Microsoft Azure Engineer
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 322 410
Rank change year-on-year -26 +88 -178
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 829 1,035 1,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.81% 1.06% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 1.16% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 601 880 1,157
10th Percentile £42,250 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.46% +8.33% +15.11%

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 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
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 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Azure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in the UK

Azure Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer.

Salary trend for Azure Engineer in the UK

Azure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Engineer in the UK

Azure Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 -15 730 £65,000 -7.14% 147
UK excluding London +3 492 £59,500 -8.46% 86
Work from Home -71 300 £65,000 -3.70% 94
London +4 271 £71,500 -7.74% 68
North of England +34 160 £59,750 -8.57% 24
Midlands +63 144 £55,000 +1.85% 18
North West +73 118 £53,750 -17.75% 16
South East -51 93 £60,000 -11.11% 23
East Midlands +63 92 £55,000 +7.32% 8
West Midlands +3 52 £57,500 +6.48% 10
Scotland -46 34 £65,000 +8.33% 6
Yorkshire +1 32 £70,000 +7.11% 6
South West -41 28 £60,000 -8.19% 10
East of England -5 20 £61,250 +11.36% 1
Wales +2 12 £50,685 +12.63% 3
North East -8 12 £75,000 +36.36% 2
Northern Ireland +13 2 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Azure 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 829 (100.00%) Azure
2 317 (38.24%) DevOps
3 308 (37.15%) SQL
4 284 (34.26%) Microsoft
5 267 (32.21%) Agile
6 237 (28.59%) Windows
6 237 (28.59%) Terraform
7 209 (25.21%) CI/CD
8 197 (23.76%) Azure DevOps
9 185 (22.32%) Python
10 177 (21.35%) Kubernetes
11 175 (21.11%) Linux
12 173 (20.87%) PowerShell
13 170 (20.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 167 (20.14%) C#
15 160 (19.30%) .NET
15 160 (19.30%) Infrastructure as Code
16 154 (18.58%) Mentoring
17 150 (18.09%) Finance
18 143 (17.25%) Artificial Intelligence
19 137 (16.53%) JavaScript
20 134 (16.16%) PostgreSQL
21 128 (15.44%) Public Sector
21 128 (15.44%) Design Patterns
22 127 (15.32%) MongoDB
23 126 (15.20%) Social Skills
24 122 (14.72%) Algorithms
24 122 (14.72%) React
24 122 (14.72%) OOP
25 121 (14.60%) Hybrid Cloud

Azure 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 32 (3.86%) Microsoft Exchange
1 32 (3.86%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.53%) IIS
3 7 (0.84%) WordPress
4 6 (0.72%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.72%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.48%) CMS
5 4 (0.48%) Confluence
5 4 (0.48%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.24%) Apache
6 2 (0.24%) SAS
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 24 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 829 (100.00%) Azure
2 197 (23.76%) Azure DevOps
3 117 (14.11%) Microsoft 365
4 110 (13.27%) IBM Cloud
5 96 (11.58%) Entra ID
6 92 (11.10%) PaaS
7 85 (10.25%) Power Platform
8 79 (9.53%) Azure Data Factory
9 73 (8.81%) SaaS
10 72 (8.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 66 (7.96%) AWS
11 66 (7.96%) IaaS
12 60 (7.24%) Azure AKS
13 50 (6.03%) GitHub
14 40 (4.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 33 (3.98%) Serverless
16 32 (3.86%) GCP
17 31 (3.74%) Azure Monitor
18 22 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
19 21 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 95 (11.46%) Firewall
2 63 (7.60%) DNS
3 44 (5.31%) Network Security
4 43 (5.19%) VPN
5 30 (3.62%) WAN
6 19 (2.29%) TCP/IP
7 18 (2.17%) LAN
8 15 (1.81%) DHCP
9 12 (1.45%) SD-WAN
9 12 (1.45%) Wireless
10 10 (1.21%) BGP
10 10 (1.21%) SAN
10 10 (1.21%) Unified Communications
11 9 (1.09%) OSPF
12 8 (0.97%) iSCSI
12 8 (0.97%) NAS
12 8 (0.97%) VoIP
13 7 (0.84%) Fibre Channel
13 7 (0.84%) IPv4
13 7 (0.84%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (16.16%) PostgreSQL
2 127 (15.32%) MongoDB
3 120 (14.48%) NoSQL
4 110 (13.27%) DB2
5 79 (9.53%) Data Lake
6 77 (9.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 77 (9.29%) Data Warehouse
7 76 (9.17%) Power BI
8 74 (8.93%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 20 (2.41%) Big Data
11 19 (2.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 18 (2.17%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 18 (2.17%) MySQL
13 17 (2.05%) Metadata
13 17 (2.05%) Relational Database
14 16 (1.93%) Redis
15 13 (1.57%) Delta Lake
15 13 (1.57%) MariaDB
16 8 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 51 (6.15%) Git
2 32 (3.86%) Jenkins
3 18 (2.17%) GitLab
4 14 (1.69%) Octopus Deploy
5 13 (1.57%) TeamCity
6 11 (1.33%) MLflow
7 10 (1.21%) Team Foundation Server
8 8 (0.97%) JIRA
8 8 (0.97%) MSBuild
9 7 (0.84%) Katalon Studio
10 4 (0.48%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.48%) git-flow
10 4 (0.48%) Subversion
10 4 (0.48%) Visual Studio Team System
11 2 (0.24%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.24%) Maven
12 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.12%) Vagrant
General
1 170 (20.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 150 (18.09%) Finance
3 128 (15.44%) Public Sector
4 126 (15.20%) Social Skills
5 34 (4.10%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.98%) Law
7 22 (2.65%) Marketing
8 19 (2.29%) Legal
9 18 (2.17%) Retail
10 15 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (1.81%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.45%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.21%) Electronics
13 9 (1.09%) Banking
13 9 (1.09%) Games
14 8 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.60%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (19.30%) .NET
2 122 (14.72%) React
3 117 (14.11%) ASP.NET
4 116 (13.99%) AngularJS
5 115 (13.87%) REST
6 113 (13.63%) ASP.NET Core
6 113 (13.63%) CSS
6 113 (13.63%) HTML
7 110 (13.27%) Backbone.js
7 110 (13.27%) Ember.js
7 110 (13.27%) jQuery
7 110 (13.27%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 110 (13.27%) Vue
7 110 (13.27%) Web Services
8 48 (5.79%) PySpark
9 29 (3.50%) ARM Templates
10 28 (3.38%) YAML
11 22 (2.65%) JSON
12 17 (2.05%) .NET Core
13 8 (0.97%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 122 (14.72%) Algorithms
2 121 (14.60%) Hybrid Cloud
3 118 (14.23%) Data Structures
4 111 (13.39%) Blockchain
5 110 (13.27%) e-Learning
6 38 (4.58%) Cloud Native
7 33 (3.98%) Linux Command Line
8 29 (3.50%) Public Cloud
9 20 (2.41%) Product Ownership
10 17 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
11 16 (1.93%) Data Centre
12 15 (1.81%) Private Cloud
13 11 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.33%) Security Posture
14 10 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
14 10 (1.21%) NHS
15 9 (1.09%) Client/Server
15 9 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
15 9 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
16 8 (0.97%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 237 (28.59%) Windows
2 175 (21.11%) Linux
3 112 (13.51%) Android
3 112 (13.51%) Apple iOS
4 78 (9.41%) Windows Server
5 25 (3.02%) VMS
6 14 (1.69%) Windows 10
7 13 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
8 10 (1.21%) Ubuntu
8 10 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.48%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.24%) CentOS
11 2 (0.24%) Unix
11 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.12%) Debian
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (38.24%) DevOps
2 267 (32.21%) Agile
3 209 (25.21%) CI/CD
4 160 (19.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 154 (18.58%) Mentoring
6 143 (17.25%) Artificial Intelligence
7 128 (15.44%) Design Patterns
8 122 (14.72%) OOP
9 120 (14.48%) Coaching
9 120 (14.48%) OO
10 119 (14.35%) Full Stack Development
11 113 (13.63%) MVC
12 112 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 111 (13.39%) Code Quality
13 111 (13.39%) Design Thinking
13 111 (13.39%) User Experience
14 110 (13.27%) Co-Creation
14 110 (13.27%) MVVM
14 110 (13.27%) Responsive Web Design
14 110 (13.27%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 308 (37.15%) SQL
2 185 (22.32%) Python
3 173 (20.87%) PowerShell
4 167 (20.14%) C#
5 137 (16.53%) JavaScript
6 56 (6.76%) Bash
7 55 (6.63%) Java
8 28 (3.38%) Bicep
9 25 (3.02%) T-SQL
10 21 (2.53%) Go
11 17 (2.05%) Ruby
12 11 (1.33%) TypeScript
13 10 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (1.09%) U-SQL
15 8 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.84%) Groovy
16 7 (0.84%) Perl
16 7 (0.84%) PHP
17 3 (0.36%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 82 (9.89%) Azure Certification
2 45 (5.43%) Degree
3 35 (4.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (2.53%) Security Cleared
5 11 (1.33%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (0.84%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.48%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.24%) CISSP
10 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.12%) CCNA
11 1 (0.12%) CEH
11 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.12%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.22%) Data Quality
2 12 (1.45%) QA
3 11 (1.33%) GDPR
4 9 (1.09%) SLA
5 6 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.48%) NIST
7 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.12%) NCSC
8 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 112 (13.51%) Active Directory
2 101 (12.18%) Docker
3 24 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.81%) Hyper-V
6 9 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.97%) vSphere
8 6 (0.72%) XenDesktop
9 5 (0.60%) XenApp
10 4 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.24%) NFS
11 2 (0.24%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.12%) Firmware
12 1 (0.12%) pfSense
12 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 237 (28.59%) Terraform
2 177 (21.35%) Kubernetes
3 66 (7.96%) Ansible
4 38 (4.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (3.62%) Puppet
6 23 (2.77%) Grafana
6 23 (2.77%) Progress Chef
6 23 (2.77%) Prometheus
7 17 (2.05%) SCCM
8 10 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.84%) Salt
11 6 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.60%) CASB
12 5 (0.60%) Pingdom
13 3 (0.36%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.36%) Packer
13 3 (0.36%) WSUS
14 2 (0.24%) Istio
14 2 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 284 (34.26%) Microsoft
2 110 (13.27%) IBM
2 110 (13.27%) Red Hat
3 90 (10.86%) Databricks
4 36 (4.34%) VMware
5 27 (3.26%) Cisco
6 21 (2.53%) SolarWinds
7 18 (2.17%) Meraki
8 14 (1.69%) SAP
8 14 (1.69%) Zscaler
9 13 (1.57%) Palo Alto
9 13 (1.57%) Veeam
10 11 (1.33%) Citrix
10 11 (1.33%) New Relic
10 11 (1.33%) Remedy
11 9 (1.09%) Oracle
12 8 (0.97%) Aruba
12 8 (0.97%) Synology
13 7 (0.84%) ProCurve
13 7 (0.84%) Zerto