Azure Engineer Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in the Midlands is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 August 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 197 148
Rank change year-on-year +88 -49 +49
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 183 36 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.29% 0.63% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 0.69% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 147 34 69
10th Percentile £52,500 £41,550 £38,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +22.73% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £93,500 £77,089 £68,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -3.70%

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 13,379 5,234 10,204
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 91.23% 94.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,347 3,362 6,664
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £32,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,375 £76,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 +41 97 £70,000 +7.69% 12
East Midlands +44 86 £72,500 +7.41% 8
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 August 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.

1 183 (100.00%) Azure
2 69 (37.70%) DevOps
3 41 (22.40%) Platform Engineering
4 40 (21.86%) Microsoft
5 36 (19.67%) SQL
5 36 (19.67%) Terraform
6 35 (19.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 33 (18.03%) PaaS
8 30 (16.39%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (15.30%) Cybersecurity
10 21 (11.48%) Python
11 17 (9.29%) Azure Certification
11 17 (9.29%) Azure SQL Database
11 17 (9.29%) PowerShell
12 16 (8.74%) CI/CD
12 16 (8.74%) Containerisation
12 16 (8.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 16 (8.74%) Kubernetes
13 15 (8.20%) Entra ID
14 14 (7.65%) .NET
14 14 (7.65%) Agile
15 13 (7.10%) Azure App Service
15 13 (7.10%) C#
15 13 (7.10%) ETL
15 13 (7.10%) IaaS
15 13 (7.10%) Wealth Management
16 12 (6.56%) API Management
16 12 (6.56%) AWS
16 12 (6.56%) Azure AI
16 12 (6.56%) Data Pipeline

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 11 (6.01%) IIS
2 3 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 183 (100.00%) Azure
2 33 (18.03%) PaaS
3 30 (16.39%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (8.20%) Entra ID
5 13 (7.10%) Azure App Service
5 13 (7.10%) IaaS
6 12 (6.56%) AWS
6 12 (6.56%) Azure AI
7 10 (5.46%) Azure AKS
7 10 (5.46%) Snowflake
8 9 (4.92%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (4.37%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 8 (4.37%) Azure Storage
10 7 (3.83%) Azure Stack
10 7 (3.83%) Power Platform
11 6 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (2.19%) GitHub
13 3 (1.64%) npm
13 3 (1.64%) NuGet
13 3 (1.64%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.01%) DNS
2 6 (3.28%) Firewall
3 3 (1.64%) VPN
4 2 (1.09%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.55%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.55%) DHCP
5 1 (0.55%) LAN
5 1 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (3.83%) Power BI
2 7 (3.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (3.28%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.64%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.55%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (1.64%) Git
2 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (14.21%) Finance
2 12 (6.56%) Law
3 7 (3.83%) Retail
4 3 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.09%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.09%) Social Skills
6 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.55%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.65%) .NET
2 6 (3.28%) Node.js
2 6 (3.28%) React
3 5 (2.73%) Kafka
3 5 (2.73%) Keycloak
4 3 (1.64%) YAML
5 2 (1.09%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.09%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.55%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.55%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (0.55%) D3.js
6 1 (0.55%) Flask
6 1 (0.55%) NumPy
6 1 (0.55%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.55%) Pandas
6 1 (0.55%) PySpark
6 1 (0.55%) pytest
6 1 (0.55%) REST
6 1 (0.55%) RESTful
6 1 (0.55%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.10%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.37%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.09%) PKI
4 2 (1.09%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.55%) Clustering
5 1 (0.55%) CMDB
5 1 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.55%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.73%) Windows
2 4 (2.19%) Linux
3 2 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (37.70%) DevOps
2 41 (22.40%) Platform Engineering
3 35 (19.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (15.30%) Cybersecurity
5 16 (8.74%) CI/CD
5 16 (8.74%) Containerisation
5 16 (8.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (7.65%) Agile
7 13 (7.10%) ETL
7 13 (7.10%) Wealth Management
8 12 (6.56%) API Management
8 12 (6.56%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (5.46%) Load Balancing
10 9 (4.92%) Cloud Security
10 9 (4.92%) DevSecOps
10 9 (4.92%) High Availability
10 9 (4.92%) Mentoring
10 9 (4.92%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (4.37%) AI
11 8 (4.37%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 36 (19.67%) SQL
2 21 (11.48%) Python
3 17 (9.29%) PowerShell
4 13 (7.10%) C#
5 7 (3.83%) Bash
6 5 (2.73%) Bicep
6 5 (2.73%) Go
7 3 (1.64%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.09%) Java
8 2 (1.09%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (9.29%) Azure Certification
2 12 (6.56%) SC Cleared
2 12 (6.56%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.46%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.09%) Degree
5 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.09%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (4.37%) Docker
2 5 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.09%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (19.67%) Terraform
2 16 (8.74%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.09%) Grafana
5 1 (0.55%) Ansible
5 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (21.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.28%) Foundry
2 6 (3.28%) VMware
3 3 (1.64%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (1.09%) Databricks
5 1 (0.55%) Computacenter
5 1 (0.55%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.55%) F5
5 1 (0.55%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (0.55%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.55%) Veeam