Azure Data Engineer Contracts in England

Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The median Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
28 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 415 459 558
Rank change year-on-year +44 +99 -57
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 126 188 213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.39% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.42% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 161 168
10th Percentile £425 £450 £432
25th Percentile £463 £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £653
90th Percentile £650 £725 £741
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
UK median hourly rate - - £78.75
% change year-on-year - - +85.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,037 45,024 67,773
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.58% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,551 32,010 48,394
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.79% +7.05%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,522 1,314 1,828
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.74
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.31
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +93.05% +8.42%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.01 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +87.50% +6.90%

Azure Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Engineer in England

Azure Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Engineer in England

Azure Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Engineer in England

Azure Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Data Engineer in England

Azure Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
London +47 92 £550 -4.35% 22
North of England +24 11 £500 -23.08% 3
South East +10 7 £463 -11.90% 1
Yorkshire +16 6 £500 -28.57%
South West 0 6 £563 +2.27% 3
North West +19 5 £500 -23.08% 3
Midlands +15 3 £463 -22.92% 5
East Midlands +13 2 £431 -6.76% 2
West Midlands +2 1 £500 -23.08% 3
Azure Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 England region featuring Azure Data Engineer in the job title.

1 126 (100.00%) Azure
2 79 (62.70%) SQL
3 76 (60.32%) Databricks
3 76 (60.32%) Azure Data Factory
4 63 (50.00%) Python
5 56 (44.44%) ETL
6 51 (40.48%) Data Lake
6 51 (40.48%) Data Pipeline
7 44 (34.92%) PySpark
7 44 (34.92%) Analytics
8 42 (33.33%) Data Modelling
9 41 (32.54%) Data Engineering
10 37 (29.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 35 (27.78%) DevOps
12 32 (25.40%) Azure SQL Database
13 27 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
14 26 (20.63%) Finance
14 26 (20.63%) CI/CD
15 25 (19.84%) Social Skills
15 25 (19.84%) Power Platform
15 25 (19.84%) Power BI
15 25 (19.84%) Data Warehouse
16 23 (18.25%) Microsoft
17 20 (15.87%) Agile
18 16 (12.70%) SQL Server
18 16 (12.70%) Data Integration
19 15 (11.90%) Continuous Integration
19 15 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
19 15 (11.90%) Apache Spark
20 14 (11.11%) Migration

Azure Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 15 (11.90%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.76%) Apache
3 4 (3.17%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 126 (100.00%) Azure
2 76 (60.32%) Azure Data Factory
3 37 (29.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 25 (19.84%) Power Platform
5 15 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (7.94%) Serverless
7 9 (7.14%) Azure Functions
7 9 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (6.35%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (3.97%) Azure Stack
11 4 (3.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (2.38%) AWS
12 3 (2.38%) Azure Storage
13 2 (1.59%) Amazon Kinesis
13 2 (1.59%) Azure Event Grid
13 2 (1.59%) Azure Service Bus
13 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
13 2 (1.59%) PaaS
13 2 (1.59%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (40.48%) Data Lake
2 32 (25.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 25 (19.84%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (19.84%) Power BI
4 16 (12.70%) SQL Server
5 12 (9.52%) NoSQL
6 9 (7.14%) Big Data
7 7 (5.56%) Delta Lake
8 6 (4.76%) Spark SQL
9 5 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (3.97%) Power Query
9 5 (3.97%) Relational Database
9 5 (3.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (3.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (3.17%) Parquet
10 4 (3.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (2.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 2 (1.59%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 6 (4.76%) Git
2 4 (3.17%) GitLab
3 2 (1.59%) Deequ
4 1 (0.79%) JIRA
4 1 (0.79%) MLflow
4 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (20.63%) Finance
2 25 (19.84%) Social Skills
3 7 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.56%) Banking
4 6 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.17%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.38%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.59%) Marketing
8 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.79%) Front Office
8 1 (0.79%) Law
8 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.79%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (34.92%) PySpark
2 7 (5.56%) ARM Templates
3 5 (3.97%) Kafka
4 4 (3.17%) Apache Avro
4 4 (3.17%) Pandas
4 4 (3.17%) XML
5 2 (1.59%) Great Expectations
5 2 (1.59%) JSON
5 2 (1.59%) JSON Schema
5 2 (1.59%) YAML
6 1 (0.79%) .NET
6 1 (0.79%) Anaconda
6 1 (0.79%) BentoML
6 1 (0.79%) pytest
6 1 (0.79%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.79%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.79%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.97%) Smart Meter
2 4 (3.17%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.59%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.79%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.79%) Data Fabric
4 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.79%) Housing Association
4 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.79%) NHS
4 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.73%) Linux
2 5 (3.97%) Unix
2 5 (3.97%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (44.44%) ETL
2 51 (40.48%) Data Pipeline
3 44 (34.92%) Analytics
4 42 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 41 (32.54%) Data Engineering
6 35 (27.78%) DevOps
7 27 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
8 26 (20.63%) CI/CD
9 20 (15.87%) Agile
10 16 (12.70%) Data Integration
11 15 (11.90%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (11.11%) Migration
13 13 (10.32%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (9.52%) Data Transformation
14 12 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
15 10 (7.94%) Scrum
16 9 (7.14%) SDLC
17 8 (6.35%) Data Migration
17 8 (6.35%) Log Analytics
18 7 (5.56%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 79 (62.70%) SQL
2 63 (50.00%) Python
3 12 (9.52%) T-SQL
4 11 (8.73%) Scala
5 8 (6.35%) C#
6 4 (3.17%) Bicep
6 4 (3.17%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.59%) Bash
8 2 (1.59%) Java
9 1 (0.79%) R
9 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 7 (5.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.17%) Degree
3 3 (2.38%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.73%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.97%) GDPR
3 3 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 6 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.56%) Terraform
2 3 (2.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.79%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 76 (60.32%) Databricks
2 23 (18.25%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.97%) Ab Initio
4 3 (2.38%) Informatica
5 1 (0.79%) Adobe
5 1 (0.79%) Cognos
5 1 (0.79%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.79%) DataRobot
5 1 (0.79%) JD Edwards
5 1 (0.79%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle
5 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.79%) Splunk
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