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 10 May 2026.

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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 217 290
Rank change year-on-year +44 +73 -31
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 128 52 92
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.88% 0.67% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.80% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 121 31 85
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,750
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 13,729 6,522 15,423
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 84.48% 93.89%
Number of salaries quoted 9,277 3,673 11,292
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,400 £53,818
% change year-on-year -7.41% +10.37% -11.48%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 +53 56 £55,000 -24.14% 12
Buckinghamshire +25 36 £50,000 -33.33% 4
Hampshire -26 23 £75,000 +15.38% 5
Surrey -2 20 £55,000 -21.43% 2
West Sussex -12 14 £70,000 +40.00%
Berkshire +18 11 £48,500 -30.71% 4
East Sussex -8 11 £59,000 -
Oxfordshire - 9 £75,000 - 4
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 10 May 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.

1 128 (100.00%) Azure
2 57 (44.53%) Microsoft
3 49 (38.28%) DevOps
4 36 (28.13%) CI/CD
5 34 (26.56%) Terraform
6 25 (19.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (17.97%) Kubernetes
9 21 (16.41%) Azure AKS
9 21 (16.41%) IaaS
9 21 (16.41%) PowerShell
10 19 (14.84%) Containerisation
10 19 (14.84%) Data Pipeline
10 19 (14.84%) Security Cleared
11 18 (14.06%) SC Cleared
12 17 (13.28%) Firewall
13 16 (12.50%) .NET
13 16 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
14 15 (11.72%) Azure Certification
14 15 (11.72%) PaaS
14 15 (11.72%) Software Engineering
14 15 (11.72%) SQL
15 14 (10.94%) Python
16 13 (10.16%) Analytics
16 13 (10.16%) C#
17 12 (9.38%) Agile
17 12 (9.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 12 (9.38%) Azure Key Vault

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 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 128 (100.00%) Azure
2 24 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (16.41%) Azure AKS
3 21 (16.41%) IaaS
4 16 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (11.72%) PaaS
6 12 (9.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 12 (9.38%) Azure Key Vault
6 12 (9.38%) Azure Monitor
6 12 (9.38%) SaaS
7 11 (8.59%) AWS
7 11 (8.59%) Entra ID
8 8 (6.25%) Azure Storage
9 7 (5.47%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (4.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (3.91%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 4 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (2.34%) Azure Functions
13 3 (2.34%) Datadog
13 3 (2.34%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (13.28%) Firewall
2 8 (6.25%) DNS
3 7 (5.47%) VPN
4 4 (3.13%) BGP
5 2 (1.56%) WAN
6 1 (0.78%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.03%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.69%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (3.13%) Git
2 2 (1.56%) GitLab
3 1 (0.78%) Artifactory
General
1 22 (17.19%) Finance
2 16 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.03%) Billing
4 8 (6.25%) Law
5 3 (2.34%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.56%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.78%) Advertising
7 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.50%) .NET
2 5 (3.91%) ARM Templates
3 4 (3.13%) .NET Core
3 4 (3.13%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.34%) JSON
5 2 (1.56%) YAML
6 1 (0.78%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.69%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.91%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.91%) Windows
2 3 (2.34%) Linux
3 2 (1.56%) VMS
4 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (38.28%) DevOps
2 36 (28.13%) CI/CD
3 25 (19.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (14.84%) Containerisation
5 19 (14.84%) Data Pipeline
6 16 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
7 15 (11.72%) Software Engineering
8 13 (10.16%) Analytics
9 12 (9.38%) Agile
9 12 (9.38%) Cloud Security
9 12 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 11 (8.59%) Platform Engineering
11 10 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (7.03%) Cost Management
12 9 (7.03%) Data Modelling
12 9 (7.03%) ETL
13 8 (6.25%) High Availability
13 8 (6.25%) Load Balancing
14 7 (5.47%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 21 (16.41%) PowerShell
2 15 (11.72%) SQL
3 14 (10.94%) Python
4 13 (10.16%) C#
5 8 (6.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 19 (14.84%) Security Cleared
2 18 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 15 (11.72%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (5.47%) Degree
5 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.78%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.91%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.13%) NIST
2 4 (3.13%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.34%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.34%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (7.81%) Docker
2 6 (4.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (26.56%) Terraform
2 23 (17.97%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.34%) Ansible
4 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.78%) Packer
Vendors
1 57 (44.53%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.25%) Cisco
2 8 (6.25%) Palo Alto
3 6 (4.69%) Splunk
3 6 (4.69%) VMware
4 5 (3.91%) CheckPoint
4 5 (3.91%) LogRhythm
4 5 (3.91%) Tenable
5 3 (2.34%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.34%) Oracle
5 3 (2.34%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.78%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.78%) Databricks
6 1 (0.78%) New Relic