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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,171 4,005 3,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 17.27% 24.24% 21.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.90% 54.87% 50.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,513 2,079 2,357
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,750
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 6,355 7,299 7,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 34.62% 44.17% 41.44%
Number of salaries quoted 5,037 3,863 5,207
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,124
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £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 29 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 29 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 1,686 £57,500 +4.55% 400
Yorkshire 0 1,084 £55,000 - 247
North East +4 403 £50,000 -9.09% 85
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
1 190 (5.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 171 (5.39%) SharePoint
3 85 (2.68%) ArcGIS
3 85 (2.68%) GeoServer
4 40 (1.26%) IIS
5 39 (1.23%) Confluence
6 22 (0.69%) CMS
7 20 (0.63%) Apache Spark
8 16 (0.50%) Apache
9 14 (0.44%) Umbraco
10 12 (0.38%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.28%) Apache Solr
11 9 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
12 7 (0.22%) NServiceBus
13 5 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
14 4 (0.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 4 (0.13%) Skype for Business
15 3 (0.095%) BizTalk Server
15 3 (0.095%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 88 (2.78%) 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 62 (1.96%) 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 (28.54%) AWS
2 703 (22.17%) Microsoft 365
3 437 (13.78%) Azure DevOps
4 331 (10.44%) GCP
5 315 (9.93%) Power Platform
6 290 (9.15%) Entra ID
7 165 (5.20%) SaaS
8 107 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
8 107 (3.37%) Serverless
9 95 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
10 91 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
10 91 (2.87%) PowerApps
11 83 (2.62%) Azure Service Bus
12 82 (2.59%) Power Automate
13 80 (2.52%) IBM Cloud
14 79 (2.49%) GitHub
14 79 (2.49%) PaaS
15 76 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
16 67 (2.11%) Azure Functions
17 63 (1.99%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 274 (8.64%) Firewall
2 198 (6.24%) WAN
3 197 (6.21%) DNS
4 156 (4.92%) LAN
5 137 (4.32%) DHCP
6 101 (3.19%) VPN
7 81 (2.55%) Internet
8 77 (2.43%) TCP/IP
9 76 (2.40%) SAN
10 64 (2.02%) Network Security
11 58 (1.83%) SD-WAN
12 52 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
13 45 (1.42%) VoIP
14 36 (1.14%) Wireless
15 34 (1.07%) 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
1 587 (18.51%) SQL Server
2 233 (7.35%) Data Warehouse
3 225 (7.10%) PostgreSQL
4 207 (6.53%) Power BI
5 160 (5.05%) MongoDB
6 147 (4.64%) NoSQL
7 135 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
8 111 (3.50%) Relational Database
9 103 (3.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 102 (3.22%) Data Lake
11 101 (3.19%) DB2
12 90 (2.84%) GIS
13 85 (2.68%) QGIS
14 76 (2.40%) MySQL
15 71 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
16 61 (1.92%) Data Vault
17 58 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
18 45 (1.42%) BigQuery
18 45 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 42 (1.32%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 181 (5.71%) Git
2 125 (3.94%) JIRA
3 103 (3.25%) GitLab
4 53 (1.67%) Jenkins
5 35 (1.10%) Visual Studio
6 31 (0.98%) Selenium
7 27 (0.85%) CircleCI
8 23 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
9 22 (0.69%) Cypress.io
10 21 (0.66%) Artifactory
11 20 (0.63%) Postman
12 18 (0.57%) Jasmine
13 16 (0.50%) Karma Test Runner
14 11 (0.35%) SonarQube
15 10 (0.32%) Cucumber
16 9 (0.28%) IBM UrbanCode
16 9 (0.28%) JUnit
16 9 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
17 8 (0.25%) NUnit
18 6 (0.19%) JMeter
General
1 706 (22.26%) Social Skills
2 382 (12.05%) Finance
3 259 (8.17%) Public Sector
4 203 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
5 154 (4.86%) Retail
6 143 (4.51%) Law
7 86 (2.71%) Legal
8 76 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 73 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
10 64 (2.02%) Manufacturing
11 59 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
12 55 (1.73%) Marketing
13 54 (1.70%) Games
14 46 (1.45%) Aerospace
15 43 (1.36%) Banking
16 42 (1.32%) Advertising
17 19 (0.60%) Telecoms
18 18 (0.57%) Automotive
18 18 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
19 17 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 834 (26.30%) Developer
2 485 (15.29%) Senior
3 412 (12.99%) .NET Developer
4 383 (12.08%) Lead
5 329 (10.38%) Architect
6 237 (7.47%) Software Engineer
7 194 (6.12%) C# Developer
8 186 (5.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 167 (5.27%) Analyst
10 160 (5.05%) Azure Engineer
11 150 (4.73%) C# .NET Developer
12 146 (4.60%) Cloud Engineer
12 146 (4.60%) Data Engineer
13 141 (4.45%) IT Support
14 123 (3.88%) IT Engineer
15 120 (3.78%) Senior Developer
16 117 (3.69%) Support Engineer
17 113 (3.56%) Senior Software Engineer
18 112 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
19 99 (3.12%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 909 (28.67%) .NET
2 438 (13.81%) AngularJS
3 420 (13.25%) React
4 388 (12.24%) .NET Core
5 374 (11.79%) CSS
6 356 (11.23%) ASP.NET
7 343 (10.82%) HTML
8 281 (8.86%) ASP.NET Web API
9 255 (8.04%) .NET Framework
10 233 (7.35%) Entity Framework
11 198 (6.24%) Node.js
12 197 (6.21%) RESTful
13 183 (5.77%) ASP.NET MVC
14 169 (5.33%) Vue
15 168 (5.30%) REST
16 164 (5.17%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 138 (4.35%) Web Services
18 124 (3.91%) jQuery
19 118 (3.72%) HTML5
20 93 (2.93%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 236 (7.44%) Public Cloud
2 146 (4.60%) Data Structures
3 132 (4.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 96 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 93 (2.93%) Algorithms
6 87 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
7 84 (2.65%) Blockchain
8 82 (2.59%) Cloud Native
9 77 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
10 61 (1.92%) Driving Licence
11 54 (1.70%) Product Ownership
12 44 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
12 44 (1.39%) Reinsurance
13 39 (1.23%) Data Centre
14 37 (1.17%) e-Learning
14 37 (1.17%) PKI
15 36 (1.14%) Mobile App
16 35 (1.10%) IoT
16 35 (1.10%) Private Cloud
17 33 (1.04%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 639 (20.15%) Windows
2 292 (9.21%) Linux
3 286 (9.02%) Windows Server
4 138 (4.35%) Android
5 116 (3.66%) Apple iOS
6 91 (2.87%) Windows 10
7 60 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
8 55 (1.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 55 (1.73%) Windows Server 2019
9 43 (1.36%) Mac OS
10 38 (1.20%) VMS
11 31 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 28 (0.88%) Ubuntu
12 28 (0.88%) Unix
13 11 (0.35%) CentOS
13 11 (0.35%) Debian
14 10 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
15 9 (0.28%) Windows Phone
16 6 (0.19%) Windows Vista
17 4 (0.13%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,052 (33.18%) Agile
2 860 (27.12%) DevOps
3 519 (16.37%) Full Stack Development
4 452 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
5 417 (13.15%) Mentoring
6 376 (11.86%) Software Engineering
7 368 (11.61%) Microservices
8 359 (11.32%) CI/CD
9 347 (10.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 315 (9.93%) Migration
11 312 (9.84%) MVC
12 288 (9.08%) ITIL
13 283 (8.92%) Roadmaps
14 249 (7.85%) Business Intelligence
15 241 (7.60%) Scrum
16 233 (7.35%) ETL
17 229 (7.22%) Coaching
18 227 (7.16%) Customer Service
19 225 (7.10%) Web Development
20 224 (7.06%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 905 (28.54%) C#
2 796 (25.10%) SQL
3 729 (22.99%) JavaScript
4 382 (12.05%) Python
5 253 (7.98%) PowerShell
6 220 (6.94%) TypeScript
7 160 (5.05%) Java
8 137 (4.32%) 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%) VB
14 18 (0.57%) Ruby
15 17 (0.54%) Groovy
16 16 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 16 (0.50%) VB6
17 13 (0.41%) C++
17 13 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 256 (8.07%) Degree
2 210 (6.62%) Security Cleared
3 190 (5.99%) Azure Certification
4 170 (5.36%) SC Cleared
5 169 (5.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 94 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
7 82 (2.59%) AWS Certification
8 59 (1.86%) CISSP
9 58 (1.83%) DBS Check
10 55 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
11 50 (1.58%) CCNA
12 36 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 36 (1.14%) CCNP
13 34 (1.07%) DV Cleared
14 33 (1.04%) CCSP
15 29 (0.91%) 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 (4.32%) Data Quality
2 92 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 87 (2.74%) QA
4 83 (2.62%) GDPR
4 83 (2.62%) SLA
5 59 (1.86%) NIST
6 44 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
7 27 (0.85%) PCI DSS
8 25 (0.79%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.25%) PSD2
10 7 (0.22%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.19%) PMO
12 4 (0.13%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.063%) GRC
13 2 (0.063%) NCSC
14 1 (0.032%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.032%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.032%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 1 (0.032%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 570 (17.98%) Active Directory
2 207 (6.53%) Hyper-V
3 200 (6.31%) Docker
4 172 (5.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 71 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
6 41 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
7 29 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (0.47%) vSphere
9 13 (0.41%) Terminal Services
10 9 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.28%) VMware Server
11 7 (0.22%) XenApp
11 7 (0.22%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.095%) Firmware
13 2 (0.063%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.063%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.063%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.032%) DFS Replication
14 1 (0.032%) Embedded Firmware
14 1 (0.032%) Snort
Systems Management
1 269 (8.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 268 (8.45%) Kubernetes
3 236 (7.44%) Terraform
4 99 (3.12%) Ansible
5 53 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
6 28 (0.88%) Progress Chef
7 26 (0.82%) Puppet
7 26 (0.82%) SCCM
8 22 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 22 (0.69%) Grafana
9 21 (0.66%) Prometheus
10 18 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
11 16 (0.50%) SCOM
12 15 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
12 15 (0.47%) ZABBIX
13 14 (0.44%) Autotask
14 12 (0.38%) FortiGate
14 12 (0.38%) Opsgenie
14 12 (0.38%) vCenter Server
14 12 (0.38%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,289 (40.65%) Microsoft
2 307 (9.68%) VMware
3 199 (6.28%) Google
4 141 (4.45%) Cisco
5 119 (3.75%) IBM
6 116 (3.66%) Oracle
7 96 (3.03%) Red Hat
8 95 (3.00%) Citrix
9 85 (2.68%) ESRI
10 82 (2.59%) Databricks
11 62 (1.96%) Veeam
12 54 (1.70%) Informatica
13 47 (1.48%) Fortinet
13 47 (1.48%) SolarWinds
14 37 (1.17%) ServiceNow
15 30 (0.95%) Apple
16 27 (0.85%) SAP
17 26 (0.82%) Splunk
18 25 (0.79%) Commvault
18 25 (0.79%) Datto