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 £60,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 June 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 254 220
Rank change year-on-year +25 -34 +5
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 108 42 176
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.55% 0.52% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.58% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 90 31 107
10th Percentile £44,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,313 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,250 £58,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.88% -2.52% -8.46%
75th Percentile £79,500 £70,000 £66,875
90th Percentile £83,875 £78,750 £83,000
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 18,646 7,205 18,501
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 88.98% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 13,554 3,677 14,299
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,010 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -7.61%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,239 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.45% +9.52% -13.32%

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 13 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 13 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 +50 74 £60,000 -0.83% 6
Yorkshire -23 31 £62,500 +13.64% 3
North East -37 3 £35,000 -53.64% 1
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 108 (100.00%) Azure
2 41 (37.96%) Microsoft
3 36 (33.33%) Terraform
4 33 (30.56%) CI/CD
4 33 (30.56%) DevOps
5 26 (24.07%) Platform Engineering
6 25 (23.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (17.59%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (17.59%) Python
8 18 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 18 (16.67%) SQL
9 16 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 15 (13.89%) ARM Templates
10 15 (13.89%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (13.89%) Windows
11 14 (12.96%) Active Directory
11 14 (12.96%) Azure Certification
11 14 (12.96%) Azure Monitor
12 13 (12.04%) AWS
12 13 (12.04%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (12.04%) Databricks
12 13 (12.04%) Observability
13 12 (11.11%) Data Engineering
13 12 (11.11%) Data Governance
13 12 (11.11%) Data Integration
13 12 (11.11%) Entra ID
13 12 (11.11%) ETL
13 12 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 12 (11.11%) Test Automation
14 11 (10.19%) Data Modelling

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 (1.85%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 108 (100.00%) Azure
2 19 (17.59%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 15 (13.89%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (12.96%) Azure Monitor
6 13 (12.04%) AWS
7 12 (11.11%) Entra ID
8 10 (9.26%) Azure Functions
8 10 (9.26%) Serverless
9 9 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (8.33%) GitHub
10 8 (7.41%) Azure AKS
11 7 (6.48%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (4.63%) Intacct
12 5 (4.63%) Power Platform
12 5 (4.63%) SaaS
13 4 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (2.78%) Google Workspace
15 2 (1.85%) IaaS
15 2 (1.85%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.26%) Firewall
2 4 (3.70%) DNS
2 4 (3.70%) SAN
3 3 (2.78%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.78%) VPN
4 2 (1.85%) HTTP
4 2 (1.85%) VLAN
4 2 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.93%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.04%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (10.19%) Spark SQL
3 4 (3.70%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.78%) Power BI
5 2 (1.85%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.93%) Metadata
6 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.85%) GitLab
1 2 (1.85%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.85%) Terragrunt
2 1 (0.93%) Git
2 1 (0.93%) Postman
General
1 19 (17.59%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.33%) Finance
3 6 (5.56%) Banking
3 6 (5.56%) Retail Banking
4 3 (2.78%) Legal
5 2 (1.85%) Advertising
5 2 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.85%) Law
5 2 (1.85%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.85%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.85%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.93%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.89%) ARM Templates
2 11 (10.19%) PySpark
3 10 (9.26%) REST
4 2 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.85%) Web Services
5 1 (0.93%) .NET
5 1 (0.93%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.93%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.93%) ADO
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.93%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (1.85%) Mobile App
2 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.93%) Hedge funds
3 1 (0.93%) NHS
3 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.89%) Windows
2 7 (6.48%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.63%) Linux
4 2 (1.85%) Debian
4 2 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.85%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.93%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (30.56%) CI/CD
1 33 (30.56%) DevOps
2 26 (24.07%) Platform Engineering
3 25 (23.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (12.04%) Observability
6 12 (11.11%) Data Engineering
6 12 (11.11%) Data Governance
6 12 (11.11%) Data Integration
6 12 (11.11%) ETL
6 12 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 12 (11.11%) Test Automation
7 11 (10.19%) Data Modelling
8 10 (9.26%) Computer Science
8 10 (9.26%) Cost Optimisation
9 9 (8.33%) Analytics
9 9 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (8.33%) Dashboard Development
9 9 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
9 9 (8.33%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (17.59%) Python
2 18 (16.67%) SQL
3 7 (6.48%) Bicep
4 6 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.63%) Go
6 4 (3.70%) Bash
7 1 (0.93%) C#
7 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.93%) PHP
7 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (12.96%) Azure Certification
2 10 (9.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (8.33%) Degree
4 3 (2.78%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 3 (2.78%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.33%) GDPR
2 6 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.78%) SLA
4 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 14 (12.96%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.78%) Hyper-V
2 3 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (33.33%) Terraform
2 11 (10.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (9.26%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.70%) Ansible
5 3 (2.78%) Grafana
5 3 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.85%) Autotask
7 1 (0.93%) Argo
7 1 (0.93%) Istio
7 1 (0.93%) linkerd
7 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (37.96%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.04%) Databricks
3 8 (7.41%) VMware
4 5 (4.63%) Sage
4 5 (4.63%) Ubiquiti
5 4 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.78%) Google
7 2 (1.85%) ConnectWise
7 2 (1.85%) Remedy
7 2 (1.85%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.85%) SAP