Azure Engineer Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in the Midlands is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 August 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 197 141
Rank change year-on-year +92 -56 +48
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 185 33 162
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.27% 0.57% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 0.63% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 146 32 71
10th Percentile £53,125 £44,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +22.73% -1.79%
75th Percentile £85,000 £68,750 £64,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £79,030 £70,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -0.54%

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 13,633 5,278 10,124
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.83% 91.16% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 9,527 3,357 6,502
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,335 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +50 102 £70,000 +9.80% 7
East Midlands +47 83 £75,000 +11.11% 4
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 August 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.

1 185 (100.00%) Azure
2 71 (38.38%) DevOps
3 43 (23.24%) Platform Engineering
4 38 (20.54%) Microsoft
5 35 (18.92%) PaaS
5 35 (18.92%) SQL
5 35 (18.92%) Terraform
6 34 (18.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 31 (16.76%) Cybersecurity
8 30 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (12.43%) Python
10 18 (9.73%) Azure Certification
11 16 (8.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 16 (8.65%) C#
11 16 (8.65%) CI/CD
11 16 (8.65%) Containerisation
11 16 (8.65%) Kubernetes
11 16 (8.65%) PowerShell
12 15 (8.11%) Entra ID
12 15 (8.11%) SC Cleared
12 15 (8.11%) Security Cleared
12 15 (8.11%) Wealth Management
13 14 (7.57%) .NET
13 14 (7.57%) Agile
13 14 (7.57%) Azure AI
13 14 (7.57%) Data Pipeline
13 14 (7.57%) ETL
14 13 (7.03%) IaaS
15 12 (6.49%) API Management
15 12 (6.49%) AWS

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 11 (5.95%) IIS
2 3 (1.62%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.54%) nginx
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 185 (100.00%) Azure
2 35 (18.92%) PaaS
3 30 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (8.11%) Entra ID
5 14 (7.57%) Azure AI
6 13 (7.03%) IaaS
7 12 (6.49%) AWS
7 12 (6.49%) Azure App Service
8 10 (5.41%) Snowflake
9 9 (4.86%) Azure AKS
9 9 (4.86%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (4.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 8 (4.32%) Azure Storage
11 7 (3.78%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (3.78%) Azure Stack
11 7 (3.78%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.62%) GitHub
12 3 (1.62%) npm
12 3 (1.62%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.95%) DNS
2 7 (3.78%) Firewall
3 3 (1.62%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (1.62%) VPN
4 1 (0.54%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.54%) DHCP
4 1 (0.54%) HTTP
4 1 (0.54%) LAN
4 1 (0.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.65%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (4.32%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.78%) Power BI
3 7 (3.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (2.70%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.62%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.54%) GIS
Development Applications
1 4 (2.16%) Git
2 1 (0.54%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (16.22%) Finance
2 13 (7.03%) Law
3 7 (3.78%) Retail
4 3 (1.62%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (1.62%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.54%) Legal
5 1 (0.54%) Police
5 1 (0.54%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.57%) .NET
2 7 (3.78%) Kafka
2 7 (3.78%) Keycloak
3 6 (3.24%) Node.js
3 6 (3.24%) React
4 3 (1.62%) YAML
5 2 (1.08%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.08%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.54%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (0.54%) D3.js
6 1 (0.54%) Flask
6 1 (0.54%) Java SE
6 1 (0.54%) NumPy
6 1 (0.54%) OpenLayers
6 1 (0.54%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.54%) Pandas
6 1 (0.54%) pytest
6 1 (0.54%) REST
6 1 (0.54%) RESTful
6 1 (0.54%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.49%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (1.62%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.08%) PKI
5 1 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.54%) Clustering
5 1 (0.54%) CMDB
5 1 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.70%) Linux
1 5 (2.70%) Windows
2 2 (1.08%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.54%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (38.38%) DevOps
2 43 (23.24%) Platform Engineering
3 34 (18.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (16.76%) Cybersecurity
5 16 (8.65%) CI/CD
5 16 (8.65%) Containerisation
6 15 (8.11%) Wealth Management
7 14 (7.57%) Agile
7 14 (7.57%) Data Pipeline
7 14 (7.57%) ETL
8 12 (6.49%) API Management
8 12 (6.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (5.41%) Load Balancing
10 9 (4.86%) Cloud Security
10 9 (4.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (4.86%) DevSecOps
10 9 (4.86%) High Availability
11 8 (4.32%) Mentoring
11 8 (4.32%) Root Cause Analysis
12 7 (3.78%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 35 (18.92%) SQL
2 23 (12.43%) Python
3 16 (8.65%) C#
3 16 (8.65%) PowerShell
4 7 (3.78%) Bash
4 7 (3.78%) Go
5 4 (2.16%) Bicep
5 4 (2.16%) Java
5 4 (2.16%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.08%) PHP
7 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (9.73%) Azure Certification
2 15 (8.11%) SC Cleared
2 15 (8.11%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.49%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.62%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (1.62%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (4.86%) Docker
2 2 (1.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.08%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (18.92%) Terraform
2 16 (8.65%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.08%) Ansible
5 1 (0.54%) Grafana
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (20.54%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.32%) Foundry
3 3 (1.62%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (1.62%) VMware
4 1 (0.54%) Computacenter
4 1 (0.54%) Databricks
4 1 (0.54%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.54%) F5
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle
4 1 (0.54%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.54%) Veeam