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 £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 October 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 231 207
Rank change year-on-year -2 -24 +100
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 49 96 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.55% 0.85% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.88% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 31 73 72
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £47,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% - +17.39%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £78,500 £79,875
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 8,081 10,955 7,533
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.59% 96.61% 94.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4,646 6,112 5,358
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -

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 28 October 2025.

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 28 October 2025. 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
Hampshire +45 30 £48,750 -27.78% 3
Thames Valley -25 10 £45,000 -33.33% 11
Berkshire -24 7 £45,000 -33.33% 7
Surrey -9 5 £70,000 +3.70% 1
East Sussex +7 3 £56,500 +7.62%
Buckinghamshire -4 3 £47,500 -5.94% 3
West Sussex +1 1 £72,500 +126.56% 2
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 October 2025, 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 49 (100.00%) Azure
2 28 (57.14%) DevOps
3 26 (53.06%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (46.94%) Mentoring
5 20 (40.82%) Containerisation
6 19 (38.78%) Agile
6 19 (38.78%) AI
7 18 (36.73%) Coaching
7 18 (36.73%) IBM
7 18 (36.73%) Red Hat
7 18 (36.73%) Test Automation
8 16 (32.65%) Windows
9 14 (28.57%) Entra ID
9 14 (28.57%) Microsoft
9 14 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (28.57%) PowerShell
10 10 (20.41%) .NET
10 10 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (18.37%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (18.37%) SQL
12 8 (16.33%) Internet
12 8 (16.33%) SQL Server
13 7 (14.29%) Bicep
14 6 (12.24%) ARM Templates
14 6 (12.24%) C#
14 6 (12.24%) Docker
14 6 (12.24%) Git
14 6 (12.24%) IIS
14 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 6 (12.24%) Kubernetes

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 6 (12.24%) IIS
2 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (8.16%) nginx
4 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 49 (100.00%) Azure
2 26 (53.06%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 9 (18.37%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (10.20%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (8.16%) Azure AKS
6 4 (8.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 4 (8.16%) Azure Pipelines
6 4 (8.16%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (8.16%) Cloudflare
7 2 (4.08%) PaaS
7 2 (4.08%) SaaS
8 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.04%) GCP
8 1 (2.04%) IaaS
8 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.33%) Internet
2 3 (6.12%) Firewall
3 2 (4.08%) DHCP
3 2 (4.08%) DNS
4 1 (2.04%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.04%) VPN
4 1 (2.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.16%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.04%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.04%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Git
2 4 (8.16%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 18 (36.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (12.24%) Finance
3 4 (8.16%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.41%) .NET
2 6 (12.24%) ARM Templates
3 4 (8.16%) Loki
3 4 (8.16%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (6.12%) .NET Core
5 2 (4.08%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.04%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.04%) React
Miscellaneous
1 18 (36.73%) e-Learning
1 18 (36.73%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (10.20%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.12%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.04%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 16 (32.65%) Windows
2 5 (10.20%) Linux
3 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (57.14%) DevOps
2 23 (46.94%) Mentoring
3 20 (40.82%) Containerisation
4 19 (38.78%) Agile
4 19 (38.78%) AI
5 18 (36.73%) Coaching
5 18 (36.73%) Test Automation
6 10 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (12.24%) Roadmaps
8 5 (10.20%) CI/CD
9 4 (8.16%) Continuous Deployment
9 4 (8.16%) Load Testing
9 4 (8.16%) Microservices
10 3 (6.12%) Infrastructure as Code
10 3 (6.12%) Software Engineering
11 2 (4.08%) Analytics
11 2 (4.08%) Observability
11 2 (4.08%) Risk Assessment
11 2 (4.08%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 9 (18.37%) SQL
3 7 (14.29%) Bicep
4 6 (12.24%) C#
5 2 (4.08%) Python
6 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (4.08%) Azure Certification
1 2 (4.08%) Degree
2 1 (2.04%) CCNA
2 1 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.04%) HND
2 1 (2.04%) MCP
2 1 (2.04%) MCSA
2 1 (2.04%) MCSE
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.04%) NIST
1 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (12.24%) Docker
2 5 (10.20%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.04%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (12.24%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.16%) Grafana
3 4 (8.16%) Prometheus
3 4 (8.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (36.73%) IBM
1 18 (36.73%) Red Hat
2 14 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.04%) Databricks
3 1 (2.04%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.04%) New Relic