Microsoft Purview Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Purview (formerly Azure Purview)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Microsoft Purview skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 288 274
Rank change year-on-year +34 -14 +143
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Purview 17 7 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.16% 0.077% 0.085%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.53% 0.23% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 14 7 3
10th Percentile £52,500 - -
25th Percentile £53,813 £49,775 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £53,050 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.46% -7.74% -26.98%
75th Percentile £69,840 £80,038 £61,250
90th Percentile - £103,750 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -15.65%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

Microsoft Purview falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,196 2,992 2,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 30.89% 32.79% 32.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,715 1,619 2,215
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £69,670 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.89% -7.31%

Microsoft Purview
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft Purview relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Microsoft Purview job vacancy trend in the South East

Microsoft Purview
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Purview.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Purview in the South East over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Purview in the South East

Microsoft Purview
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 Microsoft Purview within the South East region over the 6 months to 6 January 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
Berkshire - 6 £69,840 - 3
Thames Valley - 6 £69,840 - 4
Home Counties - 3 £55,000 -
Middlesex - 3 - -
Hampshire +32 1 £77,500 +46.09%
East Sussex - 1 £62,500 -
Microsoft Purview
England

Microsoft Purview
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:

Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Power BI
1 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.76%) Big Data
3 1 (5.88%) Delta Lake
3 1 (5.88%) Metadata
3 1 (5.88%) Star Schema
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (23.53%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Analyst
1 5 (29.41%) Lead
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Project Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Data Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Governance Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Risk Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Data Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Data Quality Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Quality Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (17.65%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (11.76%) Insider Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Data Governance
1 8 (47.06%) Mentoring
2 5 (29.41%) Agile
2 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (29.41%) Data Management
2 5 (29.41%) Data Privacy
2 5 (29.41%) Data Protection
2 5 (29.41%) Data Security
2 5 (29.41%) Risk Management
3 4 (23.53%) Data Governance Strategy
3 4 (23.53%) Data Lineage
3 4 (23.53%) Data Validation
3 4 (23.53%) Information Security
3 4 (23.53%) Roadmaps
3 4 (23.53%) Validation
4 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
4 3 (17.65%) Creative Thinking
4 3 (17.65%) Cyber Assurance
4 3 (17.65%) Data Collection
4 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Python
1 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) CISSP
2 3 (17.65%) CISM
2 3 (17.65%) CRISC
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) Data Quality
2 4 (23.53%) Accessibility
3 3 (17.65%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (17.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (5.88%) GDPR
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Databricks
2 2 (11.76%) McAfee
2 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.76%) Symantec
3 1 (5.88%) Splunk