Azure Engineer Jobs in Birmingham

Microsoft Azure Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in Birmingham is £46,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 130 106
Rank change year-on-year +26 -24 +13
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 8 19 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.55% 0.69% 1.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.74% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 7 18 32
10th Percentile £40,900 £42,915 £36,375
25th Percentile £44,000 £54,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £65,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -29.23% +6.12% -12.50%
75th Percentile £67,750 £68,750 £75,898
90th Percentile £96,500 £88,750 £84,750
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -18.52%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 1,369 2,580 1,843
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 94.33% 93.46%
Number of salaries quoted 790 2,106 1,411
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,800 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,964 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in Birmingham

Azure Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Azure Engineer in Birmingham

Azure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Engineer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2025, 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 Birmingham region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
3 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (62.50%) Windows
3 5 (62.50%) WAN
3 5 (62.50%) VPN
3 5 (62.50%) Firewall
3 5 (62.50%) VLAN
3 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
3 5 (62.50%) Entra ID
3 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (50.00%) Proactive Management
4 4 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 4 (50.00%) Cost Management
4 4 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (50.00%) Security Operations
4 4 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (50.00%) Privileged Identity Management
4 4 (50.00%) SD-WAN
4 4 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (50.00%) Zero Trust
4 4 (50.00%) Azure Certification
4 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 4 (50.00%) Threat Management
4 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (50.00%) Amazon EC2

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Entra ID
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 4 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (50.00%) Route 53
4 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
5 1 (12.50%) Cloudflare
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
1 5 (62.50%) VLAN
1 5 (62.50%) VPN
1 5 (62.50%) WAN
2 4 (50.00%) HTTPS
2 4 (50.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (12.50%) BGP
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) MPLS
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security
3 1 (12.50%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 4 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 4 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 4 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (50.00%) Privileged Identity Management
2 4 (50.00%) Proactive Management
2 4 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 4 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 4 (50.00%) Threat Management
2 4 (50.00%) Zero Trust
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) Go
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) SCCM
3 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Aruba
2 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 1 (12.50%) Meraki
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto