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 13 April 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 192 191
Rank change year-on-year +35 -1 +54
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 107 26 111
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.91% 0.53% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 0.60% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 103 23 69
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £39,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £46,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -16.36% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,500 £70,000 £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 10,901 4,361 10,379
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 89.68% 93.98%
Number of salaries quoted 6,860 2,740 8,086
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,688 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £60,741
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £74,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,650
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.79% -9.29%

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 13 April 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 13 April 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 0 54 £65,000 +62.50% 3
West Midlands +18 47 £60,000 +18.81% 8
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 April 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.

1 107 (100.00%) Azure
2 44 (41.12%) DevOps
3 33 (30.84%) SQL
4 28 (26.17%) Microsoft
5 23 (21.50%) Python
5 23 (21.50%) Terraform
6 22 (20.56%) ETL
6 22 (20.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 21 (19.63%) CI/CD
8 19 (17.76%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (16.82%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (15.89%) Kubernetes
11 16 (14.95%) SQL Server
12 15 (14.02%) Databricks
12 15 (14.02%) Migration
12 15 (14.02%) PowerShell
13 14 (13.08%) VMware
13 14 (13.08%) Windows
14 13 (12.15%) Business Intelligence
15 12 (11.21%) Containerisation
15 12 (11.21%) Platform Engineering
15 12 (11.21%) VMware Infrastructure
16 11 (10.28%) Bash
16 11 (10.28%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (10.28%) DevSecOps
16 11 (10.28%) Docker
16 11 (10.28%) Linux
16 11 (10.28%) SC Cleared
16 11 (10.28%) Security Cleared
17 10 (9.35%) .NET

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 (7.48%) IIS
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 107 (100.00%) Azure
2 19 (17.76%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (9.35%) Power Platform
3 10 (9.35%) Snowflake
4 9 (8.41%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (7.48%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (6.54%) npm
6 7 (6.54%) NuGet
6 7 (6.54%) SaaS
6 7 (6.54%) SonarCloud
7 6 (5.61%) AWS
7 6 (5.61%) Azure AKS
8 3 (2.80%) Azure App Service
8 3 (2.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (2.80%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (2.80%) Azure Storage
8 3 (2.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.80%) IaaS
9 2 (1.87%) GitHub
9 2 (1.87%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.61%) DNS
2 5 (4.67%) Firewall
3 1 (0.93%) DHCP
3 1 (0.93%) LAN
3 1 (0.93%) VPN
3 1 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.95%) SQL Server
2 11 (10.28%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (9.35%) Power BI
3 10 (9.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (8.41%) Delta Lake
5 7 (6.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (6.54%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.80%) Big Data
7 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.93%) Metadata
7 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (4.67%) Git
2 2 (1.87%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (9.35%) Social Skills
2 4 (3.74%) Law
2 4 (3.74%) Retail
3 3 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (2.80%) Military
4 2 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (1.87%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.35%) .NET
2 9 (8.41%) Node.js
2 9 (8.41%) React
3 7 (6.54%) YAML
4 5 (4.67%) .NET Core
4 5 (4.67%) .NET Framework
4 5 (4.67%) PySpark
5 3 (2.80%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.87%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.87%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (1.87%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.93%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.15%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.87%) PKI
4 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.08%) Windows
2 11 (10.28%) Linux
3 7 (6.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (41.12%) DevOps
2 22 (20.56%) ETL
2 22 (20.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 21 (19.63%) CI/CD
4 18 (16.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (14.02%) Migration
6 13 (12.15%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (11.21%) Containerisation
7 12 (11.21%) Platform Engineering
8 11 (10.28%) DevSecOps
9 10 (9.35%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (9.35%) Microservices
10 9 (8.41%) Agile
10 9 (8.41%) Cloud Security
10 9 (8.41%) Data Engineering
10 9 (8.41%) Mentoring
11 8 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (6.54%) Innovative Thinking
12 7 (6.54%) Test Automation
13 6 (5.61%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 33 (30.84%) SQL
2 23 (21.50%) Python
3 15 (14.02%) PowerShell
4 11 (10.28%) Bash
5 8 (7.48%) C#
6 7 (6.54%) Bicep
7 3 (2.80%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (10.28%) SC Cleared
1 11 (10.28%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.48%) Azure Certification
3 5 (4.67%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.67%) SLA
2 3 (2.80%) GDPR
3 2 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (11.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (10.28%) Docker
3 3 (2.80%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.87%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (21.50%) Terraform
2 17 (15.89%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.74%) Ansible
3 4 (3.74%) Grafana
4 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (26.17%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.02%) Databricks
3 14 (13.08%) VMware
4 7 (6.54%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (1.87%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.87%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (1.87%) Veeam
6 1 (0.93%) Computacenter
6 1 (0.93%) SolarWinds