Azure Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the North West

Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > North West

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in the North West is £51,250 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 272 274 298
Rank change year-on-year +2 +24 +24
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Infrastructure Engineer 7 18 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.089% 0.18% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.19% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2 17 8
10th Percentile £43,625 - £46,284
25th Percentile £45,313 £41,250 £50,950
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -17.39% +10.05%
75th Percentile £57,813 £60,000 £61,563
90th Percentile £59,875 £65,000 £66,625
England median annual salary £70,000 £55,001 £55,000
% change year-on-year +27.27% +0.00% -6.78%

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 Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

Azure Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure 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 +65 7 £51,250 -21.15% 1
Azure Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Azure Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Automation
3 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
3 5 (71.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (71.43%) Configuration Management
3 5 (71.43%) ARM Templates
3 5 (71.43%) Azure Certification
3 5 (71.43%) Ansible
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Firewall
4 1 (14.29%) ITSM
4 1 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 1 (14.29%) Windows
4 1 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
4 1 (14.29%) vSphere
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management

Azure Infrastructure 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Configuration Management
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) FinOps
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (14.29%) ITSM
3 1 (14.29%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bicep
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 5 (71.43%) Ansible
2 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) VMware