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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,091 4,029 3,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 17.67% 23.43% 20.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 50.06% 54.48% 50.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,481 2,143 2,370
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,647 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,548 £86,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £59,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.46% +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 6,174 7,395 7,414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 35.29% 43.00% 41.30%
Number of salaries quoted 4,976 3,943 5,219
10th Percentile £28,781 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,438 £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 10 May 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 10 May 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 1,648 £57,500 +4.55% 333
Yorkshire 0 1,060 £55,000 - 210
North East +4 385 £47,500 -13.64% 71
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
1 194 (6.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 176 (5.69%) SharePoint
3 85 (2.75%) ArcGIS
3 85 (2.75%) GeoServer
4 42 (1.36%) IIS
5 37 (1.20%) Confluence
6 20 (0.65%) Apache Spark
7 17 (0.55%) CMS
8 16 (0.52%) Apache
9 14 (0.45%) Umbraco
10 12 (0.39%) Captiva
10 12 (0.39%) FileNet
10 12 (0.39%) WebLogic
10 12 (0.39%) WebSphere
11 10 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2013
12 8 (0.26%) Apache Solr
13 6 (0.19%) NServiceBus
14 5 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
14 5 (0.16%) Skype for Business
15 4 (0.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 89 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.26%) Photoshop
5 6 (0.19%) LightWave 3D
6 5 (0.16%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.065%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.065%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.065%) Sketch
7 2 (0.065%) Trello
8 1 (0.032%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.032%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 58 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
4 8 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.16%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.16%) SAP PP
6 3 (0.097%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.065%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.065%) SystmOne
8 1 (0.032%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.032%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 888 (28.73%) AWS
2 703 (22.74%) Microsoft 365
3 424 (13.72%) Azure DevOps
4 339 (10.97%) GCP
5 310 (10.03%) Power Platform
6 278 (8.99%) Entra ID
7 173 (5.60%) SaaS
8 110 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
8 110 (3.56%) Serverless
9 91 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
9 91 (2.94%) PaaS
10 88 (2.85%) Azure Data Factory
11 86 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
11 86 (2.78%) GitHub
12 84 (2.72%) PowerApps
13 80 (2.59%) IBM Cloud
14 76 (2.46%) Power Automate
15 74 (2.39%) IaaS
16 73 (2.36%) Azure Logic Apps
17 67 (2.17%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 275 (8.90%) Firewall
2 199 (6.44%) WAN
3 198 (6.41%) DNS
4 157 (5.08%) LAN
5 140 (4.53%) DHCP
6 103 (3.33%) VPN
7 78 (2.52%) Internet
8 76 (2.46%) SAN
9 73 (2.36%) TCP/IP
10 67 (2.17%) Network Security
11 60 (1.94%) SD-WAN
12 51 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
13 46 (1.49%) VoIP
14 35 (1.13%) Wireless
15 33 (1.07%) Intrusion Detection
15 33 (1.07%) SSL
15 33 (1.07%) WLAN
16 32 (1.04%) BGP
17 27 (0.87%) Broadband
18 26 (0.84%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 587 (18.99%) SQL Server
2 234 (7.57%) Data Warehouse
3 229 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
4 204 (6.60%) Power BI
5 162 (5.24%) MongoDB
6 148 (4.79%) NoSQL
7 137 (4.43%) Azure SQL Database
8 109 (3.53%) Relational Database
9 105 (3.40%) Data Lake
10 101 (3.27%) DB2
11 100 (3.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 90 (2.91%) GIS
13 85 (2.75%) QGIS
14 81 (2.62%) MySQL
15 75 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
16 62 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
17 52 (1.68%) Data Vault
18 46 (1.49%) BigQuery
19 43 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 39 (1.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 181 (5.86%) Git
2 130 (4.21%) JIRA
3 97 (3.14%) GitLab
4 56 (1.81%) Jenkins
5 38 (1.23%) Visual Studio
6 34 (1.10%) Selenium
7 24 (0.78%) Cypress.io
8 23 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
9 22 (0.71%) CircleCI
10 21 (0.68%) Artifactory
11 20 (0.65%) Postman
12 18 (0.58%) Jasmine
13 16 (0.52%) Karma Test Runner
14 14 (0.45%) Cucumber
15 12 (0.39%) IBM UrbanCode
15 12 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
16 9 (0.29%) JUnit
17 8 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
17 8 (0.26%) SonarQube
18 6 (0.19%) Appium
General
1 685 (22.16%) Social Skills
2 396 (12.81%) Finance
3 259 (8.38%) Public Sector
4 203 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
5 153 (4.95%) Retail
6 145 (4.69%) Law
7 85 (2.75%) Legal
8 77 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 73 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
10 71 (2.30%) Banking
11 65 (2.10%) Manufacturing
12 52 (1.68%) Marketing
12 52 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
13 50 (1.62%) Games
14 46 (1.49%) Aerospace
15 40 (1.29%) Advertising
16 21 (0.68%) Telecoms
17 18 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
18 17 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
19 16 (0.52%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 792 (25.62%) Developer
2 480 (15.53%) Senior
3 383 (12.39%) .NET Developer
4 374 (12.10%) Lead
5 312 (10.09%) Architect
6 241 (7.80%) Software Engineer
7 187 (6.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 184 (5.95%) Analyst
9 175 (5.66%) C# Developer
10 155 (5.01%) Azure Engineer
11 144 (4.66%) Data Engineer
12 143 (4.63%) IT Support
13 142 (4.59%) Cloud Engineer
14 135 (4.37%) C# .NET Developer
15 116 (3.75%) IT Engineer
16 115 (3.72%) Senior Developer
17 114 (3.69%) Support Engineer
18 113 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
19 109 (3.53%) Senior Software Engineer
20 93 (3.01%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 871 (28.18%) .NET
2 420 (13.59%) AngularJS
3 418 (13.52%) React
4 383 (12.39%) .NET Core
5 367 (11.87%) CSS
6 356 (11.52%) ASP.NET
7 337 (10.90%) HTML
8 268 (8.67%) ASP.NET Web API
9 245 (7.93%) .NET Framework
10 225 (7.28%) Entity Framework
11 193 (6.24%) Node.js
12 190 (6.15%) RESTful
13 183 (5.92%) ASP.NET MVC
14 165 (5.34%) Vue
15 164 (5.31%) REST
16 163 (5.27%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 135 (4.37%) Web Services
18 125 (4.04%) jQuery
19 113 (3.66%) HTML5
20 94 (3.04%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 228 (7.38%) Public Cloud
2 146 (4.72%) Data Structures
3 134 (4.34%) Hybrid Cloud
4 98 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 93 (3.01%) Algorithms
6 91 (2.94%) Blockchain
7 85 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
8 80 (2.59%) Cloud Native
9 76 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
10 60 (1.94%) Driving Licence
11 49 (1.59%) Product Ownership
12 45 (1.46%) Private Cloud
13 41 (1.33%) Reinsurance
14 40 (1.29%) Data Centre
14 40 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
15 38 (1.23%) e-Learning
16 37 (1.20%) PKI
17 36 (1.16%) Mobile App
18 35 (1.13%) IoT
19 32 (1.04%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 647 (20.93%) Windows
2 310 (10.03%) Linux
3 294 (9.51%) Windows Server
4 135 (4.37%) Android
5 113 (3.66%) Apple iOS
6 89 (2.88%) Windows 10
7 61 (1.97%) Windows Server 2012
8 58 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
9 53 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
10 46 (1.49%) Unix
11 43 (1.39%) Mac OS
12 37 (1.20%) VMS
13 32 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 29 (0.94%) Ubuntu
15 12 (0.39%) CentOS
15 12 (0.39%) Debian
16 10 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
17 9 (0.29%) Windows Phone
18 6 (0.19%) Windows Vista
19 4 (0.13%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,054 (34.10%) Agile
2 835 (27.01%) DevOps
3 494 (15.98%) Full Stack Development
4 462 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
5 403 (13.04%) Mentoring
6 372 (12.03%) Software Engineering
7 365 (11.81%) Microservices
8 347 (11.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 342 (11.06%) CI/CD
10 314 (10.16%) MVC
11 308 (9.96%) Migration
12 297 (9.61%) ITIL
13 285 (9.22%) Roadmaps
14 247 (7.99%) Business Intelligence
15 237 (7.67%) Scrum
16 235 (7.60%) ETL
17 233 (7.54%) Coaching
18 230 (7.44%) Customer Service
19 224 (7.25%) Web Development
20 220 (7.12%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 862 (27.89%) C#
2 803 (25.98%) SQL
3 714 (23.10%) JavaScript
4 378 (12.23%) Python
5 246 (7.96%) PowerShell
6 213 (6.89%) TypeScript
7 175 (5.66%) Java
8 142 (4.59%) T-SQL
9 50 (1.62%) Bash
10 37 (1.20%) VB.NET
11 31 (1.00%) PHP
12 29 (0.94%) Go
13 20 (0.65%) Groovy
13 20 (0.65%) VB
14 19 (0.61%) Ruby
15 17 (0.55%) C++
16 16 (0.52%) Bicep
16 16 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 16 (0.52%) VB6
17 13 (0.42%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 259 (8.38%) Degree
2 211 (6.83%) Security Cleared
3 189 (6.11%) Azure Certification
4 168 (5.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 167 (5.40%) SC Cleared
6 98 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
7 75 (2.43%) AWS Certification
8 59 (1.91%) CISSP
9 56 (1.81%) DBS Check
10 54 (1.75%) CCNA
10 54 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
11 38 (1.23%) CCNP
12 36 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 36 (1.16%) DV Cleared
13 33 (1.07%) CCSP
14 29 (0.94%) CISM
15 28 (0.91%) Master's Degree
16 26 (0.84%) CCSK
17 18 (0.58%) MCSE
18 17 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (4.34%) Data Quality
2 95 (3.07%) GDPR
3 92 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 83 (2.69%) QA
5 79 (2.56%) SLA
6 58 (1.88%) NIST
7 42 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 25 (0.81%) Accessibility
9 24 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.26%) PSD2
11 7 (0.23%) PMO
11 7 (0.23%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.13%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.065%) GRC
13 2 (0.065%) NCSC
14 1 (0.032%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.032%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.032%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 1 (0.032%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 564 (18.25%) Active Directory
2 205 (6.63%) Hyper-V
3 197 (6.37%) Docker
4 176 (5.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
6 43 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
7 27 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (0.49%) Terminal Services
9 14 (0.45%) vSphere
10 10 (0.32%) VMware Server
11 9 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
12 7 (0.23%) XenApp
12 7 (0.23%) XenDesktop
13 5 (0.16%) VMware NSX
14 4 (0.13%) Firmware
14 4 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
15 2 (0.065%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 1 (0.032%) DFS Replication
16 1 (0.032%) Snort
16 1 (0.032%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 267 (8.64%) Kubernetes
2 259 (8.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 228 (7.38%) Terraform
4 95 (3.07%) Ansible
5 53 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (0.94%) Progress Chef
7 25 (0.81%) Puppet
7 25 (0.81%) SCCM
8 22 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 22 (0.71%) Grafana
9 21 (0.68%) Prometheus
10 17 (0.55%) SCOM
11 16 (0.52%) Failover Clustering
12 15 (0.49%) ZABBIX
13 13 (0.42%) Autotask
13 13 (0.42%) FortiGate
13 13 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
13 13 (0.42%) vCenter Server
14 12 (0.39%) Opsgenie
14 12 (0.39%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,278 (41.35%) Microsoft
2 308 (9.96%) VMware
3 200 (6.47%) Google
4 145 (4.69%) Cisco
5 130 (4.21%) IBM
6 126 (4.08%) Oracle
7 97 (3.14%) Citrix
7 97 (3.14%) Red Hat
8 85 (2.75%) ESRI
9 79 (2.56%) Databricks
10 63 (2.04%) Veeam
11 48 (1.55%) Fortinet
11 48 (1.55%) Informatica
12 47 (1.52%) SolarWinds
13 44 (1.42%) ServiceNow
14 38 (1.23%) SAP
15 29 (0.94%) Apple
16 26 (0.84%) Commvault
16 26 (0.84%) Splunk
17 24 (0.78%) Datto