Azure Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Microsoft Azure Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in Manchester is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2025.

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

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 138 195
Rank change year-on-year +1 +57 +10
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 18 81 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.82% 1.58% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 1.67% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 10 39 38
10th Percentile £42,250 £41,500 £45,250
25th Percentile £49,063 £50,625 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -13.60% +6.84%
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £82,875 £70,000 £90,000
North West median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% +8.33%

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 1,992 4,849 4,551
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.30% 94.50% 91.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,288 3,739 2,670
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,000 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in Manchester.

Salary trend for Azure Engineer in Manchester

Azure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

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 6 May 2025. 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
Rochdale +4 1 £40,000 -
Azure Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 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 13 (72.22%) Terraform
3 12 (66.67%) DevOps
4 11 (61.11%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (61.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
6 8 (44.44%) Kubernetes
7 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
7 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (33.33%) Python
8 5 (27.78%) Ansible
8 5 (27.78%) SaaS
8 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
8 5 (27.78%) Azure Certification
8 5 (27.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (22.22%) ARM Templates
9 4 (22.22%) Configuration Management
10 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
10 3 (16.67%) Digital Engineering
10 3 (16.67%) Firewall
10 3 (16.67%) SQL
10 3 (16.67%) Manufacturing
10 3 (16.67%) GitHub
10 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
10 3 (16.67%) PaaS
10 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
10 3 (16.67%) Bicep
10 3 (16.67%) Azure AKS
10 3 (16.67%) Hitachi
11 2 (11.11%) Deployment Automation

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 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (61.11%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) SaaS
4 3 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 3 (16.67%) GitHub
4 3 (16.67%) PaaS
5 2 (11.11%) AWS
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 2 (11.11%) IaaS
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (5.56%) GCP
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
6 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) Network Security
3 1 (5.56%) DNS
3 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) CircleCI
3 1 (5.56%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (5.56%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (5.56%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (5.56%) TeamCity
3 1 (5.56%) Travis CI
General
1 3 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 2 (11.11%) Automotive
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Health Technology
3 1 (5.56%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) ARM Templates
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (5.56%) Bootstrap
3 1 (5.56%) Kafka
3 1 (5.56%) Node.js
3 1 (5.56%) React
3 1 (5.56%) Redux
3 1 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Life Science
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.56%) IoT
3 1 (5.56%) PropTech
3 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) DevOps
2 11 (61.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
5 4 (22.22%) Configuration Management
6 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
6 3 (16.67%) Digital Engineering
7 2 (11.11%) Application Security
7 2 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 2 (11.11%) Microservices
7 2 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
7 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
7 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
7 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (5.56%) Cloud Operations
8 1 (5.56%) Decision-Making
8 1 (5.56%) Proactive Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) Bicep
2 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Azure Certification
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (72.22%) Terraform
2 8 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 5 (27.78%) Ansible
4 1 (5.56%) Automic
4 1 (5.56%) Consul
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.56%) Rancher
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Hitachi
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) VMware