Azure Data Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in Work from Home is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 290 346 467
Rank change year-on-year +56 +121 -94
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 62 120 161
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.41% 0.48% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.50% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 97 118
10th Percentile £414 £428 £421
25th Percentile £463 £475 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £581 £650 £575
90th Percentile £650 £725 £641
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
UK median hourly rate - - £78.75
% change year-on-year - - +85.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,070 24,019 42,133
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.35% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,440 16,961 30,444
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £721
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 547 600
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.71 £19.19
Median hourly rate £45.00 £53.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +52.43% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.95 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.51 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%

Azure Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Azure Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Data Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Data Engineer.

Azure Data Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure Data Engineer over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Azure Data Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Azure Data 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Azure Data Engineer in the job title.

1 62 (100.00%) Azure
2 42 (67.74%) SQL
3 38 (61.29%) Python
3 38 (61.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 35 (56.45%) Databricks
5 29 (46.77%) ETL
6 27 (43.55%) Data Lake
7 25 (40.32%) Data Pipeline
8 21 (33.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 21 (33.87%) Analytics
9 18 (29.03%) Social Skills
10 17 (27.42%) Data Engineering
10 17 (27.42%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (25.81%) PySpark
12 15 (24.19%) Power Platform
12 15 (24.19%) Agile
12 15 (24.19%) Power BI
12 15 (24.19%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (22.58%) Data Modelling
14 13 (20.97%) DevOps
15 12 (19.35%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (19.35%) SQL Server
16 11 (17.74%) CI/CD
17 10 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
17 10 (16.13%) Finance
17 10 (16.13%) Microsoft
18 8 (12.90%) Data Transformation
19 7 (11.29%) Scala
19 7 (11.29%) Apache Spark
19 7 (11.29%) Continuous Integration

Azure Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (11.29%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.45%) Luigi
3 3 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.23%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (100.00%) Azure
2 38 (61.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 21 (33.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 15 (24.19%) Power Platform
5 6 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (8.06%) Serverless
7 4 (6.45%) Azure Functions
7 4 (6.45%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (6.45%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (6.45%) Azure Storage
7 4 (6.45%) dbt
8 3 (4.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (4.84%) GCP
8 3 (4.84%) Snowflake
9 2 (3.23%) AWS
9 2 (3.23%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.61%) Azure App Service
10 1 (1.61%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (43.55%) Data Lake
2 15 (24.19%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (24.19%) Power BI
3 12 (19.35%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (19.35%) SQL Server
4 6 (9.68%) Power Query
5 5 (8.06%) Big Data
5 5 (8.06%) Delta Lake
5 5 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (8.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 5 (8.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (6.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 3 (4.84%) NoSQL
7 3 (4.84%) Relational Database
8 2 (3.23%) Data Hub
8 2 (3.23%) Metadata
8 2 (3.23%) OLAP
8 2 (3.23%) Spark SQL
9 1 (1.61%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 4 (6.45%) GitLab
2 2 (3.23%) Git
3 1 (1.61%) Deequ
3 1 (1.61%) JIRA
3 1 (1.61%) MLflow
General
1 18 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.13%) Finance
3 5 (8.06%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.23%) Banking
4 2 (3.23%) Marketing
5 1 (1.61%) Law
5 1 (1.61%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (25.81%) PySpark
2 4 (6.45%) Kafka
2 4 (6.45%) Pandas
3 3 (4.84%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.61%) .NET
4 1 (1.61%) Apache Avro
4 1 (1.61%) Great Expectations
4 1 (1.61%) JSON
4 1 (1.61%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.61%) Housing Association
2 1 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.61%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.68%) Linux
2 1 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (46.77%) ETL
2 25 (40.32%) Data Pipeline
3 21 (33.87%) Analytics
4 17 (27.42%) Business Intelligence
4 17 (27.42%) Data Engineering
5 15 (24.19%) Agile
6 14 (22.58%) Data Modelling
7 13 (20.97%) DevOps
8 11 (17.74%) CI/CD
9 10 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (12.90%) Data Transformation
11 7 (11.29%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (9.68%) Containerisation
12 6 (9.68%) Data Integration
12 6 (9.68%) Migration
12 6 (9.68%) Scrum
13 5 (8.06%) Collaborative Working
13 5 (8.06%) Data Architecture
13 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure as Code
13 5 (8.06%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 42 (67.74%) SQL
2 38 (61.29%) Python
3 7 (11.29%) Scala
4 5 (8.06%) C#
4 5 (8.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (6.45%) Bicep
6 3 (4.84%) Java
6 3 (4.84%) R
6 3 (4.84%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.23%) Bash
8 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (4.84%) Azure Certification
1 3 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (4.84%) Degree
2 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.61%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.61%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.84%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.23%) QA
3 1 (1.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (8.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.84%) Terraform
3 1 (1.61%) Grafana
3 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 35 (56.45%) Databricks
2 10 (16.13%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.23%) Bloomberg
3 2 (3.23%) Informatica
4 1 (1.61%) Cognos
4 1 (1.61%) JD Edwards
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle