Azure Data Engineer Jobs

Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in the UK is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 769 807 995
Rank change year-on-year +38 +188 -232
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 138 140 268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.15% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.16% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 132 122 203
10th Percentile £56,250 £42,875 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £51,563 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,925 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% - +2.33%

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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +21 114 £65,000 - 32
London +120 76 £65,000 -7.14% 20
Work from Home +51 62 £65,000 +8.33% 10
UK excluding London -36 47 £65,000 +18.18% 11
North of England +35 14 £75,000 +7.91% 1
West Midlands -19 12 £60,000 +14.29% 2
Midlands -23 12 £60,000 +11.63% 3
Scotland -56 10 £65,000 +8.33%
North West -2 7 £65,000 +8.33% 1
South East -10 7 £60,000 +4.68% 4
North East -11 4 £75,000 +1.35%
South West -23 4 £65,000 +73.33% 3
Yorkshire +64 3 £85,000 +18.88%

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 138 (100.00%) Azure
2 108 (78.26%) SQL
3 82 (59.42%) Databricks
4 74 (53.62%) Data Warehouse
5 73 (52.90%) Business Intelligence
5 73 (52.90%) Data Lake
6 68 (49.28%) Azure Data Factory
7 63 (45.65%) Power Platform
7 63 (45.65%) Power BI
8 62 (44.93%) Data Engineering
8 62 (44.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 59 (42.75%) Analytics
9 59 (42.75%) ETL
9 59 (42.75%) Python
10 48 (34.78%) DevOps
11 45 (32.61%) Microsoft
11 45 (32.61%) Azure SQL Database
12 41 (29.71%) PySpark
12 41 (29.71%) Data Pipeline
13 36 (26.09%) Agile
14 35 (25.36%) Data Modelling
14 35 (25.36%) CI/CD
15 33 (23.91%) Data Quality
16 31 (22.46%) Finance
17 26 (18.84%) T-SQL
17 26 (18.84%) Machine Learning
18 25 (18.12%) Azure DevOps
18 25 (18.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 24 (17.39%) SQL Server
19 24 (17.39%) Inclusion and Diversity

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 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.72%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 138 (100.00%) Azure
2 68 (49.28%) Azure Data Factory
3 63 (45.65%) Power Platform
4 62 (44.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 25 (18.12%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (11.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 9 (6.52%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
7 9 (6.52%) Snowflake
8 8 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (5.07%) Azure AKS
9 7 (5.07%) Azure Machine Learning
9 7 (5.07%) GCP
10 6 (4.35%) PaaS
11 5 (3.62%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (3.62%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (3.62%) GitHub
11 5 (3.62%) IaaS
11 5 (3.62%) SaaS
11 5 (3.62%) Serverless
12 4 (2.90%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.52%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (53.62%) Data Warehouse
2 73 (52.90%) Data Lake
3 63 (45.65%) Power BI
4 45 (32.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (18.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 24 (17.39%) SQL Server
7 20 (14.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 19 (13.77%) Big Data
8 19 (13.77%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 14 (10.14%) Metadata
10 12 (8.70%) Relational Database
11 10 (7.25%) Delta Lake
12 7 (5.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (3.62%) Hadoop
13 5 (3.62%) NoSQL
14 4 (2.90%) BigQuery
15 3 (2.17%) Spark SQL
15 3 (2.17%) Tableau
16 2 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
17 1 (0.72%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 11 (7.97%) MLflow
2 2 (1.45%) Git
3 1 (0.72%) CircleCI
General
1 31 (22.46%) Finance
2 24 (17.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (10.14%) Social Skills
4 8 (5.80%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (3.62%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.62%) Games
5 5 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (2.90%) Retail
7 1 (0.72%) Advertising
7 1 (0.72%) Legal
7 1 (0.72%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (29.71%) PySpark
2 7 (5.07%) JSON
3 3 (2.17%) Pandas
3 3 (2.17%) SOAP
4 2 (1.45%) FastAPI
4 2 (1.45%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.52%) Algorithms
1 9 (6.52%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (5.80%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (5.80%) NHS
3 5 (3.62%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.17%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.45%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.72%) IoT
7 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (52.90%) Business Intelligence
2 62 (44.93%) Data Engineering
3 59 (42.75%) Analytics
3 59 (42.75%) ETL
4 48 (34.78%) DevOps
5 41 (29.71%) Data Pipeline
6 36 (26.09%) Agile
7 35 (25.36%) CI/CD
7 35 (25.36%) Data Modelling
8 26 (18.84%) Machine Learning
9 21 (15.22%) Data Science
10 19 (13.77%) Data Governance
10 19 (13.77%) Visualisation
11 17 (12.32%) Data Architecture
11 17 (12.32%) Mentoring
12 15 (10.87%) Data Integration
12 15 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (10.14%) Data Analytics
13 14 (10.14%) Data Visualisation
13 14 (10.14%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 108 (78.26%) SQL
2 59 (42.75%) Python
3 26 (18.84%) T-SQL
4 10 (7.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 9 (6.52%) U-SQL
6 4 (2.90%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.72%) Java
7 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (9.42%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (2.90%) Azure Certification
2 4 (2.90%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.72%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (23.91%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.52%) GDPR
3 2 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (10.14%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.97%) Terraform
Vendors
1 82 (59.42%) Databricks
2 45 (32.61%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.90%) SAP
3 4 (2.90%) Talend
4 1 (0.72%) Sparx