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 12 August 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 165 210
Rank change year-on-year +9 +45 -6
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 81 10 38
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.91% 0.29% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 0.31% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 66 9 28
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,100 £43,875
25th Percentile £52,813 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +33.33% -19.66%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £63,063
90th Percentile £96,250 £89,250 £73,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -0.65%

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 8,406 3,193 7,686
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.96% 91.07% 95.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5,735 2,139 5,511
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,438 £32,000 £38,572
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,894 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% -2.21% -8.41%
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 12 August 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 12 August 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 27 £85,000 - 5
Devon -7 12 £97,500 +56.00%
Gloucestershire -32 11 £85,000 +77.08% 3
Wiltshire - 11 £75,000 -
Somerset - 9 - - 1
Dorset +5 6 £45,000 -
Cornwall - 5 £47,000 -
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 August 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 81 (100.00%) Azure
2 34 (41.98%) DevOps
3 23 (28.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 22 (27.16%) Microsoft
5 18 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
6 16 (19.75%) Terraform
7 15 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (18.52%) Linux
8 13 (16.05%) Active Directory
9 11 (13.58%) Entra ID
10 10 (12.35%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (12.35%) Docker
10 10 (12.35%) JIRA
11 9 (11.11%) Edge Computing
11 9 (11.11%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
11 9 (11.11%) Network Security
11 9 (11.11%) Python
11 9 (11.11%) Security Cleared
11 9 (11.11%) Software Licensing
12 7 (8.64%) Analytics
12 7 (8.64%) AWS
12 7 (8.64%) Azure Certification
12 7 (8.64%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (8.64%) CI/CD
12 7 (8.64%) Data Pipeline
12 7 (8.64%) ETL
12 7 (8.64%) PaaS
12 7 (8.64%) SC Cleared
13 6 (7.41%) 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 (2.47%) Apache
2 1 (1.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.23%) Drupal
2 1 (1.23%) IIS
2 1 (1.23%) nginx
2 1 (1.23%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 81 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (13.58%) Entra ID
5 7 (8.64%) AWS
5 7 (8.64%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (8.64%) PaaS
6 3 (3.70%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (1.23%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.23%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (1.23%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.23%) CloudFront
7 1 (1.23%) GitHub
7 1 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.47%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.23%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (1.23%) MySQL
3 1 (1.23%) Power BI
3 1 (1.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (12.35%) JIRA
2 1 (1.23%) Gatling
2 1 (1.23%) JMeter
2 1 (1.23%) Vagrant
General
1 16 (19.75%) Finance
2 9 (11.11%) Automotive
3 1 (1.23%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.41%) Kafka
1 6 (7.41%) Keycloak
2 2 (2.47%) .NET
2 2 (2.47%) WAMP
3 1 (1.23%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.23%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.23%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.23%) LAMP
3 1 (1.23%) Memcached
3 1 (1.23%) Middleware
3 1 (1.23%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.64%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (2.47%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.52%) Linux
2 1 (1.23%) VMS
2 1 (1.23%) Windows
2 1 (1.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (41.98%) DevOps
2 23 (28.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 18 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
4 10 (12.35%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (11.11%) Edge Computing
5 9 (11.11%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
5 9 (11.11%) Software Licensing
6 7 (8.64%) Analytics
6 7 (8.64%) CI/CD
6 7 (8.64%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (8.64%) ETL
7 6 (7.41%) Data Security
7 6 (7.41%) Decision-Making
7 6 (7.41%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 6 (7.41%) ETL Development
7 6 (7.41%) Workflow
8 4 (4.94%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (4.94%) Software Engineering
9 3 (3.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (3.70%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.11%) Python
2 6 (7.41%) Go
2 6 (7.41%) SQL
3 5 (6.17%) PHP
4 3 (3.70%) C#
5 1 (1.23%) Bash
5 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.64%) Azure Certification
2 7 (8.64%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.41%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.23%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.23%) Degree
4 1 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (16.05%) Active Directory
2 10 (12.35%) Docker
3 2 (2.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (19.75%) Terraform
2 4 (4.94%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.23%) Ansible
3 1 (1.23%) Consul
3 1 (1.23%) Grafana
3 1 (1.23%) Packer
3 1 (1.23%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (27.16%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.23%) Google
3 1 (1.23%) TOWER Software
3 1 (1.23%) Zoho