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 £55,445 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 February 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 169 220
Rank change year-on-year +5 +51 +14
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 21 19 36
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.38% 0.51% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.54% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 20 14 30
10th Percentile £52,225 £55,000 £53,625
25th Percentile £53,625 £61,250 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,445 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.07% +15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £60,000 £80,000 £71,563
90th Percentile £77,750 £83,875 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -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 5,157 3,535 6,215
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 94.02% 95.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,572 1,840 4,911
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,114 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 4 February 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 4 February 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 +14 13 £57,500 -25.81% 6
Wiltshire +8 2 £58,750 -
Gloucestershire +7 2 £55,445 -7.59% 4
Devon -3 2 £56,250 -25.00%
Somerset -18 2 £55,000 - 2
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 February 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 21 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (47.62%) Security Cleared
3 7 (33.33%) DevOps
3 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 7 (33.33%) Terraform
3 7 (33.33%) Windows
3 7 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
5 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
5 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
6 4 (19.05%) Azure Certification
6 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (19.05%) Bicep
6 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
6 4 (19.05%) Docker
6 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
7 3 (14.29%) ARM Templates
7 3 (14.29%) Azure AKS
7 3 (14.29%) Bash
7 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 3 (14.29%) DevSecOps
7 3 (14.29%) DNS
7 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
7 3 (14.29%) Firewall
7 3 (14.29%) High Availability
7 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (14.29%) VPN

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:

Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (9.52%) GitHub
4 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (9.52%) IaaS
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (9.52%) OpenShift
4 2 (9.52%) PaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Stack
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Storage
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) DNS
1 3 (14.29%) Firewall
1 3 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (4.76%) DHCP
2 1 (4.76%) Ethernet
2 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.76%) VLAN
2 1 (4.76%) Wireless
General
1 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 2 (9.52%) YAML
3 1 (4.76%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Windows
1 7 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.76%) VMS
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) DevOps
2 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
3 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 3 (14.29%) DevSecOps
4 3 (14.29%) High Availability
4 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (9.52%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (9.52%) ITIL
5 2 (9.52%) Migration
5 2 (9.52%) RBAC
5 2 (9.52%) Task Automation
6 1 (4.76%) Agile
6 1 (4.76%) Configuration Management
6 1 (4.76%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (4.76%) Patch Management
6 1 (4.76%) Service Management
6 1 (4.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) Bicep
1 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
2 3 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) C#
3 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 4 (19.05%) Azure Certification
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
2 4 (19.05%) Docker
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Terraform
2 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.76%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Red Hat