Azure Engineer Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in the Midlands is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 November 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 210 141
Rank change year-on-year +48 -69 +97
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 45 66 88
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.75% 0.75% 1.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.80% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 44 46 71
10th Percentile £47,375 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £41,250 £50,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,000 £64,250
90th Percentile £70,209 £70,625 £67,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% +1.54% -7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 5,515 8,220 4,746
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 93.54% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,774 4,177 3,749
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £54,987 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.37% -4.17% -

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 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
West Midlands +40 31 £60,000 - 8
East Midlands +28 12 £67,500 +58.82% 5
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 November 2025, 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 45 (100.00%) Azure
2 34 (75.56%) SQL
3 26 (57.78%) Python
4 22 (48.89%) CI/CD
4 22 (48.89%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (35.56%) Microsoft
6 15 (33.33%) ETL
7 13 (28.89%) Databricks
7 13 (28.89%) DevOps
8 12 (26.67%) Data Modelling
8 12 (26.67%) Requirements Gathering
9 11 (24.44%) Data Engineering
9 11 (24.44%) SQL Server
10 10 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (20.00%) Delta Lake
12 8 (17.78%) SaaS
13 7 (15.56%) PySpark
14 6 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
14 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 6 (13.33%) Terraform
15 5 (11.11%) Analytics
15 5 (11.11%) Azure Certification
15 5 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (11.11%) Machine Learning
15 5 (11.11%) Power BI
15 5 (11.11%) Power Platform
16 4 (8.89%) AI
16 4 (8.89%) Cloud Operations
16 4 (8.89%) Mentoring

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:

Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.22%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 45 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (17.78%) SaaS
4 5 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (6.67%) GitHub
5 3 (6.67%) Snowflake
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Functions
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.44%) IaaS
6 2 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.44%) PaaS
6 2 (4.44%) Serverless
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.22%) AWS
7 1 (2.22%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (48.89%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (24.44%) SQL Server
3 9 (20.00%) Delta Lake
4 6 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (11.11%) Power BI
6 3 (6.67%) Big Data
6 3 (6.67%) Parquet
6 3 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (4.44%) Data Lake
8 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.22%) Data Hub
8 1 (2.22%) DB2
8 1 (2.22%) Metadata
8 1 (2.22%) Neo4j
8 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (31.11%) Retail
2 3 (6.67%) Automotive
3 2 (4.44%) Law
3 2 (4.44%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Finance
4 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.56%) PySpark
2 2 (4.44%) .NET
2 2 (4.44%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.22%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (2.22%) Blazor
3 1 (2.22%) CSS
3 1 (2.22%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.22%) HTML
3 1 (2.22%) HTML5
3 1 (2.22%) OAuth
3 1 (2.22%) RESTful
3 1 (2.22%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
1 1 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Windows
1 4 (8.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (48.89%) CI/CD
2 15 (33.33%) ETL
3 13 (28.89%) DevOps
4 12 (26.67%) Data Modelling
4 12 (26.67%) Requirements Gathering
5 11 (24.44%) Data Engineering
6 6 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (11.11%) Analytics
7 5 (11.11%) Machine Learning
8 4 (8.89%) AI
8 4 (8.89%) Cloud Operations
8 4 (8.89%) Mentoring
8 4 (8.89%) Migration
8 4 (8.89%) Service Delivery
9 3 (6.67%) Agile
9 3 (6.67%) Cloud Security
9 3 (6.67%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (6.67%) ERP
9 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 34 (75.56%) SQL
2 26 (57.78%) Python
3 2 (4.44%) Bicep
3 2 (4.44%) C#
4 1 (2.22%) Bash
4 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.22%) Scala
4 1 (2.22%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 3 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.22%) GDPR
1 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Terraform
2 2 (4.44%) Grafana
2 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.22%) Ansible
3 1 (2.22%) Argo
3 1 (2.22%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 16 (35.56%) Microsoft
2 13 (28.89%) Databricks
3 2 (4.44%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.22%) JD Edwards
4 1 (2.22%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle
4 1 (2.22%) SAP