Azure Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 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
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 630 799 843
Rank change year-on-year +169 +44 +232
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Infrastructure Engineer 70 103 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.10% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 62 95 116
10th Percentile £47,257 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £45,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £85,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £71,500 £91,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,250 £52,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year +20.48% -3.67% +2.83%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 49,356 93,784 92,686
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 94.63% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 27,595 67,216 58,370
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 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
England +126 67 £70,000 +27.27% 11
London +113 35 £82,500 +26.92% 5
UK excluding London +151 34 £63,250 +20.48% 8
Work from Home +128 21 £62,500 +13.64% 4
East of England +52 12 £70,000 +12.00%
North of England +42 8 £57,500 +21.05% 1
North West +2 7 £51,250 +7.89% 1
South West +114 6 £75,000 +25.00% 2
Midlands +67 6 £46,000 -29.23% 3
West Midlands +55 4 £46,000 -31.85%
East Midlands +44 2 - - 3
Scotland +132 1 £48,507 +32.90%
Yorkshire +55 1 £65,000 +9.24%
Northern Ireland - 1 £47,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 featuring Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 70 (100.00%) Azure
2 69 (98.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 42 (60.00%) Windows
4 40 (57.14%) Microsoft
5 35 (50.00%) PowerShell
6 32 (45.71%) Windows Server
7 30 (42.86%) Firewall
8 29 (41.43%) Terraform
9 28 (40.00%) Kubernetes
10 27 (38.57%) DevOps
11 26 (37.14%) CI/CD
12 24 (34.29%) Microsoft Intune
13 20 (28.57%) Azure Certification
14 18 (25.71%) Infrastructure as Code
14 18 (25.71%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (24.29%) Entra ID
15 17 (24.29%) High Availability
16 16 (22.86%) Finance
17 15 (21.43%) Active Directory
17 15 (21.43%) SCCM
17 15 (21.43%) Cost Management
18 14 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
18 14 (20.00%) SQL Server
19 13 (18.57%) Disaster Recovery
19 13 (18.57%) PaaS
19 13 (18.57%) Azure AKS
19 13 (18.57%) Microsoft 365
19 13 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
20 12 (17.14%) Palo Alto
20 12 (17.14%) Cloud Security

Azure Infrastructure 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 14 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.43%) IIS
3 1 (1.43%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 70 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (25.71%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (24.29%) Entra ID
4 13 (18.57%) Azure AKS
4 13 (18.57%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (18.57%) PaaS
5 11 (15.71%) IaaS
6 10 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
6 10 (14.29%) Power Platform
6 10 (14.29%) PowerApps
7 6 (8.57%) AWS
7 6 (8.57%) SaaS
8 5 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (7.14%) OneDrive
9 4 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (5.71%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (5.71%) Route 53
10 3 (4.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 30 (42.86%) Firewall
2 9 (12.86%) VPN
3 8 (11.43%) SD-WAN
4 6 (8.57%) WAN
5 5 (7.14%) DNS
6 4 (5.71%) DHCP
6 4 (5.71%) HTTPS
6 4 (5.71%) VLAN
7 3 (4.29%) Network Security
8 2 (2.86%) LAN
9 1 (1.43%) NAS
9 1 (1.43%) NetScaler
9 1 (1.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 16 (22.86%) Finance
2 11 (15.71%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (5.71%) Law
5 3 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.86%) Legal
7 1 (1.43%) Banking
7 1 (1.43%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 3 (4.29%) SAML
3 1 (1.43%) .NET
3 1 (1.43%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.43%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (7.14%) Clustering
3 3 (4.29%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.29%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.43%) BYOD
5 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (60.00%) Windows
2 32 (45.71%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.29%) Android
3 3 (4.29%) Apple iOS
3 3 (4.29%) Linux
4 2 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.43%) VMS
5 1 (1.43%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.43%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (98.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 27 (38.57%) DevOps
3 26 (37.14%) CI/CD
4 18 (25.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (24.29%) High Availability
6 15 (21.43%) Cost Management
7 13 (18.57%) Disaster Recovery
7 13 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (17.14%) Cloud Security
9 11 (15.71%) Migration
10 10 (14.29%) Containerisation
10 10 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
10 10 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
11 9 (12.86%) Fintech
11 9 (12.86%) Identity Management
12 8 (11.43%) Infrastructure Automation
13 7 (10.00%) Configuration Management
13 7 (10.00%) Load Balancing
13 7 (10.00%) Problem Management
14 6 (8.57%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 35 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (12.86%) Python
3 6 (8.57%) Bicep
4 1 (1.43%) Bash
4 1 (1.43%) Java
4 1 (1.43%) Perl
4 1 (1.43%) SQL
4 1 (1.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 4 (5.71%) AWS Certification
2 4 (5.71%) CompTIA Security+
2 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.43%) Degree
3 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.43%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) GDPR
2 1 (1.43%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 7 (10.00%) Docker
3 6 (8.57%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (7.14%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.86%) vSphere
6 1 (1.43%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (41.43%) Terraform
2 28 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 24 (34.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (21.43%) SCCM
5 7 (10.00%) Ansible
6 5 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (4.29%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (2.86%) SCOM
8 2 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.43%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 40 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 12 (17.14%) Palo Alto
3 7 (10.00%) Citrix
3 7 (10.00%) VMware
4 3 (4.29%) Google
5 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.86%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.43%) Cisco
6 1 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.43%) F5
6 1 (1.43%) Okta
6 1 (1.43%) Veeam