Azure Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North East

Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > North East

The median Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the North East is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.26% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £543 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -9.58% +9.09% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 North East with a recognized job title 362 270 237
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.52% 89.70% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 144 165
10th Percentile £170 £258 £211
25th Percentile £346 £350 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £465 £435
Median % change year-on-year -5.43% +6.90% -19.44%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £575
90th Percentile £600 £650 £696
England median daily rate £510 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 13
10th Percentile £14.20 £17.25 £15.46
25th Percentile £17.88 £28.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £46.18 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.04% +163.89% -22.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £46.18
90th Percentile £55.00 £47.47 £57.24
England median hourly rate £26.50 £37.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.38% -17.78% +38.46%

Azure Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Azure Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the North East

Azure Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Data Engineer job vacancies in the North East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Data Engineer job vacancies in the North East

Azure Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Tyne and Wear - 1 £625 - 3
Azure Data Engineer
England

Azure Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, Azure Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North East region featuring Azure Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Spark SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation

Azure Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks