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 £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 September 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 159 206
Rank change year-on-year -6 +47 -23
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 80 10 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.80% 0.29% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.31% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 66 9 28
10th Percentile £45,000 - £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £55,891 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +47.61% +3.98% -17.31%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -0.54%

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 9,266 3,214 7,246
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 92.36% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 6,415 2,119 4,782
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,272 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.49% -12.94% -5.45%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.45% - -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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -15 27 £85,000 - 3
Gloucestershire -42 14 £85,000 +54.55% 1
Devon -17 12 £97,500 +77.27%
Wiltshire - 11 £75,000 -
Somerset - 8 - - 1
Dorset +1 6 £45,000 -
Cornwall - 2 £49,623 -
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 September 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 80 (100.00%) Azure
2 33 (41.25%) DevOps
3 23 (28.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 22 (27.50%) Microsoft
5 18 (22.50%) Platform Engineering
6 17 (21.25%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (20.00%) Terraform
8 14 (17.50%) Linux
9 13 (16.25%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (16.25%) Python
10 12 (15.00%) Active Directory
11 11 (13.75%) Analytics
11 11 (13.75%) Azure Certification
11 11 (13.75%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (13.75%) Data Pipeline
11 11 (13.75%) ETL
11 11 (13.75%) Security Cleared
11 11 (13.75%) Workflow
12 10 (12.50%) Data Security
12 10 (12.50%) Decision-Making
12 10 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 10 (12.50%) DV Cleared
12 10 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (12.50%) Entra ID
12 10 (12.50%) ETL Development
12 10 (12.50%) Go
12 10 (12.50%) Kafka
12 10 (12.50%) Keycloak
12 10 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (12.50%) SC Cleared

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 (2.50%) Apache
2 1 (1.25%) Confluence
2 1 (1.25%) Drupal
2 1 (1.25%) IIS
2 1 (1.25%) nginx
2 1 (1.25%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 80 (100.00%) Azure
2 17 (21.25%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (16.25%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (13.75%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (12.50%) Entra ID
6 7 (8.75%) PaaS
7 5 (6.25%) AWS
8 3 (3.75%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.50%) GitHub
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.25%) CloudFront
10 1 (1.25%) Datadog
10 1 (1.25%) GCP
10 1 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
1 10 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.25%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (1.25%) MySQL
3 1 (1.25%) Power BI
3 1 (1.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (11.25%) JIRA
2 1 (1.25%) Gatling
2 1 (1.25%) JMeter
2 1 (1.25%) Vagrant
General
1 18 (22.50%) Finance
2 8 (10.00%) Automotive
3 1 (1.25%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.00%) Terraform
2 10 (12.50%) Kafka
2 10 (12.50%) Keycloak
3 2 (2.50%) .NET
3 2 (2.50%) React
4 1 (1.25%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.25%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.25%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.25%) LAMP
4 1 (1.25%) Memcached
4 1 (1.25%) Middleware
4 1 (1.25%) Node.js
4 1 (1.25%) PySpark
4 1 (1.25%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.50%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.50%) Linux
2 1 (1.25%) VMS
2 1 (1.25%) Windows
2 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (41.25%) DevOps
2 23 (28.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 18 (22.50%) Platform Engineering
4 11 (13.75%) Analytics
4 11 (13.75%) Data Pipeline
4 11 (13.75%) ETL
4 11 (13.75%) Workflow
5 10 (12.50%) Data Security
5 10 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 10 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 10 (12.50%) ETL Development
6 9 (11.25%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (10.00%) Edge Computing
7 8 (10.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
7 8 (10.00%) Software Licensing
8 7 (8.75%) CI/CD
9 4 (5.00%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (5.00%) Software Engineering
10 3 (3.75%) Agile
10 3 (3.75%) AI
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.25%) Python
2 10 (12.50%) Go
3 5 (6.25%) PHP
3 5 (6.25%) SQL
4 3 (3.75%) C#
5 2 (2.50%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.25%) Bash
6 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (13.75%) Azure Certification
1 11 (13.75%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 10 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.25%) Degree
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (11.25%) Docker
3 2 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.25%) Ansible
2 1 (1.25%) Consul
2 1 (1.25%) Grafana
2 1 (1.25%) Packer
2 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (27.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.25%) Google
3 1 (1.25%) TOWER Software
3 1 (1.25%) Zoho