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

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,238 3,927 3,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.75% 24.67% 21.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.94% 55.39% 50.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,538 2,050 2,393
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 6,484 7,090 7,791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 33.55% 44.54% 41.74%
Number of salaries quoted 5,085 3,828 5,256
10th Percentile £28,775 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,750 £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 £69,500 £71,906 £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 6 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 6 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 1,736 £57,500 +4.55% 372
Yorkshire +1 1,092 £55,000 - 219
North East +5 412 £50,000 -9.09% 72
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 (5.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 172 (5.31%) SharePoint
3 85 (2.63%) ArcGIS
3 85 (2.63%) GeoServer
4 41 (1.27%) Confluence
5 40 (1.24%) IIS
6 24 (0.74%) CMS
7 23 (0.71%) Apache Spark
8 16 (0.49%) Apache
9 13 (0.40%) Umbraco
10 12 (0.37%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.28%) Apache Solr
11 9 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
12 8 (0.25%) NServiceBus
13 5 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
14 4 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 4 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 4 (0.12%) Skype for Business
15 3 (0.093%) BizTalk Server
15 3 (0.093%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 88 (2.72%) 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%) SystmOne
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
Cloud Services
1 916 (28.29%) AWS
2 709 (21.90%) Microsoft 365
3 449 (13.87%) Azure DevOps
4 325 (10.04%) Power Platform
5 324 (10.01%) GCP
6 294 (9.08%) Entra ID
7 169 (5.22%) SaaS
8 109 (3.37%) Serverless
9 108 (3.34%) Dynamics 365
10 98 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
11 96 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
12 92 (2.84%) PowerApps
13 83 (2.56%) Power Automate
14 82 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
15 80 (2.47%) Azure Logic Apps
15 80 (2.47%) IBM Cloud
16 79 (2.44%) GitHub
17 77 (2.38%) PaaS
18 68 (2.10%) Azure Functions
19 65 (2.01%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 276 (8.52%) Firewall
2 197 (6.08%) DNS
2 197 (6.08%) WAN
3 155 (4.79%) LAN
4 138 (4.26%) DHCP
5 101 (3.12%) VPN
6 82 (2.53%) Internet
7 75 (2.32%) SAN
8 74 (2.29%) TCP/IP
9 62 (1.91%) Network Security
10 56 (1.73%) SD-WAN
10 56 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
11 46 (1.42%) VoIP
12 37 (1.14%) Wireless
13 35 (1.08%) Intrusion Detection
14 32 (0.99%) SSL
15 31 (0.96%) WLAN
16 29 (0.90%) BGP
17 28 (0.86%) NAS
17 28 (0.86%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 592 (18.28%) SQL Server
2 236 (7.29%) Data Warehouse
3 226 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
4 217 (6.70%) Power BI
5 162 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 148 (4.57%) NoSQL
7 141 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 111 (3.43%) Relational Database
9 105 (3.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 102 (3.15%) Data Lake
11 101 (3.12%) DB2
12 90 (2.78%) GIS
13 85 (2.63%) QGIS
14 76 (2.35%) MySQL
15 71 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
16 61 (1.88%) Data Vault
17 60 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
18 47 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 45 (1.39%) BigQuery
20 43 (1.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 185 (5.71%) Git
2 127 (3.92%) JIRA
3 103 (3.18%) GitLab
4 50 (1.54%) Jenkins
5 35 (1.08%) Visual Studio
6 30 (0.93%) Selenium
7 26 (0.80%) CircleCI
8 24 (0.74%) Cypress.io
9 23 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
10 21 (0.65%) Artifactory
10 21 (0.65%) Postman
11 18 (0.56%) Jasmine
12 16 (0.49%) Karma Test Runner
13 10 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
13 10 (0.31%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.28%) Cucumber
15 8 (0.25%) JUnit
15 8 (0.25%) NUnit
16 7 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
17 6 (0.19%) Appium
General
1 717 (22.14%) Social Skills
2 386 (11.92%) Finance
3 257 (7.94%) Public Sector
4 203 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
5 158 (4.88%) Retail
6 146 (4.51%) Law
7 87 (2.69%) Legal
8 76 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 72 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
10 65 (2.01%) Manufacturing
11 58 (1.79%) Marketing
12 57 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
13 54 (1.67%) Games
14 46 (1.42%) Aerospace
15 43 (1.33%) Advertising
16 34 (1.05%) Banking
17 19 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
17 19 (0.59%) Telecoms
18 18 (0.56%) Automotive
19 17 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 856 (26.44%) Developer
2 488 (15.07%) Senior
3 430 (13.28%) .NET Developer
4 390 (12.04%) Lead
5 334 (10.32%) Architect
6 242 (7.47%) Software Engineer
7 203 (6.27%) C# Developer
8 185 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 171 (5.28%) Azure Engineer
10 167 (5.16%) Analyst
11 159 (4.91%) C# .NET Developer
12 153 (4.73%) Data Engineer
13 148 (4.57%) Cloud Engineer
14 138 (4.26%) IT Support
15 121 (3.74%) Senior Developer
16 120 (3.71%) IT Engineer
17 115 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
18 114 (3.52%) Senior Software Engineer
19 112 (3.46%) Support Engineer
20 106 (3.27%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 939 (29.00%) .NET
2 448 (13.84%) AngularJS
3 425 (13.13%) React
4 396 (12.23%) .NET Core
5 374 (11.55%) CSS
6 358 (11.06%) ASP.NET
7 342 (10.56%) HTML
8 291 (8.99%) ASP.NET Web API
9 264 (8.15%) .NET Framework
10 239 (7.38%) Entity Framework
11 202 (6.24%) RESTful
12 195 (6.02%) Node.js
13 183 (5.65%) ASP.NET MVC
14 171 (5.28%) Vue
15 169 (5.22%) REST
16 165 (5.10%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 138 (4.26%) Web Services
18 123 (3.80%) jQuery
19 118 (3.64%) HTML5
20 93 (2.87%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 234 (7.23%) Public Cloud
2 150 (4.63%) Data Structures
3 132 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 97 (3.00%) Management Information System
5 93 (2.87%) Algorithms
6 87 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
7 82 (2.53%) Blockchain
8 81 (2.50%) Cloud Native
9 77 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
10 59 (1.82%) Driving Licence
11 53 (1.64%) Product Ownership
12 47 (1.45%) Reinsurance
13 45 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
14 41 (1.27%) 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
1 640 (19.77%) Windows
2 290 (8.96%) Linux
2 290 (8.96%) Windows Server
3 138 (4.26%) Android
4 115 (3.55%) Apple iOS
5 94 (2.90%) Windows 10
6 62 (1.91%) Windows Server 2012
7 58 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
8 57 (1.76%) Windows Server 2019
9 42 (1.30%) Mac OS
10 40 (1.24%) VMS
11 31 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 28 (0.86%) Ubuntu
13 23 (0.71%) 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 6 (0.19%) Windows Vista
19 5 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,061 (32.77%) Agile
2 877 (27.08%) DevOps
3 531 (16.40%) Full Stack Development
4 462 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
5 419 (12.94%) Mentoring
6 384 (11.86%) Software Engineering
7 375 (11.58%) Microservices
8 369 (11.40%) CI/CD
9 344 (10.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 319 (9.85%) Migration
11 312 (9.64%) MVC
12 290 (8.96%) ITIL
13 283 (8.74%) Roadmaps
14 256 (7.91%) Business Intelligence
15 247 (7.63%) Scrum
16 243 (7.50%) ETL
17 230 (7.10%) Customer Service
18 229 (7.07%) Coaching
19 226 (6.98%) Web Development
20 223 (6.89%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 931 (28.75%) C#
2 809 (24.98%) SQL
3 734 (22.67%) JavaScript
4 390 (12.04%) Python
5 259 (8.00%) PowerShell
6 222 (6.86%) TypeScript
7 159 (4.91%) Java
8 138 (4.26%) T-SQL
9 45 (1.39%) Bash
10 38 (1.17%) VB.NET
11 32 (0.99%) Go
12 31 (0.96%) PHP
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%) Groovy
18 14 (0.43%) C++
19 13 (0.40%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 263 (8.12%) Degree
2 210 (6.49%) Security Cleared
3 191 (5.90%) Azure Certification
4 171 (5.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 170 (5.25%) SC Cleared
6 94 (2.90%) 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 51 (1.58%) CCNA
11 37 (1.14%) CCNP
12 35 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 33 (1.02%) DV Cleared
14 32 (0.99%) CCSP
15 29 (0.90%) CISM
16 27 (0.83%) Master's Degree
17 26 (0.80%) CCSK
18 17 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 17 (0.53%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (4.39%) Data Quality
2 92 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 92 (2.84%) QA
3 86 (2.66%) SLA
4 80 (2.47%) GDPR
5 58 (1.79%) NIST
6 45 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
7 26 (0.80%) PCI DSS
8 25 (0.77%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.22%) PSD2
9 7 (0.22%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.19%) PMO
11 4 (0.12%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.062%) GRC
12 2 (0.062%) NCSC
13 1 (0.031%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.031%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.031%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.031%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 570 (17.60%) Active Directory
2 207 (6.39%) Hyper-V
3 201 (6.21%) Docker
4 172 (5.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 74 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
6 41 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
7 28 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (0.46%) 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%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.062%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 2 (0.062%) Firmware
14 2 (0.062%) Microsoft App-V
15 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.031%) Snort
15 1 (0.031%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 269 (8.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 267 (8.25%) Kubernetes
3 234 (7.23%) Terraform
4 101 (3.12%) Ansible
5 54 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
6 28 (0.86%) Progress Chef
7 27 (0.83%) Puppet
8 25 (0.77%) SCCM
9 23 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 23 (0.71%) Grafana
10 22 (0.68%) Prometheus
11 16 (0.49%) Failover Clustering
11 16 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
12 15 (0.46%) Autotask
12 15 (0.46%) ZABBIX
13 14 (0.43%) SCOM
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 1,302 (40.21%) Microsoft
2 306 (9.45%) VMware
3 194 (5.99%) Google
4 142 (4.39%) Cisco
5 117 (3.61%) Oracle
6 116 (3.58%) IBM
7 97 (3.00%) Red Hat
8 95 (2.93%) Citrix
9 86 (2.66%) Databricks
10 85 (2.63%) ESRI
11 61 (1.88%) Informatica
12 60 (1.85%) 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%) Splunk