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 14 October 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 254 173 180
Rank change year-on-year -81 +7 +91
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 45 145 128
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.48% 1.12% 1.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 1.18% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 35 88 94
10th Percentile £51,350 £40,000 £46,625
25th Percentile £55,875 £46,250 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -21.57% -1.92%
75th Percentile £68,750 £64,619 £70,000
90th Percentile £69,200 £88,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £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 8,222 12,312 7,959
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.20% 94.95% 96.75%
Number of salaries quoted 4,343 6,678 6,063
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,525 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.70% -5.79% -

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -58 26 £65,000 +30.00% 8
Yorkshire -10 15 £62,500 +17.92% 8
North East -5 4 £67,500 +35.00% 6
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 October 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 45 (100.00%) Azure
2 24 (53.33%) CI/CD
3 21 (46.67%) Python
4 20 (44.44%) Microsoft
5 17 (37.78%) SQL
5 17 (37.78%) DevOps
6 16 (35.56%) Data Modelling
7 15 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (33.33%) Retail
7 15 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
8 12 (26.67%) Terraform
9 10 (22.22%) Azure Certification
10 9 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (20.00%) Ansible
10 9 (20.00%) Kubernetes
11 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure Automation
12 7 (15.56%) ARM Templates
12 7 (15.56%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (15.56%) SaaS
12 7 (15.56%) Windows
12 7 (15.56%) Configuration Management
13 6 (13.33%) PaaS
13 6 (13.33%) IaaS
13 6 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (13.33%) Social Skills
14 5 (11.11%) Containerisation
14 5 (11.11%) Docker
14 5 (11.11%) Bash

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 (4.44%) Apache
1 2 (4.44%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.22%) IIS
2 1 (2.22%) JBoss
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.22%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 45 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (15.56%) SaaS
4 6 (13.33%) IaaS
4 6 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (13.33%) PaaS
5 4 (8.89%) AWS
6 3 (6.67%) Azure AKS
6 3 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (6.67%) GitHub
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.22%) Azure Stack
8 1 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.22%) GCP
8 1 (2.22%) Google Workspace
8 1 (2.22%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.22%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.89%) Firewall
2 3 (6.67%) Network Security
3 1 (2.22%) DNS
3 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.44%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.22%) Big Data
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.67%) Git
2 3 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (2.22%) Ant
3 1 (2.22%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.22%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.22%) GitLab
3 1 (2.22%) Maven
3 1 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 15 (33.33%) Retail
2 6 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Finance
4 2 (4.44%) Legal
5 1 (2.22%) Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.22%) Law
5 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.22%) Kafka
2 1 (2.22%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.56%) Windows
2 2 (4.44%) Linux
2 2 (4.44%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.22%) Unix
3 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 17 (37.78%) DevOps
3 16 (35.56%) Data Modelling
4 15 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
5 9 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (15.56%) Configuration Management
7 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (11.11%) Containerisation
8 5 (11.11%) Project Management
9 4 (8.89%) Cloud Security
9 4 (8.89%) Storage Management
10 3 (6.67%) Agile
10 3 (6.67%) Incident Response
10 3 (6.67%) Network Virtualisation
10 3 (6.67%) Penetration Testing
10 3 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
10 3 (6.67%) Server Management
10 3 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
10 3 (6.67%) Vendor Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (46.67%) Python
2 17 (37.78%) SQL
3 5 (11.11%) Bash
3 5 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.67%) Bicep
5 1 (2.22%) Groovy
5 1 (2.22%) Perl
5 1 (2.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (22.22%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (11.11%) Docker
2 3 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.44%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (26.67%) Terraform
2 9 (20.00%) Ansible
2 9 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.44%) Puppet
4 1 (2.22%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.22%) Podman
4 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.67%) VMware
3 2 (4.44%) Cisco
3 2 (4.44%) Databricks
3 2 (4.44%) Fortinet
3 2 (4.44%) Google
3 2 (4.44%) HP
3 2 (4.44%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.22%) Veeam