Azure Data Engineer Contracts

Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 447 490 556
Rank change year-on-year +43 +66 -37
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 138 210 301
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.38% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.40% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 174 233
10th Percentile £425 £433 £433
25th Percentile £463 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £650
90th Percentile £665 £722 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

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 12 June 2024.

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 12 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 12 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
England +30 128 £525 -5.62% 29
London +44 91 £550 -3.55% 19
Work from Home +73 60 £500 -9.09% 7
UK excluding London +6 29 £500 -9.09% 11
North of England +13 11 £500 -23.08% 1
South East +14 10 £490 -6.67% 3
Yorkshire +15 6 £500 -28.57%
North West +11 5 £500 -23.08% 1
South West -5 5 £563 +2.27% 3
Midlands +9 3 £450 -25.00% 2
East Midlands +6 2 £431 -6.76%
West Midlands +11 1 £450 -30.77% 2

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 featuring Azure Data Engineer in the job title.

1 138 (100.00%) Azure
2 85 (61.59%) SQL
3 80 (57.97%) Azure Data Factory
4 76 (55.07%) Databricks
5 68 (49.28%) Python
6 57 (41.30%) ETL
7 53 (38.41%) Data Pipeline
8 52 (37.68%) Data Lake
9 48 (34.78%) Data Modelling
10 46 (33.33%) Analytics
11 43 (31.16%) PySpark
12 41 (29.71%) Data Engineering
13 39 (28.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 37 (26.81%) DevOps
15 36 (26.09%) Azure SQL Database
16 31 (22.46%) Business Intelligence
17 30 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
18 29 (21.01%) Power BI
18 29 (21.01%) Power Platform
18 29 (21.01%) Social Skills
19 28 (20.29%) Finance
20 27 (19.57%) CI/CD
21 23 (16.67%) Agile
21 23 (16.67%) Microsoft
22 20 (14.49%) SQL Server
23 17 (12.32%) Azure DevOps
23 17 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
24 16 (11.59%) Apache Spark
24 16 (11.59%) Migration
24 16 (11.59%) Data Integration

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 16 (11.59%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.80%) Apache
3 4 (2.90%) Luigi
4 2 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.72%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 138 (100.00%) Azure
2 80 (57.97%) Azure Data Factory
3 39 (28.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 29 (21.01%) Power Platform
5 17 (12.32%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (7.25%) Serverless
7 9 (6.52%) Azure Functions
7 9 (6.52%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (5.07%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (4.35%) Snowflake
10 5 (3.62%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (2.90%) AWS
11 4 (2.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (2.90%) Azure Storage
11 4 (2.90%) dbt
12 3 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (2.17%) Azure Stack
12 3 (2.17%) GitHub
13 2 (1.45%) AWS Step Functions
13 2 (1.45%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.72%) Firewall
1 1 (0.72%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (37.68%) Data Lake
2 36 (26.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 30 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (21.01%) Power BI
5 20 (14.49%) SQL Server
6 14 (10.14%) NoSQL
7 11 (7.97%) Big Data
8 8 (5.80%) Delta Lake
8 8 (5.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (4.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 6 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (3.62%) Power Query
10 5 (3.62%) Relational Database
10 5 (3.62%) Spark SQL
10 5 (3.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (2.90%) Parquet
12 3 (2.17%) Flink
12 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 3 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (4.35%) Git
2 4 (2.90%) GitLab
3 2 (1.45%) Deequ
3 2 (1.45%) MLflow
4 1 (0.72%) JIRA
General
1 29 (21.01%) Social Skills
2 28 (20.29%) Finance
3 9 (6.52%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.62%) Banking
6 4 (2.90%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.17%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.45%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.45%) Marketing
9 1 (0.72%) Front Office
9 1 (0.72%) Law
9 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Police
9 1 (0.72%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (31.16%) PySpark
2 6 (4.35%) ARM Templates
2 6 (4.35%) Kafka
3 4 (2.90%) Apache Avro
3 4 (2.90%) Pandas
3 4 (2.90%) XML
4 2 (1.45%) .NET
4 2 (1.45%) Great Expectations
4 2 (1.45%) JSON
4 2 (1.45%) JSON Schema
4 2 (1.45%) pytest
4 2 (1.45%) YAML
5 1 (0.72%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.72%) Anaconda
5 1 (0.72%) BentoML
5 1 (0.72%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.72%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (0.72%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.72%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.72%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (3.62%) Smart Meter
2 4 (2.90%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.45%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.45%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.72%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.72%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.72%) Data Fabric
4 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.72%) Housing Association
4 1 (0.72%) NHS
4 1 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.97%) Linux
2 6 (4.35%) Windows
3 5 (3.62%) Unix
4 1 (0.72%) VMS
4 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (41.30%) ETL
2 53 (38.41%) Data Pipeline
3 48 (34.78%) Data Modelling
4 46 (33.33%) Analytics
5 41 (29.71%) Data Engineering
6 37 (26.81%) DevOps
7 31 (22.46%) Business Intelligence
8 27 (19.57%) CI/CD
9 23 (16.67%) Agile
10 17 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (11.59%) Data Integration
11 16 (11.59%) Migration
12 15 (10.87%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (8.70%) Data Architecture
13 12 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (7.97%) Data Transformation
14 11 (7.97%) Scrum
15 10 (7.25%) Data Governance
16 8 (5.80%) Performance Tuning
16 8 (5.80%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 85 (61.59%) SQL
2 68 (49.28%) Python
3 14 (10.14%) T-SQL
4 10 (7.25%) C#
5 9 (6.52%) Scala
6 6 (4.35%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.90%) Bicep
8 3 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (2.17%) Java
9 2 (1.45%) Bash
9 2 (1.45%) R
10 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (5.80%) SC Cleared
1 8 (5.80%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.90%) Azure Certification
2 4 (2.90%) Degree
3 3 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.97%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.62%) GDPR
3 3 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 6 (4.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (6.52%) Terraform
2 5 (3.62%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.72%) Grafana
3 1 (0.72%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 76 (55.07%) Databricks
2 23 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.62%) Ab Initio
4 3 (2.17%) Informatica
5 2 (1.45%) Oracle
5 2 (1.45%) Splunk
6 1 (0.72%) Adobe
6 1 (0.72%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.72%) DataRobot
6 1 (0.72%) New Relic
6 1 (0.72%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.72%) SAP