Azure Engineer Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in the Midlands is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 November 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 207 140
Rank change year-on-year +41 -67 +100
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 43 68 89
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.75% 0.77% 1.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.82% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 42 48 72
10th Percentile £41,075 £36,250 £42,875
25th Percentile £55,000 £41,250 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,000 £64,125
90th Percentile £70,268 £70,375 £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 5,298 8,267 4,865
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 93.56% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,615 4,147 3,812
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £53,455 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.04% -4.17% -

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 17 November 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 17 November 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 +29 29 £60,000 - 13
East Midlands +17 13 £67,500 +58.82% 10
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 November 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 43 (100.00%) Azure
2 32 (74.42%) SQL
3 24 (55.81%) Python
4 21 (48.84%) CI/CD
4 21 (48.84%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (34.88%) Microsoft
6 13 (30.23%) ETL
7 12 (27.91%) Data Modelling
7 12 (27.91%) Databricks
7 12 (27.91%) DevOps
7 12 (27.91%) Requirements Gathering
8 11 (25.58%) SQL Server
9 10 (23.26%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (23.26%) Data Engineering
10 8 (18.60%) Delta Lake
10 8 (18.60%) SaaS
11 7 (16.28%) PySpark
12 6 (13.95%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 5 (11.63%) Analytics
13 5 (11.63%) Business Intelligence
13 5 (11.63%) Machine Learning
13 5 (11.63%) Terraform
13 5 (11.63%) Windows
13 5 (11.63%) Windows Server
14 4 (9.30%) AI
14 4 (9.30%) Azure Certification
14 4 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (9.30%) Cloud Operations
14 4 (9.30%) Mentoring

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:

Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 43 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (23.26%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (18.60%) SaaS
4 4 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (9.30%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (6.98%) GitHub
5 3 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.65%) AWS
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Functions
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.65%) IaaS
6 2 (4.65%) PaaS
6 2 (4.65%) Serverless
6 2 (4.65%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.33%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (48.84%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (25.58%) SQL Server
3 8 (18.60%) Delta Lake
4 6 (13.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (9.30%) Power BI
6 3 (6.98%) Big Data
6 3 (6.98%) Parquet
7 2 (4.65%) Data Lake
7 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.33%) Data Hub
8 1 (2.33%) DB2
8 1 (2.33%) Metadata
8 1 (2.33%) Neo4j
8 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (32.56%) Retail
2 3 (6.98%) Automotive
2 3 (6.98%) Law
3 2 (4.65%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Finance
4 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) PySpark
2 2 (4.65%) .NET
3 1 (2.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.33%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (2.33%) Blazor
3 1 (2.33%) CSS
3 1 (2.33%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.33%) HTML
3 1 (2.33%) HTML5
3 1 (2.33%) OAuth
3 1 (2.33%) RESTful
3 1 (2.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (2.33%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Windows
1 5 (11.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (48.84%) CI/CD
2 13 (30.23%) ETL
3 12 (27.91%) Data Modelling
3 12 (27.91%) DevOps
3 12 (27.91%) Requirements Gathering
4 10 (23.26%) Data Engineering
5 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (11.63%) Analytics
6 5 (11.63%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (11.63%) Machine Learning
7 4 (9.30%) AI
7 4 (9.30%) Cloud Operations
7 4 (9.30%) Mentoring
7 4 (9.30%) Migration
7 4 (9.30%) Service Delivery
8 3 (6.98%) Change Data Capture
8 3 (6.98%) Cloud Security
8 3 (6.98%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (6.98%) ERP
9 2 (4.65%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 32 (74.42%) SQL
2 24 (55.81%) Python
3 2 (4.65%) Bicep
3 2 (4.65%) C#
3 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.33%) Bash
4 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.33%) Scala
4 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.33%) GDPR
1 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (11.63%) Terraform
2 2 (4.65%) Grafana
3 1 (2.33%) Ansible
3 1 (2.33%) Argo
3 1 (2.33%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.33%) Kustomize
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (34.88%) Microsoft
2 12 (27.91%) Databricks
3 2 (4.65%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.33%) JD Edwards
4 1 (2.33%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle
4 1 (2.33%) SAP
4 1 (2.33%) Veeam
4 1 (2.33%) VMware