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 27 May 2026.

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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 206 174
Rank change year-on-year +72 -32 +66
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 140 22 143
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.06% 0.45% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 0.50% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 122 19 59
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £37,500 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £46,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.30% -16.36% +3.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,125 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 12,364 4,420 11,672
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 91.25% 94.51%
Number of salaries quoted 7,964 2,522 8,734
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £60,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,501
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -13.65%

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 27 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 27 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 +29 73 £64,000 +60.00% 6
West Midlands +13 63 £67,500 +12.50% 10
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 140 (100.00%) Azure
2 56 (40.00%) DevOps
3 33 (23.57%) Microsoft
4 32 (22.86%) Terraform
5 29 (20.71%) SQL
6 28 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (19.29%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (15.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 22 (15.71%) Python
9 21 (15.00%) Kubernetes
9 21 (15.00%) PowerShell
10 20 (14.29%) CI/CD
11 18 (12.86%) Containerisation
12 17 (12.14%) ETL
13 16 (11.43%) Agile
14 15 (10.71%) .NET
14 15 (10.71%) Platform Engineering
15 14 (10.00%) AWS
15 14 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
15 14 (10.00%) Snowflake
15 14 (10.00%) VMware
16 13 (9.29%) Data Pipeline
17 12 (8.57%) Azure Certification
17 12 (8.57%) Bash
17 12 (8.57%) Docker
17 12 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
18 11 (7.86%) Azure AKS
18 11 (7.86%) Azure SQL Database
18 11 (7.86%) DevSecOps
18 11 (7.86%) DNS

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 (5.71%) IIS
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 140 (100.00%) Azure
2 27 (19.29%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (10.00%) AWS
3 14 (10.00%) Snowflake
4 11 (7.86%) Azure AKS
4 11 (7.86%) PaaS
4 11 (7.86%) Power Platform
5 10 (7.14%) IaaS
6 8 (5.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 8 (5.71%) Azure Key Vault
6 8 (5.71%) Azure Storage
6 8 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (5.00%) Azure App Service
7 7 (5.00%) Azure Stack
7 7 (5.00%) npm
7 7 (5.00%) NuGet
7 7 (5.00%) SonarCloud
8 5 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (3.57%) Entra ID
9 4 (2.86%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.86%) DNS
2 5 (3.57%) Firewall
3 2 (1.43%) VPN
4 1 (0.71%) DHCP
4 1 (0.71%) LAN
4 1 (0.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.86%) Azure SQL Database
1 11 (7.86%) Power BI
1 11 (7.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 10 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.14%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.71%) Metadata
6 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (4.29%) Git
2 2 (1.43%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (7.14%) Law
2 8 (5.71%) Social Skills
3 7 (5.00%) Retail
4 3 (2.14%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.43%) Military
5 2 (1.43%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.71%) Finance
6 1 (0.71%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.71%) .NET
2 10 (7.14%) Node.js
2 10 (7.14%) React
3 7 (5.00%) YAML
4 5 (3.57%) .NET Core
4 5 (3.57%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.43%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.43%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.43%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (1.43%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.43%) PySpark
6 1 (0.71%) CSS
6 1 (0.71%) D3.js
6 1 (0.71%) HTML
6 1 (0.71%) LDAP
6 1 (0.71%) NumPy
6 1 (0.71%) pytest
6 1 (0.71%) REST
6 1 (0.71%) RESTful
6 1 (0.71%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.43%) PKI
5 1 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.71%) CMDB
5 1 (0.71%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.71%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.14%) Linux
1 10 (7.14%) Windows
2 3 (2.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (40.00%) DevOps
2 28 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (15.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 20 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 18 (12.86%) Containerisation
6 17 (12.14%) ETL
7 16 (11.43%) Agile
8 15 (10.71%) Platform Engineering
9 14 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (9.29%) Data Pipeline
11 11 (7.86%) DevSecOps
12 10 (7.14%) Innovative Thinking
12 10 (7.14%) Microservices
12 10 (7.14%) Migration
13 9 (6.43%) Cloud Security
13 9 (6.43%) Load Balancing
13 9 (6.43%) Root Cause Analysis
14 8 (5.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (5.71%) High Availability
14 8 (5.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (20.71%) SQL
2 22 (15.71%) Python
3 21 (15.00%) PowerShell
4 12 (8.57%) Bash
5 8 (5.71%) C#
6 7 (5.00%) Bicep
7 3 (2.14%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.71%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (8.57%) Azure Certification
2 9 (6.43%) SC Cleared
2 9 (6.43%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.57%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.86%) SLA
2 3 (2.14%) GDPR
3 2 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (8.57%) Docker
1 12 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.43%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (22.86%) Terraform
2 21 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.86%) Grafana
3 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.14%) Ansible
5 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (23.57%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.00%) VMware
3 7 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
4 6 (4.29%) Databricks
5 2 (1.43%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.43%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (1.43%) Veeam
6 1 (0.71%) Computacenter
6 1 (0.71%) SolarWinds