Azure Engineer Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in the Midlands is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 March 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 191 201
Rank change year-on-year +37 +10 +43
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 79 27 88
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.81% 0.51% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.56% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 78 24 74
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,625 £42,075
25th Percentile £51,563 £40,313 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% -15.83% +6.23%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,813 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,750 £70,000 £68,375
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 8,956 4,836 9,099
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.77% 92.11% 93.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5,530 2,676 7,280
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,125 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,398 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +10.31% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,775
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.69%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 +19 37 £60,000 +4.35% 11
East Midlands +1 36 £65,000 +62.50% 4
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 March 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 79 (100.00%) Azure
2 30 (37.97%) SQL
3 29 (36.71%) DevOps
4 24 (30.38%) Python
5 23 (29.11%) Microsoft
6 22 (27.85%) ETL
7 19 (24.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 17 (21.52%) CI/CD
9 15 (18.99%) Databricks
10 14 (17.72%) SQL Server
10 14 (17.72%) Terraform
11 13 (16.46%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (16.46%) Migration
11 13 (16.46%) VMware
12 12 (15.19%) Kubernetes
13 11 (13.92%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (13.92%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (13.92%) VMware Infrastructure
13 11 (13.92%) Windows
14 10 (12.66%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (12.66%) Data Pipeline
14 10 (12.66%) Power BI
14 10 (12.66%) Power Platform
14 10 (12.66%) Snowflake
14 10 (12.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 9 (11.39%) Data Engineering
15 9 (11.39%) Delta Lake
15 9 (11.39%) Infrastructure as Code
15 9 (11.39%) PowerShell
16 8 (10.13%) Azure Data Factory

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 5 (6.33%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 79 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (12.66%) Azure DevOps
2 10 (12.66%) Power Platform
2 10 (12.66%) Snowflake
3 8 (10.13%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (10.13%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (10.13%) SaaS
4 5 (6.33%) npm
4 5 (6.33%) NuGet
4 5 (6.33%) SonarCloud
5 3 (3.80%) AWS
5 3 (3.80%) Azure AKS
5 3 (3.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.53%) Datadog
6 2 (2.53%) GitHub
6 2 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.53%) Firewall
2 1 (1.27%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.72%) SQL Server
2 11 (13.92%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (12.66%) Power BI
3 10 (12.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (11.39%) Delta Lake
5 5 (6.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (6.33%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.80%) Big Data
7 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.27%) Metadata
7 1 (1.27%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Git
2 2 (2.53%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (12.66%) Social Skills
2 3 (3.80%) Military
3 1 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (1.27%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.59%) .NET
2 5 (6.33%) Node.js
2 5 (6.33%) PySpark
2 5 (6.33%) React
2 5 (6.33%) YAML
3 4 (5.06%) .NET Core
3 4 (5.06%) .NET Framework
4 3 (3.80%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.27%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.27%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.27%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.92%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.06%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 11 (13.92%) Windows
2 8 (10.13%) Linux
3 6 (7.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (36.71%) DevOps
2 22 (27.85%) ETL
3 19 (24.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 17 (21.52%) CI/CD
5 13 (16.46%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (16.46%) Migration
6 11 (13.92%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (12.66%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (11.39%) Data Engineering
8 9 (11.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (10.13%) Cloud Security
9 8 (10.13%) Mentoring
9 8 (10.13%) Microservices
10 7 (8.86%) Innovative Thinking
10 7 (8.86%) Machine Learning
11 6 (7.59%) Agile
11 6 (7.59%) AI
11 6 (7.59%) Containerisation
11 6 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (7.59%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 30 (37.97%) SQL
2 24 (30.38%) Python
3 9 (11.39%) PowerShell
4 7 (8.86%) Bash
5 6 (7.59%) C#
6 4 (5.06%) Bicep
7 3 (3.80%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (8.86%) SC Cleared
1 7 (8.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.33%) Azure Certification
3 3 (3.80%) DV Cleared
3 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.33%) SLA
2 3 (3.80%) GDPR
3 2 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (13.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (7.59%) Docker
3 2 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.53%) vSphere
4 1 (1.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (17.72%) Terraform
2 12 (15.19%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.06%) Grafana
4 3 (3.80%) Ansible
5 1 (1.27%) Argo
5 1 (1.27%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (29.11%) Microsoft
2 15 (18.99%) Databricks
3 13 (16.46%) VMware
4 5 (6.33%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (2.53%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (2.53%) Veeam
6 1 (1.27%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.27%) SolarWinds