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 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 127 132
Rank change year-on-year -31 +5 -42
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 195 499 927
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.28% 1.95% 2.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 2.05% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 399 687
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% - +5.77%
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 - £61.00 £78.75
% change year-on-year - -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 14,235 24,337 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.50% 95.31% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,550 17,175 30,867
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +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 577 560 606
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.70 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.25 £25.71 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £54.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.10% +55.71% +42.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +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 6 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 6 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.

1 195 (100.00%) Azure
2 96 (49.23%) DevOps
3 66 (33.85%) Azure DevOps
4 65 (33.33%) Python
5 64 (32.82%) SQL
6 56 (28.72%) CI/CD
7 48 (24.62%) Azure Data Factory
7 48 (24.62%) Terraform
7 48 (24.62%) Microsoft
8 42 (21.54%) Databricks
9 41 (21.03%) Social Skills
10 39 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 39 (20.00%) PowerShell
10 39 (20.00%) Agile
11 34 (17.44%) Business Intelligence
12 33 (16.92%) Public Sector
13 31 (15.90%) Finance
14 29 (14.87%) Analytics
15 28 (14.36%) Security Cleared
15 28 (14.36%) ETL
15 28 (14.36%) Data Lake
15 28 (14.36%) Kubernetes
16 27 (13.85%) Data Pipeline
17 26 (13.33%) SC Cleared
18 25 (12.82%) Active Directory
19 23 (11.79%) Power Platform
19 23 (11.79%) Power BI
20 22 (11.28%) Docker
20 22 (11.28%) Windows
20 22 (11.28%) Git

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 (4.62%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.05%) Luigi
2 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.03%) Apache
4 1 (0.51%) Confluence
4 1 (0.51%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.05%) Trello
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 195 (100.00%) Azure
2 66 (33.85%) Azure DevOps
3 48 (24.62%) Azure Data Factory
4 23 (11.79%) Power Platform
5 21 (10.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 21 (10.77%) PaaS
6 19 (9.74%) AWS
6 19 (9.74%) Entra ID
7 11 (5.64%) Azure AKS
7 11 (5.64%) Azure Storage
8 10 (5.13%) GitHub
8 10 (5.13%) Serverless
9 9 (4.62%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (4.62%) Azure Service Bus
9 9 (4.62%) IaaS
10 8 (4.10%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (4.10%) GCP
10 8 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (4.10%) SaaS
11 7 (3.59%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.23%) Firewall
2 13 (6.67%) DNS
3 7 (3.59%) Network Security
4 5 (2.56%) VPN
5 3 (1.54%) DHCP
6 2 (1.03%) BGP
6 2 (1.03%) IPv4
6 2 (1.03%) OSPF
6 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.51%) HTTP
7 1 (0.51%) Internet
7 1 (0.51%) IPsec
7 1 (0.51%) MQTT
7 1 (0.51%) RS-232
7 1 (0.51%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.36%) Data Lake
2 23 (11.79%) Power BI
3 20 (10.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 16 (8.21%) SQL Server
5 11 (5.64%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.08%) Big Data
6 6 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.08%) Power Query
6 6 (3.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 6 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.56%) Delta Lake
7 5 (2.56%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 4 (2.05%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.05%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.54%) Metadata
9 3 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (1.54%) Tableau
10 2 (1.03%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.03%) OLAP
10 2 (1.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (11.28%) Git
2 13 (6.67%) GitLab
3 10 (5.13%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.05%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.54%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.54%) NUnit
5 3 (1.54%) Postman
6 2 (1.03%) JIRA
6 2 (1.03%) Selenium
6 2 (1.03%) Snyk
6 2 (1.03%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.51%) Deequ
7 1 (0.51%) Gradle
7 1 (0.51%) Maven
7 1 (0.51%) MLflow
7 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 41 (21.03%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.92%) Public Sector
3 31 (15.90%) Finance
4 13 (6.67%) Marketing
5 11 (5.64%) Electronics
5 11 (5.64%) Manufacturing
5 11 (5.64%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.05%) Law
8 3 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.54%) Retail
9 2 (1.03%) Banking
9 2 (1.03%) Legal
10 1 (0.51%) Billing
10 1 (0.51%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.26%) ARM Templates
2 17 (8.72%) .NET
3 16 (8.21%) PySpark
4 14 (7.18%) YAML
5 7 (3.59%) JSON
6 6 (3.08%) Kafka
7 5 (2.56%) GraphQL
8 4 (2.05%) Pandas
8 4 (2.05%) REST
8 4 (2.05%) RESTful
9 3 (1.54%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.54%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.54%) Entity Framework
9 3 (1.54%) Playwright
10 2 (1.03%) Hugging Face
10 2 (1.03%) LangChain
10 2 (1.03%) pytest
10 2 (1.03%) PyTorch
10 2 (1.03%) SailPoint
10 2 (1.03%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.10%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (2.05%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.54%) Data Centre
3 3 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.03%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.03%) PKI
4 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.03%) Tandem
5 1 (0.51%) BYOD
5 1 (0.51%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (0.51%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.51%) NHS
5 1 (0.51%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.51%) PropTech
5 1 (0.51%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.28%) Windows
2 18 (9.23%) Linux
3 13 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.03%) Alpine Linux
4 2 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.51%) VMS
5 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (49.23%) DevOps
2 56 (28.72%) CI/CD
3 39 (20.00%) Agile
3 39 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (17.44%) Business Intelligence
5 29 (14.87%) Analytics
6 28 (14.36%) ETL
7 27 (13.85%) Data Pipeline
8 21 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (10.26%) Data Engineering
10 19 (9.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 16 (8.21%) Migration
12 15 (7.69%) Data Modelling
12 15 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
13 14 (7.18%) Scrum
14 13 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence
14 13 (6.67%) Software Engineering
15 12 (6.15%) Containerisation
16 11 (5.64%) Continuous Integration
16 11 (5.64%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (33.33%) Python
2 64 (32.82%) SQL
3 39 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 18 (9.23%) Bicep
5 17 (8.72%) C#
6 9 (4.62%) Scala
7 8 (4.10%) Java
8 7 (3.59%) Bash
9 6 (3.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (3.08%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (2.05%) R
10 4 (2.05%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.54%) C++
11 3 (1.54%) Go
11 3 (1.54%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.54%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.54%) VB
12 2 (1.03%) VBScript
13 1 (0.51%) C++/CLI
13 1 (0.51%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 28 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 26 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 20 (10.26%) Azure Certification
3 20 (10.26%) Degree
4 10 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.05%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.51%) CISSP
7 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.05%) Data Quality
1 4 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.54%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.03%) QA
4 1 (0.51%) GDPR
4 1 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 25 (12.82%) Active Directory
2 22 (11.28%) Docker
3 14 (7.18%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (4.10%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.56%) vSphere
6 2 (1.03%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 48 (24.62%) Terraform
2 28 (14.36%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (3.59%) Ansible
5 5 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (2.05%) Grafana
6 4 (2.05%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.05%) SCCM
7 2 (1.03%) Argo
7 2 (1.03%) Puppet
7 2 (1.03%) SCOM
7 2 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.03%) WSUS
8 1 (0.51%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.51%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 48 (24.62%) Microsoft
2 42 (21.54%) Databricks
3 11 (5.64%) SAP
4 8 (4.10%) VMware
5 5 (2.56%) HP
6 4 (2.05%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.05%) Oracle
6 4 (2.05%) Splunk
7 3 (1.54%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.03%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.03%) Citrix
8 2 (1.03%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.51%) BMC
9 1 (0.51%) Informatica
9 1 (0.51%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.51%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.51%) NetApp
9 1 (0.51%) Remedy
9 1 (0.51%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow