Azure Data Engineer Jobs in England

Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The median Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 613 735 805
Rank change year-on-year +122 +70 +129
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 57 102 136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.13% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 45 95 117
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 43,436 80,761 84,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 94.49% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,713 60,391 53,470
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,995 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

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
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Azure Data Engineer in England

Azure Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Data Engineer in England

Azure Data Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 7 May 2025. 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
London +76 40 £87,000 +33.85% 14
North of England +55 8 £55,000 -26.67% 4
South East +95 7 £70,000 +16.67% 4
North West +11 7 £55,000 -12.00% 1
Yorkshire +72 5 £48,000 -43.53%
Midlands +48 2 £57,500 -8.00% 1
West Midlands +35 2 £57,500 -8.00% 1
Azure Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, 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 across the England region featuring Azure Data Engineer in the job title.

1 57 (100.00%) Azure
2 45 (78.95%) SQL
2 45 (78.95%) Python
3 42 (73.68%) Azure Data Factory
4 40 (70.18%) Databricks
5 30 (52.63%) DevOps
6 29 (50.88%) Data Engineering
7 26 (45.61%) Analytics
7 26 (45.61%) CI/CD
8 25 (43.86%) Social Skills
8 25 (43.86%) Data Pipeline
8 25 (43.86%) Data Lake
8 25 (43.86%) Data Warehouse
9 23 (40.35%) Business Intelligence
10 22 (38.60%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (36.84%) Data Modelling
11 21 (36.84%) Finance
12 20 (35.09%) Power BI
12 20 (35.09%) Power Platform
12 20 (35.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 19 (33.33%) ETL
14 16 (28.07%) Microsoft
14 16 (28.07%) Agile
15 15 (26.32%) Data Management
15 15 (26.32%) Degree
16 14 (24.56%) PySpark
17 13 (22.81%) Azure DevOps
18 12 (21.05%) Data Architecture
18 12 (21.05%) Scala
18 12 (21.05%) Decision-Making

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 4 (7.02%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 57 (100.00%) Azure
2 42 (73.68%) Azure Data Factory
3 20 (35.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 20 (35.09%) Power Platform
4 13 (22.81%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (14.04%) Azure Functions
5 8 (14.04%) Microsoft Purview
5 8 (14.04%) Serverless
6 3 (5.26%) AWS
6 3 (5.26%) PaaS
7 2 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.75%) Azure AI
8 1 (1.75%) Azure App Service
8 1 (1.75%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (1.75%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.75%) dbt
8 1 (1.75%) Fivetran
8 1 (1.75%) GCP
8 1 (1.75%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (43.86%) Data Lake
1 25 (43.86%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (35.09%) Power BI
3 9 (15.79%) SQL Server
4 6 (10.53%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 5 (8.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (8.77%) Relational Database
6 3 (5.26%) Big Data
7 2 (3.51%) Delta Lake
7 2 (3.51%) HDInsight
7 2 (3.51%) Metadata
8 1 (1.75%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.75%) MySQL
8 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.75%) Power Query
8 1 (1.75%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (17.54%) Git
2 2 (3.51%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.51%) JIRA
3 1 (1.75%) kappa
3 1 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.75%) SpecFlow
General
1 25 (43.86%) Social Skills
2 21 (36.84%) Finance
3 6 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.75%) Banking
7 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.75%) Legal
7 1 (1.75%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (24.56%) PySpark
2 3 (5.26%) Kafka
3 2 (3.51%) Great Expectations
3 2 (3.51%) pytest
4 1 (1.75%) .NET
4 1 (1.75%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.75%) REST
4 1 (1.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.77%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.51%) IoT
4 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (52.63%) DevOps
2 29 (50.88%) Data Engineering
3 26 (45.61%) Analytics
3 26 (45.61%) CI/CD
4 25 (43.86%) Data Pipeline
5 23 (40.35%) Business Intelligence
6 22 (38.60%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (36.84%) Data Modelling
8 19 (33.33%) ETL
9 16 (28.07%) Agile
10 15 (26.32%) Data Management
11 12 (21.05%) Data Architecture
11 12 (21.05%) Decision-Making
12 10 (17.54%) Data Analysis
12 10 (17.54%) Data Science
13 9 (15.79%) Visualisation
14 8 (14.04%) Computer Science
15 7 (12.28%) Data Strategy
15 7 (12.28%) Data Transformation
15 7 (12.28%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 45 (78.95%) Python
1 45 (78.95%) SQL
2 12 (21.05%) Scala
3 6 (10.53%) R
4 5 (8.77%) Java
5 4 (7.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (5.26%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.51%) Bicep
7 2 (3.51%) C#
8 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (26.32%) Degree
2 9 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 8 (14.04%) Azure Certification
4 7 (12.28%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.51%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (19.30%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.75%) GDPR
2 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 9 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (14.04%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (70.18%) Databricks
2 16 (28.07%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.75%) Google
3 1 (1.75%) OpenAI