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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,086 4,021 3,719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 17.67% 23.35% 20.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 50.08% 54.38% 50.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,475 2,133 2,375
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,647 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,548 £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 6,162 7,394 7,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 35.28% 42.94% 41.31%
Number of salaries quoted 4,966 3,934 5,228
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £69,750 £71,250 £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 9 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 9 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 1,644 £57,500 +4.55% 349
Yorkshire 0 1,059 £55,000 - 220
North East +4 385 £47,500 -13.64% 68
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
1 195 (6.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 177 (5.74%) SharePoint
3 85 (2.75%) ArcGIS
3 85 (2.75%) GeoServer
4 42 (1.36%) IIS
5 37 (1.20%) Confluence
6 20 (0.65%) Apache Spark
7 17 (0.55%) CMS
8 16 (0.52%) Apache
9 14 (0.45%) Umbraco
10 12 (0.39%) Captiva
10 12 (0.39%) FileNet
10 12 (0.39%) WebLogic
10 12 (0.39%) WebSphere
11 10 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2013
12 8 (0.26%) Apache Solr
13 6 (0.19%) NServiceBus
14 5 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
14 5 (0.16%) Skype for Business
15 4 (0.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 89 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.26%) Photoshop
5 6 (0.19%) LightWave 3D
6 5 (0.16%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.065%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.065%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.065%) Sketch
7 2 (0.065%) Trello
8 1 (0.032%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.032%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 58 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
4 8 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.16%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.16%) SAP PP
6 3 (0.097%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.065%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.065%) SystmOne
8 1 (0.032%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.032%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 885 (28.68%) AWS
2 703 (22.78%) Microsoft 365
3 426 (13.80%) Azure DevOps
4 339 (10.99%) GCP
5 310 (10.05%) Power Platform
6 278 (9.01%) Entra ID
7 170 (5.51%) SaaS
8 110 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
8 110 (3.56%) Serverless
9 91 (2.95%) Cloud Computing
9 91 (2.95%) PaaS
10 88 (2.85%) Azure Data Factory
11 86 (2.79%) Azure Service Bus
12 84 (2.72%) GitHub
12 84 (2.72%) PowerApps
13 80 (2.59%) IBM Cloud
14 76 (2.46%) Power Automate
15 74 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
15 74 (2.40%) IaaS
16 67 (2.17%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 276 (8.94%) Firewall
2 199 (6.45%) DNS
2 199 (6.45%) WAN
3 157 (5.09%) LAN
4 141 (4.57%) DHCP
5 104 (3.37%) VPN
6 78 (2.53%) Internet
7 77 (2.50%) SAN
8 73 (2.37%) TCP/IP
9 67 (2.17%) Network Security
10 60 (1.94%) SD-WAN
11 51 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
12 47 (1.52%) VoIP
13 36 (1.17%) Wireless
14 33 (1.07%) Intrusion Detection
14 33 (1.07%) SSL
14 33 (1.07%) WLAN
15 32 (1.04%) BGP
16 27 (0.87%) Broadband
16 27 (0.87%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 587 (19.02%) SQL Server
2 235 (7.62%) Data Warehouse
3 229 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
4 205 (6.64%) Power BI
5 160 (5.18%) MongoDB
6 148 (4.80%) NoSQL
7 137 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 109 (3.53%) Relational Database
9 106 (3.43%) Data Lake
10 101 (3.27%) DB2
10 101 (3.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 90 (2.92%) GIS
12 85 (2.75%) QGIS
13 82 (2.66%) MySQL
14 74 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
15 63 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
16 52 (1.69%) Data Vault
17 46 (1.49%) BigQuery
18 44 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 39 (1.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 181 (5.87%) Git
2 130 (4.21%) JIRA
3 100 (3.24%) GitLab
4 58 (1.88%) Jenkins
5 38 (1.23%) Visual Studio
6 34 (1.10%) Selenium
7 24 (0.78%) Cypress.io
8 22 (0.71%) CircleCI
8 22 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
9 21 (0.68%) Artifactory
10 20 (0.65%) Postman
11 18 (0.58%) Jasmine
12 16 (0.52%) Karma Test Runner
13 14 (0.45%) Cucumber
14 12 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
15 11 (0.36%) IBM UrbanCode
16 10 (0.32%) SonarQube
17 9 (0.29%) JUnit
18 8 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
19 6 (0.19%) Appium
General
1 684 (22.16%) Social Skills
2 396 (12.83%) Finance
3 259 (8.39%) Public Sector
4 203 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
5 150 (4.86%) Retail
6 145 (4.70%) Law
7 85 (2.75%) Legal
8 77 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 72 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
10 70 (2.27%) Banking
11 64 (2.07%) Manufacturing
12 52 (1.69%) Marketing
12 52 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
13 50 (1.62%) Games
14 46 (1.49%) Aerospace
15 40 (1.30%) Advertising
16 21 (0.68%) Telecoms
17 18 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
18 17 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
19 16 (0.52%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 790 (25.60%) Developer
2 481 (15.59%) Senior
3 382 (12.38%) .NET Developer
4 373 (12.09%) Lead
5 311 (10.08%) Architect
6 240 (7.78%) Software Engineer
7 188 (6.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 185 (5.99%) Analyst
9 174 (5.64%) C# Developer
10 158 (5.12%) Azure Engineer
11 144 (4.67%) Data Engineer
12 143 (4.63%) IT Support
13 141 (4.57%) Cloud Engineer
14 134 (4.34%) C# .NET Developer
15 116 (3.76%) IT Engineer
15 116 (3.76%) Senior Developer
16 114 (3.69%) Support Engineer
17 112 (3.63%) Solutions Architect
18 109 (3.53%) Senior Software Engineer
19 96 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 870 (28.19%) .NET
2 419 (13.58%) AngularJS
3 417 (13.51%) React
4 382 (12.38%) .NET Core
5 366 (11.86%) CSS
6 355 (11.50%) ASP.NET
7 336 (10.89%) HTML
8 267 (8.65%) ASP.NET Web API
9 244 (7.91%) .NET Framework
10 224 (7.26%) Entity Framework
11 191 (6.19%) Node.js
12 190 (6.16%) RESTful
13 182 (5.90%) ASP.NET MVC
14 164 (5.31%) REST
14 164 (5.31%) Vue
15 163 (5.28%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 135 (4.37%) Web Services
17 125 (4.05%) jQuery
18 113 (3.66%) HTML5
19 94 (3.05%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 231 (7.49%) Public Cloud
2 146 (4.73%) Data Structures
3 134 (4.34%) Hybrid Cloud
4 99 (3.21%) Management Information System
5 93 (3.01%) Algorithms
6 91 (2.95%) Blockchain
7 85 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
8 80 (2.59%) Cloud Native
9 76 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
10 60 (1.94%) Driving Licence
11 48 (1.56%) Product Ownership
12 45 (1.46%) Private Cloud
13 41 (1.33%) Reinsurance
14 40 (1.30%) Data Centre
14 40 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
15 38 (1.23%) e-Learning
16 37 (1.20%) PKI
17 36 (1.17%) Mobile App
18 35 (1.13%) IoT
19 32 (1.04%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 651 (21.10%) Windows
2 313 (10.14%) Linux
3 296 (9.59%) Windows Server
4 134 (4.34%) Android
5 113 (3.66%) Apple iOS
6 89 (2.88%) Windows 10
7 63 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
8 59 (1.91%) Windows Server 2016
9 55 (1.78%) Windows Server 2019
10 46 (1.49%) Unix
11 43 (1.39%) Mac OS
12 37 (1.20%) VMS
13 32 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 29 (0.94%) Ubuntu
15 12 (0.39%) CentOS
15 12 (0.39%) Debian
16 10 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
17 9 (0.29%) Windows Phone
18 6 (0.19%) Windows Vista
19 4 (0.13%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,050 (34.02%) Agile
2 831 (26.93%) DevOps
3 492 (15.94%) Full Stack Development
4 463 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 403 (13.06%) Mentoring
6 374 (12.12%) Software Engineering
7 367 (11.89%) Microservices
8 347 (11.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 341 (11.05%) CI/CD
10 313 (10.14%) MVC
11 307 (9.95%) Migration
12 296 (9.59%) ITIL
13 282 (9.14%) Roadmaps
14 248 (8.04%) Business Intelligence
15 240 (7.78%) Scrum
16 236 (7.65%) ETL
17 232 (7.52%) Coaching
18 230 (7.45%) Customer Service
19 224 (7.26%) Web Development
20 221 (7.16%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 860 (27.87%) C#
2 804 (26.05%) SQL
3 712 (23.07%) JavaScript
4 377 (12.22%) Python
5 249 (8.07%) PowerShell
6 212 (6.87%) TypeScript
7 172 (5.57%) Java
8 142 (4.60%) T-SQL
9 53 (1.72%) Bash
10 37 (1.20%) VB.NET
11 31 (1.00%) PHP
12 28 (0.91%) Go
13 20 (0.65%) Groovy
13 20 (0.65%) VB
14 19 (0.62%) Ruby
15 17 (0.55%) C++
16 16 (0.52%) Bicep
16 16 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 16 (0.52%) VB6
17 13 (0.42%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 259 (8.39%) Degree
2 211 (6.84%) Security Cleared
3 189 (6.12%) Azure Certification
4 168 (5.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 167 (5.41%) SC Cleared
6 98 (3.18%) Cisco Certification
7 75 (2.43%) AWS Certification
8 58 (1.88%) CISSP
9 56 (1.81%) DBS Check
10 54 (1.75%) CCNA
10 54 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
11 38 (1.23%) CCNP
12 36 (1.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 36 (1.17%) DV Cleared
13 33 (1.07%) CCSP
14 29 (0.94%) CISM
15 28 (0.91%) Master's Degree
16 26 (0.84%) CCSK
17 18 (0.58%) MCSE
18 17 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (4.34%) Data Quality
2 96 (3.11%) GDPR
3 92 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 81 (2.62%) SLA
5 80 (2.59%) QA
6 58 (1.88%) NIST
7 42 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 25 (0.81%) Accessibility
9 24 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.26%) PSD2
11 7 (0.23%) PMO
11 7 (0.23%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.13%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.065%) GRC
13 2 (0.065%) 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
1 566 (18.34%) Active Directory
2 206 (6.68%) Hyper-V
3 200 (6.48%) Docker
4 178 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
6 43 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
7 27 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (0.49%) Terminal Services
9 14 (0.45%) vSphere
10 10 (0.32%) VMware Server
11 9 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
12 7 (0.23%) XenApp
12 7 (0.23%) XenDesktop
13 5 (0.16%) Firmware
13 5 (0.16%) VMware NSX
14 4 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
15 2 (0.065%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 1 (0.032%) DFS Replication
16 1 (0.032%) Snort
16 1 (0.032%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 267 (8.65%) Kubernetes
2 260 (8.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 228 (7.39%) Terraform
4 96 (3.11%) Ansible
5 52 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (0.94%) Progress Chef
7 25 (0.81%) Grafana
7 25 (0.81%) Puppet
7 25 (0.81%) SCCM
8 24 (0.78%) Prometheus
9 22 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 18 (0.58%) SCOM
11 17 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
12 15 (0.49%) ZABBIX
13 14 (0.45%) FortiGate
14 13 (0.42%) Autotask
14 13 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
14 13 (0.42%) vCenter Server
15 12 (0.39%) Opsgenie
15 12 (0.39%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,278 (41.41%) Microsoft
2 309 (10.01%) VMware
3 198 (6.42%) Google
4 146 (4.73%) Cisco
5 130 (4.21%) IBM
6 126 (4.08%) Oracle
7 98 (3.18%) Citrix
8 97 (3.14%) Red Hat
9 85 (2.75%) ESRI
10 80 (2.59%) Databricks
11 64 (2.07%) Veeam
12 48 (1.56%) Fortinet
12 48 (1.56%) Informatica
13 47 (1.52%) SolarWinds
14 44 (1.43%) ServiceNow
15 38 (1.23%) SAP
16 29 (0.94%) Apple
17 27 (0.87%) Commvault
18 26 (0.84%) Splunk
19 24 (0.78%) Datto