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 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 330 407
Rank change year-on-year -25 +77 -185
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 799 1,040 1,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.80% 1.05% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 1.15% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 572 875 1,162
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,500 £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 £92,500 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.46% +8.33% +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 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
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 £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 18 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 18 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 -17 698 £65,000 -7.14% 156
UK excluding London -24 471 £59,500 -8.46% 88
Work from Home -79 287 £65,000 -5.11% 100
London -8 262 £70,000 -9.68% 81
North of England +40 150 £59,500 -8.95% 17
Midlands +51 139 £55,000 +1.85% 18
North West +65 111 £55,000 -18.40% 13
East Midlands +67 91 £54,250 +3.33% 7
South East -51 87 £60,000 -11.11% 32
West Midlands -1 48 £57,500 +6.48% 11
Scotland -51 36 £65,000 +8.33% 3
Yorkshire +8 31 £67,500 +3.29% 3
South West -39 27 £60,000 -7.69% 12
East of England +3 20 £61,250 +11.36% 2
Wales +5 11 £50,685 +12.63% 5
North East -7 10 £75,000 +31.58% 1
Northern Ireland +14 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 799 (100.00%) Azure
2 314 (39.30%) DevOps
3 306 (38.30%) SQL
4 277 (34.67%) Microsoft
5 267 (33.42%) Agile
6 233 (29.16%) Windows
7 231 (28.91%) Terraform
8 202 (25.28%) CI/CD
9 194 (24.28%) Azure DevOps
10 182 (22.78%) Python
11 177 (22.15%) Linux
12 175 (21.90%) Kubernetes
13 167 (20.90%) PowerShell
14 166 (20.78%) C#
14 166 (20.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 163 (20.40%) Infrastructure as Code
16 161 (20.15%) .NET
17 152 (19.02%) Mentoring
18 145 (18.15%) Finance
19 142 (17.77%) Artificial Intelligence
20 135 (16.90%) JavaScript
21 134 (16.77%) PostgreSQL
22 130 (16.27%) Design Patterns
23 128 (16.02%) Public Sector
24 127 (15.89%) MongoDB
25 125 (15.64%) Hybrid Cloud
26 123 (15.39%) React
26 123 (15.39%) Social Skills
27 121 (15.14%) Algorithms
28 120 (15.02%) 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 32 (4.01%) Microsoft Exchange
1 32 (4.01%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.63%) IIS
3 7 (0.88%) WordPress
4 6 (0.75%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.75%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.50%) CMS
5 4 (0.50%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.38%) Confluence
7 2 (0.25%) Apache
7 2 (0.25%) SAS
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.13%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 24 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 799 (100.00%) Azure
2 194 (24.28%) Azure DevOps
3 119 (14.89%) Microsoft 365
4 111 (13.89%) IBM Cloud
5 95 (11.89%) PaaS
6 93 (11.64%) Entra ID
7 83 (10.39%) Power Platform
8 76 (9.51%) Azure Data Factory
9 71 (8.89%) SaaS
10 70 (8.76%) AWS
11 69 (8.64%) IaaS
12 67 (8.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 61 (7.63%) Azure AKS
14 49 (6.13%) GitHub
15 40 (5.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 35 (4.38%) GCP
17 31 (3.88%) Serverless
18 28 (3.50%) Azure Monitor
19 23 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
20 21 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 93 (11.64%) Firewall
2 63 (7.88%) DNS
3 45 (5.63%) VPN
4 41 (5.13%) Network Security
5 27 (3.38%) WAN
6 20 (2.50%) TCP/IP
7 18 (2.25%) LAN
8 17 (2.13%) DHCP
9 12 (1.50%) SAN
9 12 (1.50%) Wireless
10 9 (1.13%) SD-WAN
10 9 (1.13%) VLAN
11 8 (1.00%) NAS
11 8 (1.00%) Unified Communications
11 8 (1.00%) VoIP
12 7 (0.88%) Fibre Channel
12 7 (0.88%) IPv4
12 7 (0.88%) iSCSI
12 7 (0.88%) WLAN
13 6 (0.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (16.77%) PostgreSQL
2 127 (15.89%) MongoDB
3 119 (14.89%) NoSQL
4 110 (13.77%) DB2
5 78 (9.76%) Data Lake
6 76 (9.51%) Azure SQL Database
7 75 (9.39%) Data Warehouse
8 74 (9.26%) Power BI
8 74 (9.26%) SQL Server
9 23 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 20 (2.50%) Big Data
11 18 (2.25%) MySQL
12 17 (2.13%) Metadata
12 17 (2.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 16 (2.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 16 (2.00%) Redis
14 15 (1.88%) Delta Lake
14 15 (1.88%) Relational Database
15 12 (1.50%) MariaDB
16 8 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 51 (6.38%) Git
2 31 (3.88%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.13%) GitLab
4 14 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
5 13 (1.63%) TeamCity
6 10 (1.25%) MLflow
6 10 (1.25%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (1.00%) JIRA
7 8 (1.00%) MSBuild
8 7 (0.88%) Katalon Studio
9 4 (0.50%) git-flow
9 4 (0.50%) Subversion
9 4 (0.50%) Visual Studio Team System
10 3 (0.38%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.25%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.25%) Maven
12 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.13%) Vagrant
General
1 166 (20.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 145 (18.15%) Finance
3 128 (16.02%) Public Sector
4 123 (15.39%) Social Skills
5 36 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (4.38%) Law
7 24 (3.00%) Marketing
8 20 (2.50%) Legal
9 18 (2.25%) Retail
10 16 (2.00%) Telecoms
11 15 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.63%) Manufacturing
13 12 (1.50%) Banking
14 11 (1.38%) Electronics
15 10 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (1.13%) Games
17 8 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
18 6 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
19 4 (0.50%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (20.15%) .NET
2 123 (15.39%) React
3 117 (14.64%) ASP.NET
4 116 (14.52%) AngularJS
5 115 (14.39%) REST
6 113 (14.14%) ASP.NET Core
7 112 (14.02%) CSS
7 112 (14.02%) HTML
8 111 (13.89%) Web Services
9 110 (13.77%) Backbone.js
9 110 (13.77%) Ember.js
9 110 (13.77%) jQuery
9 110 (13.77%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 110 (13.77%) Vue
10 46 (5.76%) PySpark
11 28 (3.50%) YAML
12 25 (3.13%) ARM Templates
13 24 (3.00%) JSON
14 17 (2.13%) .NET Core
15 10 (1.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 125 (15.64%) Hybrid Cloud
2 121 (15.14%) Algorithms
3 119 (14.89%) Data Structures
4 111 (13.89%) Blockchain
5 110 (13.77%) e-Learning
6 33 (4.13%) Cloud Native
6 33 (4.13%) Linux Command Line
6 33 (4.13%) Public Cloud
7 18 (2.25%) Product Ownership
8 17 (2.13%) Data Centre
8 17 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (2.13%) Private Cloud
9 12 (1.50%) Security Posture
10 9 (1.13%) Client/Server
10 9 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.13%) NHS
10 9 (1.13%) PKI
10 9 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 233 (29.16%) Windows
2 177 (22.15%) Linux
3 112 (14.02%) Android
3 112 (14.02%) Apple iOS
4 77 (9.64%) Windows Server
5 25 (3.13%) VMS
6 16 (2.00%) Windows 10
7 13 (1.63%) Windows Server 2016
8 10 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (1.13%) Ubuntu
10 8 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.50%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.25%) CentOS
12 2 (0.25%) Unix
12 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (39.30%) DevOps
2 267 (33.42%) Agile
3 202 (25.28%) CI/CD
4 163 (20.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 152 (19.02%) Mentoring
6 142 (17.77%) Artificial Intelligence
7 130 (16.27%) Design Patterns
8 120 (15.02%) Coaching
9 117 (14.64%) OOP
10 116 (14.52%) Full Stack Development
11 115 (14.39%) OO
12 113 (14.14%) MVC
13 112 (14.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 111 (13.89%) Code Quality
14 111 (13.89%) Design Thinking
14 111 (13.89%) SOLID
15 110 (13.77%) MVVM
15 110 (13.77%) Responsive Web Design
15 110 (13.77%) User Experience
15 110 (13.77%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 306 (38.30%) SQL
2 182 (22.78%) Python
3 167 (20.90%) PowerShell
4 166 (20.78%) C#
5 135 (16.90%) JavaScript
6 58 (7.26%) Java
7 56 (7.01%) Bash
8 26 (3.25%) Bicep
9 23 (2.88%) T-SQL
10 21 (2.63%) Go
11 19 (2.38%) Ruby
12 10 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (1.13%) Perl
13 9 (1.13%) TypeScript
13 9 (1.13%) U-SQL
14 7 (0.88%) Groovy
14 7 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (0.88%) PHP
15 4 (0.50%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 81 (10.14%) Azure Certification
2 44 (5.51%) Degree
3 36 (4.51%) Microsoft Certification
4 20 (2.50%) Security Cleared
5 11 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.38%) SC Cleared
6 7 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (0.50%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.25%) CISSP
9 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.25%) MCSE
9 2 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.13%) CCNA
10 1 (0.13%) CEH
10 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.26%) Data Quality
2 12 (1.50%) QA
3 9 (1.13%) GDPR
3 9 (1.13%) SLA
4 6 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.38%) NIST
6 1 (0.13%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.13%) NCSC
6 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 108 (13.52%) Active Directory
2 103 (12.89%) Docker
3 23 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.00%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.88%) vSphere
6 4 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.50%) XenDesktop
7 3 (0.38%) XenApp
8 2 (0.25%) NFS
8 2 (0.25%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 231 (28.91%) Terraform
2 175 (21.90%) Kubernetes
3 61 (7.63%) Ansible
4 39 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (4.01%) Puppet
6 25 (3.13%) Progress Chef
7 23 (2.88%) Grafana
7 23 (2.88%) Prometheus
8 18 (2.25%) SCCM
9 11 (1.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 11 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (1.13%) Salt
11 6 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.63%) Pingdom
13 4 (0.50%) CASB
13 4 (0.50%) Istio
14 3 (0.38%) Packer
14 3 (0.38%) WSUS
15 2 (0.25%) Nessus
15 2 (0.25%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 277 (34.67%) Microsoft
2 111 (13.89%) IBM
3 110 (13.77%) Red Hat
4 87 (10.89%) Databricks
5 37 (4.63%) VMware
6 24 (3.00%) Cisco
7 21 (2.63%) SolarWinds
8 16 (2.00%) Meraki
9 15 (1.88%) SAP
10 14 (1.75%) Zscaler
11 13 (1.63%) Palo Alto
11 13 (1.63%) Veeam
12 11 (1.38%) New Relic
13 10 (1.25%) Remedy
14 9 (1.13%) Citrix
14 9 (1.13%) Oracle
15 7 (0.88%) Aruba
15 7 (0.88%) ProCurve
15 7 (0.88%) SaltStack
15 7 (0.88%) Synology