Azure Jobs in Manchester

Microsoft Azure
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +3
Permanent jobs citing Azure 452 744 1,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 17.89% 19.41% 27.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.49% 48.85% 55.15%
Number of salaries quoted 273 604 736
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,084 £39,772
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +0.80% +3.52%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £90,000 £86,250
North West median annual salary £58,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,016 1,523 2,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 40.22% 39.73% 50.66%
Number of salaries quoted 594 1,279 1,556
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,063 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,500 £85,000 £86,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Manchester

Azure
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Azure in Manchester

Azure
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in Manchester over the 6 months to 16 February 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure in Manchester

Azure
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 within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 16 February 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
Salford +2 32 £44,000 -21.78% 8
Stockport +16 14 £55,000 +83.33% 1
Rochdale +1 10 £45,000 -30.77%
Bolton -20 7 £43,750 -2.78% 20
Wigan - 6 £40,000 - 1
Oldham -1 5 £55,000 +22.22% 1
Altrincham -1 2 £57,500 +15.00% 17
Sale - 2 £50,000 -
Heywood - 1 £23,000 -
Azure
North West

Azure
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 21 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 19 (4.20%) IIS
3 12 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (2.21%) Confluence
5 5 (1.11%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.66%) Apache
6 3 (0.66%) CMS
7 2 (0.44%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.44%) nginx
7 2 (0.44%) WordPress
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.22%) SAS
8 1 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.22%) Revit
Business Applications
1 7 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 153 (33.85%) AWS
2 109 (24.12%) GCP
3 61 (13.50%) Azure DevOps
3 61 (13.50%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (9.07%) Power Platform
5 33 (7.30%) SaaS
6 29 (6.42%) Entra ID
7 21 (4.65%) PaaS
8 17 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (3.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 15 (3.32%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (3.10%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (3.10%) Cloud Computing
11 13 (2.88%) Azure AKS
12 11 (2.43%) Azure Machine Learning
12 11 (2.43%) OneDrive
13 10 (2.21%) Serverless
14 7 (1.55%) Azure Functions
14 7 (1.55%) GitHub
14 7 (1.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 28 (6.19%) DNS
2 27 (5.97%) Firewall
2 27 (5.97%) Internet
3 23 (5.09%) DHCP
4 21 (4.65%) Intrusion Detection
5 19 (4.20%) TCP/IP
6 17 (3.76%) SSL
7 15 (3.32%) VPN
7 15 (3.32%) WAN
8 14 (3.10%) Network Security
9 13 (2.88%) BGP
9 13 (2.88%) LAN
9 13 (2.88%) MPLS
9 13 (2.88%) OSPF
10 7 (1.55%) VLAN
10 7 (1.55%) Wireless
11 5 (1.11%) NAS
11 5 (1.11%) SAN
11 5 (1.11%) VSAN
12 4 (0.88%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (9.51%) SQL Server
2 25 (5.53%) Power BI
3 23 (5.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 20 (4.42%) MongoDB
4 20 (4.42%) MySQL
5 19 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (3.98%) Data Lake
7 14 (3.10%) NoSQL
8 10 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (1.99%) Cloud Spanner
10 5 (1.11%) Big Data
11 4 (0.88%) OLTP
11 4 (0.88%) Redis
11 4 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.66%) Event Store
12 3 (0.66%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.66%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (5.53%) Jenkins
2 18 (3.98%) Git
3 14 (3.10%) GitLab
3 14 (3.10%) JIRA
4 8 (1.77%) SonarQube
5 7 (1.55%) Postman
6 6 (1.33%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.11%) Babel
7 5 (1.11%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (1.11%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (1.11%) Selenium
7 5 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (1.11%) webpack
8 4 (0.88%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.88%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.44%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.44%) JMeter
9 2 (0.44%) MSTest
9 2 (0.44%) Toad
General
1 103 (22.79%) Social Skills
2 74 (16.37%) Finance
3 67 (14.82%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.30%) Banking
5 31 (6.86%) Law
6 24 (5.31%) Public Sector
7 20 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (3.10%) Marketing
9 12 (2.65%) Legal
10 10 (2.21%) Games
10 10 (2.21%) Retail
11 9 (1.99%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.77%) Tech for Good
13 6 (1.33%) Automotive
14 5 (1.11%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.44%) Mandarin Language
17 2 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 83 (18.36%) Senior
2 69 (15.27%) Lead
3 67 (14.82%) Developer
4 48 (10.62%) Software Engineer
5 44 (9.73%) Architect
6 30 (6.64%) Analyst
6 30 (6.64%) Senior Software Engineer
7 24 (5.31%) .NET Developer
8 22 (4.87%) Data Engineer
8 22 (4.87%) Senior Developer
9 21 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
9 21 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 21 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
10 19 (4.20%) Cloud Engineer
11 18 (3.98%) Azure Architect
11 18 (3.98%) Consultant
11 18 (3.98%) DevOps Engineer
11 18 (3.98%) IT Engineer
11 18 (3.98%) Systems Engineer
12 17 (3.76%) Lead Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (23.67%) .NET
2 68 (15.04%) React
3 37 (8.19%) Node.js
4 35 (7.74%) .NET Core
5 29 (6.42%) ASP.NET
6 28 (6.19%) RESTful
7 27 (5.97%) AngularJS
8 24 (5.31%) REST
9 19 (4.20%) .NET Framework
10 12 (2.65%) Spring
10 12 (2.65%) Spring Boot
11 11 (2.43%) CSS
11 11 (2.43%) HTML
11 11 (2.43%) Kafka
12 10 (2.21%) Vue
12 10 (2.21%) Web Services
13 9 (1.99%) ARM Templates
13 9 (1.99%) Elastic Stack
13 9 (1.99%) PyTorch
13 9 (1.99%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.65%) Data Centre
2 20 (4.42%) Public Cloud
3 19 (4.20%) Cyber Threat
4 15 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
4 15 (3.32%) IoT
5 12 (2.65%) Algorithms
5 12 (2.65%) Cloud Native
6 11 (2.43%) Virtual Team
7 10 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.99%) CCTV
8 9 (1.99%) Mobile App
8 9 (1.99%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.55%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.33%) Driving Licence
11 6 (1.33%) Freedom of Information
11 6 (1.33%) Home Automation
11 6 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 97 (21.46%) Windows
2 49 (10.84%) Linux
3 38 (8.41%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.77%) Unix
5 7 (1.55%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.33%) Android
6 6 (1.33%) VMS
6 6 (1.33%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.66%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.44%) Debian
10 1 (0.22%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (37.61%) DevOps
2 143 (31.64%) Agile
3 103 (22.79%) Problem-Solving
4 95 (21.02%) Mentoring
5 89 (19.69%) Software Engineering
6 86 (19.03%) CI/CD
7 67 (14.82%) Microservices
8 50 (11.06%) Roadmaps
9 43 (9.51%) TDD
10 41 (9.07%) Cybersecurity
11 38 (8.41%) Coaching
12 37 (8.19%) Migration
13 36 (7.96%) Infrastructure as Code
13 36 (7.96%) ITIL
14 35 (7.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 34 (7.52%) Business Intelligence
16 30 (6.64%) Containerisation
17 29 (6.42%) Data Engineering
18 28 (6.19%) Disaster Recovery
18 28 (6.19%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 100 (22.12%) SQL
2 95 (21.02%) Python
3 62 (13.72%) C#
4 60 (13.27%) Java
5 55 (12.17%) JavaScript
6 44 (9.73%) TypeScript
7 39 (8.63%) PowerShell
8 16 (3.54%) C++
9 13 (2.88%) PHP
10 10 (2.21%) Bicep
10 10 (2.21%) Perl
11 9 (1.99%) Go
12 8 (1.77%) Bash
12 8 (1.77%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.55%) R
14 6 (1.33%) Ruby
15 4 (0.88%) C
15 4 (0.88%) Scala
15 4 (0.88%) VB.NET
16 3 (0.66%) VB
Qualifications
1 49 (10.84%) Degree
2 41 (9.07%) Security Cleared
3 30 (6.64%) Azure Certification
4 24 (5.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (3.98%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (3.98%) DV Cleared
5 18 (3.98%) SC Cleared
6 11 (2.43%) CISM
6 11 (2.43%) CISSP
7 10 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.99%) CCNP
8 9 (1.99%) JNCIS
9 8 (1.77%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.55%) CISA
10 7 (1.55%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.33%) CRISC
11 6 (1.33%) GSLC
12 5 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 5 (1.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.31%) Cyber Essentials
2 22 (4.87%) NIST
3 19 (4.20%) GDPR
3 19 (4.20%) QA
4 18 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.77%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.77%) SLA
6 5 (1.11%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.88%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.66%) COBIT
8 3 (0.66%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.66%) NCSC
9 2 (0.44%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.44%) SEPA
9 2 (0.44%) TARGET2
System Software
1 71 (15.71%) Docker
2 44 (9.73%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.76%) Hyper-V
3 17 (3.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (2.21%) vSphere
6 8 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.11%) DFS Replication
7 5 (1.11%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 73 (16.15%) Kubernetes
2 58 (12.83%) Terraform
3 30 (6.64%) Ansible
4 25 (5.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (3.32%) Puppet
6 12 (2.65%) Grafana
7 10 (2.21%) Prometheus
8 6 (1.33%) SCCM
9 5 (1.11%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.11%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.88%) Argo
10 4 (0.88%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.66%) AWS Copilot
11 3 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.44%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.44%) Salt
13 1 (0.22%) Automic
13 1 (0.22%) Istio
13 1 (0.22%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 168 (37.17%) Microsoft
2 48 (10.62%) Google
3 41 (9.07%) VMware
4 20 (4.42%) Cisco
4 20 (4.42%) Veeam
5 18 (3.98%) Databricks
6 13 (2.88%) Oracle
7 8 (1.77%) Adobe
7 8 (1.77%) Apple
8 6 (1.33%) CheckPoint
8 6 (1.33%) Hitachi
8 6 (1.33%) Informatica
8 6 (1.33%) Openreach
8 6 (1.33%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.11%) Juniper
9 5 (1.11%) New Relic
9 5 (1.11%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.66%) IBM
10 3 (0.66%) Rapid7
11 2 (0.44%) HP