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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,058 4,224 3,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 17.72% 24.05% 20.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.92% 55.10% 50.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,456 2,226 2,433
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,548 £86,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £59,526 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.42% +4.00% +8.70%

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 6,126 7,666 7,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 35.49% 43.64% 41.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4,936 4,070 5,336
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £53,350
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.09% +6.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 0 1,630 £57,500 +4.55% 368
Yorkshire 0 1,059 £55,000 - 197
North East +4 371 £47,500 -13.64% 72
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
1 197 (6.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 178 (5.82%) SharePoint
3 85 (2.78%) ArcGIS
3 85 (2.78%) GeoServer
4 44 (1.44%) IIS
5 39 (1.28%) Confluence
6 20 (0.65%) Apache Spark
7 17 (0.56%) CMS
8 16 (0.52%) Apache
9 12 (0.39%) Captiva
9 12 (0.39%) FileNet
9 12 (0.39%) Umbraco
9 12 (0.39%) WebLogic
9 12 (0.39%) WebSphere
10 9 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2013
11 7 (0.23%) Apache Solr
12 6 (0.20%) NServiceBus
13 5 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
13 5 (0.16%) Skype for Business
14 4 (0.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 89 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.33%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.26%) Photoshop
5 6 (0.20%) LightWave 3D
6 5 (0.16%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.065%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.065%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.065%) Sketch
7 2 (0.065%) Trello
8 1 (0.033%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.033%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 58 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
4 8 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.16%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.16%) SAP PP
6 3 (0.098%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.065%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.065%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.065%) SystmOne
8 1 (0.033%) Aareon QL
8 1 (0.033%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.033%) OPENHousing
8 1 (0.033%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.033%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 885 (28.94%) AWS
2 702 (22.96%) Microsoft 365
3 424 (13.87%) Azure DevOps
4 339 (11.09%) GCP
5 312 (10.20%) Power Platform
6 277 (9.06%) Entra ID
7 171 (5.59%) SaaS
8 109 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
8 109 (3.56%) Serverless
9 94 (3.07%) Cloud Computing
10 91 (2.98%) Azure Data Factory
10 91 (2.98%) PaaS
11 87 (2.84%) Azure Service Bus
12 81 (2.65%) PowerApps
13 80 (2.62%) GitHub
13 80 (2.62%) IBM Cloud
14 77 (2.52%) IaaS
15 74 (2.42%) Power Automate
16 72 (2.35%) Azure Logic Apps
17 65 (2.13%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 279 (9.12%) Firewall
2 204 (6.67%) WAN
3 203 (6.64%) DNS
4 160 (5.23%) LAN
5 144 (4.71%) DHCP
6 107 (3.50%) VPN
7 77 (2.52%) TCP/IP
8 76 (2.49%) SAN
9 74 (2.42%) Internet
10 65 (2.13%) Network Security
11 63 (2.06%) SD-WAN
12 52 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
13 48 (1.57%) VoIP
14 37 (1.21%) SSL
14 37 (1.21%) Wireless
15 33 (1.08%) Intrusion Detection
15 33 (1.08%) WLAN
16 32 (1.05%) BGP
17 29 (0.95%) VLAN
18 28 (0.92%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 591 (19.33%) SQL Server
2 233 (7.62%) Data Warehouse
2 233 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
3 210 (6.87%) Power BI
4 158 (5.17%) MongoDB
5 149 (4.87%) NoSQL
6 135 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 109 (3.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 108 (3.53%) Relational Database
9 101 (3.30%) Data Lake
9 101 (3.30%) DB2
10 90 (2.94%) GIS
11 85 (2.78%) QGIS
12 84 (2.75%) MySQL
13 73 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
14 65 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
15 51 (1.67%) Data Vault
16 48 (1.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 46 (1.50%) BigQuery
18 35 (1.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 180 (5.89%) Git
2 134 (4.38%) JIRA
3 100 (3.27%) GitLab
4 60 (1.96%) Jenkins
5 36 (1.18%) Visual Studio
6 35 (1.14%) Selenium
7 24 (0.78%) Cypress.io
8 22 (0.72%) Postman
8 22 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
9 21 (0.69%) Artifactory
10 19 (0.62%) CircleCI
11 18 (0.59%) Jasmine
12 16 (0.52%) Karma Test Runner
13 15 (0.49%) Cucumber
14 14 (0.46%) IBM UrbanCode
15 12 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
16 10 (0.33%) SonarQube
17 9 (0.29%) JUnit
18 7 (0.23%) NUnit
18 7 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 673 (22.01%) Social Skills
2 397 (12.98%) Finance
3 256 (8.37%) Public Sector
4 207 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
5 150 (4.91%) Retail
6 145 (4.74%) Law
7 88 (2.88%) Legal
8 77 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 74 (2.42%) Banking
10 71 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
11 67 (2.19%) Manufacturing
12 53 (1.73%) Marketing
13 50 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
14 47 (1.54%) Games
15 43 (1.41%) Aerospace
16 38 (1.24%) Advertising
17 21 (0.69%) Telecoms
18 18 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
19 16 (0.52%) Automotive
19 16 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 764 (24.98%) Developer
2 483 (15.79%) Senior
3 364 (11.90%) Lead
4 361 (11.81%) .NET Developer
5 309 (10.10%) Architect
6 238 (7.78%) Software Engineer
7 196 (6.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 187 (6.12%) Analyst
9 163 (5.33%) C# Developer
10 160 (5.23%) Azure Engineer
11 147 (4.81%) Data Engineer
12 141 (4.61%) IT Support
13 140 (4.58%) Cloud Engineer
14 124 (4.05%) C# .NET Developer
15 115 (3.76%) Senior Developer
16 113 (3.70%) IT Engineer
16 113 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
17 110 (3.60%) Support Engineer
18 106 (3.47%) Senior Software Engineer
19 97 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 842 (27.53%) .NET
2 410 (13.41%) React
3 406 (13.28%) AngularJS
4 375 (12.26%) .NET Core
5 355 (11.61%) CSS
6 348 (11.38%) ASP.NET
7 325 (10.63%) HTML
8 251 (8.21%) ASP.NET Web API
9 231 (7.55%) .NET Framework
10 212 (6.93%) Entity Framework
11 186 (6.08%) Node.js
11 186 (6.08%) RESTful
12 177 (5.79%) ASP.NET MVC
13 159 (5.20%) REST
13 159 (5.20%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 159 (5.20%) Vue
14 133 (4.35%) Web Services
15 123 (4.02%) jQuery
16 109 (3.56%) HTML5
17 94 (3.07%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 231 (7.55%) Public Cloud
2 148 (4.84%) Data Structures
3 135 (4.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 103 (3.37%) Management Information System
5 94 (3.07%) Algorithms
6 91 (2.98%) Blockchain
7 84 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
8 81 (2.65%) Cloud Native
9 76 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
10 60 (1.96%) Driving Licence
11 49 (1.60%) Product Ownership
12 44 (1.44%) Private Cloud
13 42 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
13 42 (1.37%) Reinsurance
14 39 (1.28%) Data Centre
15 38 (1.24%) e-Learning
16 36 (1.18%) PKI
17 35 (1.14%) IoT
18 34 (1.11%) Mobile App
18 34 (1.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 654 (21.39%) Windows
2 316 (10.33%) Linux
3 299 (9.78%) Windows Server
4 133 (4.35%) Android
5 113 (3.70%) Apple iOS
6 90 (2.94%) Windows 10
7 66 (2.16%) Windows Server 2012
8 63 (2.06%) Windows Server 2019
9 60 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
10 51 (1.67%) Unix
11 43 (1.41%) Mac OS
12 37 (1.21%) VMS
13 32 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 29 (0.95%) Ubuntu
15 13 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
16 12 (0.39%) CentOS
16 12 (0.39%) Debian
17 9 (0.29%) Windows Phone
18 6 (0.20%) Windows Vista
19 4 (0.13%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,032 (33.75%) Agile
2 828 (27.08%) DevOps
3 472 (15.43%) Full Stack Development
4 461 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
5 397 (12.98%) Mentoring
6 373 (12.20%) Software Engineering
7 360 (11.77%) Microservices
8 352 (11.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 340 (11.12%) CI/CD
10 311 (10.17%) MVC
11 303 (9.91%) Migration
12 290 (9.48%) ITIL
13 279 (9.12%) Roadmaps
14 254 (8.31%) Business Intelligence
15 240 (7.85%) ETL
16 234 (7.65%) Scrum
17 229 (7.49%) Customer Service
18 225 (7.36%) Coaching
19 224 (7.33%) Web Development
20 220 (7.19%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 833 (27.24%) C#
2 816 (26.68%) SQL
3 696 (22.76%) JavaScript
4 392 (12.82%) Python
5 252 (8.24%) PowerShell
6 205 (6.70%) TypeScript
7 176 (5.76%) Java
8 146 (4.77%) T-SQL
9 54 (1.77%) Bash
10 37 (1.21%) VB.NET
11 31 (1.01%) PHP
12 28 (0.92%) Go
13 21 (0.69%) Ruby
14 20 (0.65%) Groovy
14 20 (0.65%) VB
15 17 (0.56%) C++
16 16 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 16 (0.52%) VB6
17 15 (0.49%) Bicep
18 13 (0.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 260 (8.50%) Degree
2 212 (6.93%) Security Cleared
3 186 (6.08%) Azure Certification
4 170 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 162 (5.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 95 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
7 70 (2.29%) AWS Certification
8 59 (1.93%) CISSP
9 57 (1.86%) DBS Check
10 52 (1.70%) CCNA
10 52 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
11 36 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 36 (1.18%) CCNP
12 35 (1.14%) DV Cleared
13 33 (1.08%) CCSP
14 30 (0.98%) CISM
15 28 (0.92%) Master's Degree
16 26 (0.85%) CCSK
17 18 (0.59%) MCSE
18 17 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 97 (3.17%) GDPR
3 93 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 83 (2.71%) QA
5 81 (2.65%) SLA
6 58 (1.90%) NIST
7 45 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
8 28 (0.92%) Accessibility
9 24 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.26%) PSD2
11 7 (0.23%) PMO
11 7 (0.23%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.13%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.065%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.065%) NCSC
14 1 (0.033%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.033%) COBIT
14 1 (0.033%) GRC
14 1 (0.033%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 566 (18.51%) Active Directory
2 206 (6.74%) Hyper-V
3 203 (6.64%) Docker
4 185 (6.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
6 43 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
7 26 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (0.52%) vSphere
9 15 (0.49%) Terminal Services
10 11 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
11 10 (0.33%) VMware Server
12 7 (0.23%) XenApp
12 7 (0.23%) XenDesktop
13 6 (0.20%) Firmware
13 6 (0.20%) VMware NSX
14 4 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
15 2 (0.065%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 1 (0.033%) DFS Replication
16 1 (0.033%) RACF
16 1 (0.033%) Snort
Systems Management
1 265 (8.67%) Kubernetes
1 265 (8.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 224 (7.33%) Terraform
3 95 (3.11%) Ansible
4 52 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
5 30 (0.98%) Progress Chef
6 27 (0.88%) Puppet
6 27 (0.88%) SCCM
7 25 (0.82%) Grafana
8 24 (0.78%) Prometheus
9 21 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 19 (0.62%) SCOM
11 18 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
12 16 (0.52%) FortiGate
13 15 (0.49%) ZABBIX
14 13 (0.43%) Autotask
14 13 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
14 13 (0.43%) vCenter Server
15 12 (0.39%) Opsgenie
15 12 (0.39%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,268 (41.47%) Microsoft
2 316 (10.33%) VMware
3 202 (6.61%) Google
4 150 (4.91%) Cisco
5 130 (4.25%) IBM
6 125 (4.09%) Oracle
7 97 (3.17%) Red Hat
8 96 (3.14%) Citrix
9 85 (2.78%) Databricks
9 85 (2.78%) ESRI
10 68 (2.22%) Veeam
11 50 (1.64%) Fortinet
12 47 (1.54%) Informatica
13 46 (1.50%) SolarWinds
14 42 (1.37%) ServiceNow
15 40 (1.31%) SAP
16 29 (0.95%) Apple
17 28 (0.92%) Commvault
18 27 (0.88%) Splunk
19 26 (0.85%) Datto