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 10 May 2026.

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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 241 234
Rank change year-on-year -12 -7 +28
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 75 37 155
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.40% 0.49% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.55% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 63 28 91
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,438 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -13.19%
75th Percentile £83,750 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile - £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 17,179 6,732 15,982
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 90.00% 94.94%
Number of salaries quoted 11,381 3,826 12,770
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,400 £53,818
% change year-on-year -7.41% +10.37% -11.48%

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 10 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 10 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 +23 49 £55,000 -6.78% 11
Yorkshire -48 23 £62,500 +13.64% 6
North East -40 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 10 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 75 (100.00%) Azure
2 26 (34.67%) Microsoft
3 25 (33.33%) Terraform
4 23 (30.67%) CI/CD
4 23 (30.67%) DevOps
5 18 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (24.00%) Platform Engineering
6 16 (21.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (21.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 16 (21.33%) SQL
7 15 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (20.00%) Python
8 14 (18.67%) Windows
9 13 (17.33%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (16.00%) Active Directory
10 12 (16.00%) AWS
10 12 (16.00%) Azure Certification
10 12 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (16.00%) Databricks
11 11 (14.67%) Test Automation
12 10 (13.33%) Data Engineering
12 10 (13.33%) Data Governance
12 10 (13.33%) Data Integration
12 10 (13.33%) Data Modelling
12 10 (13.33%) ETL
12 10 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (13.33%) PySpark
12 10 (13.33%) Spark SQL
13 9 (12.00%) Azure Monitor

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 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.33%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 75 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (21.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 15 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (16.00%) AWS
4 12 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (12.00%) Azure Monitor
5 9 (12.00%) Entra ID
6 8 (10.67%) Azure Functions
6 8 (10.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 8 (10.67%) Serverless
7 7 (9.33%) GitHub
8 6 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (8.00%) SaaS
9 5 (6.67%) Intacct
10 4 (5.33%) Azure AKS
10 4 (5.33%) Google Workspace
11 3 (4.00%) Power Platform
12 2 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (2.67%) IaaS
12 2 (2.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.00%) Firewall
2 4 (5.33%) SAN
3 3 (4.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.67%) DNS
4 2 (2.67%) HTTP
5 1 (1.33%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.33%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (13.33%) Spark SQL
3 2 (2.67%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.67%) Power BI
3 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.67%) GitLab
1 2 (2.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.33%) Postman
General
1 17 (22.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.33%) Finance
3 6 (8.00%) Banking
3 6 (8.00%) Retail Banking
4 4 (5.33%) Legal
5 2 (2.67%) Advertising
5 2 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.67%) Law
5 2 (2.67%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.33%) PySpark
2 9 (12.00%) REST
3 8 (10.67%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.33%) ADO
5 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (1.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.67%) Mobile App
1 2 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.33%) Hedge funds
2 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (1.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (18.67%) Windows
2 8 (10.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.33%) Linux
4 2 (2.67%) Debian
4 2 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.67%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (30.67%) CI/CD
1 23 (30.67%) DevOps
2 18 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 18 (24.00%) Platform Engineering
3 16 (21.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (14.67%) Test Automation
5 10 (13.33%) Data Engineering
5 10 (13.33%) Data Governance
5 10 (13.33%) Data Integration
5 10 (13.33%) Data Modelling
5 10 (13.33%) ETL
6 9 (12.00%) Observability
7 8 (10.67%) Computer Science
7 8 (10.67%) Cost Optimisation
7 8 (10.67%) Dashboard Development
7 8 (10.67%) Deployment Automation
7 8 (10.67%) Regulatory Compliance
7 8 (10.67%) Release Management
8 6 (8.00%) High Availability
8 6 (8.00%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.33%) SQL
2 15 (20.00%) Python
3 3 (4.00%) Bash
4 2 (2.67%) Bicep
4 2 (2.67%) Go
4 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (16.00%) Azure Certification
2 10 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (10.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (10.67%) Degree
4 4 (5.33%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 4 (5.33%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.67%) GDPR
2 6 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.33%) QA
3 1 (1.33%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (16.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 5 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.33%) Docker
3 1 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (33.33%) Terraform
2 10 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (9.33%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.33%) Ansible
5 2 (2.67%) Grafana
5 2 (2.67%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (34.67%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.00%) Databricks
3 9 (12.00%) VMware
4 5 (6.67%) Sage
4 5 (6.67%) Ubiquiti
5 4 (5.33%) Google
6 2 (2.67%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.67%) SAP
7 1 (1.33%) Dell
7 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow