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 £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 July 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 159 222
Rank change year-on-year +15 +63 -13
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 84 9 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.99% 0.27% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 0.29% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 68 8 25
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,025 £42,750
25th Percentile £51,093 £50,938 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +13.64% -15.84%
75th Percentile £85,000 £79,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,750 £74,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 8,007 3,099 8,454
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 91.58% 95.85%
Number of salaries quoted 5,464 2,094 6,248
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,013 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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 West.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend 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 24 July 2026.

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 24 July 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
Bristol +8 33 £80,000 -5.88% 1
Wiltshire - 11 £75,000 -
Gloucestershire -23 10 £85,000 +77.08% 5
Devon -16 9 £60,000 -4.00% 4
Somerset - 9 - -
Dorset +2 6 £45,000 -
Cornwall - 6 £49,623 -
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 July 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 West region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 84 (100.00%) Azure
2 34 (40.48%) DevOps
3 24 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 22 (26.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 19 (22.62%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (17.86%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (17.86%) Terraform
8 14 (16.67%) Linux
9 13 (15.48%) Active Directory
10 12 (14.29%) Security Cleared
11 11 (13.10%) Entra ID
12 10 (11.90%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (11.90%) Docker
12 10 (11.90%) JIRA
13 9 (10.71%) Edge Computing
13 9 (10.71%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
13 9 (10.71%) Network Security
13 9 (10.71%) SC Cleared
13 9 (10.71%) Software Licensing
14 8 (9.52%) CI/CD
14 8 (9.52%) Python
15 7 (8.33%) Azure Certification
15 7 (8.33%) SQL
16 6 (7.14%) Analytics
16 6 (7.14%) AWS
16 6 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
16 6 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
16 6 (7.14%) ETL
17 5 (5.95%) Data Security

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (2.38%) Apache
2 1 (1.19%) Confluence
2 1 (1.19%) Drupal
2 1 (1.19%) IIS
2 1 (1.19%) nginx
2 1 (1.19%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 84 (100.00%) Azure
2 19 (22.62%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (13.10%) Entra ID
5 6 (7.14%) AWS
5 6 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (4.76%) PaaS
7 3 (3.57%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.19%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.19%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 1 (1.19%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (1.19%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (1.19%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.19%) GCP
8 1 (1.19%) GitHub
8 1 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.71%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.95%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.19%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.19%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (1.19%) MySQL
3 1 (1.19%) Power BI
3 1 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (11.90%) JIRA
2 1 (1.19%) Gatling
2 1 (1.19%) JMeter
2 1 (1.19%) Vagrant
General
1 13 (15.48%) Finance
2 9 (10.71%) Automotive
3 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.19%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.19%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.95%) Kafka
1 5 (5.95%) Keycloak
2 3 (3.57%) WAMP
3 2 (2.38%) .NET
4 1 (1.19%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.19%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.19%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.19%) LAMP
4 1 (1.19%) Memcached
4 1 (1.19%) Middleware
4 1 (1.19%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (2.38%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.19%) IoT
3 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (1.19%) VMS
2 1 (1.19%) Windows
2 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (40.48%) DevOps
2 22 (26.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 15 (17.86%) Platform Engineering
4 10 (11.90%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (10.71%) Edge Computing
5 9 (10.71%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
5 9 (10.71%) Software Licensing
6 8 (9.52%) CI/CD
7 6 (7.14%) Analytics
7 6 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (7.14%) ETL
8 5 (5.95%) Data Security
8 5 (5.95%) Decision-Making
8 5 (5.95%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 5 (5.95%) ETL Development
8 5 (5.95%) Workflow
9 4 (4.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (4.76%) Software Engineering
10 3 (3.57%) OWASP
10 3 (3.57%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.52%) Python
2 7 (8.33%) SQL
3 5 (5.95%) Go
3 5 (5.95%) PHP
4 3 (3.57%) C#
5 1 (1.19%) Bash
5 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 5 (5.95%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.19%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (15.48%) Active Directory
2 10 (11.90%) Docker
3 2 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (17.86%) Terraform
2 3 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.19%) Ansible
3 1 (1.19%) Consul
3 1 (1.19%) Grafana
3 1 (1.19%) Packer
3 1 (1.19%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.38%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.19%) Google
3 1 (1.19%) TOWER Software
3 1 (1.19%) Zoho