Azure Engineer Jobs in the North West

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > North West

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in the North West is £59,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 180 256
Rank change year-on-year -70 +76 -2
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 29 115 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.37% 1.17% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 1.24% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 20 59 42
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £47,625
25th Percentile £48,438 £45,625 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £67,224
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -14.46% +12.04%
75th Percentile £71,875 £65,000 £80,938
90th Percentile £79,125 £67,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 7,191 9,301 6,978
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.33% 94.61% 89.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,106 7,150 4,068
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,620 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £69,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Azure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in the North West

Azure Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in the North West.

Salary trend for Azure Engineer in the North West

Azure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Engineer in the North West

Azure Engineer
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 Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 9 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
Manchester +3 19 £67,500 +12.50% 19
Merseyside +36 5 £55,000 +29.41% 1
Cheshire +8 2 £53,750 +7.50% 1
Lancashire -55 2 £64,000 - 3
Cumbria -73 1 £75,000 +15.38%
Azure Engineer
England

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Azure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) Azure
2 19 (65.52%) Microsoft
3 18 (62.07%) Terraform
4 17 (58.62%) DevOps
5 15 (51.72%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (48.28%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (44.83%) Python
8 10 (34.48%) Kubernetes
9 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
10 8 (27.59%) Azure Certification
10 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 8 (27.59%) Ansible
11 7 (24.14%) SQL Server
11 7 (24.14%) Git
11 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure Automation
12 6 (20.69%) Bicep
12 6 (20.69%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (20.69%) SQL
12 6 (20.69%) Business Intelligence
12 6 (20.69%) Configuration Management
12 6 (20.69%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (20.69%) Analytics
12 6 (20.69%) SaaS
13 5 (17.24%) Jenkins
13 5 (17.24%) Data Analytics
13 5 (17.24%) GitHub
13 5 (17.24%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (17.24%) Degree
13 5 (17.24%) ARM Templates
14 4 (13.79%) Azure AKS

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 29 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (51.72%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (20.69%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (20.69%) SaaS
4 5 (17.24%) GitHub
5 4 (13.79%) Azure AKS
5 4 (13.79%) Azure Functions
5 4 (13.79%) PaaS
5 4 (13.79%) Serverless
6 3 (10.34%) IaaS
7 2 (6.90%) AWS
7 2 (6.90%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
7 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (3.45%) Power Automate
8 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) Firewall
2 2 (6.90%) Network Security
3 1 (3.45%) DNS
3 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) SQL Server
2 5 (17.24%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (13.79%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.90%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.90%) MySQL
5 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Git
2 5 (17.24%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.90%) JIRA
3 2 (6.90%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (6.90%) TeamCity
4 1 (3.45%) CircleCI
4 1 (3.45%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (3.45%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (3.45%) Travis CI
General
1 4 (13.79%) Finance
1 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.90%) Automotive
4 1 (3.45%) Health Technology
4 1 (3.45%) Law
4 1 (3.45%) Legal
4 1 (3.45%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) ARM Templates
2 2 (6.90%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (3.45%) .NET
3 1 (3.45%) ADO
3 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.45%) Bootstrap
3 1 (3.45%) Kafka
3 1 (3.45%) Node.js
3 1 (3.45%) PySpark
3 1 (3.45%) React
3 1 (3.45%) Redux
3 1 (3.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (6.90%) Life Science
3 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.45%) IoT
3 1 (3.45%) PropTech
3 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) DevOps
2 14 (48.28%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
4 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (20.69%) Analytics
6 6 (20.69%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (20.69%) Configuration Management
7 5 (17.24%) Data Analytics
8 4 (13.79%) Cloud Security
8 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
8 4 (13.79%) Data Strategy
8 4 (13.79%) Scrum
9 3 (10.34%) Agile
9 3 (10.34%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (10.34%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (10.34%) Digital Engineering
9 3 (10.34%) Mentoring
9 3 (10.34%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) Python
2 6 (20.69%) Bicep
2 6 (20.69%) SQL
3 4 (13.79%) Bash
3 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.45%) C#
4 1 (3.45%) Ruby
4 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) Azure Certification
2 5 (17.24%) Degree
3 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.45%) CCSP
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.45%) CISSP
4 1 (3.45%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
1 2 (6.90%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.45%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (62.07%) Terraform
2 10 (34.48%) Kubernetes
3 8 (27.59%) Ansible
4 2 (6.90%) Progress Chef
4 2 (6.90%) Puppet
5 1 (3.45%) Automic
5 1 (3.45%) Consul
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.45%) Rancher
Vendors
1 19 (65.52%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Databricks
3 3 (10.34%) Hitachi
4 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.45%) VMware