Azure Data Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure
Central London > City of London

The median Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the City of London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 118 163
Rank change year-on-year +3 +45 +21
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 4 9 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.41% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.43% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 13
10th Percentile £455 £483 £471
25th Percentile £500 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +6.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £669 £649 £663
90th Percentile £695 £711 £738
Central London median daily rate £600 £575 £538
% change year-on-year +4.35% +6.98% -4.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,632 2,086 3,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 94.95% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,483 2,364
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%

Azure Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Engineer in the City of London

Azure Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Engineer in the City of London

Azure Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Engineer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 City of London region featuring Azure Data Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Data Ingestion
2 3 (75.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (75.00%) Databricks
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Informatica
3 2 (50.00%) Banking
3 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Scala
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (50.00%) Metadata
3 2 (50.00%) Collibra
3 2 (50.00%) Delta Lake
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (25.00%) PySpark
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (25.00%) Power BI
4 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (25.00%) Database Security

Azure Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (50.00%) Collibra
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (50.00%) Delta Lake
2 2 (50.00%) Metadata
3 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Ingestion
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Database Security
3 1 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Databricks
2 2 (50.00%) Informatica