Azure Data Engineer Contracts

Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 459 486 576
Rank change year-on-year +27 +90 -91
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 139 240 283
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.40% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.42% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 196 201
10th Percentile £415 £450 £425
25th Percentile £463 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £588 £655 £636
90th Percentile £655 £725 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Azure Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Engineer in the UK

Azure Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Engineer in the UK

Azure Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Engineer in the UK

Azure Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Data Engineer in the UK

Azure Data Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +46 122 £525 -4.55% 21
London +47 91 £525 -6.67% 16
Work from Home +67 66 £500 -9.09% 10
UK excluding London +33 26 £490 -10.91% 6
North of England +31 10 £500 -23.08% 1
South East +17 7 £463 -11.90%
Yorkshire +23 6 £500 -27.80%
Midlands +17 5 £481 -12.50% 1
South West +14 4 £563 +2.27% 3
North West +11 4 £463 -28.85% 1
East Midlands +18 3 £463 -
West Midlands +25 2 £500 -20.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 featuring Azure Data Engineer in the job title.

1 139 (100.00%) Azure
2 86 (61.87%) Azure Data Factory
3 85 (61.15%) SQL
4 84 (60.43%) Databricks
5 68 (48.92%) Python
6 61 (43.88%) ETL
7 55 (39.57%) Data Lake
8 49 (35.25%) Analytics
9 48 (34.53%) Data Pipeline
10 44 (31.65%) Data Modelling
11 43 (30.94%) Data Engineering
12 42 (30.22%) PySpark
13 40 (28.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 40 (28.78%) DevOps
14 37 (26.62%) Business Intelligence
15 34 (24.46%) Power BI
15 34 (24.46%) Power Platform
16 33 (23.74%) Finance
17 29 (20.86%) Microsoft
18 26 (18.71%) Data Warehouse
18 26 (18.71%) Azure SQL Database
18 26 (18.71%) CI/CD
19 25 (17.99%) Social Skills
20 24 (17.27%) Agile
21 21 (15.11%) Azure DevOps
22 17 (12.23%) Data Integration
23 15 (10.79%) Apache Spark
24 14 (10.07%) Data Transformation
24 14 (10.07%) Big Data
24 14 (10.07%) Migration

Azure Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (10.79%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.88%) Apache
2 4 (2.88%) Luigi
3 3 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 139 (100.00%) Azure
2 86 (61.87%) Azure Data Factory
3 40 (28.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 34 (24.46%) Power Platform
5 21 (15.11%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (8.63%) Serverless
7 10 (7.19%) Azure Functions
8 8 (5.76%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (4.32%) AWS
9 6 (4.32%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (4.32%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (4.32%) Azure Stack
10 5 (3.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (3.60%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.88%) Azure Storage
11 4 (2.88%) dbt
12 3 (2.16%) GCP
13 2 (1.44%) Amazon Kinesis
13 2 (1.44%) AWS Step Functions
13 2 (1.44%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (39.57%) Data Lake
2 34 (24.46%) Power BI
3 26 (18.71%) Azure SQL Database
3 26 (18.71%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (10.07%) Big Data
4 14 (10.07%) SQL Server
5 11 (7.91%) Delta Lake
6 10 (7.19%) Spark SQL
7 7 (5.04%) Power Query
7 7 (5.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (3.60%) NoSQL
9 5 (3.60%) Relational Database
9 5 (3.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.88%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 3 (2.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.16%) Flink
11 3 (2.16%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (5.04%) Git
2 4 (2.88%) GitLab
3 2 (1.44%) MLflow
4 1 (0.72%) Deequ
4 1 (0.72%) JIRA
4 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (23.74%) Finance
2 25 (17.99%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.47%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.76%) Banking
5 6 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.60%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.16%) Marketing
8 2 (1.44%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.44%) Law
9 1 (0.72%) Electronics
9 1 (0.72%) Front Office
9 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (30.22%) PySpark
2 5 (3.60%) ARM Templates
2 5 (3.60%) Kafka
3 4 (2.88%) Pandas
3 4 (2.88%) XML
4 2 (1.44%) YAML
5 1 (0.72%) .NET
5 1 (0.72%) Anaconda
5 1 (0.72%) Apache Avro
5 1 (0.72%) BentoML
5 1 (0.72%) Great Expectations
5 1 (0.72%) JSON
5 1 (0.72%) JSON Schema
5 1 (0.72%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (0.72%) pytest
5 1 (0.72%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.72%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.72%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.88%) Product Ownership
1 4 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
1 4 (2.88%) Smart Meter
2 2 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (0.72%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.72%) Data Centre
3 1 (0.72%) Data Fabric
3 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.72%) Housing Association
3 1 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (0.72%) Market Risk
3 1 (0.72%) NHS
3 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
3 1 (0.72%) Public Cloud
3 1 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.91%) Linux
2 5 (3.60%) Windows
3 4 (2.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (43.88%) ETL
2 49 (35.25%) Analytics
3 48 (34.53%) Data Pipeline
4 44 (31.65%) Data Modelling
5 43 (30.94%) Data Engineering
6 40 (28.78%) DevOps
7 37 (26.62%) Business Intelligence
8 26 (18.71%) CI/CD
9 24 (17.27%) Agile
10 17 (12.23%) Data Integration
11 14 (10.07%) Data Transformation
11 14 (10.07%) Migration
12 12 (8.63%) Continuous Integration
13 11 (7.91%) Scrum
14 10 (7.19%) Problem-Solving
15 9 (6.47%) Stakeholder Management
16 8 (5.76%) Data Governance
16 8 (5.76%) Log Analytics
16 8 (5.76%) Visualisation
17 7 (5.04%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 85 (61.15%) SQL
2 68 (48.92%) Python
3 11 (7.91%) Scala
3 11 (7.91%) T-SQL
4 7 (5.04%) C#
5 5 (3.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (2.88%) Bicep
6 4 (2.88%) R
7 3 (2.16%) Java
7 3 (2.16%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.44%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (5.04%) SC Cleared
1 7 (5.04%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.88%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.16%) Degree
4 2 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.76%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.60%) GDPR
3 3 (2.16%) QA
System Software
1 6 (4.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.04%) Terraform
2 4 (2.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.72%) Grafana
3 1 (0.72%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 84 (60.43%) Databricks
2 29 (20.86%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.60%) Ab Initio
4 2 (1.44%) Bloomberg
4 2 (1.44%) Informatica
4 2 (1.44%) Oracle
4 2 (1.44%) Splunk
5 1 (0.72%) Adobe
5 1 (0.72%) Cognos
5 1 (0.72%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.72%) DataRobot
5 1 (0.72%) JD Edwards
5 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.72%) SAP