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 30 September 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 193 160
Rank change year-on-year +64 -33 +1
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 168 30 120
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.07% 0.53% 1.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 0.58% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 125 29 57
10th Percentile £53,500 £53,300 £36,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £68,750 £66,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £80,000 £69,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -

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 14,646 5,217 9,183
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 92.93% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 10,200 3,183 4,871
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,875 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 +26 95 £70,000 +7.69% 25
East Midlands +23 73 £83,000 +22.96% 23
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 September 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.

1 168 (100.00%) Azure
2 67 (39.88%) DevOps
3 40 (23.81%) Platform Engineering
4 36 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
5 35 (20.83%) PaaS
6 34 (20.24%) SQL
7 33 (19.64%) Microsoft
8 29 (17.26%) Terraform
9 27 (16.07%) Infrastructure as Code
10 24 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (14.29%) Python
11 20 (11.90%) Azure Certification
12 17 (10.12%) Data Pipeline
12 17 (10.12%) ETL
13 15 (8.93%) Azure SQL Database
13 15 (8.93%) Entra ID
13 15 (8.93%) SC Cleared
13 15 (8.93%) Security Cleared
13 15 (8.93%) Wealth Management
14 14 (8.33%) Azure AI
15 13 (7.74%) Analytics
15 13 (7.74%) C#
15 13 (7.74%) CI/CD
15 13 (7.74%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (7.74%) ETL Development
16 12 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
16 12 (7.14%) Data Security
16 12 (7.14%) Decision-Making
16 12 (7.14%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 12 (7.14%) DV Cleared

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 10 (5.95%) IIS
2 3 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.60%) nginx
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 168 (100.00%) Azure
2 35 (20.83%) PaaS
3 24 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (8.93%) Entra ID
5 14 (8.33%) Azure AI
6 12 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (6.55%) Azure App Service
7 11 (6.55%) IaaS
8 10 (5.95%) AWS
9 7 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (4.17%) Azure Stack
9 7 (4.17%) Snowflake
10 6 (3.57%) Azure AKS
11 5 (2.98%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 5 (2.98%) Azure Storage
12 4 (2.38%) GitHub
12 4 (2.38%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
14 2 (1.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.57%) DNS
2 4 (2.38%) Firewall
3 3 (1.79%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (1.79%) VPN
4 1 (0.60%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.60%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.93%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (7.74%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.38%) Power BI
4 4 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.19%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.60%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (1.19%) Git
2 1 (0.60%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (17.86%) Finance
2 10 (5.95%) Law
3 5 (2.98%) Retail
4 1 (0.60%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (0.60%) Legal
4 1 (0.60%) Police
4 1 (0.60%) Public Sector
4 1 (0.60%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (17.26%) Terraform
2 12 (7.14%) Kafka
2 12 (7.14%) Keycloak
3 10 (5.95%) .NET
4 2 (1.19%) Node.js
4 2 (1.19%) React
5 1 (0.60%) CSS
5 1 (0.60%) D3.js
5 1 (0.60%) Flask
5 1 (0.60%) HTML
5 1 (0.60%) Java SE
5 1 (0.60%) LDAP
5 1 (0.60%) NumPy
5 1 (0.60%) OpenLayers
5 1 (0.60%) Pandas
5 1 (0.60%) pytest
5 1 (0.60%) REST
5 1 (0.60%) RESTful
5 1 (0.60%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.93%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (2.98%) Cloud Native
3 3 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (1.79%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.19%) PKI
5 1 (0.60%) Clustering
5 1 (0.60%) CMDB
5 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.60%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.60%) Linux
1 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (0.60%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (39.88%) DevOps
2 40 (23.81%) Platform Engineering
3 36 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
4 27 (16.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (10.12%) Data Pipeline
5 17 (10.12%) ETL
6 15 (8.93%) Wealth Management
7 13 (7.74%) Analytics
7 13 (7.74%) CI/CD
7 13 (7.74%) ETL Development
8 12 (7.14%) Data Security
8 12 (7.14%) Decision-Making
8 12 (7.14%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 12 (7.14%) Workflow
9 11 (6.55%) API Management
10 10 (5.95%) Agile
10 10 (5.95%) Containerisation
10 10 (5.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (4.76%) AI
12 7 (4.17%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 34 (20.24%) SQL
2 24 (14.29%) Python
3 13 (7.74%) C#
4 12 (7.14%) Go
5 8 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.38%) Java
6 4 (2.38%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.79%) Bash
8 2 (1.19%) Bicep
8 2 (1.19%) PHP
9 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (11.90%) Azure Certification
2 15 (8.93%) SC Cleared
2 15 (8.93%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (1.79%) NIST
2 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (2.98%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.60%) Ansible
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.76%) Foundry
3 1 (0.60%) Databricks
3 1 (0.60%) F5
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle
3 1 (0.60%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.60%) VMware