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 13 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 172 185
Rank change year-on-year -79 +13 +95
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 49 164 143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.52% 1.16% 1.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 1.22% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 37 96 107
10th Percentile £51,900 £40,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £46,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -19.66% +4.56%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £69,050 £88,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% -6.64%

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 8,201 13,444 8,611
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.18% 94.98% 92.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,416 8,151 6,510
10th Percentile £26,000 £29,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,250 £38,563 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -5.66% +2.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -66 30 £65,000 +23.81% 6
Yorkshire +15 17 £62,500 +17.92% 4
North East -4 2 £67,500 +42.11% 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 13 September 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 49 (100.00%) Azure
2 28 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 25 (51.02%) Python
4 23 (46.94%) Microsoft
5 20 (40.82%) DevOps
6 19 (38.78%) SQL
7 17 (34.69%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (34.69%) Terraform
8 16 (32.65%) Data Modelling
8 16 (32.65%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (32.65%) Retail
9 15 (30.61%) Requirements Gathering
10 14 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (24.49%) Ansible
11 12 (24.49%) Azure Certification
12 11 (22.45%) Infrastructure Automation
12 11 (22.45%) ARM Templates
12 11 (22.45%) Kubernetes
13 10 (20.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 9 (18.37%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (18.37%) SaaS
14 9 (18.37%) Configuration Management
14 9 (18.37%) Windows
15 8 (16.33%) Bash
16 7 (14.29%) PaaS
16 7 (14.29%) PowerShell
16 7 (14.29%) IaaS
16 7 (14.29%) Cloud Security
17 6 (12.24%) Containerisation
18 5 (10.20%) Project Management

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 (6.12%) IIS
2 2 (4.08%) Apache
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.04%) JBoss
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.04%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 49 (100.00%) Azure
2 17 (34.69%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (18.37%) SaaS
4 7 (14.29%) IaaS
4 7 (14.29%) PaaS
5 4 (8.16%) Azure AKS
5 4 (8.16%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (6.12%) AWS
6 3 (6.12%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (6.12%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (6.12%) GitHub
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.04%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.04%) GCP
8 1 (2.04%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.04%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) Firewall
2 3 (6.12%) Network Security
2 3 (6.12%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.04%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (32.65%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (6.12%) Data Lake
2 3 (6.12%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.04%) Big Data
3 1 (2.04%) MySQL
3 1 (2.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.12%) Git
2 3 (6.12%) JIRA
3 1 (2.04%) Ant
3 1 (2.04%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.04%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.04%) GitLab
3 1 (2.04%) Maven
3 1 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.04%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 16 (32.65%) Retail
2 5 (10.20%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.16%) Finance
4 1 (2.04%) Banking
4 1 (2.04%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.04%) Law
4 1 (2.04%) Legal
4 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.45%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.04%) Kafka
2 1 (2.04%) Middleware
2 1 (2.04%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.37%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (8.16%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (6.12%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.37%) Windows
2 4 (8.16%) Linux
3 3 (6.12%) Unix
4 2 (4.08%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 20 (40.82%) DevOps
3 16 (32.65%) Data Modelling
4 15 (30.61%) Requirements Gathering
5 14 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (22.45%) Infrastructure Automation
7 10 (20.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (18.37%) Configuration Management
9 7 (14.29%) Cloud Security
10 6 (12.24%) Containerisation
11 5 (10.20%) Project Management
12 4 (8.16%) Mentoring
12 4 (8.16%) Storage Management
13 3 (6.12%) Incident Response
13 3 (6.12%) Platform Engineering
13 3 (6.12%) Proactive Monitoring
13 3 (6.12%) Problem-Solving
13 3 (6.12%) Release Automation
13 3 (6.12%) Server Management
13 3 (6.12%) Vendor Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (51.02%) Python
2 19 (38.78%) SQL
3 8 (16.33%) Bash
4 7 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 5 (10.20%) Bicep
6 1 (2.04%) Groovy
6 1 (2.04%) Perl
6 1 (2.04%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (24.49%) Azure Certification
2 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.08%) Degree
4 1 (2.04%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (10.20%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.16%) Docker
3 1 (2.04%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (34.69%) Terraform
2 12 (24.49%) Ansible
3 11 (22.45%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.12%) SCCM
5 2 (4.08%) Puppet
6 1 (2.04%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.04%) Podman
6 1 (2.04%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (46.94%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.16%) VMware
3 2 (4.08%) Cisco
3 2 (4.08%) Databricks
3 2 (4.08%) Fortinet
3 2 (4.08%) HP
3 2 (4.08%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.04%) Google
4 1 (2.04%) Veeam