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 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 203 147 168
Rank change year-on-year -56 +21 +64
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 32 149 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.57% 1.48% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 1.56% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 31 63 45
10th Percentile £50,000 £36,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £41,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -8.33% -2.44%
75th Percentile £68,750 £64,375 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £68,600 £68,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% -6.64%

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 5,177 9,550 5,266
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 94.82% 93.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,266 5,390 3,994
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,119 £26,724
25th Percentile £31,750 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.63% +4.85%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,375 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Azure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +1 22 £62,500 +8.70% 4
East Midlands -36 10 £67,500 +35.00% 5
Azure Engineer
England

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Azure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Midlands region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) Azure
2 19 (59.38%) SQL
3 18 (56.25%) Python
3 18 (56.25%) CI/CD
4 17 (53.13%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (46.88%) Microsoft
6 14 (43.75%) Retail
7 12 (37.50%) Data Modelling
7 12 (37.50%) Requirements Gathering
8 9 (28.13%) DevOps
9 8 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (21.88%) Azure Certification
10 7 (21.88%) ETL
11 6 (18.75%) Data Engineering
12 5 (15.63%) Terraform
12 5 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (15.63%) Databricks
12 5 (15.63%) Analytics
12 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
12 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 5 (15.63%) PySpark
13 4 (12.50%) Delta Lake
13 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
13 4 (12.50%) AWS
13 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
13 4 (12.50%) GitHub
14 3 (9.38%) IaaS
14 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Management
14 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.13%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 32 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (12.50%) AWS
4 4 (12.50%) GitHub
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (9.38%) Entra ID
5 3 (9.38%) IaaS
5 3 (9.38%) PaaS
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.25%) Azure AKS
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Functions
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
1 2 (6.25%) HTTPS
1 2 (6.25%) SD-WAN
1 2 (6.25%) VLAN
1 2 (6.25%) VPN
1 2 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (53.13%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
3 4 (12.50%) Delta Lake
4 3 (9.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (9.38%) Parquet
5 2 (6.25%) Data Lake
5 2 (6.25%) Power BI
6 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.13%) Data Hub
6 1 (3.13%) DB2
6 1 (3.13%) Metadata
6 1 (3.13%) Neo4j
6 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.13%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 14 (43.75%) Retail
2 3 (9.38%) Automotive
2 3 (9.38%) Law
3 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Finance
4 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) PySpark
2 2 (6.25%) .NET
3 1 (3.13%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.13%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (3.13%) Blazor
3 1 (3.13%) CSS
3 1 (3.13%) Entity Framework
3 1 (3.13%) HTML
3 1 (3.13%) HTML5
3 1 (3.13%) OAuth
3 1 (3.13%) RESTful
3 1 (3.13%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
1 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Windows
1 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 12 (37.50%) Data Modelling
2 12 (37.50%) Requirements Gathering
3 9 (28.13%) DevOps
4 7 (21.88%) ETL
5 6 (18.75%) Data Engineering
6 5 (15.63%) Analytics
6 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (9.38%) Agile
8 3 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (9.38%) Change Data Capture
8 3 (9.38%) Cloud Security
8 3 (9.38%) Cost Management
8 3 (9.38%) ERP
8 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (9.38%) Machine Learning
9 2 (6.25%) Collaborative Culture
9 2 (6.25%) Data Pipeline
9 2 (6.25%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 19 (59.38%) SQL
2 18 (56.25%) Python
3 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.25%) Bicep
4 2 (6.25%) C#
5 1 (3.13%) Bash
5 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.13%) Scala
5 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Azure Certification
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Terraform
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.25%) Ansible
3 2 (6.25%) Grafana
3 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.13%) Argo
4 1 (3.13%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (3.13%) Kustomize
4 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.63%) Databricks
3 2 (6.25%) Cloudera
4 1 (3.13%) JD Edwards
4 1 (3.13%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle
4 1 (3.13%) SAP
4 1 (3.13%) Veeam
4 1 (3.13%) VMware