Azure Data Engineer Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure
South East > Thames Valley

The median Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the Thames Valley 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 99 139 144
Rank change year-on-year +40 +5 +13
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 3 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.20% 0.22% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.24% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £515 - -
25th Percentile £538 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £453 £525
Median % change year-on-year +32.60% -13.81% -8.70%
75th Percentile £663 £485 £631
90th Percentile £685 £494 £645
South East median daily rate £500 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% -4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,405 2,505 2,767
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 93.26% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 1,430 1,916
10th Percentile £300 £206 £313
25th Percentile £409 £370 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 189 76
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.78 £17.31
25th Percentile £16.94 £19.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £45.65 £45.00 £46.70
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -3.64% +166.86%
75th Percentile £65.62 £62.50 £66.21
90th Percentile £77.47 £84.57 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Azure Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Engineer in the Thames Valley

Azure Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Data Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Engineer in the Thames Valley

Azure Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Engineer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Engineer in the Thames Valley

Azure Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +29 3 £600 +25.00%
Azure Data Engineer
South East

Azure Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region featuring Azure Data Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks
2 2 (66.67%) Virgin Media
2 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Big Data
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (33.33%) PySpark
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
3 1 (33.33%) Collibra
3 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership

Azure Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Collibra
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Virgin Media