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 16 November 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 175 182
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +93
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 10 40 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.23% 0.67% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.71% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 9 28 31
10th Percentile - £45,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,891 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% -15.38% +15.56%
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £75,375 £87,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -7.14%

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 3,954 5,635 4,338
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.15% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,673 3,447 3,342
10th Percentile £27,707 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,000 £40,652
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,455 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.04% -4.17% -

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 16 November 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 16 November 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
Gloucestershire +29 2 £55,445 -7.59% 1
Bristol +19 2 £83,750 +19.64% 4
Devon -1 2 £56,250 -25.00% 1
Somerset -17 2 £55,000 +12.82% 2
Wiltshire +15 1 £60,000 +18.81% 4
Dorset -2 1 - -
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 November 2025, 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 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (60.00%) Docker
3 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
4 5 (50.00%) Bicep
4 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 5 (50.00%) Terraform
5 4 (40.00%) ARM Templates
5 4 (40.00%) GitHub
5 4 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (40.00%) Migration
6 3 (30.00%) .NET
6 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
6 3 (30.00%) Agile
6 3 (30.00%) Azure AKS
6 3 (30.00%) Azure Certification
6 3 (30.00%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (30.00%) Bash
6 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (30.00%) Python
7 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
7 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation

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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) GitHub
3 4 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (30.00%) Azure AKS
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (20.00%) IaaS
5 2 (20.00%) PaaS
5 2 (20.00%) Serverless
6 1 (10.00%) AWS
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Stack
6 1 (10.00%) Datadog
6 1 (10.00%) GCP
6 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
6 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) ARM Templates
2 3 (30.00%) .NET
3 2 (20.00%) YAML
4 1 (10.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) VMS
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
1 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Migration
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (20.00%) High Availability
5 2 (20.00%) RBAC
6 1 (10.00%) AI
6 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (10.00%) Line Management
6 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Bicep
1 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (30.00%) Bash
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
2 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce