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 £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 March 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 148 244
Rank change year-on-year -20 +96 -1
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 33 14 27
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.50% 0.51% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.55% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 28 14 26
10th Percentile £47,350 £48,875 £51,875
25th Percentile £52,188 £68,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +15.38% +6.12%
75th Percentile £64,063 £81,250 £74,375
90th Percentile £78,250 £86,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +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 6,244 2,531 7,725
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.80% 92.98% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 4,355 1,623 6,023
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,568 £64,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,150 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.19%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 +1 18 £60,000 -22.58% 6
Cornwall - 5 £47,000 - 1
Somerset - 5 £55,000 - 3
Gloucestershire 0 2 £68,750 +43.98% 1
Wiltshire - 2 £58,750 -
Devon -17 1 £57,500 -23.33%
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 March 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 33 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (48.48%) DevOps
3 15 (45.45%) Security Cleared
4 10 (30.30%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (27.27%) Microsoft
5 9 (27.27%) SC Cleared
6 8 (24.24%) Active Directory
6 8 (24.24%) Terraform
7 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
7 7 (21.21%) Docker
8 6 (18.18%) Windows
8 6 (18.18%) Windows Server
9 5 (15.15%) Azure Certification
9 5 (15.15%) Entra ID
9 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (15.15%) Linux
9 5 (15.15%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (12.12%) Cloud Security
10 4 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (12.12%) DevSecOps
10 4 (12.12%) ITIL
10 4 (12.12%) JIRA
10 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
10 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
11 3 (9.09%) ARM Templates
11 3 (9.09%) AWS
11 3 (9.09%) Azure AKS
11 3 (9.09%) Bash
11 3 (9.09%) Bicep

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 (3.03%) Apache
1 1 (3.03%) Confluence
1 1 (3.03%) Drupal
1 1 (3.03%) IIS
1 1 (3.03%) nginx
1 1 (3.03%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 33 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (30.30%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (15.15%) Entra ID
3 5 (15.15%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (9.09%) AWS
4 3 (9.09%) Azure AKS
4 3 (9.09%) GitHub
4 3 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (6.06%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.03%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Storage
6 1 (3.03%) Datadog
6 1 (3.03%) GCP
6 1 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) DNS
1 3 (9.09%) Firewall
1 3 (9.09%) Network Security
1 3 (9.09%) VPN
2 1 (3.03%) DHCP
2 1 (3.03%) Ethernet
2 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.03%) VLAN
2 1 (3.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.03%) InterSystems Cache
1 1 (3.03%) Redis
1 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) JIRA
2 1 (3.03%) Gatling
2 1 (3.03%) JMeter
2 1 (3.03%) Vagrant
General
1 3 (9.09%) Automotive
2 2 (6.06%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) ARM Templates
2 2 (6.06%) WAMP
2 2 (6.06%) YAML
3 1 (3.03%) .NET
3 1 (3.03%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.03%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
1 2 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Windows
1 6 (18.18%) Windows Server
2 5 (15.15%) Linux
3 2 (6.06%) VMS
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) DevOps
2 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
3 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (12.12%) Cloud Security
4 4 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (12.12%) DevSecOps
4 4 (12.12%) ITIL
5 3 (9.09%) Cloud Operations
5 3 (9.09%) Containerisation
5 3 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (9.09%) Edge Computing
5 3 (9.09%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
5 3 (9.09%) High Availability
5 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (9.09%) Service Management
5 3 (9.09%) Software Licensing
6 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (6.06%) OWASP
6 2 (6.06%) RBAC
6 2 (6.06%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
2 3 (9.09%) Bash
2 3 (9.09%) Bicep
3 2 (6.06%) Python
3 2 (6.06%) SQL
4 1 (3.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 9 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 5 (15.15%) Azure Certification
3 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (6.06%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (24.24%) Active Directory
2 7 (21.21%) Docker
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Terraform
2 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.03%) Ansible
3 1 (3.03%) Consul
3 1 (3.03%) Grafana
3 1 (3.03%) Packer
3 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.03%) Puppet
3 1 (3.03%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.03%) Google
2 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.03%) TOWER Software