Azure Data Engineer Contracts in England

Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The median Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 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
28 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 416 455 591
Rank change year-on-year +39 +136 -89
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 122 202 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.40% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.42% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 172 143
10th Percentile £415 £450 £425
25th Percentile £463 £486 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £655 £650
90th Percentile £653 £725 £698
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.27% +5.50%
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
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,279 47,758 67,889
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,753 33,910 48,235
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,414 1,409 1,903
10th Percentile £12.94 £14.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.60 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

Azure Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Azure Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Engineer in England

Azure Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Data Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Engineer in England

Azure Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Engineer in England

Azure Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Data Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Data Engineer in England

Azure Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Data Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
London +57 91 £525 -6.67% 16
North of England +30 10 £500 -23.08% 1
South East +12 7 £463 -11.90%
Yorkshire +26 6 £500 -27.80%
Midlands +21 5 £481 -12.50% 1
North West +18 4 £463 -28.85% 1
South West +7 4 £563 +2.27% 3
East Midlands +19 3 £463 -
West Midlands +26 2 £500 -20.00% 1
Azure Data Engineer
UK

Azure Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 job ads across the England region featuring Azure Data Engineer in the job title.

1 122 (100.00%) Azure
2 77 (63.11%) Azure Data Factory
3 75 (61.48%) SQL
4 74 (60.66%) Databricks
5 58 (47.54%) Python
6 57 (46.72%) ETL
7 49 (40.16%) Data Lake
8 45 (36.89%) Data Pipeline
9 42 (34.43%) Analytics
10 41 (33.61%) Data Modelling
11 38 (31.15%) Data Engineering
12 37 (30.33%) PySpark
13 35 (28.69%) DevOps
13 35 (28.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 32 (26.23%) Business Intelligence
15 30 (24.59%) Power Platform
15 30 (24.59%) Power BI
16 28 (22.95%) Finance
17 27 (22.13%) Microsoft
18 25 (20.49%) Azure SQL Database
18 25 (20.49%) CI/CD
19 24 (19.67%) Data Warehouse
20 23 (18.85%) Social Skills
21 18 (14.75%) Agile
22 17 (13.93%) Data Integration
22 17 (13.93%) Azure DevOps
23 14 (11.48%) Data Transformation
23 14 (11.48%) SQL Server
24 13 (10.66%) Migration
25 11 (9.02%) T-SQL

Azure Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (8.20%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.28%) Luigi
3 2 (1.64%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 122 (100.00%) Azure
2 77 (63.11%) Azure Data Factory
3 35 (28.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 30 (24.59%) Power Platform
5 17 (13.93%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (9.02%) Serverless
7 10 (8.20%) Azure Functions
8 7 (5.74%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (4.92%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (4.92%) Azure Stack
10 5 (4.10%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (3.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (2.46%) AWS
12 3 (2.46%) Azure Storage
13 2 (1.64%) Amazon Kinesis
13 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
13 2 (1.64%) PaaS
13 2 (1.64%) Snowflake
14 1 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
14 1 (0.82%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (40.16%) Data Lake
2 30 (24.59%) Power BI
3 25 (20.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (19.67%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (11.48%) SQL Server
6 9 (7.38%) Big Data
7 8 (6.56%) Delta Lake
8 7 (5.74%) Spark SQL
9 6 (4.92%) Power Query
10 5 (4.10%) NoSQL
10 5 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (4.10%) Relational Database
10 5 (4.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (4.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (3.28%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 3 (2.46%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 2 (1.64%) Flink
13 2 (1.64%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (4.92%) Git
2 4 (3.28%) GitLab
3 1 (0.82%) Deequ
3 1 (0.82%) JIRA
3 1 (0.82%) MLflow
3 1 (0.82%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (22.95%) Finance
2 23 (18.85%) Social Skills
3 7 (5.74%) Banking
4 5 (4.10%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.10%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.10%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.46%) Marketing
6 2 (1.64%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.64%) Law
7 1 (0.82%) Electronics
7 1 (0.82%) Front Office
7 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.82%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (30.33%) PySpark
2 5 (4.10%) ARM Templates
3 4 (3.28%) Kafka
3 4 (3.28%) Pandas
3 4 (3.28%) XML
4 2 (1.64%) YAML
5 1 (0.82%) .NET
5 1 (0.82%) Anaconda
5 1 (0.82%) Apache Avro
5 1 (0.82%) BentoML
5 1 (0.82%) Great Expectations
5 1 (0.82%) JSON
5 1 (0.82%) JSON Schema
5 1 (0.82%) pytest
5 1 (0.82%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.82%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.82%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.28%) Product Ownership
1 4 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
1 4 (3.28%) Smart Meter
2 2 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (0.82%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.82%) Data Centre
3 1 (0.82%) Data Fabric
3 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.82%) Housing Association
3 1 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (0.82%) Market Risk
3 1 (0.82%) NHS
3 1 (0.82%) Onboarding
3 1 (0.82%) Public Cloud
3 1 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.02%) Linux
2 5 (4.10%) Windows
3 4 (3.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (46.72%) ETL
2 45 (36.89%) Data Pipeline
3 42 (34.43%) Analytics
4 41 (33.61%) Data Modelling
5 38 (31.15%) Data Engineering
6 35 (28.69%) DevOps
7 32 (26.23%) Business Intelligence
8 25 (20.49%) CI/CD
9 18 (14.75%) Agile
10 17 (13.93%) Data Integration
11 14 (11.48%) Data Transformation
12 13 (10.66%) Migration
13 11 (9.02%) Continuous Integration
14 9 (7.38%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (7.38%) Stakeholder Management
15 8 (6.56%) Scrum
16 7 (5.74%) Data Migration
16 7 (5.74%) Dimensional Modelling
16 7 (5.74%) Log Analytics
16 7 (5.74%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 75 (61.48%) SQL
2 58 (47.54%) Python
3 11 (9.02%) T-SQL
4 9 (7.38%) Scala
5 7 (5.74%) C#
6 4 (3.28%) Bicep
6 4 (3.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (2.46%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.64%) Bash
8 2 (1.64%) Java
9 1 (0.82%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (4.10%) SC Cleared
1 5 (4.10%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.46%) Azure Certification
2 3 (2.46%) Degree
3 2 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.56%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.10%) GDPR
3 3 (2.46%) QA
System Software
1 6 (4.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.92%) Terraform
2 2 (1.64%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.82%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 74 (60.66%) Databricks
2 27 (22.13%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.10%) Ab Initio
4 2 (1.64%) Informatica
4 2 (1.64%) Oracle
5 1 (0.82%) Adobe
5 1 (0.82%) Cognos
5 1 (0.82%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.82%) DataRobot
5 1 (0.82%) JD Edwards
5 1 (0.82%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.82%) SAP
5 1 (0.82%) Splunk
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