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 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 176 124 130
Rank change year-on-year -52 +6 -35
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 179 497 908
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.21% 2.02% 2.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 2.12% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 399 676
10th Percentile £413 £435 £400
25th Percentile £461 £481 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +5.77%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £639
90th Percentile £650 £700 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% +7.32%
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 £110.00 £61.00 £78.75
% change year-on-year +80.33% -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 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 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 17 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 17 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.

1 179 (100.00%) Azure
2 91 (50.84%) DevOps
3 63 (35.20%) SQL
4 62 (34.64%) Azure DevOps
5 60 (33.52%) Python
6 54 (30.17%) CI/CD
7 44 (24.58%) Microsoft
8 41 (22.91%) Azure Data Factory
8 41 (22.91%) Terraform
9 39 (21.79%) Social Skills
10 38 (21.23%) Databricks
10 38 (21.23%) PowerShell
11 36 (20.11%) Agile
11 36 (20.11%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (16.20%) Business Intelligence
13 28 (15.64%) ETL
13 28 (15.64%) Public Sector
14 27 (15.08%) Finance
14 27 (15.08%) Analytics
15 26 (14.53%) Data Pipeline
15 26 (14.53%) Kubernetes
16 25 (13.97%) Data Lake
16 25 (13.97%) Active Directory
17 24 (13.41%) Security Cleared
18 22 (12.29%) SC Cleared
18 22 (12.29%) Bicep
19 21 (11.73%) ARM Templates
19 21 (11.73%) Problem-Solving
19 21 (11.73%) Git
19 21 (11.73%) PaaS

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 7 (3.91%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.23%) Luigi
4 3 (1.68%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.12%) Apache
6 1 (0.56%) Confluence
6 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.23%) Trello
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 179 (100.00%) Azure
2 62 (34.64%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (22.91%) Azure Data Factory
4 21 (11.73%) PaaS
5 18 (10.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 18 (10.06%) Entra ID
5 18 (10.06%) Power Platform
6 17 (9.50%) AWS
7 12 (6.70%) Azure AKS
8 11 (6.15%) Azure Monitor
8 11 (6.15%) Azure Storage
9 10 (5.59%) GitHub
10 9 (5.03%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (5.03%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (5.03%) IaaS
11 8 (4.47%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (4.47%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (4.47%) SaaS
11 8 (4.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.50%) Firewall
2 14 (7.82%) DNS
3 6 (3.35%) Network Security
4 5 (2.79%) VPN
5 4 (2.23%) DHCP
6 2 (1.12%) BGP
6 2 (1.12%) IPv4
6 2 (1.12%) OSPF
6 2 (1.12%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.56%) HTTP
7 1 (0.56%) IPsec
7 1 (0.56%) MQTT
7 1 (0.56%) RS-232
7 1 (0.56%) VSAN
7 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.97%) Data Lake
2 19 (10.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 18 (10.06%) Power BI
4 13 (7.26%) SQL Server
5 11 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.79%) Big Data
7 5 (2.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (2.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.23%) Delta Lake
8 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 4 (2.23%) Power Query
8 4 (2.23%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.68%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.68%) Flink
9 3 (1.68%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.68%) Tableau
10 2 (1.12%) Couchbase
10 2 (1.12%) Redis
10 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (11.73%) Git
2 10 (5.59%) GitLab
3 9 (5.03%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.23%) Postman
4 4 (2.23%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.68%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.68%) NUnit
6 2 (1.12%) JIRA
6 2 (1.12%) Selenium
6 2 (1.12%) Snyk
6 2 (1.12%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.56%) Deequ
7 1 (0.56%) MLflow
7 1 (0.56%) Newman
General
1 39 (21.79%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.64%) Public Sector
3 27 (15.08%) Finance
4 13 (7.26%) Marketing
5 12 (6.70%) Telecoms
6 11 (6.15%) Electronics
6 11 (6.15%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.35%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.68%) Law
8 3 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.68%) Retail
9 2 (1.12%) Legal
10 1 (0.56%) Banking
10 1 (0.56%) Billing
10 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.73%) ARM Templates
2 17 (9.50%) .NET
3 16 (8.94%) PySpark
4 13 (7.26%) YAML
5 8 (4.47%) Kafka
6 6 (3.35%) JSON
7 5 (2.79%) GraphQL
8 4 (2.23%) Pandas
8 4 (2.23%) REST
8 4 (2.23%) RESTful
9 3 (1.68%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.68%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.68%) Entity Framework
9 3 (1.68%) Playwright
9 3 (1.68%) pytest
9 3 (1.68%) SOAP
10 2 (1.12%) Hugging Face
10 2 (1.12%) LangChain
10 2 (1.12%) PyTorch
10 2 (1.12%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.47%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (1.68%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.68%) PKI
3 3 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.12%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.12%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.12%) Tandem
5 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.56%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.56%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.56%) NHS
5 1 (0.56%) PropTech
5 1 (0.56%) Spread Betting
5 1 (0.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.73%) Windows
2 19 (10.61%) Linux
3 13 (7.26%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (1.68%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.12%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.56%) Unix
6 1 (0.56%) VMS
6 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (50.84%) DevOps
2 54 (30.17%) CI/CD
3 36 (20.11%) Agile
3 36 (20.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (16.20%) Business Intelligence
5 28 (15.64%) ETL
6 27 (15.08%) Analytics
7 26 (14.53%) Data Pipeline
8 21 (11.73%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (10.06%) Data Engineering
10 15 (8.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 14 (7.82%) Migration
11 14 (7.82%) Platform Engineering
12 13 (7.26%) Data Modelling
13 12 (6.70%) Artificial Intelligence
13 12 (6.70%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (6.70%) Software Engineering
14 11 (6.15%) Computer Science
14 11 (6.15%) Digital Marketing
14 11 (6.15%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 63 (35.20%) SQL
2 60 (33.52%) Python
3 38 (21.23%) PowerShell
4 22 (12.29%) Bicep
5 16 (8.94%) C#
6 9 (5.03%) Java
7 7 (3.91%) Scala
8 6 (3.35%) Bash
8 6 (3.35%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (2.23%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.23%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.23%) VB
10 3 (1.68%) C++
10 3 (1.68%) Go
10 3 (1.68%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.68%) VBScript
11 2 (1.12%) R
12 1 (0.56%) C++/CLI
12 1 (0.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 24 (13.41%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.29%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.61%) Azure Certification
3 19 (10.61%) Degree
4 10 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.23%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.79%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.68%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.68%) QA
3 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 25 (13.97%) Active Directory
2 20 (11.17%) Docker
3 12 (6.70%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (5.59%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.79%) vSphere
6 2 (1.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (22.91%) Terraform
2 26 (14.53%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 6 (3.35%) Ansible
3 6 (3.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.23%) Grafana
4 4 (2.23%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.23%) SCCM
5 3 (1.68%) SCOM
5 3 (1.68%) WSUS
6 2 (1.12%) Argo
6 2 (1.12%) Puppet
6 2 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.56%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 44 (24.58%) Microsoft
2 38 (21.23%) Databricks
3 11 (6.15%) SAP
4 8 (4.47%) VMware
5 5 (2.79%) HP
6 4 (2.23%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.23%) Oracle
6 4 (2.23%) Splunk
7 2 (1.12%) Informatica
7 2 (1.12%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.12%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.56%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.56%) BMC
8 1 (0.56%) Citrix
8 1 (0.56%) Cognos
8 1 (0.56%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.56%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.56%) NetApp
8 1 (0.56%) Remedy
8 1 (0.56%) Salesforce