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 1 July 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 196 183
Rank change year-on-year +82 -13 +29
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 158 23 160
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.23% 0.44% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 0.48% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 132 20 70
10th Percentile £47,500 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £43,125 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% +4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,250 £68,750
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 12,194 4,763 12,986
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 90.98% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 8,469 2,943 9,187
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,750 £32,000 £34,500
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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +38 83 £70,000 +7.69% 11
East Midlands +36 74 £64,500 +61.25% 8
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 July 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.

1 158 (100.00%) Azure
2 61 (38.61%) DevOps
3 40 (25.32%) Microsoft
4 36 (22.78%) SQL
5 35 (22.15%) Terraform
6 34 (21.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (18.99%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (14.56%) Platform Engineering
9 22 (13.92%) Python
10 20 (12.66%) PowerShell
11 19 (12.03%) PaaS
12 18 (11.39%) CI/CD
12 18 (11.39%) Containerisation
12 18 (11.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 18 (11.39%) Kubernetes
13 17 (10.76%) Azure SQL Database
14 16 (10.13%) .NET
14 16 (10.13%) Cybersecurity
14 16 (10.13%) ETL
15 15 (9.49%) Agile
16 14 (8.86%) AWS
17 13 (8.23%) Azure App Service
17 13 (8.23%) Azure Certification
17 13 (8.23%) Data Pipeline
17 13 (8.23%) Snowflake
18 12 (7.59%) API Management
19 11 (6.96%) Azure AKS
19 11 (6.96%) Business Intelligence
19 11 (6.96%) DevSecOps
19 11 (6.96%) DNS

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 (5.06%) IIS
2 3 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 158 (100.00%) Azure
2 30 (18.99%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (12.03%) PaaS
4 14 (8.86%) AWS
5 13 (8.23%) Azure App Service
5 13 (8.23%) Snowflake
6 11 (6.96%) Azure AKS
7 10 (6.33%) Entra ID
7 10 (6.33%) IaaS
7 10 (6.33%) Power Platform
8 8 (5.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 8 (5.06%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (5.06%) Azure Storage
9 7 (4.43%) Azure Stack
10 5 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (3.16%) npm
10 5 (3.16%) NuGet
10 5 (3.16%) SonarCloud
11 4 (2.53%) GitHub
11 4 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.96%) DNS
2 5 (3.16%) Firewall
3 2 (1.27%) VPN
4 1 (0.63%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.63%) DHCP
4 1 (0.63%) LAN
4 1 (0.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (6.33%) Power BI
2 10 (6.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (5.70%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.16%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.90%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.53%) Git
2 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (7.59%) Law
2 7 (4.43%) Finance
2 7 (4.43%) Retail
3 4 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (1.90%) Social Skills
5 2 (1.27%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.63%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.13%) .NET
2 8 (5.06%) Node.js
2 8 (5.06%) React
3 5 (3.16%) YAML
4 3 (1.90%) .NET Core
4 3 (1.90%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.27%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.27%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (1.27%) Kafka
5 2 (1.27%) Keycloak
5 2 (1.27%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.27%) PySpark
6 1 (0.63%) CSS
6 1 (0.63%) D3.js
6 1 (0.63%) Flask
6 1 (0.63%) HTML
6 1 (0.63%) LDAP
6 1 (0.63%) NumPy
6 1 (0.63%) REST
6 1 (0.63%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.23%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.27%) PKI
5 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.63%) Clustering
5 1 (0.63%) CMDB
5 1 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.06%) Windows
2 6 (3.80%) Linux
3 3 (1.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (38.61%) DevOps
2 34 (21.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (14.56%) Platform Engineering
4 18 (11.39%) CI/CD
4 18 (11.39%) Containerisation
4 18 (11.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 16 (10.13%) Cybersecurity
5 16 (10.13%) ETL
6 15 (9.49%) Agile
7 13 (8.23%) Data Pipeline
8 12 (7.59%) API Management
9 11 (6.96%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (6.96%) DevSecOps
10 10 (6.33%) Innovative Thinking
10 10 (6.33%) Load Balancing
11 9 (5.70%) AI
11 9 (5.70%) High Availability
11 9 (5.70%) Root Cause Analysis
12 8 (5.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (4.43%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 36 (22.78%) SQL
2 22 (13.92%) Python
3 20 (12.66%) PowerShell
4 10 (6.33%) Bash
5 6 (3.80%) Bicep
5 6 (3.80%) C#
6 2 (1.27%) Go
7 1 (0.63%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.63%) PHP
7 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (8.23%) Azure Certification
2 9 (5.70%) SC Cleared
2 9 (5.70%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.43%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.63%) GDPR
1 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (6.33%) Docker
2 9 (5.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.90%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.27%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (22.15%) Terraform
2 18 (11.39%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.53%) Grafana
5 1 (0.63%) Ansible
5 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (25.32%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.96%) VMware
3 5 (3.16%) CrowdStrike
3 5 (3.16%) Databricks
4 2 (1.27%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.27%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (1.27%) Veeam
5 1 (0.63%) Computacenter
5 1 (0.63%) F5
5 1 (0.63%) SolarWinds