Azure Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft Azure
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -15 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 946 3,058 4,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.65% 17.72% 24.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.64% 49.90% 55.10%
Number of salaries quoted 799 2,456 2,226
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,799 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +1.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,548 £86,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £59,526 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -8.42% +4.00%

All Cloud 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 2,272 6,128 7,666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 20.77% 35.51% 43.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,729 4,938 4,070
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +3.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +4.00%

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 26 April 2025.

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 26 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 -28 511 £61,000 +6.09% 558
Yorkshire -10 347 £57,500 +4.55% 260
North East -9 92 £57,500 +21.05% 100
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 60 (6.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 47 (4.97%) SharePoint
3 29 (3.07%) Confluence
4 13 (1.37%) IIS
5 11 (1.16%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.95%) Apache
7 6 (0.63%) CMS
8 5 (0.53%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.42%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.32%) nginx
11 2 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
11 2 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.21%) WordPress
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.11%) CICS
12 1 (0.11%) Moodle
Applications
1 22 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.63%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.42%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.53%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.32%) Sage 50
4 2 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.11%) GoldMine
5 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.11%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 250 (26.43%) AWS
2 179 (18.92%) Microsoft 365
3 160 (16.91%) GCP
4 110 (11.63%) Power Platform
5 101 (10.68%) Azure DevOps
6 86 (9.09%) Entra ID
7 64 (6.77%) SaaS
8 61 (6.45%) GitHub
9 43 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
10 36 (3.81%) Azure Data Factory
11 30 (3.17%) Serverless
12 29 (3.07%) Power Automate
13 26 (2.75%) PowerApps
14 25 (2.64%) Azure Logic Apps
15 24 (2.54%) PaaS
16 23 (2.43%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (2.01%) IaaS
18 18 (1.90%) Azure Functions
19 17 (1.80%) Azure AKS
19 17 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 85 (8.99%) Firewall
2 76 (8.03%) DNS
3 54 (5.71%) DHCP
4 52 (5.50%) WAN
5 43 (4.55%) LAN
6 40 (4.23%) TCP/IP
7 35 (3.70%) VPN
8 31 (3.28%) SAN
9 23 (2.43%) SD-WAN
10 14 (1.48%) NAS
11 13 (1.37%) Internet
12 12 (1.27%) Network Security
12 12 (1.27%) Wireless
13 11 (1.16%) MPLS
13 11 (1.16%) OSPF
13 11 (1.16%) VoIP
13 11 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (1.06%) BGP
14 10 (1.06%) VLAN
15 9 (0.95%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (18.50%) SQL Server
2 71 (7.51%) Power BI
3 52 (5.50%) MySQL
4 32 (3.38%) MongoDB
4 32 (3.38%) NoSQL
5 31 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 25 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
7 24 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (2.33%) Data Lake
9 20 (2.11%) BigQuery
10 16 (1.69%) Relational Database
11 15 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 13 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (1.37%) Tableau
13 11 (1.16%) Cloud Spanner
14 10 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 7 (0.74%) DB2
16 7 (0.74%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 62 (6.55%) Git
2 46 (4.86%) Jenkins
3 44 (4.65%) JIRA
4 23 (2.43%) TeamCity
5 15 (1.59%) GitLab
5 15 (1.59%) SonarQube
6 14 (1.48%) Octopus Deploy
7 12 (1.27%) Selenium
8 9 (0.95%) CircleCI
9 8 (0.85%) Babel
9 8 (0.85%) webpack
10 7 (0.74%) JMeter
10 7 (0.74%) Postman
11 6 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (0.63%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.53%) IBM UrbanCode
12 5 (0.53%) NUnit
12 5 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (0.53%) Spinnaker
13 4 (0.42%) Fiddler
General
1 287 (30.34%) Social Skills
2 201 (21.25%) Finance
3 75 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (7.93%) Banking
4 69 (7.29%) Law
5 42 (4.44%) Manufacturing
6 41 (4.33%) Public Sector
7 31 (3.28%) Retail
8 24 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (2.22%) Automotive
10 19 (2.01%) Legal
11 18 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (1.48%) Marketing
13 9 (0.95%) Aerospace
13 9 (0.95%) Back Office
14 8 (0.85%) Advertising
14 8 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.85%) Local Government
14 8 (0.85%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 193 (20.40%) Senior
2 192 (20.30%) Developer
3 108 (11.42%) Lead
4 80 (8.46%) Architect
5 77 (8.14%) Software Engineer
6 61 (6.45%) Analyst
7 51 (5.39%) Senior Developer
8 50 (5.29%) Data Engineer
9 48 (5.07%) Support Engineer
10 47 (4.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 45 (4.76%) .NET Developer
12 44 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
12 44 (4.65%) SQL Developer
13 39 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
14 37 (3.91%) Azure Engineer
15 36 (3.81%) DevOps Engineer
16 33 (3.49%) Senior Software Engineer
17 32 (3.38%) IT Engineer
18 27 (2.85%) C# Developer
19 26 (2.75%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (19.77%) .NET
2 112 (11.84%) React
3 60 (6.34%) .NET Core
4 56 (5.92%) ASP.NET
4 56 (5.92%) Node.js
5 55 (5.81%) AngularJS
6 52 (5.50%) .NET Framework
7 49 (5.18%) REST
8 43 (4.55%) CSS
9 39 (4.12%) HTML
10 38 (4.02%) RESTful
11 28 (2.96%) Vue
12 27 (2.85%) Spring Boot
13 25 (2.64%) Kafka
13 25 (2.64%) Spring
14 22 (2.33%) ASP.NET Web API
15 21 (2.22%) Entity Framework
16 19 (2.01%) Bootstrap
17 17 (1.80%) Blazor
17 17 (1.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 43 (4.55%) Public Cloud
2 37 (3.91%) Product Ownership
3 33 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (3.28%) Cloud Native
5 29 (3.07%) Data Centre
6 25 (2.64%) Management Information System
7 23 (2.43%) Replication
8 21 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
8 21 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (1.90%) Algorithms
10 18 (1.90%) Onboarding
11 16 (1.69%) Mobile App
12 14 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
12 14 (1.48%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.37%) Operational Technology
13 13 (1.37%) Private Cloud
14 11 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (1.16%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 183 (19.34%) Windows
2 83 (8.77%) Linux
3 79 (8.35%) Windows Server
4 28 (2.96%) Windows 10
5 23 (2.43%) Windows Server 2016
6 22 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 19 (2.01%) Unix
8 12 (1.27%) Mac OS
9 11 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (0.74%) Android
11 7 (0.74%) Apple iOS
12 5 (0.53%) CentOS
12 5 (0.53%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.32%) VMS
15 2 (0.21%) AIX
15 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
15 2 (0.21%) Solaris
16 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (29.07%) Agile
2 271 (28.65%) DevOps
3 227 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
4 200 (21.14%) CI/CD
5 140 (14.80%) Software Engineering
6 139 (14.69%) Mentoring
7 119 (12.58%) Roadmaps
8 100 (10.57%) Microservices
9 93 (9.83%) Infrastructure as Code
10 88 (9.30%) ITIL
11 87 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 85 (8.99%) Business Intelligence
13 80 (8.46%) Containerisation
14 75 (7.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 68 (7.19%) Coaching
15 68 (7.19%) Customer Service
16 66 (6.98%) Analytics
17 65 (6.87%) Cybersecurity
18 57 (6.03%) Stakeholder Management
19 56 (5.92%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 296 (31.29%) SQL
2 165 (17.44%) Python
3 160 (16.91%) C#
4 132 (13.95%) JavaScript
5 93 (9.83%) Java
6 72 (7.61%) PowerShell
7 67 (7.08%) TypeScript
8 63 (6.66%) T-SQL
9 34 (3.59%) Bash
10 32 (3.38%) Bicep
11 30 (3.17%) PHP
12 15 (1.59%) C++
13 14 (1.48%) Ruby
14 12 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 10 (1.06%) Go
15 10 (1.06%) R
16 9 (0.95%) Scala
17 7 (0.74%) C
18 6 (0.63%) Perl
18 6 (0.63%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 108 (11.42%) Degree
2 61 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 56 (5.92%) Security Cleared
4 51 (5.39%) Azure Certification
4 51 (5.39%) DBS Check
5 46 (4.86%) SC Cleared
6 29 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (2.11%) AWS Certification
8 19 (2.01%) TOGAF Certification
9 18 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (1.48%) Master's Degree
11 13 (1.37%) MCSE
12 12 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 10 (1.06%) CCNA
14 9 (0.95%) CISSP
14 9 (0.95%) MCSA
15 8 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 8 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
16 7 (0.74%) CISM
17 5 (0.53%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (4.23%) QA
2 29 (3.07%) Cyber Essentials
2 29 (3.07%) Data Quality
3 27 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (2.33%) GDPR
5 16 (1.69%) NIST
6 10 (1.06%) HIPAA
6 10 (1.06%) SOC 2
7 9 (0.95%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.85%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.32%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.32%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.32%) NCSC
10 3 (0.32%) PMO
10 3 (0.32%) SLA
11 2 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.21%) COBIT
11 2 (0.21%) GRC
11 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 152 (16.07%) Active Directory
2 104 (10.99%) Docker
3 63 (6.66%) Hyper-V
4 62 (6.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 33 (3.49%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (1.48%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (1.27%) DFS Replication
7 12 (1.27%) vSphere
8 7 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.63%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.53%) KVM
10 5 (0.53%) Postfix
10 5 (0.53%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.32%) Dovecot
11 3 (0.32%) NFS
11 3 (0.32%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.21%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.21%) SRDF
12 2 (0.21%) Xen
13 1 (0.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 130 (13.74%) Kubernetes
1 130 (13.74%) Terraform
2 50 (5.29%) Ansible
3 49 (5.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (2.22%) Progress Chef
5 17 (1.80%) Puppet
6 15 (1.59%) Grafana
6 15 (1.59%) SCCM
7 14 (1.48%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.85%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.85%) WSUS
9 6 (0.63%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.42%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (0.42%) Istio
11 4 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.32%) Nessus
12 3 (0.32%) PaperCut
12 3 (0.32%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 394 (41.65%) Microsoft
2 122 (12.90%) VMware
3 68 (7.19%) Google
4 57 (6.03%) Cisco
5 42 (4.44%) Databricks
6 40 (4.23%) Oracle
7 19 (2.01%) Meraki
8 18 (1.90%) Veeam
9 17 (1.80%) IBM
10 14 (1.48%) ServiceNow
11 12 (1.27%) Apple
11 12 (1.27%) Fortinet
12 10 (1.06%) Red Hat
12 10 (1.06%) SonicWALL
13 9 (0.95%) Sophos
13 9 (0.95%) WatchGuard
14 8 (0.85%) Adobe
14 8 (0.85%) Dynatrace
14 8 (0.85%) Informatica
14 8 (0.85%) SAP