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 8 February 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 210 196
Rank change year-on-year +47 -14 +27
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 59 26 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.70% 0.43% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.46% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 58 22 69
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £69,438 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £76,875 £67,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -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 7,709 5,685 7,820
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.00% 93.30% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 4,693 2,678 6,414
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,850
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 30 £60,000 -5.88% 8
East Midlands +4 23 £65,000 +48.57% 6
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 February 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 59 (100.00%) Azure
2 27 (45.76%) SQL
3 22 (37.29%) DevOps
4 20 (33.90%) ETL
5 19 (32.20%) Python
6 16 (27.12%) Microsoft
7 15 (25.42%) CI/CD
7 15 (25.42%) Databricks
8 14 (23.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (23.73%) SQL Server
9 12 (20.34%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (20.34%) Migration
10 11 (18.64%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (18.64%) Terraform
11 9 (15.25%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (15.25%) Data Engineering
11 9 (15.25%) Delta Lake
11 9 (15.25%) Kubernetes
11 9 (15.25%) VMware
11 9 (15.25%) Windows
12 8 (13.56%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (13.56%) Power BI
12 8 (13.56%) Power Platform
12 8 (13.56%) SaaS
12 8 (13.56%) VMware Infrastructure
13 7 (11.86%) Data Pipeline
13 7 (11.86%) Linux
13 7 (11.86%) Machine Learning
13 7 (11.86%) Microservices
13 7 (11.86%) Microsoft 365

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 4 (6.78%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 59 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (15.25%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (13.56%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (13.56%) Power Platform
3 8 (13.56%) SaaS
4 7 (11.86%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (11.86%) Snowflake
5 4 (6.78%) npm
5 4 (6.78%) NuGet
5 4 (6.78%) SonarCloud
6 3 (5.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (3.39%) AWS
7 2 (3.39%) GitHub
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.69%) Datadog
8 1 (1.69%) GCP
8 1 (1.69%) IaaS
8 1 (1.69%) PaaS
8 1 (1.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (23.73%) SQL Server
2 12 (20.34%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (15.25%) Delta Lake
4 8 (13.56%) Power BI
5 7 (11.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (8.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (6.78%) NoSQL
8 3 (5.08%) Big Data
9 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.69%) Metadata
9 1 (1.69%) Neo4j
9 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Git
2 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (16.95%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.08%) Military
3 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.47%) .NET
1 5 (8.47%) PySpark
2 4 (6.78%) Node.js
2 4 (6.78%) React
2 4 (6.78%) YAML
3 3 (5.08%) .NET Core
3 3 (5.08%) .NET Framework
4 2 (3.39%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.69%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.69%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.69%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.08%) Cloud Native
1 3 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.25%) Windows
2 7 (11.86%) Linux
3 5 (8.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.29%) DevOps
2 20 (33.90%) ETL
3 15 (25.42%) CI/CD
4 14 (23.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (20.34%) Migration
6 11 (18.64%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (15.25%) Data Engineering
8 7 (11.86%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (11.86%) Machine Learning
8 7 (11.86%) Microservices
9 6 (10.17%) Agile
9 6 (10.17%) AI
9 6 (10.17%) Mentoring
10 5 (8.47%) Cloud Security
10 5 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (8.47%) DevSecOps
10 5 (8.47%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (8.47%) Platform Engineering
11 4 (6.78%) Analytics
11 4 (6.78%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (45.76%) SQL
2 19 (32.20%) Python
3 5 (8.47%) Bash
3 5 (8.47%) C#
3 5 (8.47%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.08%) T-SQL
5 2 (3.39%) Bicep
6 1 (1.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (6.78%) Azure Certification
1 4 (6.78%) SC Cleared
1 4 (6.78%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) SLA
2 3 (5.08%) GDPR
3 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (13.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (8.47%) Docker
3 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (18.64%) Terraform
2 9 (15.25%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.08%) Ansible
3 3 (5.08%) Grafana
4 1 (1.69%) Argo
4 1 (1.69%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 16 (27.12%) Microsoft
2 15 (25.42%) Databricks
3 9 (15.25%) VMware
4 4 (6.78%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.69%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.69%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.69%) Veeam