Azure Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Microsoft Azure Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in Manchester is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 October 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 141 121
Rank change year-on-year +34 -20 +13
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 96 17 67
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.25% 0.72% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% 0.79% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 78 9 39
10th Percentile £47,500 £54,450 £37,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +23.81% -19.66%
75th Percentile £79,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 - £72,250
North West median annual salary £70,000 £62,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.55% +19.52% -19.66%

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 7,168 2,157 3,773
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.66% 90.82% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5,422 1,269 2,046
10th Percentile £32,025 £28,450 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £69,950
90th Percentile £97,375 £85,000 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

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 2 October 2026.

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 2 October 2026. 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
Salford - 7 £50,000 -
Azure Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 2 October 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 96 (100.00%) Azure
2 30 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 22 (22.92%) DevOps
4 18 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (17.71%) Platform Engineering
6 16 (16.67%) Terraform
7 14 (14.58%) Active Directory
8 12 (12.50%) Entra ID
9 11 (11.46%) CI/CD
9 11 (11.46%) PowerShell
10 10 (10.42%) Bicep
10 10 (10.42%) Customer Engagement
10 10 (10.42%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (8.33%) Kubernetes
11 8 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 8 (8.33%) Windows
11 8 (8.33%) Windows Server
12 7 (7.29%) AI
12 7 (7.29%) Business Continuity
12 7 (7.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 7 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (7.29%) SDLC
12 7 (7.29%) SQL
13 6 (6.25%) Analytics
13 6 (6.25%) Azure AKS
13 6 (6.25%) BCP
13 6 (6.25%) Business Continuity Planning
13 6 (6.25%) High Availability
14 5 (5.21%) ARM Templates

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 1 (1.04%) IIS
1 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 96 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 7 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (6.25%) Azure AKS
6 5 (5.21%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (4.17%) AWS
8 3 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (3.13%) GitHub
8 3 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.13%) IaaS
8 3 (3.13%) PaaS
9 2 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.08%) AWS Control Tower
9 2 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (2.08%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.08%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.17%) SAN
2 3 (3.13%) DNS
3 1 (1.04%) DHCP
3 1 (1.04%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Terragrunt
2 1 (1.04%) Git
2 1 (1.04%) Postman
General
1 3 (3.13%) Social Skills
2 2 (2.08%) Banking
2 2 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (2.08%) Finance
2 2 (2.08%) Manufacturing
2 2 (2.08%) Retail Banking
3 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (1.04%) Local Government
3 1 (1.04%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.67%) Terraform
2 5 (5.21%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.04%) ADO
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.04%) REST
3 1 (1.04%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.21%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (2.08%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.04%) NHS
3 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.33%) Windows
1 8 (8.33%) Windows Server
2 4 (4.17%) Linux
3 3 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (22.92%) DevOps
2 17 (17.71%) Platform Engineering
3 11 (11.46%) CI/CD
4 10 (10.42%) Customer Engagement
4 10 (10.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 7 (7.29%) AI
6 7 (7.29%) Business Continuity
6 7 (7.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (7.29%) SDLC
7 6 (6.25%) Analytics
7 6 (6.25%) BCP
7 6 (6.25%) Business Continuity Planning
7 6 (6.25%) High Availability
8 5 (5.21%) Log Analytics
9 4 (4.17%) Cloud Security
9 4 (4.17%) RBAC
9 4 (4.17%) Roadmaps
9 4 (4.17%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.46%) PowerShell
2 10 (10.42%) Bicep
3 7 (7.29%) SQL
4 4 (4.17%) Python
5 3 (3.13%) Bash
5 3 (3.13%) C#
5 3 (3.13%) Go
5 3 (3.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (5.21%) Azure Certification
2 3 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 3 (3.13%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.04%) QA
System Software
1 14 (14.58%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.04%) Ansible
3 1 (1.04%) Argo
3 1 (1.04%) Grafana
3 1 (1.04%) Istio
3 1 (1.04%) linkerd
3 1 (1.04%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.17%) VMware
3 1 (1.04%) Databricks