Microsoft Azure Engineer
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 350 333 395
Rank change year-on-year -17 +62 -170
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 806 1,053 1,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.81% 1.04% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 1.14% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 579 883 1,167
10th Percentile £42,250 £46,250 £44,500
25th Percentile £51,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +14.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in the UK

Azure Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer.

Salary trend for Azure Engineer in the UK

Azure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Engineer in the UK

Azure Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
England -8 706 £65,000 -7.14% 141
UK excluding London -9 481 £60,000 -7.69% 77
Work from Home -73 291 £65,000 -6.40% 91
London -13 257 £71,500 -7.74% 68
North of England +42 155 £60,000 -13.19% 23
Midlands +48 139 £55,000 - 14
North West +61 113 £57,500 -14.46% 17
East Midlands +62 91 £54,250 +0.93% 5
South East -42 91 £60,000 -11.11% 18
West Midlands -16 48 £57,500 +4.55% 9
Scotland -46 36 £65,000 +8.33% 2
Yorkshire +18 34 £70,576 +1.62% 5
South West -32 29 £61,250 -2.00% 12
East of England +18 21 £62,500 +13.64% 4
Wales +6 10 £50,685 +12.63% 4
North East -6 10 £75,000 +36.36% 1
Northern Ireland +14 2 - - 1

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, 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 featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 806 (100.00%) Azure
2 318 (39.45%) DevOps
3 304 (37.72%) SQL
4 278 (34.49%) Microsoft
5 265 (32.88%) Agile
6 238 (29.53%) Windows
7 231 (28.66%) Terraform
8 207 (25.68%) CI/CD
9 196 (24.32%) Azure DevOps
10 181 (22.46%) Python
11 180 (22.33%) Linux
11 180 (22.33%) Kubernetes
12 173 (21.46%) PowerShell
13 167 (20.72%) Infrastructure as Code
14 166 (20.60%) C#
15 163 (20.22%) .NET
16 162 (20.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 153 (18.98%) Mentoring
18 149 (18.49%) Finance
19 142 (17.62%) Artificial Intelligence
20 136 (16.87%) JavaScript
21 133 (16.50%) PostgreSQL
22 129 (16.00%) Design Patterns
22 129 (16.00%) Public Sector
23 128 (15.88%) Social Skills
23 128 (15.88%) Hybrid Cloud
24 126 (15.63%) MongoDB
25 125 (15.51%) React
26 120 (14.89%) Coaching
26 120 (14.89%) Algorithms

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 33 (4.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 21 (2.61%) IIS
4 7 (0.87%) WordPress
5 6 (0.74%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.74%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.50%) CMS
6 4 (0.50%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.37%) Confluence
8 2 (0.25%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.25%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) Apache
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 24 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.62%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 806 (100.00%) Azure
2 196 (24.32%) Azure DevOps
3 120 (14.89%) Microsoft 365
4 111 (13.77%) IBM Cloud
5 95 (11.79%) PaaS
6 93 (11.54%) Entra ID
7 82 (10.17%) Power Platform
8 80 (9.93%) Azure Data Factory
9 75 (9.31%) SaaS
10 73 (9.06%) AWS
11 72 (8.93%) IaaS
12 64 (7.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 61 (7.57%) Azure AKS
14 49 (6.08%) GitHub
15 39 (4.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 36 (4.47%) GCP
17 30 (3.72%) Serverless
18 28 (3.47%) Azure Monitor
19 24 (2.98%) Cloud Computing
20 21 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 94 (11.66%) Firewall
2 64 (7.94%) DNS
3 46 (5.71%) VPN
4 41 (5.09%) Network Security
5 29 (3.60%) WAN
6 20 (2.48%) LAN
6 20 (2.48%) TCP/IP
7 18 (2.23%) DHCP
8 12 (1.49%) SAN
8 12 (1.49%) Wireless
9 9 (1.12%) SD-WAN
9 9 (1.12%) VLAN
10 8 (0.99%) NAS
10 8 (0.99%) Unified Communications
10 8 (0.99%) VoIP
11 7 (0.87%) Fibre Channel
11 7 (0.87%) IPv4
11 7 (0.87%) iSCSI
11 7 (0.87%) WLAN
12 6 (0.74%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (16.50%) PostgreSQL
2 126 (15.63%) MongoDB
3 118 (14.64%) NoSQL
4 110 (13.65%) DB2
5 77 (9.55%) Data Warehouse
6 76 (9.43%) Data Lake
7 75 (9.31%) SQL Server
8 74 (9.18%) Azure SQL Database
9 73 (9.06%) Power BI
10 22 (2.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 19 (2.36%) Big Data
12 17 (2.11%) MySQL
13 16 (1.99%) Metadata
13 16 (1.99%) Relational Database
13 16 (1.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 15 (1.86%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 14 (1.74%) Delta Lake
15 14 (1.74%) Redis
16 11 (1.36%) MariaDB
17 8 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 54 (6.70%) Git
2 33 (4.09%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.11%) GitLab
4 13 (1.61%) TeamCity
5 12 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
6 10 (1.24%) MLflow
6 10 (1.24%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (0.99%) JIRA
7 8 (0.99%) MSBuild
8 7 (0.87%) Katalon Studio
9 4 (0.50%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.50%) git-flow
9 4 (0.50%) Subversion
9 4 (0.50%) Visual Studio Team System
10 2 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.25%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.25%) Maven
11 1 (0.12%) Vagrant
General
1 162 (20.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 149 (18.49%) Finance
3 129 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 128 (15.88%) Social Skills
5 38 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (4.47%) Law
7 25 (3.10%) Marketing
8 21 (2.61%) Legal
9 20 (2.48%) Retail
10 17 (2.11%) Telecoms
11 15 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (1.74%) Banking
12 14 (1.74%) Manufacturing
13 12 (1.49%) Electronics
14 10 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (1.12%) Games
15 9 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.50%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (20.22%) .NET
2 125 (15.51%) React
3 117 (14.52%) AngularJS
3 117 (14.52%) ASP.NET
4 115 (14.27%) REST
5 113 (14.02%) ASP.NET Core
6 112 (13.90%) CSS
6 112 (13.90%) HTML
6 112 (13.90%) Web Services
7 110 (13.65%) Backbone.js
7 110 (13.65%) Ember.js
7 110 (13.65%) jQuery
7 110 (13.65%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 110 (13.65%) Vue
8 41 (5.09%) PySpark
9 30 (3.72%) YAML
10 27 (3.35%) JSON
11 25 (3.10%) ARM Templates
12 20 (2.48%) .NET Core
13 12 (1.49%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 128 (15.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 120 (14.89%) Algorithms
3 119 (14.76%) Data Structures
4 111 (13.77%) Blockchain
5 110 (13.65%) e-Learning
6 36 (4.47%) Linux Command Line
7 33 (4.09%) Public Cloud
8 32 (3.97%) Cloud Native
9 17 (2.11%) Data Centre
9 17 (2.11%) Product Ownership
10 16 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
10 16 (1.99%) Private Cloud
11 12 (1.49%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.12%) Client/Server
12 9 (1.12%) NHS
12 9 (1.12%) PKI
12 9 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (0.99%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 238 (29.53%) Windows
2 180 (22.33%) Linux
3 112 (13.90%) Android
3 112 (13.90%) Apple iOS
4 81 (10.05%) Windows Server
5 25 (3.10%) VMS
6 17 (2.11%) Windows 10
7 13 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (1.12%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.50%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.25%) CentOS
12 2 (0.25%) Unix
12 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (39.45%) DevOps
2 265 (32.88%) Agile
3 207 (25.68%) CI/CD
4 167 (20.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 153 (18.98%) Mentoring
6 142 (17.62%) Artificial Intelligence
7 129 (16.00%) Design Patterns
8 120 (14.89%) Coaching
9 117 (14.52%) OOP
10 115 (14.27%) Full Stack Development
10 115 (14.27%) OO
10 115 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
11 113 (14.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 112 (13.90%) MVC
12 112 (13.90%) SOLID
13 111 (13.77%) Code Quality
13 111 (13.77%) Design Thinking
14 110 (13.65%) Co-Creation
14 110 (13.65%) User Experience
14 110 (13.65%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 304 (37.72%) SQL
2 181 (22.46%) Python
3 173 (21.46%) PowerShell
4 166 (20.60%) C#
5 136 (16.87%) JavaScript
6 60 (7.44%) Java
7 56 (6.95%) Bash
8 27 (3.35%) Bicep
9 24 (2.98%) T-SQL
10 21 (2.61%) Go
11 20 (2.48%) Ruby
12 11 (1.36%) Perl
13 9 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (1.12%) TypeScript
14 8 (0.99%) U-SQL
15 7 (0.87%) Groovy
15 7 (0.87%) PHP
16 4 (0.50%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 81 (10.05%) Azure Certification
2 47 (5.83%) Degree
3 34 (4.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 22 (2.73%) Security Cleared
5 13 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.36%) SC Cleared
7 7 (0.87%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.50%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.25%) CISSP
10 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.25%) MCSE
10 2 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.12%) CCNA
11 1 (0.12%) CEH
11 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.09%) Data Quality
2 13 (1.61%) QA
3 9 (1.12%) GDPR
3 9 (1.12%) SLA
4 6 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.37%) NIST
7 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 109 (13.52%) Active Directory
2 107 (13.28%) Docker
3 25 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (1.99%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.87%) vSphere
8 5 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.37%) XenDesktop
10 2 (0.25%) NFS
10 2 (0.25%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.25%) XenApp
11 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 231 (28.66%) Terraform
2 180 (22.33%) Kubernetes
3 60 (7.44%) Ansible
4 38 (4.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (4.34%) Puppet
6 27 (3.35%) Progress Chef
7 23 (2.85%) Grafana
7 23 (2.85%) Prometheus
8 18 (2.23%) SCCM
9 11 (1.36%) Salt
9 11 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (0.74%) Istio
12 5 (0.62%) Pingdom
13 4 (0.50%) CASB
13 4 (0.50%) WSUS
14 3 (0.37%) Packer
15 2 (0.25%) Nessus
15 2 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 278 (34.49%) Microsoft
2 111 (13.77%) IBM
3 110 (13.65%) Red Hat
4 80 (9.93%) Databricks
5 40 (4.96%) VMware
6 24 (2.98%) Cisco
7 21 (2.61%) SolarWinds
8 18 (2.23%) SAP
9 16 (1.99%) Meraki
10 14 (1.74%) Veeam
11 13 (1.61%) Palo Alto
11 13 (1.61%) Zscaler
12 11 (1.36%) New Relic
13 10 (1.24%) Remedy
14 9 (1.12%) Oracle
15 8 (0.99%) Citrix
16 7 (0.87%) ProCurve
16 7 (0.87%) SaltStack
16 7 (0.87%) Synology
16 7 (0.87%) Zerto