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 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 324 374
Rank change year-on-year -20 +50 -147
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 810 1,102 1,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 1.04% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 1.14% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 592 903 1,190
10th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.83% - +18.23%

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 92,682 96,623 147,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,673 60,571 85,427
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -9 709 £65,000 -7.14% 135
UK excluding London +12 495 £59,500 -0.83% 87
Work from Home -65 288 £65,000 -6.40% 99
London -10 249 £72,500 -6.45% 56
North of England +40 161 £60,000 -10.31% 22
Midlands +57 136 £55,000 - 12
North West +72 119 £55,000 -15.38% 16
South East -33 97 £57,500 -12.88% 25
East Midlands +57 88 £54,250 +0.93% 5
West Midlands +8 48 £55,000 - 7
Scotland -44 38 £65,000 +8.33% 4
Yorkshire +14 34 £70,576 +1.62% 3
South West -30 29 £65,000 +8.33% 16
East of England +33 24 £62,500 +13.64% 5
Wales +8 10 £50,685 +12.63% 5
North East +3 10 £75,000 +36.36% 3
Northern Ireland +19 3 - -

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 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.

1 810 (100.00%) Azure
2 325 (40.12%) DevOps
3 283 (34.94%) SQL
4 279 (34.44%) Microsoft
5 260 (32.10%) Agile
6 250 (30.86%) Windows
7 232 (28.64%) Terraform
8 211 (26.05%) Azure DevOps
9 210 (25.93%) CI/CD
10 185 (22.84%) Kubernetes
11 180 (22.22%) PowerShell
12 179 (22.10%) Infrastructure as Code
13 176 (21.73%) Linux
14 175 (21.60%) Python
15 155 (19.14%) C#
16 150 (18.52%) .NET
17 140 (17.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 140 (17.28%) Microsoft 365
17 140 (17.28%) Finance
18 138 (17.04%) Mentoring
19 132 (16.30%) Social Skills
20 129 (15.93%) Artificial Intelligence
21 128 (15.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
22 123 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
23 122 (15.06%) JavaScript
24 118 (14.57%) Hybrid Cloud
24 118 (14.57%) Docker
25 117 (14.44%) PostgreSQL
26 116 (14.32%) Public Sector
27 113 (13.95%) Design Patterns

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 46 (5.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (4.69%) SharePoint
3 21 (2.59%) IIS
4 7 (0.86%) WordPress
5 6 (0.74%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.62%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.49%) CMS
7 4 (0.49%) NServiceBus
7 4 (0.49%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.37%) Confluence
9 2 (0.25%) SAS
10 1 (0.12%) Apache
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 22 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.62%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 810 (100.00%) Azure
2 211 (26.05%) Azure DevOps
3 140 (17.28%) Microsoft 365
4 97 (11.98%) IBM Cloud
5 93 (11.48%) PaaS
6 90 (11.11%) Entra ID
7 79 (9.75%) Power Platform
7 79 (9.75%) SaaS
8 77 (9.51%) Azure Data Factory
9 76 (9.38%) IaaS
10 72 (8.89%) AWS
11 55 (6.79%) Azure AKS
12 52 (6.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 41 (5.06%) GitHub
14 38 (4.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 37 (4.57%) GCP
16 27 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
16 27 (3.33%) Serverless
17 25 (3.09%) Cloud Computing
18 20 (2.47%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 96 (11.85%) Firewall
2 69 (8.52%) DNS
3 49 (6.05%) VPN
4 40 (4.94%) Network Security
5 30 (3.70%) WAN
6 24 (2.96%) DHCP
6 24 (2.96%) LAN
7 20 (2.47%) TCP/IP
8 16 (1.98%) SAN
9 12 (1.48%) Wireless
10 11 (1.36%) NAS
10 11 (1.36%) VoIP
11 10 (1.23%) iSCSI
11 10 (1.23%) VLAN
12 7 (0.86%) Fibre Channel
12 7 (0.86%) IPv4
12 7 (0.86%) Unified Communications
12 7 (0.86%) WLAN
13 6 (0.74%) Internet
13 6 (0.74%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (14.44%) PostgreSQL
2 110 (13.58%) MongoDB
3 106 (13.09%) NoSQL
4 96 (11.85%) DB2
5 78 (9.63%) SQL Server
6 75 (9.26%) Data Warehouse
7 70 (8.64%) Power BI
8 68 (8.40%) Data Lake
9 65 (8.02%) Azure SQL Database
10 22 (2.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 17 (2.10%) Big Data
12 15 (1.85%) Metadata
12 15 (1.85%) MySQL
13 14 (1.73%) Delta Lake
13 14 (1.73%) Relational Database
13 14 (1.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 13 (1.60%) InfluxDB
15 12 (1.48%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 12 (1.48%) Redis
16 9 (1.11%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 53 (6.54%) Git
2 48 (5.93%) Jenkins
3 26 (3.21%) GitLab
4 13 (1.60%) TeamCity
5 12 (1.48%) SonarQube
6 11 (1.36%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (0.99%) JIRA
7 8 (0.99%) MLflow
7 8 (0.99%) MSBuild
8 7 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
9 6 (0.74%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.62%) Katalon Studio
11 4 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.49%) git-flow
11 4 (0.49%) Subversion
11 4 (0.49%) Visual Studio Team System
12 2 (0.25%) Maven
13 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.12%) Vagrant
General
1 140 (17.28%) Finance
1 140 (17.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 132 (16.30%) Social Skills
3 116 (14.32%) Public Sector
4 37 (4.57%) Law
5 35 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.21%) Marketing
7 25 (3.09%) Legal
8 21 (2.59%) Retail
9 18 (2.22%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.85%) Banking
10 15 (1.85%) Manufacturing
11 14 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.60%) Electronics
13 10 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.11%) Games
15 6 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.62%) Financial Institution
17 4 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (18.52%) .NET
2 110 (13.58%) React
3 103 (12.72%) AngularJS
3 103 (12.72%) ASP.NET
4 100 (12.35%) REST
4 100 (12.35%) Web Services
5 99 (12.22%) ASP.NET Core
6 97 (11.98%) CSS
6 97 (11.98%) HTML
7 96 (11.85%) Backbone.js
7 96 (11.85%) Ember.js
7 96 (11.85%) jQuery
7 96 (11.85%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 96 (11.85%) Vue
8 34 (4.20%) PySpark
9 31 (3.83%) JSON
10 27 (3.33%) ARM Templates
11 26 (3.21%) YAML
12 21 (2.59%) .NET Core
13 15 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 118 (14.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 106 (13.09%) Data Structures
3 104 (12.84%) Algorithms
4 97 (11.98%) Blockchain
5 96 (11.85%) e-Learning
6 42 (5.19%) Public Cloud
7 36 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
8 30 (3.70%) Cloud Native
9 18 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (2.10%) Data Centre
10 17 (2.10%) Product Ownership
11 16 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.36%) Private Cloud
13 10 (1.23%) Security Posture
14 9 (1.11%) Client/Server
14 9 (1.11%) PKI
14 9 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (0.99%) NHS
16 7 (0.86%) Management Information System
16 7 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 250 (30.86%) Windows
2 176 (21.73%) Linux
3 101 (12.47%) Apple iOS
4 98 (12.10%) Android
5 96 (11.85%) Windows Server
6 24 (2.96%) VMS
7 21 (2.59%) Windows 10
8 14 (1.73%) Windows Server 2019
9 13 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
10 11 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 9 (1.11%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.74%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.25%) CentOS
15 2 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (40.12%) DevOps
2 260 (32.10%) Agile
3 210 (25.93%) CI/CD
4 179 (22.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 138 (17.04%) Mentoring
6 129 (15.93%) Artificial Intelligence
7 128 (15.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 123 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
9 113 (13.95%) Design Patterns
10 106 (13.09%) Coaching
11 103 (12.72%) OOP
12 101 (12.47%) Full Stack Development
12 101 (12.47%) OO
13 100 (12.35%) Analytics
14 99 (12.22%) SOLID
15 98 (12.10%) MVC
16 97 (11.98%) Code Quality
16 97 (11.98%) Design Thinking
17 96 (11.85%) Co-Creation
17 96 (11.85%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 283 (34.94%) SQL
2 180 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 175 (21.60%) Python
4 155 (19.14%) C#
5 122 (15.06%) JavaScript
6 60 (7.41%) Java
7 58 (7.16%) Bash
8 31 (3.83%) Bicep
9 24 (2.96%) T-SQL
10 22 (2.72%) Ruby
11 21 (2.59%) Go
12 13 (1.60%) Perl
13 9 (1.11%) TypeScript
14 8 (0.99%) Groovy
15 7 (0.86%) PHP
16 6 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.74%) U-SQL
17 4 (0.49%) Shell Script
18 1 (0.12%) Lua
Qualifications
1 80 (9.88%) Azure Certification
2 49 (6.05%) Degree
3 31 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (2.35%) Security Cleared
5 16 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.36%) SC Cleared
7 7 (0.86%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.49%) CISSP
9 4 (0.49%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.25%) CCSP
10 2 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.25%) CISM
10 2 (0.25%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.25%) MCSE
10 2 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.12%) CEH
11 1 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.32%) Data Quality
2 15 (1.85%) QA
3 12 (1.48%) SLA
4 9 (1.11%) GDPR
5 8 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.62%) NIST
7 4 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.25%) NCSC
9 1 (0.12%) PMO
System Software
1 118 (14.57%) Docker
2 111 (13.70%) Active Directory
3 37 (4.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (2.59%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.86%) vSphere
8 6 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.25%) NFS
10 2 (0.25%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 232 (28.64%) Terraform
2 185 (22.84%) Kubernetes
3 70 (8.64%) Ansible
4 40 (4.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (4.57%) Puppet
6 36 (4.44%) Grafana
6 36 (4.44%) Prometheus
7 28 (3.46%) Progress Chef
8 19 (2.35%) SCCM
9 12 (1.48%) Salt
9 12 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.86%) WSUS
12 6 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (0.74%) Istio
13 5 (0.62%) Pingdom
14 4 (0.49%) CASB
15 3 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
15 3 (0.37%) Packer
16 2 (0.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 279 (34.44%) Microsoft
2 97 (11.98%) IBM
3 96 (11.85%) Red Hat
4 72 (8.89%) Databricks
5 55 (6.79%) VMware
6 24 (2.96%) SolarWinds
7 23 (2.84%) Cisco
8 19 (2.35%) SAP
9 18 (2.22%) Meraki
10 14 (1.73%) Veeam
11 13 (1.60%) Palo Alto
11 13 (1.60%) Zscaler
12 12 (1.48%) New Relic
13 9 (1.11%) Citrix
13 9 (1.11%) Oracle
14 8 (0.99%) SaltStack
15 7 (0.86%) ProCurve
15 7 (0.86%) Remedy
15 7 (0.86%) Synology
15 7 (0.86%) Zerto