Azure Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Microsoft Azure Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in Manchester is £66,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 September 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 113 142
Rank change year-on-year -24 +29 +84
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 18 73 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.76% 1.80% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 1.91% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 10 41 29
10th Percentile £54,975 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,438 £42,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £59,500 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +11.34% -8.95% +18.82%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £69,750 £71,250 £90,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £67,675
% change year-on-year +23.81% -22.42% +23.05%

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 2,154 3,832 2,651
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.85% 94.45% 94.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,282 2,197 2,133
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £34,536
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,143 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -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

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 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Engineer in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (66.67%) DevOps
3 11 (61.11%) Terraform
3 11 (61.11%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
5 9 (50.00%) Kubernetes
6 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
6 8 (44.44%) Python
6 8 (44.44%) Configuration Management
6 8 (44.44%) Ansible
7 7 (38.89%) ARM Templates
7 7 (38.89%) Azure Certification
7 7 (38.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Automation
7 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (33.33%) SQL
9 4 (22.22%) Bash
9 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling
10 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (16.67%) Retail
10 3 (16.67%) JIRA
10 3 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
10 3 (16.67%) Incident Response
11 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
11 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
11 2 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
11 2 (11.11%) 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 2 (11.11%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.56%) JBoss
2 1 (5.56%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (61.11%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (11.11%) AWS
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (11.11%) SaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub
5 1 (5.56%) IaaS
5 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.56%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.56%) Big Data
3 1 (5.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.56%) Ant
3 1 (5.56%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.56%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) Maven
3 1 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (5.56%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.56%) Kafka
2 1 (5.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) DevOps
2 10 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 8 (44.44%) Configuration Management
4 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Automation
4 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling
6 3 (16.67%) Incident Response
6 3 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
7 2 (11.11%) Agile
7 2 (11.11%) API Management
7 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
7 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 2 (11.11%) ERP
7 2 (11.11%) ETL
7 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (11.11%) Project Management
7 2 (11.11%) SDLC
7 2 (11.11%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) SQL
3 4 (22.22%) Bash
4 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.56%) Groovy
5 1 (5.56%) Perl
5 1 (5.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (61.11%) Terraform
2 9 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (44.44%) Ansible
4 1 (5.56%) Podman
4 1 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Google