Azure Data Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 711 704
Rank change year-on-year +151 -7 +91
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 16 49 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.041% 0.069% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.073% 0.097%
Number of salaries quoted 14 46 48
10th Percentile £43,700 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +3.77%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,875 £69,688
90th Percentile - £82,500 £77,650
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% - -3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

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

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,491 67,312 53,678
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 94.80% 89.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18,637 47,638 30,603
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

Azure Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Azure Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Data Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
South East +98 7 £70,000 +16.67% 9
North of England +44 7 £55,000 -26.67% 7
North West +12 6 £55,000 -12.00% 6
Yorkshire +74 5 £48,000 -43.53% 1
Midlands +62 2 £57,500 -6.12% 1
West Midlands +39 2 £57,500 -6.12% 1
Azure Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 UK excluding London region featuring Azure Data Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (93.75%) Analytics
2 15 (93.75%) Python
3 14 (87.50%) SQL
4 11 (68.75%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (62.50%) Degree
5 10 (62.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (56.25%) Data Engineering
7 8 (50.00%) DevOps
7 8 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (50.00%) Decision-Making
8 7 (43.75%) Databricks
8 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
8 7 (43.75%) Data Modelling
8 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
8 7 (43.75%) Data Architecture
9 6 (37.50%) Finance
9 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
9 6 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (37.50%) Data Lake
9 6 (37.50%) Power BI
9 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (37.50%) Power Platform
10 5 (31.25%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
10 5 (31.25%) Data Extraction
10 5 (31.25%) Change Management
10 5 (31.25%) ETL
10 5 (31.25%) Java
10 5 (31.25%) SQL Server

Azure Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (62.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (37.50%) Power Platform
4 4 (25.00%) Azure Functions
4 4 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (25.00%) Serverless
5 2 (12.50%) AWS
6 1 (6.25%) Azure App Service
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (37.50%) Data Lake
2 6 (37.50%) Power BI
3 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
4 4 (25.00%) Relational Database
5 3 (18.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (12.50%) HDInsight
7 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (6.25%) MySQL
7 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Legal
2 1 (6.25%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) .NET
1 1 (6.25%) Kafka
1 1 (6.25%) PySpark
1 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Analytics
2 11 (68.75%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (56.25%) Data Engineering
4 8 (50.00%) Decision-Making
4 8 (50.00%) DevOps
5 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
5 7 (43.75%) Data Architecture
5 7 (43.75%) Data Modelling
6 6 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (31.25%) Change Management
7 5 (31.25%) Data Analytics
7 5 (31.25%) Data Extraction
7 5 (31.25%) ETL
7 5 (31.25%) Logical Data Model
7 5 (31.25%) OO
7 5 (31.25%) OOP
7 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
7 5 (31.25%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (25.00%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) Python
2 14 (87.50%) SQL
3 5 (31.25%) Java
3 5 (31.25%) Scala
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Databricks
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft