Azure Engineer Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Engineer
UK > England

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in England 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 192 154 173
Rank change year-on-year -38 +19 -19
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 450 818 1,185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.22% 1.71% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.31% 1.81% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 650 869
10th Percentile £413 £425 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £555
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +1.35% +11.00%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £650
90th Percentile £675 £725 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £555 £550
% change year-on-year -5.41% +0.91% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £71.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year - -9.84% +215.00%
UK median hourly rate £110.00 £61.00 £78.75
% change year-on-year +80.33% -22.54% +215.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,255 45,148 67,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,555 32,138 48,275
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,585 1,311 1,778
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.54
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in England

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in England

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in England

Azure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Engineer in England

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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
London -12 294 £550 -4.35% 61
North of England -7 50 £500 -9.09% 19
South East -9 44 £563 +7.14% 23
North West -18 30 £500 -4.76% 14
South West -24 22 £525 -10.64% 9
Yorkshire +16 19 £500 -16.67% 3
Midlands -3 16 £438 -16.67% 18
West Midlands -7 13 £438 -20.45% 11
East of England -2 5 £450 -10.00% 1
East Midlands +8 3 £431 -4.17% 7
North East +9 1 £500 -16.67% 2
Azure Engineer
UK

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

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 England region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 450 (100.00%) Azure
2 208 (46.22%) DevOps
3 143 (31.78%) Azure DevOps
4 137 (30.44%) Python
5 134 (29.78%) SQL
6 131 (29.11%) CI/CD
7 129 (28.67%) Microsoft
8 114 (25.33%) Terraform
9 96 (21.33%) PowerShell
10 91 (20.22%) Databricks
11 88 (19.56%) Azure Data Factory
11 88 (19.56%) Infrastructure as Code
11 88 (19.56%) Finance
12 85 (18.89%) Kubernetes
13 80 (17.78%) Social Skills
14 77 (17.11%) Agile
15 70 (15.56%) Active Directory
15 70 (15.56%) Analytics
16 66 (14.67%) Windows
17 62 (13.78%) Docker
18 59 (13.11%) ETL
19 56 (12.44%) Data Lake
20 54 (12.00%) C#
21 53 (11.78%) Azure SQL Database
22 52 (11.56%) Linux
22 52 (11.56%) Data Pipeline
23 49 (10.89%) Entra ID
23 49 (10.89%) Data Engineering
24 48 (10.67%) Security Cleared
25 47 (10.44%) Business Intelligence

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 17 (3.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (3.56%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.78%) Apache
5 7 (1.56%) IIS
6 4 (0.89%) Confluence
6 4 (0.89%) Luigi
7 3 (0.67%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.44%) nginx
9 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.22%) JBoss
9 1 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 450 (100.00%) Azure
2 143 (31.78%) Azure DevOps
3 88 (19.56%) Azure Data Factory
4 49 (10.89%) Entra ID
5 41 (9.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 37 (8.22%) Power Platform
7 32 (7.11%) Azure AKS
8 29 (6.44%) PaaS
9 28 (6.22%) Azure Monitor
9 28 (6.22%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (5.11%) AWS
11 22 (4.89%) GitHub
11 22 (4.89%) IaaS
11 22 (4.89%) Serverless
12 18 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
12 18 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
13 17 (3.78%) Azure Storage
14 15 (3.33%) Azure Functions
14 15 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
15 14 (3.11%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 45 (10.00%) Firewall
2 29 (6.44%) DNS
3 14 (3.11%) VPN
4 13 (2.89%) Network Security
5 8 (1.78%) DHCP
6 5 (1.11%) BGP
6 5 (1.11%) OSPF
6 5 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.11%) WAN
7 4 (0.89%) HTTP
7 4 (0.89%) Internet
7 4 (0.89%) IPv4
7 4 (0.89%) MPLS
7 4 (0.89%) SSH
8 2 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.44%) VRRP
8 2 (0.44%) Wireless
9 1 (0.22%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.22%) MQTT
9 1 (0.22%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (12.44%) Data Lake
2 53 (11.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 40 (8.89%) SQL Server
4 35 (7.78%) Power BI
5 29 (6.44%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (4.89%) NoSQL
7 13 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (2.44%) Big Data
9 10 (2.22%) Delta Lake
9 10 (2.22%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.56%) Redis
10 7 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (1.33%) Spark SQL
12 5 (1.11%) Power Query
12 5 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.89%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.89%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.89%) MySQL
13 4 (0.89%) Parquet
13 4 (0.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 29 (6.44%) Git
2 24 (5.33%) GitLab
3 23 (5.11%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.00%) Selenium
5 7 (1.56%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.33%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.33%) JIRA
7 5 (1.11%) Burp Suite
7 5 (1.11%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.67%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.67%) NUnit
8 3 (0.67%) Postman
8 3 (0.67%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.44%) AppScan
9 2 (0.44%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.44%) Deequ
9 2 (0.44%) Snyk
9 2 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.44%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 88 (19.56%) Finance
2 80 (17.78%) Social Skills
3 44 (9.78%) Public Sector
4 31 (6.89%) Banking
5 20 (4.44%) Marketing
6 17 (3.78%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (3.33%) Telecoms
8 12 (2.67%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.44%) Electronics
9 11 (2.44%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.89%) Law
11 4 (0.89%) Legal
11 4 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.89%) Retail
12 3 (0.67%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.22%) Front Office
14 1 (0.22%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (10.44%) PySpark
2 45 (10.00%) .NET
3 36 (8.00%) ARM Templates
4 22 (4.89%) YAML
5 18 (4.00%) JSON
6 17 (3.78%) Kafka
7 12 (2.67%) .NET Core
7 12 (2.67%) HTML
8 11 (2.44%) Node.js
8 11 (2.44%) React
9 9 (2.00%) CSS
10 8 (1.78%) TensorFlow
11 7 (1.56%) HTML5
12 6 (1.33%) LangChain
12 6 (1.33%) PyTorch
12 6 (1.33%) XML
13 5 (1.11%) AngularJS
13 5 (1.11%) GraphQL
13 5 (1.11%) pytest
13 5 (1.11%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (1.78%) Product Ownership
4 7 (1.56%) PKI
5 6 (1.33%) Data Centre
5 6 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (1.33%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.11%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.11%) Smart Meter
7 4 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (0.67%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.67%) Tandem
9 2 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.44%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 66 (14.67%) Windows
2 52 (11.56%) Linux
3 29 (6.44%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.44%) Unix
4 11 (2.44%) Windows 10
5 9 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (1.78%) Windows 7
6 8 (1.78%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.11%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.89%) VMS
9 4 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.67%) CentOS
11 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.22%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (46.22%) DevOps
2 131 (29.11%) CI/CD
3 88 (19.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 77 (17.11%) Agile
5 70 (15.56%) Analytics
6 59 (13.11%) ETL
7 52 (11.56%) Data Pipeline
8 49 (10.89%) Data Engineering
9 47 (10.44%) Business Intelligence
10 45 (10.00%) Data Modelling
10 45 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
11 39 (8.67%) Migration
11 39 (8.67%) Software Engineering
12 33 (7.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 30 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
14 27 (6.00%) Containerisation
15 26 (5.78%) Platform Engineering
16 25 (5.56%) Scrum
17 22 (4.89%) Computer Science
17 22 (4.89%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 137 (30.44%) Python
2 134 (29.78%) SQL
3 96 (21.33%) PowerShell
4 54 (12.00%) C#
5 33 (7.33%) Bicep
6 23 (5.11%) Bash
7 16 (3.56%) Java
8 14 (3.11%) T-SQL
9 13 (2.89%) JavaScript
10 11 (2.44%) Scala
11 10 (2.22%) Go
11 10 (2.22%) TypeScript
12 7 (1.56%) VB
13 6 (1.33%) C++
13 6 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (1.33%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.33%) VBScript
14 5 (1.11%) Perl
15 3 (0.67%) C
15 3 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 48 (10.67%) Security Cleared
2 41 (9.11%) Azure Certification
3 39 (8.67%) SC Cleared
4 35 (7.78%) Degree
5 18 (4.00%) DV Cleared
6 15 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (0.89%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.67%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.67%) CISSP
11 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.22%) CCIE
11 1 (0.22%) CEH
11 1 (0.22%) CISA
11 1 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.22%) CISM
11 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.11%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.00%) GDPR
3 6 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.33%) QA
4 3 (0.67%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.67%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.67%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.44%) NIST
6 1 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.22%) GRC
6 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 70 (15.56%) Active Directory
2 62 (13.78%) Docker
3 23 (5.11%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (4.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (1.33%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.11%) vSphere
7 4 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (0.67%) Firmware
8 3 (0.67%) NFS
Systems Management
1 114 (25.33%) Terraform
2 85 (18.89%) Kubernetes
3 23 (5.11%) Ansible
4 19 (4.22%) SCCM
5 18 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (3.11%) Grafana
7 11 (2.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 11 (2.44%) Prometheus
7 11 (2.44%) SCOM
8 7 (1.56%) Puppet
8 7 (1.56%) WSUS
9 5 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.89%) Argo
11 2 (0.44%) Graylog
11 2 (0.44%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.44%) Nessus
11 2 (0.44%) Netcool
11 2 (0.44%) Podman
11 2 (0.44%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.44%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 129 (28.67%) Microsoft
2 91 (20.22%) Databricks
3 12 (2.67%) VMware
4 11 (2.44%) SAP
5 8 (1.78%) Splunk
6 7 (1.56%) F5
7 6 (1.33%) Oracle
8 5 (1.11%) Ab Initio
8 5 (1.11%) Checkmarx
8 5 (1.11%) Cisco
8 5 (1.11%) HP
8 5 (1.11%) Veracode
9 4 (0.89%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.67%) CA
10 3 (0.67%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.67%) Informatica
10 3 (0.67%) Juniper
10 3 (0.67%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.67%) Qualys
11 2 (0.44%) Citrix