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 2 August 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 258 208
Rank change year-on-year +27 -50 -3
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 126 57 149
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.58% 0.59% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.67% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 108 44 91
10th Percentile £41,625 £51,075 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,375 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% +19.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,150 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -3.70%

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 20,484 8,476 14,315
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.41% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 14,913 4,580 10,101
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -8.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +35 78 £65,000 -1.89% 13
Yorkshire -12 39 £82,500 +32.00% 5
North East -47 9 £65,000 -3.70% 1
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 August 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.

1 126 (100.00%) Azure
2 37 (29.37%) Microsoft
3 36 (28.57%) Terraform
4 35 (27.78%) DevOps
5 34 (26.98%) CI/CD
6 33 (26.19%) Platform Engineering
7 26 (20.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (17.46%) SQL
9 20 (15.87%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (15.08%) Python
11 18 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (11.90%) Active Directory
12 15 (11.90%) ARM Templates
13 14 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 13 (10.32%) Data Engineering
14 13 (10.32%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (10.32%) Databricks
14 13 (10.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 13 (10.32%) Observability
15 12 (9.52%) Computer Science
15 12 (9.52%) Cost Optimisation
15 12 (9.52%) Data Governance
15 12 (9.52%) Data Integration
15 12 (9.52%) Entra ID
15 12 (9.52%) ETL
15 12 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
15 12 (9.52%) Test Automation
15 12 (9.52%) Windows
16 11 (8.73%) 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 (1.59%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 126 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (15.87%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 14 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
5 12 (9.52%) Entra ID
5 12 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (7.94%) AWS
6 10 (7.94%) Azure Functions
6 10 (7.94%) Serverless
7 9 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (6.35%) GitHub
9 7 (5.56%) Azure AKS
10 6 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.97%) PaaS
11 5 (3.97%) Power Platform
12 3 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 2 (1.59%) Azure Key Vault
13 2 (1.59%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.76%) Firewall
2 4 (3.17%) DNS
2 4 (3.17%) SAN
3 3 (2.38%) VLAN
3 3 (2.38%) VPN
3 3 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.59%) HTTP
4 2 (1.59%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.32%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (8.73%) Spark SQL
3 4 (3.17%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.38%) Power BI
5 2 (1.59%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.79%) Metadata
6 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.59%) Terragrunt
2 1 (0.79%) Git
2 1 (0.79%) GitLab
2 1 (0.79%) Postman
General
1 18 (14.29%) Finance
2 11 (8.73%) Social Skills
3 6 (4.76%) Banking
3 6 (4.76%) Retail Banking
4 4 (3.17%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.59%) Advertising
5 2 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.59%) Law
5 2 (1.59%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.79%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.79%) Local Government
6 1 (0.79%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.90%) ARM Templates
2 11 (8.73%) PySpark
3 10 (7.94%) REST
4 3 (2.38%) Web Services
5 2 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.79%) .NET
6 1 (0.79%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.79%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.79%) ADO
6 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.79%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (0.79%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.79%) NHS
4 1 (0.79%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.79%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.52%) Windows
2 7 (5.56%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.17%) Linux
4 2 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.79%) Debian
5 1 (0.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (27.78%) DevOps
2 34 (26.98%) CI/CD
3 33 (26.19%) Platform Engineering
4 26 (20.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 13 (10.32%) Data Engineering
6 13 (10.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (10.32%) Observability
7 12 (9.52%) Computer Science
7 12 (9.52%) Cost Optimisation
7 12 (9.52%) Data Governance
7 12 (9.52%) Data Integration
7 12 (9.52%) ETL
7 12 (9.52%) Test Automation
8 11 (8.73%) Data Modelling
9 9 (7.14%) Agile
9 9 (7.14%) Analytics
9 9 (7.14%) Dashboard Development
9 9 (7.14%) Regulatory Compliance
9 9 (7.14%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (17.46%) SQL
2 19 (15.08%) Python
3 9 (7.14%) Bicep
4 8 (6.35%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.97%) C#
5 5 (3.97%) Go
5 5 (3.97%) PHP
6 4 (3.17%) Bash
7 1 (0.79%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (7.14%) Degree
2 8 (6.35%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.59%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.59%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.14%) GDPR
2 3 (2.38%) SLA
3 2 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.79%) QA
System Software
1 15 (11.90%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (28.57%) Terraform
2 10 (7.94%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.38%) Ansible
4 3 (2.38%) Autotask
4 3 (2.38%) Grafana
4 3 (2.38%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.79%) Argo
5 1 (0.79%) Istio
5 1 (0.79%) linkerd
Vendors
1 37 (29.37%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.32%) Databricks
3 5 (3.97%) VMware
4 4 (3.17%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.38%) ConnectWise
5 3 (2.38%) Remedy
6 2 (1.59%) Sage
6 2 (1.59%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.59%) SAP
6 2 (1.59%) Ubiquiti