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 24 August 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 249 251
Rank change year-on-year +78 +2 -26
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 163 41 94
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.94% 0.46% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 0.51% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 145 21 75
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -25.93% -3.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £74,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £79,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -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 16,579 8,025 13,231
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.24% 89.40% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 11,799 4,480 8,640
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 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,813 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,125 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 24 August 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 24 August 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 +79 83 £60,000 +2.13% 4
Buckinghamshire +33 41 £50,000 -14.89% 1
Surrey +5 33 £75,000 +7.14% 2
Hampshire -33 33 £72,500 +56.76% 1
Oxfordshire - 25 £65,000 - 2
Berkshire - 17 £65,000 - 1
Kent - 7 £24,500 -
West Sussex - 4 £70,000 -
East Sussex -19 2 £50,000 -
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 24 August 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 65 (39.88%) Microsoft
3 52 (31.90%) DevOps
4 39 (23.93%) CI/CD
5 36 (22.09%) PowerShell
6 35 (21.47%) Kubernetes
7 34 (20.86%) Terraform
8 33 (20.25%) C#
9 32 (19.63%) Platform Engineering
10 28 (17.18%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (17.18%) SQL
11 27 (16.56%) Azure AKS
11 27 (16.56%) Security Cleared
12 26 (15.95%) Software Engineering
13 25 (15.34%) .NET
14 24 (14.72%) Agile
14 24 (14.72%) SC Cleared
15 23 (14.11%) Azure DevOps
16 22 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
17 21 (12.88%) Azure Certification
17 21 (12.88%) Azure Key Vault
17 21 (12.88%) IaaS
17 21 (12.88%) SQL Server
18 20 (12.27%) Data Pipeline
18 20 (12.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 19 (11.66%) Containerisation
19 19 (11.66%) Continuous Improvement
20 18 (11.04%) Analytics
20 18 (11.04%) Python
21 17 (10.43%) Root Cause Analysis

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 (4.91%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.07%) IIS
2 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.07%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 163 (100.00%) Azure
2 27 (16.56%) Azure AKS
3 23 (14.11%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (12.88%) Azure Key Vault
4 21 (12.88%) IaaS
5 15 (9.20%) AWS
5 15 (9.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 12 (7.36%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (7.36%) PaaS
7 11 (6.75%) Azure Storage
8 10 (6.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (6.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 10 (6.13%) SaaS
9 9 (5.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 9 (5.52%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (4.91%) Entra ID
11 5 (3.07%) Azure Pipelines
11 5 (3.07%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (3.07%) Cloudflare
12 4 (2.45%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.82%) DNS
2 11 (6.75%) VPN
3 7 (4.29%) Firewall
4 5 (3.07%) DHCP
5 4 (2.45%) BGP
5 4 (2.45%) WAN
6 1 (0.61%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.88%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.98%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (5.52%) Data Lake
4 5 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.45%) Power BI
6 3 (1.84%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (1.84%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.84%) Metadata
6 3 (1.84%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.84%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.84%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (1.84%) Star Schema
7 2 (1.23%) MySQL
8 1 (0.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (4.91%) Git
2 6 (3.68%) GitLab
3 5 (3.07%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (1.84%) Artifactory
General
1 37 (22.70%) Finance
2 21 (12.88%) Social Skills
3 11 (6.75%) Law
4 5 (3.07%) Retail
5 4 (2.45%) Games
6 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.23%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.61%) Aviation
7 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.61%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (20.86%) Terraform
2 25 (15.34%) .NET
3 10 (6.13%) ARM Templates
4 5 (3.07%) Loki
4 5 (3.07%) YAML
5 2 (1.23%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.23%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (1.23%) Blazor
5 2 (1.23%) CSS
5 2 (1.23%) jQuery
5 2 (1.23%) React
6 1 (0.61%) JSON
6 1 (0.61%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.29%) Data Centre
2 6 (3.68%) Cloud Native
3 3 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (1.84%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.23%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.23%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.13%) Linux
1 10 (6.13%) Windows
2 1 (0.61%) VMS
2 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (31.90%) DevOps
2 39 (23.93%) CI/CD
3 32 (19.63%) Platform Engineering
4 28 (17.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (15.95%) Software Engineering
6 24 (14.72%) Agile
7 22 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (12.27%) Data Pipeline
8 20 (12.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 19 (11.66%) Containerisation
9 19 (11.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (11.04%) Analytics
11 17 (10.43%) Root Cause Analysis
12 16 (9.82%) High Availability
13 15 (9.20%) Cloud Security
13 15 (9.20%) Computer Science
14 12 (7.36%) Deployment Automation
14 12 (7.36%) Load Balancing
15 11 (6.75%) RBAC
16 10 (6.13%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 36 (22.09%) PowerShell
2 33 (20.25%) C#
3 28 (17.18%) SQL
4 18 (11.04%) Python
5 13 (7.98%) Bicep
6 5 (3.07%) PHP
7 4 (2.45%) C++
8 2 (1.23%) Java
8 2 (1.23%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.61%) Bash
Qualifications
1 27 (16.56%) Security Cleared
2 24 (14.72%) SC Cleared
3 21 (12.88%) Azure Certification
4 12 (7.36%) Degree
5 9 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.29%) QA
2 6 (3.68%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.45%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.45%) NIST
3 4 (2.45%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (1.84%) GDPR
5 2 (1.23%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (7.36%) Docker
2 10 (6.13%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (4.29%) Hyper-V
4 6 (3.68%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (21.47%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (3.07%) Grafana
3 5 (3.07%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.45%) Ansible
5 2 (1.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 65 (39.88%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.36%) VMware
3 8 (4.91%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.84%) Informatica
4 3 (1.84%) Oracle
4 3 (1.84%) Talend
5 2 (1.23%) Databricks
6 1 (0.61%) Cisco
6 1 (0.61%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.61%) Google
6 1 (0.61%) HP
6 1 (0.61%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.61%) Splunk