Azure Engineer Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > London

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 140 157
Rank change year-on-year -10 +17 -17
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 294 496 729
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.68% 1.95% 1.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.79% 2.05% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 377 549
10th Percentile £425 £425 £425
25th Percentile £475 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +11.65%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £725 £725 £800
England median daily rate £525 £563 £556
% change year-on-year -6.67% +1.12% +11.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
England median hourly rate - £71.00 £78.75
% change year-on-year - -9.84% +215.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,385 24,202 36,842
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,830 17,663 27,089
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in London

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in London

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in London

Azure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Engineer in London

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +27 34 £575 +4.55% 7
West London +25 5 £503 +6.91% 1
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 London region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 294 (100.00%) Azure
2 141 (47.96%) DevOps
3 101 (34.35%) Azure DevOps
4 94 (31.97%) Python
5 90 (30.61%) SQL
6 83 (28.23%) CI/CD
7 77 (26.19%) Microsoft
8 75 (25.51%) Finance
9 72 (24.49%) Terraform
10 69 (23.47%) Databricks
11 62 (21.09%) Social Skills
12 59 (20.07%) PowerShell
13 58 (19.73%) Agile
13 58 (19.73%) Azure Data Factory
14 53 (18.03%) Kubernetes
15 49 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
16 44 (14.97%) C#
17 42 (14.29%) Docker
18 41 (13.95%) PySpark
18 41 (13.95%) Data Engineering
18 41 (13.95%) Active Directory
19 40 (13.61%) Data Lake
19 40 (13.61%) Analytics
20 39 (13.27%) ETL
20 39 (13.27%) .NET
21 37 (12.59%) Azure SQL Database
21 37 (12.59%) Data Pipeline
22 36 (12.24%) Windows
23 33 (11.22%) Software Engineering
24 32 (10.88%) Problem-Solving

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 15 (5.10%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.38%) Apache
3 5 (1.70%) IIS
3 5 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.36%) Luigi
5 3 (1.02%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.02%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.68%) Confluence
6 2 (0.68%) nginx
7 1 (0.34%) JBoss
7 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 294 (100.00%) Azure
2 101 (34.35%) Azure DevOps
3 58 (19.73%) Azure Data Factory
4 31 (10.54%) Entra ID
5 28 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 25 (8.50%) Azure AKS
7 20 (6.80%) Power Platform
8 17 (5.78%) GitHub
8 17 (5.78%) PaaS
9 16 (5.44%) Serverless
10 15 (5.10%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (5.10%) Azure Service Bus
11 14 (4.76%) AWS
12 12 (4.08%) Azure App Service
12 12 (4.08%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (3.40%) Azure Functions
14 9 (3.06%) Azure Event Grid
14 9 (3.06%) IaaS
14 9 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.52%) Firewall
2 12 (4.08%) DNS
3 8 (2.72%) Network Security
3 8 (2.72%) VPN
4 4 (1.36%) SSH
5 3 (1.02%) HTTP
5 3 (1.02%) Internet
5 3 (1.02%) IPv4
5 3 (1.02%) MPLS
5 3 (1.02%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.02%) WAN
6 2 (0.68%) BGP
6 2 (0.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.68%) OSPF
6 2 (0.68%) VRRP
6 2 (0.68%) Wireless
7 1 (0.34%) LAN
7 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.34%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (13.61%) Data Lake
2 37 (12.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 29 (9.86%) SQL Server
4 21 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (7.14%) NoSQL
5 19 (6.46%) Power BI
6 11 (3.74%) Big Data
7 9 (3.06%) Delta Lake
8 8 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (2.04%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.04%) Spark SQL
10 5 (1.70%) Power Query
11 4 (1.36%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.36%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.36%) Parquet
12 3 (1.02%) Data Mart
12 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 3 (1.02%) MySQL
12 3 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (7.14%) Git
2 17 (5.78%) GitLab
3 12 (4.08%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.70%) Cypress.io
4 5 (1.70%) Selenium
5 4 (1.36%) Burp Suite
5 4 (1.36%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.02%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.02%) JIRA
6 3 (1.02%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.02%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.68%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.68%) Deequ
7 2 (0.68%) NUnit
7 2 (0.68%) Postman
7 2 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.34%) GoCD
8 1 (0.34%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.34%) MLflow
8 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 75 (25.51%) Finance
2 62 (21.09%) Social Skills
3 29 (9.86%) Banking
4 25 (8.50%) Public Sector
5 13 (4.42%) Marketing
6 12 (4.08%) Investment Banking
7 11 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.36%) Electronics
9 4 (1.36%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.36%) Retail
9 4 (1.36%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.02%) Law
11 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.68%) Legal
12 1 (0.34%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (13.95%) PySpark
2 39 (13.27%) .NET
3 20 (6.80%) ARM Templates
4 17 (5.78%) Kafka
5 14 (4.76%) JSON
6 13 (4.42%) YAML
7 12 (4.08%) .NET Core
7 12 (4.08%) HTML
8 11 (3.74%) Node.js
9 9 (3.06%) CSS
9 9 (3.06%) React
10 7 (2.38%) HTML5
11 6 (2.04%) TensorFlow
12 5 (1.70%) scikit-learn
13 4 (1.36%) AngularJS
13 4 (1.36%) Apache Avro
13 4 (1.36%) GraphQL
13 4 (1.36%) Pandas
14 3 (1.02%) LDAP
14 3 (1.02%) Torch
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.42%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (1.36%) Data Centre
2 4 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (1.02%) Cloud Native
3 3 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (1.02%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.02%) Public Cloud
4 2 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (0.68%) Management Information System
4 2 (0.68%) Market Risk
4 2 (0.68%) Product Ownership
4 2 (0.68%) Tandem
5 1 (0.34%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (0.34%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.34%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.34%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.34%) PropTech
5 1 (0.34%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (12.24%) Windows
2 30 (10.20%) Linux
3 17 (5.78%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.38%) Unix
5 5 (1.70%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.36%) Windows 7
7 3 (1.02%) CentOS
7 3 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.68%) VMS
8 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.34%) Debian
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (47.96%) DevOps
2 83 (28.23%) CI/CD
3 58 (19.73%) Agile
4 49 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (13.95%) Data Engineering
6 40 (13.61%) Analytics
7 39 (13.27%) ETL
8 37 (12.59%) Data Pipeline
9 33 (11.22%) Software Engineering
10 32 (10.88%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (9.86%) Data Modelling
12 26 (8.84%) Business Intelligence
13 25 (8.50%) Migration
14 21 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
15 20 (6.80%) Computer Science
16 17 (5.78%) Containerisation
16 17 (5.78%) Microservices
17 16 (5.44%) Scrum
17 16 (5.44%) TDD
18 15 (5.10%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 94 (31.97%) Python
2 90 (30.61%) SQL
3 59 (20.07%) PowerShell
4 44 (14.97%) C#
5 15 (5.10%) Bicep
6 14 (4.76%) Bash
7 13 (4.42%) T-SQL
8 12 (4.08%) Java
8 12 (4.08%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.74%) Scala
10 9 (3.06%) TypeScript
11 6 (2.04%) Go
12 5 (1.70%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.36%) C++
13 4 (1.36%) Perl
14 3 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.68%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.68%) Rust
15 2 (0.68%) VB.NET
16 1 (0.34%) C
Qualifications
1 25 (8.50%) Azure Certification
2 20 (6.80%) Degree
3 19 (6.46%) Security Cleared
4 17 (5.78%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.36%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.02%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (1.02%) CISSP
8 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.34%) CEH
8 1 (0.34%) CISA
8 1 (0.34%) CISM
8 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.34%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.70%) GDPR
2 5 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.36%) QA
4 3 (1.02%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.02%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.68%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.68%) NIST
System Software
1 42 (14.29%) Docker
2 41 (13.95%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.70%) vSphere
5 4 (1.36%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.02%) Firmware
6 3 (1.02%) NFS
7 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 72 (24.49%) Terraform
2 53 (18.03%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.42%) Ansible
4 8 (2.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.72%) SCCM
5 7 (2.38%) Grafana
6 4 (1.36%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.36%) Puppet
7 2 (0.68%) Netcool
7 2 (0.68%) Podman
7 2 (0.68%) SCOM
8 1 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.34%) Argo
8 1 (0.34%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.34%) Nagios
8 1 (0.34%) Nessus
8 1 (0.34%) SCOrch
8 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.34%) WebInspect
8 1 (0.34%) yum
Vendors
1 77 (26.19%) Microsoft
2 69 (23.47%) Databricks
3 7 (2.38%) Splunk
4 6 (2.04%) Oracle
4 6 (2.04%) VMware
5 5 (1.70%) F5
5 5 (1.70%) HP
6 4 (1.36%) Checkmarx
6 4 (1.36%) SAP
6 4 (1.36%) Veracode
7 3 (1.02%) Cisco
7 3 (1.02%) Juniper
7 3 (1.02%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.02%) Qualys
7 3 (1.02%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.68%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.68%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.68%) Informatica
8 2 (0.68%) New Relic
8 2 (0.68%) Salesforce