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 September 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 251 239
Rank change year-on-year +69 -12 -20
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 159 39 92
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.87% 0.43% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 0.49% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 141 20 71
10th Percentile £50,000 £39,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £43,438 £54,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £48,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -27.78% -3.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,125 £81,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -0.54%

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 17,321 8,041 12,323
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.51% 89.53% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 12,324 4,381 7,409
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £51,852
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -3.57% -5.72%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 September 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 September 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 +86 77 £60,000 +26.32% 36
Hampshire -36 37 £70,000 +51.35% 6
Surrey -3 33 £75,000 +7.14% 7
Buckinghamshire +27 32 £50,000 +5.26% 9
Oxfordshire - 28 £62,500 - 12
Berkshire +39 17 £65,000 +44.44% 15
Kent - 6 £24,000 - 3
West Sussex - 5 £70,000 - 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 September 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.

1 159 (100.00%) Azure
2 60 (37.74%) Microsoft
3 51 (32.08%) DevOps
4 40 (25.16%) CI/CD
5 37 (23.27%) C#
5 37 (23.27%) Kubernetes
5 37 (23.27%) Platform Engineering
6 33 (20.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (20.75%) PowerShell
6 33 (20.75%) Terraform
7 32 (20.13%) Security Cleared
8 28 (17.61%) SC Cleared
8 28 (17.61%) SQL
9 26 (16.35%) Agile
9 26 (16.35%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (16.35%) Software Engineering
10 25 (15.72%) .NET
10 25 (15.72%) Azure AKS
10 25 (15.72%) SQL Server
11 20 (12.58%) Azure Certification
11 20 (12.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (12.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 19 (11.95%) Analytics
12 19 (11.95%) Azure Key Vault
12 19 (11.95%) Computer Science
12 19 (11.95%) IaaS
12 19 (11.95%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (11.32%) Python
14 17 (10.69%) Azure SQL Database
14 17 (10.69%) Containerisation

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 8 (5.03%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.14%) IIS
2 5 (3.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.14%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 159 (100.00%) Azure
2 26 (16.35%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (15.72%) Azure AKS
4 19 (11.95%) Azure Key Vault
4 19 (11.95%) IaaS
5 13 (8.18%) AWS
5 13 (8.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 12 (7.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 12 (7.55%) PaaS
7 11 (6.92%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (6.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (6.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 10 (6.29%) SaaS
9 9 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (5.66%) Azure Storage
9 9 (5.66%) Power Platform
10 8 (5.03%) Entra ID
11 5 (3.14%) Azure Pipelines
11 5 (3.14%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (3.14%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.81%) DNS
2 11 (6.92%) VPN
3 7 (4.40%) Firewall
4 5 (3.14%) DHCP
5 4 (2.52%) WAN
6 3 (1.89%) BGP
7 1 (0.63%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.72%) SQL Server
2 17 (10.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (5.66%) Power BI
4 7 (4.40%) Amazon QuickSight
4 7 (4.40%) DynamoDB
4 7 (4.40%) Metadata
4 7 (4.40%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.40%) NoSQL
4 7 (4.40%) Snowflake Schema
4 7 (4.40%) Star Schema
5 5 (3.14%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.26%) MySQL
8 1 (0.63%) GIS
8 1 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (7.55%) Git
2 6 (3.77%) GitLab
3 5 (3.14%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (1.89%) Artifactory
General
1 37 (23.27%) Finance
2 18 (11.32%) Social Skills
3 9 (5.66%) Law
4 5 (3.14%) Retail
5 4 (2.52%) Games
6 2 (1.26%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.26%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.63%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.63%) Aviation
7 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.63%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (20.75%) Terraform
2 25 (15.72%) .NET
3 10 (6.29%) ARM Templates
4 5 (3.14%) Loki
4 5 (3.14%) YAML
5 2 (1.26%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.26%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (1.26%) Blazor
5 2 (1.26%) CSS
5 2 (1.26%) jQuery
5 2 (1.26%) React
6 1 (0.63%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.55%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.03%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.40%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (4.40%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.89%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.63%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.18%) Windows
2 10 (6.29%) Linux
3 1 (0.63%) VMS
3 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (32.08%) DevOps
2 40 (25.16%) CI/CD
3 37 (23.27%) Platform Engineering
4 33 (20.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (16.35%) Agile
5 26 (16.35%) Software Engineering
6 20 (12.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (12.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 19 (11.95%) Analytics
7 19 (11.95%) Computer Science
7 19 (11.95%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (10.69%) Containerisation
9 16 (10.06%) RBAC
10 15 (9.43%) Cloud Security
10 15 (9.43%) Root Cause Analysis
11 14 (8.81%) Data Pipeline
11 14 (8.81%) High Availability
12 13 (8.18%) Deployment Automation
13 12 (7.55%) Clean Code
14 11 (6.92%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 37 (23.27%) C#
2 33 (20.75%) PowerShell
3 28 (17.61%) SQL
4 18 (11.32%) Python
5 12 (7.55%) Bicep
6 5 (3.14%) PHP
7 4 (2.52%) C++
8 2 (1.26%) Java
8 2 (1.26%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.63%) Bash
Qualifications
1 32 (20.13%) Security Cleared
2 28 (17.61%) SC Cleared
3 20 (12.58%) Azure Certification
4 16 (10.06%) Degree
5 9 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.03%) Data Quality
1 8 (5.03%) QA
2 7 (4.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 7 (4.40%) GDPR
3 6 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.52%) NIST
4 4 (2.52%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (7.55%) Docker
2 10 (6.29%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (4.40%) Hyper-V
4 6 (3.77%) Active Directory
5 5 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (23.27%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (3.14%) Grafana
3 5 (3.14%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.52%) Ansible
5 2 (1.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 60 (37.74%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.92%) VMware
3 8 (5.03%) Salesforce
4 7 (4.40%) Informatica
4 7 (4.40%) Talend
5 3 (1.89%) Oracle
6 2 (1.26%) Databricks
7 1 (0.63%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.63%) Google
7 1 (0.63%) HP
7 1 (0.63%) SAP
7 1 (0.63%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.63%) Splunk