Azure Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 June 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 641 816 817
Rank change year-on-year +175 +1 +286
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Infrastructure Engineer 79 98 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.088% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.093% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 71 91 109
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,375 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £64,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £68,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -1.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 50,468 105,033 83,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.90% 94.79% 91.16%
Number of salaries quoted 26,658 74,081 54,579
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £38,572 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +6.63%

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 16 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 16 June 2025. 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 +173 77 £70,000 +27.27% 59
UK excluding London +164 39 £55,000 +4.76% 31
London +119 38 £76,250 +17.31% 32
East of England +56 23 £63,250 +1.20% 1
Work from Home +104 12 £46,000 -16.36% 21
Midlands +81 7 £46,000 -23.33% 10
North of England +50 6 £57,500 +15.00% 7
North West +9 6 £57,500 +21.05% 5
West Midlands +71 5 £46,000 -29.23% 4
South West +114 2 £70,000 +30.23% 4
East Midlands +52 2 - - 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £47,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 16 June 2025, Azure Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 79 (100.00%) Azure
2 78 (98.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 53 (67.09%) Windows
4 48 (60.76%) Windows Server
5 47 (59.49%) Microsoft
6 38 (48.10%) PowerShell
7 31 (39.24%) Firewall
8 29 (36.71%) Terraform
9 27 (34.18%) Microsoft Exchange
10 23 (29.11%) DevOps
11 22 (27.85%) Kubernetes
11 22 (27.85%) Cost Management
11 22 (27.85%) SQL Server
11 22 (27.85%) Microsoft Intune
12 20 (25.32%) CI/CD
12 20 (25.32%) Azure Logic Apps
13 19 (24.05%) Azure Certification
14 17 (21.52%) Performance Optimisation
14 17 (21.52%) Microsoft 365
15 16 (20.25%) Finance
15 16 (20.25%) Entra ID
15 16 (20.25%) Cloud Security
16 15 (18.99%) Infrastructure as Code
16 15 (18.99%) Active Directory
17 14 (17.72%) Disaster Recovery
17 14 (17.72%) High Availability
17 14 (17.72%) SCCM
17 14 (17.72%) Social Skills
17 14 (17.72%) Power Platform
17 14 (17.72%) Azure DevOps

Azure Infrastructure 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 27 (34.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (10.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.27%) IIS
3 1 (1.27%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 79 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (25.32%) Azure Logic Apps
3 17 (21.52%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (20.25%) Entra ID
5 14 (17.72%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (17.72%) Power Platform
6 13 (16.46%) PowerApps
7 10 (12.66%) IaaS
7 10 (12.66%) PaaS
8 9 (11.39%) Azure AKS
9 7 (8.86%) AWS
10 5 (6.33%) OneDrive
11 4 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (5.06%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (5.06%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (5.06%) Route 53
12 3 (3.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (3.80%) Azure Monitor
13 2 (2.53%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 31 (39.24%) Firewall
2 9 (11.39%) VPN
3 8 (10.13%) SD-WAN
4 7 (8.86%) WAN
5 5 (6.33%) DHCP
5 5 (6.33%) DNS
6 4 (5.06%) HTTPS
6 4 (5.06%) VLAN
7 3 (3.80%) LAN
7 3 (3.80%) Network Security
8 2 (2.53%) SAN
9 1 (1.27%) Internet
9 1 (1.27%) iSCSI
9 1 (1.27%) NAS
9 1 (1.27%) NetScaler
9 1 (1.27%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (27.85%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.53%) JIRA
General
1 16 (20.25%) Finance
2 14 (17.72%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.80%) Law
5 2 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.53%) Legal
6 1 (1.27%) Military
6 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.66%) ARM Templates
2 4 (5.06%) SAML
3 1 (1.27%) .NET
3 1 (1.27%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.13%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (7.59%) Clustering
3 3 (3.80%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.80%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.53%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.27%) BYOD
5 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.27%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.27%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 53 (67.09%) Windows
2 48 (60.76%) Windows Server
3 6 (7.59%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (5.06%) Linux
4 4 (5.06%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (3.80%) Android
5 3 (3.80%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.27%) VMS
6 1 (1.27%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (98.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (29.11%) DevOps
3 22 (27.85%) Cost Management
4 20 (25.32%) CI/CD
5 17 (21.52%) Performance Optimisation
6 16 (20.25%) Cloud Security
7 15 (18.99%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (17.72%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (17.72%) High Availability
9 11 (13.92%) ITIL
10 9 (11.39%) Fintech
10 9 (11.39%) Migration
10 9 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (10.13%) Infrastructure Automation
11 8 (10.13%) Infrastructure Management
12 7 (8.86%) Configuration Management
12 7 (8.86%) Identity Management
12 7 (8.86%) Patch Management
12 7 (8.86%) Task Automation
13 6 (7.59%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 38 (48.10%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.06%) Python
3 2 (2.53%) SQL
4 1 (1.27%) Bash
4 1 (1.27%) Bicep
4 1 (1.27%) Java
4 1 (1.27%) Perl
4 1 (1.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (24.05%) Azure Certification
2 4 (5.06%) AWS Certification
2 4 (5.06%) CompTIA Security+
2 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.27%) CCNA
3 1 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.27%) Degree
3 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (1.27%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.53%) GDPR
1 2 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.27%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (18.99%) Active Directory
2 12 (15.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (11.39%) Hyper-V
4 7 (8.86%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.80%) Docker
5 3 (3.80%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (36.71%) Terraform
2 22 (27.85%) Kubernetes
2 22 (27.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (17.72%) SCCM
4 6 (7.59%) Ansible
4 6 (7.59%) Backup Exec
5 5 (6.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (3.80%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (2.53%) SCOM
8 1 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 47 (59.49%) Microsoft
2 13 (16.46%) VMware
3 12 (15.19%) Palo Alto
4 7 (8.86%) Veeam
5 4 (5.06%) Citrix
6 3 (3.80%) Cisco
6 3 (3.80%) Google
7 2 (2.53%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.27%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.27%) F5
8 1 (1.27%) Meraki
8 1 (1.27%) Okta
8 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow
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