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 21 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 250 214
Rank change year-on-year +4 -36 +128
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 40 93 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.45% 0.72% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.75% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 21 71 80
10th Percentile £40,000 £48,750 £47,475
25th Percentile £43,750 £55,000 £60,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% -3.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile - £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% -6.64%

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 7,983 12,386 8,244
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.56% 95.95% 93.92%
Number of salaries quoted 4,418 7,270 5,964
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Azure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer 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 21 September 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 21 September 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 +75 28 £47,500 -29.63% 2
Surrey +12 6 £70,000 +3.70% 1
Thames Valley -37 4 £46,250 -28.85% 6
Buckinghamshire -12 3 £47,500 -26.92%
East Sussex +11 2 £56,500 +7.62% 1
Berkshire -28 1 £45,000 -32.08% 3
Azure Engineer
England

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 21 September 2025, Azure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 40 (100.00%) Azure
2 26 (65.00%) DevOps
3 25 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (60.00%) Mentoring
5 20 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 19 (47.50%) e-Learning
6 19 (47.50%) Agile
6 19 (47.50%) Red Hat
6 19 (47.50%) IBM
6 19 (47.50%) Coaching
6 19 (47.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 19 (47.50%) Test Automation
6 19 (47.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (47.50%) Containerisation
7 14 (35.00%) Windows
8 9 (22.50%) Entra ID
8 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (20.00%) Internet
10 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
10 7 (17.50%) SQL
10 7 (17.50%) .NET
10 7 (17.50%) PowerShell
11 6 (15.00%) Roadmaps
11 6 (15.00%) Git
11 6 (15.00%) SQL Server
11 6 (15.00%) IIS
12 5 (12.50%) C#
13 4 (10.00%) Linux
13 4 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (10.00%) RabbitMQ

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (15.00%) IIS
2 4 (10.00%) nginx
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) Azure
2 25 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (22.50%) Entra ID
4 4 (10.00%) Azure AKS
4 4 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (10.00%) Azure Pipelines
4 4 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (10.00%) Cloudflare
5 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.00%) SaaS
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.50%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Git
2 4 (10.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 19 (47.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (7.50%) Finance
2 3 (7.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) .NET
2 4 (10.00%) ARM Templates
2 4 (10.00%) Loki
2 4 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.50%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 19 (47.50%) e-Learning
1 19 (47.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.50%) Life Science
3 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 14 (35.00%) Windows
2 4 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (65.00%) DevOps
2 24 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 20 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 19 (47.50%) Agile
4 19 (47.50%) Coaching
4 19 (47.50%) Containerisation
4 19 (47.50%) Test Automation
5 6 (15.00%) Roadmaps
6 4 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (10.00%) Load Testing
6 4 (10.00%) Microservices
7 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (5.00%) CI/CD
8 2 (5.00%) Configuration Management
8 2 (5.00%) Migration
8 2 (5.00%) Risk Assessment
8 2 (5.00%) Server Management
9 1 (2.50%) Data Security
9 1 (2.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.50%) PowerShell
1 7 (17.50%) SQL
2 5 (12.50%) C#
3 4 (10.00%) Bicep
4 1 (2.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Docker
1 4 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (10.00%) Grafana
2 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (47.50%) IBM
1 19 (47.50%) Red Hat
2 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.50%) Databricks