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 £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 March 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 201 275
Rank change year-on-year +3 +74 -9
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 89 49 101
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.70% 0.74% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.86% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 87 47 94
10th Percentile £41,250 £50,900 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £57,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +27.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70,000 £74,375 £73,438
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +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 11,955 5,668 14,116
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.80% 85.27% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 7,938 3,547 10,634
10th Percentile £29,750 £30,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £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 £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.09%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 +17 38 £50,000 -33.33% 15
Buckinghamshire -11 21 £50,000 -33.33% 11
West Sussex -6 14 £70,000 +40.00%
Berkshire +3 13 £42,500 -43.33%
Surrey -23 12 £55,000 -21.43%
East Sussex -3 11 £59,000 -
Hampshire -18 10 £80,000 +20.75% 3
Kent - 4 £57,500 -
Oxfordshire - 4 £75,000 - 4
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 March 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 89 (100.00%) Azure
2 48 (53.93%) Microsoft
3 36 (40.45%) DevOps
4 27 (30.34%) CI/CD
5 24 (26.97%) Terraform
6 23 (25.84%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (23.60%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (23.60%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (23.60%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (22.47%) PowerShell
9 19 (21.35%) Firewall
10 17 (19.10%) Entra ID
11 16 (17.98%) IaaS
12 15 (16.85%) PaaS
13 14 (15.73%) Kubernetes
14 13 (14.61%) Azure AKS
14 13 (14.61%) Data Pipeline
14 13 (14.61%) Python
14 13 (14.61%) SQL
15 12 (13.48%) Analytics
15 12 (13.48%) Containerisation
16 11 (12.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 10 (11.24%) Azure Monitor
17 10 (11.24%) Bicep
17 10 (11.24%) Root Cause Analysis
17 10 (11.24%) SaaS
18 9 (10.11%) .NET
18 9 (10.11%) Cost Management
18 9 (10.11%) Data Modelling
18 9 (10.11%) Docker

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 7 (7.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 89 (100.00%) Azure
2 21 (23.60%) Azure DevOps
2 21 (23.60%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (19.10%) Entra ID
4 16 (17.98%) IaaS
5 15 (16.85%) PaaS
6 13 (14.61%) Azure AKS
7 10 (11.24%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (11.24%) SaaS
8 8 (8.99%) AWS
9 7 (7.87%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (6.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 6 (6.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (5.62%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 4 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (3.37%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (3.37%) Azure Storage
14 1 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
14 1 (1.12%) Datadog
14 1 (1.12%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 19 (21.35%) Firewall
2 5 (5.62%) DNS
2 5 (5.62%) VPN
3 3 (3.37%) BGP
4 2 (2.25%) DHCP
5 1 (1.12%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.74%) Data Lake
1 6 (6.74%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (12.36%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.24%) Finance
3 9 (10.11%) Billing
4 3 (3.37%) Law
5 2 (2.25%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.12%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.11%) .NET
2 5 (5.62%) .NET Core
2 5 (5.62%) AngularJS
2 5 (5.62%) ARM Templates
3 3 (3.37%) JSON
4 1 (1.12%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.12%) PySpark
4 1 (1.12%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.99%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.87%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.62%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.12%) CMDB
4 1 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.87%) Windows
2 2 (2.25%) Linux
2 2 (2.25%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (40.45%) DevOps
2 27 (30.34%) CI/CD
3 23 (25.84%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (23.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (14.61%) Data Pipeline
6 12 (13.48%) Analytics
6 12 (13.48%) Containerisation
7 11 (12.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (11.24%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (10.11%) Cost Management
9 9 (10.11%) Data Modelling
9 9 (10.11%) ETL
10 8 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (7.87%) Software Engineering
12 6 (6.74%) Cloud Security
12 6 (6.74%) Data Governance
13 5 (5.62%) FinOps
13 5 (5.62%) SIEM
13 5 (5.62%) SOAR
13 5 (5.62%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (22.47%) PowerShell
2 13 (14.61%) Python
2 13 (14.61%) SQL
3 10 (11.24%) Bicep
4 5 (5.62%) C#
5 1 (1.12%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (7.87%) SC Cleared
1 7 (7.87%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.62%) Azure Certification
2 5 (5.62%) Degree
3 4 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.12%) CCNA
4 1 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.12%) HND
4 1 (1.12%) MCSA
4 1 (1.12%) MCSE
4 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (1.12%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.62%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.49%) NIST
2 4 (4.49%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.37%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.37%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (10.11%) Docker
2 4 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.37%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.12%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (26.97%) Terraform
2 14 (15.73%) Kubernetes
3 8 (8.99%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 48 (53.93%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.99%) Cisco
2 8 (8.99%) Palo Alto
3 5 (5.62%) CheckPoint
3 5 (5.62%) LogRhythm
3 5 (5.62%) Splunk
3 5 (5.62%) Tenable
4 4 (4.49%) VMware
5 3 (3.37%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.25%) New Relic
7 1 (1.12%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.12%) Databricks
7 1 (1.12%) Dynatrace