Azure Engineer Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in the Midlands is £64,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 April 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 187 176
Rank change year-on-year +34 -11 +71
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 112 23 139
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.89% 0.47% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 0.52% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 108 20 62
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £37,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £46,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% -16.36% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,125 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £71,750 £68,625
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 11,690 4,431 10,818
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.92% 89.81% 94.23%
Number of salaries quoted 7,375 2,788 8,235
10th Percentile £28,750 £27,500 £26,100
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,188 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £60,741
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.33%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -3 55 £65,000 +62.50% 10
West Midlands +11 51 £65,000 +18.18% 16
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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.

1 112 (100.00%) Azure
2 45 (40.18%) DevOps
3 36 (32.14%) SQL
4 28 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 26 (23.21%) Terraform
6 25 (22.32%) Python
7 22 (19.64%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (19.64%) ETL
8 21 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 19 (16.96%) CI/CD
11 18 (16.07%) Kubernetes
12 16 (14.29%) PowerShell
13 15 (13.39%) Platform Engineering
14 14 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
14 14 (12.50%) Databricks
14 14 (12.50%) VMware
15 13 (11.61%) Containerisation
15 13 (11.61%) Migration
15 13 (11.61%) Snowflake
15 13 (11.61%) SQL Server
16 12 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
16 12 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
16 12 (10.71%) Windows
17 11 (9.82%) Bash
17 11 (9.82%) Data Pipeline
17 11 (9.82%) DevSecOps
17 11 (9.82%) Docker
17 11 (9.82%) Linux
17 11 (9.82%) Power BI

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 8 (7.14%) IIS
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 112 (100.00%) Azure
2 22 (19.64%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (11.61%) Snowflake
4 11 (9.82%) Power Platform
5 10 (8.93%) AWS
6 9 (8.04%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (6.25%) Azure AKS
7 7 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (6.25%) npm
7 7 (6.25%) NuGet
7 7 (6.25%) SonarCloud
8 6 (5.36%) Azure App Service
9 5 (4.46%) PaaS
9 5 (4.46%) SaaS
10 4 (3.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (3.57%) Azure Stack
10 4 (3.57%) Azure Storage
10 4 (3.57%) IaaS
11 3 (2.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.25%) DNS
2 5 (4.46%) Firewall
3 1 (0.89%) DHCP
3 1 (0.89%) LAN
3 1 (0.89%) VPN
3 1 (0.89%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.61%) SQL Server
2 12 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (9.82%) Power BI
3 11 (9.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (8.93%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (7.14%) Delta Lake
6 7 (6.25%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.68%) Big Data
8 1 (0.89%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.89%) Metadata
8 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (4.46%) Git
2 2 (1.79%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (8.93%) Social Skills
2 5 (4.46%) Law
3 4 (3.57%) Retail
4 3 (2.68%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.68%) Military
5 2 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.79%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.93%) .NET
2 9 (8.04%) Node.js
2 9 (8.04%) React
3 7 (6.25%) YAML
4 5 (4.46%) .NET Core
4 5 (4.46%) .NET Framework
5 4 (3.57%) PySpark
6 3 (2.68%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.79%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.79%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (1.79%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.89%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.61%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.46%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.79%) PKI
4 1 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.71%) Windows
2 11 (9.82%) Linux
3 5 (4.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (40.18%) DevOps
2 22 (19.64%) ETL
3 21 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 19 (16.96%) CI/CD
6 15 (13.39%) Platform Engineering
7 14 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (11.61%) Containerisation
8 13 (11.61%) Migration
9 11 (9.82%) Data Pipeline
9 11 (9.82%) DevSecOps
10 10 (8.93%) Agile
10 10 (8.93%) Microservices
11 9 (8.04%) Cloud Security
12 8 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (7.14%) Data Engineering
12 8 (7.14%) Innovative Thinking
13 7 (6.25%) Mentoring
13 7 (6.25%) Test Automation
14 6 (5.36%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 36 (32.14%) SQL
2 25 (22.32%) Python
3 16 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 11 (9.82%) Bash
5 8 (7.14%) C#
6 7 (6.25%) Bicep
7 3 (2.68%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (9.82%) SC Cleared
1 11 (9.82%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.04%) Azure Certification
3 5 (4.46%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.89%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.46%) SLA
2 3 (2.68%) GDPR
3 2 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.89%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (9.82%) Docker
3 3 (2.68%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.79%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (23.21%) Terraform
2 18 (16.07%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.57%) Ansible
3 4 (3.57%) Grafana
4 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.50%) Databricks
2 14 (12.50%) VMware
3 7 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (1.79%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.79%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (1.79%) Veeam
5 1 (0.89%) Computacenter
5 1 (0.89%) SolarWinds