Azure Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 326 371
Rank change year-on-year -60 +45 +74
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 18 33 29
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.22% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.24% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 26 25
10th Percentile £380 £463 £405
25th Percentile £419 £481 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £563 £612 £575
90th Percentile £608 £625 £678
UK median daily rate £519 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -9.78% +9.52% -4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 16,195 13,842 18,500
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.11% 92.34% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,966 8,237 12,087
10th Percentile £210 £213 £213
25th Percentile £365 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £675 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,629 822 1,207
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.36 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.26 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.67 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.77 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £34.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -25.74% -24.02% +46.72%

Azure Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Azure Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Azure Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Data Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Data Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Azure Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
Midlands -38 9 £500 -18.30% 3
West Midlands -29 8 £475 -22.39% 3
North of England -37 7 £500 -2.44% 3
North West - 5 £500 -
South East -10 2 £600 +21.52% 10
East Midlands -17 1 £600 +49.81%
Yorkshire -42 1 £425 -17.07%
North East - 1 £625 - 3
Azure Data Engineer
UK

Azure Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 15 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 UK excluding London region featuring Azure Data Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (83.33%) SQL
3 13 (72.22%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (61.11%) Python
5 9 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (44.44%) Data Engineering
6 8 (44.44%) Databricks
6 8 (44.44%) DevOps
7 7 (38.89%) Analytics
7 7 (38.89%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (38.89%) Data Quality
7 7 (38.89%) ETL
7 7 (38.89%) Snowflake
8 6 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
9 5 (27.78%) Data Lake
10 4 (22.22%) Agile
10 4 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (22.22%) Git
10 4 (22.22%) Power BI
10 4 (22.22%) Power Platform
10 4 (22.22%) PySpark
10 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
11 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (16.67%) Data Architecture
11 3 (16.67%) Data Governance
11 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
11 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
11 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared

Azure Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Synapse
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (72.22%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (38.89%) Snowflake
4 6 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (22.22%) Power Platform
6 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (5.56%) AWS
8 1 (5.56%) Azure Stack
8 1 (5.56%) GCP
8 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Data Lake
2 4 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (22.22%) Power BI
3 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (11.11%) Delta Lake
4 2 (11.11%) Metadata
4 2 (11.11%) Spark SQL
5 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.56%) Big Data
5 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
5 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) PySpark
2 1 (5.56%) Kafka
2 1 (5.56%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (44.44%) Data Engineering
2 8 (44.44%) DevOps
3 7 (38.89%) Analytics
3 7 (38.89%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (38.89%) ETL
4 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
5 4 (22.22%) Agile
5 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
6 3 (16.67%) Data Architecture
6 3 (16.67%) Data Governance
6 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
7 2 (11.11%) Business Transformation
7 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (11.11%) Data Integration
7 2 (11.11%) Data Transformation
7 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (11.11%) Scrum
7 2 (11.11%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) SQL
2 11 (61.11%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) Bicep
3 1 (5.56%) C#
3 1 (5.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.56%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (38.89%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Databricks
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Virgin Media
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) RedGate