Azure Engineer Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > South East

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in the South East is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 249 288
Rank change year-on-year +85 +39 -65
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 163 45 105
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.04% 0.52% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 0.59% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 146 24 90
10th Percentile £46,875 £40,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,625 £48,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,875 £81,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,035 7,631 15,994
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.60% 88.60% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 10,643 4,234 11,478
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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 the South East.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in the South East

Azure Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in the South East

Azure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Engineer in the South East

Azure Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 July 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
Thames Valley +80 69 £60,000 -18.64% 12
Buckinghamshire +23 41 £50,000 -28.57% 3
Surrey +2 34 £65,000 -7.14% 6
Hampshire -27 34 £75,000 +50.00% 6
Oxfordshire - 15 £71,250 - 8
Berkshire +31 13 £65,000 -21.21% 1
West Sussex -8 10 £70,000 +40.00%
East Sussex -5 8 £50,000 -
Kent - 7 £24,500 - 2
Sussex - 1 £70,000 -
Azure Engineer
England

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 15 July 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 South East region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 163 (100.00%) Azure
2 69 (42.33%) Microsoft
3 56 (34.36%) DevOps
4 39 (23.93%) CI/CD
5 37 (22.70%) Terraform
6 35 (21.47%) Kubernetes
7 33 (20.25%) PowerShell
8 30 (18.40%) Azure AKS
8 30 (18.40%) C#
8 30 (18.40%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (18.40%) Security Cleared
9 27 (16.56%) SC Cleared
10 26 (15.95%) Azure DevOps
11 24 (14.72%) .NET
11 24 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (14.72%) Software Engineering
11 24 (14.72%) SQL
12 22 (13.50%) IaaS
13 21 (12.88%) Azure Certification
13 21 (12.88%) Containerisation
13 21 (12.88%) Data Pipeline
13 21 (12.88%) Platform Engineering
14 20 (12.27%) Agile
15 18 (11.04%) Azure Key Vault
15 18 (11.04%) Root Cause Analysis
15 18 (11.04%) SQL Server
16 17 (10.43%) Analytics
16 17 (10.43%) Python
17 16 (9.82%) AWS
17 16 (9.82%) Azure ExpressRoute

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.07%) IIS
1 5 (3.07%) nginx
2 2 (1.23%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 163 (100.00%) Azure
2 30 (18.40%) Azure AKS
3 26 (15.95%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (13.50%) IaaS
5 18 (11.04%) Azure Key Vault
6 16 (9.82%) AWS
6 16 (9.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 16 (9.82%) PaaS
7 13 (7.98%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (7.98%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (6.75%) Azure Storage
9 8 (4.91%) SaaS
10 7 (4.29%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (4.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (3.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (3.68%) Entra ID
12 5 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (3.07%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (3.07%) Cloudflare
12 5 (3.07%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.36%) DNS
1 12 (7.36%) Firewall
2 9 (5.52%) VPN
3 5 (3.07%) BGP
4 3 (1.84%) WAN
5 1 (0.61%) DHCP
5 1 (0.61%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.04%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.91%) Data Lake
3 7 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.23%) MySQL
6 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.61%) Power BI
6 1 (0.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (3.07%) GitLab
1 5 (3.07%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (2.45%) Git
3 3 (1.84%) Artifactory
General
1 38 (23.31%) Finance
2 15 (9.20%) Social Skills
3 11 (6.75%) Law
4 4 (2.45%) Billing
5 3 (1.84%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.23%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.61%) Advertising
7 1 (0.61%) Aviation
7 1 (0.61%) Games
7 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.61%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (14.72%) .NET
2 11 (6.75%) ARM Templates
3 5 (3.07%) Loki
3 5 (3.07%) YAML
4 3 (1.84%) JSON
5 2 (1.23%) CSS
5 2 (1.23%) jQuery
6 1 (0.61%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.61%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.61%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.61%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (0.61%) Blazor
6 1 (0.61%) PySpark
6 1 (0.61%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.29%) Data Centre
2 6 (3.68%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.07%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.23%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.13%) Linux
2 9 (5.52%) Windows
3 1 (0.61%) VMS
3 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (34.36%) DevOps
2 39 (23.93%) CI/CD
3 30 (18.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (14.72%) Software Engineering
5 21 (12.88%) Containerisation
5 21 (12.88%) Data Pipeline
5 21 (12.88%) Platform Engineering
6 20 (12.27%) Agile
7 18 (11.04%) Root Cause Analysis
8 17 (10.43%) Analytics
9 15 (9.20%) Cloud Security
9 15 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (9.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 13 (7.98%) Computer Science
11 12 (7.36%) Deployment Automation
11 12 (7.36%) High Availability
11 12 (7.36%) Load Balancing
12 11 (6.75%) Infrastructure Automation
13 9 (5.52%) FinOps
Programming Languages
1 33 (20.25%) PowerShell
2 30 (18.40%) C#
3 24 (14.72%) SQL
4 17 (10.43%) Python
5 14 (8.59%) Bicep
6 5 (3.07%) PHP
7 3 (1.84%) C++
8 2 (1.23%) Java
9 1 (0.61%) Bash
9 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (18.40%) Security Cleared
2 27 (16.56%) SC Cleared
3 21 (12.88%) Azure Certification
4 10 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (6.13%) Degree
5 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.68%) QA
2 5 (3.07%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.07%) NIST
2 5 (3.07%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.84%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (8.59%) Docker
2 9 (5.52%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (4.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.29%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (22.70%) Terraform
2 35 (21.47%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.07%) Grafana
3 5 (3.07%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.45%) Ansible
5 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.61%) Packer
Vendors
1 69 (42.33%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.59%) VMware
3 8 (4.91%) Cisco
3 8 (4.91%) Palo Alto
3 8 (4.91%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.68%) Splunk
5 5 (3.07%) CheckPoint
5 5 (3.07%) LogRhythm
5 5 (3.07%) Tenable
6 3 (1.84%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.84%) Oracle
7 1 (0.61%) Databricks
7 1 (0.61%) HP