Azure Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in England

Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in England is £70,000 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 610 740 801
Rank change year-on-year +130 +61 +225
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Infrastructure Engineer 67 94 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.12% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 59 90 116
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £46,250 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% +4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £85,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £73,000 £91,875
UK median annual salary £70,000 £55,001 £55,000
% change year-on-year +27.27% +0.00% -6.78%

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 43,278 80,816 83,674
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.37% 94.49% 91.51%
Number of salaries quoted 24,456 60,386 53,004
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,125 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,501 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in England

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in England

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in England

Azure Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 8 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 +109 35 £82,500 +26.92% 2
East of England +58 12 £70,000 +12.00%
North of England +53 8 £57,500 +21.05% 1
North West -6 7 £51,250 +7.89% 1
South West +125 6 £75,000 +20.00% 2
Midlands +46 6 £46,000 -29.23% 3
West Midlands +45 4 £46,000 -31.85%
East Midlands +38 2 - - 3
Yorkshire +54 1 £65,000 +9.24%
Azure Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2025, Azure Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 67 (100.00%) Azure
2 66 (98.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 40 (59.70%) Windows
4 38 (56.72%) Microsoft
5 34 (50.75%) PowerShell
6 32 (47.76%) Windows Server
7 29 (43.28%) Firewall
8 28 (41.79%) Terraform
9 27 (40.30%) Kubernetes
10 25 (37.31%) CI/CD
10 25 (37.31%) DevOps
11 23 (34.33%) Microsoft Intune
12 20 (29.85%) Azure Certification
13 18 (26.87%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (25.37%) Infrastructure as Code
15 16 (23.88%) High Availability
16 15 (22.39%) Cost Management
16 15 (22.39%) Entra ID
17 14 (20.90%) Active Directory
17 14 (20.90%) Finance
17 14 (20.90%) SCCM
18 13 (19.40%) Microsoft Exchange
18 13 (19.40%) SQL Server
18 13 (19.40%) Azure AKS
19 12 (17.91%) Cloud Security
19 12 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
19 12 (17.91%) Disaster Recovery
19 12 (17.91%) PaaS
20 11 (16.42%) IaaS
20 11 (16.42%) Palo Alto

Azure Infrastructure 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 13 (19.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (11.94%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.49%) IIS
3 1 (1.49%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 67 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (26.87%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (22.39%) Entra ID
4 13 (19.40%) Azure AKS
5 12 (17.91%) PaaS
6 11 (16.42%) IaaS
7 10 (14.93%) Azure Logic Apps
7 10 (14.93%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (14.93%) Power Platform
7 10 (14.93%) PowerApps
8 6 (8.96%) AWS
9 5 (7.46%) SaaS
10 4 (5.97%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (5.97%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (5.97%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (5.97%) Route 53
11 3 (4.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (4.48%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (4.48%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 29 (43.28%) Firewall
2 9 (13.43%) VPN
3 8 (11.94%) SD-WAN
4 6 (8.96%) WAN
5 5 (7.46%) DNS
6 4 (5.97%) DHCP
6 4 (5.97%) HTTPS
6 4 (5.97%) VLAN
7 3 (4.48%) Network Security
8 2 (2.99%) LAN
9 1 (1.49%) NAS
9 1 (1.49%) NetScaler
9 1 (1.49%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.40%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.49%) JIRA
General
1 14 (20.90%) Finance
2 10 (14.93%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.48%) Law
5 2 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.99%) Legal
6 1 (1.49%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.43%) ARM Templates
2 3 (4.48%) SAML
3 1 (1.49%) .NET
3 1 (1.49%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (5.97%) Clustering
3 3 (4.48%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.99%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.99%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.49%) BYOD
5 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.49%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 40 (59.70%) Windows
2 32 (47.76%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.48%) Linux
4 2 (2.99%) Android
4 2 (2.99%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.49%) VMS
5 1 (1.49%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (98.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (37.31%) CI/CD
2 25 (37.31%) DevOps
3 17 (25.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (23.88%) High Availability
5 15 (22.39%) Cost Management
6 12 (17.91%) Cloud Security
6 12 (17.91%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (14.93%) Containerisation
7 10 (14.93%) Infrastructure Management
7 10 (14.93%) Migration
7 10 (14.93%) Performance Optimisation
8 9 (13.43%) Fintech
8 9 (13.43%) Identity Management
9 8 (11.94%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (10.45%) Configuration Management
10 7 (10.45%) Problem Management
11 6 (8.96%) ITIL
11 6 (8.96%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 34 (50.75%) PowerShell
2 9 (13.43%) Python
3 6 (8.96%) Bicep
4 1 (1.49%) Bash
4 1 (1.49%) Java
4 1 (1.49%) Perl
4 1 (1.49%) SQL
4 1 (1.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (29.85%) Azure Certification
2 4 (5.97%) AWS Certification
2 4 (5.97%) CompTIA Security+
2 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.49%) Degree
3 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.49%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.99%) GDPR
2 1 (1.49%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (20.90%) Active Directory
2 7 (10.45%) Docker
3 6 (8.96%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (8.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (5.97%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.99%) vSphere
6 1 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (41.79%) Terraform
2 27 (40.30%) Kubernetes
3 23 (34.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (20.90%) SCCM
5 7 (10.45%) Ansible
6 4 (5.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (2.99%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (2.99%) SCOM
7 2 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.49%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.49%) WSUS
Vendors
1 38 (56.72%) Microsoft
2 11 (16.42%) Palo Alto
3 7 (10.45%) Citrix
3 7 (10.45%) VMware
4 3 (4.48%) Google
5 2 (2.99%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.99%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.49%) Cisco
6 1 (1.49%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.49%) F5
6 1 (1.49%) Okta
6 1 (1.49%) Veeam