) .NET Core
1 3 (8.82%) Kafka
1 3 (8.82%) PySpark
1 3 (8.82%) YAML
2 2 (5.88%) ARM Templates
2 2 (5.88%) OpenID
2 2 (5.88%) Pandas
2 2 (5.88%) SAML
3 1 (2.94%) CSS
3 1 (2.94%) CSS3
3 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.94%) HTML
3 1 (2.94%) HTML5
3 1 (2.94%) JSON
3 1 (2.94%) OAuth
3 1 (2.94%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.94%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
1 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
1 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
1 1 (2.94%) Replication
1 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (23.53%) Windows
2 5 (14.71%) Linux
3 2 (5.88%) Windows 10
3 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.94%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (35.29%) DevOps
2 10 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
4 6 (17.65%) Agile
5 5 (14.71%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (11.76%) Containerisation
6 4 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (11.76%) Data Engineering
6 4 (11.76%) Roadmaps
7 3 (8.82%) Cloud Security
7 3 (8.82%) Data Modelling
7 3 (8.82%) ETL
7 3 (8.82%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (8.82%) Secrets Management
8 2 (5.88%) Architectural Design
8 2 (5.88%) Architectural Patterns
8 2 (5.88%) Design Patterns
8 2 (5.88%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) SQL
2 10 (29.41%) PowerShell
3 8 (23.53%) Python
4 5 (14.71%) C#
5 3 (8.82%) Bicep
6 2 (5.88%) Bash
6 2 (5.88%) Perl
6 2 (5.88%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.88%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.94%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) Degree
2 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.94%) SANS
2 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) GDPR
1 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 10 (29.41%) Active Directory
2 5 (14.71%) Docker
3 2 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (26.47%) Terraform
2 7 (20.59%) Kubernetes
3 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (5.88%) SCCM
5 1 (2.94%) Ansible
5 1 (2.94%) Grafana
5 1 (2.94%) Graylog
5 1 (2.94%) HP Fortify
5 1 (2.94%) Nagios
5 1 (2.94%) Nessus
5 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.94%) Puppet
5 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.94%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) Databricks
3 1 (2.94%) Brio
3 1 (2.94%) Checkmarx
3 1 (2.94%) Cisco
3 1 (2.94%) Fortinet
3 1 (2.94%) Guidewire
3 1 (2.94%) Meraki
3 1 (2.94%) Palo Alto
3 1 (2.94%) Splunk
3 1 (2.94%) Veracode