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 £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 January 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 224 237
Rank change year-on-year +8 +13 +52
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 51 70 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.48% 0.79% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.88% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 51 58 77
10th Percentile £41,250 £51,050 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,625 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +22.73% -5.98%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £80,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.14%

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 9,886 7,986 10,235
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 89.77% 94.90%
Number of salaries quoted 6,249 4,153 7,690
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £27,759
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,850
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 25 January 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 25 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
Thames Valley +4 22 £45,000 -35.71% 13
Berkshire -5 14 £43,750 -37.50% 8
West Sussex +9 10 £70,000 +100.00% 2
Hampshire +13 7 £77,500 +14.81% 4
Buckinghamshire +3 7 £55,000 -16.98% 3
East Sussex - 7 £82,500 - 3
Surrey -10 3 £65,000 -7.14% 9
Kent -12 2 £50,000 - 4
Oxfordshire - 1 £72,500 - 2
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 South East region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 51 (100.00%) Azure
2 23 (45.10%) Microsoft
3 22 (43.14%) DevOps
4 19 (37.25%) CI/CD
5 18 (35.29%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (35.29%) Entra ID
5 18 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (31.37%) PowerShell
8 15 (29.41%) Terraform
9 14 (27.45%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (25.49%) Firewall
11 11 (21.57%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (21.57%) PaaS
12 10 (19.61%) IaaS
13 9 (17.65%) .NET
13 9 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
13 9 (17.65%) SQL
14 8 (15.69%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (15.69%) Kubernetes
14 8 (15.69%) SaaS
14 8 (15.69%) SQL Server
15 7 (13.73%) Azure AKS
15 7 (13.73%) Containerisation
15 7 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
15 7 (13.73%) Cost Management
15 7 (13.73%) Docker
15 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 7 (13.73%) Windows
16 6 (11.76%) Bicep

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 9 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.92%) IIS
3 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 51 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (35.29%) Azure DevOps
2 18 (35.29%) Entra ID
3 17 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (21.57%) PaaS
5 10 (19.61%) IaaS
6 8 (15.69%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (15.69%) SaaS
7 7 (13.73%) Azure AKS
8 3 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.96%) GCP
9 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 13 (25.49%) Firewall
2 4 (7.84%) VPN
3 2 (3.92%) DHCP
3 2 (3.92%) DNS
4 1 (1.96%) Internet
4 1 (1.96%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.96%) Delta Lake
2 1 (1.96%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Git
General
1 9 (17.65%) Finance
2 8 (15.69%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.73%) Billing
4 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.65%) .NET
2 5 (9.80%) .NET Core
2 5 (9.80%) AngularJS
3 4 (7.84%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.96%) PySpark
4 1 (1.96%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) Onboarding
2 6 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.96%) CMDB
4 1 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.73%) Windows
2 2 (3.92%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.96%) Linux
3 1 (1.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (43.14%) DevOps
2 19 (37.25%) CI/CD
3 18 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (27.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (13.73%) Containerisation
5 7 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (13.73%) Cost Management
5 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (9.80%) Analytics
7 5 (9.80%) Software Engineering
8 4 (7.84%) Cloud Security
8 4 (7.84%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (7.84%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (7.84%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (7.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (5.88%) FinOps
9 3 (5.88%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (5.88%) Observability
9 3 (5.88%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 16 (31.37%) PowerShell
2 9 (17.65%) SQL
3 6 (11.76%) Bicep
3 6 (11.76%) Python
4 2 (3.92%) C#
5 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (7.84%) Degree
2 3 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.96%) CCNA
4 1 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.96%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.96%) HND
4 1 (1.96%) MCP
4 1 (1.96%) MCSA
4 1 (1.96%) MCSE
4 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.96%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (1.96%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) NIST
1 3 (5.88%) PCI DSS
1 3 (5.88%) SLA
2 2 (3.92%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (13.73%) Docker
2 3 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.96%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.96%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (29.41%) Terraform
2 11 (21.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (15.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (45.10%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.92%) Databricks
2 2 (3.92%) New Relic
3 1 (1.96%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.96%) CheckPoint
3 1 (1.96%) Cisco
3 1 (1.96%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.96%) LogRhythm
3 1 (1.96%) Palo Alto
3 1 (1.96%) Splunk
3 1 (1.96%) Tenable