Azure Security Engineer Jobs

Azure Security Engineer
UK

The median Azure Security Engineer salary in the UK is £71,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 694 909 970
Rank change year-on-year +215 +61 +257
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Security Engineer 6 3 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.003% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.003% 0.011%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 10
10th Percentile - - £57,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £88,750 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £92,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.97% +42.31% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,938 £96,250 £68,438
90th Percentile £81,250 - £87,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 - £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

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 49,015 93,487 94,651
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 94.63% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,518 67,038 59,603
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -
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 Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Security Engineer in the UK

Azure Security Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Azure Security Engineer in the UK

Azure Security Engineer
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Security Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +172 6 £71,250 -22.97% 1
UK excluding London +199 3 £70,000 -
London +100 3 £75,000 -18.92% 1
South East - 3 £70,000 -
Work from Home - 3 £70,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, Azure Security 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 Security Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) GDPR
2 5 (83.33%) Cloud Security
3 4 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (66.67%) IaaS
3 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) PaaS
3 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (50.00%) High Availability
4 3 (50.00%) SaaS
4 3 (50.00%) HIPAA
4 3 (50.00%) Firewall
4 3 (50.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (33.33%) Degree
5 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 2 (33.33%) CEH
5 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
5 2 (33.33%) CISSP
5 2 (33.33%) Windows
5 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
5 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (33.33%) SIEM
5 2 (33.33%) NIST
5 2 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps

Azure Security 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 4 (66.67%) IaaS
2 4 (66.67%) PaaS
3 3 (50.00%) SaaS
4 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (16.67%) AWS
5 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (16.67%) AWS KMS
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) NAS
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
2 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Security
2 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (50.00%) High Availability
4 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 2 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) SIEM
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (33.33%) CEH
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CCSK
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) GDPR
2 3 (50.00%) HIPAA
3 2 (33.33%) NIST
4 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
4 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Dell
2 1 (16.67%) EMC
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) SonicWALL
2 1 (16.67%) VMware