Azure Jobs in England

Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 15,027 19,401 27,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.91% 22.41% 19.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.92% 51.37% 40.47%
Number of salaries quoted 12,007 12,524 16,638
10th Percentile £34,000 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £101,185 £100,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £64,029 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.85% +2.45% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
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 England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 30,717 37,770 67,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.57% 43.63% 48.22%
Number of salaries quoted 24,325 25,010 36,660
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,723 £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% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +7.76%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in England

Azure
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Azure in England

Azure
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure in England

Azure
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
London 0 4,671 £75,000 - 1,333
North of England 0 3,162 £55,000 - 736
South East -2 2,846 £55,000 -4.35% 480
Midlands +2 1,977 £51,000 -7.27% 430
North West 0 1,682 £57,500 +4.55% 403
South West -3 1,430 £55,000 - 326
West Midlands +1 1,176 £55,000 - 265
Yorkshire 0 1,081 £55,000 - 250
East Midlands +2 796 £48,500 -7.62% 165
East of England -1 789 £50,000 - 179
North East +4 401 £50,000 -9.09% 87
Azure
UK

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1,058 (7.04%) SharePoint
2 1,001 (6.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 261 (1.74%) IIS
4 248 (1.65%) Apache
5 200 (1.33%) ArcGIS
6 198 (1.32%) GeoServer
7 195 (1.30%) Apache Spark
8 188 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
9 131 (0.87%) CMS
10 125 (0.83%) Confluence
11 88 (0.59%) Umbraco
12 55 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
13 49 (0.33%) Kentico
14 48 (0.32%) OpenStack
15 41 (0.27%) Headless CMS
16 35 (0.23%) nginx
16 35 (0.23%) WebLogic
16 35 (0.23%) WordPress
17 34 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
18 30 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 521 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
2 222 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 50 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 35 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 29 (0.19%) Trello
7 25 (0.17%) Simulink
8 8 (0.053%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.053%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.040%) LightWave 3D
10 5 (0.033%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.027%) SPSS
12 3 (0.020%) S-PLUS
12 3 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
13 2 (0.013%) 1Password
13 2 (0.013%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.013%) CATIA
13 2 (0.013%) NASTRAN
13 2 (0.013%) Sketch
14 1 (0.007%) Notion
Business Applications
1 237 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 61 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 37 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
4 20 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
5 13 (0.087%) Teamcenter
6 11 (0.073%) SAP S/4HANA
7 10 (0.067%) Payment Gateway
7 10 (0.067%) Remedy ITSM
8 9 (0.060%) Elite 3E
8 9 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
8 9 (0.060%) Unit4 Business World
9 7 (0.047%) Maximo
10 6 (0.040%) Oracle General Ledger
10 6 (0.040%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 6 (0.040%) Primavera
10 6 (0.040%) SAP PLM
11 5 (0.033%) NetSuite
11 5 (0.033%) SAP IBP
11 5 (0.033%) SAP PP
12 4 (0.027%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 4,397 (29.26%) AWS
2 3,430 (22.83%) Microsoft 365
3 2,058 (13.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1,737 (11.56%) Power Platform
5 1,726 (11.49%) GCP
6 1,601 (10.65%) Entra ID
7 878 (5.84%) SaaS
8 625 (4.16%) Serverless
9 580 (3.86%) PaaS
10 574 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
11 513 (3.41%) IaaS
12 469 (3.12%) Azure Data Factory
13 433 (2.88%) PowerApps
14 383 (2.55%) GitHub
15 377 (2.51%) Cloud Computing
16 368 (2.45%) Power Automate
17 342 (2.28%) Azure Functions
18 336 (2.24%) OneDrive
19 323 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
19 323 (2.15%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1,605 (10.68%) Firewall
2 1,063 (7.07%) DNS
3 764 (5.08%) WAN
4 677 (4.51%) DHCP
5 613 (4.08%) LAN
6 572 (3.81%) VPN
7 486 (3.23%) TCP/IP
8 376 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
9 372 (2.48%) SAN
10 323 (2.15%) Internet
11 307 (2.04%) Network Security
12 301 (2.00%) Wireless
13 300 (2.00%) Broadband
14 274 (1.82%) VLAN
15 237 (1.58%) SD-WAN
16 212 (1.41%) 5G
17 176 (1.17%) VoIP
18 112 (0.75%) Remote Desktop
19 111 (0.74%) BGP
20 110 (0.73%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,625 (17.47%) SQL Server
2 1,247 (8.30%) Power BI
3 982 (6.53%) Data Warehouse
4 849 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
5 679 (4.52%) MongoDB
6 643 (4.28%) NoSQL
7 558 (3.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 533 (3.55%) Data Lake
9 451 (3.00%) Relational Database
10 433 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 341 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
12 278 (1.85%) MySQL
13 269 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 266 (1.77%) DB2
15 241 (1.60%) GIS
16 239 (1.59%) BigQuery
17 223 (1.48%) Big Data
18 196 (1.30%) QGIS
19 194 (1.29%) Looker
20 184 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 882 (5.87%) Git
2 484 (3.22%) JIRA
3 398 (2.65%) Jenkins
4 293 (1.95%) GitLab
5 268 (1.78%) Visual Studio
6 129 (0.86%) Cypress.io
7 125 (0.83%) Selenium
8 120 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
9 80 (0.53%) Postman
10 76 (0.51%) NUnit
11 61 (0.41%) TeamCity
12 59 (0.39%) Bitbucket
12 59 (0.39%) SonarQube
13 58 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
14 57 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
15 49 (0.33%) JMeter
16 45 (0.30%) Jasmine
17 44 (0.29%) Cucumber
18 41 (0.27%) CircleCI
19 38 (0.25%) Artifactory
General
1 3,444 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 2,381 (15.84%) Finance
3 1,380 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
4 880 (5.86%) Public Sector
5 742 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 570 (3.79%) Retail
7 493 (3.28%) Law
8 381 (2.54%) Banking
9 375 (2.50%) Legal
10 323 (2.15%) Marketing
11 298 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
12 288 (1.92%) Front Office
13 276 (1.84%) Manufacturing
14 213 (1.42%) Telecoms
15 204 (1.36%) Aerospace
16 199 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
17 152 (1.01%) Advertising
18 151 (1.00%) Games
19 126 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
20 119 (0.79%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3,750 (24.96%) Developer
2 2,526 (16.81%) Senior
3 1,741 (11.59%) .NET Developer
4 1,627 (10.83%) Architect
5 1,273 (8.47%) Lead
6 1,054 (7.01%) Software Engineer
7 948 (6.31%) Analyst
8 897 (5.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 763 (5.08%) Support Engineer
10 747 (4.97%) C# Developer
11 730 (4.86%) Azure Engineer
12 681 (4.53%) Senior Developer
13 675 (4.49%) IT Support
14 661 (4.40%) IT Engineer
15 618 (4.11%) Data Engineer
16 569 (3.79%) C# .NET Developer
17 541 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
18 506 (3.37%) Full Stack Developer
19 473 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
20 451 (3.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,815 (25.39%) .NET
2 1,838 (12.23%) React
3 1,736 (11.55%) AngularJS
4 1,677 (11.16%) ASP.NET
5 1,541 (10.25%) .NET Core
6 1,387 (9.23%) HTML
7 1,347 (8.96%) CSS
8 1,028 (6.84%) .NET Framework
9 981 (6.53%) ASP.NET Web API
10 897 (5.97%) Entity Framework
11 843 (5.61%) Vue
12 827 (5.50%) ASP.NET MVC
13 737 (4.90%) Node.js
14 706 (4.70%) REST
15 656 (4.37%) RESTful
16 560 (3.73%) HTML5
17 551 (3.67%) Web Services
18 489 (3.25%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 419 (2.79%) jQuery
20 409 (2.72%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 577 (3.84%) Public Cloud
2 462 (3.07%) Management Information System
3 436 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 429 (2.85%) Data Structures
5 427 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
6 417 (2.78%) Product Ownership
7 384 (2.56%) Cloud Native
8 374 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
9 362 (2.41%) Algorithms
10 360 (2.40%) Data Centre
11 299 (1.99%) Blockchain
12 280 (1.86%) Social Media
13 259 (1.72%) Fixed Income
14 245 (1.63%) Hedge funds
15 227 (1.51%) Driving Licence
16 223 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
17 211 (1.40%) Equities
18 197 (1.31%) Mobile App
19 186 (1.24%) Onboarding
19 186 (1.24%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3,193 (21.25%) Windows
2 1,598 (10.63%) Linux
3 1,529 (10.18%) Windows Server
4 578 (3.85%) Windows 10
5 506 (3.37%) Android
6 447 (2.97%) Apple iOS
7 378 (2.52%) Ubuntu
8 308 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
9 258 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
10 223 (1.48%) Windows Server 2012
11 174 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 144 (0.96%) CentOS
13 142 (0.94%) VMS
14 139 (0.93%) Unix
15 135 (0.90%) Mac OS
16 97 (0.65%) Debian
17 52 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
19 29 (0.19%) Mac OS X
20 28 (0.19%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,739 (31.54%) Agile
2 3,935 (26.19%) DevOps
3 2,241 (14.91%) Full Stack Development
4 2,230 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
5 1,845 (12.28%) CI/CD
6 1,812 (12.06%) Software Engineering
7 1,618 (10.77%) Microservices
8 1,404 (9.34%) MVC
9 1,373 (9.14%) Mentoring
10 1,318 (8.77%) Business Intelligence
11 1,272 (8.46%) Scrum
12 1,254 (8.34%) Artificial Intelligence
13 1,235 (8.22%) Cybersecurity
14 1,221 (8.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 1,157 (7.70%) ITIL
16 1,069 (7.11%) Roadmaps
17 1,057 (7.03%) Migration
18 1,048 (6.97%) Analytics
19 1,039 (6.91%) ETL
20 918 (6.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3,760 (25.02%) C#
2 3,680 (24.49%) SQL
3 3,005 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2,325 (15.47%) Python
5 1,376 (9.16%) PowerShell
6 1,132 (7.53%) TypeScript
7 1,079 (7.18%) Java
8 561 (3.73%) T-SQL
9 558 (3.71%) Bash
10 168 (1.12%) Bicep
11 142 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 138 (0.92%) Go
13 137 (0.91%) R
14 123 (0.82%) C++
15 106 (0.71%) Kotlin
16 98 (0.65%) Scala
17 91 (0.61%) PHP
18 81 (0.54%) Ruby
18 81 (0.54%) VB.NET
19 77 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,700 (11.31%) Degree
2 1,366 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 972 (6.47%) SC Cleared
4 779 (5.18%) Azure Certification
5 760 (5.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 485 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 383 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
8 298 (1.98%) DV Cleared
9 276 (1.84%) AWS Certification
10 263 (1.75%) CISSP
11 251 (1.67%) CCNA
12 211 (1.40%) DBS Check
13 184 (1.22%) MCSE
14 174 (1.16%) Master's Degree
15 134 (0.89%) CCNP
16 119 (0.79%) CISM
17 111 (0.74%) MCSA
17 111 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
18 100 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
19 94 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 614 (4.09%) QA
2 441 (2.93%) Data Quality
3 383 (2.55%) GDPR
4 356 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 279 (1.86%) SLA
6 198 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 190 (1.26%) NIST
8 126 (0.84%) Accessibility
9 111 (0.74%) PCI DSS
10 46 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 44 (0.29%) PMO
12 43 (0.29%) NCSC
13 34 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 30 (0.20%) HIPAA
15 28 (0.19%) COBIT
16 25 (0.17%) GRC
17 21 (0.14%) SOC 2
18 19 (0.13%) ISO 9001
18 19 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 16 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2,738 (18.22%) Active Directory
2 1,081 (7.19%) Docker
3 976 (6.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 860 (5.72%) Hyper-V
5 363 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
6 191 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
7 190 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 171 (1.14%) vSphere
9 90 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
10 62 (0.41%) XenApp
11 45 (0.30%) XenDesktop
12 34 (0.23%) Firmware
13 31 (0.21%) Terminal Services
14 24 (0.16%) VMware NSX
15 22 (0.15%) KVM
16 18 (0.12%) VMware Server
17 16 (0.11%) HDFS
18 13 (0.087%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 11 (0.073%) NFS
20 10 (0.067%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 1,396 (9.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 1,273 (8.47%) Kubernetes
3 1,195 (7.95%) Terraform
4 564 (3.75%) Ansible
5 305 (2.03%) SCCM
6 264 (1.76%) Jamf Pro
7 186 (1.24%) Puppet
8 163 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
9 144 (0.96%) vCenter Server
10 112 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 108 (0.72%) Progress Chef
12 88 (0.59%) WSUS
13 83 (0.55%) Grafana
14 79 (0.53%) SCOM
15 77 (0.51%) Prometheus
16 54 (0.36%) FortiGate
17 47 (0.31%) Nagios
18 44 (0.29%) CASB
19 40 (0.27%) Microsoft Clustering
20 35 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6,572 (43.73%) Microsoft
2 1,517 (10.10%) VMware
3 951 (6.33%) Google
4 741 (4.93%) Cisco
5 569 (3.79%) Databricks
6 436 (2.90%) Red Hat
7 412 (2.74%) Citrix
8 409 (2.72%) Oracle
9 364 (2.42%) IBM
10 327 (2.18%) Veeam
11 251 (1.67%) CyberArk
12 218 (1.45%) HP
13 210 (1.40%) Tanium
14 202 (1.34%) Meraki
15 201 (1.34%) ESRI
16 163 (1.08%) Dell
16 163 (1.08%) ServiceNow
17 162 (1.08%) Fortinet
18 149 (0.99%) SolarWinds
19 144 (0.96%) Apple