Azure Data Engineer Contracts in London

Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > London

The median Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 298 357 488
Rank change year-on-year +59 +131 -101
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 94 143 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.53% 0.53% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.56% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 120 83
10th Percentile £425 £463 £440
25th Percentile £475 £509 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% +5.77%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £718 £738 £688
England 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
England median hourly rate - - £78.75

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,628 25,761 37,096
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 95.30% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,029 18,663 27,061
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £798 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 289 451
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.06
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +12.27%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%

Azure Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Engineer in London

Azure Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Engineer in London

Azure Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Engineer in London

Azure Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Data Engineer in London

Azure Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 29 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
Central London +31 10 £575 +6.98% 2
West London - 2 £530 - 1
Azure Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 London region featuring Azure Data Engineer in the job title.

1 94 (100.00%) Azure
2 60 (63.83%) Databricks
3 57 (60.64%) Azure Data Factory
4 56 (59.57%) SQL
5 53 (56.38%) Python
6 39 (41.49%) ETL
7 38 (40.43%) Data Lake
8 36 (38.30%) PySpark
8 36 (38.30%) Data Engineering
9 35 (37.23%) Data Pipeline
10 32 (34.04%) DevOps
11 30 (31.91%) Analytics
12 27 (28.72%) Data Modelling
13 26 (27.66%) Finance
13 26 (27.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 25 (26.60%) Social Skills
14 25 (26.60%) CI/CD
15 22 (23.40%) Business Intelligence
16 20 (21.28%) Microsoft
17 19 (20.21%) Agile
17 19 (20.21%) Azure SQL Database
18 17 (18.09%) Power Platform
18 17 (18.09%) Power BI
19 16 (17.02%) Data Warehouse
20 14 (14.89%) Azure DevOps
21 13 (13.83%) Continuous Integration
22 12 (12.77%) Apache Spark
23 11 (11.70%) T-SQL
23 11 (11.70%) SQL Server
24 10 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management

Azure Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 12 (12.77%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.26%) Luigi
3 3 (3.19%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 94 (100.00%) Azure
2 57 (60.64%) Azure Data Factory
3 26 (27.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 17 (18.09%) Power Platform
5 14 (14.89%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (8.51%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (7.45%) Azure Logic Apps
7 7 (7.45%) Serverless
8 6 (6.38%) Azure Functions
9 5 (5.32%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (5.32%) Azure Stack
10 4 (4.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (3.19%) AWS
11 3 (3.19%) Azure Storage
12 2 (2.13%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (2.13%) PaaS
12 2 (2.13%) Snowflake
13 1 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
13 1 (1.06%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (40.43%) Data Lake
2 19 (20.21%) Azure SQL Database
3 17 (18.09%) Power BI
4 16 (17.02%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (11.70%) SQL Server
6 9 (9.57%) Big Data
6 9 (9.57%) Delta Lake
7 7 (7.45%) Spark SQL
8 6 (6.38%) Power Query
9 5 (5.32%) NoSQL
9 5 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (5.32%) Relational Database
10 4 (4.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 4 (4.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (3.19%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (3.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (2.13%) Flink
12 2 (2.13%) Parquet
13 1 (1.06%) HDInsight
Development Applications
1 6 (6.38%) Git
2 4 (4.26%) GitLab
3 2 (2.13%) Deequ
4 1 (1.06%) MLflow
4 1 (1.06%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (27.66%) Finance
2 25 (26.60%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.45%) Banking
4 5 (5.32%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.19%) Marketing
6 2 (2.13%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.13%) Law
7 1 (1.06%) Electronics
7 1 (1.06%) Front Office
7 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Retail
7 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (38.30%) PySpark
2 6 (6.38%) ARM Templates
3 4 (4.26%) Kafka
3 4 (4.26%) Pandas
4 2 (2.13%) Apache Avro
4 2 (2.13%) Great Expectations
4 2 (2.13%) JSON
4 2 (2.13%) JSON Schema
4 2 (2.13%) YAML
5 1 (1.06%) Anaconda
5 1 (1.06%) BentoML
5 1 (1.06%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.06%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.06%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (2.13%) Public Cloud
2 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.06%) Data Fabric
2 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.06%) Housing Association
2 1 (1.06%) Market Risk
2 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.45%) Linux
2 1 (1.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (41.49%) ETL
2 36 (38.30%) Data Engineering
3 35 (37.23%) Data Pipeline
4 32 (34.04%) DevOps
5 30 (31.91%) Analytics
6 27 (28.72%) Data Modelling
7 25 (26.60%) CI/CD
8 22 (23.40%) Business Intelligence
9 19 (20.21%) Agile
10 13 (13.83%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (10.64%) Data Integration
11 10 (10.64%) Data Transformation
11 10 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (9.57%) Migration
13 8 (8.51%) Log Analytics
13 8 (8.51%) SDLC
14 7 (7.45%) Artificial Intelligence
15 6 (6.38%) Kanban
15 6 (6.38%) Performance Monitoring
15 6 (6.38%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 56 (59.57%) SQL
2 53 (56.38%) Python
3 11 (11.70%) T-SQL
4 10 (10.64%) Scala
5 7 (7.45%) C#
6 4 (4.26%) Bicep
6 4 (4.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (3.19%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.13%) Bash
8 2 (2.13%) Java
8 2 (2.13%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (5.32%) SC Cleared
1 5 (5.32%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.19%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.57%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.19%) QA
3 1 (1.06%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (5.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.38%) Terraform
2 1 (1.06%) Kubeflow
2 1 (1.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 60 (63.83%) Databricks
2 20 (21.28%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.13%) Oracle
4 1 (1.06%) Adobe
4 1 (1.06%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.06%) DataRobot
4 1 (1.06%) Informatica
4 1 (1.06%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.06%) SAP
4 1 (1.06%) Splunk