Azure AI Job Trends in the North West

Azure AI Platform
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Azure AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 - 194
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Azure AI 4 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.083% - 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.30% - 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £67,500 - £80,500
25th Percentile £71,250 - £95,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 - £110,000
75th Percentile £83,750 - -
90th Percentile £87,500 - -
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -7.64%

All Cloud Skills
North West

Azure AI 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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,320 1,997 1,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 27.23% 28.87% 43.08%
Number of salaries quoted 962 1,109 1,417
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.10%

Azure AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure AI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Azure AI job vacancy trend in the North West

Azure AI
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Azure AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Azure AI

Azure AI
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure AI in the North West over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure AI in the North West

Azure AI
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure AI within the North West region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
Manchester - 2 £90,000 - 10
Cheshire - 1 £65,000 -
Merseyside - 1 - - 2
Azure AI
England

Azure AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Power Automate
2 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (50.00%) IaaS
3 2 (50.00%) PaaS
3 2 (50.00%) SaaS
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Power BI
2 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (50.00%) MySQL
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) API Management
2 2 (50.00%) B2B
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bicep
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (50.00%) DBS Check
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
1 2 (50.00%) Meraki
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft