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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,243 3,904 3,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.44% 24.60% 21.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.78% 55.50% 50.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,534 2,053 2,405
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,750
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 6,515 7,034 7,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 33.03% 44.33% 41.88%
Number of salaries quoted 5,092 3,845 5,248
10th Percentile £28,756 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,750 £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 £68,750 £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 9 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 9 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 1,740 £57,500 +4.55% 377
Yorkshire +1 1,093 £55,000 - 224
North East +5 412 £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
1 191 (5.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 172 (5.30%) SharePoint
3 82 (2.53%) ArcGIS
3 82 (2.53%) GeoServer
4 42 (1.30%) Confluence
5 40 (1.23%) IIS
6 24 (0.74%) Apache Spark
6 24 (0.74%) CMS
7 16 (0.49%) Apache
8 13 (0.40%) Umbraco
9 12 (0.37%) WebLogic
10 9 (0.28%) Apache Solr
10 9 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
11 8 (0.25%) NServiceBus
12 5 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
13 4 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 4 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 4 (0.12%) Skype for Business
14 3 (0.093%) BizTalk Server
14 3 (0.093%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 89 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.25%) Photoshop
4 7 (0.22%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.22%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.19%) LightWave 3D
6 2 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.062%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.062%) Sketch
7 1 (0.031%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.031%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.031%) Trello
Business Applications
1 62 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
4 8 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.15%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.15%) SAP PP
6 3 (0.093%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.062%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.062%) Temenos T24
8 1 (0.031%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.031%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.031%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.031%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 913 (28.15%) AWS
2 710 (21.89%) Microsoft 365
3 445 (13.72%) Azure DevOps
4 327 (10.08%) Power Platform
5 318 (9.81%) GCP
6 293 (9.03%) Entra ID
7 168 (5.18%) SaaS
8 108 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
9 107 (3.30%) Serverless
10 98 (3.02%) Azure Data Factory
10 98 (3.02%) Cloud Computing
11 93 (2.87%) PowerApps
12 84 (2.59%) Power Automate
13 80 (2.47%) Azure Service Bus
13 80 (2.47%) GitHub
13 80 (2.47%) IBM Cloud
14 79 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
15 73 (2.25%) PaaS
16 68 (2.10%) Azure Functions
17 63 (1.94%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 279 (8.60%) Firewall
2 197 (6.07%) WAN
3 196 (6.04%) DNS
4 154 (4.75%) LAN
5 138 (4.26%) DHCP
6 101 (3.11%) VPN
7 82 (2.53%) Internet
8 75 (2.31%) SAN
9 73 (2.25%) TCP/IP
10 63 (1.94%) Network Security
11 56 (1.73%) SD-WAN
11 56 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
12 45 (1.39%) VoIP
13 37 (1.14%) Wireless
14 36 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
15 32 (0.99%) SSL
16 30 (0.93%) WLAN
17 29 (0.89%) BGP
18 28 (0.86%) NAS
19 27 (0.83%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 594 (18.32%) SQL Server
2 234 (7.22%) Data Warehouse
3 224 (6.91%) PostgreSQL
4 217 (6.69%) Power BI
5 162 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 147 (4.53%) NoSQL
7 142 (4.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 113 (3.48%) Relational Database
9 105 (3.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 101 (3.11%) Data Lake
10 101 (3.11%) DB2
11 87 (2.68%) GIS
12 82 (2.53%) QGIS
13 75 (2.31%) MySQL
14 71 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
15 61 (1.88%) Data Vault
16 59 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
17 48 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 45 (1.39%) BigQuery
19 43 (1.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 185 (5.70%) Git
2 129 (3.98%) JIRA
3 102 (3.15%) GitLab
4 47 (1.45%) Jenkins
5 35 (1.08%) Visual Studio
6 30 (0.93%) Selenium
7 26 (0.80%) CircleCI
8 24 (0.74%) Cypress.io
8 24 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
9 21 (0.65%) Artifactory
9 21 (0.65%) Postman
10 18 (0.56%) Jasmine
11 16 (0.49%) Karma Test Runner
12 10 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
12 10 (0.31%) SonarQube
13 9 (0.28%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.25%) JUnit
14 8 (0.25%) NUnit
15 6 (0.19%) JMeter
15 6 (0.19%) TeamCity
General
1 717 (22.11%) Social Skills
2 380 (11.72%) Finance
3 256 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 204 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
5 159 (4.90%) Retail
6 146 (4.50%) Law
7 86 (2.65%) Legal
8 78 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 71 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
10 65 (2.00%) Manufacturing
11 58 (1.79%) Marketing
12 56 (1.73%) Games
13 53 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
14 46 (1.42%) Aerospace
15 45 (1.39%) Advertising
16 27 (0.83%) Banking
17 19 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
17 19 (0.59%) Telecoms
18 18 (0.56%) Automotive
19 17 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 862 (26.58%) Developer
2 479 (14.77%) Senior
3 436 (13.44%) .NET Developer
4 391 (12.06%) Lead
5 330 (10.18%) Architect
6 240 (7.40%) Software Engineer
7 208 (6.41%) C# Developer
8 183 (5.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 174 (5.37%) Azure Engineer
10 165 (5.09%) Analyst
11 162 (5.00%) C# .NET Developer
12 155 (4.78%) Data Engineer
13 149 (4.59%) Cloud Engineer
14 138 (4.26%) IT Support
15 120 (3.70%) IT Engineer
16 118 (3.64%) Senior Developer
17 113 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
18 111 (3.42%) Senior Software Engineer
19 108 (3.33%) Support Engineer
20 107 (3.30%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 946 (29.17%) .NET
2 451 (13.91%) AngularJS
3 424 (13.07%) React
4 397 (12.24%) .NET Core
5 375 (11.56%) CSS
6 358 (11.04%) ASP.NET
7 342 (10.55%) HTML
8 296 (9.13%) ASP.NET Web API
9 267 (8.23%) .NET Framework
10 242 (7.46%) Entity Framework
11 204 (6.29%) RESTful
12 193 (5.95%) Node.js
13 183 (5.64%) ASP.NET MVC
14 171 (5.27%) Vue
15 169 (5.21%) REST
16 165 (5.09%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 138 (4.26%) Web Services
18 123 (3.79%) jQuery
19 119 (3.67%) HTML5
20 93 (2.87%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 231 (7.12%) Public Cloud
2 150 (4.63%) Data Structures
3 132 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
4 97 (2.99%) Management Information System
5 93 (2.87%) Algorithms
6 86 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
7 81 (2.50%) Cloud Native
8 80 (2.47%) Blockchain
9 77 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
10 59 (1.82%) Driving Licence
11 51 (1.57%) Product Ownership
12 47 (1.45%) Reinsurance
13 45 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
14 42 (1.30%) Data Centre
15 37 (1.14%) e-Learning
15 37 (1.14%) PKI
16 35 (1.08%) IoT
16 35 (1.08%) Mobile App
17 34 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
18 33 (1.02%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 633 (19.52%) Windows
2 287 (8.85%) Windows Server
3 283 (8.73%) Linux
4 138 (4.26%) Android
5 115 (3.55%) Apple iOS
6 93 (2.87%) Windows 10
7 62 (1.91%) Windows Server 2012
8 57 (1.76%) Windows Server 2016
8 57 (1.76%) Windows Server 2019
9 42 (1.30%) Mac OS
10 40 (1.23%) VMS
11 31 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 25 (0.77%) Ubuntu
13 21 (0.65%) Unix
14 12 (0.37%) CentOS
15 11 (0.34%) Debian
16 10 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
17 9 (0.28%) Windows Phone
18 5 (0.15%) Windows 7
18 5 (0.15%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,059 (32.65%) Agile
2 871 (26.86%) DevOps
3 539 (16.62%) Full Stack Development
4 462 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
5 416 (12.83%) Mentoring
6 380 (11.72%) Software Engineering
7 376 (11.59%) Microservices
8 367 (11.32%) CI/CD
9 343 (10.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 318 (9.81%) Migration
11 312 (9.62%) MVC
12 285 (8.79%) ITIL
13 284 (8.76%) Roadmaps
14 254 (7.83%) Business Intelligence
15 249 (7.68%) Scrum
16 243 (7.49%) ETL
17 230 (7.09%) Coaching
18 225 (6.94%) Customer Service
19 223 (6.88%) Web Development
20 217 (6.69%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 939 (28.95%) C#
2 800 (24.67%) SQL
3 733 (22.60%) JavaScript
4 386 (11.90%) Python
5 259 (7.99%) PowerShell
6 226 (6.97%) TypeScript
7 159 (4.90%) Java
8 138 (4.26%) T-SQL
9 45 (1.39%) Bash
10 38 (1.17%) VB.NET
11 31 (0.96%) PHP
12 30 (0.93%) Go
13 25 (0.77%) Bicep
14 20 (0.62%) VB
15 18 (0.56%) Ruby
16 16 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 16 (0.49%) VB6
17 15 (0.46%) C++
18 13 (0.40%) VBScript
19 12 (0.37%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 263 (8.11%) Degree
2 207 (6.38%) Security Cleared
3 192 (5.92%) Azure Certification
4 170 (5.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 168 (5.18%) SC Cleared
6 92 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
7 83 (2.56%) AWS Certification
8 58 (1.79%) CISSP
8 58 (1.79%) DBS Check
9 56 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
10 49 (1.51%) CCNA
11 37 (1.14%) CCNP
12 35 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 32 (0.99%) CCSP
13 32 (0.99%) DV Cleared
14 29 (0.89%) CISM
15 27 (0.83%) Master's Degree
16 26 (0.80%) CCSK
17 17 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 17 (0.52%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (4.38%) Data Quality
2 93 (2.87%) QA
3 91 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 85 (2.62%) SLA
5 80 (2.47%) GDPR
6 58 (1.79%) NIST
7 44 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 26 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.77%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.22%) PSD2
10 7 (0.22%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.19%) PMO
12 4 (0.12%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.062%) GRC
13 2 (0.062%) NCSC
14 1 (0.031%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.031%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.031%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 1 (0.031%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 568 (17.51%) Active Directory
2 206 (6.35%) Hyper-V
3 196 (6.04%) Docker
4 170 (5.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 76 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
6 41 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
7 28 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (0.49%) vSphere
9 12 (0.37%) Terminal Services
10 10 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.25%) VMware Server
12 6 (0.19%) XenApp
12 6 (0.19%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.093%) Firmware
13 3 (0.093%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.062%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 2 (0.062%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.062%) Microsoft App-V
15 1 (0.031%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 269 (8.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 262 (8.08%) Kubernetes
3 226 (6.97%) Terraform
4 98 (3.02%) Ansible
5 54 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (0.83%) Puppet
7 25 (0.77%) Progress Chef
8 24 (0.74%) SCCM
9 23 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 21 (0.65%) Grafana
11 20 (0.62%) Prometheus
12 16 (0.49%) Failover Clustering
12 16 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
13 15 (0.46%) Autotask
13 15 (0.46%) ZABBIX
14 14 (0.43%) SCOM
15 12 (0.37%) CA Single Sign-On
15 12 (0.37%) FortiGate
15 12 (0.37%) Opsgenie
15 12 (0.37%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,305 (40.24%) Microsoft
2 304 (9.37%) VMware
3 190 (5.86%) Google
4 142 (4.38%) Cisco
5 118 (3.64%) Oracle
6 113 (3.48%) IBM
7 97 (2.99%) Red Hat
8 95 (2.93%) Citrix
9 87 (2.68%) Databricks
10 82 (2.53%) ESRI
11 62 (1.91%) Informatica
12 61 (1.88%) Veeam
13 47 (1.45%) Fortinet
14 46 (1.42%) SolarWinds
15 36 (1.11%) ServiceNow
16 30 (0.93%) Apple
17 27 (0.83%) SAP
18 26 (0.80%) Datto
18 26 (0.80%) Sophos
19 23 (0.71%) Dell