Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

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

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 780 826 998
Rank change year-on-year +46 +172 -263
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 125 147 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.15% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 118 128 178
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,313 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,750 £67,750
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -2.95% +12.92%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,813 95,219 148,250
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.52% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,625 59,878 85,347
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Azure Data Engineer in the UK

Azure Data Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Engineer over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Data Engineer in the UK

Azure Data Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Data Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +78 102 £65,000 - 22
London +121 61 £65,000 -7.14% 17
Work from Home +84 56 £65,000 +8.33% 12
UK excluding London -9 50 £65,000 +18.18% 6
North of England +40 16 £72,500 -2.03% 1
Scotland -51 10 £65,000 +8.33% 1
North West +20 9 £61,250 -12.50% 1
South East +18 9 £60,000 +4.68%
Midlands -16 9 £62,500 +13.64% 1
West Midlands +15 8 £62,500 +19.05% 1
South West -15 5 £75,000 +50.00% 3
North East -5 4 £75,000 +1.35%
Yorkshire +94 3 £85,000 +18.88%
East Midlands -16 1 £50,000 -9.09%
East of England - 1 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Azure Data Engineer 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 permanent job ads featuring Azure Data Engineer in the job title.

1 125 (100.00%) Azure
2 102 (81.60%) SQL
3 73 (58.40%) Data Warehouse
4 65 (52.00%) Databricks
5 62 (49.60%) Data Lake
5 62 (49.60%) Azure Data Factory
5 62 (49.60%) Business Intelligence
5 62 (49.60%) ETL
6 59 (47.20%) Python
7 56 (44.80%) Power BI
7 56 (44.80%) Power Platform
8 55 (44.00%) Data Engineering
9 45 (36.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 44 (35.20%) Analytics
11 43 (34.40%) DevOps
12 42 (33.60%) Data Pipeline
13 40 (32.00%) Azure SQL Database
14 39 (31.20%) Microsoft
15 36 (28.80%) Data Modelling
16 32 (25.60%) Agile
17 31 (24.80%) Data Quality
18 28 (22.40%) CI/CD
18 28 (22.40%) PySpark
19 24 (19.20%) T-SQL
20 23 (18.40%) SQL Server
20 23 (18.40%) Finance
20 23 (18.40%) Azure DevOps
21 21 (16.80%) Data Science
21 21 (16.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
22 19 (15.20%) Machine Learning

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 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.80%) Apache Synapse
2 1 (0.80%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 125 (100.00%) Azure
2 62 (49.60%) Azure Data Factory
3 56 (44.80%) Power Platform
4 45 (36.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 23 (18.40%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (11.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 12 (9.60%) Snowflake
8 9 (7.20%) GCP
9 7 (5.60%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
9 7 (5.60%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (5.60%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (4.00%) Azure Functions
10 5 (4.00%) IaaS
10 5 (4.00%) PaaS
10 5 (4.00%) SaaS
10 5 (4.00%) Serverless
11 4 (3.20%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (3.20%) GitHub
11 4 (3.20%) Power Automate
11 4 (3.20%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.60%) Network Security
2 1 (0.80%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (58.40%) Data Warehouse
2 62 (49.60%) Data Lake
3 56 (44.80%) Power BI
4 40 (32.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 23 (18.40%) SQL Server
6 21 (16.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 17 (13.60%) Big Data
8 13 (10.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 12 (9.60%) Delta Lake
9 12 (9.60%) Metadata
9 12 (9.60%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 10 (8.00%) Relational Database
11 7 (5.60%) BigQuery
11 7 (5.60%) Hadoop
12 5 (4.00%) Data Vault
12 5 (4.00%) NoSQL
12 5 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (3.20%) Parquet
14 3 (2.40%) Spark SQL
14 3 (2.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (6.40%) MLflow
2 1 (0.80%) JIRA
General
1 23 (18.40%) Finance
2 17 (13.60%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.00%) Games
4 5 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (4.00%) Retail
5 4 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.40%) Legal
7 2 (1.60%) Electronics
7 2 (1.60%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.60%) Marketing
7 2 (1.60%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.60%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.80%) Advertising
8 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (22.40%) PySpark
2 5 (4.00%) JSON
3 3 (2.40%) Pandas
4 2 (1.60%) FastAPI
4 2 (1.60%) Flask
4 2 (1.60%) RESTful
5 1 (0.80%) Kafka
5 1 (0.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.60%) Data Structures
1 7 (5.60%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.00%) Algorithms
2 5 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (4.00%) NHS
3 4 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.40%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.40%) IoT
5 2 (1.60%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.60%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.80%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.80%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (49.60%) Business Intelligence
1 62 (49.60%) ETL
2 55 (44.00%) Data Engineering
3 44 (35.20%) Analytics
4 43 (34.40%) DevOps
5 42 (33.60%) Data Pipeline
6 36 (28.80%) Data Modelling
7 32 (25.60%) Agile
8 28 (22.40%) CI/CD
9 21 (16.80%) Data Science
10 19 (15.20%) Machine Learning
10 19 (15.20%) Mentoring
10 19 (15.20%) Visualisation
11 18 (14.40%) Data Architecture
12 17 (13.60%) Data Integration
13 16 (12.80%) Data Governance
14 14 (11.20%) Migration
15 12 (9.60%) Data Visualisation
15 12 (9.60%) Release Management
15 12 (9.60%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 102 (81.60%) SQL
2 59 (47.20%) Python
3 24 (19.20%) T-SQL
4 7 (5.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (5.60%) U-SQL
5 6 (4.80%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.60%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.80%) C#
7 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.80%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (8.80%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (5.60%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.20%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.40%) Degree
5 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (24.80%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.80%) GDPR
3 4 (3.20%) QA
Systems Management
1 10 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.80%) Terraform
Vendors
1 65 (52.00%) Databricks
2 39 (31.20%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.40%) SAP
4 4 (3.20%) Talend
5 1 (0.80%) Informatica
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle