Azure Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > Midlands

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the Midlands is £613, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 November 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
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 138 202
Rank change year-on-year +11 +64 +8
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Infrastructure Engineer 8 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.30% 0.18% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.19% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 1
10th Percentile £375 £402 -
25th Percentile £469 £414 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £456 £320
Median % change year-on-year +34.25% +42.58% -27.89%
75th Percentile £700 £502 £330
90th Percentile - £516 -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -2.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,460 2,640 4,578
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 94.15% 95.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 1,846 3,230
10th Percentile £229 £213 £205
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +7.95%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 120 132
10th Percentile £12.69 £13.93 £11.81
25th Percentile £15.10 £16.63 £14.50
Median hourly rate £23.82 £20.00 £17.56
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% +13.90% +15.79%
75th Percentile £32.60 £34.50 £20.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £67.50 £38.20
England median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -11.11% +50.00% +50.00%

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Infrastructure Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
West Midlands +14 8 £613 +34.25%
Azure Infrastructure Engineer
England

Azure Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 15 November 2024, Azure Infrastructure 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 Midlands region featuring Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 8 (100.00%) Azure Certification
2 5 (62.50%) Azure Stack
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (62.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (62.50%) Entra ID
2 5 (62.50%) Network+ Certification
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (37.50%) PaaS
3 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) IaaS
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (37.50%) Serverless
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Functions
4 2 (25.00%) API Management
4 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (25.00%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Cost Management
4 2 (25.00%) Bicep
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (25.00%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (25.00%) PowerShell

Azure Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Azure Stack
2 5 (62.50%) Entra ID
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Functions
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub
3 3 (37.50%) IaaS
3 3 (37.50%) PaaS
3 3 (37.50%) Serverless
4 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Hudson
1 2 (25.00%) Octopus Deploy
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Replication
3 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Management
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) API Management
4 2 (25.00%) B2C
4 2 (25.00%) Cost Management
4 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bicep
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Azure Certification
2 5 (62.50%) Network+ Certification
3 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) LogicMonitor