Azure Data Engineer Contracts in London

Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > London

The median Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in London is £535, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 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
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 302 358
Rank change year-on-year +1 +56 +130
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 44 93 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.35% 0.53% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.56% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 86 116
10th Percentile £416 £425 £463
25th Percentile £443 £475 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £713 £713 £738
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,636 16,515 25,255
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.38% 93.32% 95.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,972 11,959 18,292
10th Percentile £346 £325 £363
25th Percentile £430 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £681 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 331 285
10th Percentile £20.33 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.02 £22.63
Median hourly rate £34.65 £27.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -22.54% +1.43%
75th Percentile £50.75 £44.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £64.50 £65.00 £79.20
England median hourly rate £30.36 £36.58 £44.53
% change year-on-year -16.99% -17.86% +97.91%

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 8 May 2025.

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 8 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
Central London +6 4 £600 +4.35% 5
West London +12 3 £550 +3.77% 1
Azure Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 London region featuring Azure Data Engineer in the job title.

1 44 (100.00%) Azure
2 26 (59.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 25 (56.82%) Python
4 24 (54.55%) SQL
5 22 (50.00%) Databricks
6 17 (38.64%) Data Engineering
6 17 (38.64%) Data Pipeline
7 16 (36.36%) Analytics
8 15 (34.09%) ETL
8 15 (34.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 14 (31.82%) Social Skills
10 13 (29.55%) Data Lake
11 12 (27.27%) Data Integration
11 12 (27.27%) Security Cleared
12 11 (25.00%) Power Platform
12 11 (25.00%) Power BI
13 10 (22.73%) CI/CD
14 9 (20.45%) AWS
14 9 (20.45%) Machine Learning
14 9 (20.45%) Data Modelling
15 8 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
15 8 (18.18%) Agile
15 8 (18.18%) DevOps
15 8 (18.18%) Visualisation
15 8 (18.18%) Data Ingestion
16 7 (15.91%) Public Sector
16 7 (15.91%) SC Cleared
16 7 (15.91%) Data Quality
17 6 (13.64%) Mentoring
17 6 (13.64%) SQL Server

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 3 (6.82%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.55%) ArcGIS
3 1 (2.27%) Apache
3 1 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.27%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 44 (100.00%) Azure
2 26 (59.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 15 (34.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 11 (25.00%) Power Platform
5 9 (20.45%) AWS
6 6 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (11.36%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (9.09%) dbt
8 4 (9.09%) Snowflake
9 3 (6.82%) Fivetran
9 3 (6.82%) GitHub
9 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (4.55%) Amazon S3
10 2 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (4.55%) Collibra
10 2 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (4.55%) Serverless
11 1 (2.27%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (2.27%) Azure Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (29.55%) Data Lake
2 11 (25.00%) Power BI
3 6 (13.64%) Delta Lake
3 6 (13.64%) SQL Server
4 5 (11.36%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (9.09%) Neo4j
5 4 (9.09%) Relational Database
6 3 (6.82%) Metadata
6 3 (6.82%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.55%) Big Data
7 2 (4.55%) Tableau
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (2.27%) InfluxDB
8 1 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (2.27%) Spark SQL
8 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (2.27%) GitLab
2 1 (2.27%) MLflow
2 1 (2.27%) Poetry
2 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 14 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Public Sector
3 5 (11.36%) Banking
3 5 (11.36%) Finance
4 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Front Office
5 2 (4.55%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.55%) Marketing
6 1 (2.27%) Electronics
6 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Retail
6 1 (2.27%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.36%) PySpark
1 5 (11.36%) React
2 4 (9.09%) Plotly
3 2 (4.55%) .NET
3 2 (4.55%) .NET Core
3 2 (4.55%) .NET Framework
3 2 (4.55%) ASP.NET
3 2 (4.55%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (4.55%) Autofac
3 2 (4.55%) Dapper ORM
3 2 (4.55%) Entity Framework
3 2 (4.55%) Kafka
3 2 (4.55%) pytest
3 2 (4.55%) REST
3 2 (4.55%) StructureMap
3 2 (4.55%) WCF
3 2 (4.55%) Web Services
4 1 (2.27%) ADO
4 1 (2.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.55%) Derivative
1 2 (4.55%) Equities
1 2 (4.55%) Fixed Income
1 2 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (4.55%) N-Tier
2 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.27%) Data Fabric
2 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (38.64%) Data Engineering
1 17 (38.64%) Data Pipeline
2 16 (36.36%) Analytics
3 15 (34.09%) ETL
4 12 (27.27%) Data Integration
5 10 (22.73%) CI/CD
6 9 (20.45%) Data Modelling
6 9 (20.45%) Machine Learning
7 8 (18.18%) Agile
7 8 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (18.18%) Data Ingestion
7 8 (18.18%) DevOps
7 8 (18.18%) Visualisation
8 6 (13.64%) Actionable Insight
8 6 (13.64%) Mentoring
8 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (11.36%) Data Visualisation
10 4 (9.09%) Data Science
10 4 (9.09%) Data Transformation
10 4 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 25 (56.82%) Python
2 24 (54.55%) SQL
3 5 (11.36%) T-SQL
4 4 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.09%) Scala
5 2 (4.55%) C#
6 1 (2.27%) Java
6 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.27%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.91%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.36%) DV Cleared
4 4 (9.09%) Degree
5 2 (4.55%) MCPD
5 2 (4.55%) MCSD
5 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.91%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.27%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) Terraform
2 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.27%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 22 (50.00%) Databricks
2 4 (9.09%) Palantir
3 2 (4.55%) Informatica
3 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.27%) Dataiku
4 1 (2.27%) DataRobot
4 1 (2.27%) SAP