Azure Data Engineer Contracts

Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 442 458 481
Rank change year-on-year +16 +23 +95
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 77 142 235
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.33% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.35% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 120 192
10th Percentile £413 £415 £450
25th Percentile £449 £463 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £650
90th Percentile £675 £653 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £550
% change year-on-year +2.04% -10.91% +4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

Azure Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Engineer in the UK

Azure Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Data Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Engineer in the UK

Azure Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Engineer over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Engineer in the UK

Azure Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Data Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Data Engineer in the UK

Azure Data Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England -1 61 £500 -4.76% 12
London -17 41 £520 -0.95% 9
Work from Home +13 29 £475 -5.00% 14
UK excluding London +50 22 £500 +2.04% 3
South West +47 6 £475 -15.56%
Scotland - 6 £400 - 1
South East +41 5 £500 +8.11%
Midlands +22 3 £650 +35.06% 1
West Midlands +16 2 £650 +30.00% 1
North of England +19 1 - - 1
Yorkshire +10 1 - -
East Midlands +8 1 £388 -16.22%
Wales - 1 £550 -

Azure Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 featuring Azure Data Engineer in the job title.

1 77 (100.00%) Azure
2 50 (64.94%) SQL
3 45 (58.44%) Databricks
4 41 (53.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 35 (45.45%) Python
6 30 (38.96%) ETL
7 27 (35.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 26 (33.77%) Data Engineering
8 26 (33.77%) Analytics
9 20 (25.97%) Security Cleared
9 20 (25.97%) Data Pipeline
10 19 (24.68%) Data Modelling
11 17 (22.08%) Data Lake
12 16 (20.78%) Data Integration
13 15 (19.48%) Data Transformation
13 15 (19.48%) PySpark
13 15 (19.48%) Social Skills
13 15 (19.48%) Power Platform
13 15 (19.48%) CI/CD
14 14 (18.18%) DevOps
14 14 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
15 13 (16.88%) SQL Server
15 13 (16.88%) SC Cleared
15 13 (16.88%) Power BI
16 11 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
16 11 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
17 10 (12.99%) AWS
17 10 (12.99%) Data Warehouse
17 10 (12.99%) Agile
17 10 (12.99%) Data Science

Azure Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.49%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.60%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.30%) Apache
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.30%) Drupal
3 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 77 (100.00%) Azure
2 41 (53.25%) Azure Data Factory
3 27 (35.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 15 (19.48%) Power Platform
5 10 (12.99%) AWS
6 9 (11.69%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (10.39%) GitHub
8 6 (7.79%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (6.49%) Snowflake
10 4 (5.19%) dbt
11 3 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (3.90%) Collibra
11 3 (3.90%) Fivetran
11 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (3.90%) Serverless
12 2 (2.60%) Azure API Management
12 2 (2.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (2.60%) Azure Functions
12 2 (2.60%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (22.08%) Data Lake
2 13 (16.88%) Power BI
2 13 (16.88%) SQL Server
3 11 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (12.99%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (7.79%) Big Data
5 6 (7.79%) Delta Lake
6 5 (6.49%) Relational Database
7 4 (5.19%) Neo4j
8 3 (3.90%) Metadata
8 3 (3.90%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.60%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.60%) Parquet
9 2 (2.60%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (2.60%) Tableau
10 1 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (1.30%) InfluxDB
10 1 (1.30%) Spark SQL
10 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Git
2 1 (1.30%) GitLab
2 1 (1.30%) Poetry
2 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (19.48%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.99%) Public Sector
3 8 (10.39%) Finance
4 5 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.49%) Banking
5 3 (3.90%) Marketing
5 3 (3.90%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.60%) Electronics
6 2 (2.60%) Front Office
6 2 (2.60%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.60%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Retail
7 1 (1.30%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (19.48%) PySpark
2 6 (7.79%) JSON
3 5 (6.49%) React
4 4 (5.19%) Plotly
5 2 (2.60%) .NET
5 2 (2.60%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.60%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.60%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.60%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (2.60%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (2.60%) Autofac
5 2 (2.60%) Dapper ORM
5 2 (2.60%) Entity Framework
5 2 (2.60%) Kafka
5 2 (2.60%) pytest
5 2 (2.60%) REST
5 2 (2.60%) StructureMap
5 2 (2.60%) WCF
5 2 (2.60%) Web Services
6 1 (1.30%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.60%) Derivative
2 2 (2.60%) Equities
2 2 (2.60%) Fixed Income
2 2 (2.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (2.60%) N-Tier
2 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (38.96%) ETL
2 26 (33.77%) Analytics
2 26 (33.77%) Data Engineering
3 20 (25.97%) Data Pipeline
4 19 (24.68%) Data Modelling
5 16 (20.78%) Data Integration
6 15 (19.48%) CI/CD
6 15 (19.48%) Data Transformation
7 14 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (18.18%) DevOps
8 11 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
9 10 (12.99%) Agile
9 10 (12.99%) Data Science
10 9 (11.69%) Machine Learning
11 8 (10.39%) Visualisation
12 6 (7.79%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (6.49%) Actionable Insight
13 5 (6.49%) Data Visualisation
13 5 (6.49%) Dimensional Modelling
13 5 (6.49%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 50 (64.94%) SQL
2 35 (45.45%) Python
3 5 (6.49%) C#
3 5 (6.49%) T-SQL
4 4 (5.19%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.19%) Scala
5 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.60%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.30%) Java
7 1 (1.30%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (25.97%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.88%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.79%) Degree
4 5 (6.49%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.60%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.60%) MCPD
5 2 (2.60%) MCSD
5 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.30%) GDPR
2 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (2.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (10.39%) Terraform
2 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 45 (58.44%) Databricks
2 6 (7.79%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.90%) Palantir
4 2 (2.60%) Informatica
4 2 (2.60%) SAP
4 2 (2.60%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle