Azure Engineer Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > South West

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in the South West is £55,891 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 199 184
Rank change year-on-year +40 -15 +102
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 10 41 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.29% 0.55% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.58% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 9 28 29
10th Percentile - £45,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,813 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,891 £53,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.98% -17.31% +15.56%
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,250 £75,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% -6.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 3,236 7,130 4,462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 94.88% 93.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,122 4,624 3,489
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £52,000 £54,590
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% -4.74% +9.18%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Azure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in the South West

Azure Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in the South West.

Salary distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in the South West

Azure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Engineer in the South West

Azure Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. 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
Bristol +42 3 £85,000 +36.00% 4
Gloucestershire +30 3 £55,000 -8.33% 1
Devon +20 3 £55,000 +10.00%
Dorset +22 1 - - 1
Azure Engineer
England

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, Azure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Terraform
3 5 (50.00%) Finance
4 4 (40.00%) Migration
4 4 (40.00%) .NET
4 4 (40.00%) Windows
4 4 (40.00%) AWS
4 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (40.00%) Docker
4 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
4 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (30.00%) Azure Certification
5 3 (30.00%) Ansible
5 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Agile
5 3 (30.00%) VMware
5 3 (30.00%) Firewall
5 3 (30.00%) Python
6 2 (20.00%) Linux

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (20.00%) IaaS
4 2 (20.00%) PaaS
4 2 (20.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Stack
5 1 (10.00%) Datadog
5 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (10.00%) GCP
5 1 (10.00%) Google Workspace
5 1 (10.00%) Nutanix
5 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) SAN
3 1 (10.00%) NAS
3 1 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Electronics
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (10.00%) ADO
3 1 (10.00%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (40.00%) Migration
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (10.00%) CQRS
6 1 (10.00%) Customer Engagement
6 1 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (10.00%) Programme Management
6 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) Security Architecture
6 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) Bicep
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (20.00%) CCNA
2 2 (20.00%) CCNP
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (20.00%) CISSP
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) SANS
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
2 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (20.00%) vSphere
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (30.00%) Ansible
4 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco
3 2 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (20.00%) HP
4 1 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (10.00%) SAP
4 1 (10.00%) Veeam