Azure Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft Azure
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 8 3
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 1,737 1,026 2,676
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 12.20% 14.92% 18.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.59% 42.79% 49.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,012 779 2,301
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.73% +2.73% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £83,759
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +11.11% -10.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,022 2,398 5,383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 35.27% 34.87% 36.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,350 1,649 4,562
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,200 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,548
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the North of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the North of England

Azure
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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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 -12 748 £55,000 -8.33% 291
Yorkshire +9 746 £45,000 -14.29% 193
North East +5 243 £50,000 -16.67% 94
Azure
England

Azure
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 97 (5.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 90 (5.18%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.61%) WordPress
4 20 (1.15%) Confluence
5 16 (0.92%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.58%) Apache
6 10 (0.58%) IIS
7 9 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.35%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.29%) CMS
9 5 (0.29%) nginx
10 4 (0.23%) SAS
11 3 (0.17%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.12%) CICS
12 2 (0.12%) JBoss
13 1 (0.058%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.058%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.058%) PegaRULES
13 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.058%) Umbraco
Applications
1 235 (13.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.58%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.17%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.058%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.058%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.058%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.058%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 16 (0.92%) SAP ERP
2 12 (0.69%) Magento
3 9 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.17%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.12%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.058%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.058%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.058%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 531 (30.57%) AWS
2 297 (17.10%) Microsoft 365
3 292 (16.81%) Power Platform
4 213 (12.26%) GitHub
5 206 (11.86%) Azure AI
6 159 (9.15%) Entra ID
7 154 (8.87%) GCP
8 108 (6.22%) Azure DevOps
9 97 (5.58%) SaaS
10 87 (5.01%) Serverless
11 55 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
12 35 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
13 32 (1.84%) IaaS
14 31 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
15 30 (1.73%) PaaS
16 25 (1.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 24 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
17 24 (1.38%) OneDrive
17 24 (1.38%) Power Automate
18 23 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 140 (8.06%) Internet
2 132 (7.60%) Firewall
3 104 (5.99%) DNS
4 75 (4.32%) DHCP
5 74 (4.26%) TCP/IP
6 64 (3.68%) VPN
7 60 (3.45%) WAN
8 57 (3.28%) VLAN
9 49 (2.82%) LAN
10 25 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
11 21 (1.21%) SAN
12 20 (1.15%) HTTP
12 20 (1.15%) VoIP
13 18 (1.04%) Network Security
14 17 (0.98%) Wireless
15 13 (0.75%) Remote Desktop
15 13 (0.75%) VXLAN
16 12 (0.69%) NGFW
16 12 (0.69%) SD-WAN
16 12 (0.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 252 (14.51%) Power BI
2 202 (11.63%) Tableau
3 114 (6.56%) SQL Server
4 54 (3.11%) NoSQL
5 44 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
6 36 (2.07%) MongoDB
7 29 (1.67%) Metadata
8 28 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
9 27 (1.55%) MySQL
10 25 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
11 20 (1.15%) Data Lake
11 20 (1.15%) Relational Database
12 18 (1.04%) DynamoDB
12 18 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 16 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
14 13 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 10 (0.58%) BigQuery
15 10 (0.58%) Redis
16 9 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 211 (12.15%) Git
2 44 (2.53%) Jenkins
3 40 (2.30%) JIRA
4 28 (1.61%) GitLab
5 17 (0.98%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
7 7 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 5 (0.29%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.17%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.17%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.17%) NUnit
9 3 (0.17%) Postman
10 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.12%) MLflow
10 2 (0.12%) Selenium
10 2 (0.12%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.12%) Subversion
10 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.058%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.058%) TestRail
General
1 849 (48.88%) Social Skills
2 139 (8.00%) Multimedia
3 128 (7.37%) Finance
4 88 (5.07%) Public Sector
5 84 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (2.36%) Law
7 37 (2.13%) Telecoms
8 34 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 26 (1.50%) Manufacturing
11 23 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (1.32%) Retail
12 19 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (0.98%) Legal
14 13 (0.75%) Advertising
15 9 (0.52%) Banking
16 7 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (0.35%) Electronics
17 6 (0.35%) Marketing
18 5 (0.29%) Billing
Job Titles
1 463 (26.66%) Analyst
2 399 (22.97%) Junior
3 392 (22.57%) Junior Analyst
4 277 (15.95%) Developer
5 202 (11.63%) Data Analyst
6 196 (11.28%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 196 (11.28%) Junior Data Analyst
6 196 (11.28%) Junior Security Analyst
6 196 (11.28%) Security Analyst
7 166 (9.56%) Senior
8 142 (8.18%) Trainee
9 139 (8.00%) Lead
10 122 (7.02%) IT Support
11 115 (6.62%) Software Developer
12 107 (6.16%) Architect
13 105 (6.04%) Ethical Hacker
14 79 (4.55%) Software Engineer
15 73 (4.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 73 (4.20%) Support Engineer
16 63 (3.63%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (10.82%) .NET
2 178 (10.25%) CSS
2 178 (10.25%) HTML
3 107 (6.16%) React
4 73 (4.20%) .NET Core
5 69 (3.97%) RESTful
6 65 (3.74%) ASP.NET
7 49 (2.82%) AngularJS
8 48 (2.76%) Node.js
9 42 (2.42%) .NET Framework
10 39 (2.25%) REST
11 27 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
12 24 (1.38%) ASP.NET Core
12 24 (1.38%) Vue
13 22 (1.27%) Blazor
13 22 (1.27%) Spring
13 22 (1.27%) Spring Boot
14 18 (1.04%) PySpark
15 16 (0.92%) CSS3
15 16 (0.92%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 106 (6.10%) Cyberattack
2 91 (5.24%) Cloud Native
3 49 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
4 45 (2.59%) Data Centre
5 44 (2.53%) Driving Licence
6 39 (2.25%) Product Ownership
7 37 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
8 30 (1.73%) Public Cloud
9 29 (1.67%) Onboarding
10 28 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
11 27 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
12 26 (1.50%) Management Information System
13 22 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
13 22 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
13 22 (1.27%) Mobile App
14 18 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (0.75%) PKI
16 11 (0.63%) Low-Code
17 10 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
17 10 (0.58%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 212 (12.20%) Windows
2 138 (7.94%) Windows Server
3 46 (2.65%) Windows 10
4 45 (2.59%) Linux
5 21 (1.21%) Android
6 16 (0.92%) Mac OS
7 15 (0.86%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (0.63%) Debian
9 11 (0.63%) Windows 7
9 11 (0.63%) Windows 8
10 9 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.46%) Unix
12 6 (0.35%) CentOS
12 6 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (0.35%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.29%) VMS
14 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.058%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (30.57%) Mentoring
2 526 (30.28%) Cybersecurity
3 297 (17.10%) DevOps
4 296 (17.04%) AI
5 286 (16.47%) Agile
6 265 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
7 264 (15.20%) Business Intelligence
8 258 (14.85%) CI/CD
9 169 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 136 (7.83%) Software Engineering
11 135 (7.77%) ITIL
12 131 (7.54%) Containerisation
13 127 (7.31%) Microservices
14 118 (6.79%) Infrastructure as Code
15 106 (6.10%) Ethical Hacking
16 99 (5.70%) Roadmaps
17 98 (5.64%) Coaching
17 98 (5.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 93 (5.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 91 (5.24%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 539 (31.03%) Python
2 423 (24.35%) SQL
3 268 (15.43%) JavaScript
4 192 (11.05%) C#
5 95 (5.47%) Java
6 80 (4.61%) R
7 78 (4.49%) PowerShell
8 76 (4.38%) TypeScript
9 51 (2.94%) Bash
10 31 (1.78%) PHP
11 26 (1.50%) Go
12 17 (0.98%) Bicep
13 12 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 12 (0.69%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.35%) Scala
15 4 (0.23%) C
15 4 (0.23%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.23%) XAML
16 3 (0.17%) Tcl
17 2 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 711 (40.93%) Azure Certification
2 199 (11.46%) AWS Certification
3 197 (11.34%) CompTIA Security+
4 196 (11.28%) CompTIA CySA+
5 195 (11.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 144 (8.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 111 (6.39%) Degree
8 105 (6.04%) CEH
9 65 (3.74%) Security Cleared
10 54 (3.11%) SC Cleared
11 52 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
12 28 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
13 26 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 25 (1.44%) DBS Check
15 21 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
16 18 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
17 11 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
17 11 (0.63%) Master's Degree
18 10 (0.58%) CCNP
18 10 (0.58%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (1.90%) QA
2 32 (1.84%) Data Quality
3 26 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 24 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (1.09%) SLA
6 13 (0.75%) GDPR
7 12 (0.69%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.52%) NIST
9 8 (0.46%) PMO
10 7 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.29%) DICOM
12 4 (0.23%) GRC
12 4 (0.23%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.12%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.12%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.058%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.058%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.058%) GxP
System Software
1 201 (11.57%) Active Directory
2 91 (5.24%) Docker
3 70 (4.03%) Hyper-V
4 62 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.58%) VMware Workstation
7 7 (0.40%) ProxySG
8 5 (0.29%) vSphere
9 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.058%) Firmware
10 1 (0.058%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.058%) XenApp
10 1 (0.058%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 146 (8.41%) Terraform
2 131 (7.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 93 (5.35%) Kubernetes
4 60 (3.45%) Ansible
5 44 (2.53%) Grafana
6 41 (2.36%) Prometheus
7 24 (1.38%) SCCM
8 17 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.81%) Autotask
10 9 (0.52%) Control-M
10 9 (0.52%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.29%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.23%) Puppet
13 3 (0.17%) cPanel
13 3 (0.17%) Nagios
13 3 (0.17%) Plesk
13 3 (0.17%) Rancher
13 3 (0.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,085 (62.46%) Microsoft
2 301 (17.33%) ForeScout
3 102 (5.87%) VMware
4 58 (3.34%) Google
5 42 (2.42%) Databricks
6 31 (1.78%) Cisco
7 29 (1.67%) Apple
8 25 (1.44%) Adobe
8 25 (1.44%) ServiceNow
9 22 (1.27%) Citrix
10 21 (1.21%) SAP
11 20 (1.15%) Veeam
12 16 (0.92%) Splunk
13 15 (0.86%) Oracle
14 13 (0.75%) Aruba
15 12 (0.69%) Arista
15 12 (0.69%) Meraki
15 12 (0.69%) NetScout
16 11 (0.63%) Datto
16 11 (0.63%) ESET