Azure Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 417 345 331
Rank change year-on-year -72 -14 +83
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 161 536 506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.66% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.69% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 111 344 394
10th Percentile £41,750 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £87,125
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,829 77,657 48,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.22% 94.92% 88.79%
Number of salaries quoted 18,555 54,301 28,952
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £34,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +6.37%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £80,627
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Azure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Azure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
South East +35 42 £65,000 +8.33% 117
North of England -71 42 £61,500 +3.36% 48
East of England +64 38 £50,000 -20.00% 22
North West -78 30 £66,250 +23.26% 30
Midlands -29 22 £60,000 +9.09% 40
Yorkshire +34 13 £55,000 -21.43% 15
West Midlands +18 13 £66,250 +15.22% 24
East Midlands -32 9 £40,000 -27.27% 16
South West +82 8 £55,000 -0.90% 27
Scotland +86 6 £65,000 - 28
Northern Ireland +39 1 £47,500 -
Wales +38 1 £60,000 +18.38% 4
North East +38 1 £75,500 +31.30% 3
Isle of Man - 1 - -
Azure Engineer
UK

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 22 June 2025, Azure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 161 (100.00%) Azure
2 87 (54.04%) Microsoft
3 77 (47.83%) DevOps
4 63 (39.13%) Azure DevOps
5 61 (37.89%) Windows
6 53 (32.92%) PowerShell
6 53 (32.92%) Terraform
7 45 (27.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 42 (26.09%) Windows Server
9 39 (24.22%) Hybrid Cloud
10 37 (22.98%) CI/CD
11 36 (22.36%) Python
12 34 (21.12%) Azure Certification
13 32 (19.88%) Microsoft 365
14 31 (19.25%) Agile
14 31 (19.25%) Infrastructure as Code
15 30 (18.63%) Mentoring
16 29 (18.01%) VMware
16 29 (18.01%) SQL Server
17 28 (17.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 28 (17.39%) Containerisation
18 27 (16.77%) Kubernetes
19 26 (16.15%) Cloud Security
19 26 (16.15%) Microsoft Exchange
19 26 (16.15%) IBM
19 26 (16.15%) Firewall
20 24 (14.91%) Artificial Intelligence
20 24 (14.91%) IaaS
21 23 (14.29%) PaaS
21 23 (14.29%) Active Directory

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (16.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.73%) IIS
3 4 (2.48%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.24%) nginx
5 1 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.62%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.62%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 161 (100.00%) Azure
2 63 (39.13%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (19.88%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (14.91%) IaaS
5 23 (14.29%) PaaS
6 19 (11.80%) Entra ID
6 19 (11.80%) SaaS
7 15 (9.32%) AWS
8 14 (8.70%) Azure Logic Apps
9 13 (8.07%) Power Platform
10 11 (6.83%) GitHub
11 10 (6.21%) Azure AKS
11 10 (6.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 9 (5.59%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (5.59%) PowerApps
13 7 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
14 6 (3.73%) Azure Data Factory
15 5 (3.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 5 (3.11%) Azure Functions
15 5 (3.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 26 (16.15%) Firewall
2 10 (6.21%) VPN
3 9 (5.59%) SD-WAN
4 8 (4.97%) WAN
5 7 (4.35%) Network Security
6 5 (3.11%) VLAN
7 4 (2.48%) DNS
7 4 (2.48%) HTTPS
7 4 (2.48%) Internet
8 3 (1.86%) LAN
8 3 (1.86%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.24%) DHCP
9 2 (1.24%) SAN
10 1 (0.62%) BGP
10 1 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.62%) MPLS
10 1 (0.62%) NAS
10 1 (0.62%) OSPF
10 1 (0.62%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (18.01%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (2.48%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.48%) MySQL
4 3 (1.86%) Power BI
4 3 (1.86%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.62%) HDInsight
5 1 (0.62%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.62%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (9.32%) Git
2 12 (7.45%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.86%) JIRA
3 3 (1.86%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.24%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.24%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.62%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.62%) GitLab
5 1 (0.62%) Selenium
5 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 28 (17.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 21 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 17 (10.56%) Finance
4 10 (6.21%) Law
5 5 (3.11%) Marketing
6 4 (2.48%) Advertising
7 3 (1.86%) Legal
7 3 (1.86%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.24%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.24%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.24%) Retail
9 1 (0.62%) Automotive
9 1 (0.62%) Banking
9 1 (0.62%) Electronics
9 1 (0.62%) Military
9 1 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.62%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.80%) .NET
2 15 (9.32%) ARM Templates
3 9 (5.59%) React
4 7 (4.35%) REST
5 3 (1.86%) YAML
6 2 (1.24%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.24%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.24%) ADO
6 2 (1.24%) GraphQL
6 2 (1.24%) Loki
6 2 (1.24%) Middleware
6 2 (1.24%) Node.js
6 2 (1.24%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.62%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.62%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (0.62%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.62%) Kafka
7 1 (0.62%) ModSecurity
7 1 (0.62%) PySpark
7 1 (0.62%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 39 (24.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 19 (11.80%) e-Learning
3 8 (4.97%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (3.73%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.48%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.24%) IoT
6 2 (1.24%) Life Science
6 2 (1.24%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.62%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.62%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.62%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.62%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.62%) PropTech
7 1 (0.62%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 61 (37.89%) Windows
2 42 (26.09%) Windows Server
3 14 (8.70%) Linux
4 13 (8.07%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.48%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.86%) Unix
7 2 (1.24%) VMS
8 1 (0.62%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (47.83%) DevOps
2 45 (27.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 37 (22.98%) CI/CD
4 31 (19.25%) Agile
4 31 (19.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (18.63%) Mentoring
6 28 (17.39%) Containerisation
7 26 (16.15%) Cloud Security
8 24 (14.91%) Artificial Intelligence
9 22 (13.66%) Test Automation
10 21 (13.04%) Coaching
11 18 (11.18%) Cost Management
12 17 (10.56%) ITIL
13 15 (9.32%) Task Automation
14 14 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (8.07%) Patch Management
15 13 (8.07%) Performance Optimisation
16 12 (7.45%) Infrastructure Automation
16 12 (7.45%) Software Engineering
17 11 (6.83%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 53 (32.92%) PowerShell
2 36 (22.36%) Python
3 22 (13.66%) SQL
4 15 (9.32%) Bash
4 15 (9.32%) C#
5 13 (8.07%) Bicep
6 10 (6.21%) Java
7 9 (5.59%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.48%) Scala
9 2 (1.24%) Ruby
10 1 (0.62%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.62%) Perl
10 1 (0.62%) PHP
10 1 (0.62%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (21.12%) Azure Certification
2 11 (6.83%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (5.59%) Degree
3 9 (5.59%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.97%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.48%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.48%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.86%) CISSP
7 2 (1.24%) CCNA
7 2 (1.24%) CCNP
7 2 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.62%) CCSP
8 1 (0.62%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.62%) SANS
8 1 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.24%) GDPR
1 2 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.24%) NIST
1 2 (1.24%) PMO
1 2 (1.24%) SLA
2 1 (0.62%) HIPAA
2 1 (0.62%) QA
System Software
1 23 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 21 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (10.56%) Docker
4 13 (8.07%) Hyper-V
5 8 (4.97%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.48%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (32.92%) Terraform
2 27 (16.77%) Kubernetes
3 21 (13.04%) Ansible
3 21 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (8.07%) Backup Exec
5 6 (3.73%) Grafana
5 6 (3.73%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.11%) SCCM
7 3 (1.86%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.86%) Puppet
8 2 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.24%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.62%) SCOM
9 1 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.62%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 87 (54.04%) Microsoft
2 29 (18.01%) VMware
3 26 (16.15%) IBM
4 23 (14.29%) Red Hat
5 16 (9.94%) Veeam
6 8 (4.97%) Cisco
7 5 (3.11%) Databricks
7 5 (3.11%) Fortinet
8 4 (2.48%) HP
8 4 (2.48%) Meraki
8 4 (2.48%) Splunk
9 3 (1.86%) Citrix
9 3 (1.86%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.86%) Sophos
10 2 (1.24%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.24%) Google
11 1 (0.62%) Aruba
11 1 (0.62%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.62%) Pega
11 1 (0.62%) Salesforce