Azure Engineer Job Trends

Microsoft Azure Engineer
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2026.

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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 356 345
Rank change year-on-year +132 -11 -21
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 768 340 799
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.84% 0.78% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 0.87% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 623 266 573
10th Percentile £46,750 £45,875 £42,250
25th Percentile £57,125 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,050 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £64,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year -2.34% +7.56% -5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 85,212 39,160 91,339
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 89.49% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,182 22,791 67,021
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,344 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.48% +4.69% -5.66%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Azure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Azure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Engineer in the UK

Azure Engineer
Top 16 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 16 May 2026. 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 +122 717 £70,000 - 94
UK excluding London +151 475 £62,500 -2.34% 77
London +49 264 £85,000 +3.03% 30
Work from Home +91 184 £67,500 +3.85% 61
Midlands +79 133 £64,500 +40.22% 15
South East +55 128 £65,000 -7.14% 24
North of England +14 80 £60,000 -4.00% 19
East Midlands +31 67 £65,750 +64.38% 6
South West +1 62 £70,000 -1.75% 12
West Midlands +9 61 £65,000 +8.33% 9
North West +28 54 £55,000 -5.17% 14
East of England +10 39 £70,000 - 3
Yorkshire -41 23 £62,500 +13.64% 4
Scotland +15 20 £80,000 +45.45% 2
Wales - 13 £45,000 - 2
North East -37 3 £35,000 -53.64% 1

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 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 featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 768 (100.00%) Azure
2 296 (38.54%) DevOps
3 237 (30.86%) Microsoft
4 215 (27.99%) Terraform
5 190 (24.74%) CI/CD
6 180 (23.44%) Azure DevOps
7 168 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
8 130 (16.93%) PowerShell
9 124 (16.15%) SQL
10 118 (15.36%) Python
11 113 (14.71%) Platform Engineering
12 108 (14.06%) Kubernetes
13 105 (13.67%) Firewall
14 104 (13.54%) Azure Certification
15 101 (13.15%) Active Directory
16 94 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 92 (11.98%) Microsoft 365
18 89 (11.59%) IaaS
19 87 (11.33%) Windows
20 84 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
21 83 (10.81%) Agile
22 81 (10.55%) Azure AKS
23 76 (9.90%) PaaS
24 74 (9.64%) Analytics
24 74 (9.64%) Security Cleared
25 73 (9.51%) Degree
26 72 (9.38%) .NET
26 72 (9.38%) AWS
26 72 (9.38%) Entra ID
26 72 (9.38%) SaaS

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 10 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.17%) IIS
3 8 (1.04%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.65%) Apache
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.13%) Confluence
6 1 (0.13%) Drupal
6 1 (0.13%) nginx
6 1 (0.13%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.13%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 768 (100.00%) Azure
2 180 (23.44%) Azure DevOps
3 92 (11.98%) Microsoft 365
4 89 (11.59%) IaaS
5 81 (10.55%) Azure AKS
6 76 (9.90%) PaaS
7 72 (9.38%) AWS
7 72 (9.38%) Entra ID
7 72 (9.38%) SaaS
8 62 (8.07%) Azure Monitor
9 57 (7.42%) Azure Key Vault
10 54 (7.03%) Azure Data Factory
11 49 (6.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 49 (6.38%) GitHub
12 41 (5.34%) Azure Storage
13 40 (5.21%) Power Platform
14 37 (4.82%) Datadog
14 37 (4.82%) Serverless
15 35 (4.56%) Azure Logic Apps
15 35 (4.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 105 (13.67%) Firewall
2 67 (8.72%) DNS
3 58 (7.55%) VPN
4 41 (5.34%) Wi-Fi
5 35 (4.56%) DHCP
6 30 (3.91%) WAN
7 24 (3.13%) SAN
8 21 (2.73%) VLAN
9 20 (2.60%) Network Security
10 16 (2.08%) TCP/IP
11 12 (1.56%) LAN
12 10 (1.30%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (1.30%) Cisco Firepower
13 9 (1.17%) SD-WAN
14 4 (0.52%) BGP
15 2 (0.26%) Ethernet
15 2 (0.26%) HTTP
15 2 (0.26%) Internet
16 1 (0.13%) VoIP
16 1 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (8.85%) SQL Server
2 37 (4.82%) Power BI
3 35 (4.56%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 21 (2.73%) Data Lake
6 14 (1.82%) Delta Lake
7 13 (1.69%) Spark SQL
8 12 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (1.04%) NoSQL
9 8 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (0.65%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.52%) Metadata
12 3 (0.39%) Star Schema
13 2 (0.26%) Relational Database
14 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.13%) ClickHouse
14 1 (0.13%) Data Vault
14 1 (0.13%) Flink
14 1 (0.13%) InterSystems Cache
14 1 (0.13%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 26 (3.39%) Git
2 20 (2.60%) Chocolatey
3 10 (1.30%) JIRA
4 9 (1.17%) GitLab
4 9 (1.17%) Visual Studio Code
5 7 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.65%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.26%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.13%) Gatling
8 1 (0.13%) JMeter
8 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.13%) Postman
8 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.13%) Vagrant
General
1 133 (17.32%) Finance
2 83 (10.81%) Social Skills
3 34 (4.43%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (4.17%) Law
5 31 (4.04%) Banking
6 11 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (1.30%) Public Sector
8 9 (1.17%) Automotive
8 9 (1.17%) Billing
8 9 (1.17%) Legal
8 9 (1.17%) Retail
9 6 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (0.78%) Retail Banking
9 6 (0.78%) Telecoms
10 5 (0.65%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.52%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.39%) Advertising
12 3 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.39%) Military
13 1 (0.13%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (9.38%) .NET
2 29 (3.78%) YAML
3 22 (2.86%) ARM Templates
4 21 (2.73%) .NET Core
4 21 (2.73%) PySpark
5 19 (2.47%) REST
6 17 (2.21%) ADO
7 16 (2.08%) OAuth
8 14 (1.82%) Node.js
8 14 (1.82%) React
9 8 (1.04%) SAML
9 8 (1.04%) Swagger
10 7 (0.91%) OpenAPI
11 6 (0.78%) .NET Framework
11 6 (0.78%) GraphQL
12 5 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (0.52%) AngularJS
13 4 (0.52%) JSON
13 4 (0.52%) SOAP
14 3 (0.39%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 39 (5.08%) Cloud Native
2 22 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 20 (2.60%) Cyber Threat
4 14 (1.82%) Public Cloud
5 12 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (1.43%) Hedge funds
6 11 (1.43%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 10 (1.30%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.17%) Private Cloud
9 8 (1.04%) Product Ownership
10 6 (0.78%) CMDB
11 5 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.52%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (0.52%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.52%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.39%) Data Structures
14 2 (0.26%) Enterprise Cloud
14 2 (0.26%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 87 (11.33%) Windows
2 55 (7.16%) Linux
3 35 (4.56%) Windows Server
4 28 (3.65%) VMS
5 11 (1.43%) Unix
6 2 (0.26%) Debian
6 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (38.54%) DevOps
2 190 (24.74%) CI/CD
3 168 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 113 (14.71%) Platform Engineering
5 94 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 84 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
7 83 (10.81%) Agile
8 74 (9.64%) Analytics
9 68 (8.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 67 (8.72%) Containerisation
11 61 (7.94%) Cloud Security
12 57 (7.42%) Disaster Recovery
13 54 (7.03%) Computer Science
13 54 (7.03%) Root Cause Analysis
14 52 (6.77%) Data Pipeline
14 52 (6.77%) ETL
14 52 (6.77%) High Availability
14 52 (6.77%) Migration
14 52 (6.77%) Observability
15 45 (5.86%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 130 (16.93%) PowerShell
2 124 (16.15%) SQL
3 118 (15.36%) Python
4 68 (8.85%) C#
5 41 (5.34%) Bicep
6 34 (4.43%) Bash
7 24 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (0.91%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.65%) Java
10 4 (0.52%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.26%) Go
11 2 (0.26%) PHP
11 2 (0.26%) R
11 2 (0.26%) Scala
12 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 104 (13.54%) Azure Certification
2 74 (9.64%) Security Cleared
3 73 (9.51%) Degree
4 58 (7.55%) SC Cleared
5 54 (7.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (3.13%) CCNP
6 24 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 19 (2.47%) CCNA
9 15 (1.95%) CISSP
10 10 (1.30%) CCIE
10 10 (1.30%) CCSA
10 10 (1.30%) CCSE
10 10 (1.30%) CCSK
11 7 (0.91%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.65%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.65%) CEH
13 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (4.69%) SLA
2 29 (3.78%) GDPR
3 19 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.34%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.69%) NIST
6 12 (1.56%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (1.04%) SOC 2
8 6 (0.78%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.78%) QA
9 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 101 (13.15%) Active Directory
2 50 (6.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (5.60%) Docker
4 16 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.91%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.52%) vSphere
8 3 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.26%) Firmware
10 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.13%) vCloud
10 1 (0.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 215 (27.99%) Terraform
2 108 (14.06%) Kubernetes
3 47 (6.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 36 (4.69%) Ansible
5 23 (2.99%) SCCM
6 13 (1.69%) Grafana
7 10 (1.30%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.17%) Cisco Prime
8 9 (1.17%) Prometheus
9 8 (1.04%) Packer
10 4 (0.52%) Argo
10 4 (0.52%) logstash
11 3 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.26%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.13%) Consul
13 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.13%) Puppet
13 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 237 (30.86%) Microsoft
2 69 (8.98%) VMware
3 46 (5.99%) Databricks
4 40 (5.21%) Cisco
5 29 (3.78%) Palo Alto
6 26 (3.39%) Tenable
7 22 (2.86%) AppDynamics
7 22 (2.86%) Dynatrace
8 15 (1.95%) CheckPoint
8 15 (1.95%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.82%) Google
9 14 (1.82%) Meraki
10 13 (1.69%) Fortinet
11 12 (1.56%) CrowdStrike
12 11 (1.43%) Citrix
12 11 (1.43%) Salesforce
13 10 (1.30%) SolarWinds
14 8 (1.04%) SAP
14 8 (1.04%) Zscaler
15 7 (0.91%) Splunk