Azure Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Microsoft Azure Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in Manchester is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 January 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 138 143
Rank change year-on-year +8 +5 +76
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 15 18 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.47% 0.70% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.74% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 13 12 24
10th Percentile £33,750 £42,625 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £46,563 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -11.11% -13.46%
75th Percentile £56,750 £57,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £58,000 £66,500 £74,625
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 2,841 2,424 3,146
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.48% 94.10% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,880 1,177 2,623
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £29,800
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.79%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 31 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Engineer in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 31 January 2026, 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 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (53.33%) Terraform
3 8 (53.33%) Windows
4 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
4 6 (40.00%) Azure Certification
4 6 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
5 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (26.67%) Azure AKS
6 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
6 4 (26.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (26.67%) DevOps
6 4 (26.67%) Firewall
6 4 (26.67%) SaaS
6 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
6 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
6 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
7 3 (20.00%) Analytics
7 3 (20.00%) Change Management
7 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (20.00%) Customer Service
7 3 (20.00%) Git
7 3 (20.00%) GitHub
7 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (20.00%) Intacct
7 3 (20.00%) ITIL
7 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification

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 (13.33%) Apache
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.67%) JBoss
2 1 (6.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (26.67%) Azure AKS
3 4 (26.67%) SaaS
4 3 (20.00%) GitHub
4 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (20.00%) Intacct
5 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Functions
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Storage
5 2 (13.33%) Serverless
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (6.67%) AWS
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Stack
6 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Big Data
1 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Ant
2 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Maven
2 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Retail
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.67%) Replication
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (13.33%) Linux
4 1 (6.67%) Debian
4 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (26.67%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Analytics
3 3 (20.00%) Change Management
3 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (20.00%) ITIL
3 3 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 3 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) Storage Management
4 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
4 2 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (13.33%) High Availability
4 2 (13.33%) Incident Response
4 2 (13.33%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (13.33%) Observability
4 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Bicep
2 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Terraform
2 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (13.33%) Ansible
4 1 (6.67%) Podman
4 1 (6.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Sage
2 3 (20.00%) Ubiquiti
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) Dell
3 1 (6.67%) VMware