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 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 662 797 844
Rank change year-on-year +135 +47 +248
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Infrastructure Engineer 68 102 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.10% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 60 95 111
10th Percentile £47,375 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £45,000 £48,500
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 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +23.81% -4.55% +3.77%

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 50,706 94,386 91,123
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.83% 94.69% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 27,254 67,482 57,423
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £71,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%

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 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Top 13 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 17 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 +117 66 £70,000 +27.27% 15
UK excluding London +154 35 £65,000 +23.81% 8
London +115 32 £81,250 +25.00% 6
Work from Home +109 18 £63,750 +15.91% 5
East of England +58 14 £70,000 +12.00% 4
North of England +26 8 £57,500 +21.05% 1
North West -11 7 £51,250 +7.89% 1
South West +114 6 £75,000 +25.00% 1
Midlands +59 6 £46,000 -29.23% 3
West Midlands +55 4 £46,000 -31.85%
East Midlands +19 2 - - 3
Yorkshire +56 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 17 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 68 (100.00%) Azure
2 67 (98.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 42 (61.76%) Windows
4 40 (58.82%) Microsoft
5 35 (51.47%) Windows Server
6 33 (48.53%) PowerShell
7 31 (45.59%) Firewall
8 28 (41.18%) Terraform
9 27 (39.71%) Kubernetes
10 25 (36.76%) DevOps
10 25 (36.76%) CI/CD
11 22 (32.35%) Microsoft Intune
12 20 (29.41%) Azure Certification
13 18 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (25.00%) Cost Management
14 17 (25.00%) SQL Server
15 16 (23.53%) Microsoft Exchange
15 16 (23.53%) Entra ID
16 15 (22.06%) Active Directory
16 15 (22.06%) High Availability
17 14 (20.59%) Finance
17 14 (20.59%) Cloud Security
18 13 (19.12%) Azure Logic Apps
18 13 (19.12%) Azure AKS
18 13 (19.12%) Power Platform
18 13 (19.12%) PowerApps
18 13 (19.12%) SCCM
19 12 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
19 12 (17.65%) Palo Alto

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 16 (23.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (13.24%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.47%) IIS
3 1 (1.47%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 68 (100.00%) Azure
2 17 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (23.53%) Entra ID
4 13 (19.12%) Azure AKS
4 13 (19.12%) Azure Logic Apps
4 13 (19.12%) Power Platform
4 13 (19.12%) PowerApps
5 11 (16.18%) PaaS
6 10 (14.71%) IaaS
6 10 (14.71%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (8.82%) AWS
8 5 (7.35%) OneDrive
9 4 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (5.88%) Route 53
9 4 (5.88%) SaaS
10 3 (4.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 31 (45.59%) Firewall
2 9 (13.24%) VPN
3 8 (11.76%) SD-WAN
4 6 (8.82%) WAN
5 5 (7.35%) DNS
6 4 (5.88%) DHCP
6 4 (5.88%) HTTPS
6 4 (5.88%) VLAN
7 2 (2.94%) LAN
7 2 (2.94%) Network Security
8 1 (1.47%) NAS
8 1 (1.47%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.47%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 14 (20.59%) Finance
2 10 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.41%) Law
5 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Legal
6 1 (1.47%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.71%) ARM Templates
2 3 (4.41%) SAML
3 1 (1.47%) .NET
3 1 (1.47%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (7.35%) Clustering
3 3 (4.41%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.41%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.47%) BYOD
5 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.47%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (61.76%) Windows
2 35 (51.47%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.41%) Android
3 3 (4.41%) Apple iOS
3 3 (4.41%) Linux
4 2 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.47%) VMS
5 1 (1.47%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (98.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (36.76%) CI/CD
2 25 (36.76%) DevOps
3 18 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (25.00%) Cost Management
5 15 (22.06%) High Availability
6 14 (20.59%) Cloud Security
7 12 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
7 12 (17.65%) Performance Optimisation
8 11 (16.18%) Migration
9 10 (14.71%) Infrastructure Management
9 10 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (13.24%) Containerisation
10 9 (13.24%) Fintech
11 8 (11.76%) Identity Management
11 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
12 7 (10.29%) Configuration Management
13 6 (8.82%) Load Balancing
13 6 (8.82%) Platform Engineering
13 6 (8.82%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (48.53%) PowerShell
2 8 (11.76%) Python
3 6 (8.82%) Bicep
4 1 (1.47%) Bash
4 1 (1.47%) Java
4 1 (1.47%) Perl
4 1 (1.47%) SQL
4 1 (1.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (29.41%) Azure Certification
2 4 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 4 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
2 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.47%) Degree
3 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.47%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) GDPR
2 1 (1.47%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (22.06%) Active Directory
2 7 (10.29%) Docker
3 6 (8.82%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (7.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (5.88%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.94%) vSphere
7 1 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (41.18%) Terraform
2 27 (39.71%) Kubernetes
3 22 (32.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (19.12%) SCCM
5 7 (10.29%) Ansible
6 4 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (4.41%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.47%) SCOM
8 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.47%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.47%) WSUS
Vendors
1 40 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 12 (17.65%) Palo Alto
3 6 (8.82%) VMware
4 5 (7.35%) Citrix
5 3 (4.41%) Google
6 2 (2.94%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.94%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.47%) Cisco
7 1 (1.47%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.47%) F5
7 1 (1.47%) Okta
7 1 (1.47%) Veeam