Azure Engineer Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > London

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 128 155
Rank change year-on-year -23 +27 -10
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 282 520 752
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.61% 2.00% 1.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.73% 2.10% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 393 561
10th Percentile £425 £433 £425
25th Percentile £475 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +12.75%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £725 £800
England median daily rate £525 £563 £554
% change year-on-year -6.67% +1.53% +10.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
England median hourly rate - £71.00 £78.75
% change year-on-year - -9.84% +215.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,330 24,760 37,101
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 95.17% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,815 17,998 27,187
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 281 441
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.50 £23.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +13.45%
75th Percentile £46.05 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.32 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in London

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in London

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in London

Azure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Engineer in London

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Central London +23 26 £545 -0.91% 12
West London +24 5 £503 +6.91% 2
South London +3 1 £568 +19.47%
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 London region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 282 (100.00%) Azure
2 140 (49.65%) DevOps
3 95 (33.69%) Azure DevOps
4 93 (32.98%) Python
5 89 (31.56%) SQL
6 82 (29.08%) Microsoft
7 79 (28.01%) CI/CD
8 75 (26.60%) Finance
9 73 (25.89%) Databricks
10 65 (23.05%) Social Skills
11 63 (22.34%) Terraform
12 61 (21.63%) Azure Data Factory
13 57 (20.21%) PowerShell
14 56 (19.86%) Agile
15 48 (17.02%) Kubernetes
16 43 (15.25%) PySpark
17 42 (14.89%) Data Engineering
17 42 (14.89%) ETL
17 42 (14.89%) C#
17 42 (14.89%) Infrastructure as Code
18 41 (14.54%) Active Directory
18 41 (14.54%) Data Lake
19 40 (14.18%) Analytics
19 40 (14.18%) Data Pipeline
20 38 (13.48%) Docker
20 38 (13.48%) .NET
21 37 (13.12%) Windows
22 33 (11.70%) Azure SQL Database
23 32 (11.35%) Software Engineering
23 32 (11.35%) Problem-Solving

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 15 (5.32%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.48%) Apache
3 6 (2.13%) IIS
3 6 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.42%) Luigi
4 4 (1.42%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.06%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.71%) Confluence
6 2 (0.71%) nginx
7 1 (0.35%) JBoss
7 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 282 (100.00%) Azure
2 95 (33.69%) Azure DevOps
3 61 (21.63%) Azure Data Factory
4 29 (10.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 28 (9.93%) Entra ID
6 23 (8.16%) Azure AKS
7 22 (7.80%) Power Platform
8 17 (6.03%) GitHub
8 17 (6.03%) PaaS
8 17 (6.03%) Serverless
9 16 (5.67%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (5.32%) AWS
11 13 (4.61%) Azure Service Bus
12 12 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (3.55%) Azure App Service
13 10 (3.55%) Azure Functions
13 10 (3.55%) Azure Key Vault
13 10 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (3.19%) Azure Machine Learning
14 9 (3.19%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.51%) Firewall
2 16 (5.67%) DNS
3 9 (3.19%) VPN
4 5 (1.77%) HTTP
4 5 (1.77%) Network Security
4 5 (1.77%) SSH
4 5 (1.77%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.42%) Internet
6 3 (1.06%) IPv4
6 3 (1.06%) MPLS
6 3 (1.06%) WAN
6 3 (1.06%) Wireless
7 2 (0.71%) BGP
7 2 (0.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.71%) OSPF
7 2 (0.71%) VRRP
8 1 (0.35%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (0.35%) SAN
8 1 (0.35%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (14.54%) Data Lake
2 33 (11.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 25 (8.87%) SQL Server
4 22 (7.80%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (7.45%) Power BI
6 17 (6.03%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.90%) Delta Lake
8 10 (3.55%) Big Data
9 8 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (2.84%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.48%) Spark SQL
11 5 (1.77%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.77%) Power Query
12 4 (1.42%) Data Mart
12 4 (1.42%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.42%) Parquet
13 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 3 (1.06%) MySQL
13 3 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (7.45%) Git
2 17 (6.03%) GitLab
3 11 (3.90%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.77%) Cypress.io
4 5 (1.77%) Selenium
5 4 (1.42%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.06%) Burp Suite
6 3 (1.06%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.06%) JIRA
6 3 (1.06%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.06%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.71%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.71%) Deequ
7 2 (0.71%) NUnit
7 2 (0.71%) Postman
7 2 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.35%) GoCD
8 1 (0.35%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.35%) MLflow
8 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 75 (26.60%) Finance
2 65 (23.05%) Social Skills
3 27 (9.57%) Public Sector
4 23 (8.16%) Banking
5 17 (6.03%) Marketing
6 9 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.84%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.13%) Electronics
8 6 (2.13%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.13%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.06%) Law
11 3 (1.06%) Retail
12 2 (0.71%) Back Office
12 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.71%) Legal
13 1 (0.35%) Front Office
13 1 (0.35%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (15.25%) PySpark
2 38 (13.48%) .NET
3 18 (6.38%) ARM Templates
4 16 (5.67%) JSON
4 16 (5.67%) Kafka
5 15 (5.32%) YAML
6 12 (4.26%) HTML
6 12 (4.26%) Node.js
7 10 (3.55%) .NET Core
8 9 (3.19%) CSS
8 9 (3.19%) React
9 7 (2.48%) HTML5
10 6 (2.13%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.77%) scikit-learn
12 4 (1.42%) AngularJS
12 4 (1.42%) Apache Avro
12 4 (1.42%) GraphQL
12 4 (1.42%) LDAP
12 4 (1.42%) Pandas
13 3 (1.06%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.96%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (2.13%) Data Centre
3 5 (1.77%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.06%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.06%) Market Risk
5 3 (1.06%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.71%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.71%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.71%) Tandem
7 1 (0.35%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.35%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.35%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.35%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.35%) PropTech
7 1 (0.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (13.12%) Windows
2 30 (10.64%) Linux
3 20 (7.09%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.48%) Unix
5 5 (1.77%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.42%) Windows 7
7 3 (1.06%) CentOS
7 3 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.06%) VMS
8 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.35%) Debian
9 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (49.65%) DevOps
2 79 (28.01%) CI/CD
3 56 (19.86%) Agile
4 42 (14.89%) Data Engineering
4 42 (14.89%) ETL
4 42 (14.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (14.18%) Analytics
5 40 (14.18%) Data Pipeline
6 32 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (11.35%) Software Engineering
7 28 (9.93%) Business Intelligence
7 28 (9.93%) Data Modelling
8 25 (8.87%) Migration
9 21 (7.45%) Continuous Integration
10 20 (7.09%) Computer Science
11 19 (6.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 17 (6.03%) TDD
13 16 (5.67%) Microservices
14 15 (5.32%) Containerisation
14 15 (5.32%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 93 (32.98%) Python
2 89 (31.56%) SQL
3 57 (20.21%) PowerShell
4 42 (14.89%) C#
5 13 (4.61%) Bash
5 13 (4.61%) Bicep
5 13 (4.61%) Java
6 12 (4.26%) JavaScript
7 11 (3.90%) Scala
7 11 (3.90%) T-SQL
8 9 (3.19%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.13%) Go
10 4 (1.42%) C++
11 3 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.06%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.71%) Perl
12 2 (0.71%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.35%) C
13 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (8.16%) Azure Certification
2 17 (6.03%) Degree
2 17 (6.03%) Security Cleared
3 16 (5.67%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.42%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.06%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (0.71%) CISSP
8 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.35%) CISA
8 1 (0.35%) CISM
8 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.96%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.42%) QA
3 3 (1.06%) GDPR
4 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.71%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (14.54%) Active Directory
2 38 (13.48%) Docker
3 10 (3.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.13%) vSphere
5 5 (1.77%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.42%) NFS
7 3 (1.06%) Firmware
8 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (22.34%) Terraform
2 48 (17.02%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.61%) Ansible
4 8 (2.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.84%) SCCM
5 7 (2.48%) Grafana
6 4 (1.42%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.42%) Puppet
7 2 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.71%) Netcool
7 2 (0.71%) Podman
7 2 (0.71%) SCOM
8 1 (0.35%) Argo
8 1 (0.35%) Graylog
8 1 (0.35%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.35%) Nagios
8 1 (0.35%) Nessus
8 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.35%) WebInspect
8 1 (0.35%) yum
Vendors
1 82 (29.08%) Microsoft
2 73 (25.89%) Databricks
3 7 (2.48%) Oracle
3 7 (2.48%) Splunk
3 7 (2.48%) VMware
4 6 (2.13%) SAP
5 5 (1.77%) HP
6 4 (1.42%) F5
7 3 (1.06%) Checkmarx
7 3 (1.06%) Cisco
7 3 (1.06%) Juniper
7 3 (1.06%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.06%) Veracode
8 2 (0.71%) Aruba
8 2 (0.71%) Informatica
8 2 (0.71%) New Relic
8 2 (0.71%) Qualys
8 2 (0.71%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.71%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.71%) ServiceNow