Azure Engineer Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > South West

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in the South West is £525, 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 135 105 129
Rank change year-on-year -30 +24 -27
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 22 55 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.67% 1.62% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 1.75% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 48 34
10th Percentile £363 £443 £434
25th Percentile £473 £522 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £582 £688 £599
90th Percentile £615 £725 £670
England median daily rate £550 £555 £563
% change year-on-year -0.90% -1.33% +12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 3,056 3,142 3,474
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 92.74% 95.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,896 2,308 2,517
10th Percentile £216 £284 £225
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £620 £644 £600
90th Percentile £700 £721 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 252 212
10th Percentile £13.85 £17.70 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £48.68 £18.49
Median hourly rate £55.00 £63.23 £47.64
Median % change year-on-year -13.02% +32.74% +10.78%
75th Percentile £71.25 £75.13 £63.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.40 £68.29
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in the South West

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in the South West

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in the South West

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Bristol +4 10 £500 -2.44% 4
Gloucestershire +4 8 £550 +10.00% 2
Wiltshire -25 2 £525 -14.29%
Dorset +2 1 £525 -22.22% 2
Somerset -6 1 £475 -32.62% 3
Azure Engineer
England

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

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 South West region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (50.00%) Python
3 10 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 9 (40.91%) Terraform
5 8 (36.36%) DevOps
5 8 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
6 7 (31.82%) PowerShell
6 7 (31.82%) Power BI
6 7 (31.82%) Power Platform
7 6 (27.27%) DV Cleared
7 6 (27.27%) SQL
7 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (22.73%) Bicep
8 5 (22.73%) PaaS
8 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
9 4 (18.18%) Entra ID
9 4 (18.18%) Analytics
9 4 (18.18%) Docker
9 4 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
9 4 (18.18%) Windows
9 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
9 4 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Automation
10 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
10 3 (13.64%) Observability

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (4.55%) Confluence
1 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.55%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (31.82%) Power Platform
3 5 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (22.73%) PaaS
4 4 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (18.18%) Entra ID
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (9.09%) AWS
5 2 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (9.09%) GCP
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (9.09%) IaaS
5 2 (9.09%) PowerApps
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (4.55%) BGP
2 1 (4.55%) IPv4
2 1 (4.55%) OSPF
2 1 (4.55%) VLAN
2 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) Power BI
2 3 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (9.09%) Tableau
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.09%) GitLab
2 2 (9.09%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) Snyk
2 2 (9.09%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.55%) Git
3 1 (4.55%) NUnit
3 1 (4.55%) Postman
3 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.09%) Electronics
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
2 2 (9.09%) Marketing
2 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) ARM Templates
2 2 (9.09%) PySpark
3 1 (4.55%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) ADO
3 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.55%) Playwright
3 1 (4.55%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) Linux
3 1 (4.55%) VMS
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 8 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (36.36%) DevOps
3 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (18.18%) Analytics
5 4 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (13.64%) ETL
6 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (13.64%) Migration
6 3 (13.64%) Observability
6 3 (13.64%) Task Automation
7 2 (9.09%) Agile
7 2 (9.09%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (9.09%) Information Security
7 2 (9.09%) Kanban
7 2 (9.09%) Programme Management
7 2 (9.09%) Scrum
7 2 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) PowerShell
3 6 (27.27%) SQL
4 5 (22.73%) Bicep
5 2 (9.09%) Bash
6 1 (4.55%) Julia
6 1 (4.55%) Perl
6 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 6 (27.27%) DV Cleared
3 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 3 (13.64%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.55%) Degree
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.55%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Terraform
2 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
3 3 (13.64%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (9.09%) Ansible
4 2 (9.09%) Argo
4 2 (9.09%) Grafana
4 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 2 (9.09%) Puppet
5 1 (4.55%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) CA
2 3 (13.64%) Databricks
3 2 (9.09%) SAP
3 2 (9.09%) VMware
4 1 (4.55%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.55%) Informatica