Azure Platform Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > Work from Home

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in Work from Home is £440 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 458 541
Rank change year-on-year +133 +83 -96
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 12 9 84
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.079% 0.035% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.037% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 69
10th Percentile £350 £571 £463
25th Percentile £404 £575 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £531 £691 £600
90th Percentile £578 £733 £813
UK median daily rate £440 £581 £550
% change year-on-year -24.30% +5.68% -2.65%

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 14,162 24,375 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.31% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,491 17,215 30,853
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +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 575 559 603
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.97 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.75 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.60%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Azure Platform Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure Platform Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Platform 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 Platform Engineer.

Azure Platform Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

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

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Azure Platform 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Azure
1 12 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 11 (91.67%) DevOps
3 10 (83.33%) Terraform
4 9 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
6 4 (33.33%) PaaS
6 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
6 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
7 3 (25.00%) GitLab
7 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
7 3 (25.00%) IaaS
7 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
7 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (16.67%) GitOps
8 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
8 2 (16.67%) ARM Templates
8 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (16.67%) Bicep
8 2 (16.67%) Ansible
8 2 (16.67%) Docker
8 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
8 2 (16.67%) Databricks
8 2 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
8 2 (16.67%) Serverless
8 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
8 2 (16.67%) YAML
8 2 (16.67%) AWS

Azure Platform 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 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) PaaS
4 3 (25.00%) IaaS
5 2 (16.67%) AWS
5 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 2 (16.67%) Serverless
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (8.33%) GCP
6 1 (8.33%) GitHub
6 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (8.33%) SaaS
6 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) IPv4
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) GitLab
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Snyk
2 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) ARM Templates
1 2 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (8.33%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 11 (91.67%) DevOps
3 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 2 (16.67%) GitOps
5 2 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) B2C
6 1 (8.33%) Boundary Protection
6 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
6 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (8.33%) High Availability
6 1 (8.33%) Identity Management
6 1 (8.33%) Release Automation
6 1 (8.33%) Release Management
6 1 (8.33%) Service Management
6 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Bicep
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Terraform
2 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (16.67%) Ansible
4 1 (8.33%) Argo
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Databricks
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) BMC
2 1 (8.33%) Remedy
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) VMware