Azure Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft Azure
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 4 2 4
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 1,805 4,235 3,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 23.03% 24.89% 20.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 53.37% 56.51% 45.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,333 2,562 2,796
10th Percentile £32,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,056 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +6.96%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,382 7,494 7,553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 43.16% 44.04% 45.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,614 4,822 6,023
10th Percentile £29,750 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,207
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,544 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the North of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Azure in the North of England

Azure
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

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 1 December 2023. 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 -1 941 £57,500 +4.55% 379
Yorkshire -2 767 £52,500 -11.02% 260
North East +1 97 £57,500 +4.55% 105
Azure
England

Azure
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 95 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.11%) Confluence
3 18 (1.00%) IIS
4 16 (0.89%) Umbraco
5 13 (0.72%) MS Exchange
6 12 (0.66%) CMS
7 10 (0.55%) Apache
7 10 (0.55%) Captiva
7 10 (0.55%) FileNet
7 10 (0.55%) WebSphere
8 8 (0.44%) SAS
9 5 (0.28%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.22%) nginx
10 4 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.22%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.17%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
12 2 (0.11%) Kentico
12 2 (0.11%) Mendix
Applications
1 89 (4.93%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.44%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.33%) Trello
5 5 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.11%) LightWave 3D
8 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.055%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 89 (4.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
2 3 (0.17%) Visualfiles
3 2 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.055%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.055%) iTrent
4 1 (0.055%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.055%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.055%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.055%) ReMetrica
4 1 (0.055%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.055%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 547 (30.30%) AWS
2 365 (20.22%) Microsoft 365
3 359 (19.89%) Azure DevOps
4 294 (16.29%) Power Platform
5 288 (15.96%) GCP
6 269 (14.90%) SaaS
7 259 (14.35%) PaaS
8 242 (13.41%) IaaS
9 163 (9.03%) Dynamics 365
10 130 (7.20%) Entra ID
11 109 (6.04%) Serverless
12 85 (4.71%) Azure Data Factory
13 69 (3.82%) Azure Functions
14 63 (3.49%) GitHub
15 47 (2.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 41 (2.27%) PowerApps
17 39 (2.16%) OpenShift
18 38 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
19 37 (2.05%) Azure Service Bus
20 32 (1.77%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 134 (7.42%) Firewall
2 125 (6.93%) DNS
3 99 (5.48%) DHCP
4 74 (4.10%) VPN
5 72 (3.99%) WAN
6 70 (3.88%) TCP/IP
7 62 (3.43%) LAN
8 55 (3.05%) SAN
9 34 (1.88%) Network Security
10 31 (1.72%) SD-WAN
11 29 (1.61%) Wireless
12 21 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
13 20 (1.11%) VoIP
14 18 (1.00%) HTTP
14 18 (1.00%) VLAN
15 17 (0.94%) Internet
16 15 (0.83%) Structured Cabling
17 14 (0.78%) Remote Desktop
18 11 (0.61%) Cisco Firepower
18 11 (0.61%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 225 (12.47%) SQL Server
2 152 (8.42%) Data Warehouse
3 147 (8.14%) Power BI
4 110 (6.09%) Data Lake
5 68 (3.77%) NoSQL
6 64 (3.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 55 (3.05%) Azure SQL Database
8 50 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
9 47 (2.60%) MongoDB
10 45 (2.49%) MySQL
11 43 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
12 40 (2.22%) Relational Database
13 39 (2.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 27 (1.50%) Power Query
15 26 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
15 26 (1.44%) Star Schema
16 20 (1.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 18 (1.00%) Big Data
18 13 (0.72%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
18 13 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 114 (6.32%) Git
2 101 (5.60%) Jenkins
3 78 (4.32%) JIRA
4 26 (1.44%) Cucumber
4 26 (1.44%) Selenium
5 24 (1.33%) Cypress.io
6 16 (0.89%) GitLab
6 16 (0.89%) Visual Studio
7 12 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 10 (0.55%) Bitbucket
8 10 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (0.55%) Postman
8 10 (0.55%) SoapUI
9 9 (0.50%) IBM UrbanCode
9 9 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
10 8 (0.44%) NUnit
11 6 (0.33%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.28%) git-flow
General
1 451 (24.99%) Finance
2 416 (23.05%) Social Skills
3 161 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (7.53%) Banking
5 100 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 92 (5.10%) Retail
7 81 (4.49%) Law
8 72 (3.99%) Marketing
9 53 (2.94%) Manufacturing
10 50 (2.77%) Public Sector
11 35 (1.94%) Aerospace
11 35 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
12 31 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
13 27 (1.50%) Electronics
13 27 (1.50%) Legal
13 27 (1.50%) Telecoms
14 19 (1.05%) Health Technology
15 13 (0.72%) Back Office
16 10 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
17 8 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 313 (17.34%) Developer
2 306 (16.95%) Architect
3 256 (14.18%) Senior
4 151 (8.37%) Lead
5 145 (8.03%) Analyst
6 140 (7.76%) Software Engineer
7 129 (7.15%) Solutions Architect
8 112 (6.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 103 (5.71%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 99 (5.48%) Azure Engineer
11 93 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
12 79 (4.38%) .NET Developer
12 79 (4.38%) Data Engineer
12 79 (4.38%) Enterprise Architect
13 78 (4.32%) DevOps Engineer
14 74 (4.10%) Senior Developer
15 71 (3.93%) Support Engineer
16 67 (3.71%) IT Support
17 56 (3.10%) Consultant
18 54 (2.99%) CRM Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 323 (17.89%) .NET
2 115 (6.37%) .NET Core
3 113 (6.26%) AngularJS
4 110 (6.09%) React
5 94 (5.21%) HTML
6 85 (4.71%) CSS
6 85 (4.71%) Node.js
7 59 (3.27%) .NET Framework
8 55 (3.05%) OpenID
9 49 (2.71%) Kafka
10 45 (2.49%) REST
10 45 (2.49%) Web Services
11 43 (2.38%) ASP.NET
12 39 (2.16%) jQuery
13 33 (1.83%) JSON
14 31 (1.72%) RESTful
15 29 (1.61%) Spring
16 25 (1.39%) ARM Templates
17 24 (1.33%) Spring Boot
18 21 (1.16%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 134 (7.42%) Public Cloud
2 95 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 55 (3.05%) Private Cloud
4 53 (2.94%) Mainframe
5 51 (2.83%) Product Ownership
6 50 (2.77%) Blockchain
7 49 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
8 45 (2.49%) Data Centre
9 44 (2.44%) Onboarding
10 40 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
11 37 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
12 32 (1.77%) Cyberattack
13 31 (1.72%) Virtual Team
14 29 (1.61%) Management Information System
15 27 (1.50%) Driving Licence
16 25 (1.39%) Clustering
16 25 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
17 24 (1.33%) Data Structures
18 20 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
18 20 (1.11%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 349 (19.34%) Windows
2 211 (11.69%) Windows Server
3 144 (7.98%) Linux
4 80 (4.43%) Unix
5 67 (3.71%) Windows 10
6 57 (3.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 52 (2.88%) Windows Server 2012
8 49 (2.71%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.50%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.39%) Android
11 7 (0.39%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.39%) Windows 7
12 6 (0.33%) Apple iOS
13 5 (0.28%) CentOS
13 5 (0.28%) Windows 8
14 4 (0.22%) Solaris
14 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.17%) VMS
15 3 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 763 (42.27%) Agile
2 656 (36.34%) DevOps
3 292 (16.18%) CI/CD
4 274 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
5 247 (13.68%) Actionable Insight
6 241 (13.35%) Software Engineering
7 231 (12.80%) Roadmaps
8 222 (12.30%) Mentoring
9 189 (10.47%) Microservices
10 174 (9.64%) ITIL
11 170 (9.42%) Cybersecurity
12 164 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
13 163 (9.03%) Infrastructure as Code
14 159 (8.81%) Scrum
15 158 (8.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 157 (8.70%) Analytics
17 138 (7.65%) Customer Service
18 124 (6.87%) Machine Learning
19 121 (6.70%) Migration
20 119 (6.59%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 425 (23.55%) SQL
2 271 (15.01%) Python
3 249 (13.80%) C#
4 226 (12.52%) JavaScript
5 178 (9.86%) PowerShell
6 159 (8.81%) Java
7 86 (4.76%) T-SQL
8 82 (4.54%) Bash
9 52 (2.88%) TypeScript
10 34 (1.88%) Go
11 32 (1.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 30 (1.66%) C++
13 27 (1.50%) PHP
14 23 (1.27%) Rust
15 22 (1.22%) Ruby
16 17 (0.94%) Kotlin
17 14 (0.78%) Perl
18 12 (0.66%) Bicep
19 9 (0.50%) R
20 8 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 210 (11.63%) Degree
2 142 (7.87%) Security Cleared
3 77 (4.27%) SC Cleared
4 73 (4.04%) Azure Certification
5 69 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 44 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 44 (2.44%) TOGAF Certification
7 39 (2.16%) AWS Certification
8 33 (1.83%) DV Cleared
9 25 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 23 (1.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 23 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
11 19 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (0.89%) CISSP
13 13 (0.72%) CCNA
14 12 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.55%) CCNP
15 10 (0.55%) CISM
16 9 (0.50%) Master's Degree
17 8 (0.44%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (3.71%) SLA
2 43 (2.38%) QA
3 33 (1.83%) GDPR
4 32 (1.77%) Data Quality
5 28 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 14 (0.78%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.44%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.39%) NIST
10 6 (0.33%) COBIT
10 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.28%) NCSC
11 5 (0.28%) PMO
12 4 (0.22%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.22%) WCAG
13 1 (0.055%) Basel III
13 1 (0.055%) GLBA
13 1 (0.055%) NIST 800
System Software
1 329 (18.23%) Active Directory
2 212 (11.75%) Docker
3 137 (7.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 117 (6.48%) Hyper-V
5 50 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (1.33%) Firmware
7 20 (1.11%) vSphere
8 19 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
9 12 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.66%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.66%) XenApp
9 12 (0.66%) XenDesktop
10 9 (0.50%) VMware Workstation
11 7 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (0.28%) VMware Server
13 3 (0.17%) KVM
13 3 (0.17%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.055%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 290 (16.07%) Kubernetes
2 195 (10.80%) Terraform
3 129 (7.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 88 (4.88%) Ansible
5 48 (2.66%) SCCM
6 36 (1.99%) SCOM
7 31 (1.72%) Puppet
8 20 (1.11%) FortiGate
8 20 (1.11%) Grafana
8 20 (1.11%) SCVMM
9 19 (1.05%) Failover Clustering
10 17 (0.94%) Istio
11 16 (0.89%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 13 (0.72%) Prometheus
13 11 (0.61%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.50%) Nessus
15 8 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 6 (0.33%) Argo
17 5 (0.28%) EdgeSight
Vendors
1 718 (39.78%) Microsoft
2 205 (11.36%) VMware
3 86 (4.76%) Citrix
4 84 (4.65%) Google
5 82 (4.54%) Cisco
6 67 (3.71%) Oracle
7 49 (2.71%) Veeam
8 43 (2.38%) Databricks
9 35 (1.94%) Commvault
10 32 (1.77%) SAP
11 23 (1.27%) Aruba
12 22 (1.22%) Kaseya
12 22 (1.22%) Palo Alto
13 21 (1.16%) Sophos
14 20 (1.11%) ServiceNow
15 19 (1.05%) Meraki
16 18 (1.00%) Barracuda Networks
16 18 (1.00%) iManage
16 18 (1.00%) Xamarin
17 17 (0.94%) Red Hat