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 30 April 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 131 129
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +64
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 35 19 82
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.67% 0.90% 1.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 1.00% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 29 11 41
10th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +12.50% -13.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £70,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

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 4,809 1,906 4,661
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.99% 90.72% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,446 1,265 3,758
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -6.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,079 £81,250
North West median annual salary £52,500 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.18% +9.59% -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 30 April 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 30 April 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 - 4 £50,000 -
Azure Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 35 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 14 (40.00%) Terraform
4 13 (37.14%) Windows
5 12 (34.29%) Active Directory
6 10 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 10 (28.57%) DevOps
7 9 (25.71%) Entra ID
7 9 (25.71%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (25.71%) Platform Engineering
8 8 (22.86%) Azure Certification
8 8 (22.86%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (22.86%) Windows Server
9 7 (20.00%) Firewall
9 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (20.00%) Kubernetes
10 6 (17.14%) AWS
10 6 (17.14%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (17.14%) Digital Banking
10 6 (17.14%) Product Management
10 6 (17.14%) SaaS
11 5 (14.29%) Azure AKS
11 5 (14.29%) Business Continuity
11 5 (14.29%) Change Management
11 5 (14.29%) Customer Service
11 5 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (14.29%) GitHub
11 5 (14.29%) High Availability
11 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (14.29%) Intacct

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 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 35 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (25.71%) Entra ID
2 9 (25.71%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (17.14%) AWS
3 6 (17.14%) SaaS
4 5 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 5 (14.29%) GitHub
4 5 (14.29%) Intacct
5 4 (11.43%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Stack
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.00%) Firewall
2 4 (11.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) GitLab
2 1 (2.86%) Git
General
1 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Finance
3 6 (17.14%) Banking
3 6 (17.14%) Retail Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.86%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Mobile App
1 2 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.86%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (37.14%) Windows
2 8 (22.86%) Windows Server
3 4 (11.43%) Linux
4 2 (5.71%) Debian
4 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.71%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) CI/CD
1 10 (28.57%) DevOps
2 9 (25.71%) Platform Engineering
3 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (17.14%) Digital Banking
4 6 (17.14%) Product Management
5 5 (14.29%) Business Continuity
5 5 (14.29%) Change Management
5 5 (14.29%) Customer Service
5 5 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (14.29%) High Availability
5 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (14.29%) ITIL
5 5 (14.29%) Mobile Device Management
5 5 (14.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 5 (14.29%) Storage Management
6 4 (11.43%) Analytics
6 4 (11.43%) BCP
6 4 (11.43%) Containerisation
6 4 (11.43%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.43%) Python
2 3 (8.57%) SQL
3 2 (5.71%) Bicep
3 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.86%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Azure Certification
2 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (34.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.71%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (40.00%) Terraform
2 8 (22.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.71%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) Sage
2 5 (14.29%) Ubiquiti
2 5 (14.29%) VMware
3 2 (5.71%) Databricks
4 1 (2.86%) Dell