Azure Engineer Jobs

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 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 320 423
Rank change year-on-year -21 +103 -182
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 857 1,025 1,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.79% 1.10% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 1.21% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 623 852 1,143
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,525 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,750 £53,633 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,645 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +5.61% +8.33%
75th Percentile £78,250 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,789 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.09% +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 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -20 765 £65,000 -7.14% 138
UK excluding London -30 516 £57,789 -11.09% 87
Work from Home -50 323 £65,500 +0.23% 80
London -21 277 £74,137 -4.34% 57
North of England +2 174 £58,500 -10.00% 15
Midlands +36 151 £55,000 +4.76% 18
North West +55 126 £55,000 -15.84% 12
South East -46 101 £60,000 -11.11% 31
East Midlands +38 94 £55,000 +10.00% 7
West Midlands -11 57 £57,500 +9.52% 11
Yorkshire -15 36 £70,000 +7.69% 2
South West -38 29 £60,000 -8.19% 12
Scotland -59 28 £65,000 +8.33% 6
East of England -15 21 £62,500 +13.64% 1
North East -20 14 £65,000 +9.24% 1
Wales +11 11 £50,685 +12.63% 3
Northern Ireland +13 2 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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.

1 857 (100.00%) Azure
2 326 (38.04%) DevOps
3 305 (35.59%) SQL
4 292 (34.07%) Microsoft
5 259 (30.22%) Agile
6 242 (28.24%) Windows
7 235 (27.42%) Terraform
8 216 (25.20%) CI/CD
9 205 (23.92%) Azure DevOps
10 181 (21.12%) Python
11 177 (20.65%) Kubernetes
11 177 (20.65%) PowerShell
12 175 (20.42%) Linux
13 170 (19.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 165 (19.25%) C#
15 159 (18.55%) .NET
16 157 (18.32%) Mentoring
17 154 (17.97%) Infrastructure as Code
18 148 (17.27%) Finance
19 139 (16.22%) Artificial Intelligence
20 135 (15.75%) PostgreSQL
20 135 (15.75%) JavaScript
21 128 (14.94%) MongoDB
21 128 (14.94%) Design Patterns
22 126 (14.70%) Public Sector
23 124 (14.47%) Microsoft 365
24 123 (14.35%) OOP
24 123 (14.35%) Social Skills
25 122 (14.24%) NoSQL
25 122 (14.24%) Algorithms

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 (3.73%) Microsoft Exchange
1 32 (3.73%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.45%) IIS
3 7 (0.82%) Apache Spark
3 7 (0.82%) WordPress
4 6 (0.70%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.47%) CMS
5 4 (0.47%) Confluence
5 4 (0.47%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.35%) Apache
7 2 (0.23%) SAS
8 1 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 24 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (1.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 857 (100.00%) Azure
2 205 (23.92%) Azure DevOps
3 124 (14.47%) Microsoft 365
4 110 (12.84%) IBM Cloud
5 103 (12.02%) Entra ID
6 90 (10.50%) PaaS
7 87 (10.15%) Power Platform
8 80 (9.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 80 (9.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 74 (8.63%) SaaS
10 66 (7.70%) Azure AKS
11 63 (7.35%) IaaS
12 55 (6.42%) AWS
13 50 (5.83%) GitHub
14 41 (4.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 37 (4.32%) Azure Monitor
16 31 (3.62%) Serverless
17 25 (2.92%) Azure Storage
18 23 (2.68%) GCP
19 21 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 98 (11.44%) Firewall
2 62 (7.23%) DNS
3 44 (5.13%) Network Security
4 41 (4.78%) VPN
5 34 (3.97%) WAN
6 19 (2.22%) LAN
7 18 (2.10%) TCP/IP
8 15 (1.75%) SD-WAN
9 14 (1.63%) DHCP
10 12 (1.40%) Wireless
11 11 (1.28%) BGP
11 11 (1.28%) Unified Communications
12 10 (1.17%) OSPF
13 9 (1.05%) iSCSI
14 8 (0.93%) VoIP
15 7 (0.82%) Fibre Channel
15 7 (0.82%) NAS
15 7 (0.82%) SAN
15 7 (0.82%) WLAN
16 6 (0.70%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (15.75%) PostgreSQL
2 128 (14.94%) MongoDB
3 122 (14.24%) NoSQL
4 110 (12.84%) DB2
5 80 (9.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 80 (9.33%) Data Lake
6 78 (9.10%) Power BI
7 77 (8.98%) Data Warehouse
8 74 (8.63%) SQL Server
9 26 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 21 (2.45%) Big Data
11 20 (2.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 19 (2.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 19 (2.22%) MySQL
12 19 (2.22%) Relational Database
13 16 (1.87%) Redis
14 15 (1.75%) Metadata
15 14 (1.63%) MariaDB
16 11 (1.28%) Delta Lake
17 8 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 56 (6.53%) Git
2 34 (3.97%) Jenkins
3 19 (2.22%) GitLab
4 14 (1.63%) Octopus Deploy
5 13 (1.52%) TeamCity
6 12 (1.40%) MLflow
7 10 (1.17%) Team Foundation Server
8 8 (0.93%) JIRA
8 8 (0.93%) MSBuild
9 7 (0.82%) Katalon Studio
10 4 (0.47%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.47%) git-flow
10 4 (0.47%) Subversion
10 4 (0.47%) Visual Studio Team System
11 2 (0.23%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.23%) Maven
12 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.12%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 170 (19.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 148 (17.27%) Finance
3 126 (14.70%) Public Sector
4 123 (14.35%) Social Skills
5 33 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (3.38%) Law
7 18 (2.10%) Legal
7 18 (2.10%) Retail
8 15 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (1.63%) Marketing
10 12 (1.40%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.17%) Health Technology
11 10 (1.17%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.05%) Banking
12 9 (1.05%) Games
12 9 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.82%) Electronics
15 6 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (18.55%) .NET
2 122 (14.24%) React
3 115 (13.42%) AngularJS
3 115 (13.42%) ASP.NET
3 115 (13.42%) REST
4 113 (13.19%) ASP.NET Core
5 112 (13.07%) CSS
5 112 (13.07%) HTML
6 110 (12.84%) Backbone.js
6 110 (12.84%) Ember.js
6 110 (12.84%) jQuery
6 110 (12.84%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 110 (12.84%) Vue
6 110 (12.84%) Web Services
7 52 (6.07%) PySpark
8 32 (3.73%) ARM Templates
9 30 (3.50%) YAML
10 21 (2.45%) JSON
11 15 (1.75%) .NET Core
12 8 (0.93%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 122 (14.24%) Algorithms
2 119 (13.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 118 (13.77%) Data Structures
4 111 (12.95%) Blockchain
5 110 (12.84%) e-Learning
6 40 (4.67%) Cloud Native
7 35 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
8 23 (2.68%) Public Cloud
9 21 (2.45%) Product Ownership
10 17 (1.98%) Data Centre
11 16 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
12 15 (1.75%) Private Cloud
13 12 (1.40%) Security Posture
14 11 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
15 10 (1.17%) NHS
16 9 (1.05%) Client/Server
16 9 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
16 9 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
17 8 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 242 (28.24%) Windows
2 175 (20.42%) Linux
3 112 (13.07%) Android
3 112 (13.07%) Apple iOS
4 78 (9.10%) Windows Server
5 26 (3.03%) VMS
6 13 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (1.40%) Windows 10
8 10 (1.17%) Ubuntu
8 10 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.47%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.23%) Debian
12 1 (0.12%) CentOS
12 1 (0.12%) Unix
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (38.04%) DevOps
2 259 (30.22%) Agile
3 216 (25.20%) CI/CD
4 157 (18.32%) Mentoring
5 154 (17.97%) Infrastructure as Code
6 139 (16.22%) Artificial Intelligence
7 128 (14.94%) Design Patterns
8 123 (14.35%) OOP
9 121 (14.12%) OO
10 119 (13.89%) Coaching
10 119 (13.89%) Full Stack Development
11 115 (13.42%) Analytics
11 115 (13.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 114 (13.30%) MVC
13 111 (12.95%) Code Quality
13 111 (12.95%) Design Thinking
13 111 (12.95%) User Experience
14 110 (12.84%) Co-Creation
14 110 (12.84%) Responsive Web Design
14 110 (12.84%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 305 (35.59%) SQL
2 181 (21.12%) Python
3 177 (20.65%) PowerShell
4 165 (19.25%) C#
5 135 (15.75%) JavaScript
6 58 (6.77%) Bash
7 47 (5.48%) Java
8 31 (3.62%) Bicep
9 26 (3.03%) T-SQL
10 19 (2.22%) Go
11 17 (1.98%) Ruby
12 11 (1.28%) TypeScript
13 10 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (1.05%) U-SQL
15 7 (0.82%) Groovy
15 7 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (0.82%) PHP
16 4 (0.47%) Perl
17 2 (0.23%) Shell Script
18 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 84 (9.80%) Azure Certification
2 45 (5.25%) Degree
3 37 (4.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 25 (2.92%) Security Cleared
5 12 (1.40%) SC Cleared
6 8 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (0.82%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.47%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.23%) CISSP
10 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.12%) CCNA
11 1 (0.12%) CEH
11 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.12%) MCSE
11 1 (0.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (3.97%) Data Quality
2 12 (1.40%) GDPR
2 12 (1.40%) QA
3 9 (1.05%) SLA
4 7 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.47%) NIST
6 3 (0.35%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.23%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.12%) NCSC
8 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 118 (13.77%) Active Directory
2 97 (11.32%) Docker
3 28 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (2.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.75%) Hyper-V
6 12 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (1.05%) vSphere
8 8 (0.93%) XenDesktop
9 7 (0.82%) XenApp
10 3 (0.35%) NFS
10 3 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.23%) Firmware
11 2 (0.23%) pfSense
11 2 (0.23%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 235 (27.42%) Terraform
2 177 (20.65%) Kubernetes
3 68 (7.93%) Ansible
4 39 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (3.38%) Puppet
6 23 (2.68%) Progress Chef
7 21 (2.45%) Prometheus
8 19 (2.22%) Grafana
9 17 (1.98%) SCCM
10 10 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.70%) CASB
12 6 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.58%) Pingdom
13 5 (0.58%) Salt
14 4 (0.47%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.35%) Packer
16 2 (0.23%) Istio
16 2 (0.23%) Kibana
16 2 (0.23%) logstash
Vendors
1 292 (34.07%) Microsoft
2 110 (12.84%) IBM
2 110 (12.84%) Red Hat
3 94 (10.97%) Databricks
4 35 (4.08%) VMware
5 31 (3.62%) Cisco
6 20 (2.33%) Meraki
7 19 (2.22%) SolarWinds
8 14 (1.63%) Remedy
8 14 (1.63%) Zscaler
9 13 (1.52%) Citrix
9 13 (1.52%) Palo Alto
9 13 (1.52%) Veeam
10 11 (1.28%) New Relic
10 11 (1.28%) SAP
11 10 (1.17%) BMC
12 9 (1.05%) Aruba
12 9 (1.05%) Oracle
12 9 (1.05%) Synology
13 7 (0.82%) ProCurve