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 £453 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 144 162
Rank change year-on-year +10 +18 -27
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 6 7 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.22% 0.24% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.25% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 9
10th Percentile - - £491
25th Percentile £413 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.81% -8.70% +27.78%
75th Percentile £485 £631 £650
90th Percentile £494 £645 £688
South East median daily rate £463 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -11.90% -4.55% +4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,507 2,770 3,353
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 94.31% 96.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,429 1,919 2,284
10th Percentile £210 £313 £190
25th Percentile £370 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £489
% change year-on-year - +2.16% +8.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 76 103
10th Percentile £15.81 £17.31 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.75 £12.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £46.70 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +166.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £63.09 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £84.48 £79.19 £64.48
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%

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
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 29 April 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
Berkshire -7 5 £480 -8.57%
Buckinghamshire - 1 £425 -
Azure Data Engineer
South East

Azure Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 Thames Valley region featuring Azure Data Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Power Platform
2 5 (83.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 5 (83.33%) Power BI
2 5 (83.33%) Ab Initio
2 5 (83.33%) ETL
2 5 (83.33%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (66.67%) Telecoms
3 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 4 (66.67%) XML
3 4 (66.67%) Unix
3 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 4 (66.67%) Linux
3 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
3 4 (66.67%) Scrum
3 4 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (66.67%) Dimensional Modelling
3 4 (66.67%) Smart Meter
3 4 (66.67%) Performance Improvement
3 4 (66.67%) Analytics
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (66.67%) User Stories
3 4 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (66.67%) ETL Development
3 4 (66.67%) Serverless
3 4 (66.67%) Data Science
3 4 (66.67%) Azure Functions
3 4 (66.67%) GDPR
3 4 (66.67%) Impact Assessments

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 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 5 (83.33%) Power Platform
3 4 (66.67%) Azure Functions
3 4 (66.67%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Power BI
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 4 (66.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Product Ownership
1 4 (66.67%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Unix
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) ETL
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 4 (66.67%) Data Science
2 4 (66.67%) Dimensional Modelling
2 4 (66.67%) ETL Development
2 4 (66.67%) Impact Assessments
2 4 (66.67%) Performance Improvement
2 4 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (66.67%) Scrum
2 4 (66.67%) User Stories
3 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) CRM
4 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Ab Initio
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft