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 17 June 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 385 314 302
Rank change year-on-year -71 -12 +119
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 348 796 913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.71% 0.82% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 0.87% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 267 573 756
10th Percentile £44,000 £42,300 £45,625
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +3.85%

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 44,711 91,342 73,947
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.63% 94.65% 91.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,895 66,536 48,955
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.86% +0.42%
75th Percentile £73,886 £70,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +27 186 £77,500 +4.54% 275
South East +24 42 £65,000 +8.33% 266
North of England -53 41 £60,500 +5.22% 229
East of England +48 35 £50,000 -20.00% 125
North West -76 29 £67,500 +25.58% 121
Midlands -36 23 £50,500 -8.18% 178
West Midlands +29 14 £60,000 +4.35% 93
Yorkshire +55 13 £55,000 -22.53% 92
East Midlands -32 9 £40,000 -27.27% 85
South West +80 8 £55,000 -4.35% 102
North East +33 1 £75,500 +37.27% 16
Azure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 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.

1 348 (100.00%) Azure
2 162 (46.55%) DevOps
3 147 (42.24%) Microsoft
4 132 (37.93%) Terraform
5 126 (36.21%) CI/CD
6 116 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
7 114 (32.76%) Windows
8 98 (28.16%) PowerShell
9 96 (27.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 94 (27.01%) Python
11 90 (25.86%) Infrastructure as Code
12 86 (24.71%) Social Skills
13 85 (24.43%) Kubernetes
14 82 (23.56%) SQL
15 78 (22.41%) Agile
16 77 (22.13%) Windows Server
17 76 (21.84%) Finance
18 64 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
19 57 (16.38%) Azure Certification
20 53 (15.23%) Hybrid Cloud
20 53 (15.23%) Firewall
21 52 (14.94%) Linux
22 51 (14.66%) Databricks
23 50 (14.37%) VMware
24 49 (14.08%) SQL Server
24 49 (14.08%) Mentoring
25 48 (13.79%) Active Directory
26 47 (13.51%) PaaS
27 46 (13.22%) Microsoft 365
27 46 (13.22%) Artificial Intelligence

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 34 (9.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.44%) IIS
5 4 (1.15%) Apache
6 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.57%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.57%) WordPress
7 1 (0.29%) Confluence
7 1 (0.29%) JBoss
7 1 (0.29%) nginx
7 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 348 (100.00%) Azure
2 116 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 47 (13.51%) PaaS
4 46 (13.22%) Microsoft 365
5 43 (12.36%) Azure Data Factory
6 39 (11.21%) Entra ID
7 38 (10.92%) AWS
8 34 (9.77%) IaaS
8 34 (9.77%) Power Platform
9 32 (9.20%) GitHub
10 29 (8.33%) SaaS
11 27 (7.76%) Azure Logic Apps
12 22 (6.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 20 (5.75%) Azure AKS
14 18 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (4.89%) GCP
15 17 (4.89%) Serverless
16 16 (4.60%) Azure Monitor
17 14 (4.02%) Azure Functions
18 13 (3.74%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 53 (15.23%) Firewall
2 21 (6.03%) VPN
3 20 (5.75%) DNS
4 18 (5.17%) WAN
5 16 (4.60%) SD-WAN
6 11 (3.16%) DHCP
7 10 (2.87%) LAN
7 10 (2.87%) Network Security
8 6 (1.72%) Internet
9 5 (1.44%) SAN
9 5 (1.44%) VLAN
10 4 (1.15%) BGP
10 4 (1.15%) HTTPS
10 4 (1.15%) OSPF
11 3 (0.86%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (0.86%) NAS
11 3 (0.86%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.86%) Wireless
12 2 (0.57%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (14.08%) SQL Server
2 29 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (7.76%) Data Lake
4 17 (4.89%) Power BI
5 16 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (3.74%) MongoDB
6 13 (3.74%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 11 (3.16%) DB2
8 10 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.44%) Big Data
9 5 (1.44%) MySQL
10 4 (1.15%) HDInsight
10 4 (1.15%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.86%) Metadata
12 2 (0.57%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.57%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.29%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.29%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 25 (7.18%) Jenkins
2 23 (6.61%) Git
3 9 (2.59%) GitLab
4 6 (1.72%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (1.44%) JIRA
6 4 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.86%) Selenium
7 3 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.57%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.57%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.57%) Postman
8 2 (0.57%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.29%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.29%) kappa
9 1 (0.29%) Locust
9 1 (0.29%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.29%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.29%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.29%) Vagrant
General
1 86 (24.71%) Social Skills
2 76 (21.84%) Finance
3 44 (12.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (6.32%) Public Sector
5 12 (3.45%) Banking
6 7 (2.01%) Law
7 6 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (1.72%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.44%) Legal
9 4 (1.15%) Advertising
9 4 (1.15%) Marketing
10 3 (0.86%) Front Office
10 3 (0.86%) Health Technology
10 3 (0.86%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.57%) Retail
12 1 (0.29%) Automotive
12 1 (0.29%) Electronics
12 1 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.29%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.18%) .NET
1 25 (7.18%) ARM Templates
2 20 (5.75%) PySpark
2 20 (5.75%) React
3 14 (4.02%) AngularJS
3 14 (4.02%) YAML
4 12 (3.45%) Bootstrap
5 11 (3.16%) Backbone.js
5 11 (3.16%) Ember.js
5 11 (3.16%) jQuery
6 7 (2.01%) SAML
7 5 (1.44%) 802.1X
7 5 (1.44%) Kafka
7 5 (1.44%) Middleware
8 4 (1.15%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.15%) Node.js
8 4 (1.15%) SailPoint
9 3 (0.86%) .NET Framework
9 3 (0.86%) pytest
9 3 (0.86%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 53 (15.23%) Hybrid Cloud
2 32 (9.20%) e-Learning
3 12 (3.45%) Clustering
4 11 (3.16%) Algorithms
4 11 (3.16%) Data Structures
4 11 (3.16%) Enterprise Cloud
4 11 (3.16%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.59%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.30%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.30%) Hedge funds
7 7 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.01%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.44%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.15%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.15%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.15%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.86%) IoT
10 3 (0.86%) iPad
10 3 (0.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 114 (32.76%) Windows
2 77 (22.13%) Windows Server
3 52 (14.94%) Linux
4 15 (4.31%) Android
4 15 (4.31%) Apple iOS
5 12 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (2.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.44%) Unix
8 3 (0.86%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.86%) VMS
9 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (46.55%) DevOps
2 126 (36.21%) CI/CD
3 96 (27.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 90 (25.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 78 (22.41%) Agile
6 64 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (14.08%) Mentoring
8 46 (13.22%) Artificial Intelligence
9 43 (12.36%) Cloud Security
10 42 (12.07%) Containerisation
11 39 (11.21%) Data Engineering
12 37 (10.63%) Platform Engineering
13 35 (10.06%) Coaching
13 35 (10.06%) Test Automation
14 32 (9.20%) Analytics
15 30 (8.62%) Data Pipeline
15 30 (8.62%) Infrastructure Automation
16 26 (7.47%) High Availability
17 25 (7.18%) Migration
18 23 (6.61%) Cost Management
Programming Languages
1 98 (28.16%) PowerShell
2 94 (27.01%) Python
3 82 (23.56%) SQL
4 28 (8.05%) C#
5 26 (7.47%) Bash
6 20 (5.75%) Bicep
7 14 (4.02%) Java
7 14 (4.02%) Scala
8 12 (3.45%) TypeScript
9 9 (2.59%) R
10 4 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.86%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.57%) Go
12 2 (0.57%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.57%) Perl
12 2 (0.57%) Ruby
13 1 (0.29%) Groovy
13 1 (0.29%) PHP
13 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 57 (16.38%) Azure Certification
2 30 (8.62%) Security Cleared
3 27 (7.76%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.03%) Degree
5 17 (4.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.72%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.15%) CCNP
9 4 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (0.86%) CCNA
10 3 (0.86%) CISSP
11 2 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.57%) CCIE
12 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.29%) CCSK
12 1 (0.29%) CCSP
12 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.29%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.46%) GDPR
2 10 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.59%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.72%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.44%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.15%) NIST
7 3 (0.86%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.86%) QA
7 3 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.57%) PMO
8 2 (0.57%) SLA
9 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 48 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 42 (12.07%) Docker
3 40 (11.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (4.60%) Hyper-V
5 15 (4.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (3.74%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (3.74%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.44%) vSphere
8 1 (0.29%) KVM
8 1 (0.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 132 (37.93%) Terraform
2 85 (24.43%) Kubernetes
3 43 (12.36%) Ansible
4 39 (11.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (6.03%) SCCM
6 11 (3.16%) Backup Exec
7 8 (2.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 8 (2.30%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.01%) Puppet
9 5 (1.44%) Grafana
9 5 (1.44%) Prometheus
10 4 (1.15%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.57%) Consul
11 2 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.57%) SCOM
12 1 (0.29%) CFEngine
12 1 (0.29%) Kibana
12 1 (0.29%) logstash
12 1 (0.29%) Salt
12 1 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 147 (42.24%) Microsoft
2 51 (14.66%) Databricks
3 50 (14.37%) VMware
4 39 (11.21%) IBM
4 39 (11.21%) Red Hat
5 21 (6.03%) Palo Alto
6 18 (5.17%) Cisco
7 15 (4.31%) Citrix
8 14 (4.02%) Veeam
9 10 (2.87%) Google
10 9 (2.59%) Meraki
11 5 (1.44%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.44%) NetApp
12 4 (1.15%) CyberArk
12 4 (1.15%) F5
12 4 (1.15%) HP
13 3 (0.86%) Apple
13 3 (0.86%) SAP
13 3 (0.86%) Sophos
13 3 (0.86%) Zscaler