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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,108 4,004 3,847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 17.58% 23.71% 21.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.92% 54.51% 50.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,479 2,113 2,386
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,869
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,548 £86,250 £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 6,226 7,346 7,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 35.22% 43.50% 41.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4,982 3,907 5,244
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £29,075
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,124
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £69,500 £71,652 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,548 £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 20 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 20 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 1,656 £57,500 +4.55% 399
Yorkshire 0 1,064 £55,000 - 270
North East +4 390 £47,500 -13.64% 89
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
1 187 (6.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 173 (5.57%) SharePoint
3 85 (2.73%) ArcGIS
3 85 (2.73%) GeoServer
4 41 (1.32%) IIS
5 40 (1.29%) Confluence
6 20 (0.64%) Apache Spark
7 19 (0.61%) CMS
8 16 (0.51%) Apache
9 14 (0.45%) Umbraco
10 12 (0.39%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.29%) Captiva
11 9 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2013
11 9 (0.29%) FileNet
11 9 (0.29%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.26%) Apache Solr
13 7 (0.23%) NServiceBus
14 5 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
15 4 (0.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 4 (0.13%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 88 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.26%) Photoshop
5 6 (0.19%) LightWave 3D
5 6 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.064%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.064%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.064%) Sketch
6 2 (0.064%) Trello
7 1 (0.032%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.032%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 57 (1.83%) 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 (0.064%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.064%) SystmOne
8 1 (0.032%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.032%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.032%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 897 (28.86%) AWS
2 694 (22.33%) Microsoft 365
3 425 (13.67%) Azure DevOps
4 335 (10.78%) GCP
5 307 (9.88%) Power Platform
6 283 (9.11%) Entra ID
7 168 (5.41%) SaaS
8 110 (3.54%) Serverless
9 107 (3.44%) Dynamics 365
10 92 (2.96%) Cloud Computing
11 90 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
12 88 (2.83%) PaaS
13 84 (2.70%) GitHub
13 84 (2.70%) PowerApps
14 83 (2.67%) Azure Service Bus
15 80 (2.57%) IBM Cloud
16 77 (2.48%) Power Automate
17 72 (2.32%) Azure Logic Apps
18 71 (2.28%) IaaS
19 67 (2.16%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 271 (8.72%) Firewall
2 196 (6.31%) DNS
2 196 (6.31%) WAN
3 155 (4.99%) LAN
4 136 (4.38%) DHCP
5 102 (3.28%) VPN
6 79 (2.54%) Internet
7 75 (2.41%) SAN
7 75 (2.41%) TCP/IP
8 66 (2.12%) Network Security
9 58 (1.87%) SD-WAN
10 51 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
11 45 (1.45%) VoIP
12 34 (1.09%) Wireless
13 33 (1.06%) Intrusion Detection
13 33 (1.06%) SSL
13 33 (1.06%) WLAN
14 31 (1.00%) BGP
15 27 (0.87%) Broadband
16 26 (0.84%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 587 (18.89%) SQL Server
2 238 (7.66%) Data Warehouse
3 226 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
4 203 (6.53%) Power BI
5 164 (5.28%) MongoDB
6 149 (4.79%) NoSQL
7 135 (4.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 109 (3.51%) Relational Database
9 105 (3.38%) Data Lake
10 101 (3.25%) DB2
11 100 (3.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 90 (2.90%) GIS
13 85 (2.73%) QGIS
14 79 (2.54%) MySQL
15 75 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
16 61 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
17 56 (1.80%) Data Vault
18 46 (1.48%) BigQuery
19 42 (1.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
19 42 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 179 (5.76%) Git
2 129 (4.15%) JIRA
3 98 (3.15%) GitLab
4 57 (1.83%) Jenkins
5 36 (1.16%) Visual Studio
6 34 (1.09%) Selenium
7 24 (0.77%) CircleCI
7 24 (0.77%) Cypress.io
8 23 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
9 21 (0.68%) Artifactory
10 20 (0.64%) Postman
11 18 (0.58%) Jasmine
12 16 (0.51%) Karma Test Runner
13 14 (0.45%) Cucumber
14 12 (0.39%) IBM UrbanCode
15 9 (0.29%) JUnit
15 9 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
16 8 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
16 8 (0.26%) SonarQube
17 6 (0.19%) gulp
General
1 696 (22.39%) Social Skills
2 395 (12.71%) Finance
3 258 (8.30%) Public Sector
4 202 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
5 152 (4.89%) Retail
6 144 (4.63%) Law
7 85 (2.73%) Legal
8 78 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 74 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
10 65 (2.09%) Banking
10 65 (2.09%) Manufacturing
11 59 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
12 53 (1.71%) Marketing
13 51 (1.64%) Games
14 46 (1.48%) Aerospace
15 42 (1.35%) Advertising
16 21 (0.68%) Telecoms
17 17 (0.55%) Automotive
17 17 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 805 (25.90%) Developer
2 475 (15.28%) Senior
3 393 (12.64%) .NET Developer
4 378 (12.16%) Lead
5 318 (10.23%) Architect
6 241 (7.75%) Software Engineer
7 184 (5.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 183 (5.89%) C# Developer
9 174 (5.60%) Analyst
10 149 (4.79%) Azure Engineer
11 147 (4.73%) Data Engineer
12 142 (4.57%) Cloud Engineer
13 141 (4.54%) C# .NET Developer
13 141 (4.54%) IT Support
14 120 (3.86%) IT Engineer
15 118 (3.80%) Support Engineer
16 116 (3.73%) Senior Developer
17 111 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
18 110 (3.54%) Senior Software Engineer
19 93 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 880 (28.31%) .NET
2 428 (13.77%) AngularJS
3 419 (13.48%) React
4 384 (12.36%) .NET Core
5 367 (11.81%) CSS
6 355 (11.42%) ASP.NET
7 336 (10.81%) HTML
8 273 (8.78%) ASP.NET Web API
9 249 (8.01%) .NET Framework
10 228 (7.34%) Entity Framework
11 194 (6.24%) Node.js
12 193 (6.21%) RESTful
13 183 (5.89%) ASP.NET MVC
14 169 (5.44%) Vue
15 164 (5.28%) REST
15 164 (5.28%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 136 (4.38%) Web Services
17 125 (4.02%) jQuery
18 114 (3.67%) HTML5
19 94 (3.02%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 231 (7.43%) Public Cloud
2 144 (4.63%) Data Structures
3 132 (4.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 98 (3.15%) Management Information System
5 93 (2.99%) Algorithms
6 89 (2.86%) Blockchain
7 87 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
8 82 (2.64%) Cloud Native
9 77 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
10 61 (1.96%) Driving Licence
11 51 (1.64%) Product Ownership
12 43 (1.38%) Reinsurance
13 42 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
13 42 (1.35%) Private Cloud
14 39 (1.25%) Data Centre
15 37 (1.19%) e-Learning
15 37 (1.19%) PKI
16 36 (1.16%) Mobile App
17 35 (1.13%) IoT
18 33 (1.06%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 642 (20.66%) Windows
2 305 (9.81%) Linux
3 286 (9.20%) Windows Server
4 137 (4.41%) Android
5 115 (3.70%) Apple iOS
6 93 (2.99%) Windows 10
7 60 (1.93%) Windows Server 2012
8 55 (1.77%) Windows Server 2016
9 53 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
10 43 (1.38%) Mac OS
11 40 (1.29%) Unix
12 37 (1.19%) VMS
13 31 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 29 (0.93%) Ubuntu
15 11 (0.35%) CentOS
15 11 (0.35%) 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 1,046 (33.66%) Agile
2 848 (27.28%) DevOps
3 503 (16.18%) Full Stack Development
4 456 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
5 404 (13.00%) Mentoring
6 374 (12.03%) Software Engineering
7 368 (11.84%) Microservices
8 343 (11.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 342 (11.00%) CI/CD
10 313 (10.07%) Migration
11 312 (10.04%) MVC
12 295 (9.49%) ITIL
13 288 (9.27%) Roadmaps
14 245 (7.88%) Business Intelligence
15 235 (7.56%) ETL
16 234 (7.53%) Scrum
17 230 (7.40%) Coaching
17 230 (7.40%) Customer Service
18 225 (7.24%) Web Development
19 223 (7.18%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 875 (28.15%) C#
2 801 (25.77%) SQL
3 720 (23.17%) JavaScript
4 380 (12.23%) Python
5 244 (7.85%) PowerShell
6 213 (6.85%) TypeScript
7 172 (5.53%) Java
8 139 (4.47%) T-SQL
9 47 (1.51%) Bash
10 37 (1.19%) VB.NET
11 31 (1.00%) PHP
12 29 (0.93%) Go
13 20 (0.64%) Groovy
13 20 (0.64%) VB
14 18 (0.58%) Ruby
15 17 (0.55%) Bicep
15 17 (0.55%) C++
16 16 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 16 (0.51%) VB6
17 13 (0.42%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 260 (8.37%) Degree
2 208 (6.69%) Security Cleared
3 191 (6.15%) Azure Certification
4 171 (5.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 166 (5.34%) SC Cleared
6 97 (3.12%) Cisco Certification
7 79 (2.54%) AWS Certification
8 59 (1.90%) CISSP
9 58 (1.87%) DBS Check
10 56 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
11 53 (1.71%) CCNA
12 37 (1.19%) CCNP
13 36 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 36 (1.16%) DV Cleared
14 33 (1.06%) CCSP
15 29 (0.93%) CISM
16 27 (0.87%) Master's Degree
17 26 (0.84%) CCSK
18 17 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 17 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (4.41%) Data Quality
2 92 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 90 (2.90%) GDPR
4 84 (2.70%) QA
5 79 (2.54%) SLA
6 58 (1.87%) NIST
7 42 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 25 (0.80%) Accessibility
8 25 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.26%) PSD2
10 7 (0.23%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.19%) PMO
12 4 (0.13%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.064%) GRC
13 2 (0.064%) 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 (18.15%) Active Directory
2 202 (6.50%) Hyper-V
3 196 (6.31%) Docker
4 174 (5.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 70 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
6 43 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
7 28 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (0.48%) Terminal Services
9 14 (0.45%) vSphere
10 9 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.29%) VMware Server
11 7 (0.23%) XenApp
11 7 (0.23%) XenDesktop
12 4 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.097%) Firmware
14 2 (0.064%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.032%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.032%) Embedded Firmware
15 1 (0.032%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 264 (8.49%) Kubernetes
1 264 (8.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 229 (7.37%) Terraform
3 95 (3.06%) Ansible
4 54 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
5 29 (0.93%) Progress Chef
6 26 (0.84%) SCCM
7 24 (0.77%) Puppet
8 22 (0.71%) Grafana
9 21 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 21 (0.68%) Prometheus
10 16 (0.51%) SCOM
11 15 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
11 15 (0.48%) ZABBIX
12 14 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
13 13 (0.42%) Autotask
13 13 (0.42%) vCenter Server
14 12 (0.39%) FortiGate
14 12 (0.39%) Opsgenie
14 12 (0.39%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,276 (41.06%) Microsoft
2 304 (9.78%) VMware
3 200 (6.44%) Google
4 144 (4.63%) Cisco
5 128 (4.12%) IBM
6 123 (3.96%) Oracle
7 96 (3.09%) Red Hat
8 94 (3.02%) Citrix
9 85 (2.73%) ESRI
10 79 (2.54%) Databricks
11 62 (1.99%) Veeam
12 51 (1.64%) Informatica
13 48 (1.54%) Fortinet
14 47 (1.51%) SolarWinds
15 41 (1.32%) ServiceNow
16 35 (1.13%) SAP
17 29 (0.93%) Apple
18 26 (0.84%) Splunk
19 25 (0.80%) Commvault
20 24 (0.77%) Datto