Microsoft Purview Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft Purview (formerly Azure Purview)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Microsoft Purview skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 282 331
Rank change year-on-year -7 +49 -9
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Purview 66 19 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.30% 0.20% 0.060%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.25% 0.73% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 52 19 9
10th Percentile £36,000 - -
25th Percentile £50,000 £32,500 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% +7.69% -71.11%
75th Percentile £75,000 £51,625 £47,500
90th Percentile £79,065 £55,428 £51,750
England median annual salary £68,658 £69,840 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.69% +7.45% -10.96%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of England

Microsoft Purview 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 5,286 2,589 4,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 23.68% 26.78% 30.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,703 1,808 3,308
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £84,964
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -7.69%

Microsoft Purview
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Microsoft Purview job vacancy trend in the North of England

Microsoft Purview
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Purview in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Purview in the North of England

Microsoft Purview
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 Microsoft Purview within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 August 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 +15 49 £55,000 +57.14% 11
Yorkshire -15 16 £73,223 +50.98% 9
North East -62 1 £69,607 +45.01% 2
Microsoft Purview
England

Microsoft Purview
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 26 (39.39%) SharePoint
2 9 (13.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (4.55%) Confluence
4 1 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 36 (54.55%) Azure
2 35 (53.03%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (45.45%) Power Platform
4 16 (24.24%) SaaS
5 14 (21.21%) PowerApps
6 12 (18.18%) Entra ID
7 11 (16.67%) AWS
8 10 (15.15%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (7.58%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (7.58%) Collibra
9 5 (7.58%) GCP
10 4 (6.06%) Mimecast
10 4 (6.06%) OneDrive
11 3 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (4.55%) Dropbox
11 3 (4.55%) IaaS
12 2 (3.03%) Azure AI
12 2 (3.03%) Copilot Studio
12 2 (3.03%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.58%) Firewall
1 5 (7.58%) LAN
1 5 (7.58%) WAN
2 3 (4.55%) VLAN
2 3 (4.55%) VoIP
3 2 (3.03%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.70%) Power BI
2 9 (13.64%) Metadata
3 8 (12.12%) Tableau
4 3 (4.55%) Delta Lake
4 3 (4.55%) Semantic Layer
5 2 (3.03%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.03%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.52%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 3 (4.55%) JIRA
1 3 (4.55%) MLflow
2 2 (3.03%) GitLab
General
1 23 (34.85%) Finance
2 22 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 17 (25.76%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (21.21%) Legal
5 11 (16.67%) Law
6 9 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.55%) Retail
8 1 (1.52%) Marketing
8 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (19.70%) Analyst
2 12 (18.18%) Architect
2 12 (18.18%) Microsoft 365 Manager
3 9 (13.64%) Data Manager
4 8 (12.12%) Governance Analyst
4 8 (12.12%) Information Analyst
4 8 (12.12%) Information Governance Analyst
5 7 (10.61%) Data Governance Analyst
5 7 (10.61%) Data Governance Manager
5 7 (10.61%) Governance Manager
6 5 (7.58%) Applications Manager
6 5 (7.58%) Consultant
6 5 (7.58%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 5 (7.58%) Data Consultant
6 5 (7.58%) Lead
6 5 (7.58%) Lead Architect
6 5 (7.58%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 5 (7.58%) Security Analyst
6 5 (7.58%) Senior
6 5 (7.58%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.55%) Middleware
2 2 (3.03%) PySpark
2 2 (3.03%) XBRL
2 2 (3.03%) XML
3 1 (1.52%) OAuth
3 1 (1.52%) OpenID
3 1 (1.52%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (28.79%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.06%) Cyberattack
2 4 (6.06%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.55%) Social Media
4 2 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.03%) Cybercrime
4 2 (3.03%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.03%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.52%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.61%) Windows
2 4 (6.06%) Mac OS
3 3 (4.55%) Windows 10
3 3 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (40.91%) Continuous Improvement
2 26 (39.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 23 (34.85%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (28.79%) Data Governance
4 19 (28.79%) Roadmaps
5 18 (27.27%) AI
5 18 (27.27%) ITIL
6 17 (25.76%) Mentoring
7 16 (24.24%) User Experience
8 15 (22.73%) Information Governance
9 14 (21.21%) Customer Service
9 14 (21.21%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (19.70%) Line Management
10 13 (19.70%) Product Roadmap
10 13 (19.70%) Project Management
11 12 (18.18%) Data Management
12 11 (16.67%) Data Protection
12 11 (16.67%) Performance Management
12 11 (16.67%) Supplier Management
12 11 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.61%) SQL
2 5 (7.58%) PowerShell
3 4 (6.06%) Python
4 1 (1.52%) Scala
4 1 (1.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (24.24%) Degree
2 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (4.55%) CCNA
3 3 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (4.55%) DBS Check
3 3 (4.55%) MCSA
4 2 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.03%) CEH
4 2 (3.03%) CompTIA CySA+
4 2 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (3.03%) GCIH
4 2 (3.03%) SANS
4 2 (3.03%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.03%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.03%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (33.33%) GDPR
2 16 (24.24%) Data Quality
3 7 (10.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (3.03%) Accessibility
5 2 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (3.03%) GRC
5 2 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (3.03%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.52%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.55%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (10.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (7.58%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (6.06%) Nessus
4 2 (3.03%) Proxmox
4 2 (3.03%) Terraform
5 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (75.76%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.15%) Databricks
3 4 (6.06%) Informatica
3 4 (6.06%) Palo Alto
4 3 (4.55%) Adobe
4 3 (4.55%) Apple
4 3 (4.55%) Cisco
4 3 (4.55%) Google
4 3 (4.55%) Meraki
4 3 (4.55%) Ubiquiti
4 3 (4.55%) VMware
5 2 (3.03%) Foundry
5 2 (3.03%) OpenAI
5 2 (3.03%) Splunk
5 2 (3.03%) Zoho
6 1 (1.52%) Okta