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 £56,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 March 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 207 266
Rank change year-on-year +11 +59 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 80 51 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.66% 0.71% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.82% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 79 47 91
10th Percentile £41,250 £51,800 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £57,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.29% +27.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,125 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £76,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 11,350 6,204 13,297
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 86.58% 93.76%
Number of salaries quoted 7,497 3,615 10,119
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,000 £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 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.69%

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 12 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 12 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 +6 29 £47,500 -33.33% 7
Berkshire +1 14 £43,750 -39.66%
West Sussex -1 14 £70,000 +40.00%
East Sussex +5 13 £59,000 - 1
Buckinghamshire +4 13 £50,000 -29.82% 4
Surrey -18 12 £55,000 -21.43% 1
Hampshire -12 8 £80,000 +18.52% 4
Kent -16 4 £57,500 -
Oxfordshire - 2 £73,750 - 3
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 80 (100.00%) Azure
2 43 (53.75%) Microsoft
3 32 (40.00%) DevOps
4 26 (32.50%) CI/CD
5 23 (28.75%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (27.50%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (25.00%) Terraform
8 19 (23.75%) Entra ID
8 19 (23.75%) Firewall
8 19 (23.75%) PowerShell
9 15 (18.75%) PaaS
10 14 (17.50%) IaaS
11 13 (16.25%) Kubernetes
11 13 (16.25%) SQL
12 11 (13.75%) .NET
12 11 (13.75%) Azure AKS
12 11 (13.75%) Containerisation
12 11 (13.75%) Python
12 11 (13.75%) SaaS
13 10 (12.50%) Analytics
13 10 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (12.50%) Docker
13 10 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 10 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
14 9 (11.25%) Bicep
14 9 (11.25%) Cost Management
14 9 (11.25%) Microsoft Exchange
15 8 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement

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 9 (11.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.25%) IIS
2 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 80 (100.00%) Azure
2 23 (28.75%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (27.50%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (23.75%) Entra ID
5 15 (18.75%) PaaS
6 14 (17.50%) IaaS
7 11 (13.75%) Azure AKS
7 11 (13.75%) SaaS
8 10 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (6.25%) AWS
9 5 (6.25%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 4 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (3.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 1 (1.25%) Azure Key Vault
12 1 (1.25%) Azure Storage
12 1 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (1.25%) GCP
12 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 19 (23.75%) Firewall
2 5 (6.25%) VPN
3 3 (3.75%) DNS
4 2 (2.50%) BGP
4 2 (2.50%) DHCP
5 1 (1.25%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.75%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.25%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Git
General
1 10 (12.50%) Finance
1 10 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.25%) Billing
3 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.25%) Advertising
4 1 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.25%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.75%) .NET
2 6 (7.50%) .NET Core
2 6 (7.50%) AngularJS
3 5 (6.25%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.50%) JSON
5 1 (1.25%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.25%) PySpark
5 1 (1.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.25%) Onboarding
2 8 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.25%) CMDB
4 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.00%) Windows
2 2 (2.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.25%) Linux
3 1 (1.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (40.00%) DevOps
2 26 (32.50%) CI/CD
3 22 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (13.75%) Containerisation
6 10 (12.50%) Analytics
6 10 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (11.25%) Cost Management
8 8 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (10.00%) Software Engineering
9 7 (8.75%) Data Modelling
9 7 (8.75%) ETL
10 6 (7.50%) Cloud Security
10 6 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (6.25%) Cloud Operations
11 5 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (6.25%) Full-Stack Development
11 5 (6.25%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 19 (23.75%) PowerShell
2 13 (16.25%) SQL
3 11 (13.75%) Python
4 9 (11.25%) Bicep
5 5 (6.25%) C#
6 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (7.50%) SC Cleared
1 6 (7.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.25%) Degree
3 4 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.25%) CCNA
4 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.25%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.25%) HND
4 1 (1.25%) MCSA
4 1 (1.25%) MCSE
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (1.25%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.00%) NIST
2 4 (5.00%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.75%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.75%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (12.50%) Docker
2 3 (3.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 20 (25.00%) Terraform
2 13 (16.25%) Kubernetes
3 10 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 43 (53.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.75%) Cisco
2 7 (8.75%) Palo Alto
3 5 (6.25%) CheckPoint
3 5 (6.25%) LogRhythm
3 5 (6.25%) Splunk
3 5 (6.25%) Tenable
4 3 (3.75%) VMware
5 2 (2.50%) Databricks
5 2 (2.50%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.50%) New Relic
6 1 (1.25%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace