Azure Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in the UK excluding London is £64,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 547 711 666
Rank change year-on-year +164 -45 +119
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Infrastructure Engineer 35 60 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.090% 0.084% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.088% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 27 57 65
10th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,875 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,500 £65,000 £67,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +27.27% +0.00% -7.56%

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 35,201 68,043 52,511
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 94.85% 89.20%
Number of salaries quoted 17,750 48,018 29,945
10th Percentile £26,929 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,325
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -6.24% +6.65%
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 Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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
East of England +54 17 £70,000 +12.00% 4
North of England +34 7 £61,250 +28.95% 3
Midlands +55 6 £46,000 -29.23% 10
North West -12 6 £57,500 +21.05% 3
South West +103 4 £72,500 +20.83% 2
West Midlands +67 4 £46,000 -31.85%
East Midlands +28 2 - - 10
Yorkshire +61 1 £65,000 +9.24%
Northern Ireland - 1 £47,500 -
Azure Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, Azure Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 35 (100.00%) Azure
2 34 (97.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 29 (82.86%) Microsoft
4 24 (68.57%) Windows
5 21 (60.00%) Windows Server
6 17 (48.57%) Firewall
6 17 (48.57%) Cost Management
7 15 (42.86%) Azure Certification
7 15 (42.86%) PowerShell
8 13 (37.14%) Microsoft Exchange
9 12 (34.29%) Active Directory
9 12 (34.29%) Performance Optimisation
9 12 (34.29%) DevOps
9 12 (34.29%) Cloud Security
10 10 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (28.57%) SQL Server
11 9 (25.71%) Kubernetes
11 9 (25.71%) Entra ID
11 9 (25.71%) Power Platform
11 9 (25.71%) PowerApps
11 9 (25.71%) Infrastructure as Code
12 8 (22.86%) SD-WAN
12 8 (22.86%) Terraform
12 8 (22.86%) Identity Management
13 7 (20.00%) VPN
13 7 (20.00%) Configuration Management
13 7 (20.00%) Ansible
13 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
14 6 (17.14%) Microsoft 365

Azure Infrastructure 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 13 (37.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.57%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.86%) IIS
3 1 (2.86%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 35 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 10 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
3 9 (25.71%) Entra ID
3 9 (25.71%) Power Platform
3 9 (25.71%) PowerApps
4 6 (17.14%) AWS
4 6 (17.14%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (14.29%) PaaS
6 4 (11.43%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (11.43%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (11.43%) IaaS
6 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (11.43%) Route 53
7 3 (8.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (5.71%) Azure AKS
8 2 (5.71%) SaaS
9 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.86%) Google Workspace
9 1 (2.86%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 17 (48.57%) Firewall
2 8 (22.86%) SD-WAN
3 7 (20.00%) VPN
4 6 (17.14%) WAN
5 4 (11.43%) HTTPS
5 4 (11.43%) VLAN
6 3 (8.57%) DNS
7 2 (5.71%) DHCP
7 2 (5.71%) LAN
7 2 (5.71%) Network Security
8 1 (2.86%) NAS
8 1 (2.86%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 5 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.71%) Legal
2 2 (5.71%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Law
3 1 (2.86%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.86%) .NET
2 1 (2.86%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.86%) SAML
2 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.86%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (68.57%) Windows
2 21 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (2.86%) VMS
4 1 (2.86%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (97.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (48.57%) Cost Management
3 12 (34.29%) Cloud Security
3 12 (34.29%) DevOps
3 12 (34.29%) Performance Optimisation
4 9 (25.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (22.86%) Identity Management
6 7 (20.00%) Configuration Management
6 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
7 6 (17.14%) Cost Optimisation
7 6 (17.14%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (14.29%) Load Balancing
8 5 (14.29%) Privileged Identity Management
8 5 (14.29%) Zero Trust
9 4 (11.43%) High Availability
9 4 (11.43%) Migration
9 4 (11.43%) Problem Management
9 4 (11.43%) Security Operations
9 4 (11.43%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 4 (11.43%) Bicep
2 4 (11.43%) Python
3 1 (2.86%) Java
3 1 (2.86%) SQL
3 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (42.86%) Azure Certification
2 4 (11.43%) AWS Certification
2 4 (11.43%) CompTIA Security+
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.86%) Degree
3 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 12 (34.29%) Active Directory
2 5 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (11.43%) Docker
3 4 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.71%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (25.71%) Kubernetes
2 8 (22.86%) Terraform
3 7 (20.00%) Ansible
4 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (5.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (5.71%) Backup Exec
6 1 (2.86%) SCCM
6 1 (2.86%) SCOM
6 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.86%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.86%) WSUS
Vendors
1 29 (82.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) Citrix
2 4 (11.43%) VMware
3 3 (8.57%) Veeam
4 1 (2.86%) F5
4 1 (2.86%) Google
4 1 (2.86%) Okta
4 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds