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 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 757 849 1004
Rank change year-on-year +92 +155 -257
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 131 146 234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.16% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 124 126 182
10th Percentile £56,075 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £81,250 £79,688 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% +3.77% -3.64%

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 93,864 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,182 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Data Engineer in the UK

Azure Data Engineer
Top 13 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 8 May 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 +50 106 £65,000 - 25
London +117 66 £65,000 -7.14% 20
Work from Home +72 58 £65,000 +8.33% 18
UK excluding London -12 49 £65,000 +18.18% 6
North of England +41 13 £75,000 +7.91%
West Midlands +4 11 £61,250 +16.67% 2
Midlands -9 11 £61,250 +11.36% 2
Scotland -49 10 £65,000 +8.33% 1
South East +14 8 £60,000 +4.52%
South West -19 7 £67,500 +80.00% 3
North West +6 6 £62,500 +4.17%
North East -3 4 £75,000 +1.35%
Yorkshire +81 3 £85,000 +18.88%

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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.

1 131 (100.00%) Azure
2 104 (79.39%) SQL
3 77 (58.78%) Data Warehouse
4 71 (54.20%) Databricks
5 70 (53.44%) Data Lake
5 70 (53.44%) Business Intelligence
6 67 (51.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 62 (47.33%) Data Engineering
8 60 (45.80%) Power BI
8 60 (45.80%) ETL
8 60 (45.80%) Power Platform
9 57 (43.51%) Python
10 54 (41.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 51 (38.93%) Analytics
12 49 (37.40%) DevOps
13 43 (32.82%) Azure SQL Database
13 43 (32.82%) Microsoft
14 42 (32.06%) Data Pipeline
15 36 (27.48%) Data Modelling
16 32 (24.43%) Agile
16 32 (24.43%) Data Quality
16 32 (24.43%) CI/CD
16 32 (24.43%) PySpark
17 29 (22.14%) Finance
18 26 (19.85%) Azure DevOps
19 25 (19.08%) SQL Server
20 24 (18.32%) T-SQL
20 24 (18.32%) Machine Learning
21 22 (16.79%) Data Science
21 22 (16.79%) Visualisation

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 6 (4.58%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.76%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 131 (100.00%) Azure
2 67 (51.15%) Azure Data Factory
3 60 (45.80%) Power Platform
4 54 (41.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 26 (19.85%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (11.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 11 (8.40%) Snowflake
8 8 (6.11%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
8 8 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (5.34%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (5.34%) GCP
10 6 (4.58%) Azure AKS
10 6 (4.58%) Azure Machine Learning
10 6 (4.58%) PaaS
10 6 (4.58%) Serverless
11 5 (3.82%) Azure Functions
11 5 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (3.82%) GitHub
11 5 (3.82%) IaaS
11 5 (3.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (58.78%) Data Warehouse
2 70 (53.44%) Data Lake
3 60 (45.80%) Power BI
4 43 (32.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (19.08%) SQL Server
6 21 (16.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 19 (14.50%) Big Data
8 16 (12.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 15 (11.45%) Metadata
9 15 (11.45%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 13 (9.92%) Delta Lake
11 12 (9.16%) Relational Database
12 7 (5.34%) Hadoop
13 5 (3.82%) BigQuery
13 5 (3.82%) Data Vault
13 5 (3.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (3.05%) NoSQL
14 4 (3.05%) Parquet
15 3 (2.29%) Spark SQL
15 3 (2.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (7.63%) MLflow
2 1 (0.76%) CircleCI
2 1 (0.76%) JIRA
General
1 29 (22.14%) Finance
2 15 (11.45%) Social Skills
3 14 (10.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (5.34%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.82%) Games
6 5 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.82%) Retail
7 3 (2.29%) Legal
8 2 (1.53%) Electronics
8 2 (1.53%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.53%) Marketing
8 2 (1.53%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.53%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.76%) Advertising
9 1 (0.76%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (24.43%) PySpark
2 7 (5.34%) JSON
3 3 (2.29%) Pandas
4 2 (1.53%) FastAPI
4 2 (1.53%) Flask
4 2 (1.53%) RESTful
5 1 (0.76%) Kafka
5 1 (0.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.11%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (5.34%) Algorithms
2 7 (5.34%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (5.34%) NHS
3 6 (4.58%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.29%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.29%) IoT
6 2 (1.53%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.76%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (53.44%) Business Intelligence
2 62 (47.33%) Data Engineering
3 60 (45.80%) ETL
4 51 (38.93%) Analytics
5 49 (37.40%) DevOps
6 42 (32.06%) Data Pipeline
7 36 (27.48%) Data Modelling
8 32 (24.43%) Agile
8 32 (24.43%) CI/CD
9 24 (18.32%) Machine Learning
10 22 (16.79%) Data Science
10 22 (16.79%) Visualisation
11 21 (16.03%) Mentoring
12 18 (13.74%) Data Governance
13 16 (12.21%) Data Architecture
13 16 (12.21%) Data Integration
14 15 (11.45%) Data Visualisation
15 14 (10.69%) Metadata Management
15 14 (10.69%) Stakeholder Management
16 13 (9.92%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 104 (79.39%) SQL
2 57 (43.51%) Python
3 24 (18.32%) T-SQL
4 9 (6.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (6.11%) U-SQL
6 6 (4.58%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.53%) Scala
8 1 (0.76%) C#
8 1 (0.76%) Java
8 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (9.16%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (4.58%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.05%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (24.43%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.11%) GDPR
3 4 (3.05%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (9.92%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.87%) Terraform
Vendors
1 71 (54.20%) Databricks
2 43 (32.82%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.11%) SAP
4 4 (3.05%) Talend
5 1 (0.76%) Informatica
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle