Azure Data Engineer Contracts in England

Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The median Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in England is £500, 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 422 415 454
Rank change year-on-year -7 +39 +132
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 63 127 202
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.34% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.37% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 113 172
10th Percentile £414 £417 £450
25th Percentile £450 £463 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £588 £655
90th Percentile £695 £650 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 -14 43 £535 +1.90% 12
South West +47 6 £475 -16.48%
South East +44 5 £500 +8.11% 3
Midlands +20 3 £650 +35.06% 1
West Midlands +14 2 £650 +30.00% 1
North of England +10 1 - - 1
East Midlands +8 1 £388 -16.22%
Yorkshire +3 1 - -
Azure Data Engineer
UK

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

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 England region featuring Azure Data Engineer in the job title.

1 63 (100.00%) Azure
2 38 (60.32%) Databricks
2 38 (60.32%) Azure Data Factory
2 38 (60.32%) SQL
3 33 (52.38%) Python
4 23 (36.51%) Data Engineering
5 22 (34.92%) ETL
5 22 (34.92%) Analytics
6 21 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
7 17 (26.98%) Data Integration
8 16 (25.40%) Data Lake
8 16 (25.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 15 (23.81%) Security Cleared
10 14 (22.22%) Power Platform
10 14 (22.22%) Social Skills
11 13 (20.63%) DevOps
11 13 (20.63%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (20.63%) SQL Server
12 12 (19.05%) Data Modelling
12 12 (19.05%) Power BI
13 11 (17.46%) CI/CD
14 10 (15.87%) Public Sector
14 10 (15.87%) PySpark
14 10 (15.87%) Agile
14 10 (15.87%) AWS
14 10 (15.87%) Azure SQL Database
15 9 (14.29%) SC Cleared
15 9 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
16 8 (12.70%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (12.70%) Visualisation

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 4 (6.35%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.17%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.59%) Apache
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 63 (100.00%) Azure
2 38 (60.32%) Azure Data Factory
3 16 (25.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 14 (22.22%) Power Platform
5 10 (15.87%) AWS
6 8 (12.70%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (7.94%) Azure Machine Learning
7 5 (7.94%) Snowflake
8 4 (6.35%) dbt
8 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (4.76%) Collibra
9 3 (4.76%) Fivetran
9 3 (4.76%) GitHub
10 2 (3.17%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (3.17%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (3.17%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.17%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.40%) Data Lake
2 13 (20.63%) SQL Server
3 12 (19.05%) Power BI
4 10 (15.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (12.70%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (9.52%) Delta Lake
7 5 (7.94%) Big Data
7 5 (7.94%) Relational Database
8 4 (6.35%) Neo4j
9 3 (4.76%) Metadata
9 3 (4.76%) NoSQL
10 2 (3.17%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (3.17%) Tableau
11 1 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (1.59%) InfluxDB
11 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
11 1 (1.59%) Parquet
11 1 (1.59%) Spark SQL
11 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Git
2 1 (1.59%) GitLab
2 1 (1.59%) Poetry
2 1 (1.59%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 14 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.87%) Public Sector
3 8 (12.70%) Finance
4 5 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.94%) Banking
5 3 (4.76%) Marketing
5 3 (4.76%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.17%) Electronics
6 2 (3.17%) Front Office
6 2 (3.17%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Retail
7 1 (1.59%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.87%) PySpark
2 5 (7.94%) React
3 4 (6.35%) Plotly
4 2 (3.17%) .NET
4 2 (3.17%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.17%) .NET Framework
4 2 (3.17%) ASP.NET
4 2 (3.17%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (3.17%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (3.17%) Autofac
4 2 (3.17%) Dapper ORM
4 2 (3.17%) Entity Framework
4 2 (3.17%) JSON
4 2 (3.17%) Kafka
4 2 (3.17%) pytest
4 2 (3.17%) REST
4 2 (3.17%) StructureMap
4 2 (3.17%) WCF
4 2 (3.17%) Web Services
5 1 (1.59%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (3.17%) Derivative
2 2 (3.17%) Equities
2 2 (3.17%) Fixed Income
2 2 (3.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.17%) N-Tier
2 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (36.51%) Data Engineering
2 22 (34.92%) Analytics
2 22 (34.92%) ETL
3 21 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 17 (26.98%) Data Integration
5 13 (20.63%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (20.63%) DevOps
6 12 (19.05%) Data Modelling
7 11 (17.46%) CI/CD
8 10 (15.87%) Agile
9 9 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
10 8 (12.70%) Machine Learning
10 8 (12.70%) Visualisation
11 7 (11.11%) Data Science
11 7 (11.11%) Data Transformation
12 6 (9.52%) Actionable Insight
12 6 (9.52%) Mentoring
12 6 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (7.94%) Data Visualisation
14 4 (6.35%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 38 (60.32%) SQL
2 33 (52.38%) Python
3 5 (7.94%) C#
3 5 (7.94%) T-SQL
4 4 (6.35%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.35%) Scala
5 2 (3.17%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.59%) Java
6 1 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.59%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.52%) Degree
3 6 (9.52%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.17%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.17%) MCPD
4 2 (3.17%) MCSD
4 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.70%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.59%) GDPR
3 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (11.11%) Terraform
2 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 38 (60.32%) Databricks
2 6 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.35%) Palantir
4 2 (3.17%) Informatica
4 2 (3.17%) SAP
4 2 (3.17%) Virgin Media