Microsoft Azure Engineer
UK

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 331 390
Rank change year-on-year -12 +59 -170
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 815 1,073 1,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 1.04% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 1.13% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 578 891 1,176
10th Percentile £41,950 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,500 £63,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.25% +17.65%

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 93,212 94,769 150,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,814 59,630 85,382
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in the UK

Azure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Azure Engineer in the UK

Azure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Engineer in the UK

Azure Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 -13 713 £65,000 -7.14% 127
UK excluding London +1 492 £59,500 -6.67% 71
Work from Home -70 288 £65,000 -6.40% 83
London -19 254 £72,000 -7.10% 61
North of England +26 159 £60,000 -10.31% 18
Midlands +73 141 £55,000 - 13
North West +75 117 £55,000 -15.38% 12
East Midlands +67 94 £53,500 -0.47% 5
South East -36 93 £60,000 -11.11% 18
West Midlands -5 47 £55,000 - 8
Scotland -50 38 £65,000 +8.33% 2
Yorkshire +13 34 £70,288 +1.21% 5
South West -35 30 £63,750 +4.08% 12
East of England +22 21 £60,000 +9.09% 4
North East -4 10 £75,000 +36.36% 1
Wales +11 9 £50,685 +12.63% 5
Northern Ireland +20 3 - -

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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 featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 815 (100.00%) Azure
2 328 (40.25%) DevOps
3 299 (36.69%) SQL
4 274 (33.62%) Microsoft
5 270 (33.13%) Agile
6 255 (31.29%) Windows
7 237 (29.08%) Terraform
8 217 (26.63%) CI/CD
9 211 (25.89%) Azure DevOps
10 192 (23.56%) Linux
11 189 (23.19%) Kubernetes
12 184 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
13 182 (22.33%) PowerShell
14 176 (21.60%) Python
15 167 (20.49%) C#
16 164 (20.12%) .NET
17 157 (19.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 153 (18.77%) Mentoring
19 146 (17.91%) Finance
20 142 (17.42%) Artificial Intelligence
21 136 (16.69%) JavaScript
22 131 (16.07%) PostgreSQL
22 131 (16.07%) Hybrid Cloud
23 130 (15.95%) Public Sector
24 129 (15.83%) Social Skills
25 126 (15.46%) Design Patterns
25 126 (15.46%) Microsoft 365
26 125 (15.34%) React
27 124 (15.21%) MongoDB
28 120 (14.72%) Coaching

Azure 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 39 (4.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (4.05%) SharePoint
3 21 (2.58%) IIS
4 7 (0.86%) WordPress
5 6 (0.74%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.74%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.49%) CMS
6 4 (0.49%) NServiceBus
6 4 (0.49%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.37%) Confluence
8 2 (0.25%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) Apache
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 22 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 815 (100.00%) Azure
2 211 (25.89%) Azure DevOps
3 126 (15.46%) Microsoft 365
4 111 (13.62%) IBM Cloud
5 94 (11.53%) PaaS
6 91 (11.17%) Entra ID
7 79 (9.69%) Power Platform
8 77 (9.45%) SaaS
9 76 (9.33%) Azure Data Factory
10 74 (9.08%) IaaS
11 72 (8.83%) AWS
12 57 (6.99%) Azure AKS
12 57 (6.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 44 (5.40%) GitHub
14 38 (4.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 35 (4.29%) GCP
16 28 (3.44%) Azure Monitor
16 28 (3.44%) Serverless
17 24 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
18 21 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 95 (11.66%) Firewall
2 64 (7.85%) DNS
3 47 (5.77%) VPN
4 40 (4.91%) Network Security
5 29 (3.56%) WAN
6 21 (2.58%) LAN
7 20 (2.45%) TCP/IP
8 19 (2.33%) DHCP
9 13 (1.60%) SAN
10 12 (1.47%) Wireless
11 9 (1.10%) NAS
11 9 (1.10%) VLAN
11 9 (1.10%) VoIP
12 8 (0.98%) iSCSI
12 8 (0.98%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.98%) Unified Communications
13 7 (0.86%) Fibre Channel
13 7 (0.86%) IPv4
13 7 (0.86%) WLAN
14 6 (0.74%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (16.07%) PostgreSQL
2 124 (15.21%) MongoDB
3 118 (14.48%) NoSQL
4 110 (13.50%) DB2
5 78 (9.57%) SQL Server
6 74 (9.08%) Data Warehouse
7 70 (8.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 70 (8.59%) Data Lake
7 70 (8.59%) Power BI
8 21 (2.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 18 (2.21%) Big Data
10 15 (1.84%) MySQL
10 15 (1.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 14 (1.72%) Metadata
11 14 (1.72%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 14 (1.72%) Relational Database
12 13 (1.60%) Delta Lake
12 13 (1.60%) InfluxDB
13 12 (1.47%) Redis
14 9 (1.10%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 55 (6.75%) Git
2 46 (5.64%) Jenkins
3 27 (3.31%) GitLab
4 13 (1.60%) TeamCity
5 12 (1.47%) SonarQube
6 10 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
7 9 (1.10%) MLflow
8 8 (0.98%) JIRA
8 8 (0.98%) MSBuild
8 8 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
9 6 (0.74%) Katalon Studio
10 4 (0.49%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.49%) git-flow
10 4 (0.49%) Subversion
10 4 (0.49%) Visual Studio Team System
11 2 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.25%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.25%) Maven
12 1 (0.12%) Vagrant
General
1 157 (19.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 146 (17.91%) Finance
3 130 (15.95%) Public Sector
4 129 (15.83%) Social Skills
5 38 (4.66%) Law
6 36 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (3.19%) Marketing
8 24 (2.94%) Legal
9 21 (2.58%) Retail
10 18 (2.21%) Telecoms
11 15 (1.84%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.72%) Banking
12 14 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (1.60%) Electronics
14 11 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.10%) Games
15 9 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
18 4 (0.49%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (20.12%) .NET
2 125 (15.34%) React
3 117 (14.36%) AngularJS
3 117 (14.36%) ASP.NET
4 115 (14.11%) REST
5 114 (13.99%) Web Services
6 113 (13.87%) ASP.NET Core
7 112 (13.74%) CSS
7 112 (13.74%) HTML
8 110 (13.50%) Backbone.js
8 110 (13.50%) Ember.js
8 110 (13.50%) jQuery
8 110 (13.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 110 (13.50%) Vue
9 36 (4.42%) PySpark
10 30 (3.68%) JSON
11 28 (3.44%) YAML
12 25 (3.07%) ARM Templates
13 21 (2.58%) .NET Core
14 15 (1.84%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 131 (16.07%) Hybrid Cloud
2 119 (14.60%) Algorithms
2 119 (14.60%) Data Structures
3 111 (13.62%) Blockchain
4 110 (13.50%) e-Learning
5 44 (5.40%) Public Cloud
6 36 (4.42%) Linux Command Line
7 32 (3.93%) Cloud Native
8 19 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
9 17 (2.09%) Data Centre
9 17 (2.09%) Product Ownership
10 15 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.72%) Private Cloud
12 11 (1.35%) Security Posture
13 9 (1.10%) Client/Server
13 9 (1.10%) NHS
13 9 (1.10%) PKI
13 9 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 255 (31.29%) Windows
2 192 (23.56%) Linux
3 113 (13.87%) Apple iOS
4 112 (13.74%) Android
5 87 (10.67%) Windows Server
6 25 (3.07%) VMS
7 17 (2.09%) Windows 10
8 13 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 9 (1.10%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.49%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.25%) CentOS
14 2 (0.25%) Unix
14 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (40.25%) DevOps
2 270 (33.13%) Agile
3 217 (26.63%) CI/CD
4 184 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 153 (18.77%) Mentoring
6 142 (17.42%) Artificial Intelligence
7 126 (15.46%) Design Patterns
8 120 (14.72%) Coaching
8 120 (14.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 117 (14.36%) OOP
10 116 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
11 115 (14.11%) Full Stack Development
11 115 (14.11%) OO
12 113 (13.87%) SOLID
13 112 (13.74%) MVC
14 111 (13.62%) Code Quality
14 111 (13.62%) Design Thinking
15 110 (13.50%) Co-Creation
15 110 (13.50%) User Experience
15 110 (13.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 299 (36.69%) SQL
2 182 (22.33%) PowerShell
3 176 (21.60%) Python
4 167 (20.49%) C#
5 136 (16.69%) JavaScript
6 61 (7.48%) Java
7 60 (7.36%) Bash
8 29 (3.56%) Bicep
9 23 (2.82%) T-SQL
10 21 (2.58%) Go
11 20 (2.45%) Ruby
12 12 (1.47%) Perl
13 9 (1.10%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.86%) Groovy
14 7 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (0.86%) PHP
14 7 (0.86%) U-SQL
15 4 (0.49%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 83 (10.18%) Azure Certification
2 46 (5.64%) Degree
3 33 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (2.58%) Security Cleared
5 12 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.35%) SC Cleared
7 7 (0.86%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.49%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.25%) CISSP
10 2 (0.25%) MCSE
10 2 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.12%) CEH
11 1 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.05%) Data Quality
2 14 (1.72%) QA
3 10 (1.23%) SLA
4 8 (0.98%) GDPR
5 6 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.37%) NIST
8 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 116 (14.23%) Docker
2 107 (13.13%) Active Directory
3 29 (3.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (2.09%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.86%) vSphere
8 5 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.25%) NFS
9 2 (0.25%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.25%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 237 (29.08%) Terraform
2 189 (23.19%) Kubernetes
3 69 (8.47%) Ansible
4 37 (4.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (4.29%) Grafana
5 35 (4.29%) Prometheus
5 35 (4.29%) Puppet
6 27 (3.31%) Progress Chef
7 18 (2.21%) SCCM
8 12 (1.47%) Salt
9 11 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (0.74%) Istio
12 5 (0.61%) Pingdom
12 5 (0.61%) WSUS
13 4 (0.49%) CASB
14 3 (0.37%) Packer
15 2 (0.25%) Nessus
15 2 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 274 (33.62%) Microsoft
2 111 (13.62%) IBM
3 110 (13.50%) Red Hat
4 73 (8.96%) Databricks
5 45 (5.52%) VMware
6 24 (2.94%) Cisco
7 23 (2.82%) SolarWinds
8 19 (2.33%) SAP
9 17 (2.09%) Meraki
10 14 (1.72%) Veeam
11 13 (1.60%) Palo Alto
11 13 (1.60%) Zscaler
12 11 (1.35%) New Relic
13 9 (1.10%) Citrix
13 9 (1.10%) Oracle
13 9 (1.10%) Remedy
14 7 (0.86%) ProCurve
14 7 (0.86%) SaltStack
14 7 (0.86%) Synology
14 7 (0.86%) Zerto