Azure Data Engineer Contracts in London

Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > London

The median Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in London is £550, 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 309 353 475
Rank change year-on-year +44 +122 -76
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 91 129 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.51% 0.51% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.54% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 108 100
10th Percentile £428 £454 £469
25th Percentile £488 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -0.83% +9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £728 £725 £775
England median daily rate £525 £556 £550
% change year-on-year -5.62% +1.14% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
England median hourly rate - - £78.75

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Azure Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Engineer in London

Azure Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Engineer in London

Azure Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Engineer in London

Azure Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Data Engineer in London

Azure Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region 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
Central London +35 8 £525 -4.55% 4
West London - 1 - - 1
Azure Data Engineer
England

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

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 across the London region featuring Azure Data Engineer in the job title.

1 91 (100.00%) Azure
2 55 (60.44%) SQL
3 53 (58.24%) Databricks
4 52 (57.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 51 (56.04%) Python
6 37 (40.66%) Data Lake
6 37 (40.66%) Data Pipeline
7 36 (39.56%) ETL
8 35 (38.46%) PySpark
9 34 (37.36%) Data Engineering
10 29 (31.87%) Analytics
11 28 (30.77%) Data Modelling
12 27 (29.67%) DevOps
13 25 (27.47%) Azure SQL Database
14 24 (26.37%) Finance
14 24 (26.37%) Social Skills
15 23 (25.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 23 (25.27%) CI/CD
16 20 (21.98%) Data Warehouse
16 20 (21.98%) Agile
17 16 (17.58%) Business Intelligence
18 15 (16.48%) Continuous Integration
18 15 (16.48%) Apache Spark
19 14 (15.38%) Microsoft
19 14 (15.38%) SQL Server
20 13 (14.29%) T-SQL
20 13 (14.29%) NoSQL
20 13 (14.29%) Power BI
20 13 (14.29%) Power Platform
21 12 (13.19%) Azure DevOps

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

Application Platforms
1 15 (16.48%) Apache Spark
2 6 (6.59%) Apache
3 4 (4.40%) Luigi
4 1 (1.10%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 91 (100.00%) Azure
2 52 (57.14%) Azure Data Factory
3 23 (25.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 13 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 12 (13.19%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
6 7 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (6.59%) Serverless
8 5 (5.49%) Azure Functions
9 4 (4.40%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (4.40%) Azure Storage
10 3 (3.30%) AWS
10 3 (3.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (3.30%) Azure Stack
11 2 (2.20%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (2.20%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (2.20%) Entra ID
11 2 (2.20%) GitHub
11 2 (2.20%) Snowflake
12 1 (1.10%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (40.66%) Data Lake
2 25 (27.47%) Azure SQL Database
3 20 (21.98%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (15.38%) SQL Server
5 13 (14.29%) NoSQL
5 13 (14.29%) Power BI
6 9 (9.89%) Big Data
7 6 (6.59%) Delta Lake
7 6 (6.59%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 5 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (5.49%) Power Query
8 5 (5.49%) Spark SQL
9 4 (4.40%) Parquet
9 4 (4.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (3.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 3 (3.30%) Relational Database
10 3 (3.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (2.20%) Flink
12 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Git
2 4 (4.40%) GitLab
3 2 (2.20%) Deequ
4 1 (1.10%) MLflow
General
1 24 (26.37%) Finance
1 24 (26.37%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.49%) Banking
4 3 (3.30%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.20%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.20%) Marketing
6 1 (1.10%) Front Office
6 1 (1.10%) Law
6 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.10%) Police
6 1 (1.10%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (38.46%) PySpark
2 5 (5.49%) ARM Templates
2 5 (5.49%) Kafka
3 4 (4.40%) Apache Avro
3 4 (4.40%) Pandas
4 2 (2.20%) Great Expectations
4 2 (2.20%) JSON
4 2 (2.20%) JSON Schema
4 2 (2.20%) YAML
5 1 (1.10%) Anaconda
5 1 (1.10%) BentoML
5 1 (1.10%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.10%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.10%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
1 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
2 1 (1.10%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.10%) Data Fabric
2 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.10%) Housing Association
2 1 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (1.10%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.69%) Linux
2 2 (2.20%) Windows
3 1 (1.10%) Unix
3 1 (1.10%) VMS
3 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (40.66%) Data Pipeline
2 36 (39.56%) ETL
3 34 (37.36%) Data Engineering
4 29 (31.87%) Analytics
5 28 (30.77%) Data Modelling
6 27 (29.67%) DevOps
7 23 (25.27%) CI/CD
8 20 (21.98%) Agile
9 16 (17.58%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (16.48%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (12.09%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (10.99%) Migration
13 9 (9.89%) Data Integration
14 8 (8.79%) Data Architecture
14 8 (8.79%) Data Transformation
14 8 (8.79%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (8.79%) SDLC
15 6 (6.59%) Continuous Deployment
15 6 (6.59%) Data Governance
15 6 (6.59%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 55 (60.44%) SQL
2 51 (56.04%) Python
3 13 (14.29%) T-SQL
4 9 (9.89%) C#
4 9 (9.89%) Scala
5 6 (6.59%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.40%) Bicep
7 3 (3.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.20%) Bash
8 2 (2.20%) Java
9 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.10%) R
9 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 7 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.30%) Azure Certification
2 3 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.30%) Degree
3 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.09%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.30%) QA
3 1 (1.10%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (5.49%) Docker
2 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (7.69%) Terraform
2 2 (2.20%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.10%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 53 (58.24%) Databricks
2 14 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.20%) Informatica
3 2 (2.20%) Oracle
4 1 (1.10%) Adobe
4 1 (1.10%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.10%) DataRobot
4 1 (1.10%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.10%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.10%) SAP
4 1 (1.10%) Splunk