Azure Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in Tyne and Wear is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.30% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £625 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Tyne and Wear

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. 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 Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 325 188 172
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.15% 87.44% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 110 117
10th Percentile £163 £211 £195
25th Percentile £339 £335 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £524 £575 £580
90th Percentile £581 £650 £720
North East median daily rate £448 £470 £445
% change year-on-year -4.79% +5.62% -17.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 6
10th Percentile £14.05 £15.23 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £16.05 £15.69
Median hourly rate £36.00 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% +14.29% +40.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £31.31 £49.69
90th Percentile £54.50 £41.78 £60.00
North East median hourly rate £36.00 £46.18 £17.50
% change year-on-year -22.04% +163.89% -22.22%

Azure Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Azure Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Azure Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Data Engineer job vacancies in Tyne and Wear.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Data Engineer job vacancies in Tyne and Wear

Azure Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 17 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 £625 - 3
Azure Data Engineer
North East

Azure Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear

For the 6 months to 17 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 Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear 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