Azure Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in the Midlands is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 July 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 183 222
Rank change year-on-year -57 +39 +34
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 23 163 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.34% 1.17% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 1.24% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 20 71 65
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £39,500
25th Percentile £43,125 £46,100 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -13.60%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,250 £68,750 £69,050
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +3.70%

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 6,303 13,155 7,345
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.88% 94.32% 89.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,055 9,192 4,504
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,256 £34,750 £37,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £61,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Azure Engineer 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +18 14 £65,000 +13.04% 35
East Midlands -40 9 £40,000 -20.00% 27
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 July 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 23 (100.00%) Azure
2 17 (73.91%) Microsoft
3 13 (56.52%) Windows
3 13 (56.52%) Azure Certification
4 12 (52.17%) Windows Server
5 11 (47.83%) IaaS
5 11 (47.83%) Active Directory
5 11 (47.83%) PowerShell
6 8 (34.78%) PaaS
6 8 (34.78%) DevOps
6 8 (34.78%) Entra ID
6 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (30.43%) Cost Management
7 7 (30.43%) WAN
7 7 (30.43%) VPN
7 7 (30.43%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (30.43%) Firewall
7 7 (30.43%) VMware
8 6 (26.09%) Migration
8 6 (26.09%) Identity Management
8 6 (26.09%) AWS
8 6 (26.09%) SQL Server
8 6 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Management
8 6 (26.09%) Cost Optimisation
8 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
8 6 (26.09%) SD-WAN
9 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (21.74%) 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (47.83%) IaaS
3 8 (34.78%) Entra ID
3 8 (34.78%) PaaS
4 6 (26.09%) AWS
4 6 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (17.39%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (17.39%) Route 53
6 2 (8.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (8.70%) GitHub
6 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.35%) Cloudflare
7 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.35%) SaaS
7 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) Firewall
1 7 (30.43%) VPN
1 7 (30.43%) WAN
2 6 (26.09%) SD-WAN
3 5 (21.74%) VLAN
4 4 (17.39%) HTTPS
5 3 (13.04%) LAN
5 3 (13.04%) Network Security
6 1 (4.35%) BGP
6 1 (4.35%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (4.35%) MPLS
6 1 (4.35%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.35%) Data Hub
3 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.35%) DB2
3 1 (4.35%) HDInsight
3 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (17.39%) Advertising
1 4 (17.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Law
2 2 (8.70%) Legal
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
1 1 (4.35%) Driving Licence
1 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (4.35%) IoT
1 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (56.52%) Windows
2 12 (52.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) DevOps
1 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (30.43%) Cost Management
2 7 (30.43%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
3 6 (26.09%) Cost Optimisation
3 6 (26.09%) Identity Management
3 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Management
3 6 (26.09%) Migration
4 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (17.39%) Collaborative Culture
5 4 (17.39%) Load Balancing
5 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
5 4 (17.39%) Privileged Identity Management
5 4 (17.39%) Proactive Management
5 4 (17.39%) Security Operations
5 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (17.39%) Threat Management
5 4 (17.39%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.70%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (56.52%) Azure Certification
2 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (17.39%) AWS Certification
3 4 (17.39%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 11 (47.83%) Active Directory
2 4 (17.39%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (21.74%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) Ansible
2 1 (4.35%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
2 1 (4.35%) Puppet
2 1 (4.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (73.91%) Microsoft
2 7 (30.43%) VMware
3 2 (8.70%) Cloudera
4 1 (4.35%) Aruba
4 1 (4.35%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco
4 1 (4.35%) Databricks
4 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.35%) JD Edwards
4 1 (4.35%) Meraki
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle
4 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.35%) SAP
4 1 (4.35%) Veeam