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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 April 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 144 253
Rank change year-on-year -18 +109 -18
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 43 13 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.59% 0.49% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.53% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 35 13 25
10th Percentile £48,400 £48,000 £51,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £68,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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 6,894 2,451 8,351
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 92.32% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,734 1,639 6,399
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,319 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.04%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 0 22 £60,000 -22.58% 9
Somerset - 8 £55,000 - 4
Cornwall - 5 £47,000 - 1
Devon -22 3 £60,000 -20.00% 3
Wiltshire - 3 £60,000 - 3
Gloucestershire -21 2 £68,750 +43.98%
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 April 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 43 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (46.51%) DevOps
3 15 (34.88%) Security Cleared
4 14 (32.56%) Microsoft
5 13 (30.23%) Active Directory
5 13 (30.23%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (23.26%) Docker
6 10 (23.26%) Entra ID
7 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
7 9 (20.93%) Terraform
8 8 (18.60%) Linux
8 8 (18.60%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (16.28%) CI/CD
9 7 (16.28%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (16.28%) JIRA
10 6 (13.95%) Edge Computing
10 6 (13.95%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
10 6 (13.95%) Network Security
10 6 (13.95%) Software Licensing
10 6 (13.95%) Windows
10 6 (13.95%) Windows Server
11 5 (11.63%) Azure Certification
11 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (9.30%) Cloud Security
12 4 (9.30%) DevSecOps
12 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 4 (9.30%) ITIL
12 4 (9.30%) Kubernetes
12 4 (9.30%) Platform Engineering

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 1 (2.33%) Apache
1 1 (2.33%) Confluence
1 1 (2.33%) Drupal
1 1 (2.33%) IIS
1 1 (2.33%) nginx
1 1 (2.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 43 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (30.23%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (23.26%) Entra ID
4 8 (18.60%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.98%) AWS
5 3 (6.98%) Azure AKS
5 3 (6.98%) GitHub
5 3 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (4.65%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.33%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (2.33%) CloudFront
7 1 (2.33%) Datadog
7 1 (2.33%) GCP
7 1 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.95%) Network Security
2 3 (6.98%) DNS
2 3 (6.98%) Firewall
2 3 (6.98%) VPN
3 1 (2.33%) DHCP
3 1 (2.33%) Ethernet
3 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.33%) VLAN
3 1 (2.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.33%) InterSystems Cache
1 1 (2.33%) Redis
1 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) JIRA
2 1 (2.33%) Gatling
2 1 (2.33%) JMeter
2 1 (2.33%) Vagrant
General
1 6 (13.95%) Automotive
2 2 (4.65%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.33%) Finance
3 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.98%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.65%) WAMP
2 2 (4.65%) YAML
3 1 (2.33%) .NET
3 1 (2.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.33%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
1 2 (4.65%) Data Centre
1 2 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.33%) IoT
2 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.60%) Linux
2 6 (13.95%) Windows
2 6 (13.95%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.65%) VMS
4 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (46.51%) DevOps
2 7 (16.28%) CI/CD
2 7 (16.28%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (13.95%) Edge Computing
3 6 (13.95%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 6 (13.95%) Software Licensing
4 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (9.30%) Cloud Security
5 4 (9.30%) DevSecOps
5 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (9.30%) ITIL
5 4 (9.30%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (6.98%) Cloud Operations
6 3 (6.98%) Containerisation
6 3 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (6.98%) High Availability
6 3 (6.98%) Service Management
7 2 (4.65%) Incident Response
7 2 (4.65%) RBAC
7 2 (4.65%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.30%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.98%) Bash
2 3 (6.98%) Bicep
3 2 (4.65%) Python
3 2 (4.65%) SQL
4 1 (2.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (34.88%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.63%) Azure Certification
3 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.65%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (30.23%) Active Directory
2 10 (23.26%) Docker
3 2 (4.65%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (20.93%) Terraform
2 4 (9.30%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.33%) Ansible
3 1 (2.33%) Consul
3 1 (2.33%) Grafana
3 1 (2.33%) Packer
3 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.33%) Puppet
3 1 (2.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (32.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.65%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.33%) Google
3 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.33%) TOWER Software
3 1 (2.33%) Zoho