Azure Specialist Jobs in Manchester

Microsoft Azure Specialist
North West > Manchester

The median Microsoft Azure Specialist salary in Manchester is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 - 242
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Specialist 8 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.36% - 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% - 0.046%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - -
75th Percentile £68,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £67,500 - -

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 2,015 5,153 4,315
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.09% 94.67% 92.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,166 3,945 2,578
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,988 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,750 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,840 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,764 £80,000 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Azure Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Azure Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Specialist in Manchester

Azure Specialist
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Azure Specialist in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Azure Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) Capacity Planning
2 7 (87.50%) Enterprise Cloud
2 7 (87.50%) Mentoring
2 7 (87.50%) Coaching
2 7 (87.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (87.50%) Roadmaps
2 7 (87.50%) Law
2 7 (87.50%) Legal
2 7 (87.50%) ITIL
2 7 (87.50%) Cisco
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) ETL
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification

Azure Specialist 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 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 7 (87.50%) Law
1 7 (87.50%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Capacity Planning
1 7 (87.50%) Coaching
1 7 (87.50%) ITIL
1 7 (87.50%) Mentoring
1 7 (87.50%) Roadmaps
2 1 (12.50%) Agile
2 1 (12.50%) Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
2 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) ETL
2 1 (12.50%) Microservices
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) Cyber Essentials
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (87.50%) Cisco