Azure Infrastructure Lead Jobs

Infrastructure Leader - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median Infrastructure Leader - Microsoft Azure salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 877 970 1197
Rank change year-on-year +93 +227 -330
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Infrastructure Lead 17 11 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.011% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.012% 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 17 11 22
10th Percentile - £55,000 £55,125
25th Percentile £45,000 £75,875 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £100,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% +42.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £63,750 - £75,000
90th Percentile £65,250 - £93,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -19.71% +5.38% +10.64%

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 93,899 92,293 151,422
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.47% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,283 58,235 84,441
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,627 £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 Infrastructure Lead
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Infrastructure Lead in the UK

Azure Infrastructure Lead
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Azure Infrastructure Lead in the UK

Azure Infrastructure Lead
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Infrastructure Lead over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Infrastructure Lead in the UK

Azure Infrastructure Lead
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Infrastructure Lead within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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 +86 17 £55,000 -45.00% 1
UK excluding London +16 16 £55,000 -19.71% 1
South East +13 8 £45,000 -34.31% 1
North of England - 8 £59,500 -
Yorkshire - 7 £59,500 -
Work from Home +81 2 £85,000 +24.09%
London +120 1 £105,000 +5.00%
North West - 1 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Azure Infrastructure Lead 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 Lead in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (94.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (82.35%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (52.94%) Windows
5 8 (47.06%) Active Directory
5 8 (47.06%) Entra ID
5 8 (47.06%) Windows Server
6 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
6 7 (41.18%) OneDrive
6 7 (41.18%) LAN
6 7 (41.18%) WAN
6 7 (41.18%) Law
7 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
7 2 (11.76%) Firewall
7 2 (11.76%) DevOps
8 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (5.88%) Ansible
8 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 1 (5.88%) Process Improvement
8 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (5.88%) IT Strategy
8 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
8 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 1 (5.88%) DNS
8 1 (5.88%) Linux
8 1 (5.88%) Python
8 1 (5.88%) SQL
8 1 (5.88%) ITIL
8 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (5.88%) Replication

Azure Infrastructure Lead 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:

Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (82.35%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (47.06%) Entra ID
4 7 (41.18%) OneDrive
5 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Storage
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) LAN
1 7 (41.18%) WAN
2 2 (11.76%) Firewall
3 1 (5.88%) DNS
General
1 7 (41.18%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Windows
2 8 (47.06%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (11.76%) DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Agile
3 1 (5.88%) CI/CD
3 1 (5.88%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (5.88%) IT Strategy
3 1 (5.88%) ITIL
3 1 (5.88%) Load Balancing
3 1 (5.88%) Process Improvement
3 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft