Azure Engineer Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in the Midlands is £64,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 May 2026.

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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 202 178
Rank change year-on-year +63 -24 +63
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 129 22 139
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.99% 0.43% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 0.47% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 120 19 55
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £37,500 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £46,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.22% -16.36% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,375 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £73,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 12,079 4,633 11,038
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 91.25% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 7,742 2,801 8,337
10th Percentile £29,625 £27,063 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £61,123
90th Percentile £81,250 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +9.26% -11.18%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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
East Midlands +26 63 £65,750 +64.38% 7
West Midlands +21 60 £66,250 +6.00% 16
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 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.

1 129 (100.00%) Azure
2 51 (39.53%) DevOps
3 32 (24.81%) Microsoft
3 32 (24.81%) SQL
4 31 (24.03%) Terraform
5 26 (20.16%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (20.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (20.16%) Python
6 22 (17.05%) ETL
6 22 (17.05%) Kubernetes
7 20 (15.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 19 (14.73%) CI/CD
8 19 (14.73%) PowerShell
9 18 (13.95%) Containerisation
10 16 (12.40%) Platform Engineering
11 15 (11.63%) Agile
11 15 (11.63%) Business Intelligence
12 14 (10.85%) .NET
12 14 (10.85%) Snowflake
12 14 (10.85%) VMware
13 13 (10.08%) AWS
13 13 (10.08%) Data Pipeline
13 13 (10.08%) Docker
14 12 (9.30%) Azure Certification
14 12 (9.30%) DevSecOps
14 12 (9.30%) Power BI
14 12 (9.30%) Power Platform
14 12 (9.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (9.30%) VMware Infrastructure
15 11 (8.53%) Bash

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 8 (6.20%) IIS
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 129 (100.00%) Azure
2 26 (20.16%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (10.85%) Snowflake
4 13 (10.08%) AWS
5 12 (9.30%) Power Platform
6 10 (7.75%) Azure AKS
7 9 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (6.20%) PaaS
9 7 (5.43%) Azure App Service
9 7 (5.43%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (5.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 7 (5.43%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (5.43%) Azure Storage
9 7 (5.43%) IaaS
9 7 (5.43%) npm
9 7 (5.43%) NuGet
9 7 (5.43%) SonarCloud
10 6 (4.65%) Azure Stack
11 4 (3.10%) Entra ID
12 3 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.75%) DNS
2 5 (3.88%) Firewall
3 1 (0.78%) DHCP
3 1 (0.78%) LAN
3 1 (0.78%) VPN
3 1 (0.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.30%) Power BI
1 12 (9.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 11 (8.53%) SQL Server
3 10 (7.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (6.98%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (5.43%) Delta Lake
5 7 (5.43%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.78%) Metadata
6 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (4.65%) Git
2 2 (1.55%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (7.75%) Social Skills
2 8 (6.20%) Law
3 7 (5.43%) Retail
4 3 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.33%) Military
5 2 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.55%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.85%) .NET
2 10 (7.75%) Node.js
2 10 (7.75%) React
3 7 (5.43%) YAML
4 5 (3.88%) .NET Core
4 5 (3.88%) .NET Framework
5 4 (3.10%) PySpark
6 3 (2.33%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.55%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.55%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (1.55%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.78%) CSS
8 1 (0.78%) Flask
8 1 (0.78%) HTML
8 1 (0.78%) LDAP
8 1 (0.78%) Pandas
8 1 (0.78%) pytest
8 1 (0.78%) REST
8 1 (0.78%) RESTful
8 1 (0.78%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.08%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.55%) PKI
4 1 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.53%) Linux
2 10 (7.75%) Windows
3 3 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (39.53%) DevOps
2 26 (20.16%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (17.05%) ETL
4 20 (15.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 19 (14.73%) CI/CD
6 18 (13.95%) Containerisation
7 16 (12.40%) Platform Engineering
8 15 (11.63%) Agile
8 15 (11.63%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (10.08%) Data Pipeline
10 12 (9.30%) DevSecOps
11 11 (8.53%) Migration
12 10 (7.75%) Innovative Thinking
12 10 (7.75%) Microservices
13 9 (6.98%) Cloud Security
14 8 (6.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (6.20%) Root Cause Analysis
15 7 (5.43%) High Availability
15 7 (5.43%) Load Balancing
15 7 (5.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (24.81%) SQL
2 26 (20.16%) Python
3 19 (14.73%) PowerShell
4 11 (8.53%) Bash
5 8 (6.20%) C#
6 7 (5.43%) Bicep
7 3 (2.33%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.78%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (9.30%) Azure Certification
2 11 (8.53%) SC Cleared
2 11 (8.53%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.88%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.88%) SLA
2 3 (2.33%) GDPR
3 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.78%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (10.08%) Docker
2 12 (9.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.55%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (24.03%) Terraform
2 22 (17.05%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.10%) Ansible
3 4 (3.10%) Grafana
4 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (24.81%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.85%) VMware
3 10 (7.75%) Databricks
4 7 (5.43%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (1.55%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.55%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (1.55%) Veeam
6 1 (0.78%) Computacenter
6 1 (0.78%) SolarWinds