Microsoft Azure
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 17,091 21,516 32,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.24% 22.70% 19.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.31% 52.65% 39.29%
Number of salaries quoted 13,278 13,901 18,844
10th Percentile £33,990 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £63,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.35% +0.80% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 36,127 40,865 82,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.32% 43.11% 48.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,017 27,416 41,323
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,553 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +6.85%
75th Percentile £77,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the UK

Azure
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure.

Salary trend for Azure in the UK

Azure
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure in the UK

Azure
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England -1 15,147 £59,000 -9.23% 3,396
UK excluding London -1 11,614 £53,500 -2.73% 2,225
Work from Home +1 7,663 £60,000 -7.69% 1,947
London 0 4,702 £75,000 - 1,318
North of England 0 3,215 £55,000 - 666
South East -2 2,862 £55,000 -4.35% 474
Midlands +2 2,002 £52,500 -4.55% 404
North West 0 1,712 £57,500 +4.55% 382
South West -3 1,422 £55,000 - 304
West Midlands +1 1,184 £55,000 - 251
Yorkshire +1 1,096 £55,000 - 215
East Midlands +2 814 £48,500 -7.62% 153
Scotland -22 811 £55,000 -4.86% 163
East of England 0 794 £50,000 - 147
North East +5 409 £50,000 -9.09% 71
Wales -1 360 £50,000 +8.20% 62
Northern Ireland -5 134 £60,000 +14.29% 46
Isle of Man -2 17 £46,500 -33.57% 2
Channel Islands +2 5 £85,000 -5.56%

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1,151 (6.73%) SharePoint
2 1,057 (6.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 334 (1.95%) ArcGIS
4 332 (1.94%) GeoServer
5 280 (1.64%) IIS
6 261 (1.53%) Apache
7 214 (1.25%) Apache Spark
8 190 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
9 144 (0.84%) CMS
10 139 (0.81%) Confluence
11 99 (0.58%) Umbraco
12 58 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
13 55 (0.32%) WebLogic
14 51 (0.30%) OpenStack
15 49 (0.29%) Kentico
16 41 (0.24%) Headless CMS
17 37 (0.22%) WordPress
18 35 (0.20%) nginx
19 34 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
20 30 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 543 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
2 247 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 65 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (0.24%) MS Visio
5 29 (0.17%) Trello
6 27 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
6 27 (0.16%) Simulink
7 8 (0.047%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.047%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.041%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.035%) LightWave 3D
10 5 (0.029%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.023%) SPSS
12 3 (0.018%) S-PLUS
13 2 (0.012%) 1Password
13 2 (0.012%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.012%) CATIA
13 2 (0.012%) NASTRAN
13 2 (0.012%) Revit
13 2 (0.012%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 274 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 81 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 38 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
4 31 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 13 (0.076%) Teamcenter
6 12 (0.070%) Oracle EBS
7 11 (0.064%) Remedy ITSM
8 10 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
8 10 (0.059%) SAP S/4HANA
9 9 (0.053%) Elite 3E
9 9 (0.053%) Salesforce CRM
10 7 (0.041%) Maximo
11 6 (0.035%) Oracle General Ledger
11 6 (0.035%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 6 (0.035%) Primavera
11 6 (0.035%) SAP PLM
12 5 (0.029%) NetSuite
12 5 (0.029%) SAP IBP
12 5 (0.029%) SAP PP
13 4 (0.023%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 5,269 (30.83%) AWS
2 3,782 (22.13%) Microsoft 365
3 2,297 (13.44%) Azure DevOps
4 2,054 (12.02%) GCP
5 1,968 (11.51%) Power Platform
6 1,780 (10.41%) Entra ID
7 1,037 (6.07%) SaaS
8 685 (4.01%) Dynamics 365
9 683 (4.00%) Serverless
10 665 (3.89%) PaaS
11 583 (3.41%) IaaS
12 513 (3.00%) PowerApps
13 505 (2.95%) Azure Data Factory
14 462 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
15 437 (2.56%) GitHub
16 429 (2.51%) Power Automate
17 379 (2.22%) OneDrive
18 373 (2.18%) Azure Logic Apps
19 371 (2.17%) Azure Functions
20 351 (2.05%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1,747 (10.22%) Firewall
2 1,153 (6.75%) DNS
3 852 (4.99%) WAN
4 717 (4.20%) DHCP
5 680 (3.98%) LAN
6 633 (3.70%) VPN
7 547 (3.20%) TCP/IP
8 401 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
9 392 (2.29%) SAN
10 362 (2.12%) Internet
11 352 (2.06%) Network Security
12 321 (1.88%) Wireless
13 311 (1.82%) Broadband
14 303 (1.77%) VLAN
15 268 (1.57%) SD-WAN
16 212 (1.24%) 5G
17 187 (1.09%) VoIP
18 138 (0.81%) BGP
19 137 (0.80%) Remote Desktop
20 117 (0.68%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,879 (16.85%) SQL Server
2 1,382 (8.09%) Power BI
3 1,110 (6.49%) Data Warehouse
4 1,015 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
5 716 (4.19%) NoSQL
6 700 (4.10%) MongoDB
7 636 (3.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 633 (3.70%) Data Lake
9 521 (3.05%) Relational Database
10 459 (2.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 378 (2.21%) GIS
12 361 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
13 330 (1.93%) QGIS
14 290 (1.70%) MySQL
15 289 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 266 (1.56%) DB2
17 263 (1.54%) Big Data
18 249 (1.46%) BigQuery
19 208 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
19 208 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 961 (5.62%) Git
2 546 (3.19%) JIRA
3 465 (2.72%) Jenkins
4 332 (1.94%) GitLab
5 295 (1.73%) Visual Studio
6 156 (0.91%) Selenium
7 146 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 135 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
9 105 (0.61%) Postman
10 85 (0.50%) NUnit
11 65 (0.38%) SonarQube
12 62 (0.36%) TeamCity
13 61 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
14 59 (0.35%) Bitbucket
15 58 (0.34%) JMeter
16 57 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
17 53 (0.31%) CircleCI
18 48 (0.28%) Cucumber
18 48 (0.28%) Jasmine
19 42 (0.25%) Artifactory
General
1 3,910 (22.88%) Social Skills
2 2,766 (16.18%) Finance
3 1,482 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
4 993 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 977 (5.72%) Public Sector
6 643 (3.76%) Law
7 617 (3.61%) Retail
8 459 (2.69%) Legal
9 451 (2.64%) Banking
10 442 (2.59%) Marketing
11 403 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
12 290 (1.70%) Manufacturing
13 286 (1.67%) Front Office
14 237 (1.39%) Telecoms
15 220 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
16 209 (1.22%) Aerospace
17 206 (1.21%) Games
18 164 (0.96%) Advertising
19 131 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
20 126 (0.74%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 4,220 (24.69%) Developer
2 3,061 (17.91%) Senior
3 1,986 (11.62%) Architect
4 1,894 (11.08%) .NET Developer
5 1,538 (9.00%) Lead
6 1,367 (8.00%) Software Engineer
7 1,043 (6.10%) Analyst
8 975 (5.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 840 (4.91%) Azure Engineer
10 827 (4.84%) Support Engineer
11 825 (4.83%) Senior Developer
12 805 (4.71%) C# Developer
13 727 (4.25%) IT Support
14 711 (4.16%) Data Engineer
15 710 (4.15%) IT Engineer
16 636 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
17 609 (3.56%) C# .NET Developer
18 573 (3.35%) Full Stack Developer
19 540 (3.16%) Senior Software Engineer
20 537 (3.14%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,390 (25.69%) .NET
2 2,093 (12.25%) React
3 1,907 (11.16%) AngularJS
4 1,816 (10.63%) .NET Core
5 1,793 (10.49%) ASP.NET
6 1,573 (9.20%) CSS
7 1,501 (8.78%) HTML
8 1,153 (6.75%) .NET Framework
9 1,086 (6.35%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1,001 (5.86%) Entity Framework
11 903 (5.28%) Vue
12 878 (5.14%) ASP.NET MVC
13 832 (4.87%) Node.js
14 776 (4.54%) REST
15 727 (4.25%) RESTful
16 618 (3.62%) Web Services
17 591 (3.46%) HTML5
18 510 (2.98%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 448 (2.62%) Blazor
20 432 (2.53%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 756 (4.42%) Public Cloud
2 538 (3.15%) Management Information System
3 494 (2.89%) Cloud Native
4 463 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 459 (2.69%) Product Ownership
6 455 (2.66%) Data Structures
6 455 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
7 438 (2.56%) Algorithms
8 431 (2.52%) Data Centre
9 428 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
10 307 (1.80%) Onboarding
11 302 (1.77%) Social Media
12 300 (1.76%) Blockchain
13 275 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
14 258 (1.51%) Fixed Income
15 245 (1.43%) Hedge funds
16 238 (1.39%) Driving Licence
17 221 (1.29%) PKI
18 218 (1.28%) Mobile App
19 210 (1.23%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 3,436 (20.10%) Windows
2 1,780 (10.41%) Linux
3 1,660 (9.71%) Windows Server
4 610 (3.57%) Windows 10
5 536 (3.14%) Android
6 466 (2.73%) Apple iOS
7 409 (2.39%) Ubuntu
8 318 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 272 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
10 230 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
11 198 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 175 (1.02%) Unix
13 157 (0.92%) VMS
14 155 (0.91%) CentOS
15 141 (0.82%) Mac OS
16 99 (0.58%) Debian
17 53 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.23%) Alpine Linux
19 33 (0.19%) Windows 7
20 32 (0.19%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,470 (32.01%) Agile
2 4,603 (26.93%) DevOps
3 2,610 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
4 2,462 (14.41%) Full Stack Development
5 2,270 (13.28%) Software Engineering
6 2,172 (12.71%) CI/CD
7 1,780 (10.41%) Microservices
8 1,573 (9.20%) Mentoring
9 1,504 (8.80%) MVC
10 1,464 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
11 1,436 (8.40%) Artificial Intelligence
11 1,436 (8.40%) Scrum
12 1,385 (8.10%) Cybersecurity
13 1,309 (7.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 1,256 (7.35%) Migration
15 1,252 (7.33%) ITIL
16 1,229 (7.19%) Analytics
17 1,222 (7.15%) Roadmaps
18 1,101 (6.44%) ETL
19 1,041 (6.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4,288 (25.09%) C#
2 4,117 (24.09%) SQL
3 3,376 (19.75%) JavaScript
4 2,707 (15.84%) Python
5 1,461 (8.55%) PowerShell
6 1,318 (7.71%) Java
7 1,234 (7.22%) TypeScript
8 605 (3.54%) T-SQL
9 588 (3.44%) Bash
10 182 (1.06%) Bicep
11 179 (1.05%) Go
12 155 (0.91%) C++
13 148 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 140 (0.82%) R
15 113 (0.66%) Kotlin
16 103 (0.60%) Ruby
16 103 (0.60%) Scala
17 101 (0.59%) PHP
18 89 (0.52%) VB.NET
19 84 (0.49%) C
Qualifications
1 1,887 (11.04%) Degree
2 1,691 (9.89%) Security Cleared
3 1,258 (7.36%) SC Cleared
4 883 (5.17%) Azure Certification
5 838 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 551 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 437 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
8 360 (2.11%) AWS Certification
9 308 (1.80%) CISSP
10 307 (1.80%) DV Cleared
11 294 (1.72%) CCNA
12 238 (1.39%) DBS Check
13 198 (1.16%) Master's Degree
14 197 (1.15%) MCSE
15 161 (0.94%) CISM
16 153 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
17 150 (0.88%) CCNP
18 125 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
19 112 (0.66%) MCSA
20 110 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 718 (4.20%) QA
2 474 (2.77%) Data Quality
3 425 (2.49%) GDPR
4 411 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 308 (1.80%) SLA
6 238 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
7 220 (1.29%) NIST
8 156 (0.91%) Accessibility
9 119 (0.70%) PCI DSS
10 65 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 49 (0.29%) NCSC
12 47 (0.27%) PMO
13 34 (0.20%) COBIT
13 34 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 31 (0.18%) GRC
14 31 (0.18%) HIPAA
15 26 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 26 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 26 (0.15%) SOC 2
16 16 (0.094%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2,990 (17.49%) Active Directory
2 1,238 (7.24%) Docker
3 1,091 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 909 (5.32%) Hyper-V
5 394 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
6 205 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 198 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
8 180 (1.05%) vSphere
9 91 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
10 66 (0.39%) XenApp
11 55 (0.32%) XenDesktop
12 50 (0.29%) VMware NSX
13 34 (0.20%) Firmware
14 31 (0.18%) Terminal Services
15 24 (0.14%) KVM
16 18 (0.11%) VMware Server
17 16 (0.094%) HDFS
18 14 (0.082%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 11 (0.064%) NFS
20 10 (0.059%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 1,500 (8.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 1,480 (8.66%) Kubernetes
3 1,388 (8.12%) Terraform
4 646 (3.78%) Ansible
5 324 (1.90%) SCCM
6 265 (1.55%) Jamf Pro
7 203 (1.19%) Puppet
8 170 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
9 149 (0.87%) vCenter Server
10 125 (0.73%) Progress Chef
11 111 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 109 (0.64%) Grafana
13 100 (0.59%) Prometheus
14 88 (0.51%) WSUS
15 82 (0.48%) SCOM
16 70 (0.41%) FortiGate
17 53 (0.31%) CASB
18 47 (0.27%) Nagios
19 40 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
20 36 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7,282 (42.61%) Microsoft
2 1,668 (9.76%) VMware
3 1,097 (6.42%) Google
4 822 (4.81%) Cisco
5 606 (3.55%) Databricks
6 482 (2.82%) Oracle
7 440 (2.57%) Red Hat
8 438 (2.56%) Citrix
9 378 (2.21%) IBM
10 356 (2.08%) Veeam
11 335 (1.96%) ESRI
12 254 (1.49%) CyberArk
13 229 (1.34%) Meraki
14 227 (1.33%) HP
15 210 (1.23%) Tanium
16 192 (1.12%) ServiceNow
17 171 (1.00%) Fortinet
18 168 (0.98%) Dell
19 151 (0.88%) Apple
20 148 (0.87%) SolarWinds