Azure Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Microsoft Azure Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in Manchester is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 February 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 133 144
Rank change year-on-year +11 +11 +75
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 17 21 35
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.49% 0.83% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.88% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 15 13 26
10th Percentile - £42,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £47,500 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -10.20%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £58,000 £68,500 £74,375
North West median annual salary £55,000 £51,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.32% -10.87% -

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 3,090 2,375 3,436
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.88% 94.06% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,074 1,190 2,875
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,959 £29,106
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,063 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -1.79%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £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 14 February 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 14 February 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 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (64.71%) Microsoft
3 10 (58.82%) Windows
4 9 (52.94%) Entra ID
4 9 (52.94%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (47.06%) Active Directory
5 8 (47.06%) Azure Certification
5 8 (47.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (47.06%) Terraform
6 7 (41.18%) Firewall
7 6 (35.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
7 6 (35.29%) SaaS
8 5 (29.41%) Azure AKS
8 5 (29.41%) Change Management
8 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
8 5 (29.41%) Customer Service
8 5 (29.41%) DevOps
8 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (29.41%) Intacct
8 5 (29.41%) ITIL
8 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Office
8 5 (29.41%) Mobile Device Management
8 5 (29.41%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 5 (29.41%) Sage
8 5 (29.41%) Ubiquiti
9 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
9 4 (23.53%) GitHub
9 4 (23.53%) GitHub Actions

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 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.88%) Apache
2 1 (5.88%) JBoss
2 1 (5.88%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (52.94%) Entra ID
2 9 (52.94%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (35.29%) SaaS
4 5 (29.41%) Azure AKS
4 5 (29.41%) Intacct
5 4 (23.53%) GitHub
5 4 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (11.76%) Azure Functions
6 2 (11.76%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (11.76%) Azure Storage
6 2 (11.76%) Serverless
7 1 (5.88%) AWS
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Stack
7 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) Ant
3 1 (5.88%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Maven
3 1 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Retail
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Driving Licence
1 2 (11.76%) Mobile App
1 2 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Windows
2 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
3 3 (17.65%) Linux
4 2 (11.76%) Debian
4 2 (11.76%) Ubuntu
5 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Change Management
1 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
1 5 (29.41%) Customer Service
1 5 (29.41%) DevOps
1 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (29.41%) ITIL
1 5 (29.41%) Mobile Device Management
1 5 (29.41%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
3 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (17.65%) Storage Management
4 2 (11.76%) Business Strategy
4 2 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (11.76%) Incident Response
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (11.76%) Log Analytics
4 2 (11.76%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (11.76%) Observability
4 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.76%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) Bicep
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.88%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) Groovy
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Azure Certification
2 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft Intune
1 8 (47.06%) Terraform
2 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
3 3 (17.65%) Ansible
4 1 (5.88%) Podman
4 1 (5.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (29.41%) Sage
2 5 (29.41%) Ubiquiti
3 1 (5.88%) Dell
3 1 (5.88%) VMware