Azure Software Engineer Contracts

Software Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median Software Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the UK is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 668 825
Rank change year-on-year +86 +157 -134
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Software Engineer 20 27 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.049% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.051% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 25 20
10th Percentile £475 £590 £448
25th Percentile £594 £650 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £700 £563
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +24.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £656 - £638
90th Percentile £725 £788 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate - £634 £475
% change year-on-year - +33.47% -13.64%

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 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
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% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

Azure Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Software Engineer in the UK

Azure Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Software Engineer in the UK

Azure Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Software Engineer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Software Engineer in the UK

Azure Software Engineer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +89 19 £625 -10.71% 3
London +78 18 £625 -10.71% 2
Work from Home +108 5 £475 -32.14% 2
UK excluding London +42 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Azure Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (80.00%) C#
3 14 (70.00%) .NET
4 8 (40.00%) DevOps
4 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
5 7 (35.00%) Agile
6 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
6 6 (30.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
6 6 (30.00%) Microservices
6 6 (30.00%) Kafka
7 5 (25.00%) Terraform
7 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
7 5 (25.00%) Degree
7 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
8 4 (20.00%) Azure App Service
8 4 (20.00%) Docker
9 3 (15.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
9 3 (15.00%) Master's Degree
9 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (15.00%) Azure Event Grid
9 3 (15.00%) Event-Driven
9 3 (15.00%) Clean Code
9 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
9 3 (15.00%) Azure AKS

Azure Software 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 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Azure App Service
5 3 (15.00%) Azure AKS
5 3 (15.00%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (5.00%) NuGet
7 1 (5.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) MQTT
1 1 (5.00%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (10.00%) Couchbase
4 1 (5.00%) Flink
4 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.00%) Selenium
2 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Electronics
4 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (70.00%) .NET
2 6 (30.00%) Kafka
3 3 (15.00%) .NET Core
4 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (10.00%) Node.js
4 2 (10.00%) XML
5 1 (5.00%) CSS
5 1 (5.00%) Express.js
5 1 (5.00%) HTML
5 1 (5.00%) HTML5
5 1 (5.00%) koa
5 1 (5.00%) MERN Stack
5 1 (5.00%) MFC
5 1 (5.00%) NestJS
5 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (5.00%) React
5 1 (5.00%) WinForms
5 1 (5.00%) WPF
5 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (40.00%) DevOps
3 7 (35.00%) Agile
4 6 (30.00%) Microservices
5 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (15.00%) Clean Code
6 3 (15.00%) Event-Driven
6 3 (15.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 3 (15.00%) Scrum
6 3 (15.00%) TDD
7 2 (10.00%) B2C
7 2 (10.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
7 2 (10.00%) Customer-Centricity
7 2 (10.00%) Feasibility Study
7 2 (10.00%) Multithreading
7 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
7 2 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) C#
2 3 (15.00%) C++
2 3 (15.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) Java
3 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.00%) Bicep
4 1 (5.00%) C++/CLI
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) SAP