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 7 May 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 348 493
Rank change year-on-year +46 +145 -100
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 93 136 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.53% 0.52% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.54% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 115 87
10th Percentile £425 £463 £445
25th Percentile £475 £511 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £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 16,398 25,035 36,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 95.25% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,880 18,137 26,928
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £683
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 282 444
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.25 £35.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.78% +2.14% +8.63%
75th Percentile £44.75 £62.64 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £79.80 £67.94
England median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +100.00% +2.27%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +33 8 £575 +4.55% 4
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 7 May 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 93 (100.00%) Azure
2 61 (65.59%) Databricks
3 57 (61.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 57 (61.29%) SQL
4 53 (56.99%) Python
5 39 (41.94%) ETL
6 38 (40.86%) Data Lake
7 37 (39.78%) PySpark
7 37 (39.78%) Data Pipeline
8 36 (38.71%) Data Engineering
9 32 (34.41%) DevOps
10 31 (33.33%) Analytics
11 27 (29.03%) Data Modelling
11 27 (29.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 25 (26.88%) Social Skills
13 24 (25.81%) CI/CD
13 24 (25.81%) Finance
14 21 (22.58%) Agile
14 21 (22.58%) Azure SQL Database
15 18 (19.35%) Microsoft
15 18 (19.35%) Business Intelligence
16 17 (18.28%) Data Warehouse
17 15 (16.13%) Continuous Integration
17 15 (16.13%) Power Platform
17 15 (16.13%) Power BI
18 14 (15.05%) Azure DevOps
18 14 (15.05%) Apache Spark
19 11 (11.83%) Data Quality
19 11 (11.83%) Scala
19 11 (11.83%) Migration

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 14 (15.05%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.38%) Apache
3 4 (4.30%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 93 (100.00%) Azure
2 57 (61.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 27 (29.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 15 (16.13%) Power Platform
5 14 (15.05%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (8.60%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (7.53%) Azure Logic Apps
7 7 (7.53%) Serverless
8 6 (6.45%) Azure Functions
9 5 (5.38%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (5.38%) Azure Stack
10 4 (4.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (3.23%) AWS
11 3 (3.23%) Azure Storage
12 2 (2.15%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (2.15%) PaaS
12 2 (2.15%) Snowflake
13 1 (1.08%) Azure Event Grid
13 1 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (40.86%) Data Lake
2 21 (22.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 17 (18.28%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (16.13%) Power BI
5 11 (11.83%) SQL Server
6 9 (9.68%) Big Data
7 8 (8.60%) Delta Lake
7 8 (8.60%) NoSQL
8 7 (7.53%) Spark SQL
9 6 (6.45%) Power Query
10 5 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (4.30%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 4 (4.30%) Parquet
11 4 (4.30%) Relational Database
11 4 (4.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (3.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 2 (2.15%) Flink
13 2 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 1 (1.08%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 6 (6.45%) Git
2 4 (4.30%) GitLab
3 2 (2.15%) Deequ
4 1 (1.08%) MLflow
4 1 (1.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (26.88%) Social Skills
2 24 (25.81%) Finance
3 7 (7.53%) Banking
4 4 (4.30%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.15%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.15%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.15%) Law
5 2 (2.15%) Marketing
6 1 (1.08%) Front Office
6 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.08%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (39.78%) PySpark
2 6 (6.45%) ARM Templates
3 5 (5.38%) Kafka
4 4 (4.30%) Apache Avro
4 4 (4.30%) Pandas
5 2 (2.15%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.15%) JSON
5 2 (2.15%) JSON Schema
5 2 (2.15%) YAML
6 1 (1.08%) Anaconda
6 1 (1.08%) BentoML
6 1 (1.08%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.08%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.08%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (2.15%) Public Cloud
2 1 (1.08%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.08%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.08%) Data Fabric
2 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.08%) Housing Association
2 1 (1.08%) Market Risk
2 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.53%) Linux
2 1 (1.08%) Unix
2 1 (1.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (41.94%) ETL
2 37 (39.78%) Data Pipeline
3 36 (38.71%) Data Engineering
4 32 (34.41%) DevOps
5 31 (33.33%) Analytics
6 27 (29.03%) Data Modelling
7 24 (25.81%) CI/CD
8 21 (22.58%) Agile
9 18 (19.35%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (16.13%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (11.83%) Migration
12 10 (10.75%) Data Integration
12 10 (10.75%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (9.68%) Data Transformation
14 8 (8.60%) Log Analytics
14 8 (8.60%) SDLC
15 7 (7.53%) Artificial Intelligence
15 7 (7.53%) Data Migration
15 7 (7.53%) Problem-Solving
15 7 (7.53%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 57 (61.29%) SQL
2 53 (56.99%) Python
3 11 (11.83%) Scala
3 11 (11.83%) T-SQL
4 6 (6.45%) C#
5 4 (4.30%) Bicep
5 4 (4.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.23%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.15%) Bash
7 2 (2.15%) Java
8 1 (1.08%) R
8 1 (1.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (5.38%) SC Cleared
1 5 (5.38%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.23%) Azure Certification
2 3 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.23%) Degree
3 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.83%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.23%) QA
3 1 (1.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (5.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.45%) Terraform
2 2 (2.15%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.08%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 61 (65.59%) Databricks
2 18 (19.35%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.15%) Informatica
3 2 (2.15%) Oracle
4 1 (1.08%) Adobe
4 1 (1.08%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.08%) DataRobot
4 1 (1.08%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.08%) Splunk