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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 April 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 218 225
Rank change year-on-year -40 +7 +26
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 58 37 150
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.33% 0.53% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.59% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 55 31 94
10th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £42,875
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,625 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,500 £82,500 £83,375
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% +10.77% -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 16,003 6,292 15,716
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.72% 90.68% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 10,347 3,804 12,580
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,716 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,355 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.37%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -13 38 £55,000 -16.98% 10
Yorkshire -44 16 £62,500 +13.64% 5
North East -29 4 £57,500 -23.84% 4
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 58 (100.00%) Azure
2 23 (39.66%) Terraform
3 20 (34.48%) DevOps
3 20 (34.48%) Microsoft
4 18 (31.03%) CI/CD
5 17 (29.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (25.86%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (25.86%) Platform Engineering
7 14 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (22.41%) Active Directory
8 13 (22.41%) Azure Certification
8 13 (22.41%) Windows
9 12 (20.69%) AWS
9 12 (20.69%) Python
10 11 (18.97%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (18.97%) Entra ID
11 10 (17.24%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (17.24%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (17.24%) SQL
12 9 (15.52%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (15.52%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (15.52%) Firewall
12 9 (15.52%) GitHub
12 9 (15.52%) Kubernetes
13 8 (13.79%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (13.79%) Containerisation
13 8 (13.79%) VMware
14 7 (12.07%) ARM Templates
14 7 (12.07%) Azure Functions
14 7 (12.07%) Azure Logic Apps

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 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 58 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (25.86%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (20.69%) AWS
4 11 (18.97%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (18.97%) Entra ID
5 9 (15.52%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (15.52%) GitHub
6 8 (13.79%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (12.07%) Azure Functions
7 7 (12.07%) Azure Logic Apps
7 7 (12.07%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (12.07%) SaaS
7 7 (12.07%) Serverless
8 6 (10.34%) Azure AKS
9 5 (8.62%) Intacct
10 4 (6.90%) Google Workspace
11 2 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (3.45%) Azure Storage
11 2 (3.45%) GCP
12 1 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.52%) Firewall
2 3 (5.17%) SAN
2 3 (5.17%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.45%) DNS
3 2 (3.45%) HTTP
4 1 (1.72%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.52%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (8.62%) Spark SQL
3 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Git
1 2 (3.45%) GitLab
1 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.72%) JIRA
General
1 15 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.07%) Finance
3 6 (10.34%) Banking
3 6 (10.34%) Retail Banking
4 4 (6.90%) Legal
5 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.45%) Law
5 2 (3.45%) Retail
5 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.72%) Advertising
6 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.07%) ARM Templates
2 5 (8.62%) PySpark
2 5 (8.62%) REST
3 2 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.72%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.45%) Driving Licence
1 2 (3.45%) Mobile App
1 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (1.72%) Replication
2 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.41%) Windows
2 7 (12.07%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.90%) Linux
4 2 (3.45%) Debian
4 2 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.45%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.72%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (34.48%) DevOps
2 18 (31.03%) CI/CD
3 17 (29.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 15 (25.86%) Platform Engineering
5 14 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (13.79%) Containerisation
7 7 (12.07%) Data Engineering
7 7 (12.07%) High Availability
7 7 (12.07%) Observability
8 6 (10.34%) Analytics
8 6 (10.34%) Data Governance
8 6 (10.34%) Data Modelling
8 6 (10.34%) Digital Banking
8 6 (10.34%) ETL
8 6 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (10.34%) Product Management
9 5 (8.62%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (8.62%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 5 (8.62%) Regulatory Compliance
9 5 (8.62%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.69%) Python
2 10 (17.24%) SQL
3 3 (5.17%) Bash
3 3 (5.17%) Bicep
3 3 (5.17%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.45%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (22.41%) Azure Certification
2 10 (17.24%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (8.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (8.62%) Degree
4 4 (6.90%) AWS Certification
4 4 (6.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 4 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.90%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (8.62%) GDPR
3 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (22.41%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.62%) Hyper-V
2 5 (8.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.90%) Docker
4 3 (5.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (39.66%) Terraform
2 10 (17.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (15.52%) Kubernetes
4 5 (8.62%) Ansible
5 2 (3.45%) Grafana
5 2 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (34.48%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.79%) VMware
3 7 (12.07%) Databricks
4 5 (8.62%) Sage
4 5 (8.62%) Ubiquiti
5 4 (6.90%) Google
6 1 (1.72%) Dell
6 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.72%) SAP
6 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow