Azure Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft Azure
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,210 3,944 3,906
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 17.02% 24.44% 21.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.99% 55.27% 50.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,534 2,044 2,382
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,541
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £69,500 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.23% +4.00% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,421 7,136 7,689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 34.05% 44.22% 41.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,075 3,819 5,226
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £28,625
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £69,125 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the North of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure in the North of England.

Salary trend for Azure in the North of England

Azure
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure in the North of England

Azure
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
North West 0 1,710 £57,500 +4.55% 371
Yorkshire +1 1,096 £55,000 - 208
North East +5 406 £50,000 -9.09% 69
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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
1 189 (5.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 171 (5.33%) SharePoint
3 85 (2.65%) ArcGIS
3 85 (2.65%) GeoServer
4 41 (1.28%) Confluence
5 40 (1.25%) IIS
6 23 (0.72%) CMS
7 22 (0.69%) Apache Spark
8 16 (0.50%) Apache
9 14 (0.44%) Umbraco
10 12 (0.37%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.28%) Apache Solr
11 9 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
12 7 (0.22%) NServiceBus
13 5 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
14 4 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 4 (0.12%) Skype for Business
15 3 (0.093%) BizTalk Server
15 3 (0.093%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.093%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 89 (2.77%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.25%) Photoshop
4 6 (0.19%) LightWave 3D
4 6 (0.19%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.062%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.062%) Sketch
6 1 (0.031%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.031%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.031%) Trello
Business Applications
1 62 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
4 8 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.16%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.16%) SAP PP
6 3 (0.093%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.062%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.062%) SystmOne
8 1 (0.031%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.031%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.031%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 914 (28.47%) AWS
2 705 (21.96%) Microsoft 365
3 446 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
4 333 (10.37%) GCP
5 323 (10.06%) Power Platform
6 290 (9.03%) Entra ID
7 170 (5.30%) SaaS
8 109 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
9 107 (3.33%) Serverless
10 96 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
11 94 (2.93%) Azure Data Factory
12 92 (2.87%) PowerApps
13 83 (2.59%) GitHub
13 83 (2.59%) Power Automate
14 82 (2.55%) Azure Service Bus
15 81 (2.52%) PaaS
16 80 (2.49%) IBM Cloud
17 79 (2.46%) Azure Logic Apps
18 66 (2.06%) Azure Functions
19 64 (1.99%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 275 (8.57%) Firewall
2 198 (6.17%) WAN
3 197 (6.14%) DNS
4 155 (4.83%) LAN
5 137 (4.27%) DHCP
6 99 (3.08%) VPN
7 81 (2.52%) Internet
8 77 (2.40%) SAN
8 77 (2.40%) TCP/IP
9 63 (1.96%) Network Security
10 58 (1.81%) SD-WAN
11 53 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
12 45 (1.40%) VoIP
13 35 (1.09%) Wireless
14 34 (1.06%) Intrusion Detection
15 32 (1.00%) SSL
15 32 (1.00%) WLAN
16 31 (0.97%) BGP
17 28 (0.87%) NAS
18 27 (0.84%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 589 (18.35%) SQL Server
2 235 (7.32%) Data Warehouse
3 225 (7.01%) PostgreSQL
4 215 (6.70%) Power BI
5 160 (4.98%) MongoDB
6 149 (4.64%) NoSQL
7 138 (4.30%) Azure SQL Database
8 111 (3.46%) Relational Database
9 104 (3.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 103 (3.21%) Data Lake
11 101 (3.15%) DB2
12 90 (2.80%) GIS
13 85 (2.65%) QGIS
14 76 (2.37%) MySQL
15 71 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
16 60 (1.87%) Data Vault
17 58 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
18 46 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 45 (1.40%) BigQuery
20 43 (1.34%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 184 (5.73%) Git
2 128 (3.99%) JIRA
3 103 (3.21%) GitLab
4 53 (1.65%) Jenkins
5 35 (1.09%) Visual Studio
6 31 (0.97%) Selenium
7 27 (0.84%) CircleCI
8 23 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
9 22 (0.69%) Cypress.io
10 21 (0.65%) Artifactory
11 20 (0.62%) Postman
12 18 (0.56%) Jasmine
13 16 (0.50%) Karma Test Runner
14 11 (0.34%) SonarQube
15 10 (0.31%) Cucumber
16 9 (0.28%) IBM UrbanCode
16 9 (0.28%) JUnit
16 9 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
17 8 (0.25%) NUnit
18 6 (0.19%) JMeter
General
1 715 (22.27%) Social Skills
2 390 (12.15%) Finance
3 258 (8.04%) Public Sector
4 203 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
5 158 (4.92%) Retail
6 144 (4.49%) Law
7 86 (2.68%) Legal
8 76 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 72 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
10 64 (1.99%) Manufacturing
11 59 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
12 56 (1.74%) Marketing
13 54 (1.68%) Games
14 46 (1.43%) Aerospace
15 43 (1.34%) Banking
16 42 (1.31%) Advertising
17 19 (0.59%) Telecoms
18 18 (0.56%) Automotive
18 18 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
19 17 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 845 (26.32%) Developer
2 488 (15.20%) Senior
3 419 (13.05%) .NET Developer
4 386 (12.02%) Lead
5 335 (10.44%) Architect
6 239 (7.45%) Software Engineer
7 197 (6.14%) C# Developer
8 185 (5.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 166 (5.17%) Analyst
10 165 (5.14%) Azure Engineer
11 153 (4.77%) C# .NET Developer
12 149 (4.64%) Cloud Engineer
13 148 (4.61%) Data Engineer
14 140 (4.36%) IT Support
15 122 (3.80%) IT Engineer
16 120 (3.74%) Senior Developer
17 116 (3.61%) Support Engineer
18 115 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
19 114 (3.55%) Senior Software Engineer
20 101 (3.15%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 922 (28.72%) .NET
2 439 (13.68%) AngularJS
3 421 (13.12%) React
4 392 (12.21%) .NET Core
5 374 (11.65%) CSS
6 357 (11.12%) ASP.NET
7 343 (10.69%) HTML
8 286 (8.91%) ASP.NET Web API
9 259 (8.07%) .NET Framework
10 236 (7.35%) Entity Framework
11 198 (6.17%) Node.js
11 198 (6.17%) RESTful
12 183 (5.70%) ASP.NET MVC
13 170 (5.30%) REST
14 169 (5.26%) Vue
15 164 (5.11%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 138 (4.30%) Web Services
17 124 (3.86%) jQuery
18 118 (3.68%) HTML5
19 93 (2.90%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 237 (7.38%) Public Cloud
2 148 (4.61%) Data Structures
3 132 (4.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 97 (3.02%) Management Information System
5 93 (2.90%) Algorithms
6 87 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
7 84 (2.62%) Blockchain
8 82 (2.55%) Cloud Native
9 77 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
10 61 (1.90%) Driving Licence
11 53 (1.65%) Product Ownership
12 44 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
12 44 (1.37%) Reinsurance
13 41 (1.28%) Data Centre
14 37 (1.15%) e-Learning
14 37 (1.15%) PKI
15 36 (1.12%) Mobile App
15 36 (1.12%) Private Cloud
16 35 (1.09%) IoT
17 34 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 639 (19.91%) Windows
2 294 (9.16%) Linux
3 288 (8.97%) Windows Server
4 139 (4.33%) Android
5 115 (3.58%) Apple iOS
6 91 (2.83%) Windows 10
7 59 (1.84%) Windows Server 2012
8 54 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
8 54 (1.68%) Windows Server 2019
9 42 (1.31%) Mac OS
10 39 (1.21%) VMS
11 31 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 28 (0.87%) Ubuntu
12 28 (0.87%) Unix
13 12 (0.37%) CentOS
14 11 (0.34%) Debian
15 10 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
16 9 (0.28%) Windows Phone
17 6 (0.19%) Windows Vista
18 4 (0.12%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,065 (33.18%) Agile
2 874 (27.23%) DevOps
3 524 (16.32%) Full Stack Development
4 454 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
5 419 (13.05%) Mentoring
6 379 (11.81%) Software Engineering
7 371 (11.56%) Microservices
8 365 (11.37%) CI/CD
9 345 (10.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 319 (9.94%) Migration
11 312 (9.72%) MVC
12 291 (9.07%) ITIL
13 287 (8.94%) Roadmaps
14 254 (7.91%) Business Intelligence
15 245 (7.63%) Scrum
16 237 (7.38%) ETL
17 231 (7.20%) Coaching
18 228 (7.10%) Customer Service
19 226 (7.04%) Infrastructure as Code
20 225 (7.01%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 916 (28.54%) C#
2 806 (25.11%) SQL
3 731 (22.77%) JavaScript
4 387 (12.06%) Python
5 256 (7.98%) PowerShell
6 221 (6.88%) TypeScript
7 161 (5.02%) Java
8 138 (4.30%) T-SQL
9 45 (1.40%) Bash
10 38 (1.18%) VB.NET
11 31 (0.97%) Go
11 31 (0.97%) PHP
12 24 (0.75%) Bicep
13 20 (0.62%) VB
14 18 (0.56%) Ruby
15 17 (0.53%) Groovy
16 16 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 16 (0.50%) VB6
17 14 (0.44%) C++
18 13 (0.40%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 260 (8.10%) Degree
2 209 (6.51%) Security Cleared
3 190 (5.92%) Azure Certification
4 173 (5.39%) Microsoft Certification
5 169 (5.26%) SC Cleared
6 95 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
7 82 (2.55%) AWS Certification
8 59 (1.84%) CISSP
9 58 (1.81%) DBS Check
10 56 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
11 50 (1.56%) CCNA
12 37 (1.15%) CCNP
13 36 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 33 (1.03%) CCSP
14 33 (1.03%) DV Cleared
15 29 (0.90%) CISM
16 27 (0.84%) Master's Degree
17 26 (0.81%) CCSK
18 17 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 17 (0.53%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (4.33%) Data Quality
2 92 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 90 (2.80%) QA
4 83 (2.59%) GDPR
5 81 (2.52%) SLA
6 59 (1.84%) NIST
7 44 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
8 27 (0.84%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.78%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.25%) PSD2
11 7 (0.22%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.19%) PMO
13 4 (0.12%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.062%) GRC
14 2 (0.062%) NCSC
15 1 (0.031%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 1 (0.031%) HIPAA
15 1 (0.031%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 1 (0.031%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 570 (17.76%) Active Directory
2 207 (6.45%) Hyper-V
3 201 (6.26%) Docker
4 171 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
6 41 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
7 29 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (0.47%) vSphere
9 13 (0.40%) Terminal Services
10 9 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.28%) VMware Server
11 6 (0.19%) XenApp
11 6 (0.19%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.093%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.062%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.062%) Firmware
13 2 (0.062%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.031%) Snort
14 1 (0.031%) Terminal Server
14 1 (0.031%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 268 (8.35%) Kubernetes
2 267 (8.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 238 (7.41%) Terraform
4 101 (3.15%) Ansible
5 53 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
6 28 (0.87%) Progress Chef
7 26 (0.81%) Puppet
8 25 (0.78%) SCCM
9 23 (0.72%) Grafana
10 22 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 22 (0.69%) Prometheus
11 17 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
12 15 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
12 15 (0.47%) SCOM
12 15 (0.47%) ZABBIX
13 14 (0.44%) Autotask
14 12 (0.37%) CA Single Sign-On
14 12 (0.37%) Opsgenie
14 12 (0.37%) vCenter Server
14 12 (0.37%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,298 (40.44%) Microsoft
2 307 (9.56%) VMware
3 200 (6.23%) Google
4 141 (4.39%) Cisco
5 119 (3.71%) IBM
6 116 (3.61%) Oracle
7 97 (3.02%) Red Hat
8 94 (2.93%) Citrix
9 85 (2.65%) ESRI
10 84 (2.62%) Databricks
11 61 (1.90%) Veeam
12 56 (1.74%) Informatica
13 47 (1.46%) SolarWinds
14 46 (1.43%) Fortinet
15 38 (1.18%) ServiceNow
16 30 (0.93%) Apple
17 28 (0.87%) SAP
18 25 (0.78%) Datto
19 24 (0.75%) Sophos
19 24 (0.75%) Splunk