Azure Architect Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft Azure Architect
England > North of England

The median Microsoft Azure Architect salary in the North of England is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 367 405
Rank change year-on-year +33 +38 -14
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Architect 5 23 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.043% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.14% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3 17 17
10th Percentile £72,000 - £75,000
25th Percentile £78,750 £63,750 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £68,750 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -21.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £102,500 £72,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £80,500 £95,500
England median annual salary £100,000 £87,500 £95,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% +11.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 10,709 16,656 15,224
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 94.98% 89.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,748 12,889 8,062
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £39,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Azure Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in the North of England

Azure Architect
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Architect in the North of England.

Salary trend for Azure Architect in the North of England

Azure Architect
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Architect in the North of England

Azure Architect
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Architect within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
North West -2 5 £90,000 +28.57% 3
Azure Architect
England

Azure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Azure Architect 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 North of England region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Use Case
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (40.00%) DNS
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (20.00%) SOAR
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Response

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) IaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Publishing
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Analytics
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (40.00%) Use Case
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (20.00%) Contract Negotiation
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) Forensic Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) VB
1 1 (20.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) MCP
2 1 (20.00%) MCSA
2 1 (20.00%) MCSE
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) BitLocker
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) Apple
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) McAfee
2 1 (20.00%) Symantec
2 1 (20.00%) VMware