Azure Engineer Jobs in England

Microsoft Azure Engineer
UK > England

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in England is £66,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 272 242 368
Rank change year-on-year -30 +126 -57
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 673 692 1,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.01% 1.37% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.43% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 490 583 984
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 63,226 48,279 113,689
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.94% 95.50% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 33,635 35,793 69,555
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,525 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.79% - +4.35%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in England

Azure Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Azure Engineer in England

Azure Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Engineer in England

Azure Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
London +11 305 £77,500 +10.71% 41
North of England -21 124 £50,000 -23.28% 31
South East -17 95 £67,500 +1.89% 13
Midlands -36 76 £55,000 -8.33% 12
North West -33 64 £52,500 -19.66% 15
West Midlands +3 54 £60,000 +4.35% 8
South West -9 39 £55,000 -15.38% 7
Yorkshire +3 35 £53,000 -18.90% 5
North East -24 25 £50,000 -16.67% 11
East Midlands -73 22 £42,500 -32.00% 4
East of England -55 21 £50,000 -35.48% 2
Azure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, 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 England region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 673 (100.00%) Azure
2 270 (40.12%) Microsoft
3 269 (39.97%) DevOps
4 204 (30.31%) Terraform
5 200 (29.72%) CI/CD
6 185 (27.49%) SQL
7 180 (26.75%) PowerShell
8 162 (24.07%) Azure DevOps
9 161 (23.92%) Finance
10 148 (21.99%) Infrastructure as Code
11 136 (20.21%) Python
12 120 (17.83%) Windows
12 120 (17.83%) Active Directory
13 119 (17.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 118 (17.53%) Kubernetes
15 116 (17.24%) Microsoft 365
16 111 (16.49%) Agile
17 110 (16.34%) Social Skills
18 106 (15.75%) Entra ID
19 100 (14.86%) Azure Certification
20 96 (14.26%) PaaS
21 93 (13.82%) Databricks
22 83 (12.33%) Platform Engineering
23 82 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
23 82 (12.18%) Azure Data Factory
23 82 (12.18%) Bash
23 82 (12.18%) Analytics
24 81 (12.04%) Docker
25 75 (11.14%) Ansible
26 73 (10.85%) Azure SQL Database

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 39 (5.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.78%) nginx
4 11 (1.63%) IIS
5 10 (1.49%) Apache
6 7 (1.04%) Apache Spark
6 7 (1.04%) Confluence
7 1 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.15%) CMS
7 1 (0.15%) JBoss
7 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (1.93%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 673 (100.00%) Azure
2 162 (24.07%) Azure DevOps
3 116 (17.24%) Microsoft 365
4 106 (15.75%) Entra ID
5 96 (14.26%) PaaS
6 82 (12.18%) Azure Data Factory
7 67 (9.96%) SaaS
8 65 (9.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 64 (9.51%) Power Platform
10 61 (9.06%) Azure AKS
10 61 (9.06%) IaaS
11 60 (8.92%) Azure Monitor
12 42 (6.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 42 (6.24%) GitHub
13 37 (5.50%) AWS
14 30 (4.46%) Azure Logic Apps
15 29 (4.31%) Azure Service Bus
16 27 (4.01%) Azure Storage
17 16 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
17 16 (2.38%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 49 (7.28%) Firewall
2 40 (5.94%) DNS
3 24 (3.57%) DHCP
3 24 (3.57%) Network Security
4 18 (2.67%) VPN
4 18 (2.67%) WAN
5 12 (1.78%) 5G
6 11 (1.63%) LAN
7 9 (1.34%) BGP
7 9 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (1.19%) OSPF
8 8 (1.19%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.89%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.74%) NetScaler
10 5 (0.74%) VLAN
11 4 (0.59%) iSCSI
11 4 (0.59%) RIP
12 3 (0.45%) MPLS
12 3 (0.45%) SAN
12 3 (0.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (10.85%) Azure SQL Database
2 62 (9.21%) Power BI
3 49 (7.28%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (7.13%) SQL Server
5 43 (6.39%) Data Lake
6 22 (3.27%) MongoDB
7 20 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 17 (2.53%) NoSQL
10 14 (2.08%) MySQL
11 13 (1.93%) Delta Lake
11 13 (1.93%) MariaDB
11 13 (1.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 11 (1.63%) Relational Database
13 10 (1.49%) Redis
14 9 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 8 (1.19%) Big Data
15 8 (1.19%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 7 (1.04%) DB2
16 7 (1.04%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 57 (8.47%) Git
2 38 (5.65%) Octopus Deploy
3 25 (3.71%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.67%) JIRA
5 9 (1.34%) GitLab
6 8 (1.19%) Selenium
7 7 (1.04%) Artifactory
8 6 (0.89%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.45%) Chocolatey
10 3 (0.45%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.30%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.30%) git-flow
11 2 (0.30%) Maven
11 2 (0.30%) MLflow
11 2 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.15%) Travis CI
General
1 161 (23.92%) Finance
2 110 (16.34%) Social Skills
3 49 (7.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 46 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (6.09%) Law
6 24 (3.57%) Banking
7 23 (3.42%) Public Sector
8 18 (2.67%) Telecoms
9 16 (2.38%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.78%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.49%) Health Technology
12 5 (0.74%) Retail
13 4 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.59%) Marketing
13 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.59%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.45%) Legal
14 3 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.30%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (9.96%) .NET
2 42 (6.24%) ARM Templates
3 36 (5.35%) PySpark
4 23 (3.42%) Loki
5 22 (3.27%) Elastic Stack
6 21 (3.12%) YAML
7 16 (2.38%) React
8 15 (2.23%) RESTful
9 14 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
9 14 (2.08%) SAML
10 13 (1.93%) ASP.NET
11 10 (1.49%) CSS
11 10 (1.49%) HTML
11 10 (1.49%) REST
12 9 (1.34%) .NET Core
12 9 (1.34%) Web Services
13 7 (1.04%) ASP.NET Core
13 7 (1.04%) Backbone.js
13 7 (1.04%) jQuery
13 7 (1.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 37 (5.50%) Cloud Native
2 24 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
3 18 (2.67%) Public Cloud
4 13 (1.93%) Data Centre
5 12 (1.78%) Algorithms
5 12 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
6 11 (1.63%) Management Information System
6 11 (1.63%) Private Cloud
6 11 (1.63%) Product Ownership
7 10 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (1.19%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.04%) Blockchain
9 7 (1.04%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.04%) e-Learning
10 6 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.89%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.74%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 120 (17.83%) Windows
2 68 (10.10%) Linux
3 44 (6.54%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.93%) Unix
5 11 (1.63%) Android
5 11 (1.63%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.63%) VMS
6 7 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.89%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.89%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.59%) Debian
9 4 (0.59%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.15%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (39.97%) DevOps
2 200 (29.72%) CI/CD
3 148 (21.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 119 (17.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 111 (16.49%) Agile
6 83 (12.33%) Platform Engineering
7 82 (12.18%) Analytics
7 82 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
8 73 (10.85%) Business Intelligence
9 63 (9.36%) ITIL
10 60 (8.92%) Software Engineering
11 59 (8.77%) Containerisation
12 58 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 56 (8.32%) Mentoring
14 53 (7.88%) Data Engineering
15 52 (7.73%) ETL
16 50 (7.43%) Cloud Security
17 39 (5.79%) Disaster Recovery
17 39 (5.79%) Migration
17 39 (5.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 185 (27.49%) SQL
2 180 (26.75%) PowerShell
3 136 (20.21%) Python
4 82 (12.18%) Bash
5 67 (9.96%) C#
6 51 (7.58%) Bicep
7 26 (3.86%) T-SQL
8 21 (3.12%) JavaScript
9 18 (2.67%) Java
10 13 (1.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 13 (1.93%) Go
11 12 (1.78%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (0.89%) Scala
12 6 (0.89%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.59%) C
14 3 (0.45%) R
14 3 (0.45%) Ruby
15 2 (0.30%) C++
15 2 (0.30%) U-SQL
16 1 (0.15%) CodeQL
Qualifications
1 100 (14.86%) Azure Certification
2 60 (8.92%) Degree
3 28 (4.16%) Security Cleared
4 25 (3.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 24 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.67%) SC Cleared
7 14 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (1.49%) CISSP
9 8 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 8 (1.19%) CCSP
10 7 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (0.74%) CCNP
12 4 (0.59%) CCNA
12 4 (0.59%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.45%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.30%) CEH
14 2 (0.30%) MCSA
14 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.71%) Data Quality
2 20 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.08%) GDPR
4 13 (1.93%) SOC 2
5 12 (1.78%) NCSC
6 11 (1.63%) NIST
7 9 (1.34%) HIPAA
8 7 (1.04%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.89%) QA
9 6 (0.89%) Solvency II
10 5 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.45%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.30%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.15%) COBIT
13 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 120 (17.83%) Active Directory
2 81 (12.04%) Docker
3 49 (7.28%) Virtual Machines
4 36 (5.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 22 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 13 (1.93%) Hyper-V
7 11 (1.63%) XenApp
7 11 (1.63%) XenDesktop
8 6 (0.89%) Firmware
8 6 (0.89%) vSphere
9 4 (0.59%) NFS
9 4 (0.59%) pfSense
9 4 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 204 (30.31%) Terraform
2 118 (17.53%) Kubernetes
3 75 (11.14%) Ansible
4 47 (6.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (3.71%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.97%) Grafana
7 17 (2.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 13 (1.93%) SCCM
9 11 (1.63%) Progress Chef
10 9 (1.34%) Puppet
11 8 (1.19%) Packer
12 6 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.59%) CASB
13 4 (0.59%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.59%) McAfee ePO
14 3 (0.45%) SCOM
15 1 (0.15%) Autotask
15 1 (0.15%) Podman
15 1 (0.15%) Rancher
15 1 (0.15%) yum
Vendors
1 270 (40.12%) Microsoft
2 93 (13.82%) Databricks
3 46 (6.84%) VMware
4 36 (5.35%) Citrix
5 18 (2.67%) Cisco
6 13 (1.93%) BMC
6 13 (1.93%) Remedy
7 11 (1.63%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.34%) Meraki
9 8 (1.19%) Palo Alto
9 8 (1.19%) Splunk
10 7 (1.04%) IBM
10 7 (1.04%) Veracode
11 6 (0.89%) CyberArk
11 6 (0.89%) Oracle
12 5 (0.74%) Aruba
13 4 (0.59%) CheckPoint
13 4 (0.59%) NetApp
13 4 (0.59%) QNAP
13 4 (0.59%) Synology