Azure Data Engineer Contracts 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 17 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 378 425
Rank change year-on-year +6 +47 -17
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 29 52 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.23% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.24% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 45 68
10th Percentile £413 £421 £429
25th Percentile £450 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +13.68%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £688
90th Percentile £598 £697 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%

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 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Azure Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Engineer 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 17 June 2024.

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 17 June 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
North of England +13 11 £500 -23.08% 2
South East +14 10 £490 -6.67% 3
Yorkshire +15 6 £500 -28.57%
North West +11 5 £500 -23.08% 2
South West -5 5 £563 +2.27% 2
Midlands +9 3 £450 -25.00% 1
East Midlands +6 2 £431 -6.76%
West Midlands +11 1 £450 -30.77% 1
Azure Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 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 UK excluding London region featuring Azure Data Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) Azure
2 22 (75.86%) Azure Data Factory
2 22 (75.86%) SQL
3 17 (58.62%) Data Modelling
4 15 (51.72%) ETL
4 15 (51.72%) Databricks
5 13 (44.83%) Data Pipeline
5 13 (44.83%) Analytics
6 12 (41.38%) Power BI
6 12 (41.38%) Power Platform
7 11 (37.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 11 (37.93%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (37.93%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (34.48%) Data Lake
9 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
10 7 (24.14%) Python
10 7 (24.14%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (20.69%) Performance Optimisation
11 6 (20.69%) Data Integration
11 6 (20.69%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (20.69%) Data Security
12 5 (17.24%) Ab Initio
12 5 (17.24%) SQL Server
12 5 (17.24%) DevOps
12 5 (17.24%) Data Engineering
13 4 (13.79%) GDPR
13 4 (13.79%) Serverless
13 4 (13.79%) Data Science
13 4 (13.79%) Decision-Making

Azure Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 29 (100.00%) Azure
2 22 (75.86%) Azure Data Factory
3 12 (41.38%) Power Platform
4 11 (37.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (13.79%) Azure Functions
5 4 (13.79%) Serverless
6 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.45%) dbt
7 1 (3.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (41.38%) Power BI
2 11 (37.93%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (34.48%) Data Lake
4 6 (20.69%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (17.24%) SQL Server
6 4 (13.79%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
7 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (6.90%) Tableau
8 1 (3.45%) Delta Lake
8 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
8 1 (3.45%) OLAP
8 1 (3.45%) OLAP Cube
8 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
1 4 (13.79%) Telecoms
2 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Finance
3 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) XML
2 3 (10.34%) PySpark
3 1 (3.45%) .NET
3 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.45%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.45%) Entity Framework
3 1 (3.45%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Product Ownership
1 4 (13.79%) Self-Motivation
1 4 (13.79%) Smart Meter
2 3 (10.34%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Linux
1 4 (13.79%) Unix
1 4 (13.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) Data Modelling
2 15 (51.72%) ETL
3 13 (44.83%) Analytics
3 13 (44.83%) Data Pipeline
4 11 (37.93%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (24.14%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (20.69%) Data Integration
7 6 (20.69%) Data Security
7 6 (20.69%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (17.24%) Data Engineering
8 5 (17.24%) DevOps
9 4 (13.79%) Capacity Planning
9 4 (13.79%) Data Science
9 4 (13.79%) Data Visualisation
9 4 (13.79%) Dimensional Modelling
9 4 (13.79%) ETL Development
9 4 (13.79%) Performance Improvement
9 4 (13.79%) User Stories
9 4 (13.79%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (75.86%) SQL
2 7 (24.14%) Python
3 1 (3.45%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (51.72%) Databricks
2 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
3 5 (17.24%) Ab Initio
4 1 (3.45%) Informatica
4 1 (3.45%) New Relic