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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 298 288 340
Rank change year-on-year -10 +52 -98
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 15 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.13% 0.028% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.031% 0.032%
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile - £47,625 £49,850
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,813 £54,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% -18.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £55,313 £63,750
90th Percentile - £55,875 -
England median annual salary £90,000 £65,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +38.46% -16.13% +63.16%

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 10,836 6,498 9,523
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.00% 89.52% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,080 3,977 5,427
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,500 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

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
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 12 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
Manchester +26 14 £60,000 +17.07% 3
Lancashire - 1 - -
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 12 June 2024, 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 15 (100.00%) Azure
1 15 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 11 (73.33%) Analytics
3 10 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (66.67%) Machine Learning
3 10 (66.67%) DataOps
4 8 (53.33%) DevOps
4 8 (53.33%) Python
4 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
5 7 (46.67%) Windows
5 7 (46.67%) Windows Server
5 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (40.00%) Power Platform
6 6 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (40.00%) Databricks
6 6 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (40.00%) Power BI
6 6 (40.00%) Data Centre
6 6 (40.00%) Data Engineering
6 6 (40.00%) ITIL
6 6 (40.00%) ETL
6 6 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (40.00%) Firewall
6 6 (40.00%) Business Continuity
6 6 (40.00%) Information Security
6 6 (40.00%) Visualisation
6 6 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
7 4 (26.67%) Data Science

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 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 6 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (13.33%) IaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
1 1 (6.67%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Windows
1 7 (46.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 11 (73.33%) Analytics
2 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
3 10 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (66.67%) DataOps
3 10 (66.67%) Machine Learning
4 8 (53.33%) DevOps
5 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (40.00%) Business Continuity
6 6 (40.00%) Data Engineering
6 6 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (40.00%) ETL
6 6 (40.00%) Information Security
6 6 (40.00%) ITIL
6 6 (40.00%) Visualisation
7 4 (26.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
7 4 (26.67%) Data Science
7 4 (26.67%) MLOps
7 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (26.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.67%) Go
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Ansible
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Packer
2 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (40.00%) Databricks