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Cloud Engineer (Azure) Career Market Report 2026

627 active jobs. 254 companies. Median salary $110K. Data from Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Workable, and 14 additional ATS sources. Last computed: 2026-06-01.

627
Active Job Openings
254
Companies Hiring
$110K
Median Salary (US)
76%
With Salary Data

About This Report

The Cloud Engineer (Azure) market data on this page is updated daily from 800,000+ active job postings across 20 ATS platforms.

Greenhouse Lever Workday Ashby SmartRecruiters Workable + 14 more ATS sources

Salary: Extracted via NLP. Only USD $5K-$3M included. Skills: Named entity recognition, noise-filtered (generic soft skills excluded). Experience: Inferred from title + description. Coverage: 76% of positions include salary data.

Key Findings

Median salary: $110K in the US

Middle 50% of salaries range from $89K to $163K.

Remote roles pay 8% above the US national median

Remote-first employers competing nationally for talent. The premium reflects company quality (remote-first firms tend to be well-funded), not a work-mode bonus.

Azure is the most-demanded skill at 100%

CI/CD demand rose +13.1pp — fastest-growing skill

Devoteam leads hiring with 23 open positions

Biggest salary jump: Junior → Mid-Level (+$33K, +47%)

Salary increase: +$33K · Sample: Junior → Mid-Level

AI automation risk: medium-high (score 70/100)

Score: 70/100 · AI/LLM demand: 39% of postings

Salary by Experience Level

LevelJobsP25MedianP90
Senior22$102K$120K$200K
Mid-Level11$60K$102K$163K
Lead8$117K$152K$155K
Junior6$69K$69K$79K
Staff3$112K$159K$196K

What jumps out

Junior → Mid-Level: +$33K (47%) — the biggest single-step increase. The salary curve is back-loaded: the largest raises come at transitions where scope changes from executing tasks to owning outcomes, or from owning outcomes to shaping architecture across teams.

Salary by Country

CountryJobsMedianCurrency
United States39$112KUSD
Remote6$121KUSD
India4$200KINR

Work Mode

ModeShare
On-Site0.3%
Remote11.8%
Hybrid2.4%

~80% of postings do not specify work mode. Figures show only positions where it is explicitly stated.

Top Skills in Demand

Azure
100%
DevOps
58%
CI/CD
48%
Terraform
44%
AI/LLM
39%
Python
31%
Kubernetes
30%
SQL
30%
PowerShell
30%
Docker
25%
AWS
21%
Bash
18%

Skills on the Rise

CI/CD ↑+13.1ppTerraform ↑+11.7ppPowerShell ↑+11.3ppGitHub Actions ↑+11.0ppSQL ↑+9.5pp

Declining in Demand

Agile ↓-18.5pp

Top Companies Hiring

CompanyOpeningsShare
Devoteam233.7%
Magellanpartners182.9%
Krgtechnology152.4%
Soprasteria111.8%
Ingrammicro111.8%
Kyndryl101.6%
Dxctechnology101.6%
Cnx91.4%

Top Countries by Job Volume

CountryJobs
United States148
India70
France38
Remote26
Spain15
United Kingdom14
Romania12
Canada11

Education Requirements

LevelSharePositions
Associate Degree51.1%242
Bachelor's Degree11.2%53
Master's Degree10.3%49
MBA1.1%5

Certifications

Azure Certified (38%)Kubernetes Certified (3%)CompTIA (2%)ITIL (2%)CompTIA Security+ (2%)MBA (2%)Terraform Certified (1%)AWS Certified (1%)

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