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 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 136 123
Rank change year-on-year +14 -13 +91
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 13 19 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.47% 0.69% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.74% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 11 13 23
10th Percentile £52,000 £42,750 £43,000
25th Percentile £53,500 - £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile - £72,750 £74,750
North West median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -23.08% +8.33%

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 2,459 2,578 2,159
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.97% 93.98% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,556 1,248 1,730
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,375 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -0.47%

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 1 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 1 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 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) Terraform
3 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
3 6 (46.15%) Python
3 6 (46.15%) SQL
4 4 (30.77%) Analytics
4 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
4 4 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
4 4 (30.77%) Windows
5 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
5 3 (23.08%) Azure AKS
5 3 (23.08%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Git
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (23.08%) Log Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
5 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
5 3 (23.08%) Storage Management
5 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
6 2 (15.38%) Apache
6 2 (15.38%) ARM Templates
6 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
6 2 (15.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (15.38%) Azure Functions

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 (15.38%) Apache
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.69%) JBoss
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.69%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Azure AKS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Functions
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Storage
3 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (15.38%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Stack
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
3 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.69%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Ant
2 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Maven
2 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (38.46%) Retail
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Driving Licence
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
2 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 4 (30.77%) Analytics
2 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (23.08%) Log Analytics
3 3 (23.08%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (23.08%) Storage Management
4 2 (15.38%) Business Continuity
4 2 (15.38%) Business Strategy
4 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
4 2 (15.38%) ETL
4 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (15.38%) Observability
4 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
1 6 (46.15%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Bicep
2 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Terraform
2 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.69%) Podman
3 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Dell
3 1 (7.69%) VMware