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 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 330 403
Rank change year-on-year -9 +73 -177
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 819 1,057 1,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 1.04% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 1.14% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 580 882 1,173
10th Percentile £42,150 £46,250 £44,000
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 £90,125 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £63,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +14.29%

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 93,864 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,182 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
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 £96,250
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 8 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 8 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 -12 715 £65,000 -7.14% 136
UK excluding London -2 491 £60,000 -5.88% 77
Work from Home -79 291 £65,000 -6.40% 90
London -14 258 £72,500 -6.45% 68
North of England +27 158 £60,000 -13.19% 17
Midlands +65 141 £55,000 - 15
North West +69 115 £57,500 -14.46% 12
East Midlands +68 93 £53,500 -0.47% 5
South East -34 93 £60,000 -11.11% 21
West Midlands -3 48 £57,500 +4.55% 10
Scotland -44 38 £65,000 +8.33% 2
Yorkshire +7 35 £70,576 +1.62% 5
South West -37 30 £61,250 +2.08% 12
East of England +11 20 £61,250 +11.36% 4
Wales +8 10 £50,685 +12.63% 6
North East -3 10 £75,000 +36.36%
Northern Ireland +20 3 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 819 (100.00%) Azure
2 332 (40.54%) DevOps
3 303 (37.00%) SQL
4 276 (33.70%) Microsoft
5 275 (33.58%) Agile
6 251 (30.65%) Windows
7 244 (29.79%) Terraform
8 219 (26.74%) CI/CD
9 211 (25.76%) Azure DevOps
10 193 (23.57%) Kubernetes
11 192 (23.44%) Linux
12 186 (22.71%) PowerShell
13 183 (22.34%) Infrastructure as Code
14 180 (21.98%) Python
15 166 (20.27%) C#
16 163 (19.90%) .NET
17 160 (19.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 154 (18.80%) Mentoring
19 151 (18.44%) Finance
20 142 (17.34%) Artificial Intelligence
21 136 (16.61%) JavaScript
22 133 (16.24%) PostgreSQL
23 130 (15.87%) Public Sector
23 130 (15.87%) Hybrid Cloud
24 128 (15.63%) Social Skills
24 128 (15.63%) Design Patterns
25 126 (15.38%) MongoDB
26 125 (15.26%) React
27 122 (14.90%) Microsoft 365
28 120 (14.65%) 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 35 (4.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (3.91%) SharePoint
3 21 (2.56%) IIS
4 7 (0.85%) WordPress
5 6 (0.73%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.73%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.49%) CMS
6 4 (0.49%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.37%) Confluence
7 3 (0.37%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.24%) 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 24 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 819 (100.00%) Azure
2 211 (25.76%) Azure DevOps
3 122 (14.90%) Microsoft 365
4 111 (13.55%) IBM Cloud
5 96 (11.72%) PaaS
6 93 (11.36%) Entra ID
7 83 (10.13%) Power Platform
8 80 (9.77%) Azure Data Factory
9 76 (9.28%) SaaS
10 73 (8.91%) IaaS
11 72 (8.79%) AWS
12 64 (7.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 61 (7.45%) Azure AKS
14 48 (5.86%) GitHub
15 39 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 34 (4.15%) GCP
17 30 (3.66%) Serverless
18 27 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
19 24 (2.93%) Cloud Computing
20 21 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 96 (11.72%) Firewall
2 64 (7.81%) DNS
3 46 (5.62%) VPN
4 42 (5.13%) Network Security
5 29 (3.54%) WAN
6 20 (2.44%) LAN
6 20 (2.44%) TCP/IP
7 18 (2.20%) DHCP
8 12 (1.47%) SAN
8 12 (1.47%) Wireless
9 9 (1.10%) SD-WAN
9 9 (1.10%) VLAN
10 8 (0.98%) NAS
10 8 (0.98%) Unified Communications
10 8 (0.98%) VoIP
11 7 (0.85%) Fibre Channel
11 7 (0.85%) IPv4
11 7 (0.85%) iSCSI
11 7 (0.85%) WLAN
12 6 (0.73%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (16.24%) PostgreSQL
2 126 (15.38%) MongoDB
3 118 (14.41%) NoSQL
4 110 (13.43%) DB2
5 78 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
6 76 (9.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 76 (9.28%) Data Lake
6 76 (9.28%) SQL Server
7 74 (9.04%) Power BI
8 22 (2.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 19 (2.32%) Big Data
10 17 (2.08%) MySQL
10 17 (2.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 16 (1.95%) Metadata
11 16 (1.95%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 16 (1.95%) Relational Database
12 14 (1.71%) Delta Lake
12 14 (1.71%) Redis
13 13 (1.59%) InfluxDB
14 11 (1.34%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 55 (6.72%) Git
2 45 (5.49%) Jenkins
3 28 (3.42%) GitLab
4 13 (1.59%) TeamCity
5 12 (1.47%) SonarQube
6 11 (1.34%) Octopus Deploy
7 10 (1.22%) MLflow
7 10 (1.22%) Team Foundation Server
8 8 (0.98%) JIRA
8 8 (0.98%) MSBuild
9 7 (0.85%) 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 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.24%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.24%) Maven
12 1 (0.12%) Vagrant
General
1 160 (19.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 151 (18.44%) Finance
3 130 (15.87%) Public Sector
4 128 (15.63%) Social Skills
5 37 (4.52%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (4.52%) Law
6 26 (3.17%) Marketing
7 23 (2.81%) Legal
8 20 (2.44%) Retail
9 18 (2.20%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.83%) Manufacturing
10 15 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (1.71%) Banking
12 13 (1.59%) Electronics
13 10 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.10%) Games
14 9 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.49%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (19.90%) .NET
2 125 (15.26%) React
3 117 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 117 (14.29%) ASP.NET
4 115 (14.04%) REST
5 113 (13.80%) ASP.NET Core
5 113 (13.80%) Web Services
6 112 (13.68%) CSS
6 112 (13.68%) HTML
7 110 (13.43%) Backbone.js
7 110 (13.43%) Ember.js
7 110 (13.43%) jQuery
7 110 (13.43%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 110 (13.43%) Vue
8 39 (4.76%) PySpark
9 30 (3.66%) YAML
10 28 (3.42%) JSON
11 26 (3.17%) ARM Templates
12 20 (2.44%) .NET Core
13 17 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 130 (15.87%) Hybrid Cloud
2 120 (14.65%) Algorithms
3 119 (14.53%) Data Structures
4 111 (13.55%) Blockchain
5 110 (13.43%) e-Learning
6 44 (5.37%) Public Cloud
7 36 (4.40%) Linux Command Line
8 32 (3.91%) Cloud Native
9 19 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (2.08%) Data Centre
10 17 (2.08%) Product Ownership
11 16 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
12 15 (1.83%) Private Cloud
13 12 (1.47%) Security Posture
14 10 (1.22%) NHS
15 9 (1.10%) Client/Server
15 9 (1.10%) PKI
15 9 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
16 8 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
16 8 (0.98%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 251 (30.65%) Windows
2 192 (23.44%) Linux
3 112 (13.68%) Android
3 112 (13.68%) Apple iOS
4 83 (10.13%) Windows Server
5 25 (3.05%) VMS
6 17 (2.08%) Windows 10
7 13 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (1.10%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.49%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.24%) CentOS
11 2 (0.24%) Unix
11 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (40.54%) DevOps
2 275 (33.58%) Agile
3 219 (26.74%) CI/CD
4 183 (22.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 154 (18.80%) Mentoring
6 142 (17.34%) Artificial Intelligence
7 128 (15.63%) Design Patterns
8 120 (14.65%) Coaching
9 117 (14.29%) OOP
10 116 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
11 115 (14.04%) Full Stack Development
11 115 (14.04%) OO
12 114 (13.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 112 (13.68%) MVC
13 112 (13.68%) SOLID
14 111 (13.55%) Code Quality
14 111 (13.55%) Design Thinking
15 110 (13.43%) Co-Creation
15 110 (13.43%) Responsive Web Design
15 110 (13.43%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 303 (37.00%) SQL
2 186 (22.71%) PowerShell
3 180 (21.98%) Python
4 166 (20.27%) C#
5 136 (16.61%) JavaScript
6 65 (7.94%) Bash
7 61 (7.45%) Java
8 29 (3.54%) Bicep
9 24 (2.93%) T-SQL
10 21 (2.56%) Go
11 20 (2.44%) Ruby
12 12 (1.47%) Perl
13 9 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (1.10%) TypeScript
14 8 (0.98%) U-SQL
15 7 (0.85%) Groovy
15 7 (0.85%) PHP
16 4 (0.49%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 81 (9.89%) Azure Certification
2 46 (5.62%) Degree
3 34 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (2.56%) Security Cleared
5 12 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.34%) SC Cleared
7 7 (0.85%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.49%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.24%) CISSP
10 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.24%) MCSE
10 2 (0.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
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%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.15%) Data Quality
2 14 (1.71%) QA
3 9 (1.10%) GDPR
3 9 (1.10%) SLA
4 6 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.37%) NIST
7 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 119 (14.53%) Docker
2 109 (13.31%) Active Directory
3 26 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (2.08%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.85%) vSphere
8 5 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.24%) NFS
9 2 (0.24%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.24%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 244 (29.79%) Terraform
2 193 (23.57%) Kubernetes
3 71 (8.67%) Ansible
4 38 (4.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (4.27%) Grafana
5 35 (4.27%) Prometheus
5 35 (4.27%) Puppet
6 27 (3.30%) Progress Chef
7 18 (2.20%) SCCM
8 12 (1.47%) Salt
9 11 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (0.73%) Istio
12 5 (0.61%) Pingdom
13 4 (0.49%) CASB
13 4 (0.49%) WSUS
14 3 (0.37%) Packer
15 2 (0.24%) Kibana
15 2 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 276 (33.70%) Microsoft
2 111 (13.55%) IBM
3 110 (13.43%) Red Hat
4 78 (9.52%) Databricks
5 42 (5.13%) VMware
6 24 (2.93%) Cisco
7 21 (2.56%) SolarWinds
8 19 (2.32%) SAP
9 16 (1.95%) Meraki
10 14 (1.71%) Veeam
11 13 (1.59%) Palo Alto
11 13 (1.59%) Zscaler
12 11 (1.34%) New Relic
13 9 (1.10%) Oracle
13 9 (1.10%) Remedy
14 7 (0.85%) Aruba
14 7 (0.85%) Citrix
14 7 (0.85%) ProCurve
14 7 (0.85%) SaltStack
14 7 (0.85%) Synology