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 20 June 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 264 232
Rank change year-on-year +42 -32 -7
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 111 41 177
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.55% 0.49% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.56% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 93 29 109
10th Percentile £35,000 £44,350 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +5.22% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78,000 £71,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £82,750
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 18,962 7,343 18,984
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.34% 88.57% 95.05%
Number of salaries quoted 13,806 3,746 14,633
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,156 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.86%

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 June 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 20 June 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 +48 76 £60,000 -11.11% 3
Yorkshire -20 32 £60,500 +10.00% 2
North East -47 3 £35,000 -53.64%
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 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.

1 111 (100.00%) Azure
2 41 (36.94%) Microsoft
3 36 (32.43%) Terraform
4 33 (29.73%) CI/CD
4 33 (29.73%) DevOps
5 26 (23.42%) Platform Engineering
6 25 (22.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (18.02%) SQL
8 19 (17.12%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (17.12%) Python
9 18 (16.22%) Azure Data Factory
10 16 (14.41%) Windows
11 15 (13.51%) ARM Templates
11 15 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 15 (13.51%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (12.61%) Active Directory
12 14 (12.61%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (11.71%) Azure Certification
13 13 (11.71%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (11.71%) Databricks
13 13 (11.71%) Observability
13 13 (11.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 12 (10.81%) AWS
14 12 (10.81%) Computer Science
14 12 (10.81%) Data Engineering
14 12 (10.81%) Data Governance
14 12 (10.81%) Data Integration
14 12 (10.81%) Entra ID
14 12 (10.81%) ETL
14 12 (10.81%) Test Automation

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 (1.80%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.90%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 111 (100.00%) Azure
2 19 (17.12%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (16.22%) Azure Data Factory
4 15 (13.51%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (12.61%) Azure Monitor
6 12 (10.81%) AWS
6 12 (10.81%) Entra ID
7 10 (9.01%) Azure Functions
7 10 (9.01%) Serverless
8 9 (8.11%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (8.11%) GitHub
9 8 (7.21%) Azure AKS
10 7 (6.31%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (4.50%) Intacct
11 5 (4.50%) Power Platform
11 5 (4.50%) SaaS
12 4 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (1.80%) IaaS
13 2 (1.80%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.01%) Firewall
2 4 (3.60%) DNS
2 4 (3.60%) SAN
2 4 (3.60%) VPN
3 3 (2.70%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.70%) VLAN
3 3 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.80%) HTTP
5 1 (0.90%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.71%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (9.91%) Spark SQL
3 4 (3.60%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.70%) Power BI
5 2 (1.80%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.90%) Metadata
6 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.80%) GitLab
1 2 (1.80%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.80%) Terragrunt
2 1 (0.90%) Git
2 1 (0.90%) Postman
General
1 19 (17.12%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.91%) Finance
3 6 (5.41%) Banking
3 6 (5.41%) Retail Banking
4 2 (1.80%) Advertising
4 2 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (1.80%) Law
4 2 (1.80%) Legal
4 2 (1.80%) Manufacturing
4 2 (1.80%) Public Sector
4 2 (1.80%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.90%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.51%) ARM Templates
2 11 (9.91%) PySpark
3 10 (9.01%) REST
4 3 (2.70%) Web Services
5 2 (1.80%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.90%) .NET
6 1 (0.90%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.90%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.90%) ADO
6 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.90%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (1.80%) Mobile App
2 2 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.90%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.90%) Hedge funds
3 1 (0.90%) NHS
3 1 (0.90%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.41%) Windows
2 7 (6.31%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.50%) Linux
4 2 (1.80%) Debian
4 2 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.80%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.90%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (29.73%) CI/CD
1 33 (29.73%) DevOps
2 26 (23.42%) Platform Engineering
3 25 (22.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (11.71%) Observability
5 13 (11.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 12 (10.81%) Computer Science
6 12 (10.81%) Data Engineering
6 12 (10.81%) Data Governance
6 12 (10.81%) Data Integration
6 12 (10.81%) ETL
6 12 (10.81%) Test Automation
7 11 (9.91%) Data Modelling
8 10 (9.01%) Cost Optimisation
9 9 (8.11%) Agile
9 9 (8.11%) Analytics
9 9 (8.11%) Dashboard Development
9 9 (8.11%) Deployment Automation
9 9 (8.11%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (18.02%) SQL
2 19 (17.12%) Python
3 7 (6.31%) Bicep
4 6 (5.41%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.50%) Go
6 4 (3.60%) Bash
7 3 (2.70%) C#
7 3 (2.70%) PHP
8 1 (0.90%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (11.71%) Azure Certification
2 9 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (8.11%) Degree
2 9 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.70%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.70%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.80%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.11%) GDPR
2 6 (5.41%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.60%) SLA
4 1 (0.90%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.90%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.90%) QA
System Software
1 14 (12.61%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.80%) Docker
3 2 (1.80%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (32.43%) Terraform
2 11 (9.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (9.01%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.60%) Ansible
5 3 (2.70%) Autotask
5 3 (2.70%) Grafana
5 3 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.90%) Argo
6 1 (0.90%) Istio
6 1 (0.90%) linkerd
6 1 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (36.94%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.71%) Databricks
3 7 (6.31%) VMware
4 5 (4.50%) Sage
4 5 (4.50%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.50%) Ubiquiti
5 3 (2.70%) ConnectWise
5 3 (2.70%) Remedy
6 2 (1.80%) Google
6 2 (1.80%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.80%) SAP