Azure Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Microsoft Azure Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in Manchester is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 May 2026.

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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 143 144
Rank change year-on-year +24 +1 +45
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 52 20 78
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.92% 0.89% 1.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 0.98% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 38 11 37
10th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,625 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -13.60%
75th Percentile £79,500 £76,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £66,250
North West median annual salary £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.86% +5.45% -18.40%

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 5,227 2,047 4,773
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 90.70% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,934 1,250 3,822
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +9.26% -6.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £82,101
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 19 May 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 19 May 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 - 6 £50,000 -
Azure Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 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 52 (100.00%) Azure
2 24 (46.15%) Microsoft
3 18 (34.62%) Terraform
4 13 (25.00%) Windows
5 12 (23.08%) Active Directory
5 12 (23.08%) DevOps
5 12 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
6 11 (21.15%) CI/CD
7 10 (19.23%) Entra ID
8 9 (17.31%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (17.31%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (15.38%) Azure Certification
9 8 (15.38%) Firewall
9 8 (15.38%) Windows Server
10 7 (13.46%) AWS
10 7 (13.46%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (13.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (13.46%) Kubernetes
11 6 (11.54%) AI
11 6 (11.54%) Business Continuity
11 6 (11.54%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (11.54%) Digital Banking
11 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (11.54%) Product Management
12 5 (9.62%) Azure AKS
12 5 (9.62%) BCP
12 5 (9.62%) Business Continuity Planning
12 5 (9.62%) Change Management
12 5 (9.62%) Customer Service
12 5 (9.62%) High Availability

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 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 52 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (19.23%) Entra ID
3 9 (17.31%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (13.46%) AWS
5 5 (9.62%) Azure AKS
5 5 (9.62%) Intacct
5 5 (9.62%) SaaS
6 4 (7.69%) GitHub
7 3 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.92%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (1.92%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.92%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (1.92%) IaaS
9 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.38%) Firewall
2 4 (7.69%) SAN
3 1 (1.92%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) GitLab
2 1 (1.92%) Postman
2 1 (1.92%) Terragrunt
General
1 10 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.46%) Finance
3 6 (11.54%) Banking
3 6 (11.54%) Retail Banking
4 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.92%) ADO
1 1 (1.92%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (1.92%) REST
1 1 (1.92%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (3.85%) Mobile App
1 2 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (25.00%) Windows
2 8 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.69%) Linux
4 2 (3.85%) Debian
4 2 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (23.08%) DevOps
1 12 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
2 11 (21.15%) CI/CD
3 7 (13.46%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (13.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (11.54%) AI
4 6 (11.54%) Business Continuity
4 6 (11.54%) Digital Banking
4 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (11.54%) Product Management
5 5 (9.62%) BCP
5 5 (9.62%) Business Continuity Planning
5 5 (9.62%) Change Management
5 5 (9.62%) Customer Service
5 5 (9.62%) High Availability
5 5 (9.62%) ITIL
5 5 (9.62%) Mobile Device Management
5 5 (9.62%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 4 (7.69%) Analytics
6 4 (7.69%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.77%) PowerShell
1 3 (5.77%) Python
1 3 (5.77%) SQL
2 2 (3.85%) Bicep
2 2 (3.85%) Go
3 1 (1.92%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (15.38%) Azure Certification
2 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.92%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 12 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (34.62%) Terraform
2 9 (17.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (13.46%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 24 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.62%) Sage
2 5 (9.62%) Ubiquiti
3 4 (7.69%) VMware
4 2 (3.85%) Databricks