Azure Engineer Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in the Midlands is £64,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 December 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 199 139
Rank change year-on-year +27 -60 +95
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 57 51 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.74% 0.74% 1.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.79% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 56 34 66
10th Percentile £46,250 £35,200 £43,250
25th Percentile £54,625 £41,250 £50,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,250 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.82% -8.33% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,000 £64,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -7.14%

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 7,006 6,459 4,296
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.49% 94.22% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 4,233 3,077 3,569
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% -3.88%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,001 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 20 December 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 20 December 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 +24 36 £60,000 +2.13% 8
East Midlands +7 17 £67,500 +60.71% 5
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 December 2025, 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 57 (100.00%) Azure
2 38 (66.67%) SQL
3 29 (50.88%) Python
4 25 (43.86%) CI/CD
5 24 (42.11%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (36.84%) DevOps
7 19 (33.33%) ETL
8 18 (31.58%) Microsoft
9 16 (28.07%) Databricks
10 14 (24.56%) Data Modelling
10 14 (24.56%) SQL Server
11 13 (22.81%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (21.05%) Data Engineering
12 12 (21.05%) Requirements Gathering
13 10 (17.54%) Delta Lake
13 10 (17.54%) Terraform
14 9 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
14 9 (15.79%) Migration
15 8 (14.04%) PySpark
15 8 (14.04%) SaaS
16 7 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (12.28%) Azure SQL Database
16 7 (12.28%) Machine Learning
17 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 6 (10.53%) Kubernetes
17 6 (10.53%) Power BI
17 6 (10.53%) Power Platform
17 6 (10.53%) Windows
18 5 (8.77%) .NET
18 5 (8.77%) AI

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 2 (3.51%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 57 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (22.81%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (14.04%) SaaS
4 7 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (10.53%) Power Platform
6 5 (8.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (7.02%) Snowflake
8 2 (3.51%) GitHub
8 2 (3.51%) npm
8 2 (3.51%) NuGet
8 2 (3.51%) SonarCloud
9 1 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.75%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.75%) Datadog
9 1 (1.75%) GCP
9 1 (1.75%) IaaS
9 1 (1.75%) PaaS
9 1 (1.75%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (42.11%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (24.56%) SQL Server
3 10 (17.54%) Delta Lake
4 7 (12.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (10.53%) Power BI
6 4 (7.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (5.26%) Big Data
7 3 (5.26%) Data Lake
7 3 (5.26%) Parquet
8 2 (3.51%) Metadata
8 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
8 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.75%) Data Hub
9 1 (1.75%) DB2
9 1 (1.75%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Git
2 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (24.56%) Retail
2 7 (12.28%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.26%) Automotive
4 2 (3.51%) Military
5 1 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.75%) Finance
5 1 (1.75%) Law
5 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.04%) PySpark
2 5 (8.77%) .NET
3 3 (5.26%) .NET Framework
3 3 (5.26%) ARM Templates
4 2 (3.51%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.51%) Node.js
4 2 (3.51%) React
4 2 (3.51%) YAML
5 1 (1.75%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.75%) Blazor
5 1 (1.75%) CSS
5 1 (1.75%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.75%) HTML
5 1 (1.75%) HTML5
5 1 (1.75%) OAuth
5 1 (1.75%) RESTful
5 1 (1.75%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
1 2 (3.51%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.53%) Windows
2 4 (7.02%) Linux
2 4 (7.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.86%) CI/CD
2 21 (36.84%) DevOps
3 19 (33.33%) ETL
4 14 (24.56%) Data Modelling
5 12 (21.05%) Data Engineering
5 12 (21.05%) Requirements Gathering
6 9 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (15.79%) Migration
7 7 (12.28%) Machine Learning
8 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (8.77%) AI
9 5 (8.77%) Analytics
9 5 (8.77%) Data Pipeline
10 4 (7.02%) Cloud Security
10 4 (7.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (7.02%) Mentoring
10 4 (7.02%) Microservices
10 4 (7.02%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (7.02%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 38 (66.67%) SQL
2 29 (50.88%) Python
3 5 (8.77%) C#
4 3 (5.26%) Bash
4 3 (5.26%) Bicep
4 3 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.26%) T-SQL
5 2 (3.51%) Scala
6 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared
1 5 (8.77%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.02%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) GDPR
1 3 (5.26%) SLA
2 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (17.54%) Terraform
2 6 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.26%) Ansible
4 2 (3.51%) Grafana
5 1 (1.75%) Argo
5 1 (1.75%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 18 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 16 (28.07%) Databricks
3 2 (3.51%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (1.75%) JD Edwards
4 1 (1.75%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle
4 1 (1.75%) SAP