Azure Engineer Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > North of England

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in the North of England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 191 185
Rank change year-on-year -37 -6 +58
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 36 87 107
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.33% 0.95% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 1.01% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 34 55 89
10th Percentile £52,000 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,313 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -23.08% -6.40%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,363 £73,750
90th Percentile £70,875 £83,750 £77,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% +1.54% -7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 9,636 8,575 8,112
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.75% 94.06% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 5,643 4,043 6,460
10th Percentile £28,122 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £66,778
90th Percentile £81,928 £80,000 £80,435
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Azure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Azure Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Azure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Engineer in the North of England

Azure Engineer
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 Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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 0 19 £57,500 +15.00% 9
Yorkshire -30 11 £62,500 +23.76% 9
North East 0 6 £71,250 +42.50% 4
Azure Engineer
England

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 15 January 2026, Azure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 36 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 16 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 16 (44.44%) SQL
3 15 (41.67%) Python
4 13 (36.11%) Data Modelling
4 13 (36.11%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
6 11 (30.56%) Terraform
7 10 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (25.00%) Azure Certification
9 7 (19.44%) DevOps
9 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (16.67%) AWS
10 6 (16.67%) Hyper-V
10 6 (16.67%) Kubernetes
10 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (16.67%) VMware
10 6 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
10 6 (16.67%) Windows
11 5 (13.89%) AWS Certification
11 5 (13.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (13.89%) Containerisation
11 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (13.89%) Docker
11 5 (13.89%) GitHub
11 5 (13.89%) Google
11 5 (13.89%) Google Workspace

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.78%) JBoss
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.78%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (16.67%) AWS
4 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (13.89%) GitHub
4 5 (13.89%) Google Workspace
4 5 (13.89%) SaaS
5 4 (11.11%) Azure AKS
6 3 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (8.33%) Entra ID
6 3 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (8.33%) IaaS
6 3 (8.33%) PaaS
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Functions
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Stack
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Storage
7 2 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (36.11%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.78%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (5.56%) JIRA
3 1 (2.78%) Ant
3 1 (2.78%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.78%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) Maven
3 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (38.89%) Retail
2 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (16.67%) Legal
4 2 (5.56%) Finance
5 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.78%) Kafka
2 1 (2.78%) Middleware
2 1 (2.78%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.78%) Replication
2 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Windows
2 4 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.78%) Linux
3 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 13 (36.11%) Data Modelling
3 12 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 7 (19.44%) DevOps
4 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (13.89%) Containerisation
5 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (11.11%) Analytics
7 3 (8.33%) Log Analytics
7 3 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (8.33%) Storage Management
8 2 (5.56%) Business Strategy
8 2 (5.56%) Cloud Operations
8 2 (5.56%) FinOps
8 2 (5.56%) Incident Response
8 2 (5.56%) Observability
8 2 (5.56%) Project Delivery
8 2 (5.56%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 16 (44.44%) SQL
2 15 (41.67%) Python
3 3 (8.33%) Bicep
4 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.78%) Bash
5 1 (2.78%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (13.89%) AWS Certification
3 5 (13.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 6 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (13.89%) Docker
3 4 (11.11%) Active Directory
4 2 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (30.56%) Terraform
2 6 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.33%) Ansible
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.78%) Podman
4 1 (2.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.67%) VMware
3 5 (13.89%) Google
4 2 (5.56%) Databricks
5 1 (2.78%) Dell
5 1 (2.78%) Sage
5 1 (2.78%) Ubiquiti