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Hire cloud data engineers in the UK

What cloud data engineers are paid, what to name in the advert, and who you are up against — from the adverts on Data Engineering Jobs, not a survey. Looking for the roles themselves? See Cloud Data Engineer jobs.

What you will pay

£45k to £100k, most around £68k

The range employers advertised for cloud data engineers on Data Engineering Jobs over the last 12 months, base salary only, across 41 priced adverts. Adverts that state a salary get more applications than those that hide it, and a figure at or above the midpoint is the single cheapest thing you can do for the response.

Remote or anchored

A fully remote role draws the whole country and can pay a little under the London figure; an anchored one competes locally and cannot.
Greenfield or inherited

Building from nothing is worth more to the right person than running what exists, and they will ask which it is.
Someone senior to learn from

A strong lead in the team is worth thousands on the offer; without one, expect to pay for that experience directly.

Who you are competing with

Hiring cloud data engineers on Data Engineering Jobs right now

Three live adverts for the role, as candidates see them. How rivals pitch it is worth a look before you write yours.

Lynx Recruitment

AWS Data Engineer

London
Hybrid
£40,000 – £70,000 pa
Mid-level

Client-facing role designing and building scalable cloud data platforms for enterprise clients, with hands-on work on ETL/ELT pipelines, data architectures and ingestion, transformation and orchestration tooling. Tech stack centres on AWS, Databricks, Python, SQL and DBT, with scope to apply emerging technologies such as Agentic AI.

AWS · Databricks · S3 +6

2 weeks ago

Microlise

Senior AWS Data Engineer

Langley Mill
£55,000 pa
Senior
Contract

Hands-on engineering role building a greenfield AWS Analytics and AI platform on a 12-month fixed term contract, turning operational, telematics and third-party data into governed, reusable data products. You'll build lakehouse pipelines with S3, Glue, Athena, Lake Formation, DMS and Step Functions, embedding data quality, lineage, metadata and access controls, and mentor others in the team.

AWS · S3 · AWS Glue +7

3 weeks ago

TXP

Azure Data Engineer

London
Hybrid · 1–2 days in office
£450 – £500 pd
Contract

Designs and implements a data migration and integration approach between an Azure SQL source system and Salesforce. Requires strong Azure SQL, Python, ETL, Salesforce REST API and batch (CSV) processing skills, with immediate availability for a short-notice start. The contract runs in three-month phases, with one to two days per week in London.

Azure · Azure SQL · Salesforce +2