Azure Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Azure Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer 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 161 165 122
Rank change year-on-year +4 -43 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 148 194 512
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.49% 1.26% 1.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.59% 1.35% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 143 405
10th Percentile £388 £413 £450
25th Percentile £413 £456 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £550 £600 £650
90th Percentile £620 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £498 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -5.24% -6.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £52.95
25th Percentile £67.50 - £55.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £61.00
75th Percentile £72.50 - £66.38
90th Percentile - - £69.45
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - £61.00
% change year-on-year - - -22.54%

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 Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Azure 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 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 remote working options citing Azure Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 1 May 2025, 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.

1 148 (100.00%) Azure
2 72 (48.65%) DevOps
3 59 (39.86%) Azure DevOps
4 55 (37.16%) Terraform
5 45 (30.41%) CI/CD
6 39 (26.35%) Microsoft
7 35 (23.65%) PowerShell
8 33 (22.30%) Security Cleared
8 33 (22.30%) Kubernetes
9 32 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
10 30 (20.27%) Python
11 29 (19.59%) SC Cleared
12 25 (16.89%) Social Skills
12 25 (16.89%) SQL
13 24 (16.22%) Firewall
13 24 (16.22%) Agile
13 24 (16.22%) Databricks
14 21 (14.19%) Azure AKS
14 21 (14.19%) Finance
14 21 (14.19%) Migration
15 20 (13.51%) Windows
15 20 (13.51%) Public Sector
16 19 (12.84%) Power Platform
16 19 (12.84%) Azure Data Factory
16 19 (12.84%) Entra ID
16 19 (12.84%) Azure Monitor
16 19 (12.84%) Active Directory
16 19 (12.84%) Analytics
17 17 (11.49%) Cloud Security
17 17 (11.49%) Docker

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 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.35%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.35%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.68%) Apache
3 1 (0.68%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.68%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 148 (100.00%) Azure
2 59 (39.86%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (14.19%) Azure AKS
4 19 (12.84%) Azure Data Factory
4 19 (12.84%) Azure Monitor
4 19 (12.84%) Entra ID
4 19 (12.84%) Power Platform
5 15 (10.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 14 (9.46%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (7.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 11 (7.43%) Azure Sentinel
7 11 (7.43%) GitHub
8 10 (6.76%) AWS
9 9 (6.08%) Azure Functions
9 9 (6.08%) Azure Machine Learning
9 9 (6.08%) Microsoft Purview
9 9 (6.08%) Serverless
10 7 (4.73%) IaaS
11 6 (4.05%) PaaS
12 5 (3.38%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 24 (16.22%) Firewall
2 14 (9.46%) DNS
3 10 (6.76%) VPN
4 7 (4.73%) NGFW
5 6 (4.05%) Network Security
6 4 (2.70%) DHCP
7 3 (2.03%) SAN
7 3 (2.03%) WAN
7 3 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (2.03%) Wireless
8 2 (1.35%) FTP
8 2 (1.35%) HTTP
8 2 (1.35%) Internet
8 2 (1.35%) LAN
8 2 (1.35%) SMTP
8 2 (1.35%) SSL
8 2 (1.35%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.35%) VLAN
9 1 (0.68%) MPLS
9 1 (0.68%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.49%) Power BI
2 10 (6.76%) Data Lake
3 7 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (4.73%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.70%) Big Data
4 4 (2.70%) Neo4j
5 3 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.03%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.35%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.35%) Metadata
6 2 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.68%) Parquet
7 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (4.73%) GitLab
2 6 (4.05%) Git
3 4 (2.70%) SonarQube
4 3 (2.03%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.35%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.35%) JMeter
5 2 (1.35%) Postman
5 2 (1.35%) Selenium
5 2 (1.35%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.68%) JIRA
6 1 (0.68%) NUnit
6 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (16.89%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.19%) Finance
3 20 (13.51%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.41%) Banking
5 5 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.38%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.03%) Electronics
7 3 (2.03%) Marketing
7 3 (2.03%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.35%) Law
8 2 (1.35%) Retail
9 1 (0.68%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.78%) .NET
2 8 (5.41%) ARM Templates
2 8 (5.41%) JSON
3 7 (4.73%) ADO
3 7 (4.73%) YAML
4 6 (4.05%) PySpark
5 4 (2.70%) Plotly
5 4 (2.70%) React
6 2 (1.35%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.35%) Entity Framework
6 2 (1.35%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (1.35%) pytest
6 2 (1.35%) REST
6 2 (1.35%) WCF
6 2 (1.35%) Web Services
6 2 (1.35%) XML
7 1 (0.68%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (0.68%) Autofac
7 1 (0.68%) Regular Expression
7 1 (0.68%) StructureMap
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.73%) Anti-Spyware
2 5 (3.38%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.35%) BYOD
5 2 (1.35%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.35%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.35%) IoT
5 2 (1.35%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.35%) Replication
5 2 (1.35%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.68%) Clustering
6 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.68%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.68%) PKI
6 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.68%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.51%) Windows
2 14 (9.46%) Linux
3 7 (4.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (4.73%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.35%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.35%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.35%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (48.65%) DevOps
2 45 (30.41%) CI/CD
3 32 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (16.22%) Agile
5 21 (14.19%) Migration
6 19 (12.84%) Analytics
7 17 (11.49%) Cloud Security
8 14 (9.46%) Data Engineering
9 13 (8.78%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (8.78%) Containerisation
10 12 (8.11%) Data Modelling
11 11 (7.43%) Machine Learning
11 11 (7.43%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (6.76%) Artificial Intelligence
12 10 (6.76%) ETL
12 10 (6.76%) Platform Engineering
12 10 (6.76%) RBAC
13 9 (6.08%) Data Science
13 9 (6.08%) High Availability
13 9 (6.08%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (23.65%) PowerShell
2 30 (20.27%) Python
3 25 (16.89%) SQL
4 16 (10.81%) Bicep
5 11 (7.43%) Bash
5 11 (7.43%) C#
6 5 (3.38%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.03%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (2.03%) Scala
8 2 (1.35%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.68%) R
9 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.68%) VB
9 1 (0.68%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 33 (22.30%) Security Cleared
2 29 (19.59%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.46%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.38%) Degree
4 5 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.03%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.35%) CISSP
6 2 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.68%) CCNA
7 1 (0.68%) CCNP
7 1 (0.68%) CCSA
7 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.68%) MCPD
7 1 (0.68%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.08%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.03%) SLA
3 2 (1.35%) GDPR
3 2 (1.35%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (12.84%) Active Directory
2 17 (11.49%) Docker
3 5 (3.38%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (3.38%) vSphere
4 4 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.03%) DFS Replication
6 2 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 55 (37.16%) Terraform
2 33 (22.30%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (4.73%) Ansible
4 7 (4.73%) SCCM
5 5 (3.38%) Grafana
6 3 (2.03%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.03%) Puppet
7 2 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.35%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.35%) WSUS
8 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.68%) SCOM
Vendors
1 39 (26.35%) Microsoft
2 24 (16.22%) Databricks
3 9 (6.08%) CheckPoint
4 8 (5.41%) Infoblox
5 7 (4.73%) Palo Alto
6 6 (4.05%) VMware
7 5 (3.38%) SAP
8 4 (2.70%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.03%) Meraki
9 3 (2.03%) Splunk
10 2 (1.35%) Arista
10 2 (1.35%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.35%) Cisco
10 2 (1.35%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.35%) Forcepoint
10 2 (1.35%) Informatica
10 2 (1.35%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (1.35%) Oracle
10 2 (1.35%) Qualys
10 2 (1.35%) Zscaler