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 5 January 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 209 150
Rank change year-on-year +52 -59 +76
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 63 34 73
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.81% 0.52% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.55% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 62 28 61
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,800 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,250 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -7.79% -2.40%
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,063 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £74,875 £67,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -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 7,067 6,142 4,941
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.52% 94.22% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,285 2,874 4,083
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,075 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,434 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% +4.87% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%

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 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 5 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 +31 36 £60,000 +2.13% 4
East Midlands +12 21 £67,500 +35.00% 5
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 63 (100.00%) Azure
2 38 (60.32%) SQL
3 30 (47.62%) Python
4 25 (39.68%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (38.10%) CI/CD
6 20 (31.75%) DevOps
7 19 (30.16%) ETL
8 18 (28.57%) Microsoft
9 17 (26.98%) Databricks
10 15 (23.81%) SQL Server
11 13 (20.63%) Data Engineering
11 13 (20.63%) Data Modelling
12 12 (19.05%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (19.05%) Delta Lake
12 12 (19.05%) Requirements Gathering
13 10 (15.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 10 (15.87%) Migration
13 10 (15.87%) Terraform
14 8 (12.70%) Business Intelligence
14 8 (12.70%) PySpark
14 8 (12.70%) SaaS
15 7 (11.11%) Kubernetes
15 7 (11.11%) Machine Learning
16 6 (9.52%) AI
16 6 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
16 6 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
16 6 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
16 6 (9.52%) Power BI
16 6 (9.52%) Power Platform
16 6 (9.52%) Windows

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 (3.17%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 63 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (19.05%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (12.70%) SaaS
4 6 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (9.52%) Power Platform
5 4 (6.35%) Snowflake
6 3 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (3.17%) GitHub
7 2 (3.17%) npm
7 2 (3.17%) NuGet
7 2 (3.17%) SonarCloud
8 1 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.59%) AWS
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.59%) GCP
8 1 (1.59%) IaaS
8 1 (1.59%) PaaS
8 1 (1.59%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (39.68%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (23.81%) SQL Server
3 12 (19.05%) Delta Lake
4 6 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (9.52%) Power BI
5 4 (6.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (4.76%) Big Data
6 3 (4.76%) Parquet
7 2 (3.17%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.59%) Metadata
8 1 (1.59%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Git
2 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (22.22%) Retail
2 10 (15.87%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.76%) Automotive
3 3 (4.76%) Military
4 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.59%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.70%) PySpark
2 3 (4.76%) .NET
3 2 (3.17%) .NET Core
3 2 (3.17%) .NET Framework
3 2 (3.17%) ARM Templates
3 2 (3.17%) Node.js
3 2 (3.17%) React
3 2 (3.17%) YAML
4 1 (1.59%) OAuth
4 1 (1.59%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.52%) Windows
2 5 (7.94%) Linux
3 4 (6.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (38.10%) CI/CD
2 20 (31.75%) DevOps
3 19 (30.16%) ETL
4 13 (20.63%) Data Engineering
4 13 (20.63%) Data Modelling
5 12 (19.05%) Requirements Gathering
6 10 (15.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (15.87%) Migration
7 8 (12.70%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (11.11%) Machine Learning
9 6 (9.52%) AI
10 5 (7.94%) Agile
10 5 (7.94%) Cloud Security
10 5 (7.94%) Microservices
11 4 (6.35%) Cloud Operations
11 4 (6.35%) Data Pipeline
11 4 (6.35%) Infrastructure as Code
11 4 (6.35%) Mentoring
11 4 (6.35%) Performance Tuning
11 4 (6.35%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 38 (60.32%) SQL
2 30 (47.62%) Python
3 3 (4.76%) Bash
3 3 (4.76%) C#
3 3 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.17%) Bicep
4 2 (3.17%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (7.94%) SC Cleared
1 5 (7.94%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.35%) Azure Certification
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) SLA
2 2 (3.17%) GDPR
3 1 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (15.87%) Terraform
2 7 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.35%) Ansible
4 2 (3.17%) Grafana
5 1 (1.59%) Argo
5 1 (1.59%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 18 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 17 (26.98%) Databricks
3 4 (6.35%) VMware
4 2 (3.17%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.59%) LogicMonitor