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 £64,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 May 2025.

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

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 433 373 365
Rank change year-on-year -60 -8 +26
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 142 474 483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.66% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.70% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 104 291 386
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £59,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -8.46% +8.33%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,125 £77,715
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +7.69%

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 36,103 67,726 52,846
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.94% 94.86% 89.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,704 47,866 30,035
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 17 May 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 17 May 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 +45 50 £70,000 +16.67% 39
North of England -62 38 £62,500 +5.04% 29
North West -80 30 £58,000 +5.45% 18
Midlands -55 21 £46,000 -16.36% 9
East of England +45 18 £70,000 +14.29% 5
West Midlands +22 14 £60,000 +4.35% 1
South West +95 12 £71,250 +18.75% 11
Yorkshire +42 11 £55,000 -18.52% 7
East Midlands -59 7 £40,000 -26.27% 8
Scotland +83 1 £55,000 -15.38% 5
Northern Ireland +41 1 £47,500 - 1
North East +32 1 £75,500 +0.67% 4
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 17 May 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.

1 142 (100.00%) Azure
2 82 (57.75%) DevOps
3 76 (53.52%) Microsoft
4 63 (44.37%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (32.39%) CI/CD
6 43 (30.28%) Terraform
7 42 (29.58%) Python
8 40 (28.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 37 (26.06%) Infrastructure as Code
9 37 (26.06%) Windows
9 37 (26.06%) PowerShell
10 33 (23.24%) Containerisation
10 33 (23.24%) Azure Certification
10 33 (23.24%) Hybrid Cloud
11 31 (21.83%) Agile
12 30 (21.13%) SQL Server
12 30 (21.13%) Kubernetes
13 28 (19.72%) Cloud Security
13 28 (19.72%) Social Skills
13 28 (19.72%) Windows Server
14 27 (19.01%) Mentoring
14 27 (19.01%) Firewall
15 25 (17.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 24 (16.90%) Active Directory
16 24 (16.90%) IaaS
17 23 (16.20%) PaaS
17 23 (16.20%) SQL
17 23 (16.20%) Artificial Intelligence
18 22 (15.49%) IBM
18 22 (15.49%) Test Automation

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 12 (8.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.52%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.82%) IIS
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.70%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 142 (100.00%) Azure
2 63 (44.37%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (16.90%) IaaS
4 23 (16.20%) PaaS
5 20 (14.08%) SaaS
6 18 (12.68%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (11.27%) Entra ID
7 16 (11.27%) Power Platform
8 14 (9.86%) AWS
9 13 (9.15%) GitHub
10 11 (7.75%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (7.75%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (7.04%) Azure AKS
12 9 (6.34%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (6.34%) PowerApps
13 8 (5.63%) Azure Functions
13 8 (5.63%) Serverless
14 5 (3.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 5 (3.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 27 (19.01%) Firewall
2 11 (7.75%) VPN
3 9 (6.34%) SD-WAN
4 8 (5.63%) WAN
5 5 (3.52%) DNS
5 5 (3.52%) Network Security
5 5 (3.52%) VLAN
6 4 (2.82%) HTTPS
7 3 (2.11%) LAN
7 3 (2.11%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.41%) DHCP
8 2 (1.41%) SAN
9 1 (0.70%) BGP
9 1 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.70%) MPLS
9 1 (0.70%) NAS
9 1 (0.70%) OSPF
9 1 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (21.13%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.23%) Data Lake
3 6 (4.23%) Power BI
4 5 (3.52%) MySQL
5 4 (2.82%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.41%) HDInsight
7 2 (1.41%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (9.15%) Git
2 11 (7.75%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.82%) Selenium
4 3 (2.11%) JIRA
4 3 (2.11%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.41%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.41%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.70%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.70%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.70%) Travis CI
General
1 28 (19.72%) Social Skills
2 25 (17.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (12.68%) Finance
4 4 (2.82%) Advertising
5 3 (2.11%) Law
5 3 (2.11%) Legal
5 3 (2.11%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.41%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.70%) Automotive
7 1 (0.70%) Electronics
7 1 (0.70%) Marketing
7 1 (0.70%) Military
7 1 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.70%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.70%) Retail
7 1 (0.70%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.04%) .NET
1 10 (7.04%) ARM Templates
2 6 (4.23%) React
3 4 (2.82%) REST
3 4 (2.82%) YAML
4 2 (1.41%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.41%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.41%) GraphQL
4 2 (1.41%) Middleware
4 2 (1.41%) Node.js
5 1 (0.70%) ADO
5 1 (0.70%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.70%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (0.70%) HTML
5 1 (0.70%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.70%) Next.js
5 1 (0.70%) PySpark
5 1 (0.70%) Redux
5 1 (0.70%) SAML
5 1 (0.70%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 33 (23.24%) Hybrid Cloud
2 19 (13.38%) e-Learning
3 8 (5.63%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (2.82%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.11%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.11%) IoT
6 2 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.41%) Life Science
6 2 (1.41%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.70%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.70%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.70%) PropTech
7 1 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.70%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (26.06%) Windows
2 28 (19.72%) Windows Server
3 9 (6.34%) Linux
4 3 (2.11%) Unix
5 2 (1.41%) VMS
6 1 (0.70%) Windows 8
6 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (57.75%) DevOps
2 46 (32.39%) CI/CD
3 40 (28.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 37 (26.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (23.24%) Containerisation
6 31 (21.83%) Agile
7 28 (19.72%) Cloud Security
8 27 (19.01%) Mentoring
9 23 (16.20%) Artificial Intelligence
10 22 (15.49%) Test Automation
11 21 (14.79%) Coaching
11 21 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (12.68%) Analytics
13 17 (11.97%) Cost Management
14 14 (9.86%) Software Engineering
15 12 (8.45%) Business Intelligence
15 12 (8.45%) Data Engineering
15 12 (8.45%) Migration
15 12 (8.45%) Platform Engineering
16 11 (7.75%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 42 (29.58%) Python
2 37 (26.06%) PowerShell
3 23 (16.20%) SQL
4 15 (10.56%) Bicep
5 12 (8.45%) Bash
6 10 (7.04%) C#
6 10 (7.04%) Java
7 8 (5.63%) Scala
8 6 (4.23%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.41%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.41%) Ruby
9 2 (1.41%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.70%) Perl
10 1 (0.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (23.24%) Azure Certification
2 20 (14.08%) Degree
3 13 (9.15%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (6.34%) Security Cleared
5 8 (5.63%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.52%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.52%) CISSP
6 5 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.82%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.41%) CCNA
9 2 (1.41%) CCNP
9 2 (1.41%) CEH
10 1 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.70%) CCSP
10 1 (0.70%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.70%) SANS
10 1 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.52%) GDPR
2 3 (2.11%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.11%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.41%) NIST
3 2 (1.41%) QA
3 2 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (16.90%) Active Directory
2 18 (12.68%) Docker
3 9 (6.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.82%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (2.11%) vSphere
7 2 (1.41%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 43 (30.28%) Terraform
2 30 (21.13%) Kubernetes
3 20 (14.08%) Ansible
4 15 (10.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (4.23%) SCCM
6 3 (2.11%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.11%) Puppet
7 2 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.70%) Automic
8 1 (0.70%) Backup Exec
8 1 (0.70%) Consul
8 1 (0.70%) Rancher
8 1 (0.70%) SCOM
8 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.70%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 76 (53.52%) Microsoft
2 22 (15.49%) IBM
3 19 (13.38%) Red Hat
4 15 (10.56%) VMware
5 9 (6.34%) Databricks
6 6 (4.23%) Cisco
7 4 (2.82%) Citrix
7 4 (2.82%) Meraki
8 3 (2.11%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.11%) Sophos
9 2 (1.41%) Google
9 2 (1.41%) Hitachi
9 2 (1.41%) HP
9 2 (1.41%) Veeam
10 1 (0.70%) Aruba
10 1 (0.70%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.70%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.70%) F5
10 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.70%) SolarWinds