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 in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 192 207
Rank change year-on-year -71 +15 -20
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 142 270 386
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.67% 1.19% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 1.26% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 229 297
10th Percentile £400 £425 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £619
90th Percentile £625 £700 £693
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 12 June 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 12 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
North of England -16 49 £500 -6.98% 16
South East +1 44 £575 +9.52% 24
North West -14 30 £500 -4.76% 12
South West -30 22 £525 -12.50% 12
Yorkshire +9 18 £488 -15.22% 3
Midlands -9 16 £438 -12.50% 20
West Midlands -2 13 £438 -16.67% 12
East of England -2 6 £450 -5.26%
Scotland +39 5 £440 -2.22% 3
East Midlands +5 3 £431 -4.17% 8
Wales +21 2 £425 -20.00% 3
North East +6 1 £500 -16.67% 1
Azure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 UK excluding London region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 142 (100.00%) Azure
2 63 (44.37%) DevOps
3 47 (33.10%) Microsoft
3 47 (33.10%) CI/CD
4 42 (29.58%) Terraform
5 38 (26.76%) Azure DevOps
6 37 (26.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 37 (26.06%) SQL
7 33 (23.24%) Kubernetes
8 32 (22.54%) Active Directory
9 31 (21.83%) Python
10 30 (21.13%) Analytics
10 30 (21.13%) PowerShell
11 29 (20.42%) Windows
11 29 (20.42%) Azure Data Factory
12 25 (17.61%) Security Cleared
13 21 (14.79%) Docker
13 21 (14.79%) Linux
13 21 (14.79%) Entra ID
14 20 (14.08%) Databricks
14 20 (14.08%) Social Skills
14 20 (14.08%) SC Cleared
15 19 (13.38%) DV Cleared
15 19 (13.38%) Agile
16 18 (12.68%) DNS
16 18 (12.68%) Bicep
17 17 (11.97%) ARM Templates
17 17 (11.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 17 (11.97%) Power Platform
17 17 (11.97%) Business Intelligence

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 13 (9.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.23%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.41%) Apache
3 2 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.41%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.41%) Confluence
3 2 (1.41%) IIS
4 1 (0.70%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 142 (100.00%) Azure
2 38 (26.76%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (20.42%) Azure Data Factory
4 21 (14.79%) Entra ID
5 17 (11.97%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (11.97%) Power Platform
6 15 (10.56%) IaaS
7 13 (9.15%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (9.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (8.45%) PaaS
9 9 (6.34%) AWS
9 9 (6.34%) Azure AKS
9 9 (6.34%) Azure Storage
10 7 (4.93%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (4.23%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (4.23%) Serverless
12 5 (3.52%) Azure Functions
12 5 (3.52%) GitHub
13 4 (2.82%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (12.68%) DNS
2 16 (11.27%) Firewall
3 8 (5.63%) DHCP
4 5 (3.52%) VPN
5 3 (2.11%) BGP
5 3 (2.11%) Network Security
5 3 (2.11%) OSPF
6 2 (1.41%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.41%) WAN
7 1 (0.70%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.70%) Internet
7 1 (0.70%) IPv4
7 1 (0.70%) MPLS
7 1 (0.70%) MQTT
7 1 (0.70%) RS-232
7 1 (0.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.97%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (11.27%) Power BI
3 13 (9.15%) Data Lake
4 10 (7.04%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.82%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.11%) Redis
9 2 (1.41%) DTS
9 2 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.41%) Tableau
10 1 (0.70%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.70%) MySQL
10 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.70%) OLAP
10 1 (0.70%) OLAP Cube
10 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (7.75%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.23%) Git
3 5 (3.52%) GitLab
4 3 (2.11%) JIRA
4 3 (2.11%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.41%) Selenium
5 2 (1.41%) Snyk
5 2 (1.41%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.41%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.70%) AppScan
6 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.70%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.70%) Hudson
6 1 (0.70%) NUnit
6 1 (0.70%) Postman
6 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (14.08%) Social Skills
2 10 (7.04%) Public Sector
3 8 (5.63%) Finance
4 6 (4.23%) Telecoms
5 5 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.41%) Banking
6 2 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.41%) Electronics
6 2 (1.41%) Legal
6 2 (1.41%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.41%) Marketing
7 1 (0.70%) Automotive
7 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.70%) Law
7 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.97%) ARM Templates
2 7 (4.93%) .NET
2 7 (4.93%) YAML
3 4 (2.82%) JSON
3 4 (2.82%) XML
4 3 (2.11%) PySpark
4 3 (2.11%) pytest
4 3 (2.11%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.41%) React
6 1 (0.70%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.70%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.70%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.70%) Hugging Face
6 1 (0.70%) LangChain
6 1 (0.70%) Playwright
6 1 (0.70%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.70%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.70%) WinForms
6 1 (0.70%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.75%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (4.93%) PKI
3 6 (4.23%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.82%) Smart Meter
5 3 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.11%) NHS
6 2 (1.41%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.41%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.41%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.70%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 29 (20.42%) Windows
2 21 (14.79%) Linux
3 13 (9.15%) Windows Server
4 8 (5.63%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (5.63%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (3.52%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.82%) Unix
7 3 (2.11%) Windows 7
8 2 (1.41%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.41%) VMS
8 2 (1.41%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (44.37%) DevOps
2 47 (33.10%) CI/CD
3 37 (26.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (21.13%) Analytics
5 19 (13.38%) Agile
6 17 (11.97%) Business Intelligence
6 17 (11.97%) Data Modelling
6 17 (11.97%) ETL
6 17 (11.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 15 (10.56%) Data Pipeline
8 12 (8.45%) Migration
8 12 (8.45%) Platform Engineering
8 12 (8.45%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (7.75%) Log Analytics
9 11 (7.75%) Network Virtualisation
10 10 (7.04%) Cloud Security
11 9 (6.34%) Containerisation
11 9 (6.34%) Identity Management
11 9 (6.34%) RBAC
11 9 (6.34%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (26.06%) SQL
2 31 (21.83%) Python
3 30 (21.13%) PowerShell
4 18 (12.68%) Bicep
5 10 (7.04%) C#
6 8 (5.63%) Bash
7 7 (4.93%) VB
7 7 (4.93%) VBScript
8 6 (4.23%) Java
9 4 (2.82%) Go
10 2 (1.41%) C
10 2 (1.41%) C++
10 2 (1.41%) Scala
11 1 (0.70%) C++/CLI
11 1 (0.70%) Groovy
11 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.70%) Perl
11 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (17.61%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.08%) SC Cleared
3 19 (13.38%) DV Cleared
4 15 (10.56%) Azure Certification
5 14 (9.86%) Degree
6 7 (4.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.70%) CCIE
9 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.82%) GDPR
2 2 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.41%) QA
3 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.70%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.70%) GRC
3 1 (0.70%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (22.54%) Active Directory
2 21 (14.79%) Docker
3 15 (10.56%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (7.04%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.41%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 42 (29.58%) Terraform
2 33 (23.24%) Kubernetes
3 13 (9.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 12 (8.45%) SCCM
5 11 (7.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (7.04%) SCOM
7 9 (6.34%) Ansible
8 8 (5.63%) WSUS
9 5 (3.52%) Grafana
9 5 (3.52%) Prometheus
10 4 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (2.11%) Argo
11 3 (2.11%) Puppet
12 1 (0.70%) Graylog
12 1 (0.70%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.70%) Istio
12 1 (0.70%) Nessus
12 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.70%) SELinux
12 1 (0.70%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 47 (33.10%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.08%) Databricks
3 6 (4.23%) VMware
4 5 (3.52%) Ab Initio
5 3 (2.11%) CA
6 2 (1.41%) Cisco
6 2 (1.41%) F5
6 2 (1.41%) SAP
6 2 (1.41%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.41%) Virgin Media
6 2 (1.41%) WSO2
7 1 (0.70%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.70%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.70%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.70%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.70%) New Relic
7 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.70%) Splunk
7 1 (0.70%) Veracode
7 1 (0.70%) Zscaler