Azure Data Engineer Jobs

Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in the UK is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 631 772 826
Rank change year-on-year +141 +54 +166
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 59 130 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.14% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 46 123 127
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,050 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,625 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - -
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% +3.77%

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 49,007 93,784 92,686
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 94.63% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 27,411 67,216 58,370
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,375 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

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 9 May 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 9 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
England +114 59 £72,500 +11.54% 37
London +90 43 £87,000 +33.85% 23
UK excluding London +150 16 £60,000 -7.69% 22
Work from Home +101 15 £65,000 - 35
South East +93 7 £70,000 +16.67% 9
North of England +44 7 £55,000 -26.67% 10
North West +13 6 £55,000 -12.00% 6
Yorkshire +63 5 £48,000 -43.53% 1
Midlands +54 2 £57,500 -6.12% 2
West Midlands +50 2 £57,500 -6.12% 2

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 featuring Azure Data Engineer in the job title.

1 59 (100.00%) Azure
2 48 (81.36%) Python
3 46 (77.97%) SQL
4 43 (72.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 41 (69.49%) Databricks
6 32 (54.24%) DevOps
7 30 (50.85%) Data Engineering
8 27 (45.76%) Data Warehouse
8 27 (45.76%) CI/CD
9 26 (44.07%) Data Lake
9 26 (44.07%) Analytics
10 25 (42.37%) Social Skills
11 24 (40.68%) Data Pipeline
12 23 (38.98%) Business Intelligence
13 22 (37.29%) Finance
13 22 (37.29%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (35.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 21 (35.59%) Data Modelling
15 20 (33.90%) Power BI
15 20 (33.90%) Power Platform
16 18 (30.51%) ETL
17 16 (27.12%) Microsoft
17 16 (27.12%) Agile
17 16 (27.12%) Data Management
18 15 (25.42%) PySpark
19 14 (23.73%) Azure DevOps
19 14 (23.73%) Degree
20 12 (20.34%) Data Architecture
20 12 (20.34%) Scala
20 12 (20.34%) Decision-Making

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 (6.78%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 59 (100.00%) Azure
2 43 (72.88%) Azure Data Factory
3 21 (35.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 20 (33.90%) Power Platform
5 14 (23.73%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (13.56%) Azure Functions
6 8 (13.56%) Microsoft Purview
6 8 (13.56%) Serverless
7 3 (5.08%) AWS
7 3 (5.08%) PaaS
8 2 (3.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (3.39%) dbt
8 2 (3.39%) Fivetran
8 2 (3.39%) GCP
9 1 (1.69%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (1.69%) Azure AI
9 1 (1.69%) Azure App Service
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (1.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (45.76%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (44.07%) Data Lake
3 20 (33.90%) Power BI
4 9 (15.25%) SQL Server
5 7 (11.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 5 (8.47%) Relational Database
7 4 (6.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (5.08%) Big Data
9 2 (3.39%) BigQuery
9 2 (3.39%) Delta Lake
9 2 (3.39%) HDInsight
9 2 (3.39%) Metadata
10 1 (1.69%) MySQL
10 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.69%) Spark SQL
10 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (18.64%) Git
2 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.39%) JIRA
3 1 (1.69%) kappa
3 1 (1.69%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.69%) SpecFlow
General
1 25 (42.37%) Social Skills
2 22 (37.29%) Finance
3 7 (11.86%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.69%) Banking
7 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.69%) Legal
7 1 (1.69%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.42%) PySpark
2 3 (5.08%) Kafka
3 2 (3.39%) Great Expectations
3 2 (3.39%) pytest
4 1 (1.69%) .NET
4 1 (1.69%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.69%) REST
4 1 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.47%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.08%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.39%) IoT
4 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (54.24%) DevOps
2 30 (50.85%) Data Engineering
3 27 (45.76%) CI/CD
4 26 (44.07%) Analytics
5 24 (40.68%) Data Pipeline
6 23 (38.98%) Business Intelligence
7 22 (37.29%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (35.59%) Data Modelling
9 18 (30.51%) ETL
10 16 (27.12%) Agile
10 16 (27.12%) Data Management
11 12 (20.34%) Data Architecture
11 12 (20.34%) Decision-Making
12 10 (16.95%) Data Analysis
12 10 (16.95%) Data Science
12 10 (16.95%) Visualisation
13 8 (13.56%) Computer Science
14 7 (11.86%) Data Strategy
14 7 (11.86%) Data Transformation
14 7 (11.86%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 48 (81.36%) Python
2 46 (77.97%) SQL
3 12 (20.34%) Scala
4 7 (11.86%) R
5 5 (8.47%) Java
6 4 (6.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (5.08%) T-SQL
8 2 (3.39%) Bicep
8 2 (3.39%) C#
9 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (23.73%) Degree
2 10 (16.95%) Security Cleared
3 8 (13.56%) Azure Certification
3 8 (13.56%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.64%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.69%) GDPR
2 1 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 9 (15.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (13.56%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (69.49%) Databricks
2 16 (27.12%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.39%) Google
4 1 (1.69%) OpenAI