Azure Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 125 129
Rank change year-on-year -42 +4 -41
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 184 498 915
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.22% 1.98% 2.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 2.08% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 399 681
10th Percentile £413 £435 £408
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +6.80%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £61.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year - -22.54% +28.57%
UK median hourly rate £110.00 £61.00 £78.75
% change year-on-year +80.33% -22.54% +215.00%

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 14,102 23,924 42,008
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 95.36% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,465 16,894 30,368
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 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 548 593
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.27
25th Percentile £23.37 £25.71 £18.76
Median hourly rate £44.87 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.91% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Azure Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure 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 Engineer.

Azure Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Azure Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 184 (100.00%) Azure
2 93 (50.54%) DevOps
3 64 (34.78%) Azure DevOps
4 63 (34.24%) SQL
5 62 (33.70%) Python
6 54 (29.35%) CI/CD
7 44 (23.91%) Microsoft
8 43 (23.37%) Azure Data Factory
8 43 (23.37%) Terraform
9 41 (22.28%) Social Skills
10 39 (21.20%) Databricks
11 38 (20.65%) PowerShell
12 36 (19.57%) Agile
13 35 (19.02%) Infrastructure as Code
14 31 (16.85%) Public Sector
14 31 (16.85%) Business Intelligence
15 30 (16.30%) ETL
16 29 (15.76%) Analytics
17 28 (15.22%) Finance
17 28 (15.22%) Data Pipeline
17 28 (15.22%) Data Lake
18 27 (14.67%) Kubernetes
19 25 (13.59%) Active Directory
20 24 (13.04%) Security Cleared
21 22 (11.96%) SC Cleared
21 22 (11.96%) Windows
22 21 (11.41%) PaaS
22 21 (11.41%) Azure SQL Database
22 21 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
22 21 (11.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure 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 9 (4.89%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.17%) Luigi
2 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.09%) Apache
4 1 (0.54%) Confluence
4 1 (0.54%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.17%) Trello
2 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 184 (100.00%) Azure
2 64 (34.78%) Azure DevOps
3 43 (23.37%) Azure Data Factory
4 21 (11.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 21 (11.41%) PaaS
5 20 (10.87%) Power Platform
6 19 (10.33%) AWS
6 19 (10.33%) Entra ID
7 12 (6.52%) Azure AKS
8 11 (5.98%) Azure Storage
9 10 (5.43%) GitHub
9 10 (5.43%) Serverless
10 9 (4.89%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (4.89%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (4.89%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (4.89%) IaaS
11 8 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (4.35%) GCP
11 8 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.24%) Firewall
2 13 (7.07%) DNS
3 7 (3.80%) Network Security
4 5 (2.72%) VPN
5 3 (1.63%) DHCP
6 2 (1.09%) BGP
6 2 (1.09%) IPv4
6 2 (1.09%) OSPF
6 2 (1.09%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.54%) HTTP
7 1 (0.54%) IPsec
7 1 (0.54%) MQTT
7 1 (0.54%) RS-232
7 1 (0.54%) VSAN
7 1 (0.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.22%) Data Lake
2 21 (11.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 20 (10.87%) Power BI
4 16 (8.70%) SQL Server
5 12 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.26%) Big Data
6 6 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.26%) Power Query
6 6 (3.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (2.72%) Delta Lake
7 5 (2.72%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 5 (2.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.17%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.63%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.63%) Tableau
10 2 (1.09%) Couchbase
10 2 (1.09%) OLAP
10 2 (1.09%) Redis
10 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (10.87%) Git
2 12 (6.52%) GitLab
3 10 (5.43%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.17%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.63%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.63%) NUnit
5 3 (1.63%) Postman
6 2 (1.09%) JIRA
6 2 (1.09%) Selenium
6 2 (1.09%) Snyk
6 2 (1.09%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.09%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.54%) Deequ
7 1 (0.54%) MLflow
General
1 41 (22.28%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.85%) Public Sector
3 28 (15.22%) Finance
4 13 (7.07%) Marketing
5 11 (5.98%) Electronics
5 11 (5.98%) Manufacturing
5 11 (5.98%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.63%) Law
7 3 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.63%) Retail
8 2 (1.09%) Banking
8 2 (1.09%) Legal
9 1 (0.54%) Billing
9 1 (0.54%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.87%) ARM Templates
2 17 (9.24%) .NET
3 16 (8.70%) PySpark
4 14 (7.61%) YAML
5 7 (3.80%) JSON
5 7 (3.80%) Kafka
6 5 (2.72%) GraphQL
7 4 (2.17%) Pandas
7 4 (2.17%) RESTful
8 3 (1.63%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.63%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.63%) Entity Framework
8 3 (1.63%) Playwright
8 3 (1.63%) REST
9 2 (1.09%) Hugging Face
9 2 (1.09%) LangChain
9 2 (1.09%) pytest
9 2 (1.09%) PyTorch
9 2 (1.09%) SailPoint
9 2 (1.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (2.17%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.63%) Data Centre
3 3 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.09%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.09%) PKI
4 2 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.09%) Tandem
5 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.54%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.54%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.54%) NHS
5 1 (0.54%) PropTech
5 1 (0.54%) Spread Betting
5 1 (0.54%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.96%) Windows
2 18 (9.78%) Linux
3 13 (7.07%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.09%) Alpine Linux
4 2 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.54%) Unix
5 1 (0.54%) VMS
5 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (50.54%) DevOps
2 54 (29.35%) CI/CD
3 36 (19.57%) Agile
4 35 (19.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (16.85%) Business Intelligence
6 30 (16.30%) ETL
7 29 (15.76%) Analytics
8 28 (15.22%) Data Pipeline
9 21 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (10.87%) Data Engineering
11 17 (9.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 15 (8.15%) Platform Engineering
13 14 (7.61%) Data Modelling
13 14 (7.61%) Migration
14 13 (7.07%) Software Engineering
15 12 (6.52%) Artificial Intelligence
15 12 (6.52%) Containerisation
15 12 (6.52%) Continuous Integration
15 12 (6.52%) Scrum
16 11 (5.98%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 63 (34.24%) SQL
2 62 (33.70%) Python
3 38 (20.65%) PowerShell
4 19 (10.33%) Bicep
5 15 (8.15%) C#
6 8 (4.35%) Java
6 8 (4.35%) Scala
7 6 (3.26%) Bash
7 6 (3.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (3.26%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (2.17%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.63%) C++
9 3 (1.63%) Go
9 3 (1.63%) R
9 3 (1.63%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.63%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.63%) VB
10 2 (1.09%) VBScript
11 1 (0.54%) C++/CLI
11 1 (0.54%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 24 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 22 (11.96%) SC Cleared
3 18 (9.78%) Azure Certification
4 17 (9.24%) Degree
5 10 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.17%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.72%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.63%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.09%) QA
4 1 (0.54%) GDPR
System Software
1 25 (13.59%) Active Directory
2 20 (10.87%) Docker
3 13 (7.07%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.72%) vSphere
6 2 (1.09%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (23.37%) Terraform
2 27 (14.67%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (3.80%) Ansible
5 5 (2.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (2.17%) Grafana
6 4 (2.17%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.17%) SCCM
7 2 (1.09%) Argo
7 2 (1.09%) Puppet
7 2 (1.09%) SCOM
7 2 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.09%) WSUS
8 1 (0.54%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.54%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 44 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 39 (21.20%) Databricks
3 11 (5.98%) SAP
4 8 (4.35%) VMware
5 5 (2.72%) HP
6 4 (2.17%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.17%) Oracle
6 4 (2.17%) Splunk
7 3 (1.63%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.09%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.09%) Informatica
8 2 (1.09%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.54%) BMC
9 1 (0.54%) Citrix
9 1 (0.54%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.54%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.54%) NetApp
9 1 (0.54%) Remedy
9 1 (0.54%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.54%) ServiceNow