Azure Data Engineer Jobs

Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 April 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 627 759 840
Rank change year-on-year +132 +81 +156
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 57 126 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.14% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 46 119 128
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -1.14% -2.59%
75th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 46,971 93,051 95,196
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.06% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,308 66,827 59,871
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -12.08% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,344 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.69% -4.76% +5.00%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Data Engineer in the UK

Azure Data Engineer
Top 10 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 30 April 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
England +144 57 £70,000 +7.69% 12
London +82 39 £87,000 +33.85% 9
UK excluding London +175 18 £60,000 -7.69% 3
Work from Home +138 14 £65,000 - 14
North of England +77 9 £55,000 -24.14% 1
North West +32 8 £55,000 -10.20% 1
South East +111 7 £70,000 +16.67%
Yorkshire +72 5 £48,000 -43.53%
Midlands +54 2 £57,500 -8.00% 1
West Midlands +45 2 £57,500 -8.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 featuring Azure Data Engineer in the job title.

1 57 (100.00%) Azure
2 46 (80.70%) SQL
3 44 (77.19%) Python
4 42 (73.68%) Azure Data Factory
5 38 (66.67%) Databricks
6 31 (54.39%) DevOps
7 29 (50.88%) Data Engineering
8 27 (47.37%) Analytics
9 25 (43.86%) Business Intelligence
9 25 (43.86%) Social Skills
9 25 (43.86%) Data Pipeline
9 25 (43.86%) CI/CD
10 24 (42.11%) Data Warehouse
10 24 (42.11%) Data Lake
11 21 (36.84%) Power BI
11 21 (36.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 21 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (36.84%) Power Platform
12 20 (35.09%) Data Modelling
12 20 (35.09%) Finance
13 19 (33.33%) ETL
14 17 (29.82%) Microsoft
15 16 (28.07%) Agile
15 16 (28.07%) Degree
16 14 (24.56%) Data Management
17 13 (22.81%) PySpark
18 12 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
18 12 (21.05%) Data Architecture
18 12 (21.05%) Decision-Making
19 11 (19.30%) Scala

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 4 (7.02%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 57 (100.00%) Azure
2 42 (73.68%) Azure Data Factory
3 21 (36.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 21 (36.84%) Power Platform
4 12 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (14.04%) Azure Functions
5 8 (14.04%) Serverless
6 7 (12.28%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (5.26%) AWS
7 3 (5.26%) PaaS
8 2 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.75%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (1.75%) Azure AI
9 1 (1.75%) Azure App Service
9 1 (1.75%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 1 (1.75%) dbt
9 1 (1.75%) Fivetran
9 1 (1.75%) GCP
9 1 (1.75%) GitHub
9 1 (1.75%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (42.11%) Data Lake
1 24 (42.11%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (36.84%) Power BI
3 9 (15.79%) SQL Server
4 5 (8.77%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 5 (8.77%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (8.77%) Relational Database
5 3 (5.26%) Big Data
6 2 (3.51%) Delta Lake
6 2 (3.51%) HDInsight
6 2 (3.51%) Metadata
7 1 (1.75%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.75%) MySQL
7 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.75%) Power Query
7 1 (1.75%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 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 20 (35.09%) Finance
3 6 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.75%) Banking
6 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.75%) Legal
6 1 (1.75%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.81%) 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%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (54.39%) DevOps
2 29 (50.88%) Data Engineering
3 27 (47.37%) Analytics
4 25 (43.86%) Business Intelligence
4 25 (43.86%) CI/CD
4 25 (43.86%) Data Pipeline
5 21 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (35.09%) Data Modelling
7 19 (33.33%) ETL
8 16 (28.07%) Agile
9 14 (24.56%) Data Management
10 12 (21.05%) Data Architecture
10 12 (21.05%) Decision-Making
11 10 (17.54%) Visualisation
12 9 (15.79%) Data Analysis
12 9 (15.79%) Data Science
13 8 (14.04%) Computer Science
14 7 (12.28%) Data Strategy
15 6 (10.53%) Integration Patterns
15 6 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 46 (80.70%) SQL
2 44 (77.19%) Python
3 11 (19.30%) Scala
4 6 (10.53%) R
5 5 (8.77%) Java
6 4 (7.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (7.02%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.51%) Bicep
7 2 (3.51%) C#
8 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (28.07%) Degree
2 8 (14.04%) Security Cleared
3 7 (12.28%) Azure Certification
3 7 (12.28%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.51%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.75%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.54%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.75%) GDPR
2 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 8 (14.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (12.28%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (66.67%) Databricks
2 17 (29.82%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.75%) Google
3 1 (1.75%) OpenAI