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 £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 March 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 217 242
Rank change year-on-year -40 +25 +30
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 41 39 124
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.28% 0.59% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.63% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 40 33 92
10th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £43,875
25th Percentile £49,188 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £72,813
90th Percentile £82,625 £81,750 £83,625
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +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 13,204 6,145 14,212
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.83% 92.42% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 8,315 3,685 11,465
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,760 £79,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.19%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -24 26 £55,000 - 13
Yorkshire -45 9 £62,500 +13.64% 3
North East -20 6 £71,250 -5.63% 1
Azure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 March 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 41 (100.00%) Azure
2 21 (51.22%) Microsoft
3 17 (41.46%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (36.59%) Terraform
5 14 (34.15%) Azure Certification
6 13 (31.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (29.27%) DevOps
8 11 (26.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (24.39%) Entra ID
9 10 (24.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (24.39%) Windows
10 9 (21.95%) Active Directory
10 9 (21.95%) AWS
10 9 (21.95%) CI/CD
10 9 (21.95%) Firewall
10 9 (21.95%) GitHub
10 9 (21.95%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (21.95%) SaaS
11 8 (19.51%) Containerisation
12 7 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (17.07%) Kubernetes
12 7 (17.07%) Platform Engineering
12 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (14.63%) Ansible
13 6 (14.63%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (14.63%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (14.63%) Hyper-V
13 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Office
13 6 (14.63%) VMware
13 6 (14.63%) VMware Infrastructure

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 (7.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.44%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 41 (100.00%) Azure
2 17 (41.46%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (24.39%) Entra ID
4 9 (21.95%) AWS
4 9 (21.95%) GitHub
4 9 (21.95%) SaaS
5 7 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (14.63%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (12.20%) Azure AKS
7 5 (12.20%) Google Workspace
7 5 (12.20%) Intacct
8 3 (7.32%) Azure Functions
8 3 (7.32%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (7.32%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (7.32%) IaaS
8 3 (7.32%) PaaS
8 3 (7.32%) Serverless
9 2 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (4.88%) Azure Stack
9 2 (4.88%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 9 (21.95%) Firewall
2 3 (7.32%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.88%) DNS
3 2 (4.88%) HTTP
4 1 (2.44%) Ethernet
4 1 (2.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.44%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Git
1 2 (4.88%) GitLab
1 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 16 (39.02%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.63%) Legal
3 5 (12.20%) Finance
4 2 (4.88%) Banking
4 2 (4.88%) Law
4 2 (4.88%) Retail
4 2 (4.88%) Retail Banking
4 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.32%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.44%) PySpark
3 1 (2.44%) REST
3 1 (2.44%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.88%) Driving Licence
1 2 (4.88%) Mobile App
1 2 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.44%) Replication
2 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (24.39%) Windows
2 4 (9.76%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.88%) Debian
3 2 (4.88%) Linux
3 2 (4.88%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (31.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (29.27%) DevOps
3 9 (21.95%) CI/CD
3 9 (21.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (19.51%) Containerisation
5 7 (17.07%) Platform Engineering
5 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (12.20%) Change Management
6 5 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (12.20%) Customer Service
6 5 (12.20%) ITIL
6 5 (12.20%) Mobile Device Management
6 5 (12.20%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 4 (9.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 4 (9.76%) High Availability
8 3 (7.32%) Observability
8 3 (7.32%) Service Delivery
9 2 (4.88%) Business Continuity
9 2 (4.88%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (4.88%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.20%) Python
2 3 (7.32%) SQL
3 2 (4.88%) Bash
3 2 (4.88%) Bicep
3 2 (4.88%) Go
3 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (34.15%) Azure Certification
2 11 (26.83%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (12.20%) AWS Certification
3 5 (12.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 4 (9.76%) SC Cleared
4 4 (9.76%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.44%) GDPR
2 1 (2.44%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.44%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (21.95%) Active Directory
2 6 (14.63%) Hyper-V
2 6 (14.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (9.76%) Docker
4 2 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (36.59%) Terraform
2 10 (24.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (17.07%) Kubernetes
4 6 (14.63%) Ansible
5 2 (4.88%) Grafana
5 2 (4.88%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (51.22%) Microsoft
2 6 (14.63%) VMware
3 5 (12.20%) Google
3 5 (12.20%) Sage
3 5 (12.20%) Ubiquiti
4 1 (2.44%) Databricks
4 1 (2.44%) Dell
4 1 (2.44%) ServiceNow