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 29 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 197 150
Rank change year-on-year +87 -47 +49
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 179 37 157
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.29% 0.65% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 0.71% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 144 35 67
10th Percentile £52,500 £41,900 £38,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +22.73% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £91,750 £76,119 £68,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -3.70%

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 13,090 5,181 10,631
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 90.86% 94.26%
Number of salaries quoted 9,144 3,312 7,061
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% -7.62%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +40 93 £70,000 +5.66% 12
East Midlands +39 86 £70,000 +3.70% 7
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 July 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.

1 179 (100.00%) Azure
2 67 (37.43%) DevOps
3 40 (22.35%) Microsoft
4 39 (21.79%) Platform Engineering
5 35 (19.55%) SQL
6 34 (18.99%) Infrastructure as Code
6 34 (18.99%) Terraform
7 30 (16.76%) PaaS
8 28 (15.64%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (14.53%) Cybersecurity
10 20 (11.17%) Python
11 17 (9.50%) Azure Certification
11 17 (9.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 17 (9.50%) PowerShell
12 16 (8.94%) CI/CD
12 16 (8.94%) Containerisation
12 16 (8.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 16 (8.94%) Kubernetes
13 14 (7.82%) .NET
13 14 (7.82%) Agile
13 14 (7.82%) Entra ID
14 13 (7.26%) Azure App Service
14 13 (7.26%) ETL
15 12 (6.70%) API Management
15 12 (6.70%) AWS
15 12 (6.70%) Data Pipeline
15 12 (6.70%) SC Cleared
15 12 (6.70%) Security Cleared
15 12 (6.70%) Wealth Management
16 11 (6.15%) Azure AI

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 10 (5.59%) IIS
2 3 (1.68%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 179 (100.00%) Azure
2 30 (16.76%) PaaS
3 28 (15.64%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (7.82%) Entra ID
5 13 (7.26%) Azure App Service
6 12 (6.70%) AWS
7 11 (6.15%) Azure AI
7 11 (6.15%) IaaS
8 10 (5.59%) Azure AKS
8 10 (5.59%) Snowflake
9 9 (5.03%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (4.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 8 (4.47%) Azure Storage
11 7 (3.91%) Azure Stack
11 7 (3.91%) Power Platform
12 6 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (2.23%) GitHub
14 3 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (1.68%) npm
14 3 (1.68%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.15%) DNS
2 6 (3.35%) Firewall
3 3 (1.68%) VPN
4 1 (0.56%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.56%) DHCP
4 1 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.56%) LAN
4 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (3.91%) Power BI
2 7 (3.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (3.35%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.68%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.56%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Git
2 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (13.41%) Finance
2 12 (6.70%) Law
3 7 (3.91%) Retail
4 3 (1.68%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.12%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.12%) Social Skills
6 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.56%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.82%) .NET
2 6 (3.35%) Node.js
2 6 (3.35%) React
3 5 (2.79%) Kafka
3 5 (2.79%) Keycloak
4 3 (1.68%) YAML
5 2 (1.12%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.12%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.56%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.56%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (0.56%) D3.js
6 1 (0.56%) Flask
6 1 (0.56%) NumPy
6 1 (0.56%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.56%) Pandas
6 1 (0.56%) PySpark
6 1 (0.56%) pytest
6 1 (0.56%) REST
6 1 (0.56%) RESTful
6 1 (0.56%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.70%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.47%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.12%) PKI
5 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.56%) Clustering
5 1 (0.56%) CMDB
5 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.56%) Replication
5 1 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.35%) Windows
2 4 (2.23%) Linux
3 3 (1.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (37.43%) DevOps
2 39 (21.79%) Platform Engineering
3 34 (18.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (14.53%) Cybersecurity
5 16 (8.94%) CI/CD
5 16 (8.94%) Containerisation
5 16 (8.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (7.82%) Agile
7 13 (7.26%) ETL
8 12 (6.70%) API Management
8 12 (6.70%) Data Pipeline
8 12 (6.70%) Wealth Management
9 10 (5.59%) Load Balancing
9 10 (5.59%) Mentoring
10 9 (5.03%) DevSecOps
10 9 (5.03%) High Availability
10 9 (5.03%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (4.47%) AI
11 8 (4.47%) Cloud Security
12 7 (3.91%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 35 (19.55%) SQL
2 20 (11.17%) Python
3 17 (9.50%) PowerShell
4 11 (6.15%) C#
5 7 (3.91%) Bash
6 5 (2.79%) Bicep
6 5 (2.79%) Go
7 2 (1.12%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.12%) PHP
8 1 (0.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (9.50%) Azure Certification
2 12 (6.70%) SC Cleared
2 12 (6.70%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.59%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.56%) Degree
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (4.47%) Docker
2 6 (3.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.68%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.12%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (18.99%) Terraform
2 16 (8.94%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.12%) Grafana
5 1 (0.56%) Ansible
5 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (22.35%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.47%) VMware
3 5 (2.79%) Foundry
4 3 (1.68%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (1.12%) Databricks
5 2 (1.12%) Veeam
6 1 (0.56%) Computacenter
6 1 (0.56%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.56%) F5
6 1 (0.56%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.56%) SolarWinds