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 £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 December 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 198 175
Rank change year-on-year -27 -23 +72
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 37 90 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.35% 0.93% 1.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.98% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 34 58 78
10th Percentile £52,300 £43,375 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £46,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £50,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -23.49% -3.18%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £70,875 £88,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -7.14%

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 9,287 9,163 6,484
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.85% 94.42% 96.17%
Number of salaries quoted 5,269 4,433 5,087
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,055 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% -4.66% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 +14 20 £62,500 +25.00% 6
Yorkshire -17 11 £67,500 +31.72% 5
North East -4 6 £71,250 +42.50% 3
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 December 2025, 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 37 (100.00%) Azure
2 21 (56.76%) CI/CD
3 20 (54.05%) Python
4 19 (51.35%) SQL
5 16 (43.24%) Data Modelling
5 16 (43.24%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (40.54%) Requirements Gathering
7 13 (35.14%) Microsoft
8 9 (24.32%) DevOps
9 8 (21.62%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (21.62%) Terraform
10 7 (18.92%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (18.92%) Containerisation
10 7 (18.92%) Docker
11 6 (16.22%) Azure Certification
11 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes
11 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (13.51%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (13.51%) GitHub
12 5 (13.51%) Hyper-V
12 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
13 4 (10.81%) Active Directory
13 4 (10.81%) Analytics
13 4 (10.81%) AWS
13 4 (10.81%) Azure AKS
13 4 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 4 (10.81%) Incident Response
13 4 (10.81%) JIRA
13 4 (10.81%) PowerShell

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 (5.41%) Apache
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.70%) JBoss
2 1 (2.70%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 37 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (21.62%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (18.92%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (13.51%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (13.51%) GitHub
5 4 (10.81%) AWS
5 4 (10.81%) Azure AKS
5 4 (10.81%) SaaS
6 3 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (8.11%) Google Workspace
6 3 (8.11%) IaaS
6 3 (8.11%) PaaS
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Functions
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Stack
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Storage
7 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
7 2 (5.41%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (43.24%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.41%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.70%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) JIRA
2 3 (8.11%) Git
3 1 (2.70%) Ant
3 1 (2.70%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.70%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.70%) Maven
3 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (45.95%) Retail
2 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Legal
4 1 (2.70%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.70%) Kafka
2 1 (2.70%) Middleware
2 1 (2.70%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.70%) Replication
2 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Windows
2 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.70%) Linux
3 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (56.76%) CI/CD
2 16 (43.24%) Data Modelling
3 15 (40.54%) Requirements Gathering
4 9 (24.32%) DevOps
5 7 (18.92%) Containerisation
6 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (10.81%) Analytics
8 4 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (10.81%) Incident Response
9 3 (8.11%) Log Analytics
9 3 (8.11%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (8.11%) Storage Management
10 2 (5.41%) FinOps
10 2 (5.41%) Identity Access Management
10 2 (5.41%) Mentoring
10 2 (5.41%) Network Virtualisation
10 2 (5.41%) Runbook
10 2 (5.41%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 20 (54.05%) Python
2 19 (51.35%) SQL
3 4 (10.81%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.11%) Bash
4 3 (8.11%) Bicep
5 1 (2.70%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) Azure Certification
2 3 (8.11%) AWS Certification
2 3 (8.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Docker
2 5 (13.51%) Hyper-V
3 4 (10.81%) Active Directory
3 4 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (21.62%) Terraform
2 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.11%) Ansible
4 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.70%) Podman
5 1 (2.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (35.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) VMware
3 3 (8.11%) Google
4 2 (5.41%) Databricks
5 1 (2.70%) Dell