Azure Engineer Job Trends in Hampshire

Microsoft Azure Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in Hampshire is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 131 114
Rank change year-on-year +16 -17 +39
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 7 25 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 0.28% 0.94% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.98% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 7 25 15
10th Percentile £43,750 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +35.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £83,125 £73,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £88,500 £77,500 £62,750
South East median annual salary £56,500 £67,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -16.30% +25.00% -6.09%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 2,307 2,563 1,961
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.82% 96.39% 96.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,587 1,590 1,355
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £56,509 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.52% +7.64% -4.55%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Azure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Azure Engineer
Salary Trend in Hampshire

Salary distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Hampshire.

Salary distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Hampshire

Azure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in Hampshire over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Engineer in Hampshire

Azure Engineer
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Engineer within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Southampton +16 3 £47,500 -31.65%
Basingstoke +8 2 £73,750 +9.26% 4
Azure Engineer
South East

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire

For the 6 months to 12 January 2026, Azure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Hampshire region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
3 3 (42.86%) .NET
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 3 (42.86%) Observability
3 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
4 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Benchmarking
4 2 (28.57%) Bicep
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Firewall
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Internet
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (28.57%) New Relic
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
4 2 (28.57%) Terraform
5 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
5 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) AI
5 1 (14.29%) Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 1 (14.29%) AppDynamics
5 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) Internet
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Delta Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Star Schema
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
2 1 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) VMS
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (42.86%) Observability
1 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) Benchmarking
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) AI
3 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Data Security
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) Pair Programming
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Bicep
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) New Relic
3 1 (14.29%) AppDynamics
3 1 (14.29%) Databricks
3 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace