Azure Engineer Jobs 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 6 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 132 181
Rank change year-on-year -16 +49 +47
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 20 92 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.81% 1.57% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 1.65% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 11 49 38
10th Percentile £47,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £54,625 £46,250 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -8.19% +18.82%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £71,250 £90,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £53,750 £65,351
% change year-on-year +20.93% -17.75% +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 2,248 5,564 3,944
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.01% 95.11% 92.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,339 4,063 2,601
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,047 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,968 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,200 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Azure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in Manchester

Azure Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Azure Engineer in Manchester

Azure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

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

Salary histogram for Azure Engineer in Manchester

Azure Engineer
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Engineer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Rochdale +5 1 £40,000 -
Azure Engineer
North West

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

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

1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (80.00%) DevOps
3 15 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (70.00%) Terraform
5 13 (65.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (60.00%) Microsoft
7 9 (45.00%) Kubernetes
8 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (40.00%) Azure Certification
8 8 (40.00%) Python
8 8 (40.00%) Ansible
9 7 (35.00%) Configuration Management
9 7 (35.00%) ARM Templates
9 7 (35.00%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
11 5 (25.00%) SaaS
12 4 (20.00%) Bash
12 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
13 3 (15.00%) Agile
13 3 (15.00%) SQL
13 3 (15.00%) PaaS
13 3 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (15.00%) Incident Response
14 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security
14 2 (10.00%) API Management
14 2 (10.00%) Azure AKS
14 2 (10.00%) Bicep
14 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
14 2 (10.00%) Secrets Management

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (25.00%) SaaS
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (15.00%) PaaS
5 2 (10.00%) Azure AKS
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub
5 2 (10.00%) IaaS
6 1 (5.00%) AWS
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.00%) GCP
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
6 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) DNS
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
1 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) MySQL
2 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.00%) Automotive
2 1 (5.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.00%) Health Technology
2 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) IoT
3 1 (5.00%) Life Science
3 1 (5.00%) PropTech
3 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) DevOps
2 13 (65.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (35.00%) Configuration Management
5 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (15.00%) Agile
6 3 (15.00%) Incident Response
7 2 (10.00%) API Management
7 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security
7 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
7 2 (10.00%) ERP
7 2 (10.00%) Logistics
7 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 2 (10.00%) Project Management
7 2 (10.00%) SDLC
7 2 (10.00%) Secrets Management
7 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
7 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
8 1 (5.00%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) Bash
2 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
4 2 (10.00%) Bicep
5 1 (5.00%) Perl
5 1 (5.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (70.00%) Terraform
2 9 (45.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (40.00%) Ansible
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) Hitachi