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 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 627 735 799
Rank change year-on-year +108 +64 +206
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Infrastructure Engineer 66 88 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.10% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.11% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 58 85 110
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £46,250 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,001 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -0.90% -5.93%
75th Percentile £85,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £75,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +27.27% - -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 45,134 81,676 80,812
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.05% 94.55% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 24,494 60,830 51,454
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,126 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.60% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 18 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 18 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 +118 32 £81,250 +25.00% 12
East of England +50 14 £70,000 +12.00% 5
North of England +28 8 £57,500 +21.05% 3
North West -12 7 £51,250 +7.89% 3
South West +112 6 £75,000 +25.00% 1
Midlands +62 6 £46,000 -29.23% 5
West Midlands +47 4 £46,000 -31.85%
East Midlands +22 2 - - 5
Yorkshire +60 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 18 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 66 (100.00%) Azure
2 65 (98.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 41 (62.12%) Windows
4 39 (59.09%) Microsoft
5 35 (53.03%) Windows Server
6 32 (48.48%) PowerShell
7 30 (45.45%) Firewall
8 27 (40.91%) Terraform
9 26 (39.39%) Kubernetes
10 24 (36.36%) DevOps
10 24 (36.36%) CI/CD
11 21 (31.82%) Microsoft Intune
12 20 (30.30%) Azure Certification
13 17 (25.76%) Cost Management
13 17 (25.76%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (25.76%) Infrastructure as Code
14 16 (24.24%) SQL Server
15 15 (22.73%) Microsoft Exchange
16 14 (21.21%) Active Directory
16 14 (21.21%) High Availability
16 14 (21.21%) Entra ID
16 14 (21.21%) Cloud Security
17 13 (19.70%) Azure AKS
17 13 (19.70%) Power Platform
17 13 (19.70%) PowerApps
17 13 (19.70%) Azure Logic Apps
17 13 (19.70%) Finance
18 12 (18.18%) SCCM
18 12 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
19 11 (16.67%) 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 15 (22.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (10.61%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.52%) IIS
3 1 (1.52%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 66 (100.00%) Azure
2 17 (25.76%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (21.21%) Entra ID
4 13 (19.70%) Azure AKS
4 13 (19.70%) Azure Logic Apps
4 13 (19.70%) Power Platform
4 13 (19.70%) PowerApps
5 11 (16.67%) PaaS
6 10 (15.15%) IaaS
7 8 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (9.09%) AWS
9 4 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (6.06%) Route 53
9 4 (6.06%) SaaS
10 3 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (4.55%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 30 (45.45%) Firewall
2 9 (13.64%) VPN
3 8 (12.12%) SD-WAN
4 6 (9.09%) WAN
5 5 (7.58%) DNS
6 4 (6.06%) DHCP
6 4 (6.06%) HTTPS
6 4 (6.06%) VLAN
7 2 (3.03%) LAN
7 2 (3.03%) Network Security
8 1 (1.52%) NAS
8 1 (1.52%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.52%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (24.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.52%) JIRA
General
1 13 (19.70%) Finance
2 9 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.03%) Law
4 2 (3.03%) Legal
5 1 (1.52%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.64%) ARM Templates
2 3 (4.55%) SAML
3 1 (1.52%) .NET
3 1 (1.52%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (6.06%) Clustering
3 3 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.03%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.52%) BYOD
5 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.52%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (62.12%) Windows
2 35 (53.03%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.55%) Linux
4 2 (3.03%) Android
4 2 (3.03%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (98.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 24 (36.36%) DevOps
3 17 (25.76%) Cost Management
3 17 (25.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (21.21%) Cloud Security
4 14 (21.21%) High Availability
5 12 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
6 11 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (15.15%) Infrastructure Management
7 10 (15.15%) Migration
7 10 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (13.64%) Containerisation
8 9 (13.64%) Fintech
9 8 (12.12%) Identity Management
9 8 (12.12%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (10.61%) Configuration Management
11 6 (9.09%) Load Balancing
11 6 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (9.09%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (48.48%) PowerShell
2 8 (12.12%) Python
3 6 (9.09%) Bicep
4 1 (1.52%) Bash
4 1 (1.52%) Java
4 1 (1.52%) Perl
4 1 (1.52%) SQL
4 1 (1.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (30.30%) Azure Certification
2 4 (6.06%) AWS Certification
2 4 (6.06%) CompTIA Security+
2 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.52%) Degree
3 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.52%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.03%) GDPR
2 1 (1.52%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (21.21%) Active Directory
2 7 (10.61%) Docker
3 6 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (7.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (4.55%) Hyper-V
6 2 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (3.03%) vSphere
7 1 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (40.91%) Terraform
2 26 (39.39%) Kubernetes
3 21 (31.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (18.18%) SCCM
5 7 (10.61%) Ansible
6 4 (6.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (3.03%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.52%) SCOM
8 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.52%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (59.09%) Microsoft
2 11 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 6 (9.09%) VMware
4 5 (7.58%) Citrix
5 3 (4.55%) Google
6 2 (3.03%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.03%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.52%) Cisco
7 1 (1.52%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.52%) F5
7 1 (1.52%) Okta
7 1 (1.52%) Veeam