Azure Specialist Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft Azure Specialist
England > North of England

The median Microsoft Azure Specialist salary in the North of England is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 April 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 389 427
Rank change year-on-year +79 +38 +18
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Specialist 8 13 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.073% 0.075% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.079% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 1 13 6
10th Percentile - - £49,375
25th Percentile £66,250 £45,000 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £59,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.45% -40.50% +63.27%
75th Percentile £68,750 £63,250 -
90th Percentile - £65,500 -
England median annual salary £81,250 £59,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +37.71% -9.23% -10.34%

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 10,037 16,414 15,576
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.30% 95.02% 89.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,793 12,705 8,242
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,188
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,567
% change year-on-year +7.48% -11.67% +0.95%

Azure Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Specialist in the North of England

Azure Specialist
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Azure Specialist in the North of England

Azure Specialist
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 Specialist within the North of England region over the 6 months to 30 April 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 - 8 £67,500 -
Azure Specialist
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, Azure Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) Capacity Planning
2 7 (87.50%) Enterprise Cloud
2 7 (87.50%) Mentoring
2 7 (87.50%) Coaching
2 7 (87.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (87.50%) Roadmaps
2 7 (87.50%) Law
2 7 (87.50%) Legal
2 7 (87.50%) ITIL
2 7 (87.50%) Cisco
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) ETL
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification

Azure Specialist 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 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 7 (87.50%) Law
1 7 (87.50%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Capacity Planning
1 7 (87.50%) Coaching
1 7 (87.50%) ITIL
1 7 (87.50%) Mentoring
1 7 (87.50%) Roadmaps
2 1 (12.50%) Agile
2 1 (12.50%) Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
2 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) ETL
2 1 (12.50%) Microservices
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) Cyber Essentials
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (87.50%) Cisco