Azure Platform Engineer Job Trends in Watford

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
Hertfordshire > Watford

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in Watford is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 May 2026.

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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Watford 0.30% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
75th Percentile £57,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £55,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Watford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Watford. 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 Watford with a recognized job title 316 132 263
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.76% 94.29% 91.96%
Number of salaries quoted 228 78 213
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £25,600
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £44,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.83% -1.11% -25.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £75,750 £77,500
Hertfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -13.04%

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford

For the 6 months to 21 May 2026, Azure Platform 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 Watford region featuring Azure Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft