Azure Platform Engineer Jobs in the North West

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > North West

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in the North West is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 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
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 273 300
Rank change year-on-year -4 +27 +33
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 3 12 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.039% 0.12% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.13% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 3
10th Percentile £56,750 - £47,750
25th Percentile £59,375 £55,000 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +14.29% -16.00%
75th Percentile £76,875 £65,000 £75,625
90th Percentile £80,250 - £87,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.06% +17.86% -9.68%

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 7,072 9,270 7,060
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.97% 94.66% 89.06%
Number of salaries quoted 4,060 7,118 4,113
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,385 £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 Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Platform Engineer in the North West

Azure Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Azure Platform Engineer in the North West

Azure Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Platform Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Platform Engineer in the North West

Azure Platform 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 Platform Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 8 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
Cheshire - 1 £55,000 -
Cumbria - 1 £75,000 -
Merseyside - 1 £67,500 -
Azure Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2025, Azure Platform 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Bicep
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) CCSP
3 1 (33.33%) CISSP
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby
3 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Puppet
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) ADO
3 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation

Azure Platform 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bicep
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft