Azure Infrastructure Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > Work from Home

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in Work from Home is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 444 586
Rank change year-on-year +112 +142 -133
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Infrastructure Engineer 17 30 37
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.12% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.12% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 21 25
10th Percentile £394 £413 £331
25th Percentile £555 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £679 £588 £550
90th Percentile £768 £625 £633
UK median daily rate £575 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +21.05% -5.00% +11.11%

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 14,327 24,531 42,707
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.34% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,575 17,328 30,855
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £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 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 565 611
10th Percentile £14.35 £18.22 £13.12
25th Percentile £23.34 £25.95 £18.75
Median hourly rate £44.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Infrastructure Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer.

Azure Infrastructure Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Azure Infrastructure Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Azure Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Azure
1 17 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (76.47%) DevOps
3 11 (64.71%) Active Directory
4 10 (58.82%) Windows
4 10 (58.82%) Windows Server
5 6 (35.29%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (29.41%) HP
6 5 (29.41%) vSphere
7 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
7 4 (23.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
7 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
7 4 (23.53%) Entra ID
8 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
8 3 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
8 3 (17.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (17.65%) YAML
8 3 (17.65%) AWS
8 3 (17.65%) Terraform
8 3 (17.65%) DNS
8 3 (17.65%) Red Hat
8 3 (17.65%) Python
8 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
8 3 (17.65%) Azure AKS
8 3 (17.65%) Onboarding
9 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
9 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code

Azure Infrastructure 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 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) Entra ID
4 3 (17.65%) AWS
4 3 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (17.65%) Azure AKS
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Storage
5 2 (11.76%) OneDrive
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) Network Security
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Law
2 2 (11.76%) Legal
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
1 3 (17.65%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (17.65%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Windows
1 10 (58.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (76.47%) DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.76%) Migration
4 2 (11.76%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
4 2 (11.76%) Storage Management
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security
5 1 (5.88%) Community of Practice
5 1 (5.88%) Decision-Making
5 1 (5.88%) IT Strategy
5 1 (5.88%) Line Management
5 1 (5.88%) Project Delivery
5 1 (5.88%) Server Management
5 1 (5.88%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (5.88%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (5.88%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (5.88%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
2 3 (17.65%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.88%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 11 (64.71%) Active Directory
2 5 (29.41%) vSphere
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) HP
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 3 (17.65%) Red Hat
4 2 (11.76%) VMware