Azure Engineer Contracts

Microsoft Azure Engineer
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £525 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 198 153 158
Rank change year-on-year -45 +5 -19
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 494 993 1,592
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.16% 1.73% 1.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 1.83% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 770 1,151
10th Percentile £383 £431 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £561 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% +2.05% +7.32%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £715 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £52.95 -
25th Percentile £90.00 £55.88 -
Median hourly rate £110.00 £61.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year +80.33% -22.54% +215.00%
75th Percentile £130.00 £66.38 -
90th Percentile - £69.45 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in the UK

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in the UK

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in the UK

Azure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Engineer in the UK

Azure Engineer
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 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
England -45 436 £525 -6.67% 164
London -23 282 £550 -8.33% 84
Work from Home -51 180 £525 -4.55% 108
UK excluding London -71 140 £500 -4.76% 98
North of England -9 51 £500 -9.09% 21
South East -11 36 £500 -4.76% 32
North West -18 31 £506 -3.57% 15
South West -24 23 £525 -6.67% 13
Yorkshire +13 19 £500 -16.67% 5
Midlands -12 16 £425 -19.05% 20
West Midlands -2 13 £425 -22.73% 11
Scotland +31 7 £440 -6.13% 5
East of England -1 7 £450 -10.00% 1
East Midlands +14 3 £444 -0.84% 9
Wales +19 2 £425 -29.17% 5
North East +10 1 £500 -16.67% 1

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

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 featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 494 (100.00%) Azure
2 246 (49.80%) DevOps
3 162 (32.79%) Azure DevOps
4 156 (31.58%) Python
5 153 (30.97%) SQL
6 146 (29.55%) Microsoft
7 141 (28.54%) CI/CD
8 117 (23.68%) Terraform
9 104 (21.05%) Databricks
10 103 (20.85%) PowerShell
11 99 (20.04%) Kubernetes
12 98 (19.84%) Azure Data Factory
13 97 (19.64%) Finance
14 90 (18.22%) Agile
14 90 (18.22%) Infrastructure as Code
15 85 (17.21%) Social Skills
16 74 (14.98%) Analytics
17 72 (14.57%) Docker
17 72 (14.57%) ETL
18 69 (13.97%) Windows
19 65 (13.16%) Active Directory
20 63 (12.75%) Data Lake
21 61 (12.35%) Business Intelligence
22 60 (12.15%) Data Pipeline
23 57 (11.54%) Data Engineering
24 53 (10.73%) PySpark
24 53 (10.73%) Linux
24 53 (10.73%) C#
25 50 (10.12%) .NET
25 50 (10.12%) Entra ID

Azure 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 21 (4.25%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.23%) Apache
4 10 (2.02%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.62%) IIS
6 5 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.81%) Confluence
7 4 (0.81%) Luigi
8 3 (0.61%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.40%) nginx
10 1 (0.20%) JBoss
10 1 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.81%) Trello
3 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 494 (100.00%) Azure
2 162 (32.79%) Azure DevOps
3 98 (19.84%) Azure Data Factory
4 50 (10.12%) Entra ID
4 50 (10.12%) Power Platform
5 47 (9.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 39 (7.89%) PaaS
7 38 (7.69%) AWS
8 34 (6.88%) Azure AKS
9 31 (6.28%) Microsoft 365
10 28 (5.67%) Azure Monitor
11 25 (5.06%) GitHub
11 25 (5.06%) Serverless
12 24 (4.86%) IaaS
13 19 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
14 18 (3.64%) Azure Logic Apps
14 18 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
15 16 (3.24%) Azure Functions
15 16 (3.24%) GCP
16 15 (3.04%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 39 (7.89%) Firewall
2 32 (6.48%) DNS
3 17 (3.44%) VPN
4 12 (2.43%) Network Security
5 7 (1.42%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.21%) HTTP
7 5 (1.01%) BGP
7 5 (1.01%) OSPF
7 5 (1.01%) SSH
7 5 (1.01%) WAN
8 4 (0.81%) DHCP
8 4 (0.81%) Internet
8 4 (0.81%) IPv4
8 4 (0.81%) MPLS
9 3 (0.61%) Wireless
10 2 (0.40%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 2 (0.40%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (0.40%) VRRP
11 1 (0.20%) MQTT
11 1 (0.20%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (12.75%) Data Lake
2 50 (10.12%) Azure SQL Database
3 47 (9.51%) Power BI
4 38 (7.69%) SQL Server
5 34 (6.88%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (3.64%) NoSQL
6 18 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (3.04%) Big Data
8 14 (2.83%) Delta Lake
9 11 (2.23%) Relational Database
9 11 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (1.82%) Spark SQL
11 7 (1.42%) Redis
12 6 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (1.01%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 5 (1.01%) Flink
13 5 (1.01%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.01%) Power Query
13 5 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.81%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 39 (7.89%) Git
2 25 (5.06%) GitLab
2 25 (5.06%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.82%) Selenium
4 7 (1.42%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.21%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.21%) JIRA
6 5 (1.01%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.81%) Burp Suite
7 4 (0.81%) Postman
8 3 (0.61%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.61%) NUnit
8 3 (0.61%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.40%) AppScan
9 2 (0.40%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.40%) Deequ
9 2 (0.40%) MLflow
9 2 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 97 (19.64%) Finance
2 85 (17.21%) Social Skills
3 50 (10.12%) Public Sector
4 32 (6.48%) Banking
5 26 (5.26%) Marketing
6 20 (4.05%) Telecoms
7 18 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (3.04%) Electronics
8 15 (3.04%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.62%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.81%) Law
12 4 (0.81%) Legal
13 3 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.61%) Retail
14 2 (0.40%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.40%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (10.73%) PySpark
2 50 (10.12%) .NET
3 36 (7.29%) ARM Templates
4 25 (5.06%) YAML
5 24 (4.86%) Kafka
6 20 (4.05%) JSON
7 14 (2.83%) Node.js
8 13 (2.63%) HTML
9 11 (2.23%) .NET Core
9 11 (2.23%) React
10 10 (2.02%) CSS
11 8 (1.62%) TensorFlow
12 7 (1.42%) HTML5
12 7 (1.42%) LangChain
12 7 (1.42%) PyTorch
13 6 (1.21%) pytest
13 6 (1.21%) XML
14 5 (1.01%) AngularJS
14 5 (1.01%) RESTful
14 5 (1.01%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.45%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (1.82%) Data Centre
2 9 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (1.82%) Product Ownership
3 7 (1.42%) Cloud Native
3 7 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (1.21%) Public Cloud
5 5 (1.01%) NHS
5 5 (1.01%) Onboarding
6 4 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (0.81%) PKI
6 4 (0.81%) Smart Meter
7 3 (0.61%) Market Risk
7 3 (0.61%) Tandem
8 2 (0.40%) Life Science
8 2 (0.40%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.40%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 69 (13.97%) Windows
2 53 (10.73%) Linux
3 29 (5.87%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.43%) Windows 10
5 11 (2.23%) Unix
6 9 (1.82%) Windows 7
7 8 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (1.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (1.01%) Alpine Linux
9 5 (1.01%) VMS
10 4 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.61%) CentOS
11 3 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.20%) Debian
12 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (49.80%) DevOps
2 141 (28.54%) CI/CD
3 90 (18.22%) Agile
3 90 (18.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (14.98%) Analytics
5 72 (14.57%) ETL
6 61 (12.35%) Business Intelligence
7 60 (12.15%) Data Pipeline
8 57 (11.54%) Data Engineering
9 48 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
10 47 (9.51%) Data Modelling
11 44 (8.91%) Software Engineering
12 43 (8.70%) Migration
13 40 (8.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 35 (7.09%) Continuous Integration
15 30 (6.07%) Platform Engineering
16 27 (5.47%) Containerisation
16 27 (5.47%) Scrum
17 26 (5.26%) Computer Science
18 25 (5.06%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 156 (31.58%) Python
2 153 (30.97%) SQL
3 103 (20.85%) PowerShell
4 53 (10.73%) C#
5 32 (6.48%) Bicep
6 26 (5.26%) Bash
7 23 (4.66%) Java
8 14 (2.83%) JavaScript
8 14 (2.83%) Scala
9 13 (2.63%) T-SQL
10 10 (2.02%) Go
10 10 (2.02%) TypeScript
11 9 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (1.21%) C++
13 5 (1.01%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.81%) VB
15 3 (0.61%) C
15 3 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.61%) Perl
15 3 (0.61%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 48 (9.72%) Azure Certification
1 48 (9.72%) Security Cleared
2 40 (8.10%) SC Cleared
3 35 (7.09%) Degree
4 17 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.02%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.01%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.61%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (0.61%) CISSP
7 3 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.20%) CCIE
9 1 (0.20%) CISA
9 1 (0.20%) CISM
9 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.20%) MCSE
9 1 (0.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.83%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.42%) GDPR
2 7 (1.42%) QA
3 6 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.61%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.40%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.20%) GRC
6 1 (0.20%) NIST
6 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 72 (14.57%) Docker
2 65 (13.16%) Active Directory
3 24 (4.86%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (3.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (1.42%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.21%) vSphere
7 5 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (0.81%) NFS
9 3 (0.61%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 117 (23.68%) Terraform
2 99 (20.04%) Kubernetes
3 28 (5.67%) Ansible
4 16 (3.24%) SCCM
5 15 (3.04%) Grafana
5 15 (3.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (2.43%) Prometheus
7 11 (2.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 11 (2.23%) Puppet
8 8 (1.62%) SCOM
8 8 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.81%) Argo
9 4 (0.81%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.81%) WSUS
10 2 (0.40%) Graylog
10 2 (0.40%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.40%) Nessus
10 2 (0.40%) Netcool
10 2 (0.40%) Podman
10 2 (0.40%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 146 (29.55%) Microsoft
2 104 (21.05%) Databricks
3 15 (3.04%) SAP
3 15 (3.04%) VMware
4 13 (2.63%) Splunk
5 7 (1.42%) Oracle
6 6 (1.21%) F5
7 5 (1.01%) Ab Initio
7 5 (1.01%) CA
7 5 (1.01%) Cisco
7 5 (1.01%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.01%) HP
8 4 (0.81%) Checkmarx
8 4 (0.81%) Veracode
9 3 (0.61%) Informatica
9 3 (0.61%) Juniper
9 3 (0.61%) Palo Alto
9 3 (0.61%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.61%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.40%) New Relic