Azure Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft Azure
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,162 3,965 3,868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 17.38% 23.96% 21.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.91% 54.52% 50.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,515 2,091 2,366
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,541
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £69,500 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.23% +4.00% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,335 7,272 7,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 34.82% 43.94% 41.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,039 3,871 5,229
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £69,500 £72,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,548 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the North of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure in the North of England.

Salary trend for Azure in the North of England

Azure
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure in the North of England

Azure
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the North of England region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
North West 0 1,682 £57,500 +4.55% 403
Yorkshire 0 1,081 £55,000 - 251
North East +4 401 £50,000 -9.09% 87
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 189 (5.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 171 (5.41%) SharePoint
3 85 (2.69%) ArcGIS
3 85 (2.69%) GeoServer
4 40 (1.27%) Confluence
4 40 (1.27%) IIS
5 22 (0.70%) CMS
6 20 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 16 (0.51%) Apache
8 14 (0.44%) Umbraco
9 12 (0.38%) WebLogic
10 9 (0.28%) Apache Solr
10 9 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
11 7 (0.22%) NServiceBus
12 5 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
13 4 (0.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 4 (0.13%) Skype for Business
14 3 (0.095%) BizTalk Server
14 3 (0.095%) FileNet
14 3 (0.095%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 89 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.25%) Photoshop
4 6 (0.19%) LightWave 3D
4 6 (0.19%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.063%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.063%) Sketch
6 1 (0.032%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.032%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.032%) Trello
Business Applications
1 61 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
4 8 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.16%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.16%) SAP PP
6 3 (0.095%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.063%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.063%) SystmOne
8 1 (0.032%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.032%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.032%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 905 (28.62%) AWS
2 700 (22.14%) Microsoft 365
3 438 (13.85%) Azure DevOps
4 337 (10.66%) GCP
5 313 (9.90%) Power Platform
6 288 (9.11%) Entra ID
7 164 (5.19%) SaaS
8 107 (3.38%) Serverless
9 106 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
10 96 (3.04%) Cloud Computing
11 91 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
12 90 (2.85%) PowerApps
13 83 (2.62%) Azure Service Bus
14 82 (2.59%) PaaS
15 81 (2.56%) GitHub
15 81 (2.56%) Power Automate
16 80 (2.53%) IBM Cloud
17 75 (2.37%) Azure Logic Apps
18 67 (2.12%) Azure Functions
19 65 (2.06%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 273 (8.63%) Firewall
2 197 (6.23%) WAN
3 195 (6.17%) DNS
4 155 (4.90%) LAN
5 135 (4.27%) DHCP
6 102 (3.23%) VPN
7 81 (2.56%) Internet
8 76 (2.40%) SAN
9 75 (2.37%) TCP/IP
10 64 (2.02%) Network Security
11 59 (1.87%) SD-WAN
12 52 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
13 45 (1.42%) VoIP
14 35 (1.11%) Wireless
15 34 (1.08%) Intrusion Detection
16 33 (1.04%) WLAN
17 32 (1.01%) SSL
18 31 (0.98%) BGP
19 27 (0.85%) Broadband
19 27 (0.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 584 (18.47%) SQL Server
2 233 (7.37%) Data Warehouse
3 225 (7.12%) PostgreSQL
4 206 (6.51%) Power BI
5 160 (5.06%) MongoDB
6 148 (4.68%) NoSQL
7 134 (4.24%) Azure SQL Database
8 111 (3.51%) Relational Database
9 102 (3.23%) Data Lake
10 101 (3.19%) DB2
11 100 (3.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 90 (2.85%) GIS
13 85 (2.69%) QGIS
14 76 (2.40%) MySQL
15 71 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
16 61 (1.93%) Data Vault
17 60 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
18 45 (1.42%) BigQuery
19 42 (1.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
19 42 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 180 (5.69%) Git
2 127 (4.02%) JIRA
3 102 (3.23%) GitLab
4 56 (1.77%) Jenkins
5 35 (1.11%) Visual Studio
6 31 (0.98%) Selenium
7 26 (0.82%) CircleCI
8 23 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
9 22 (0.70%) Cypress.io
10 21 (0.66%) Artifactory
11 20 (0.63%) Postman
12 18 (0.57%) Jasmine
13 16 (0.51%) Karma Test Runner
14 12 (0.38%) IBM UrbanCode
15 11 (0.35%) SonarQube
16 10 (0.32%) Cucumber
17 9 (0.28%) JUnit
17 9 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
18 8 (0.25%) NUnit
19 6 (0.19%) JMeter
General
1 709 (22.42%) Social Skills
2 389 (12.30%) Finance
3 258 (8.16%) Public Sector
4 204 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 152 (4.81%) Retail
6 144 (4.55%) Law
7 84 (2.66%) Legal
8 76 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 73 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
10 65 (2.06%) Manufacturing
11 62 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
12 54 (1.71%) Marketing
13 53 (1.68%) Games
14 51 (1.61%) Banking
15 46 (1.45%) Aerospace
16 42 (1.33%) Advertising
17 20 (0.63%) Telecoms
18 18 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
19 17 (0.54%) Automotive
19 17 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 825 (26.09%) Developer
2 488 (15.43%) Senior
3 409 (12.93%) .NET Developer
4 383 (12.11%) Lead
5 329 (10.40%) Architect
6 236 (7.46%) Software Engineer
7 192 (6.07%) C# Developer
8 187 (5.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 166 (5.25%) Analyst
10 160 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
11 148 (4.68%) C# .NET Developer
11 148 (4.68%) Cloud Engineer
12 147 (4.65%) Data Engineer
13 141 (4.46%) IT Support
14 123 (3.89%) IT Engineer
15 119 (3.76%) Senior Developer
15 119 (3.76%) Support Engineer
16 112 (3.54%) Senior Software Engineer
16 112 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
17 97 (3.07%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 902 (28.53%) .NET
2 437 (13.82%) AngularJS
3 417 (13.19%) React
4 386 (12.21%) .NET Core
5 374 (11.83%) CSS
6 356 (11.26%) ASP.NET
7 343 (10.85%) HTML
8 279 (8.82%) ASP.NET Web API
9 254 (8.03%) .NET Framework
10 232 (7.34%) Entity Framework
11 197 (6.23%) RESTful
12 196 (6.20%) Node.js
13 183 (5.79%) ASP.NET MVC
14 169 (5.34%) Vue
15 168 (5.31%) REST
16 164 (5.19%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 138 (4.36%) Web Services
18 124 (3.92%) jQuery
19 118 (3.73%) HTML5
20 93 (2.94%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 239 (7.56%) Public Cloud
2 146 (4.62%) Data Structures
3 132 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 96 (3.04%) Management Information System
5 93 (2.94%) Algorithms
6 85 (2.69%) Blockchain
6 85 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
7 83 (2.62%) Cloud Native
8 77 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
9 61 (1.93%) Driving Licence
10 56 (1.77%) Product Ownership
11 44 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
11 44 (1.39%) Reinsurance
12 39 (1.23%) Data Centre
13 37 (1.17%) e-Learning
13 37 (1.17%) PKI
14 36 (1.14%) Mobile App
14 36 (1.14%) Private Cloud
15 35 (1.11%) IoT
16 33 (1.04%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 642 (20.30%) Windows
2 296 (9.36%) Linux
3 285 (9.01%) Windows Server
4 138 (4.36%) Android
5 116 (3.67%) Apple iOS
6 93 (2.94%) Windows 10
7 60 (1.90%) Windows Server 2012
8 55 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
8 55 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
9 43 (1.36%) Mac OS
10 37 (1.17%) VMS
11 31 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 30 (0.95%) Unix
13 28 (0.89%) Ubuntu
14 11 (0.35%) CentOS
14 11 (0.35%) Debian
15 10 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
16 9 (0.28%) Windows Phone
17 6 (0.19%) Windows Vista
18 4 (0.13%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,053 (33.30%) Agile
2 864 (27.32%) DevOps
3 517 (16.35%) Full Stack Development
4 455 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
5 418 (13.22%) Mentoring
6 374 (11.83%) Software Engineering
7 367 (11.61%) Microservices
8 356 (11.26%) CI/CD
9 348 (11.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 316 (9.99%) Migration
11 312 (9.87%) MVC
12 292 (9.23%) ITIL
13 284 (8.98%) Roadmaps
14 249 (7.87%) Business Intelligence
15 240 (7.59%) Scrum
16 234 (7.40%) ETL
17 230 (7.27%) Customer Service
18 229 (7.24%) Coaching
19 228 (7.21%) Infrastructure as Code
20 225 (7.12%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 899 (28.43%) C#
2 795 (25.14%) SQL
3 728 (23.02%) JavaScript
4 384 (12.14%) Python
5 255 (8.06%) PowerShell
6 217 (6.86%) TypeScript
7 162 (5.12%) Java
8 136 (4.30%) T-SQL
9 45 (1.42%) Bash
10 37 (1.17%) VB.NET
11 31 (0.98%) Go
11 31 (0.98%) PHP
12 21 (0.66%) Bicep
13 20 (0.63%) Groovy
13 20 (0.63%) VB
14 18 (0.57%) Ruby
15 16 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 16 (0.51%) VB6
16 13 (0.41%) VBScript
17 12 (0.38%) C++
Qualifications
1 255 (8.06%) Degree
2 210 (6.64%) Security Cleared
3 190 (6.01%) Azure Certification
4 170 (5.38%) SC Cleared
5 169 (5.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 95 (3.00%) Cisco Certification
7 82 (2.59%) AWS Certification
8 59 (1.87%) CISSP
9 58 (1.83%) DBS Check
10 56 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
11 51 (1.61%) CCNA
12 36 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 36 (1.14%) CCNP
13 34 (1.08%) DV Cleared
14 33 (1.04%) CCSP
15 29 (0.92%) CISM
16 26 (0.82%) CCSK
16 26 (0.82%) Master's Degree
17 17 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 17 (0.54%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (4.33%) Data Quality
2 92 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 86 (2.72%) QA
4 84 (2.66%) GDPR
5 80 (2.53%) SLA
6 59 (1.87%) NIST
7 44 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 27 (0.85%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.79%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.25%) PSD2
11 7 (0.22%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.19%) PMO
13 4 (0.13%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.063%) GRC
14 2 (0.063%) NCSC
15 1 (0.032%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 1 (0.032%) HIPAA
15 1 (0.032%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 1 (0.032%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 567 (17.93%) Active Directory
2 208 (6.58%) Hyper-V
3 198 (6.26%) Docker
4 172 (5.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 71 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
6 41 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
7 29 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.44%) vSphere
9 13 (0.41%) Terminal Services
10 9 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.28%) VMware Server
11 6 (0.19%) XenApp
11 6 (0.19%) XenDesktop
12 4 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
13 3 (0.095%) Firmware
14 2 (0.063%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 2 (0.063%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.032%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.032%) Embedded Firmware
15 1 (0.032%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 269 (8.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 267 (8.44%) Kubernetes
3 239 (7.56%) Terraform
4 101 (3.19%) Ansible
5 53 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
6 30 (0.95%) Progress Chef
7 26 (0.82%) SCCM
8 25 (0.79%) Puppet
9 22 (0.70%) Grafana
10 21 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 21 (0.66%) Prometheus
11 18 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
12 16 (0.51%) SCOM
13 15 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
13 15 (0.47%) ZABBIX
14 14 (0.44%) Autotask
15 12 (0.38%) FortiGate
15 12 (0.38%) Opsgenie
15 12 (0.38%) vCenter Server
15 12 (0.38%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,288 (40.73%) Microsoft
2 306 (9.68%) VMware
3 202 (6.39%) Google
4 142 (4.49%) Cisco
5 123 (3.89%) IBM
6 116 (3.67%) Oracle
7 96 (3.04%) Red Hat
8 94 (2.97%) Citrix
9 85 (2.69%) ESRI
10 81 (2.56%) Databricks
11 62 (1.96%) Veeam
12 54 (1.71%) Informatica
13 47 (1.49%) Fortinet
13 47 (1.49%) SolarWinds
14 38 (1.20%) ServiceNow
15 30 (0.95%) Apple
16 29 (0.92%) SAP
17 26 (0.82%) Splunk
18 25 (0.79%) Commvault
18 25 (0.79%) Datto