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 £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 June 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
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 357 387
Rank change year-on-year +19 +30 +55
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 16 29 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.14% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.15% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 27 46
10th Percentile £381 £413 £416
25th Percentile £413 £450 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £675
90th Percentile £625 £598 £696
UK median daily rate £491 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -6.43% -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 12,296 19,717 21,485
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.49% 92.47% 94.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,714 11,713 14,887
10th Percentile £218 £213 £228
25th Percentile £363 £363 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 941 2,535 1,097
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.63 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.96 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -1.45% +102.95%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.57
UK median hourly rate £27.40 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.93% -16.67% +80.00%

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 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 17 June 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
South West +34 5 £475 -15.56% 21
Scotland - 5 £400 - 6
South East +35 3 £600 +22.45% 58
Midlands +10 3 £369 -18.06% 40
West Midlands +12 2 £350 -22.22% 22
East Midlands +8 1 £388 -10.14% 18
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 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 UK excluding London region featuring Azure Data Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (81.25%) SQL
3 12 (75.00%) Databricks
4 9 (56.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (56.25%) ETL
5 6 (37.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (37.50%) Data Engineering
6 5 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
7 4 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (25.00%) Data Integration
7 4 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (25.00%) GitHub
7 4 (25.00%) Analytics
7 4 (25.00%) Data Transformation
8 3 (18.75%) DevOps
8 3 (18.75%) Data Lake
8 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
8 3 (18.75%) PySpark
8 3 (18.75%) Kimball Methodology
8 3 (18.75%) Python
8 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
9 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
9 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
9 2 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
9 2 (12.50%) Finance
9 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
9 2 (12.50%) Agile

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 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (56.25%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (37.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (25.00%) GitHub
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
6 1 (6.25%) AWS
6 1 (6.25%) Collibra
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 4 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (18.75%) Data Lake
4 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.25%) Big Data
4 1 (6.25%) HDInsight
4 1 (6.25%) Power BI
4 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) IoT
2 1 (6.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) ETL
2 6 (37.50%) Data Engineering
3 5 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (25.00%) Analytics
4 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 4 (25.00%) Data Transformation
5 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
5 3 (18.75%) DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) Kimball Methodology
6 2 (12.50%) Agile
6 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
7 1 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (6.25%) Data Analytics
7 1 (6.25%) Data Governance
7 1 (6.25%) Data Privacy
7 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
7 1 (6.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Databricks
2 2 (12.50%) Virgin Media
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft