Azure Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Microsoft Azure Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in Manchester is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 138 122
Rank change year-on-year +9 -16 +103
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 14 38 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.60% 1.04% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 1.09% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 10 31 25
10th Percentile £51,825 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,688 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,125 £67,070
90th Percentile £68,875 £71,250 £75,000
North West median annual salary £62,750 £52,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year +19.52% -19.66% +18.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 2,175 3,471 2,317
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 95.12% 96.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,431 1,758 1,897
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,425 £34,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% -7.60% +8.23%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,750 £84,056
North West median annual salary £48,979 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.04% -9.09% +4.76%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Azure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in Manchester

Azure Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Manchester.

Salary distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Manchester

Azure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Engineer in Manchester

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 5 November 2025, Azure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 8 (57.14%) DevOps
2 8 (57.14%) Python
3 7 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (42.86%) Terraform
5 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
5 5 (35.71%) SQL
6 4 (28.57%) Ansible
6 4 (28.57%) ARM Templates
6 4 (28.57%) Azure Certification
6 4 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (28.57%) Configuration Management
6 4 (28.57%) Data Modelling
6 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (21.43%) Analytics
7 3 (21.43%) Bash
7 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
7 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (21.43%) Docker
7 3 (21.43%) Incident Response
7 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (21.43%) JIRA
7 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
7 3 (21.43%) Requirements Gathering
8 2 (14.29%) Agile
8 2 (14.29%) Apache
8 2 (14.29%) API Management

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Apache
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.14%) JBoss
2 1 (7.14%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (14.29%) AWS
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Storage
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.14%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) Ant
3 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
3 1 (7.14%) Maven
3 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (28.57%) Retail
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 8 (57.14%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (28.57%) Configuration Management
3 4 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Analytics
4 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
4 3 (21.43%) Incident Response
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (21.43%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (14.29%) API Management
5 2 (14.29%) ERP
5 2 (14.29%) ETL
5 2 (14.29%) Log Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Project Management
5 2 (14.29%) Secrets Management
5 2 (14.29%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) Bash
3 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) Bicep
4 1 (7.14%) Groovy
4 1 (7.14%) Perl
4 1 (7.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Terraform
2 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
3 4 (28.57%) Ansible
4 1 (7.14%) Podman
4 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Google