Azure Engineer Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in the Midlands is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 214 167
Rank change year-on-year +53 -47 +61
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 58 28 84
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.73% 0.45% 1.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.48% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 57 24 69
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,200 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £69,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £76,375 £67,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 7,260 5,888 6,380
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.82% 94.10% 94.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,422 2,764 5,267
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% -7.62%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,063 £61,473
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% -8.80%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Azure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Azure Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in the Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in the Midlands

Azure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 21 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Engineer in the Midlands

Azure Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 January 2026. 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
West Midlands +35 34 £60,000 +4.35% 9
East Midlands +7 18 £67,500 +54.29% 15
Azure Engineer
England

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 21 January 2026, Azure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Midlands region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 58 (100.00%) Azure
2 33 (56.90%) SQL
3 25 (43.10%) Python
4 22 (37.93%) ETL
5 20 (34.48%) DevOps
6 19 (32.76%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (31.03%) Databricks
7 18 (31.03%) Microsoft
8 17 (29.31%) CI/CD
9 15 (25.86%) SQL Server
10 12 (20.69%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (20.69%) Data Engineering
10 12 (20.69%) Delta Lake
11 10 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (17.24%) Migration
12 9 (15.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 9 (15.52%) Terraform
13 8 (13.79%) PySpark
13 8 (13.79%) SaaS
14 7 (12.07%) Data Modelling
14 7 (12.07%) Kubernetes
14 7 (12.07%) Machine Learning
14 7 (12.07%) Power BI
14 7 (12.07%) Power Platform
15 6 (10.34%) AI
15 6 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (10.34%) Data Pipeline
15 6 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (10.34%) Snowflake
15 6 (10.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.45%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 58 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (20.69%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (13.79%) SaaS
4 7 (12.07%) Power Platform
5 6 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (10.34%) Snowflake
6 3 (5.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (3.45%) GitHub
7 2 (3.45%) npm
7 2 (3.45%) NuGet
7 2 (3.45%) SonarCloud
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.72%) Datadog
8 1 (1.72%) IaaS
8 1 (1.72%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (32.76%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (25.86%) SQL Server
3 12 (20.69%) Delta Lake
4 7 (12.07%) Power BI
5 6 (10.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (8.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (5.17%) Big Data
7 3 (5.17%) Parquet
8 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.72%) Metadata
9 1 (1.72%) Neo4j
9 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Git
2 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.07%) Retail
3 3 (5.17%) Automotive
3 3 (5.17%) Military
4 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.79%) PySpark
2 3 (5.17%) .NET
3 2 (3.45%) .NET Core
3 2 (3.45%) .NET Framework
3 2 (3.45%) ARM Templates
3 2 (3.45%) Node.js
3 2 (3.45%) React
3 2 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
1 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.34%) Windows
2 5 (8.62%) Linux
3 4 (6.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.93%) ETL
2 20 (34.48%) DevOps
3 17 (29.31%) CI/CD
4 12 (20.69%) Data Engineering
5 10 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (17.24%) Migration
6 9 (15.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (12.07%) Data Modelling
7 7 (12.07%) Machine Learning
8 6 (10.34%) AI
8 6 (10.34%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (8.62%) Agile
9 5 (8.62%) Cloud Security
9 5 (8.62%) Microservices
9 5 (8.62%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (8.62%) Requirements Gathering
10 4 (6.90%) Analytics
10 4 (6.90%) Cloud Operations
10 4 (6.90%) Mentoring
10 4 (6.90%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 33 (56.90%) SQL
2 25 (43.10%) Python
3 3 (5.17%) Bash
3 3 (5.17%) C#
3 3 (5.17%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.17%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.45%) Bicep
5 1 (1.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (6.90%) Azure Certification
1 4 (6.90%) SC Cleared
1 4 (6.90%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) SLA
2 3 (5.17%) GDPR
3 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (5.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (15.52%) Terraform
2 7 (12.07%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.17%) Ansible
4 2 (3.45%) Grafana
5 1 (1.72%) Argo
5 1 (1.72%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 18 (31.03%) Databricks
1 18 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.90%) VMware
3 2 (3.45%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (1.72%) LogicMonitor