Azure Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 204 201 190
Rank change year-on-year -3 -11 -61
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 48 64 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.65% 1.00% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 1.11% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 45 59 96
10th Percentile £39,250 £37,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £44,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -18.52% +22.73%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,625 £74,063
90th Percentile £68,750 £77,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,919 5,770 6,912
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.16% 90.24% 94.87%
Number of salaries quoted 5,204 3,275 4,763
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in the West Midlands

Azure Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Azure Engineer in the West Midlands

Azure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Engineer in the West Midlands

Azure Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 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
Birmingham -22 19 £65,000 +13.04% 5
Staffordshire -19 15 £57,500 +21.05% 1
Shropshire - 4 £40,000 - 1
Wolverhampton +14 2 £40,000 -33.72%
Coventry +27 1 - - 1
Azure Engineer
England

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 8 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 48 (100.00%) Azure
2 29 (60.42%) DevOps
3 25 (52.08%) Microsoft
4 21 (43.75%) SQL
5 17 (35.42%) SQL Server
5 17 (35.42%) Terraform
5 17 (35.42%) CI/CD
6 16 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (31.25%) Windows
8 14 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (29.17%) Power Platform
8 14 (29.17%) Power BI
9 13 (27.08%) Data Lake
9 13 (27.08%) Finance
10 12 (25.00%) Agile
10 12 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (22.92%) Databricks
11 11 (22.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (22.92%) Metadata
11 11 (22.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 11 (22.92%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (22.92%) ETL
11 11 (22.92%) T-SQL
11 11 (22.92%) Data Quality
11 11 (22.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 11 (22.92%) Relational Database
11 11 (22.92%) Metadata Management
11 11 (22.92%) Kubernetes
12 10 (20.83%) Data Protection
13 9 (18.75%) Data Engineering

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (8.33%) IIS
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 48 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (29.17%) Power Platform
4 12 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (22.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 9 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (16.67%) Entra ID
8 7 (14.58%) SaaS
9 5 (10.42%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (6.25%) PaaS
10 3 (6.25%) Power Automate
10 3 (6.25%) PowerApps
11 2 (4.17%) AWS
11 2 (4.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (4.17%) IaaS
12 1 (2.08%) Azure Functions
12 1 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (2.08%) Azure Stack
12 1 (2.08%) GCP
12 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) Firewall
1 2 (4.17%) Network Security
2 1 (2.08%) 3GPP
2 1 (2.08%) 5G
2 1 (2.08%) Internet
2 1 (2.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (35.42%) SQL Server
2 14 (29.17%) Power BI
3 13 (27.08%) Data Lake
4 11 (22.92%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (22.92%) Metadata
4 11 (22.92%) Relational Database
4 11 (22.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 11 (22.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (14.58%) Big Data
5 7 (14.58%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (2.08%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Octopus Deploy
1 4 (8.33%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (27.08%) Finance
2 7 (14.58%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.25%) Digital Healthcare
4 3 (6.25%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.08%) Back Office
6 1 (2.08%) Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Legal
6 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.42%) .NET
2 4 (8.33%) .NET Core
3 3 (6.25%) PySpark
4 1 (2.08%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.75%) NHS
2 7 (14.58%) Algorithms
2 7 (14.58%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (10.42%) PKI
3 5 (10.42%) Product Ownership
4 4 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 4 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (6.25%) Low-Code
6 2 (4.17%) BYOD
7 1 (2.08%) CCTV
7 1 (2.08%) Fixed Income
7 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
7 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (31.25%) Windows
2 8 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.33%) VMS
4 2 (4.17%) Android
4 2 (4.17%) Apple iOS
4 2 (4.17%) Linux
4 2 (4.17%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.08%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (60.42%) DevOps
2 17 (35.42%) CI/CD
3 14 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (25.00%) Agile
5 11 (22.92%) ETL
5 11 (22.92%) Metadata Management
6 10 (20.83%) Data Protection
7 9 (18.75%) Analytics
7 9 (18.75%) Data Engineering
8 8 (16.67%) Data Acquisition
8 8 (16.67%) Data Modelling
8 8 (16.67%) ITIL
8 8 (16.67%) Machine Learning
8 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (16.67%) Software Engineering
9 7 (14.58%) Data Privacy
9 7 (14.58%) Identity Management
10 6 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (12.50%) Roadmaps
11 5 (10.42%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (43.75%) SQL
2 11 (22.92%) T-SQL
3 9 (18.75%) Python
4 6 (12.50%) C#
4 6 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.33%) Bicep
6 2 (4.17%) Bash
6 2 (4.17%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 3 (6.25%) Degree
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.92%) Data Quality
2 8 (16.67%) GDPR
3 4 (8.33%) QA
4 2 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.08%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 7 (14.58%) Docker
3 6 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (10.42%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (35.42%) Terraform
2 11 (22.92%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.42%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.08%) CASB
Vendors
1 25 (52.08%) Microsoft
2 11 (22.92%) Databricks
3 7 (14.58%) VMware
4 3 (6.25%) OpenAI