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 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 370 379 438
Rank change year-on-year +9 +59 -28
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 27 53 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.23% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.25% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 46 66
10th Percentile £413 £422 £425
25th Percentile £444 £494 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £555 £675 £659
90th Percentile £605 £696 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,038 21,534 29,349
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 94.27% 95.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,591 14,985 20,591
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,364 1,082 1,440
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.81 £14.64
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.14 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.96
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 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 28 May 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 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
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 the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Azure Data Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) Azure
2 21 (77.78%) Azure Data Factory
3 20 (74.07%) SQL
4 17 (62.96%) ETL
5 16 (59.26%) Databricks
6 15 (55.56%) Data Modelling
7 13 (48.15%) Analytics
8 12 (44.44%) Power BI
8 12 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (44.44%) Power Platform
8 12 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
9 11 (40.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (37.04%) Data Lake
11 8 (29.63%) Python
11 8 (29.63%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
12 7 (25.93%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (22.22%) Data Security
13 6 (22.22%) Data Integration
14 5 (18.52%) Data Engineering
14 5 (18.52%) DevOps
14 5 (18.52%) Ab Initio
14 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
15 4 (14.81%) PySpark
15 4 (14.81%) Azure Functions
15 4 (14.81%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 4 (14.81%) GDPR
15 4 (14.81%) Serverless
15 4 (14.81%) Data Science
15 4 (14.81%) 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 27 (100.00%) Azure
2 21 (77.78%) Azure Data Factory
3 12 (44.44%) Power Platform
4 11 (40.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (14.81%) Azure Functions
5 4 (14.81%) Serverless
6 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Stack
7 1 (3.70%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (44.44%) Power BI
2 10 (37.04%) Data Lake
3 8 (29.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (25.93%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (14.81%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
7 2 (7.41%) Relational Database
7 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (7.41%) Tableau
8 1 (3.70%) Delta Lake
8 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
8 1 (3.70%) OLAP
8 1 (3.70%) OLAP Cube
8 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 4 (14.81%) Telecoms
2 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) PySpark
1 4 (14.81%) XML
2 1 (3.70%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.70%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Product Ownership
1 4 (14.81%) Self-Motivation
1 4 (14.81%) Smart Meter
2 1 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
1 4 (14.81%) Unix
1 4 (14.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) ETL
2 15 (55.56%) Data Modelling
3 13 (48.15%) Analytics
4 12 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (22.22%) Data Integration
5 6 (22.22%) Data Security
6 5 (18.52%) Data Engineering
6 5 (18.52%) DevOps
6 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (14.81%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (14.81%) Data Science
7 4 (14.81%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
7 4 (14.81%) Dimensional Modelling
7 4 (14.81%) ETL Development
7 4 (14.81%) Impact Assessments
7 4 (14.81%) Performance Improvement
7 4 (14.81%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (14.81%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 20 (74.07%) SQL
2 8 (29.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (59.26%) Databricks
2 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
3 5 (18.52%) Ab Initio
4 1 (3.70%) Cognos
4 1 (3.70%) Informatica
4 1 (3.70%) JD Edwards