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 5 May 2026.

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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 223 230
Rank change year-on-year -27 +7 +26
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 71 37 156
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.38% 0.51% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.57% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 62 29 92
10th Percentile £34,375 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -10.31%
75th Percentile £82,813 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -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 17,077 6,447 15,816
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.21% 89.64% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 11,081 3,831 12,635
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.18%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -3 46 £55,000 -4.35% 8
Yorkshire -50 22 £62,500 +13.64% 3
North East -29 3 £35,000 -53.64% 2
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 71 (100.00%) Azure
2 24 (33.80%) Microsoft
2 24 (33.80%) Terraform
3 22 (30.99%) CI/CD
4 21 (29.58%) DevOps
5 17 (23.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (23.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 17 (23.94%) Platform Engineering
6 15 (21.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 15 (21.13%) Python
7 14 (19.72%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (19.72%) SQL
7 14 (19.72%) Windows
8 13 (18.31%) Active Directory
9 12 (16.90%) AWS
9 12 (16.90%) Azure Certification
9 12 (16.90%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (15.49%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (15.49%) Databricks
11 10 (14.08%) Entra ID
11 10 (14.08%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (12.68%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (12.68%) Data Engineering
12 9 (12.68%) Data Governance
12 9 (12.68%) Data Integration
12 9 (12.68%) Data Modelling
12 9 (12.68%) ETL
12 9 (12.68%) Firewall
12 9 (12.68%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (12.68%) Observability

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 (4.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.82%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (8.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.41%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 71 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (21.13%) Azure Data Factory
3 14 (19.72%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (16.90%) AWS
5 11 (15.49%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (14.08%) Entra ID
7 9 (12.68%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (11.27%) Azure Functions
8 8 (11.27%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (11.27%) GitHub
8 8 (11.27%) Serverless
9 7 (9.86%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (8.45%) SaaS
11 5 (7.04%) Azure AKS
11 5 (7.04%) Intacct
12 4 (5.63%) Google Workspace
13 2 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (2.82%) GCP
13 2 (2.82%) Power Platform
14 1 (1.41%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.68%) Firewall
2 4 (5.63%) SAN
3 3 (4.23%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.82%) DNS
4 2 (2.82%) HTTP
5 1 (1.41%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.90%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (12.68%) Spark SQL
3 2 (2.82%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.82%) Power BI
3 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.82%) GitLab
1 2 (2.82%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.41%) Git
General
1 16 (22.54%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.86%) Finance
3 6 (8.45%) Banking
3 6 (8.45%) Retail Banking
4 4 (5.63%) Legal
5 2 (2.82%) Advertising
5 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.82%) Law
5 2 (2.82%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.82%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.41%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.41%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.68%) PySpark
2 8 (11.27%) ARM Templates
3 7 (9.86%) REST
4 2 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.82%) Mobile App
1 2 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.41%) Driving Licence
2 1 (1.41%) Hedge funds
2 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (1.41%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (19.72%) Windows
2 8 (11.27%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.63%) Linux
4 2 (2.82%) Debian
4 2 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.82%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (30.99%) CI/CD
2 21 (29.58%) DevOps
3 17 (23.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (23.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 17 (23.94%) Platform Engineering
4 9 (12.68%) Data Engineering
4 9 (12.68%) Data Governance
4 9 (12.68%) Data Integration
4 9 (12.68%) Data Modelling
4 9 (12.68%) ETL
4 9 (12.68%) Observability
4 9 (12.68%) Test Automation
5 7 (9.86%) Computer Science
5 7 (9.86%) Containerisation
5 7 (9.86%) Cost Optimisation
5 7 (9.86%) Dashboard Development
5 7 (9.86%) Deployment Automation
5 7 (9.86%) High Availability
5 7 (9.86%) Regulatory Compliance
5 7 (9.86%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (21.13%) Python
2 14 (19.72%) SQL
3 3 (4.23%) Bash
4 2 (2.82%) Bicep
4 2 (2.82%) Go
4 2 (2.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (16.90%) Azure Certification
2 10 (14.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (9.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (9.86%) Degree
4 4 (5.63%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 4 (5.63%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.86%) GDPR
2 6 (8.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.41%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (18.31%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.04%) Hyper-V
2 5 (7.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.82%) Docker
3 2 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (33.80%) Terraform
2 9 (12.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (11.27%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.63%) Ansible
5 2 (2.82%) Grafana
5 2 (2.82%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (33.80%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.49%) Databricks
3 9 (12.68%) VMware
4 5 (7.04%) Sage
4 5 (7.04%) Ubiquiti
5 4 (5.63%) Google
6 2 (2.82%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.82%) SAP
7 1 (1.41%) Dell
7 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow