Azure Jobs in Durham

Microsoft Azure
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Durham requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 3 6
Rank change year-on-year -15 +3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 25 94 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 10.33% 22.01% 20.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 73.53% 57.32% 63.11%
Number of salaries quoted 15 60 30
10th Percentile £27,500 £35,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £42,313 £38,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +18.75% -
75th Percentile £73,379 £70,000 £49,813
90th Percentile £74,258 - £57,875
North East median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% -13.64% +29.41%

All Cloud Skills
Durham

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Durham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 34 164 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 14.05% 38.41% 32.80%
Number of salaries quoted 23 112 43
10th Percentile £26,350 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,379 £62,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £76,452 £70,000 £59,500
North East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +11.11%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Durham.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Durham

Azure
Salary Trend in Durham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure in Durham.

Salary trend for Azure in Durham

Azure
Salary Histogram in Durham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in Durham over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure in Durham

Azure
Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Durham region over the 6 months to 11 May 2025. 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
Darlington -2 7 £69,384 +54.19%
Stockton-on-Tees -1 4 - - 4
Hartlepool +1 3 £40,000 +48.15% 2
Peterlee 0 2 £25,000 -
Azure
North East

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Durham 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 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) Entra ID
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (16.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) Amazon ECR
3 3 (12.00%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (12.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 3 (12.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 3 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (12.00%) AWS CodeBuild
3 3 (12.00%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (12.00%) dbt
3 3 (12.00%) GCP
3 3 (12.00%) Pulumi
3 3 (12.00%) Sentry
4 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) Firewall
1 6 (24.00%) VPN
2 5 (20.00%) DHCP
2 5 (20.00%) DNS
3 3 (12.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (8.00%) LAN
4 2 (8.00%) VLAN
4 2 (8.00%) WAN
5 1 (4.00%) Network Security
5 1 (4.00%) VoIP
5 1 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (12.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (12.00%) Redis
General
1 13 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Identity Management Specialist
1 9 (36.00%) Technology Specialist
2 7 (28.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 4 (16.00%) Senior
4 3 (12.00%) IT Support
4 3 (12.00%) Site Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 2 (8.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Architect
5 2 (8.00%) IT Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) IT Support Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Support Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (4.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) Django
2 1 (4.00%) .NET
2 1 (4.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (4.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (36.00%) NHS
2 3 (12.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 8 (32.00%) Windows
2 6 (24.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (16.00%) Linux
4 3 (12.00%) Mac OS
4 3 (12.00%) Unix
5 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) ITIL
2 9 (36.00%) Identity Management
3 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (28.00%) DevOps
4 5 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 5 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (20.00%) Patch Management
4 5 (20.00%) Process Improvement
5 4 (16.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (12.00%) Agile
6 3 (12.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
6 3 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (12.00%) Observability
6 3 (12.00%) Open Source
6 3 (12.00%) Performance Monitoring
6 3 (12.00%) Prototyping
6 3 (12.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (12.00%) Service-Level Objective
6 3 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.00%) Bash
3 1 (4.00%) Bicep
3 1 (4.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) Degree
2 9 (36.00%) DBS Check
3 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (8.00%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (4.00%) CCNA
5 1 (4.00%) CCNP
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 17 (68.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (24.00%) Hyper-V
2 6 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (12.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Terraform
2 3 (12.00%) AWS Copilot
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (72.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (24.00%) VMware
3 3 (12.00%) Google
4 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco
4 1 (4.00%) Meraki