Azure Engineer Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in the Midlands is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 June 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 201 189
Rank change year-on-year +82 -12 +31
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 153 22 156
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.21% 0.43% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 0.48% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 128 19 68
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £39,450
25th Percentile £57,500 £42,250 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -5.51%

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 11,962 4,613 13,385
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.76% 91.08% 94.15%
Number of salaries quoted 8,312 2,805 9,578
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,250 £32,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,683 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% +0.39% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +43 79 £70,000 +5.66% 10
East Midlands +38 72 £64,000 +60.00% 9
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 June 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.

1 153 (100.00%) Azure
2 58 (37.91%) DevOps
3 40 (26.14%) Microsoft
4 34 (22.22%) SQL
4 34 (22.22%) Terraform
5 33 (21.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (19.61%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (13.73%) Platform Engineering
7 21 (13.73%) Python
8 20 (13.07%) PowerShell
9 19 (12.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 18 (11.76%) Containerisation
10 18 (11.76%) Kubernetes
10 18 (11.76%) PaaS
11 17 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
11 17 (11.11%) CI/CD
12 16 (10.46%) .NET
13 15 (9.80%) Agile
13 15 (9.80%) ETL
14 14 (9.15%) AWS
14 14 (9.15%) Cybersecurity
15 13 (8.50%) Azure App Service
15 13 (8.50%) Snowflake
16 12 (7.84%) API Management
16 12 (7.84%) Azure Certification
16 12 (7.84%) Data Pipeline
16 12 (7.84%) VMware
17 11 (7.19%) Azure AKS
17 11 (7.19%) Business Intelligence
17 11 (7.19%) DevSecOps

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 (4.58%) IIS
2 3 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 153 (100.00%) Azure
2 30 (19.61%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (11.76%) PaaS
4 14 (9.15%) AWS
5 13 (8.50%) Azure App Service
5 13 (8.50%) Snowflake
6 11 (7.19%) Azure AKS
7 10 (6.54%) IaaS
7 10 (6.54%) Power Platform
8 9 (5.88%) Entra ID
9 8 (5.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 8 (5.23%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (5.23%) Azure Storage
10 7 (4.58%) Azure Stack
11 5 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (3.27%) npm
11 5 (3.27%) NuGet
11 5 (3.27%) SonarCloud
12 4 (2.61%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (2.61%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.19%) DNS
2 5 (3.27%) Firewall
3 2 (1.31%) VPN
4 1 (0.65%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.65%) DHCP
4 1 (0.65%) LAN
4 1 (0.65%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (6.54%) Power BI
2 10 (6.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.27%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.96%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.61%) Git
2 2 (1.31%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (7.84%) Law
2 7 (4.58%) Retail
3 4 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (2.61%) Finance
3 4 (2.61%) Social Skills
4 2 (1.31%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.65%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.46%) .NET
2 8 (5.23%) Node.js
2 8 (5.23%) React
3 5 (3.27%) YAML
4 3 (1.96%) .NET Core
4 3 (1.96%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.31%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.31%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (1.31%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.31%) PySpark
6 1 (0.65%) CSS
6 1 (0.65%) D3.js
6 1 (0.65%) Flask
6 1 (0.65%) HTML
6 1 (0.65%) Kafka
6 1 (0.65%) LDAP
6 1 (0.65%) NumPy
6 1 (0.65%) REST
6 1 (0.65%) RESTful
6 1 (0.65%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.50%) Cloud Native
2 4 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.31%) PKI
5 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.65%) Clustering
5 1 (0.65%) CMDB
5 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.65%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.23%) Windows
2 6 (3.92%) Linux
3 3 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (37.91%) DevOps
2 33 (21.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (13.73%) Platform Engineering
4 19 (12.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 18 (11.76%) Containerisation
6 17 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 15 (9.80%) Agile
7 15 (9.80%) ETL
8 14 (9.15%) Cybersecurity
9 12 (7.84%) API Management
9 12 (7.84%) Data Pipeline
10 11 (7.19%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (7.19%) DevSecOps
11 10 (6.54%) Innovative Thinking
11 10 (6.54%) Load Balancing
12 9 (5.88%) High Availability
12 9 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
13 8 (5.23%) AI
14 7 (4.58%) Continuous Improvement
14 7 (4.58%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 34 (22.22%) SQL
2 21 (13.73%) Python
3 20 (13.07%) PowerShell
4 10 (6.54%) Bash
5 6 (3.92%) Bicep
6 5 (3.27%) C#
7 1 (0.65%) Go
7 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (7.84%) Azure Certification
2 8 (5.23%) SC Cleared
2 8 (5.23%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.92%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.31%) SLA
2 1 (0.65%) GDPR
2 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (6.54%) Docker
1 10 (6.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.31%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (22.22%) Terraform
2 18 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.61%) Grafana
5 1 (0.65%) Ansible
5 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (26.14%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.84%) VMware
3 5 (3.27%) CrowdStrike
3 5 (3.27%) Databricks
4 2 (1.31%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.31%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (1.31%) Veeam
5 1 (0.65%) Computacenter
5 1 (0.65%) F5
5 1 (0.65%) SolarWinds