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 £66,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 November 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 183 163
Rank change year-on-year -60 -20 +120
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 45 124 126
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.47% 1.00% 1.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 1.05% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 38 87 92
10th Percentile £50,950 £40,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £52,500 £65,175
Median % change year-on-year +26.19% -19.45% +0.27%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £70,313
90th Percentile £70,375 £88,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,225 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.41% +3.42% -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 8,464 11,816 7,415
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.88% 95.04% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 5,015 6,261 5,636
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.54% +1.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% -

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 6 November 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 6 November 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 -9 24 £62,500 +19.05% 7
Yorkshire -4 15 £58,750 +3.98% 6
North East -14 6 £71,250 +42.50% 1
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 November 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 23 (51.11%) CI/CD
3 22 (48.89%) Python
4 20 (44.44%) Microsoft
5 18 (40.00%) SQL
6 16 (35.56%) Data Modelling
6 16 (35.56%) DevOps
7 15 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
8 13 (28.89%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (22.22%) Terraform
10 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (17.78%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (15.56%) Azure Certification
11 7 (15.56%) Containerisation
11 7 (15.56%) Docker
11 7 (15.56%) Kubernetes
12 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 6 (13.33%) PowerShell
12 6 (13.33%) Storage Management
12 6 (13.33%) Windows
13 5 (11.11%) Ansible
13 5 (11.11%) ARM Templates
13 5 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (11.11%) GitHub
13 5 (11.11%) IaaS
13 5 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
13 5 (11.11%) PaaS
13 5 (11.11%) Project Management
13 5 (11.11%) SaaS

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%) JBoss
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.22%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 45 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (28.89%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (17.78%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (11.11%) GitHub
4 5 (11.11%) IaaS
4 5 (11.11%) PaaS
4 5 (11.11%) SaaS
5 4 (8.89%) AWS
6 3 (6.67%) Azure AKS
6 3 (6.67%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Functions
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Storage
7 2 (4.44%) Serverless
8 1 (2.22%) Azure Stack
8 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.89%) Firewall
2 3 (6.67%) Network Security
3 1 (2.22%) DNS
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
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Git
1 4 (8.89%) JIRA
2 3 (6.67%) Jenkins
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
General
1 17 (37.78%) 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%) Law
5 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.22%) Kafka
2 1 (2.22%) Middleware
2 1 (2.22%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Data Centre
1 4 (8.89%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.44%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.33%) Windows
2 2 (4.44%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.22%) Linux
3 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (51.11%) CI/CD
2 16 (35.56%) Data Modelling
2 16 (35.56%) DevOps
3 15 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (15.56%) Containerisation
6 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (13.33%) Storage Management
7 5 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
7 5 (11.11%) Project Management
8 4 (8.89%) Analytics
8 4 (8.89%) Cloud Security
8 4 (8.89%) Incident Response
8 4 (8.89%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (8.89%) Runbook
9 3 (6.67%) Log Analytics
9 3 (6.67%) Penetration Testing
9 3 (6.67%) Server Management
9 3 (6.67%) Vendor Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (48.89%) Python
2 18 (40.00%) SQL
3 6 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.89%) Bash
4 4 (8.89%) Bicep
5 1 (2.22%) Groovy
5 1 (2.22%) Perl
5 1 (2.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (15.56%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.22%) Degree
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (15.56%) Docker
2 4 (8.89%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.44%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (22.22%) Terraform
2 7 (15.56%) Kubernetes
3 5 (11.11%) Ansible
4 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.22%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (2.22%) Podman
5 1 (2.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.44%) Cisco
2 2 (4.44%) Databricks
2 2 (4.44%) Fortinet
2 2 (4.44%) Google
2 2 (4.44%) HP
2 2 (4.44%) Palo Alto
2 2 (4.44%) VMware
3 1 (2.22%) Veeam