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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 April 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 214 279
Rank change year-on-year +33 +65 -20
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 111 39 95
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.77% 0.56% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.67% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 104 36 88
10th Percentile £45,375 £50,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £57,789
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +21.13% -12.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £75,313
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,125 £80,375
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 13,592 5,822 15,246
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 83.61% 93.79%
Number of salaries quoted 8,953 3,665 11,265
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £39,845 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.84%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +25 47 £50,000 -32.20% 16
Buckinghamshire +3 30 £50,000 -33.33% 7
Surrey -19 19 £55,000 -21.43%
Hampshire -16 16 £75,000 +15.38% 10
West Sussex -7 14 £70,000 +40.00%
Berkshire +15 11 £42,500 -41.38% 4
East Sussex -13 11 £59,000 -
Oxfordshire - 6 £75,000 - 5
Kent - 4 £57,500 -
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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.

1 111 (100.00%) Azure
2 53 (47.75%) Microsoft
3 43 (38.74%) DevOps
4 31 (27.93%) CI/CD
5 28 (25.23%) Terraform
6 24 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (18.92%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (17.12%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (17.12%) PowerShell
9 18 (16.22%) IaaS
9 18 (16.22%) Kubernetes
10 16 (14.41%) Azure AKS
10 16 (14.41%) Data Pipeline
10 16 (14.41%) Firewall
11 15 (13.51%) Containerisation
11 15 (13.51%) Security Cleared
12 14 (12.61%) Entra ID
12 14 (12.61%) PaaS
12 14 (12.61%) Python
12 14 (12.61%) SC Cleared
12 14 (12.61%) SQL
13 13 (11.71%) .NET
13 13 (11.71%) Analytics
13 13 (11.71%) Root Cause Analysis
14 12 (10.81%) SaaS
14 12 (10.81%) Software Engineering
15 11 (9.91%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (9.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 10 (9.01%) AWS

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 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 111 (100.00%) Azure
2 21 (18.92%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (17.12%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (16.22%) IaaS
5 16 (14.41%) Azure AKS
6 14 (12.61%) Entra ID
6 14 (12.61%) PaaS
7 12 (10.81%) SaaS
8 11 (9.91%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (9.01%) AWS
10 9 (8.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 7 (6.31%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (6.31%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (4.50%) Azure Storage
13 5 (4.50%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
14 4 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
15 2 (1.80%) Azure Functions
15 2 (1.80%) Datadog
15 2 (1.80%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.41%) Firewall
2 6 (5.41%) VPN
3 5 (4.50%) DNS
4 4 (3.60%) BGP
5 1 (0.90%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.31%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.41%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Git
2 1 (0.90%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.90%) GitLab
General
1 16 (14.41%) Finance
2 15 (13.51%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.11%) Billing
4 5 (4.50%) Law
5 3 (2.70%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.90%) Advertising
6 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.71%) .NET
2 5 (4.50%) ARM Templates
3 4 (3.60%) .NET Core
3 4 (3.60%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.70%) JSON
5 1 (0.90%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.41%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.50%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.50%) Windows
2 2 (1.80%) Linux
3 1 (0.90%) VMS
3 1 (0.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (38.74%) DevOps
2 31 (27.93%) CI/CD
3 24 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (14.41%) Data Pipeline
6 15 (13.51%) Containerisation
7 13 (11.71%) Analytics
7 13 (11.71%) Root Cause Analysis
8 12 (10.81%) Software Engineering
9 11 (9.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (8.11%) Cost Management
10 9 (8.11%) Data Modelling
10 9 (8.11%) ETL
11 8 (7.21%) Agile
11 8 (7.21%) Cloud Security
12 7 (6.31%) Platform Engineering
13 6 (5.41%) FinOps
13 6 (5.41%) RBAC
13 6 (5.41%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (17.12%) PowerShell
2 14 (12.61%) Python
2 14 (12.61%) SQL
3 10 (9.01%) C#
4 8 (7.21%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.61%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.01%) Azure Certification
4 6 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.41%) Degree
5 1 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.90%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.50%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.60%) NIST
2 4 (3.60%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (9.01%) Docker
2 5 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (25.23%) Terraform
2 18 (16.22%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.90%) Packer
Vendors
1 53 (47.75%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.21%) Cisco
2 8 (7.21%) Palo Alto
3 6 (5.41%) Splunk
4 5 (4.50%) CheckPoint
4 5 (4.50%) LogRhythm
4 5 (4.50%) Tenable
4 5 (4.50%) VMware
5 3 (2.70%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.80%) Oracle
7 1 (0.90%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.90%) Databricks
7 1 (0.90%) New Relic