Azure Data Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary for remote or hybrid work is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 382 536 620
Rank change year-on-year +154 +84 +123
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 15 56 53
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.17% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 14 53 50
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,875 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £75,375 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £91,625
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,750
% change year-on-year +7.69% -1.14% -2.59%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Azure Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Azure Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Data Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Azure Data Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure Data Engineer.

Azure Data Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Data Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Azure Data Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Azure Data Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Azure Data Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (86.67%) Python
3 10 (66.67%) Databricks
4 8 (53.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (53.33%) Data Lake
4 8 (53.33%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (46.67%) SQL
6 6 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (40.00%) R
7 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
7 5 (33.33%) Finance
7 5 (33.33%) Data Management
7 5 (33.33%) Power Platform
7 5 (33.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 5 (33.33%) Power BI
7 5 (33.33%) DevOps
8 4 (26.67%) Analytics
8 4 (26.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (26.67%) Degree
9 3 (20.00%) ETL
9 3 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
9 3 (20.00%) Visualisation
9 3 (20.00%) Git
9 3 (20.00%) Azure Functions
9 3 (20.00%) Serverless
9 3 (20.00%) Data Strategy
9 3 (20.00%) Terraform
9 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (13.33%) Data Engineering

Azure Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (53.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 4 (26.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) Azure Functions
5 3 (20.00%) Serverless
6 1 (6.67%) Azure AI
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) Data Lake
1 8 (53.33%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (33.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 5 (33.33%) Power BI
3 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.67%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (33.33%) Data Management
2 5 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) Analytics
4 3 (20.00%) Data Strategy
4 3 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (20.00%) ETL
4 3 (20.00%) Visualisation
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
5 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
5 2 (13.33%) Data Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) Data Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Data Integration
5 2 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (6.67%) Observability
6 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) Python
2 7 (46.67%) SQL
3 6 (40.00%) R
4 2 (13.33%) T-SQL
5 1 (6.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
3 1 (6.67%) Numerate Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Databricks
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) OpenAI