Azure Engineer Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > East of England

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in the East of England is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 161 118
Rank change year-on-year +30 -43 +99
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 24 17 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.58% 0.48% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.54% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 23 12 27
10th Percentile £61,500 £41,000 £38,000
25th Percentile - - £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £50,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -33.33% +30.43%
75th Percentile £80,000 £50,375 £87,500
90th Percentile £86,750 £51,500 £94,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% +1.54% -7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 East of England with a recognized job title 3,711 3,141 2,328
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.36% 89.41% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,253 1,409 1,764
10th Percentile £27,800 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,800
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.81% -6.02%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Azure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure Engineer
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in the East of England.

Salary distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in the East of England

Azure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Engineer in the East of England

Azure Engineer
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Engineer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Hertfordshire +27 18 £75,000 -6.25% 3
Norfolk - 3 £80,000 - 3
Suffolk - 2 £82,500 - 2
Essex -7 1 £62,500 +37.36% 3
Azure Engineer
England

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 13 January 2026, Azure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the East of England region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (66.67%) Roadmaps
3 13 (54.17%) Azure Logic Apps
4 12 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 12 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 12 (50.00%) Windows
4 12 (50.00%) Windows Server
5 8 (33.33%) Power Platform
6 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
6 7 (29.17%) PowerApps
7 6 (25.00%) Cloud Security
7 6 (25.00%) Cost Management
7 6 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 6 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 5 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (20.83%) C#
8 5 (20.83%) DevOps
8 5 (20.83%) Event-Driven
8 5 (20.83%) High Availability
9 4 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
9 4 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 4 (16.67%) Microservices
9 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
10 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
10 3 (12.50%) Design Patterns
10 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
10 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (54.17%) Azure Logic Apps
3 8 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 7 (29.17%) PowerApps
5 5 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (8.33%) SaaS
7 1 (4.17%) AWS
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Storage
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.17%) GitHub
7 1 (4.17%) IaaS
7 1 (4.17%) PaaS
7 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) iSCSI
2 1 (4.17%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (4.17%) SAN
2 1 (4.17%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 2 (8.33%) Finance
1 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) ARM Templates
1 2 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (4.17%) .NET
2 1 (4.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (50.00%) Windows
1 12 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 12 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
4 6 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 6 (25.00%) Cost Management
4 6 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 6 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 5 (20.83%) DevOps
5 5 (20.83%) Event-Driven
5 5 (20.83%) High Availability
6 4 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 4 (16.67%) Microservices
7 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
7 3 (12.50%) Design Patterns
7 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
7 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) C#
2 3 (12.50%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.33%) SQL
4 1 (4.17%) Bash
4 1 (4.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
1 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 12 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) SCCM
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Databricks
2 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft
2 1 (4.17%) Pega
2 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.17%) SAP
2 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.17%) VMware