Azure Data Engineer Job Trends in the North of England

Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > North of England

The median Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in the North of England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 290 313
Rank change year-on-year -54 +23 -7
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 16 16 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.067% 0.17% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.19% 0.084%
Number of salaries quoted 16 16 10
10th Percentile £50,625 £57,500 £52,148
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,625 £58,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £71,000 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,875 - £74,125
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 22,385 8,335 13,093
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 87.24% 94.93%
Number of salaries quoted 16,315 4,381 7,454
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,250 £38,918
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.18% - -8.33%

Azure Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Azure Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Azure Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Azure Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for Azure Data Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for Azure Data Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Azure Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 27 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Data Engineer in the North of England

Azure Data Engineer
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 27 September 2026. 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
Yorkshire -27 11 £60,000 -11.11% 6
North West -32 4 £65,000 -3.70% 6
North East -64 1 £52,500 -22.22% 6
Azure Data Engineer
England

Azure Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 27 September 2026, Azure Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Azure Data Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (68.75%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (50.00%) SQL
4 7 (43.75%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (37.50%) Analytics
5 6 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (37.50%) Data Strategy
5 6 (37.50%) Python
6 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
6 5 (31.25%) Data Engineering
6 5 (31.25%) Databricks
6 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (25.00%) Data Architecture
7 4 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (25.00%) DevOps
7 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
8 3 (18.75%) Data Governance
8 3 (18.75%) Data Integration
8 3 (18.75%) Data Lake
8 3 (18.75%) ETL
8 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
8 3 (18.75%) Power BI
8 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
8 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (18.75%) Terraform
9 2 (12.50%) Agile
9 2 (12.50%) AI
9 2 (12.50%) Apache Spark
9 2 (12.50%) Azure Databricks
9 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps

Azure Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (68.75%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Databricks
4 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (18.75%) Data Lake
2 3 (18.75%) Power BI
3 2 (12.50%) Spark SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Metadata
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (12.50%) Advertising
3 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) PySpark
3 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (37.50%) Analytics
2 6 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (37.50%) Data Strategy
3 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 5 (31.25%) Data Engineering
3 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 4 (25.00%) DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) Data Governance
5 3 (18.75%) Data Integration
5 3 (18.75%) ETL
5 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (12.50%) Business Analytics
6 2 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
6 2 (12.50%) Data Privacy
6 2 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 2 (12.50%) Lakehouse
6 2 (12.50%) Machine Learning
6 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Bicep
3 2 (12.50%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Databricks
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) Salesforce
3 2 (12.50%) SAP
4 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow