Azure Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 206 207
Rank change year-on-year +26 +1 -17
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 14 48 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.32% 0.64% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.68% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 13 45 56
10th Percentile - £39,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £44,000 £48,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +6.48% -16.92%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £64,488
90th Percentile - £68,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,927 7,065 5,646
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 94.39% 90.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,754 5,271 3,235
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £38,966
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,887 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £56,000 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +5.66% -12.83% +1.33%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in the West Midlands

Azure Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Azure Engineer in the West Midlands

Azure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Engineer in the West Midlands

Azure Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
Birmingham +22 7 £46,000 -29.23%
Warwickshire - 3 £70,000 - 1
Shropshire +15 2 £57,500 +43.75%
Coventry -4 2 £67,500 -
Azure Engineer
England

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 9 (64.29%) Azure Certification
3 8 (57.14%) PowerShell
4 7 (50.00%) Windows
4 7 (50.00%) DevOps
4 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (42.86%) Windows Server
5 6 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (42.86%) AWS
6 5 (35.71%) PaaS
6 5 (35.71%) IaaS
6 5 (35.71%) WAN
6 5 (35.71%) VPN
6 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
6 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (35.71%) Firewall
6 5 (35.71%) VLAN
6 5 (35.71%) Entra ID
6 5 (35.71%) Terraform
7 4 (28.57%) Proactive Management
7 4 (28.57%) SD-WAN
7 4 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
7 4 (28.57%) Cost Management
7 4 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (28.57%) Zero Trust
7 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Purview

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) Entra ID
3 5 (35.71%) IaaS
3 5 (35.71%) PaaS
4 4 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (28.57%) Route 53
5 2 (14.29%) Azure AKS
5 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 2 (14.29%) SaaS
6 1 (7.14%) Azure App Service
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (7.14%) Cloudflare
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Firewall
1 5 (35.71%) VLAN
1 5 (35.71%) VPN
1 5 (35.71%) WAN
2 4 (28.57%) HTTPS
2 4 (28.57%) SD-WAN
3 1 (7.14%) BGP
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (7.14%) LAN
3 1 (7.14%) MPLS
3 1 (7.14%) Network Security
3 1 (7.14%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (14.29%) HDInsight
2 2 (14.29%) Power BI
3 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (28.57%) Advertising
1 4 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) IoT
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
2 6 (42.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) Collaborative Culture
3 4 (28.57%) Cost Management
3 4 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
3 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (28.57%) Identity Management
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (28.57%) Load Balancing
3 4 (28.57%) Migration
3 4 (28.57%) Privileged Identity Management
3 4 (28.57%) Proactive Management
3 4 (28.57%) Problem Management
3 4 (28.57%) Security Operations
3 4 (28.57%) Threat Management
3 4 (28.57%) Zero Trust
4 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (14.29%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Azure Certification
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (28.57%) AWS Certification
3 4 (28.57%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 4 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (7.14%) Docker
3 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Terraform
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 1 (7.14%) Ansible
4 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
4 1 (7.14%) Puppet
4 1 (7.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) VMware
3 2 (14.29%) Databricks
4 1 (7.14%) Aruba
4 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco
4 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
4 1 (7.14%) Meraki
4 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto