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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 749 830 986
Rank change year-on-year +81 +156 -221
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Data Engineer 135 145 259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.15% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.16% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 128 124 200
10th Percentile £55,700 £43,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £90,000
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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 20 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 20 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 +61 110 £65,000 - 42
London +108 74 £65,000 -7.14% 30
Work from Home +92 61 £65,000 +8.33% 18
UK excluding London -14 45 £65,000 +18.18% 15
North of England +36 13 £75,000 +7.91% 2
West Midlands +6 11 £61,250 +16.67% 2
Midlands -19 11 £61,250 +11.36% 4
Scotland -55 10 £65,000 +8.33% 1
South East +7 6 £60,000 +4.68% 3
North West -1 6 £62,500 +4.17% 2
South West -18 5 £67,500 +80.00% 5
North East -2 4 £75,000 +1.35%
Yorkshire +83 3 £85,000 +18.88%

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 135 (100.00%) Azure
2 109 (80.74%) SQL
3 80 (59.26%) Databricks
4 74 (54.81%) Data Warehouse
5 72 (53.33%) Data Lake
6 71 (52.59%) Business Intelligence
7 67 (49.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 63 (46.67%) Python
9 61 (45.19%) Power BI
9 61 (45.19%) Power Platform
10 60 (44.44%) Data Engineering
10 60 (44.44%) ETL
11 57 (42.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 56 (41.48%) Analytics
13 51 (37.78%) DevOps
14 43 (31.85%) Azure SQL Database
14 43 (31.85%) Microsoft
14 43 (31.85%) Data Pipeline
15 39 (28.89%) PySpark
16 38 (28.15%) Agile
17 36 (26.67%) Data Modelling
18 33 (24.44%) CI/CD
19 32 (23.70%) Data Quality
20 29 (21.48%) Finance
21 27 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
22 24 (17.78%) Visualisation
23 23 (17.04%) Machine Learning
23 23 (17.04%) SQL Server
23 23 (17.04%) T-SQL
23 23 (17.04%) Data Science

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 (4.44%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.74%) Apache
2 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.74%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 5 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 135 (100.00%) Azure
2 67 (49.63%) Azure Data Factory
3 61 (45.19%) Power Platform
4 57 (42.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 27 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 9 (6.67%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
7 9 (6.67%) GCP
7 9 (6.67%) Snowflake
8 8 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (5.19%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (4.44%) Azure AKS
10 6 (4.44%) Azure Machine Learning
10 6 (4.44%) PaaS
10 6 (4.44%) Serverless
11 5 (3.70%) Azure Functions
11 5 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (3.70%) GitHub
11 5 (3.70%) IaaS
11 5 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (54.81%) Data Warehouse
2 72 (53.33%) Data Lake
3 61 (45.19%) Power BI
4 43 (31.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 23 (17.04%) SQL Server
6 22 (16.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 20 (14.81%) Big Data
8 17 (12.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 16 (11.85%) Metadata
9 16 (11.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 14 (10.37%) Delta Lake
11 11 (8.15%) Relational Database
12 5 (3.70%) BigQuery
12 5 (3.70%) Data Vault
12 5 (3.70%) Hadoop
12 5 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (2.96%) NoSQL
13 4 (2.96%) Parquet
14 3 (2.22%) Spark SQL
14 3 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (7.41%) MLflow
2 1 (0.74%) CircleCI
2 1 (0.74%) JIRA
General
1 29 (21.48%) Finance
2 18 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (9.63%) Social Skills
4 7 (5.19%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.70%) Games
6 5 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.96%) Retail
8 3 (2.22%) Legal
9 2 (1.48%) Electronics
9 2 (1.48%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.48%) Marketing
9 2 (1.48%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.48%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.74%) Advertising
10 1 (0.74%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (28.89%) PySpark
2 7 (5.19%) JSON
3 3 (2.22%) Pandas
4 2 (1.48%) FastAPI
4 2 (1.48%) Flask
4 2 (1.48%) RESTful
4 2 (1.48%) SOAP
5 1 (0.74%) Kafka
5 1 (0.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (5.93%) Algorithms
3 7 (5.19%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (5.19%) NHS
4 6 (4.44%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.22%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.22%) IoT
7 2 (1.48%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.74%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (52.59%) Business Intelligence
2 60 (44.44%) Data Engineering
2 60 (44.44%) ETL
3 56 (41.48%) Analytics
4 51 (37.78%) DevOps
5 43 (31.85%) Data Pipeline
6 38 (28.15%) Agile
7 36 (26.67%) Data Modelling
8 33 (24.44%) CI/CD
9 24 (17.78%) Visualisation
10 23 (17.04%) Data Science
10 23 (17.04%) Machine Learning
11 18 (13.33%) Data Governance
11 18 (13.33%) Data Integration
12 17 (12.59%) Data Architecture
12 17 (12.59%) Data Visualisation
12 17 (12.59%) Mentoring
13 15 (11.11%) Metadata Management
13 15 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (10.37%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 109 (80.74%) SQL
2 63 (46.67%) Python
3 23 (17.04%) T-SQL
4 10 (7.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 9 (6.67%) U-SQL
6 6 (4.44%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.48%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.48%) Scala
8 1 (0.74%) C#
8 1 (0.74%) Java
8 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (9.63%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (4.44%) Azure Certification
3 4 (2.96%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.48%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (23.70%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.93%) GDPR
3 2 (1.48%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (9.63%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 80 (59.26%) Databricks
2 43 (31.85%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.44%) SAP
4 4 (2.96%) Talend
5 1 (0.74%) Informatica
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle
5 1 (0.74%) Sparx