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 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 345 465
Rank change year-on-year +67 +120 -113
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 66 130 157
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.43% 0.50% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.53% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 102 110
10th Percentile £414 £439 £413
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 £578 £650 £575
90th Percentile £663 £725 £626
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
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 14,287 24,718 42,673
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.33% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,550 17,458 30,801
10th Percentile £325 £360 £355
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +2.67% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £748 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 564 568 609
10th Percentile £14.27 £18.50 £12.87
25th Percentile £22.71 £27.22 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 66 (100.00%) Azure
2 42 (63.64%) Azure Data Factory
2 42 (63.64%) SQL
3 39 (59.09%) Python
4 38 (57.58%) Databricks
5 27 (40.91%) Data Lake
5 27 (40.91%) ETL
6 23 (34.85%) Data Pipeline
7 22 (33.33%) Analytics
8 21 (31.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 18 (27.27%) Social Skills
9 18 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
10 17 (25.76%) Data Engineering
11 16 (24.24%) Power BI
11 16 (24.24%) PySpark
11 16 (24.24%) Power Platform
12 15 (22.73%) Data Modelling
12 15 (22.73%) Agile
13 13 (19.70%) Azure SQL Database
14 12 (18.18%) DevOps
14 12 (18.18%) Microsoft
15 11 (16.67%) Finance
15 11 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (16.67%) CI/CD
16 10 (15.15%) SQL Server
17 9 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
18 8 (12.12%) Apache Spark
18 8 (12.12%) Scala
18 8 (12.12%) Data Transformation
19 7 (10.61%) Migration

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 8 (12.12%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.06%) Luigi
3 3 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.03%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 66 (100.00%) Azure
2 42 (63.64%) Azure Data Factory
3 21 (31.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 16 (24.24%) Power Platform
5 6 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (7.58%) Serverless
7 4 (6.06%) Azure Functions
7 4 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (6.06%) Azure Storage
7 4 (6.06%) dbt
8 3 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (4.55%) GCP
8 3 (4.55%) Snowflake
9 2 (3.03%) AWS
10 1 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.52%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.52%) GitHub
10 1 (1.52%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (40.91%) Data Lake
2 16 (24.24%) Power BI
3 13 (19.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (15.15%) SQL Server
6 6 (9.09%) Big Data
6 6 (9.09%) Power Query
7 5 (7.58%) Delta Lake
7 5 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (7.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (6.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 4 (6.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (4.55%) Metadata
9 3 (4.55%) Relational Database
10 2 (3.03%) Data Hub
10 2 (3.03%) NoSQL
10 2 (3.03%) OLAP
10 2 (3.03%) Spark SQL
11 1 (1.52%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 4 (6.06%) GitLab
2 2 (3.03%) Git
3 1 (1.52%) Deequ
3 1 (1.52%) JIRA
3 1 (1.52%) MLflow
General
1 18 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.67%) Finance
3 7 (10.61%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.03%) Banking
5 2 (3.03%) Marketing
6 1 (1.52%) Law
6 1 (1.52%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (24.24%) PySpark
2 4 (6.06%) Pandas
3 3 (4.55%) Kafka
4 2 (3.03%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.52%) .NET
5 1 (1.52%) Apache Avro
5 1 (1.52%) Great Expectations
5 1 (1.52%) JSON
5 1 (1.52%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.52%) Housing Association
2 1 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.52%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (40.91%) ETL
2 23 (34.85%) Data Pipeline
3 22 (33.33%) Analytics
4 18 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
5 17 (25.76%) Data Engineering
6 15 (22.73%) Agile
6 15 (22.73%) Data Modelling
7 12 (18.18%) DevOps
8 11 (16.67%) CI/CD
9 9 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (12.12%) Data Transformation
11 7 (10.61%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (10.61%) Migration
11 7 (10.61%) Scrum
12 5 (7.58%) Collaborative Working
12 5 (7.58%) Containerisation
12 5 (7.58%) Data Architecture
12 5 (7.58%) Data Integration
12 5 (7.58%) Visualisation
13 4 (6.06%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 42 (63.64%) SQL
2 39 (59.09%) Python
3 8 (12.12%) Scala
4 6 (9.09%) C#
5 5 (7.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (6.06%) Bicep
6 4 (6.06%) R
6 4 (6.06%) T-SQL
7 3 (4.55%) Java
8 2 (3.03%) Bash
9 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (4.55%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.03%) Degree
2 2 (3.03%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.03%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.03%) QA
2 1 (1.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (7.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.55%) Terraform
2 1 (1.52%) Grafana
2 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 38 (57.58%) Databricks
2 12 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.03%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.52%) Cognos
4 1 (1.52%) Informatica
4 1 (1.52%) JD Edwards
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle