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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 1,241 3,091 4,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.74% 17.67% 23.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.55% 50.05% 54.48%
Number of salaries quoted 779 2,481 2,143
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,647
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,548 £86,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £59,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.04% -8.46% +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 2,556 6,176 7,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 22.13% 35.30% 42.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,710 4,978 3,943
10th Percentile £29,500 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,785 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £74,258 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,313 £85,000
England median annual salary £61,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.96% -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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -17 780 £60,000 +4.35% 567
Yorkshire -10 351 £57,500 +4.55% 315
North East -7 114 £57,500 +21.05% 140
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 68 (5.48%) Confluence
2 56 (4.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 49 (3.95%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.13%) IIS
5 11 (0.89%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.73%) Apache
7 6 (0.48%) CMS
8 5 (0.40%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.16%) nginx
11 2 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
11 2 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.16%) WordPress
12 1 (0.081%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.081%) CICS
12 1 (0.081%) Moodle
Applications
1 24 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.56%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.24%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.081%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.081%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.40%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.24%) Sage 50
4 2 (0.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.081%) GoldMine
5 1 (0.081%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.081%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.081%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.081%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 531 (42.79%) AWS
2 364 (29.33%) GCP
3 180 (14.50%) Microsoft 365
4 109 (8.78%) Power Platform
5 108 (8.70%) Entra ID
6 105 (8.46%) Azure DevOps
7 68 (5.48%) SaaS
8 54 (4.35%) GitHub
9 38 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
10 37 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
11 33 (2.66%) Power Automate
12 28 (2.26%) PaaS
12 28 (2.26%) Serverless
13 26 (2.10%) PowerApps
14 22 (1.77%) Azure Logic Apps
14 22 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
14 22 (1.77%) IaaS
15 20 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
16 18 (1.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 17 (1.37%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 91 (7.33%) Firewall
2 82 (6.61%) DNS
3 59 (4.75%) WAN
4 52 (4.19%) DHCP
5 45 (3.63%) LAN
6 43 (3.46%) VPN
7 40 (3.22%) TCP/IP
8 32 (2.58%) SAN
9 25 (2.01%) SD-WAN
10 15 (1.21%) NAS
11 14 (1.13%) Network Security
11 14 (1.13%) VLAN
12 13 (1.05%) Internet
13 12 (0.97%) MPLS
13 12 (0.97%) VoIP
13 12 (0.97%) Wireless
14 11 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (0.73%) HTTP
15 9 (0.73%) OSPF
16 8 (0.64%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 283 (22.80%) SQL Server
2 76 (6.12%) Power BI
3 53 (4.27%) MySQL
4 34 (2.74%) NoSQL
5 33 (2.66%) MongoDB
6 31 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
7 26 (2.10%) Data Lake
7 26 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
9 20 (1.61%) BigQuery
10 15 (1.21%) Relational Database
10 15 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 14 (1.13%) Tableau
12 13 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.89%) Cloud Spanner
13 11 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (0.56%) DB2
15 7 (0.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 156 (12.57%) JIRA
2 127 (10.23%) GitLab
2 127 (10.23%) SonarQube
3 125 (10.07%) Selenium
4 118 (9.51%) Sonatype Nexus
5 114 (9.19%) Bitbucket
5 114 (9.19%) Maven
6 112 (9.02%) Cucumber
7 68 (5.48%) Git
8 44 (3.55%) Jenkins
9 21 (1.69%) TeamCity
10 14 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
11 9 (0.73%) webpack
12 8 (0.64%) Babel
13 7 (0.56%) JMeter
13 7 (0.56%) Postman
14 6 (0.48%) CircleCI
14 6 (0.48%) Visual Studio
15 5 (0.40%) NUnit
15 5 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
General
1 313 (25.22%) Finance
2 302 (24.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 290 (23.37%) Social Skills
4 187 (15.07%) Banking
5 105 (8.46%) Retail
6 72 (5.80%) Corporate Banking
6 72 (5.80%) Investment Banking
7 68 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
8 66 (5.32%) Law
9 41 (3.30%) Manufacturing
10 35 (2.82%) Public Sector
11 22 (1.77%) Automotive
12 19 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (1.45%) Legal
14 15 (1.21%) Marketing
15 9 (0.73%) Aerospace
15 9 (0.73%) Back Office
15 9 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 364 (29.33%) Software Engineer
2 357 (28.77%) Senior
3 206 (16.60%) Senior Software Engineer
4 185 (14.91%) Developer
5 100 (8.06%) Lead
6 76 (6.12%) Architect
7 56 (4.51%) Analyst
8 53 (4.27%) Support Engineer
9 49 (3.95%) Data Engineer
10 47 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
10 47 (3.79%) Senior Developer
11 45 (3.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 44 (3.55%) SQL Developer
13 41 (3.30%) .NET Developer
14 37 (2.98%) Azure Engineer
15 34 (2.74%) DevOps Engineer
16 33 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
17 27 (2.18%) Identity Management Specialist
17 27 (2.18%) IT Engineer
17 27 (2.18%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 349 (28.12%) .NET
2 228 (18.37%) Node.js
3 221 (17.81%) React
4 156 (12.57%) CSS
5 151 (12.17%) HTML
6 139 (11.20%) Spring Boot
7 137 (11.04%) Kafka
7 137 (11.04%) Spring
8 124 (9.99%) Redux
9 119 (9.59%) REST
10 113 (9.11%) JPA
11 112 (9.02%) RESTful
12 82 (6.61%) HTML5
13 77 (6.20%) Sass
14 75 (6.04%) Jest
15 74 (5.96%) CSS3
16 56 (4.51%) .NET Core
17 53 (4.27%) AngularJS
18 52 (4.19%) ASP.NET
19 49 (3.95%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 191 (15.39%) Self-Motivation
2 174 (14.02%) Linux Command Line
3 172 (13.86%) Cyberattack
4 151 (12.17%) Product Ownership
5 122 (9.83%) Enterprise Software
6 39 (3.14%) Public Cloud
7 34 (2.74%) Cloud Native
7 34 (2.74%) NHS
8 33 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
9 31 (2.50%) Data Centre
10 27 (2.18%) Management Information System
11 22 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
12 18 (1.45%) Onboarding
12 18 (1.45%) Replication
13 17 (1.37%) Algorithms
13 17 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
14 15 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
14 15 (1.21%) Mobile App
14 15 (1.21%) Private Cloud
15 13 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 254 (20.47%) Linux
2 178 (14.34%) Windows
3 82 (6.61%) Windows Server
4 26 (2.10%) Windows 10
5 20 (1.61%) Unix
6 18 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
7 16 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (1.05%) Mac OS
9 11 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (0.56%) Android
11 7 (0.56%) Apple iOS
12 5 (0.40%) CentOS
13 4 (0.32%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.24%) VMS
15 2 (0.16%) AIX
15 2 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
15 2 (0.16%) Solaris
16 1 (0.081%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 561 (45.21%) Agile
2 428 (34.49%) Software Engineering
3 385 (31.02%) Mentoring
4 383 (30.86%) DevOps
5 380 (30.62%) Microservices
6 314 (25.30%) CI/CD
7 281 (22.64%) User Experience
8 225 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
9 217 (17.49%) Cloud Security
10 216 (17.41%) Data Engineering
11 207 (16.68%) Scrum
12 202 (16.28%) Machine Learning
13 190 (15.31%) Containerisation
14 184 (14.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 167 (13.46%) Test Automation
16 151 (12.17%) SDLC
17 148 (11.93%) Full-Stack Development
18 130 (10.48%) Front End Development
19 127 (10.23%) Performance Optimisation
20 125 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 415 (33.44%) SQL
2 414 (33.36%) JavaScript
3 378 (30.46%) Java
4 339 (27.32%) Python
5 187 (15.07%) C++
6 182 (14.67%) Go
7 173 (13.94%) Rust
8 154 (12.41%) C#
9 137 (11.04%) TypeScript
10 74 (5.96%) PowerShell
11 61 (4.92%) T-SQL
12 35 (2.82%) Bicep
13 33 (2.66%) Bash
14 25 (2.01%) PHP
15 12 (0.97%) Ruby
16 11 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 10 (0.81%) R
18 9 (0.73%) Scala
19 7 (0.56%) C
20 6 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 224 (18.05%) Security Cleared
2 192 (15.47%) AWS Certification
3 180 (14.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 174 (14.02%) DV Cleared
5 172 (13.86%) AWS Certified Developer
6 134 (10.80%) Degree
7 83 (6.69%) DBS Check
8 61 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 59 (4.75%) Azure Certification
10 45 (3.63%) SC Cleared
11 28 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
12 19 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
13 14 (1.13%) Master's Degree
13 14 (1.13%) MCSE
14 12 (0.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 11 (0.89%) CCNA
16 10 (0.81%) MCSA
17 9 (0.73%) CISSP
18 8 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (12.33%) QA
2 80 (6.45%) Accessibility
3 30 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials
3 30 (2.42%) Data Quality
4 26 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (1.77%) GDPR
6 16 (1.29%) NIST
7 11 (0.89%) HIPAA
8 10 (0.81%) SOC 2
9 9 (0.73%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.24%) ISO 14001
11 3 (0.24%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.24%) NCSC
11 3 (0.24%) SLA
12 2 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.16%) COBIT
12 2 (0.16%) GRC
12 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 214 (17.24%) Docker
2 176 (14.18%) Active Directory
3 64 (5.16%) Hyper-V
4 63 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 37 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.05%) vSphere
7 9 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.56%) DFS Replication
10 6 (0.48%) Terminal Services
11 5 (0.40%) KVM
11 5 (0.40%) Postfix
11 5 (0.40%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.24%) Dovecot
12 3 (0.24%) NFS
12 3 (0.24%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 2 (0.16%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.16%) SRDF
13 2 (0.16%) Xen
14 1 (0.081%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 242 (19.50%) Kubernetes
2 127 (10.23%) Terraform
3 54 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 50 (4.03%) Ansible
5 20 (1.61%) Progress Chef
6 16 (1.29%) Puppet
7 14 (1.13%) Grafana
7 14 (1.13%) SCCM
8 13 (1.05%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.48%) AWS Copilot
10 6 (0.48%) Prometheus
10 6 (0.48%) Proxmox
10 6 (0.48%) WSUS
11 5 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
12 4 (0.32%) Istio
12 4 (0.32%) PaperCut
13 3 (0.24%) Argo
Vendors
1 414 (33.36%) Microsoft
2 120 (9.67%) VMware
3 112 (9.02%) Solace
4 68 (5.48%) Google
5 65 (5.24%) Cisco
6 45 (3.63%) Databricks
7 40 (3.22%) Oracle
8 27 (2.18%) Meraki
9 19 (1.53%) Veeam
10 17 (1.37%) IBM
11 14 (1.13%) ServiceNow
12 12 (0.97%) Fortinet
13 10 (0.81%) Red Hat
13 10 (0.81%) SonicWALL
14 9 (0.73%) Sophos
14 9 (0.73%) WatchGuard
15 8 (0.64%) Citrix
15 8 (0.64%) Dynatrace
15 8 (0.64%) Informatica
16 7 (0.56%) Apple