Azure Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Microsoft Azure
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 25 9
Rank change year-on-year +19 -16 -3
Permanent jobs citing Azure 245 13 62
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 17.13% 4.18% 11.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 63.14% 19.70% 38.75%
Number of salaries quoted 21 10 26
10th Percentile £33,500 £41,232 £46,250
25th Percentile £35,250 £44,063 £48,160
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £52,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% -20.00% +27.45%
75th Percentile £76,075 £58,438 -
90th Percentile £78,750 £62,875 £69,800
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Northern Ireland

Azure 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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 388 66 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 27.13% 21.22% 30.95%
Number of salaries quoted 50 32 87
10th Percentile £35,250 £40,100 £32,100
25th Percentile £38,938 £48,125 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £78,312 £72,500 £68,650
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,375 £93,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Azure job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Azure
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in Northern Ireland

Azure
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
County Antrim +21 150 £41,250 -28.26% 94
County Down - 61 - - 1
County Armagh - 29 - -
County Tyrone - 4 - -
Newry - 1 - -
Azure
UK

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Applications
1 8 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 67 (27.35%) AWS
2 64 (26.12%) SaaS
3 59 (24.08%) Cloud Computing
3 59 (24.08%) Entra ID
4 40 (16.33%) Power Platform
5 34 (13.88%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (8.57%) Dynamics 365
7 15 (6.12%) Azure AI
8 12 (4.90%) GitHub
9 5 (2.04%) GCP
9 5 (2.04%) PaaS
10 3 (1.22%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.82%) Azure Stack
11 2 (0.82%) IaaS
12 1 (0.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.41%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.41%) Copilot Studio
12 1 (0.41%) dbt
12 1 (0.41%) Nutanix
12 1 (0.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 59 (24.08%) LAN
1 59 (24.08%) WAN
2 4 (1.63%) Firewall
3 2 (0.82%) DHCP
3 2 (0.82%) DNS
4 1 (0.41%) ATM
4 1 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.41%) SMS
4 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.90%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.27%) Power BI
2 8 (3.27%) Tableau
3 3 (1.22%) Big Data
4 2 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.82%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.41%) Milvus
5 1 (0.41%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Git
1 1 (0.41%) GitLab
1 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
General
1 184 (75.10%) Social Skills
2 93 (37.96%) Law
3 82 (33.47%) Finance
4 70 (28.57%) Legal
5 59 (24.08%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (4.90%) Legal Technology
7 10 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.82%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.82%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.82%) Retail
10 1 (0.41%) Advertising
10 1 (0.41%) Banking
10 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 67 (27.35%) Architect
2 60 (24.49%) Senior
3 59 (24.08%) Systems Architect
4 58 (23.67%) Senior Manager
5 47 (19.18%) IT Manager
5 47 (19.18%) IT Services Manager
5 47 (19.18%) Resilience Manager
5 47 (19.18%) Service Manager
6 17 (6.94%) Analyst
7 16 (6.53%) Junior
7 16 (6.53%) Junior Analyst
8 12 (4.90%) Administrator
8 12 (4.90%) DBA
9 10 (4.08%) Consultant
10 8 (3.27%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 8 (3.27%) Data Analyst
10 8 (3.27%) Ethical Hacker
10 8 (3.27%) Junior Data Analyst
10 8 (3.27%) Junior Security Analyst
10 8 (3.27%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (19.18%) Middleware
2 2 (0.82%) .NET
2 2 (0.82%) AngularJS
2 2 (0.82%) LangChain
3 1 (0.41%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.41%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (0.41%) Dropwizard
3 1 (0.41%) FastAPI
3 1 (0.41%) Hibernate
3 1 (0.41%) LlamaIndex
3 1 (0.41%) NumPy
3 1 (0.41%) Pandas
3 1 (0.41%) pgvector
3 1 (0.41%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.41%) REST
3 1 (0.41%) Spring
3 1 (0.41%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.41%) Terraform
3 1 (0.41%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 47 (19.18%) Cyber Threat
2 12 (4.90%) Clustering
2 12 (4.90%) Replication
3 8 (3.27%) Cyberattack
4 6 (2.45%) Public Cloud
5 2 (0.82%) Low-Code
5 2 (0.82%) Management Information System
5 2 (0.82%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.41%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.41%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.41%) FMCG
6 1 (0.41%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.53%) Linux
2 6 (2.45%) Windows
3 2 (0.82%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (67.76%) Information Security
2 107 (43.67%) ITIL
2 107 (43.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 87 (35.51%) Project Delivery
4 81 (33.06%) Cybersecurity
5 78 (31.84%) AI
6 77 (31.43%) Enterprise Architecture
7 72 (29.39%) Mentoring
8 63 (25.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 63 (25.71%) Risk Management
9 62 (25.31%) Collaborative Working
10 61 (24.90%) DevOps
10 61 (24.90%) Roadmaps
10 61 (24.90%) Technical Architecture
11 60 (24.49%) Business Strategy
11 60 (24.49%) Infrastructure as Code
11 60 (24.49%) Logistics
12 59 (24.08%) Business Case
12 59 (24.08%) Containerisation
12 59 (24.08%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 23 (9.39%) SQL
2 20 (8.16%) Python
3 13 (5.31%) PowerShell
4 5 (2.04%) Java
5 2 (0.82%) C#
6 1 (0.41%) C
6 1 (0.41%) Scala
6 1 (0.41%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 107 (43.67%) CISM
1 107 (43.67%) CISSP
2 64 (26.12%) Network+ Certification
3 58 (23.67%) A+ Certification
4 47 (19.18%) ITIL Certification
5 41 (16.73%) Azure Certification
6 11 (4.49%) CompTIA CySA+
7 9 (3.67%) CEH
7 9 (3.67%) CompTIA Security+
8 8 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (3.27%) Security Cleared
9 6 (2.45%) CCNA
10 5 (2.04%) SC Cleared
11 3 (1.22%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.22%) Degree
11 3 (1.22%) GCFA
11 3 (1.22%) GCIA
11 3 (1.22%) GCIH
12 2 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.82%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (24.08%) GRC
2 49 (20.00%) NIST
3 47 (19.18%) ISO 22301
4 3 (1.22%) GDPR
4 3 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.82%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.82%) NCSC
5 2 (0.82%) NIST 800
5 2 (0.82%) SLA
6 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.41%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 64 (26.12%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (24.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.22%) QRadar
3 1 (0.41%) Grafana
3 1 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 167 (68.16%) Microsoft
2 58 (23.67%) CyberArk
3 22 (8.98%) ForeScout
4 7 (2.86%) Cisco
5 6 (2.45%) Workday
6 3 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (1.22%) Splunk
7 2 (0.82%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.82%) Oracle
7 2 (0.82%) Thales
8 1 (0.41%) Databricks
8 1 (0.41%) Dell
8 1 (0.41%) Dell Compellent
8 1 (0.41%) Foundry
8 1 (0.41%) Google
8 1 (0.41%) HP
8 1 (0.41%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (0.41%) VMware