Azure Engineer Jobs in England

Microsoft Azure Engineer
UK > England

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 382 322 321
Rank change year-on-year -60 -1 +60
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 300 715 995
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.65% 0.84% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.89% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 260 523 824
10th Percentile £46,475 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,375 £54,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £89,063 £77,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 41,506 80,486 84,681
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.46% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,507 60,251 53,657
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in England

Azure Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Azure Engineer in England

Azure Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Engineer in England

Azure Engineer
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +38 166 £85,000 +18.88% 59
South East +58 44 £70,000 +16.67% 37
North of England -33 36 £62,500 +4.17% 19
North West -56 29 £57,500 +4.55% 13
Midlands -33 22 £46,000 -16.36% 6
West Midlands +18 15 £57,500 +4.55% 2
South West +89 12 £73,750 +15.69% 14
East of England +46 11 £67,000 +9.39% 5
Yorkshire +53 10 £55,000 -22.07% 5
East Midlands -33 7 £40,000 -26.27% 4
North East +41 1 £75,500 +0.67% 1
Azure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 England region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 300 (100.00%) Azure
2 160 (53.33%) DevOps
3 143 (47.67%) CI/CD
4 130 (43.33%) Terraform
5 124 (41.33%) Microsoft
6 109 (36.33%) Python
7 100 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
8 95 (31.67%) Kubernetes
9 92 (30.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 90 (30.00%) PowerShell
11 89 (29.67%) Social Skills
12 82 (27.33%) Finance
13 78 (26.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 75 (25.00%) SQL
15 66 (22.00%) Windows
15 66 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
16 59 (19.67%) Agile
17 54 (18.00%) Docker
18 53 (17.67%) Databricks
19 52 (17.33%) PaaS
20 51 (17.00%) Azure Certification
21 50 (16.67%) Firewall
22 49 (16.33%) Azure Data Factory
23 48 (16.00%) Windows Server
23 48 (16.00%) Analytics
24 42 (14.00%) Ansible
24 42 (14.00%) Active Directory
25 41 (13.67%) Containerisation
25 41 (13.67%) Platform Engineering
26 40 (13.33%) Cloud Security

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 15 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (4.33%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.00%) Confluence
5 3 (1.00%) IIS
6 2 (0.67%) Apache
6 2 (0.67%) WordPress
7 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 300 (100.00%) Azure
2 100 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 52 (17.33%) PaaS
4 49 (16.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 38 (12.67%) AWS
6 35 (11.67%) IaaS
7 34 (11.33%) Entra ID
8 31 (10.33%) GitHub
8 31 (10.33%) SaaS
9 30 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
9 30 (10.00%) Power Platform
10 28 (9.33%) Azure AKS
11 27 (9.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 19 (6.33%) Serverless
13 17 (5.67%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (5.67%) GCP
14 16 (5.33%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (5.00%) Azure Functions
16 12 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
16 12 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 50 (16.67%) Firewall
2 21 (7.00%) VPN
3 16 (5.33%) DNS
4 14 (4.67%) SD-WAN
4 14 (4.67%) WAN
5 13 (4.33%) LAN
5 13 (4.33%) Network Security
6 8 (2.67%) DHCP
7 7 (2.33%) BGP
7 7 (2.33%) Cisco IOS
7 7 (2.33%) OSPF
8 6 (2.00%) BIG-IP
8 6 (2.00%) Cisco ISE
8 6 (2.00%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (2.00%) TACACS
8 6 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (2.00%) Wireless
8 6 (2.00%) WLAN
9 5 (1.67%) VLAN
10 4 (1.33%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (13.00%) SQL Server
2 29 (9.67%) Data Lake
3 27 (9.00%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (7.00%) Power BI
5 11 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.00%) MySQL
8 5 (1.67%) Big Data
8 5 (1.67%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.33%) HDInsight
9 4 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.00%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.00%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.67%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.67%) Metadata
12 1 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.33%) Power Query
12 1 (0.33%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (8.67%) Jenkins
2 19 (6.33%) Git
3 7 (2.33%) JIRA
4 6 (2.00%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (2.00%) Selenium
4 6 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (1.67%) GitLab
6 2 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.67%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.67%) Postman
6 2 (0.67%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.67%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.33%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.33%) JMeter
7 1 (0.33%) kappa
7 1 (0.33%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.33%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.33%) Vagrant
General
1 89 (29.67%) Social Skills
2 82 (27.33%) Finance
3 17 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.33%) Banking
6 7 (2.33%) Law
6 7 (2.33%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.67%) Advertising
7 5 (1.67%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.67%) Legal
8 4 (1.33%) Automotive
8 4 (1.33%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.00%) Front Office
9 3 (1.00%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.00%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.33%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.33%) Military
10 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.33%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.33%) ARM Templates
2 15 (5.00%) .NET
2 15 (5.00%) PySpark
3 11 (3.67%) YAML
4 9 (3.00%) 802.1X
5 7 (2.33%) Azure Blueprints
5 7 (2.33%) Kafka
5 7 (2.33%) SAML
6 5 (1.67%) SailPoint
7 4 (1.33%) REST
8 3 (1.00%) Node.js
8 3 (1.00%) pytest
8 3 (1.00%) React
9 2 (0.67%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.67%) .NET Framework
9 2 (0.67%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.67%) GraphQL
9 2 (0.67%) Middleware
9 2 (0.67%) OpenID
9 2 (0.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (3.67%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.00%) Clustering
4 9 (3.00%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 8 (2.67%) Hedge funds
6 7 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.33%) e-Learning
6 7 (2.33%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.00%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.00%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.67%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.33%) IoT
9 4 (1.33%) Life Science
9 4 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 66 (22.00%) Windows
2 48 (16.00%) Windows Server
3 33 (11.00%) Linux
4 11 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.67%) VMS
5 5 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.33%) Android
6 4 (1.33%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.00%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.00%) Unix
8 2 (0.67%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (53.33%) DevOps
2 143 (47.67%) CI/CD
3 92 (30.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 78 (26.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 66 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
6 59 (19.67%) Agile
7 48 (16.00%) Analytics
8 41 (13.67%) Containerisation
8 41 (13.67%) Platform Engineering
9 40 (13.33%) Cloud Security
9 40 (13.33%) Data Engineering
10 31 (10.33%) High Availability
11 30 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
12 28 (9.33%) Infrastructure Automation
13 26 (8.67%) Business Intelligence
14 25 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
15 24 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (8.00%) Mentoring
16 23 (7.67%) Data Modelling
16 23 (7.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 109 (36.33%) Python
2 90 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 75 (25.00%) SQL
4 30 (10.00%) Bash
5 25 (8.33%) Bicep
6 21 (7.00%) C#
7 16 (5.33%) Java
8 15 (5.00%) Scala
9 7 (2.33%) R
10 5 (1.67%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.67%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.33%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (1.00%) Go
13 1 (0.33%) C++
13 1 (0.33%) Perl
13 1 (0.33%) PHP
13 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 51 (17.00%) Azure Certification
2 28 (9.33%) Degree
3 22 (7.33%) Security Cleared
4 20 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 18 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.00%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.33%) CCNP
8 7 (2.33%) CISSP
9 5 (1.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.33%) CCSP
10 4 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.00%) CCIE
12 2 (0.67%) CEH
12 2 (0.67%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.33%) CCSK
13 1 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.67%) GDPR
2 11 (3.67%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.67%) HIPAA
4 7 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.00%) NIST
5 6 (2.00%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.67%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.33%) QA
8 2 (0.67%) SLA
9 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 54 (18.00%) Docker
2 42 (14.00%) Active Directory
3 24 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (5.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (2.33%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 130 (43.33%) Terraform
2 95 (31.67%) Kubernetes
3 42 (14.00%) Ansible
4 33 (11.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (7.00%) SCCM
6 7 (2.33%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (1.67%) Puppet
8 5 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.33%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (1.00%) CASB
10 3 (1.00%) Istio
10 3 (1.00%) linkerd
10 3 (1.00%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.67%) Consul
11 2 (0.67%) Grafana
11 2 (0.67%) SCOM
12 1 (0.33%) Packer
12 1 (0.33%) Rancher
12 1 (0.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 124 (41.33%) Microsoft
2 53 (17.67%) Databricks
3 32 (10.67%) VMware
4 22 (7.33%) Palo Alto
5 18 (6.00%) Citrix
6 16 (5.33%) Cisco
7 14 (4.67%) Red Hat
8 10 (3.33%) Google
9 7 (2.33%) F5
9 7 (2.33%) IBM
9 7 (2.33%) Meraki
10 6 (2.00%) LogicMonitor
11 5 (1.67%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.67%) NetApp
11 5 (1.67%) SolarWinds
12 4 (1.33%) Hitachi
13 3 (1.00%) Apple
13 3 (1.00%) Sophos
13 3 (1.00%) Zscaler
14 2 (0.67%) Concur