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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 4 8
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 -3
Permanent jobs citing Azure 122 385 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 16.18% 20.72% 15.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 66.30% 52.45% 40.44%
Number of salaries quoted 80 309 135
10th Percentile £28,150 £29,950 £36,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -13.64% +29.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £72,093 £77,800
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 184 734 502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 24.40% 39.50% 39.47%
Number of salaries quoted 129 596 264
10th Percentile £28,400 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £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 £66,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £81,500 £76,250 £74,663
England median annual salary £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.09% -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 14 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 14 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 -2 85 £57,500 +17.99% 120
Durham -15 29 £40,000 -15.79% 8
Northumberland +6 7 £37,500 -11.76% 1
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 (7.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (6.56%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.28%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.46%) Confluence
5 2 (1.64%) Apache
5 2 (1.64%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.28%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.82%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 33 (27.05%) Entra ID
2 32 (26.23%) AWS
3 15 (12.30%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (9.02%) OCI
5 10 (8.20%) Power Platform
6 9 (7.38%) GCP
7 8 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.92%) GitHub
9 5 (4.10%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (3.28%) dbt
10 4 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (3.28%) SaaS
11 3 (2.46%) Amazon ECR
11 3 (2.46%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.46%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 3 (2.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.46%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (2.46%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.46%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.84%) Firewall
2 8 (6.56%) SAN
3 6 (4.92%) VPN
4 5 (4.10%) DHCP
4 5 (4.10%) DNS
5 4 (3.28%) WAN
6 3 (2.46%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.46%) VLAN
7 2 (1.64%) Internet
7 2 (1.64%) LAN
7 2 (1.64%) NAS
7 2 (1.64%) Unified Communications
7 2 (1.64%) VoIP
7 2 (1.64%) Wireless
8 1 (0.82%) Broadband
8 1 (0.82%) Network Security
8 1 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.39%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.38%) Data Lake
3 8 (6.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (4.92%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.92%) Power BI
5 4 (3.28%) Dremio
5 4 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.28%) MySQL
5 4 (3.28%) Tableau
6 3 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.46%) Redis
7 2 (1.64%) EDMS
8 1 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.82%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.82%) Parquet
8 1 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (4.10%) Selenium
1 5 (4.10%) SonarQube
2 4 (3.28%) Bitbucket
2 4 (3.28%) GitLab
2 4 (3.28%) JIRA
3 3 (2.46%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.46%) Git
3 3 (2.46%) Maven
3 3 (2.46%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.64%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.64%) NUnit
4 2 (1.64%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.64%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.64%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.64%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.82%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.82%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.82%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.82%) Protractor
General
1 33 (27.05%) Social Skills
2 32 (26.23%) Finance
3 6 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (4.10%) Advertising
4 5 (4.10%) Law
5 4 (3.28%) Back Office
5 4 (3.28%) Marketing
5 4 (3.28%) Retail
6 3 (2.46%) Banking
7 2 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.64%) Automotive
7 2 (1.64%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (1.64%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.64%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Electronics
8 1 (0.82%) Legal
8 1 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 30 (24.59%) Identity Management Specialist
1 30 (24.59%) Technology Specialist
2 19 (15.57%) Software Engineer
3 18 (14.75%) Senior
4 14 (11.48%) Architect
4 14 (11.48%) Developer
5 8 (6.56%) Analyst
6 7 (5.74%) 2nd Line Support
6 7 (5.74%) Cloud Architect
6 7 (5.74%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.92%) Infrastructure Architect
8 4 (3.28%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
8 4 (3.28%) Data Analyst
8 4 (3.28%) DBA
8 4 (3.28%) Graduate
8 4 (3.28%) Graduate Developer
8 4 (3.28%) IT Graduate
8 4 (3.28%) Senior Developer
8 4 (3.28%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (3.28%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (24.59%) .NET
2 14 (11.48%) AngularJS
3 10 (8.20%) CSS
4 9 (7.38%) React
5 8 (6.56%) ASP.NET
6 6 (4.92%) .NET Core
6 6 (4.92%) HTML
6 6 (4.92%) Node.js
7 5 (4.10%) REST
8 4 (3.28%) .NET Framework
8 4 (3.28%) ASP.NET Web API
8 4 (3.28%) Jest
8 4 (3.28%) jQuery
8 4 (3.28%) Kafka
8 4 (3.28%) RESTful
9 3 (2.46%) Blazor
9 3 (2.46%) Django
9 3 (2.46%) Redux
9 3 (2.46%) Spring
9 3 (2.46%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 30 (24.59%) NHS
2 11 (9.02%) Operational Technology
3 6 (4.92%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.92%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (4.92%) Hedge funds
3 6 (4.92%) SCADA
4 4 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.28%) Equities
4 4 (3.28%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.28%) Reference Data
4 4 (3.28%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (2.46%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.46%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.64%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.82%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.82%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.82%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (18.85%) Windows
2 12 (9.84%) Linux
2 12 (9.84%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.46%) Mac OS
3 3 (2.46%) Unix
3 3 (2.46%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (27.87%) ITIL
2 33 (27.05%) Agile
3 32 (26.23%) DevOps
4 30 (24.59%) Identity Management
5 24 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (18.03%) Software Engineering
7 20 (16.39%) CI/CD
8 16 (13.11%) Computer Science
9 13 (10.66%) TOGAF
10 11 (9.02%) High Availability
10 11 (9.02%) Mentoring
11 10 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (7.38%) Full-Stack Development
12 9 (7.38%) Microservices
12 9 (7.38%) OO
13 8 (6.56%) OOP
14 7 (5.74%) Analytics
14 7 (5.74%) Containerisation
14 7 (5.74%) Process Improvement
14 7 (5.74%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 36 (29.51%) SQL
2 27 (22.13%) C#
3 21 (17.21%) Python
4 19 (15.57%) Java
5 16 (13.11%) TypeScript
6 12 (9.84%) JavaScript
7 11 (9.02%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.28%) C++
8 4 (3.28%) PHP
9 3 (2.46%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.64%) Progress 4GL
11 1 (0.82%) Bash
11 1 (0.82%) Bicep
11 1 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.82%) R
11 1 (0.82%) Scala
11 1 (0.82%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.82%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 54 (44.26%) Degree
2 34 (27.87%) DBS Check
3 13 (10.66%) TOGAF Certification
4 9 (7.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.10%) Security Cleared
6 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.28%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.46%) CCNA
7 3 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.64%) MCSA
8 2 (1.64%) MCSE
8 2 (1.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.82%) CCNP
9 1 (0.82%) PhD
9 1 (0.82%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.38%) QA
2 5 (4.10%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.10%) SOC 2
3 4 (3.28%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.46%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.82%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (36.89%) Active Directory
2 12 (9.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (8.20%) Docker
4 8 (6.56%) Hyper-V
5 6 (4.92%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (15.57%) Terraform
2 12 (9.84%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.46%) Ansible
4 3 (2.46%) AWS Copilot
5 2 (1.64%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (1.64%) Grafana
6 1 (0.82%) Control-M
6 1 (0.82%) SCCM
Vendors
1 66 (54.10%) Microsoft
2 20 (16.39%) VMware
3 11 (9.02%) Oracle
4 6 (4.92%) Databricks
5 4 (3.28%) Bloomberg
5 4 (3.28%) Cisco
5 4 (3.28%) Nimble Storage
5 4 (3.28%) Reuters
6 3 (2.46%) Google
6 3 (2.46%) Solace
7 2 (1.64%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.64%) Capita
7 2 (1.64%) Progress
7 2 (1.64%) Sun
7 2 (1.64%) Veeam
8 1 (0.82%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.82%) Meraki
8 1 (0.82%) SAP
8 1 (0.82%) Telerik