Azure Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > North of England

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in the North of England is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 238 282
Rank change year-on-year -62 +44 +6
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 36 154 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.31% 0.88% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.93% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 28 91 135
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,438 £48,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +3.70%

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 10,578 16,586 15,451
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.99% 94.87% 89.58%
Number of salaries quoted 5,737 12,834 8,216
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,265 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,577
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £78,100 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in the North of England

Azure Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Azure Engineer 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 14 May 2025.

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 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
North West -75 28 £59,000 +2.61% 29
Yorkshire +52 11 £55,000 -22.07% 9
North East +35 1 £75,500 +0.67% 4
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, Azure Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 36 (100.00%) Azure
2 23 (63.89%) Microsoft
2 23 (63.89%) Terraform
3 18 (50.00%) DevOps
4 17 (47.22%) Python
4 17 (47.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (36.11%) CI/CD
7 12 (33.33%) Ansible
8 11 (30.56%) Kubernetes
8 11 (30.56%) Azure Certification
9 10 (27.78%) Bicep
9 10 (27.78%) SQL Server
10 9 (25.00%) SaaS
10 9 (25.00%) PaaS
10 9 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
11 8 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (22.22%) ARM Templates
11 8 (22.22%) Cloud Security
11 8 (22.22%) Bash
12 7 (19.44%) SQL
12 7 (19.44%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (19.44%) PowerShell
12 7 (19.44%) Git
12 7 (19.44%) IaaS
12 7 (19.44%) Analytics
13 6 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (16.67%) Active Directory
13 6 (16.67%) Windows

Azure Engineer 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 3 (8.33%) IIS
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (25.00%) PaaS
3 9 (25.00%) SaaS
4 8 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (19.44%) IaaS
6 5 (13.89%) Azure Functions
6 5 (13.89%) GitHub
6 5 (13.89%) Serverless
7 4 (11.11%) Azure AKS
8 3 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (5.56%) AWS
9 2 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
9 2 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
10 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.78%) GCP
10 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (2.78%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.56%) DNS
2 2 (5.56%) Firewall
3 1 (2.78%) Network Security
3 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) SQL Server
2 5 (13.89%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 3 (8.33%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.56%) MySQL
5 2 (5.56%) Power BI
6 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Git
2 4 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.56%) JIRA
3 2 (5.56%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (5.56%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.78%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.78%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (2.78%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (2.78%) Travis CI
General
1 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.33%) Finance
3 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.78%) Automotive
4 1 (2.78%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.78%) Law
4 1 (2.78%) Legal
4 1 (2.78%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) ARM Templates
2 2 (5.56%) .NET
3 1 (2.78%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.78%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.78%) ADO
3 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (2.78%) Bootstrap
3 1 (2.78%) Kafka
3 1 (2.78%) Middleware
3 1 (2.78%) Node.js
3 1 (2.78%) PySpark
3 1 (2.78%) React
3 1 (2.78%) Redux
3 1 (2.78%) REST
3 1 (2.78%) RESTful
3 1 (2.78%) Web Services
3 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (13.89%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.78%) IoT
4 1 (2.78%) Life Science
4 1 (2.78%) PropTech
4 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Windows
2 5 (13.89%) Linux
3 3 (8.33%) Unix
4 1 (2.78%) VMS
4 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) DevOps
2 17 (47.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (36.11%) CI/CD
4 9 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 9 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (22.22%) Cloud Security
6 7 (19.44%) Analytics
6 7 (19.44%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (16.67%) Configuration Management
8 5 (13.89%) Agile
8 5 (13.89%) Computer Science
8 5 (13.89%) Containerisation
8 5 (13.89%) Data Analytics
8 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (11.11%) Data Strategy
9 4 (11.11%) ETL
9 4 (11.11%) Mentoring
9 4 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
9 4 (11.11%) Scrum
10 3 (8.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (47.22%) Python
2 10 (27.78%) Bicep
3 8 (22.22%) Bash
4 7 (19.44%) PowerShell
4 7 (19.44%) SQL
5 2 (5.56%) C#
6 1 (2.78%) Ruby
6 1 (2.78%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (30.56%) Azure Certification
2 6 (16.67%) Degree
3 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.78%) CCSP
5 1 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.78%) CISSP
5 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.78%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
1 2 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.56%) Docker
3 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (63.89%) Terraform
2 12 (33.33%) Ansible
3 11 (30.56%) Kubernetes
4 3 (8.33%) SCCM
5 2 (5.56%) Progress Chef
5 2 (5.56%) Puppet
6 1 (2.78%) Automic
6 1 (2.78%) Consul
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.78%) Rancher
6 1 (2.78%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (63.89%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.11%) Databricks
2 4 (11.11%) VMware
3 2 (5.56%) Hitachi
4 1 (2.78%) Citrix
4 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.78%) SolarWinds