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 7 May 2026.

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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 140 261
Rank change year-on-year -6 +121 -45
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 61 12 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.79% 0.44% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 0.48% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 49 12 26
10th Percentile £50,448 £46,875 £45,625
25th Percentile £56,250 £54,375 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +13.73% +6.25%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,625 £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 7,228 2,519 8,571
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 92.54% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 4,958 1,661 6,487
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,000 £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% -11.18%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +6 31 £77,500 - 6
Somerset - 9 - - 4
Wiltshire - 7 £75,000 - 2
Devon -11 6 £60,000 -7.69% 2
Cornwall - 6 £49,623 -
Gloucestershire -29 2 £68,750 +43.98% 1
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 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 61 (100.00%) Azure
2 27 (44.26%) DevOps
3 18 (29.51%) Microsoft
4 16 (26.23%) Active Directory
5 15 (24.59%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (24.59%) Security Cleared
6 14 (22.95%) Terraform
7 13 (21.31%) Entra ID
8 11 (18.03%) Docker
8 11 (18.03%) Linux
8 11 (18.03%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (16.39%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (16.39%) JIRA
10 9 (14.75%) Edge Computing
10 9 (14.75%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
10 9 (14.75%) Network Security
10 9 (14.75%) SC Cleared
10 9 (14.75%) Software Licensing
11 8 (13.11%) Platform Engineering
12 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 6 (9.84%) CI/CD
13 6 (9.84%) Windows
13 6 (9.84%) Windows Server
14 5 (8.20%) Azure Certification
14 5 (8.20%) ITIL
14 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (6.56%) Cloud Security
15 4 (6.56%) Continuous Improvement
15 4 (6.56%) DevSecOps
15 4 (6.56%) PowerShell

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 (3.28%) Apache
2 1 (1.64%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) Drupal
2 1 (1.64%) IIS
2 1 (1.64%) nginx
2 1 (1.64%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 61 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (24.59%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (21.31%) Entra ID
4 11 (18.03%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.92%) AWS
5 3 (4.92%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.28%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (3.28%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.64%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.64%) CloudFront
7 1 (1.64%) Datadog
7 1 (1.64%) GCP
7 1 (1.64%) GitHub
7 1 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.75%) Network Security
2 3 (4.92%) DNS
2 3 (4.92%) Firewall
2 3 (4.92%) VPN
3 1 (1.64%) DHCP
3 1 (1.64%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.64%) VLAN
3 1 (1.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.64%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (1.64%) MySQL
2 1 (1.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (16.39%) JIRA
2 1 (1.64%) Gatling
2 1 (1.64%) JMeter
2 1 (1.64%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (14.75%) Automotive
2 6 (9.84%) Finance
3 3 (4.92%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.92%) ARM Templates
1 3 (4.92%) WAMP
2 2 (3.28%) .NET
3 1 (1.64%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.64%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.64%) LAMP
3 1 (1.64%) Memcached
3 1 (1.64%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.28%) Data Centre
1 2 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (1.64%) IoT
2 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.03%) Linux
2 6 (9.84%) Windows
2 6 (9.84%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.28%) VMS
4 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (44.26%) DevOps
2 10 (16.39%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (14.75%) Edge Computing
3 9 (14.75%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 9 (14.75%) Software Licensing
4 8 (13.11%) Platform Engineering
5 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (9.84%) CI/CD
7 5 (8.20%) ITIL
8 4 (6.56%) Cloud Security
8 4 (6.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (6.56%) DevSecOps
8 4 (6.56%) Service Management
9 3 (4.92%) Cloud Operations
9 3 (4.92%) High Availability
9 3 (4.92%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (4.92%) OWASP
10 2 (3.28%) Agile
10 2 (3.28%) Migration
10 2 (3.28%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.56%) PowerShell
2 3 (4.92%) Bash
2 3 (4.92%) Python
2 3 (4.92%) SQL
3 2 (3.28%) PHP
4 1 (1.64%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (24.59%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.75%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.20%) Azure Certification
3 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.28%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.64%) Degree
5 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.64%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (26.23%) Active Directory
2 11 (18.03%) Docker
3 2 (3.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (22.95%) Terraform
2 2 (3.28%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.64%) Ansible
3 1 (1.64%) Consul
3 1 (1.64%) Grafana
3 1 (1.64%) Packer
3 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.64%) Puppet
3 1 (1.64%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (29.51%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.64%) Google
3 1 (1.64%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.64%) TOWER Software
3 1 (1.64%) Zoho