Azure Engineer Job Trends in Reading

Microsoft Azure Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in Reading is £58,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 January 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 58 97
Rank change year-on-year +10 +39 +16
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 2 17 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.35% 2.33% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 2.57% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2 12 5
10th Percentile £56,375 £52,875 £38,750
25th Percentile £56,563 £60,938 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.07% +21.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £61,563 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £62,125 - -
Berkshire median annual salary £45,000 £68,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year -34.55% +30.95% -0.94%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 531 662 1,008
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.87% 90.68% 93.33%
Number of salaries quoted 349 298 670
10th Percentile £30,000 £38,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £50,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £63,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.49% +14.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £83,438 £68,438
90th Percentile £85,000 £112,500 £82,500
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -4.35%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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 Reading.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in Reading

Azure Engineer
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Reading.

Salary distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 11 January 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 Reading region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) HND
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) MCP
2 1 (50.00%) MCSA
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) HND
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
1 1 (50.00%) MCSA
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft