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 June 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 243 292
Rank change year-on-year +82 +49 -58
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 148 42 108
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.01% 0.54% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 0.62% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 138 21 94
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £45,750
25th Percentile £51,563 £43,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -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 13,983 6,760 17,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.32% 86.48% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 9,829 3,597 12,375
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,239 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.45% +9.52% -12.87%

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 June 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 June 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 +65 63 £60,000 -22.58% 7
Buckinghamshire +25 37 £50,000 -35.48% 2
Hampshire -25 32 £75,000 +66.67% 13
Surrey 0 23 £60,000 -14.29% 8
Oxfordshire - 14 £75,000 - 2
West Sussex -8 13 £70,000 +40.00%
Berkshire +23 12 £65,000 -14.75% 3
East Sussex -2 9 £50,000 -
Kent - 7 £24,500 - 1
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 June 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.

1 148 (100.00%) Azure
2 59 (39.86%) Microsoft
3 54 (36.49%) DevOps
4 38 (25.68%) CI/CD
4 38 (25.68%) Terraform
5 31 (20.95%) Kubernetes
6 28 (18.92%) Azure AKS
6 28 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (18.92%) PowerShell
7 27 (18.24%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (18.24%) Security Cleared
8 26 (17.57%) C#
8 26 (17.57%) SC Cleared
9 25 (16.89%) IaaS
9 25 (16.89%) Software Engineering
10 23 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (14.19%) .NET
11 21 (14.19%) Azure Certification
11 21 (14.19%) Containerisation
12 20 (13.51%) Agile
13 19 (12.84%) Data Pipeline
13 19 (12.84%) PaaS
13 19 (12.84%) SQL
14 18 (12.16%) Azure Key Vault
14 18 (12.16%) Platform Engineering
14 18 (12.16%) Root Cause Analysis
15 16 (10.81%) AWS
15 16 (10.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 16 (10.81%) Firewall
16 15 (10.14%) Python

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 2 (1.35%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.68%) IIS
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.68%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 148 (100.00%) Azure
2 28 (18.92%) Azure AKS
3 27 (18.24%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (16.89%) IaaS
5 19 (12.84%) PaaS
6 18 (12.16%) Azure Key Vault
7 16 (10.81%) AWS
7 16 (10.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 14 (9.46%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (8.78%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (7.43%) Azure Storage
11 10 (6.76%) Entra ID
12 8 (5.41%) SaaS
13 6 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (4.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (3.38%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
15 4 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (2.70%) Datadog
16 3 (2.03%) Azure Functions
16 3 (2.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.81%) Firewall
2 12 (8.11%) DNS
3 9 (6.08%) VPN
4 5 (3.38%) BGP
5 3 (2.03%) WAN
6 1 (0.68%) DHCP
6 1 (0.68%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.46%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.05%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.35%) MySQL
5 1 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (3.38%) GitLab
2 4 (2.70%) Git
3 3 (2.03%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 33 (22.30%) Finance
2 16 (10.81%) Social Skills
3 11 (7.43%) Law
4 8 (5.41%) Billing
5 3 (2.03%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.35%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.68%) Advertising
7 1 (0.68%) Aviation
7 1 (0.68%) Games
7 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.68%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (14.19%) .NET
2 6 (4.05%) ARM Templates
3 5 (3.38%) YAML
4 3 (2.03%) JSON
5 2 (1.35%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.35%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.35%) CSS
5 2 (1.35%) jQuery
6 1 (0.68%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.68%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (0.68%) Blazor
6 1 (0.68%) Loki
6 1 (0.68%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.38%) Cloud Native
1 5 (3.38%) Public Cloud
2 2 (1.35%) Data Centre
2 2 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.05%) Linux
1 6 (4.05%) Windows
2 2 (1.35%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (36.49%) DevOps
2 38 (25.68%) CI/CD
3 28 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (16.89%) Software Engineering
5 23 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (14.19%) Containerisation
7 20 (13.51%) Agile
8 19 (12.84%) Data Pipeline
9 18 (12.16%) Platform Engineering
9 18 (12.16%) Root Cause Analysis
10 14 (9.46%) Analytics
10 14 (9.46%) Cloud Security
10 14 (9.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 12 (8.11%) Computer Science
11 12 (8.11%) High Availability
11 12 (8.11%) Load Balancing
12 11 (7.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (5.41%) Data Modelling
13 8 (5.41%) ETL
13 8 (5.41%) FinOps
Programming Languages
1 28 (18.92%) PowerShell
2 26 (17.57%) C#
3 19 (12.84%) SQL
4 15 (10.14%) Python
5 9 (6.08%) Bicep
6 5 (3.38%) PHP
7 3 (2.03%) C++
8 2 (1.35%) Java
9 1 (0.68%) Bash
9 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (18.24%) Security Cleared
2 26 (17.57%) SC Cleared
3 21 (14.19%) Azure Certification
4 9 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (6.08%) Degree
5 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.38%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.70%) NIST
2 4 (2.70%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.35%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.35%) QA
3 2 (1.35%) SLA
4 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (6.76%) Docker
2 8 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.38%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.03%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 38 (25.68%) Terraform
2 31 (20.95%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.70%) Ansible
4 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.68%) Grafana
5 1 (0.68%) Packer
5 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 59 (39.86%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.08%) VMware
3 8 (5.41%) Cisco
3 8 (5.41%) Palo Alto
3 8 (5.41%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.05%) Splunk
5 5 (3.38%) CheckPoint
5 5 (3.38%) LogRhythm
5 5 (3.38%) Tenable
6 3 (2.03%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.03%) Oracle
7 1 (0.68%) HP