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 for remote or hybrid work is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2024.

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

6 months to
24 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 281 354 452
Rank change year-on-year +73 +98 -59
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 60 103 171
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.41% 0.43% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.45% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 83 129
10th Percentile £425 £408 £425
25th Percentile £458 £478 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +3.70%
75th Percentile £584 £628 £575
90th Percentile £650 £725 £640
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

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 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 60 (100.00%) Azure
2 37 (61.67%) SQL
2 37 (61.67%) Python
3 36 (60.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 34 (56.67%) Databricks
5 28 (46.67%) ETL
6 24 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
7 23 (38.33%) Data Lake
8 19 (31.67%) Social Skills
9 18 (30.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 17 (28.33%) PySpark
10 17 (28.33%) Analytics
11 15 (25.00%) Data Engineering
12 14 (23.33%) Data Modelling
13 13 (21.67%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (21.67%) Business Intelligence
13 13 (21.67%) Agile
13 13 (21.67%) DevOps
13 13 (21.67%) Azure SQL Database
14 12 (20.00%) Power BI
14 12 (20.00%) Power Platform
15 11 (18.33%) CI/CD
16 10 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
16 10 (16.67%) SQL Server
17 9 (15.00%) Microsoft
18 7 (11.67%) Continuous Integration
18 7 (11.67%) Public Sector
19 6 (10.00%) Containerisation
19 6 (10.00%) Data Integration
19 6 (10.00%) Finance

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 5 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.67%) Luigi
3 2 (3.33%) Apache
3 2 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (100.00%) Azure
2 36 (60.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 18 (30.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 12 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 5 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (6.67%) Snowflake
7 3 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (5.00%) Azure Functions
7 3 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (5.00%) Azure Storage
7 3 (5.00%) dbt
7 3 (5.00%) Serverless
8 2 (3.33%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (3.33%) GitHub
9 1 (1.67%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.67%) Azure App Service
9 1 (1.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (38.33%) Data Lake
2 13 (21.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (21.67%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (20.00%) Power BI
4 10 (16.67%) SQL Server
5 5 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (6.67%) Big Data
6 4 (6.67%) Delta Lake
6 4 (6.67%) NoSQL
6 4 (6.67%) Power Query
6 4 (6.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 3 (5.00%) Relational Database
8 2 (3.33%) OLAP
9 1 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.67%) OLAP Cube
9 1 (1.67%) OLTP
9 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) GitLab
2 2 (3.33%) Git
3 1 (1.67%) Deequ
3 1 (1.67%) JIRA
3 1 (1.67%) MLflow
General
1 19 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.67%) Public Sector
3 6 (10.00%) Finance
4 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.33%) Marketing
5 1 (1.67%) Law
5 1 (1.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (28.33%) PySpark
2 4 (6.67%) Kafka
2 4 (6.67%) Pandas
3 3 (5.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.67%) .NET
4 1 (1.67%) Apache Avro
4 1 (1.67%) Great Expectations
4 1 (1.67%) JSON
4 1 (1.67%) JSON Schema
4 1 (1.67%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.67%) Housing Association
2 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (46.67%) ETL
2 24 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 17 (28.33%) Analytics
4 15 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 14 (23.33%) Data Modelling
6 13 (21.67%) Agile
6 13 (21.67%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (21.67%) DevOps
7 11 (18.33%) CI/CD
8 10 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (11.67%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (10.00%) Containerisation
10 6 (10.00%) Data Architecture
10 6 (10.00%) Data Integration
10 6 (10.00%) Data Transformation
10 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
11 5 (8.33%) Data Governance
11 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (8.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 37 (61.67%) Python
1 37 (61.67%) SQL
2 5 (8.33%) C#
3 4 (6.67%) Bicep
3 4 (6.67%) Scala
4 3 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (5.00%) Java
4 3 (5.00%) T-SQL
5 2 (3.33%) Bash
6 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.67%) R
6 1 (1.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (5.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (5.00%) Degree
2 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.33%) QA
3 1 (1.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (6.67%) Terraform
2 1 (1.67%) Grafana
2 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (56.67%) Databricks
2 9 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.33%) Informatica
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle