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 in Work from Home is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 283 349 464
Rank change year-on-year +66 +115 -92
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 60 117 166
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.41% 0.48% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.50% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 94 121
10th Percentile £418 £420 £425
25th Percentile £463 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £584 £647 £575
90th Percentile £650 £725 £650
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

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 13,835 23,454 42,149
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,295 16,589 30,493
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 534 593
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.76 £68.65
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 39 (65.00%) SQL
3 37 (61.67%) Python
4 36 (60.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 34 (56.67%) Databricks
6 28 (46.67%) ETL
7 24 (40.00%) Data Lake
8 23 (38.33%) Data Pipeline
9 19 (31.67%) Analytics
10 18 (30.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 17 (28.33%) Social Skills
12 16 (26.67%) PySpark
13 15 (25.00%) Data Engineering
13 15 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
14 13 (21.67%) Agile
14 13 (21.67%) Power BI
14 13 (21.67%) Data Modelling
14 13 (21.67%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (21.67%) Power Platform
15 12 (20.00%) DevOps
16 11 (18.33%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (18.33%) CI/CD
17 10 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
17 10 (16.67%) SQL Server
18 9 (15.00%) Microsoft
19 8 (13.33%) Finance
20 7 (11.67%) Continuous Integration
20 7 (11.67%) Data Transformation
21 6 (10.00%) Scala
21 6 (10.00%) Apache Spark

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 6 (10.00%) 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 13 (21.67%) Power Platform
5 5 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (5.00%) Azure Functions
7 3 (5.00%) Azure Storage
7 3 (5.00%) dbt
7 3 (5.00%) Serverless
7 3 (5.00%) Snowflake
8 2 (3.33%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (3.33%) GCP
9 1 (1.67%) AWS
9 1 (1.67%) Azure App Service
9 1 (1.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (40.00%) Data Lake
2 13 (21.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (21.67%) Power BI
3 11 (18.33%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (16.67%) SQL Server
5 5 (8.33%) Big Data
5 5 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (6.67%) Delta Lake
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%) NoSQL
7 3 (5.00%) Relational Database
8 2 (3.33%) OLAP
9 1 (1.67%) OLAP Cube
9 1 (1.67%) OLTP
9 1 (1.67%) Spark SQL
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 17 (28.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.33%) Finance
3 5 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.33%) Marketing
5 1 (1.67%) Banking
5 1 (1.67%) Law
5 1 (1.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (26.67%) 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 Applications
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 23 (38.33%) Data Pipeline
3 19 (31.67%) Analytics
4 15 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 13 (21.67%) Agile
5 13 (21.67%) Data Modelling
6 12 (20.00%) DevOps
7 11 (18.33%) CI/CD
8 10 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (11.67%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (11.67%) Data Transformation
10 6 (10.00%) Containerisation
10 6 (10.00%) Data Integration
10 6 (10.00%) Migration
11 5 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
11 5 (8.33%) Data Architecture
11 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
12 4 (6.67%) Data Governance
12 4 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (65.00%) SQL
2 37 (61.67%) Python
3 6 (10.00%) Scala
4 5 (8.33%) C#
5 4 (6.67%) Bicep
6 3 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (5.00%) Java
6 3 (5.00%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.33%) Bash
7 2 (3.33%) R
8 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
8 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 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.67%) Security Cleared
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
2 3 (5.00%) Terraform
3 1 (1.67%) Grafana
3 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (56.67%) Databricks
2 9 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.33%) Informatica
4 1 (1.67%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.67%) Cognos
4 1 (1.67%) JD Edwards
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle