Azure Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > North of England

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in the North of England is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 240 231
Rank change year-on-year -57 -9 +87
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 45 162 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.34% 0.86% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.91% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 32 99 130
10th Percentile £45,250 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £44,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% -4.80% +7.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £78,700 £82,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -

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 11,463 17,853 12,407
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.28% 95.22% 88.91%
Number of salaries quoted 6,083 13,097 7,787
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £80,676
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.97% -11.83% -

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Azure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in the North of England

Azure Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Azure Engineer 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -74 32 £65,000 +20.93% 9
Yorkshire +30 12 £55,000 -15.38% 9
North East +30 1 £75,500 +0.67% 5
Azure Engineer
England

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 16 July 2025, Azure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 26 (57.78%) Microsoft
3 24 (53.33%) DevOps
4 22 (48.89%) Terraform
5 21 (46.67%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (44.44%) Python
7 19 (42.22%) CI/CD
8 18 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (31.11%) Azure Certification
10 13 (28.89%) Ansible
11 12 (26.67%) Infrastructure Automation
12 11 (24.44%) ARM Templates
12 11 (24.44%) Bash
12 11 (24.44%) Kubernetes
12 11 (24.44%) SaaS
12 11 (24.44%) PowerShell
13 10 (22.22%) Bicep
13 10 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 9 (20.00%) Cloud Security
14 9 (20.00%) PaaS
14 9 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
15 8 (17.78%) IaaS
15 8 (17.78%) Windows
15 8 (17.78%) SQL
15 8 (17.78%) Configuration Management
16 7 (15.56%) Containerisation
16 7 (15.56%) Social Skills
17 6 (13.33%) Active Directory
18 5 (11.11%) Project Management
18 5 (11.11%) Data Warehouse

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.67%) IIS
2 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 45 (100.00%) Azure
2 21 (46.67%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (24.44%) SaaS
4 9 (20.00%) PaaS
5 8 (17.78%) IaaS
6 5 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (8.89%) GitHub
8 3 (6.67%) AWS
8 3 (6.67%) Azure AKS
8 3 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (4.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (4.44%) Entra ID
10 1 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (2.22%) GCP
10 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.22%) Power Automate
10 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
10 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.11%) Firewall
2 4 (8.89%) Network Security
3 3 (6.67%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.44%) DNS
5 1 (2.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (8.89%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.44%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.44%) MySQL
4 1 (2.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.67%) Git
3 2 (4.44%) JIRA
4 1 (2.22%) GitLab
4 1 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.22%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (15.56%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.11%) Finance
2 5 (11.11%) Retail
3 3 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.22%) Automotive
4 1 (2.22%) Banking
4 1 (2.22%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.22%) Law
4 1 (2.22%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (24.44%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.22%) .NET
2 1 (2.22%) .NET Core
2 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.22%) ADO
2 1 (2.22%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (2.22%) Kafka
2 1 (2.22%) PySpark
2 1 (2.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.22%) IoT
4 1 (2.22%) Life Science
4 1 (2.22%) PropTech
4 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.78%) Windows
2 4 (8.89%) Linux
3 3 (6.67%) Unix
4 2 (4.44%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (53.33%) DevOps
2 19 (42.22%) CI/CD
3 18 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (26.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 10 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (20.00%) Cloud Security
7 8 (17.78%) Configuration Management
8 7 (15.56%) Containerisation
9 5 (11.11%) Agile
9 5 (11.11%) Mentoring
9 5 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (11.11%) Project Management
10 4 (8.89%) Data Modelling
10 4 (8.89%) Network Virtualisation
10 4 (8.89%) Requirements Gathering
11 3 (6.67%) Proactive Monitoring
11 3 (6.67%) Release Automation
11 3 (6.67%) Server Management
11 3 (6.67%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (44.44%) Python
2 11 (24.44%) Bash
2 11 (24.44%) PowerShell
3 10 (22.22%) Bicep
4 8 (17.78%) SQL
5 2 (4.44%) Ruby
6 1 (2.22%) C#
6 1 (2.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (31.11%) Azure Certification
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.44%) Degree
3 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (2.22%) CCSP
4 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.22%) CISSP
4 1 (2.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) PMO
2 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.22%) NIST
2 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 6 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.67%) Docker
3 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (48.89%) Terraform
2 13 (28.89%) Ansible
3 11 (24.44%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.67%) SCCM
5 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (4.44%) Progress Chef
5 2 (4.44%) Puppet
6 1 (2.22%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 26 (57.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.89%) VMware
3 2 (4.44%) Cisco
3 2 (4.44%) Fortinet
3 2 (4.44%) HP
3 2 (4.44%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.22%) Google
4 1 (2.22%) Hitachi
4 1 (2.22%) Veeam