Azure Jobs in the North East

Microsoft Azure
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 4 8
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 -4
Permanent jobs citing Azure 91 374 214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 12.93% 20.44% 16.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 55.83% 51.94% 41.15%
Number of salaries quoted 82 298 144
10th Percentile £31,599 £29,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £40,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -13.64% +26.44%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £72,519 £79,400
England median annual salary £62,500 £59,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.04% -8.46% +4.00%

All Cloud Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 163 720 520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 23.15% 39.34% 40.72%
Number of salaries quoted 141 584 280
10th Percentile £31,599 £26,818 £31,200
25th Percentile £36,750 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,125 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £76,150
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +4.00%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the North East

Azure
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure in the North East.

Salary trend for Azure in the North East

Azure
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the North East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure in the North East

Azure
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Tyne and Wear -1 72 £57,500 +21.05% 86
Durham -15 15 £40,000 -15.79% 6
Northumberland +6 3 £37,500 -11.76%
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 9 (9.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (8.79%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.49%) Jupyter
4 2 (2.20%) Apache
4 2 (2.20%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.20%) Confluence
5 1 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.10%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Markit EDM
2 1 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.10%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 27 (29.67%) AWS
2 15 (16.48%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (12.09%) OCI
4 10 (10.99%) Power Platform
5 9 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (8.79%) GCP
7 6 (6.59%) GitHub
8 5 (5.49%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (5.49%) Entra ID
8 5 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (4.40%) dbt
9 4 (4.40%) SaaS
10 3 (3.30%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (3.30%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 3 (3.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (3.30%) AWS CodeBuild
10 3 (3.30%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (3.30%) Pulumi
10 3 (3.30%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.19%) Firewall
2 8 (8.79%) SAN
3 6 (6.59%) VPN
4 5 (5.49%) DHCP
4 5 (5.49%) DNS
5 3 (3.30%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.30%) WAN
6 2 (2.20%) Internet
6 2 (2.20%) NAS
6 2 (2.20%) Unified Communications
6 2 (2.20%) VLAN
6 2 (2.20%) VoIP
6 2 (2.20%) Wireless
7 1 (1.10%) LAN
7 1 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.68%) SQL Server
2 11 (12.09%) Data Lake
3 8 (8.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (6.59%) MongoDB
4 6 (6.59%) Power BI
5 5 (5.49%) Dremio
5 5 (5.49%) Tableau
6 4 (4.40%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (4.40%) MySQL
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.30%) Redis
8 2 (2.20%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.20%) EDMS
9 1 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.10%) Parquet
9 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Git
2 2 (2.20%) Artifactory
2 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.20%) NUnit
2 2 (2.20%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (2.20%) Selenium
2 2 (2.20%) SonarQube
2 2 (2.20%) SpecFlow
2 2 (2.20%) TeamCity
2 2 (2.20%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.10%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.10%) GitLab
3 1 (1.10%) Jasmine
3 1 (1.10%) JIRA
3 1 (1.10%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (1.10%) Protractor
General
1 36 (39.56%) Social Skills
2 30 (32.97%) Finance
3 6 (6.59%) Advertising
4 5 (5.49%) Back Office
4 5 (5.49%) Law
4 5 (5.49%) Marketing
5 3 (3.30%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.30%) Automotive
5 3 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.30%) Retail
6 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.20%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Electronics
7 1 (1.10%) Front Office
7 1 (1.10%) Legal
7 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (16.48%) Developer
1 15 (16.48%) Senior
2 14 (15.38%) Architect
2 14 (15.38%) Software Engineer
3 10 (10.99%) Analyst
4 7 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
4 7 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
4 7 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (6.59%) Infrastructure Architect
6 5 (5.49%) Data Analyst
7 4 (4.40%) C# Developer
7 4 (4.40%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (4.40%) DBA
7 4 (4.40%) Graduate
7 4 (4.40%) Graduate Developer
7 4 (4.40%) IT Graduate
7 4 (4.40%) IT Support
7 4 (4.40%) Lead
7 4 (4.40%) Senior Developer
7 4 (4.40%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (31.87%) .NET
2 13 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 9 (9.89%) ASP.NET
4 7 (7.69%) .NET Core
4 7 (7.69%) CSS
4 7 (7.69%) React
5 6 (6.59%) Node.js
6 5 (5.49%) ASP.NET Web API
7 4 (4.40%) .NET Framework
7 4 (4.40%) Blazor
7 4 (4.40%) jQuery
8 3 (3.30%) Django
8 3 (3.30%) HTML
8 3 (3.30%) REST
9 2 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (2.20%) Jest
9 2 (2.20%) RESTful
9 2 (2.20%) Vue
9 2 (2.20%) Web Services
10 1 (1.10%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.09%) Operational Technology
2 6 (6.59%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.59%) Hedge funds
2 6 (6.59%) SCADA
3 5 (5.49%) Equities
3 5 (5.49%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.49%) Reference Data
4 4 (4.40%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.40%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.20%) Housing Association
5 2 (2.20%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.10%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.10%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.10%) NHS
6 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (26.37%) Windows
2 13 (14.29%) Linux
2 13 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.30%) Mac OS
3 3 (3.30%) Unix
3 3 (3.30%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.20%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (31.87%) Agile
1 29 (31.87%) DevOps
2 25 (27.47%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (19.78%) Computer Science
3 18 (19.78%) Software Engineering
4 16 (17.58%) CI/CD
5 13 (14.29%) TOGAF
6 11 (12.09%) High Availability
7 9 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (9.89%) OO
8 8 (8.79%) Analytics
8 8 (8.79%) Mentoring
8 8 (8.79%) Microservices
8 8 (8.79%) OOP
9 7 (7.69%) Asset Management
9 7 (7.69%) Process Improvement
10 6 (6.59%) Business Intelligence
11 5 (5.49%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (5.49%) ITIL
11 5 (5.49%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (38.46%) SQL
2 28 (30.77%) C#
3 21 (23.08%) Python
4 14 (15.38%) Java
5 12 (13.19%) PowerShell
5 12 (13.19%) TypeScript
6 10 (10.99%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.49%) PHP
8 4 (4.40%) C++
9 3 (3.30%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.20%) Bash
10 2 (2.20%) Progress 4GL
11 1 (1.10%) Bicep
11 1 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.10%) R
11 1 (1.10%) Scala
11 1 (1.10%) VB.NET
11 1 (1.10%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 25 (27.47%) Degree
2 13 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
3 10 (10.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.49%) DBS Check
4 5 (5.49%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (4.40%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.20%) CCNA
6 2 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.20%) MCSA
6 2 (2.20%) MCSE
6 2 (2.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.10%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 7 (7.69%) QA
2 5 (5.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.49%) SOC 2
3 4 (4.40%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (18.68%) Active Directory
2 12 (13.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (8.79%) Hyper-V
4 7 (7.69%) Docker
5 6 (6.59%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (20.88%) Terraform
2 9 (9.89%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.40%) Ansible
3 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.30%) AWS Copilot
5 2 (2.20%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (2.20%) Grafana
6 1 (1.10%) Control-M
6 1 (1.10%) SCCM
Vendors
1 40 (43.96%) Microsoft
2 20 (21.98%) VMware
3 11 (12.09%) Oracle
4 7 (7.69%) Databricks
5 5 (5.49%) Bloomberg
5 5 (5.49%) Reuters
6 4 (4.40%) Google
6 4 (4.40%) Nimble Storage
7 3 (3.30%) Cisco
8 2 (2.20%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.20%) Capita
8 2 (2.20%) Progress
8 2 (2.20%) Sun
8 2 (2.20%) Veeam
9 1 (1.10%) SAP
9 1 (1.10%) Telerik