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 30 March 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 186 194
Rank change year-on-year +39 +8 +51
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 95 26 112
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.89% 0.53% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 0.59% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 93 23 71
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £39,375 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £46,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -20.00% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 9,796 4,398 9,872
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.85% 90.33% 93.84%
Number of salaries quoted 6,178 2,759 7,767
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,822 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +8.42% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,600 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.60%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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
East Midlands 0 47 £65,000 +62.50% 9
West Midlands +14 42 £60,000 +18.81% 7
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 March 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 95 (100.00%) Azure
2 37 (38.95%) DevOps
3 31 (32.63%) SQL
4 25 (26.32%) Microsoft
5 23 (24.21%) Python
6 22 (23.16%) ETL
7 21 (22.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 19 (20.00%) CI/CD
8 19 (20.00%) Terraform
9 16 (16.84%) Kubernetes
9 16 (16.84%) SQL Server
10 15 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (15.79%) Databricks
10 15 (15.79%) Migration
11 14 (14.74%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (14.74%) PowerShell
11 14 (14.74%) VMware
11 14 (14.74%) Windows
12 13 (13.68%) Business Intelligence
13 12 (12.63%) VMware Infrastructure
14 11 (11.58%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (11.58%) Linux
14 11 (11.58%) Platform Engineering
15 10 (10.53%) Bash
15 10 (10.53%) Containerisation
15 10 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
15 10 (10.53%) Microservices
15 10 (10.53%) Power BI
15 10 (10.53%) Power Platform
15 10 (10.53%) Snowflake

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 7 (7.37%) IIS
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 95 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (10.53%) Power Platform
3 10 (10.53%) Snowflake
4 9 (9.47%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (8.42%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (7.37%) npm
6 7 (7.37%) NuGet
6 7 (7.37%) SaaS
6 7 (7.37%) SonarCloud
7 5 (5.26%) AWS
7 5 (5.26%) Azure AKS
8 3 (3.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (3.16%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (3.16%) Azure Storage
8 3 (3.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (3.16%) IaaS
9 2 (2.11%) Datadog
9 2 (2.11%) GCP
9 2 (2.11%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.26%) DNS
2 4 (4.21%) Firewall
3 1 (1.05%) DHCP
3 1 (1.05%) LAN
3 1 (1.05%) VPN
3 1 (1.05%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.84%) SQL Server
2 11 (11.58%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (10.53%) Power BI
3 10 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (9.47%) Delta Lake
5 7 (7.37%) NoSQL
6 6 (6.32%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (3.16%) Big Data
8 1 (1.05%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.05%) Metadata
8 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (5.26%) Git
2 2 (2.11%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 4 (4.21%) Law
3 3 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.16%) Military
4 2 (2.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.11%) Retail
5 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.47%) .NET
2 8 (8.42%) Node.js
2 8 (8.42%) React
3 7 (7.37%) YAML
4 5 (5.26%) .NET Core
4 5 (5.26%) .NET Framework
4 5 (5.26%) PySpark
5 3 (3.16%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.11%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.11%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (2.11%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.63%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.74%) Windows
2 11 (11.58%) Linux
3 7 (7.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (38.95%) DevOps
2 22 (23.16%) ETL
3 21 (22.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 19 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 15 (15.79%) Migration
6 14 (14.74%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (13.68%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (11.58%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (10.53%) Containerisation
9 10 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (10.53%) Microservices
10 9 (9.47%) Agile
10 9 (9.47%) Data Engineering
10 9 (9.47%) DevSecOps
10 9 (9.47%) Mentoring
11 8 (8.42%) Cloud Security
11 8 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (7.37%) Innovative Thinking
12 7 (7.37%) Test Automation
13 6 (6.32%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 31 (32.63%) SQL
2 23 (24.21%) Python
3 14 (14.74%) PowerShell
4 10 (10.53%) Bash
5 8 (8.42%) C#
6 5 (5.26%) Bicep
7 3 (3.16%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.05%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (9.47%) SC Cleared
1 9 (9.47%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.37%) Azure Certification
3 5 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.26%) SLA
2 3 (3.16%) GDPR
3 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.05%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (12.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (9.47%) Docker
3 3 (3.16%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.11%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (20.00%) Terraform
2 16 (16.84%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.21%) Ansible
3 4 (4.21%) Grafana
4 1 (1.05%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.79%) Databricks
3 14 (14.74%) VMware
4 7 (7.37%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (2.11%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.11%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (2.11%) Veeam
6 1 (1.05%) Computacenter
6 1 (1.05%) SolarWinds