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 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 195 152 165
Rank change year-on-year -43 +13 -28
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 509 950 1,545
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.18% 1.69% 1.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.27% 1.78% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 742 1,123
10th Percentile £402 £425 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +0.91% +5.77%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £650
90th Percentile £688 £718 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% +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 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
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% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £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 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 2 June 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 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
England -38 450 £525 -6.67% 139
London -12 294 £550 -4.35% 63
Work from Home -46 183 £525 -4.55% 71
UK excluding London -58 143 £500 -6.98% 81
North of England -7 50 £500 -9.09% 20
South East -9 44 £563 +7.14% 24
North West -18 30 £500 -4.76% 15
South West -24 22 £525 -10.64% 10
Yorkshire +16 19 £500 -16.67% 3
Midlands -3 16 £438 -16.67% 17
West Midlands -7 13 £438 -20.45% 11
Scotland +29 6 £440 -2.22% 5
East of England -2 5 £450 -10.00% 1
East Midlands +8 3 £431 -4.17% 6
Wales +17 2 £425 -29.17% 3
North East +9 1 £500 -16.67% 2

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

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 featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 509 (100.00%) Azure
2 242 (47.54%) DevOps
3 161 (31.63%) Azure DevOps
4 153 (30.06%) SQL
4 153 (30.06%) Python
5 141 (27.70%) CI/CD
6 140 (27.50%) Microsoft
7 126 (24.75%) Terraform
8 110 (21.61%) Kubernetes
9 105 (20.63%) PowerShell
10 99 (19.45%) Databricks
11 97 (19.06%) Infrastructure as Code
12 95 (18.66%) Finance
13 94 (18.47%) Azure Data Factory
14 91 (17.88%) Agile
15 86 (16.90%) Social Skills
16 77 (15.13%) Docker
17 75 (14.73%) Analytics
18 73 (14.34%) Active Directory
19 70 (13.75%) Windows
20 65 (12.77%) ETL
21 60 (11.79%) Data Lake
22 58 (11.39%) Security Cleared
23 57 (11.20%) Data Pipeline
24 56 (11.00%) Business Intelligence
24 56 (11.00%) C#
25 55 (10.81%) Linux
25 55 (10.81%) Azure SQL Database
25 55 (10.81%) Entra ID
25 55 (10.81%) Data Engineering

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 20 (3.93%) Apache Spark
2 18 (3.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.16%) Apache
4 10 (1.96%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.38%) IIS
6 4 (0.79%) Confluence
6 4 (0.79%) Luigi
7 3 (0.59%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.39%) nginx
9 1 (0.20%) JBoss
9 1 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.79%) Trello
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 509 (100.00%) Azure
2 161 (31.63%) Azure DevOps
3 94 (18.47%) Azure Data Factory
4 55 (10.81%) Entra ID
5 46 (9.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 45 (8.84%) Power Platform
7 37 (7.27%) PaaS
8 36 (7.07%) AWS
9 35 (6.88%) Azure AKS
10 33 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
11 30 (5.89%) Azure Monitor
12 25 (4.91%) GitHub
13 24 (4.72%) IaaS
13 24 (4.72%) Serverless
14 20 (3.93%) Azure Service Bus
15 18 (3.54%) Azure Logic Apps
15 18 (3.54%) Azure Storage
16 17 (3.34%) Azure Key Vault
16 17 (3.34%) Cloud Computing
17 16 (3.14%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 45 (8.84%) Firewall
2 31 (6.09%) DNS
3 14 (2.75%) VPN
4 13 (2.55%) Network Security
5 8 (1.57%) DHCP
6 5 (0.98%) BGP
6 5 (0.98%) OSPF
6 5 (0.98%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.98%) WAN
7 4 (0.79%) HTTP
7 4 (0.79%) Internet
7 4 (0.79%) IPv4
7 4 (0.79%) MPLS
7 4 (0.79%) SSH
8 2 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.39%) VRRP
8 2 (0.39%) Wireless
9 1 (0.20%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.20%) MQTT
9 1 (0.20%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (11.79%) Data Lake
2 55 (10.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 41 (8.06%) Power BI
4 40 (7.86%) SQL Server
5 31 (6.09%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (4.32%) NoSQL
7 20 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (2.75%) Big Data
9 11 (2.16%) Delta Lake
10 10 (1.96%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.38%) Flink
11 7 (1.38%) Redis
11 7 (1.38%) Spark SQL
12 6 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.98%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.98%) Power Query
14 4 (0.79%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.79%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 35 (6.88%) Git
2 25 (4.91%) GitLab
2 25 (4.91%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.77%) Selenium
4 7 (1.38%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.18%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.18%) JIRA
6 5 (0.98%) Burp Suite
6 5 (0.98%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.79%) Postman
8 3 (0.59%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.59%) NUnit
8 3 (0.59%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.39%) AppScan
9 2 (0.39%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.39%) Deequ
9 2 (0.39%) MLflow
9 2 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 95 (18.66%) Finance
2 86 (16.90%) Social Skills
3 47 (9.23%) Public Sector
4 37 (7.27%) Banking
5 22 (4.32%) Marketing
6 18 (3.54%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.54%) Telecoms
7 13 (2.55%) Electronics
7 13 (2.55%) Manufacturing
8 12 (2.36%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.79%) Law
10 4 (0.79%) Legal
10 4 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.79%) Retail
11 3 (0.59%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.39%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (9.82%) PySpark
2 49 (9.63%) .NET
3 41 (8.06%) ARM Templates
4 27 (5.30%) Kafka
5 22 (4.32%) YAML
6 18 (3.54%) JSON
7 13 (2.55%) .NET Core
7 13 (2.55%) HTML
7 13 (2.55%) Node.js
8 11 (2.16%) React
9 10 (1.96%) CSS
10 8 (1.57%) TensorFlow
11 7 (1.38%) HTML5
11 7 (1.38%) LangChain
11 7 (1.38%) PyTorch
12 6 (1.18%) pytest
12 6 (1.18%) XML
13 5 (0.98%) AngularJS
13 5 (0.98%) RESTful
13 5 (0.98%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 20 (3.93%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (1.57%) Product Ownership
4 7 (1.38%) Cloud Native
4 7 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (1.38%) PKI
5 6 (1.18%) Data Centre
5 6 (1.18%) Public Cloud
6 5 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (0.98%) NHS
6 5 (0.98%) Smart Meter
7 4 (0.79%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (0.59%) Tandem
9 2 (0.39%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.39%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.39%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.39%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 70 (13.75%) Windows
2 55 (10.81%) Linux
3 30 (5.89%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.16%) Unix
4 11 (2.16%) Windows 10
5 9 (1.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (1.57%) Windows 7
6 8 (1.57%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.98%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.79%) VMS
9 4 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.59%) CentOS
11 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.20%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (47.54%) DevOps
2 141 (27.70%) CI/CD
3 97 (19.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (17.88%) Agile
5 75 (14.73%) Analytics
6 65 (12.77%) ETL
7 57 (11.20%) Data Pipeline
8 56 (11.00%) Business Intelligence
9 55 (10.81%) Data Engineering
10 50 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
11 47 (9.23%) Data Modelling
12 44 (8.64%) Migration
12 44 (8.64%) Software Engineering
13 35 (6.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 34 (6.68%) Continuous Integration
15 32 (6.29%) Platform Engineering
16 30 (5.89%) Containerisation
17 26 (5.11%) Computer Science
17 26 (5.11%) Scrum
18 24 (4.72%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 153 (30.06%) Python
1 153 (30.06%) SQL
2 105 (20.63%) PowerShell
3 56 (11.00%) C#
4 36 (7.07%) Bicep
5 26 (5.11%) Bash
6 23 (4.52%) Java
7 15 (2.95%) T-SQL
8 14 (2.75%) JavaScript
9 13 (2.55%) Scala
10 10 (1.96%) Go
10 10 (1.96%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (1.38%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.38%) VB
13 6 (1.18%) C++
13 6 (1.18%) VBScript
14 5 (0.98%) Perl
15 3 (0.59%) C
15 3 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 58 (11.39%) Security Cleared
2 49 (9.63%) Azure Certification
2 49 (9.63%) SC Cleared
3 41 (8.06%) Degree
4 18 (3.54%) DV Cleared
5 17 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 5 (0.98%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.79%) CISSP
10 3 (0.59%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.20%) CCIE
12 1 (0.20%) CEH
12 1 (0.20%) CISA
12 1 (0.20%) CISM
12 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.75%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.77%) GDPR
3 7 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.38%) QA
4 3 (0.59%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.59%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.59%) NIST
4 3 (0.59%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.20%) GRC
6 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 77 (15.13%) Docker
2 73 (14.34%) Active Directory
3 25 (4.91%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (3.93%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (1.18%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.98%) vSphere
7 4 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (0.59%) Firmware
8 3 (0.59%) NFS
Systems Management
1 126 (24.75%) Terraform
2 110 (21.61%) Kubernetes
3 27 (5.30%) Ansible
4 19 (3.73%) SCCM
5 18 (3.54%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (2.95%) Grafana
7 13 (2.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (2.36%) Prometheus
9 11 (2.16%) Puppet
9 11 (2.16%) SCOM
10 7 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (1.38%) WSUS
11 4 (0.79%) Argo
11 4 (0.79%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.39%) Graylog
12 2 (0.39%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.39%) Nessus
12 2 (0.39%) Netcool
12 2 (0.39%) Podman
12 2 (0.39%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 140 (27.50%) Microsoft
2 99 (19.45%) Databricks
3 13 (2.55%) SAP
3 13 (2.55%) Splunk
3 13 (2.55%) VMware
4 7 (1.38%) F5
5 6 (1.18%) Oracle
6 5 (0.98%) Ab Initio
6 5 (0.98%) CA
6 5 (0.98%) Checkmarx
6 5 (0.98%) Cisco
6 5 (0.98%) Dynatrace
6 5 (0.98%) HP
6 5 (0.98%) Veracode
7 4 (0.79%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.59%) Fortinet
8 3 (0.59%) Informatica
8 3 (0.59%) Juniper
8 3 (0.59%) Palo Alto
8 3 (0.59%) Qualys