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 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 326 316
Rank change year-on-year -50 -10 +92
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 338 726 936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.70% 0.82% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.87% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 262 526 793
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +7.69%

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 43,919 83,679 79,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.64% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 23,116 62,210 50,998
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 28 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 28 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 +49 183 £82,500 +17.86% 95
South East +44 47 £70,000 +16.67% 17
North of England -72 38 £62,500 +4.60% 56
North West -85 29 £60,500 +12.56% 41
East of England +49 26 £64,000 +4.49% 4
Midlands -58 22 £46,000 -16.36% 19
West Midlands +26 14 £60,000 +4.35% 5
Yorkshire +42 12 £55,000 -21.43% 11
South West +101 10 £65,000 +8.33% 13
East Midlands -42 8 £40,000 -27.27% 14
North East +37 1 £75,500 +0.67% 4
Azure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 338 (100.00%) Azure
2 171 (50.59%) DevOps
3 138 (40.83%) CI/CD
4 137 (40.53%) Microsoft
5 133 (39.35%) Terraform
6 118 (34.91%) Azure DevOps
7 106 (31.36%) Python
8 96 (28.40%) Windows
9 94 (27.81%) Kubernetes
10 93 (27.51%) PowerShell
11 92 (27.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 92 (27.22%) Infrastructure as Code
12 86 (25.44%) SQL
13 85 (25.15%) Social Skills
14 81 (23.96%) Finance
15 80 (23.67%) Agile
16 67 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
17 65 (19.23%) Windows Server
18 57 (16.86%) Azure Certification
19 56 (16.57%) Databricks
20 51 (15.09%) Hybrid Cloud
20 51 (15.09%) Firewall
20 51 (15.09%) Linux
21 49 (14.50%) PaaS
22 47 (13.91%) Mentoring
22 47 (13.91%) Ansible
22 47 (13.91%) Docker
22 47 (13.91%) Containerisation
23 46 (13.61%) SQL Server
23 46 (13.61%) Active Directory

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 24 (7.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.25%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.78%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.18%) Apache
4 4 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.18%) IIS
5 2 (0.59%) Confluence
5 2 (0.59%) WordPress
6 1 (0.30%) JBoss
6 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 338 (100.00%) Azure
2 118 (34.91%) Azure DevOps
3 49 (14.50%) PaaS
4 44 (13.02%) Azure Data Factory
5 38 (11.24%) AWS
5 38 (11.24%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (10.95%) IaaS
7 34 (10.06%) GitHub
8 33 (9.76%) Entra ID
9 31 (9.17%) Power Platform
9 31 (9.17%) SaaS
10 25 (7.40%) Azure AKS
11 23 (6.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 18 (5.33%) GCP
12 18 (5.33%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (5.03%) Azure Logic Apps
13 17 (5.03%) Serverless
14 16 (4.73%) Azure Monitor
15 14 (4.14%) Azure Functions
16 13 (3.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 51 (15.09%) Firewall
2 22 (6.51%) VPN
3 20 (5.92%) DNS
4 18 (5.33%) WAN
5 16 (4.73%) SD-WAN
6 12 (3.55%) LAN
7 11 (3.25%) DHCP
8 7 (2.07%) Network Security
9 6 (1.78%) BGP
9 6 (1.78%) OSPF
10 5 (1.48%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (1.48%) VLAN
10 5 (1.48%) Wireless
11 4 (1.18%) BIG-IP
11 4 (1.18%) Cisco ISE
11 4 (1.18%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (1.18%) HTTPS
11 4 (1.18%) SAN
11 4 (1.18%) TACACS
11 4 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (13.61%) SQL Server
2 30 (8.88%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (8.58%) Data Lake
4 17 (5.03%) Power BI
5 15 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (3.85%) MongoDB
7 12 (3.55%) NoSQL
8 11 (3.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 11 (3.25%) DB2
9 9 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.48%) Big Data
10 5 (1.48%) MySQL
10 5 (1.48%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.18%) HDInsight
12 3 (0.89%) Metadata
13 2 (0.59%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.59%) Delta Lake
14 1 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
14 1 (0.30%) Spark SQL
14 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (7.40%) Jenkins
2 24 (7.10%) Git
3 7 (2.07%) JIRA
4 6 (1.78%) GitLab
5 5 (1.48%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (1.48%) Selenium
5 5 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.59%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.59%) Postman
7 2 (0.59%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.59%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.30%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.30%) kappa
8 1 (0.30%) Locust
8 1 (0.30%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.30%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.30%) Travis CI
8 1 (0.30%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 85 (25.15%) Social Skills
2 81 (23.96%) Finance
3 44 (13.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (6.51%) Public Sector
5 12 (3.55%) Banking
6 7 (2.07%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (1.78%) Investment Banking
7 6 (1.78%) Law
8 5 (1.48%) Advertising
9 4 (1.18%) Legal
10 3 (0.89%) Front Office
10 3 (0.89%) Health Technology
10 3 (0.89%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.59%) Retail
11 2 (0.59%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.30%) Games
12 1 (0.30%) Marketing
12 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.30%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.80%) ARM Templates
2 20 (5.92%) PySpark
2 20 (5.92%) React
3 19 (5.62%) .NET
4 14 (4.14%) YAML
5 13 (3.85%) AngularJS
6 12 (3.55%) Bootstrap
7 11 (3.25%) Backbone.js
7 11 (3.25%) Ember.js
7 11 (3.25%) jQuery
8 7 (2.07%) 802.1X
8 7 (2.07%) Kafka
8 7 (2.07%) SAML
9 5 (1.48%) SailPoint
10 4 (1.18%) Node.js
11 3 (0.89%) .NET Core
11 3 (0.89%) .NET Framework
11 3 (0.89%) Middleware
11 3 (0.89%) pytest
11 3 (0.89%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 51 (15.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 32 (9.47%) e-Learning
3 12 (3.55%) Clustering
4 11 (3.25%) Algorithms
4 11 (3.25%) Data Structures
4 11 (3.25%) Enterprise Cloud
5 9 (2.66%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.66%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.37%) Hedge funds
6 8 (2.37%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.78%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.78%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.48%) Driving Licence
9 5 (1.48%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.18%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.18%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.89%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 96 (28.40%) Windows
2 65 (19.23%) Windows Server
3 51 (15.09%) Linux
4 15 (4.44%) Android
4 15 (4.44%) Apple iOS
5 12 (3.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (2.66%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.48%) Unix
7 5 (1.48%) VMS
7 5 (1.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.89%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (50.59%) DevOps
2 138 (40.83%) CI/CD
3 92 (27.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 92 (27.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 80 (23.67%) Agile
5 67 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (13.91%) Containerisation
6 47 (13.91%) Mentoring
7 45 (13.31%) Artificial Intelligence
8 43 (12.72%) Cloud Security
9 41 (12.13%) Data Engineering
9 41 (12.13%) Platform Engineering
10 38 (11.24%) Analytics
11 35 (10.36%) Coaching
11 35 (10.36%) Test Automation
12 30 (8.88%) Data Pipeline
12 30 (8.88%) Infrastructure Automation
13 29 (8.58%) High Availability
14 23 (6.80%) Migration
15 22 (6.51%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 106 (31.36%) Python
2 93 (27.51%) PowerShell
3 86 (25.44%) SQL
4 27 (7.99%) Bash
5 25 (7.40%) C#
6 22 (6.51%) Bicep
7 16 (4.73%) Scala
8 15 (4.44%) Java
9 12 (3.55%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.66%) R
11 4 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.89%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.89%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.59%) Go
13 2 (0.59%) Perl
13 2 (0.59%) Ruby
14 1 (0.30%) C++
14 1 (0.30%) Groovy
14 1 (0.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 57 (16.86%) Azure Certification
2 27 (7.99%) Security Cleared
3 25 (7.40%) Degree
4 24 (7.10%) SC Cleared
5 18 (5.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (2.37%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.07%) CISSP
9 6 (1.78%) CCNP
9 6 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.89%) CCIE
11 3 (0.89%) CCNA
11 3 (0.89%) CCSP
12 2 (0.59%) CEH
13 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.30%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.30%) SANS
13 1 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.51%) GDPR
2 11 (3.25%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.37%) HIPAA
4 7 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.48%) NIST
5 5 (1.48%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.48%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.89%) QA
7 2 (0.59%) PMO
7 2 (0.59%) SLA
8 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 47 (13.91%) Docker
2 46 (13.61%) Active Directory
3 32 (9.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (4.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 15 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (2.66%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.48%) vSphere
8 1 (0.30%) KVM
8 1 (0.30%) Xen
Systems Management
1 133 (39.35%) Terraform
2 94 (27.81%) Kubernetes
3 47 (13.91%) Ansible
4 34 (10.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (5.92%) SCCM
6 9 (2.66%) Progress Chef
7 8 (2.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 8 (2.37%) Puppet
8 4 (1.18%) Backup Exec
8 4 (1.18%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (0.89%) Grafana
9 3 (0.89%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.59%) CASB
10 2 (0.59%) Consul
10 2 (0.59%) Istio
10 2 (0.59%) linkerd
11 1 (0.30%) Automic
11 1 (0.30%) Podman
11 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 137 (40.53%) Microsoft
2 56 (16.57%) Databricks
3 42 (12.43%) VMware
4 39 (11.54%) Red Hat
5 38 (11.24%) IBM
6 23 (6.80%) Palo Alto
7 19 (5.62%) Cisco
8 16 (4.73%) Citrix
9 12 (3.55%) Google
10 9 (2.66%) Meraki
11 6 (1.78%) F5
11 6 (1.78%) Veeam
12 5 (1.48%) CyberArk
12 5 (1.48%) Fortinet
12 5 (1.48%) NetApp
13 4 (1.18%) HP
13 4 (1.18%) LogicMonitor
14 3 (0.89%) SAP
14 3 (0.89%) Sophos
14 3 (0.89%) Zscaler