Azure Jobs in the North West

Microsoft Azure
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 1,686 1,769 2,135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 16.30% 23.33% 22.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.55% 54.05% 52.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,296 880 1,142
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.23% +4.00% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,473 3,273 4,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 33.57% 43.16% 42.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,692 1,862 2,623
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,000 £30,319
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,964 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the North West

Azure
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Azure in the North West

Azure
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the North West over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure in the North West

Azure
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the North West 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
Manchester -1 1,007 £60,000 +0.80% 241
Merseyside +4 268 £55,173 +23.29% 43
Cheshire -2 209 £46,000 -16.36% 67
Lancashire -4 161 £52,500 +10.53% 44
Cumbria +5 37 £45,000 - 4
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 85 (5.04%) SharePoint
2 77 (4.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 57 (3.38%) ArcGIS
3 57 (3.38%) GeoServer
4 28 (1.66%) IIS
5 18 (1.07%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.95%) CMS
7 14 (0.83%) Apache
8 13 (0.77%) Confluence
9 9 (0.53%) Apache Solr
10 8 (0.47%) WebLogic
11 7 (0.42%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.24%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 4 (0.24%) Skype for Business
13 2 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.12%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.059%) Jetty
14 1 (0.059%) Kentico
14 1 (0.059%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.059%) Site Server
Applications
1 34 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.36%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.12%) Sketch
5 1 (0.059%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 44 (2.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.59%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.30%) SAP IBP
4 5 (0.30%) SAP PP
4 5 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.059%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.059%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.059%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 490 (29.06%) AWS
2 320 (18.98%) Microsoft 365
3 281 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 195 (11.57%) Power Platform
5 162 (9.61%) GCP
6 111 (6.58%) Entra ID
7 96 (5.69%) SaaS
8 86 (5.10%) Serverless
9 80 (4.74%) IBM Cloud
10 64 (3.80%) Azure Data Factory
10 64 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
11 59 (3.50%) Azure Logic Apps
12 58 (3.44%) Azure Functions
13 54 (3.20%) Azure Service Bus
14 47 (2.79%) Azure API Management
15 45 (2.67%) GitHub
15 45 (2.67%) PaaS
16 39 (2.31%) IaaS
17 35 (2.08%) Power Automate
17 35 (2.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 116 (6.88%) DNS
2 111 (6.58%) Firewall
3 89 (5.28%) WAN
4 73 (4.33%) DHCP
5 65 (3.86%) LAN
6 38 (2.25%) Internet
7 36 (2.14%) SD-WAN
8 33 (1.96%) VPN
9 31 (1.84%) TCP/IP
10 27 (1.60%) SAN
11 26 (1.54%) SSL
12 25 (1.48%) Network Security
13 22 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
14 18 (1.07%) BGP
14 18 (1.07%) Remote Desktop
15 16 (0.95%) Wireless
15 16 (0.95%) WLAN
16 12 (0.71%) Broadband
16 12 (0.71%) iSCSI
16 12 (0.71%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 340 (20.17%) SQL Server
2 167 (9.91%) PostgreSQL
3 133 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
4 120 (7.12%) Power BI
5 116 (6.88%) MongoDB
6 109 (6.47%) NoSQL
7 91 (5.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 84 (4.98%) DB2
9 73 (4.33%) Relational Database
10 70 (4.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 57 (3.38%) GIS
11 57 (3.38%) QGIS
12 55 (3.26%) Data Vault
13 52 (3.08%) Data Lake
14 37 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
14 37 (2.19%) MySQL
14 37 (2.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 31 (1.84%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 27 (1.60%) Delta Lake
16 27 (1.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 105 (6.23%) Git
2 84 (4.98%) JIRA
3 66 (3.91%) GitLab
4 26 (1.54%) Visual Studio
5 24 (1.42%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
7 13 (0.77%) Jasmine
8 12 (0.71%) Postman
9 11 (0.65%) Karma Test Runner
10 10 (0.59%) Selenium
11 8 (0.47%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.47%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.42%) Artifactory
12 7 (0.42%) NUnit
13 5 (0.30%) Android Studio
14 4 (0.24%) CMake
14 4 (0.24%) GCC
14 4 (0.24%) git-flow
14 4 (0.24%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 299 (17.73%) Social Skills
2 205 (12.16%) Finance
3 153 (9.07%) Public Sector
4 87 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (4.74%) Retail
6 63 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 51 (3.02%) Legal
8 37 (2.19%) Law
9 33 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
10 31 (1.84%) Advertising
11 30 (1.78%) Manufacturing
11 30 (1.78%) Marketing
12 28 (1.66%) Aerospace
13 23 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
14 17 (1.01%) Games
15 14 (0.83%) Banking
15 14 (0.83%) Telecoms
16 13 (0.77%) Automotive
17 9 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
18 8 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 453 (26.87%) Developer
2 279 (16.55%) Senior
3 203 (12.04%) .NET Developer
4 182 (10.79%) Lead
5 177 (10.50%) Architect
6 153 (9.07%) Software Engineer
7 118 (7.00%) Azure Engineer
8 113 (6.70%) Data Engineer
9 101 (5.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 85 (5.04%) Analyst
11 71 (4.21%) Cloud Engineer
12 70 (4.15%) Senior Software Engineer
13 69 (4.09%) Senior Developer
14 68 (4.03%) Full Stack Developer
15 65 (3.86%) Azure Developer
15 65 (3.86%) C# Developer
16 60 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
17 56 (3.32%) Full Stack Engineer
18 54 (3.20%) Consultant
19 49 (2.91%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 513 (30.43%) .NET
2 284 (16.84%) React
3 274 (16.25%) CSS
4 249 (14.77%) HTML
5 237 (14.06%) AngularJS
6 228 (13.52%) ASP.NET
7 207 (12.28%) .NET Core
8 141 (8.36%) REST
9 133 (7.89%) Node.js
10 122 (7.24%) .NET Framework
10 122 (7.24%) Vue
11 121 (7.18%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 113 (6.70%) Entity Framework
13 110 (6.52%) Web Services
14 107 (6.35%) ASP.NET MVC
15 105 (6.23%) jQuery
16 95 (5.63%) ASP.NET Web API
17 82 (4.86%) ASP.NET Core
18 78 (4.63%) Backbone.js
18 78 (4.63%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 136 (8.07%) Data Structures
2 115 (6.82%) Public Cloud
3 106 (6.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 90 (5.34%) Algorithms
5 81 (4.80%) Blockchain
6 61 (3.62%) Cloud Native
7 53 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
8 44 (2.61%) Reinsurance
9 43 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
10 41 (2.43%) Management Information System
11 37 (2.19%) e-Learning
12 26 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
12 26 (1.54%) Product Ownership
13 22 (1.30%) FMCG
13 22 (1.30%) PKI
14 20 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
15 18 (1.07%) Data Centre
15 18 (1.07%) Private Cloud
16 17 (1.01%) Blog
17 16 (0.95%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 288 (17.08%) Windows
2 193 (11.45%) Linux
3 104 (6.17%) Android
4 94 (5.58%) Apple iOS
5 91 (5.40%) Windows Server
6 24 (1.42%) VMS
7 22 (1.30%) Ubuntu
8 21 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 21 (1.25%) Windows 10
8 21 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 16 (0.95%) Mac OS
10 15 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
11 14 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (0.65%) CentOS
12 11 (0.65%) Debian
13 9 (0.53%) Windows Phone
14 8 (0.47%) Unix
15 6 (0.36%) Windows Vista
16 3 (0.18%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 653 (38.73%) Agile
2 505 (29.95%) DevOps
3 295 (17.50%) Full Stack Development
4 240 (14.23%) Software Engineering
5 215 (12.75%) Mentoring
5 215 (12.75%) MVC
5 215 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
6 202 (11.98%) CI/CD
7 176 (10.44%) Scrum
8 169 (10.02%) Web Development
9 167 (9.91%) Migration
10 165 (9.79%) Microservices
11 156 (9.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 155 (9.19%) Artificial Intelligence
13 146 (8.66%) ETL
14 137 (8.13%) Business Intelligence
14 137 (8.13%) Design Patterns
15 136 (8.07%) ITIL
16 132 (7.83%) Analytics
17 127 (7.53%) OO
Programming Languages
1 509 (30.19%) C#
2 487 (28.88%) SQL
3 437 (25.92%) JavaScript
4 259 (15.36%) Python
5 132 (7.83%) TypeScript
6 130 (7.71%) PowerShell
7 113 (6.70%) Java
8 88 (5.22%) T-SQL
9 24 (1.42%) Bash
9 24 (1.42%) VB.NET
10 22 (1.30%) Go
11 14 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 13 (0.77%) PHP
12 13 (0.77%) VB
13 11 (0.65%) VB6
14 9 (0.53%) Bicep
14 9 (0.53%) C++
15 6 (0.36%) C
16 5 (0.30%) R
16 5 (0.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 147 (8.72%) Security Cleared
2 130 (7.71%) Degree
3 114 (6.76%) SC Cleared
4 86 (5.10%) Azure Certification
5 77 (4.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 59 (3.50%) AWS Certification
7 43 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
8 30 (1.78%) DV Cleared
9 29 (1.72%) CISSP
10 26 (1.54%) DBS Check
11 22 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
12 21 (1.25%) Master's Degree
13 19 (1.13%) CCNA
14 18 (1.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 17 (1.01%) CISM
16 15 (0.89%) CCSK
16 15 (0.89%) CCSP
17 14 (0.83%) PMI Certification
18 13 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 12 (0.71%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (5.34%) Data Quality
2 48 (2.85%) QA
3 39 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (2.02%) GDPR
5 29 (1.72%) NIST
6 26 (1.54%) SLA
7 18 (1.07%) PCI DSS
8 14 (0.83%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.36%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.12%) NCSC
12 1 (0.059%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.059%) PMO
12 1 (0.059%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 244 (14.47%) Active Directory
2 99 (5.87%) Docker
3 89 (5.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 73 (4.33%) Hyper-V
5 37 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.71%) Terminal Services
6 12 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.42%) vSphere
8 4 (0.24%) VMware Server
9 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.059%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.059%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.059%) Firmware
11 1 (0.059%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.059%) Snort
11 1 (0.059%) XenApp
11 1 (0.059%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 140 (8.30%) Terraform
2 130 (7.71%) Kubernetes
3 89 (5.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 61 (3.62%) Ansible
5 28 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 18 (1.07%) Puppet
7 15 (0.89%) Progress Chef
8 12 (0.71%) Opsgenie
8 12 (0.71%) VxRail
8 12 (0.71%) ZABBIX
9 9 (0.53%) AirWatch
9 9 (0.53%) CASB
10 7 (0.42%) CA Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.30%) Nessus
11 5 (0.30%) SCCM
11 5 (0.30%) WSUS
12 4 (0.24%) Autotask
12 4 (0.24%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 639 (37.90%) Microsoft
2 131 (7.77%) VMware
3 92 (5.46%) IBM
4 91 (5.40%) Red Hat
5 90 (5.34%) Google
6 76 (4.51%) Oracle
7 65 (3.86%) Databricks
8 57 (3.38%) ESRI
9 54 (3.20%) Cisco
10 52 (3.08%) Informatica
11 46 (2.73%) Citrix
12 39 (2.31%) Veeam
13 27 (1.60%) Fortinet
14 21 (1.25%) SolarWinds
15 17 (1.01%) NetApp
16 16 (0.95%) Apple
16 16 (0.95%) ServiceNow
17 15 (0.89%) Commvault
17 15 (0.89%) Facebook
18 13 (0.77%) Dell