Azure Data Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 279 351
Rank change year-on-year +4 +72 +124
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 29 66 127
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.43% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.46% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 56 100
10th Percentile £408 £414 £435
25th Percentile £434 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £572 £578 £650
90th Percentile £675 £663 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Azure Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Azure Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Data Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Azure Data Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025, 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 29 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (62.07%) Databricks
3 17 (58.62%) SQL
4 13 (44.83%) Analytics
4 13 (44.83%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (41.38%) Data Modelling
5 12 (41.38%) Security Cleared
6 11 (37.93%) SC Cleared
6 11 (37.93%) Python
6 11 (37.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 11 (37.93%) Data Engineering
7 10 (34.48%) Power BI
7 10 (34.48%) Power Platform
8 9 (31.03%) Data Lake
8 9 (31.03%) ETL
9 8 (27.59%) Data Ingestion
10 7 (24.14%) Data Transformation
10 7 (24.14%) Data Science
10 7 (24.14%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (20.69%) Data Quality
11 6 (20.69%) Machine Learning
11 6 (20.69%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (20.69%) PySpark
12 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
12 5 (17.24%) Data Pipeline
12 5 (17.24%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (17.24%) JSON
13 4 (13.79%) Data Mapping
13 4 (13.79%) Dimensional Modelling
13 4 (13.79%) Visualisation

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 2 (6.90%) ArcGIS
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.45%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 29 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (44.83%) Azure Data Factory
3 11 (37.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 10 (34.48%) Power Platform
5 6 (20.69%) Azure Machine Learning
6 4 (13.79%) AWS
6 4 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (6.90%) Collibra
7 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (3.45%) Azure AI
8 1 (3.45%) Azure API Management
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (3.45%) Serverless
8 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (34.48%) Power BI
2 9 (31.03%) Data Lake
3 5 (17.24%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (13.79%) Neo4j
5 3 (10.34%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (6.90%) Delta Lake
6 2 (6.90%) Metadata
7 1 (3.45%) Big Data
7 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
7 1 (3.45%) Parquet
7 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
2 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) PySpark
2 5 (17.24%) JSON
3 4 (13.79%) Plotly
3 4 (13.79%) React
4 1 (3.45%) .NET
4 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (3.45%) Autofac
4 1 (3.45%) Dapper ORM
4 1 (3.45%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.45%) LangChain
4 1 (3.45%) Regular Expression
4 1 (3.45%) REST
4 1 (3.45%) StructureMap
4 1 (3.45%) WCF
4 1 (3.45%) Web Services
4 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.45%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) Analytics
2 12 (41.38%) Data Modelling
3 11 (37.93%) Data Engineering
4 9 (31.03%) ETL
5 8 (27.59%) Data Ingestion
6 7 (24.14%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (24.14%) Data Science
6 7 (24.14%) Data Transformation
7 6 (20.69%) Machine Learning
8 5 (17.24%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (13.79%) Data Mapping
9 4 (13.79%) DevOps
9 4 (13.79%) Dimensional Modelling
9 4 (13.79%) Visualisation
10 3 (10.34%) Collaborative Working
10 3 (10.34%) Data Integration
10 3 (10.34%) Data Visualisation
10 3 (10.34%) Migration
10 3 (10.34%) Storage Management
10 3 (10.34%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (58.62%) SQL
2 11 (37.93%) Python
3 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.34%) Scala
5 2 (6.90%) C#
6 1 (3.45%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (41.38%) Security Cleared
2 11 (37.93%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) MCPD
3 1 (3.45%) MCSD
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (62.07%) Databricks
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) Informatica
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle
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