Azure Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 11,511 12,310 14,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.55% 21.19% 19.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.13% 54.54% 49.61%
Number of salaries quoted 8,929 7,038 9,401
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £64,029 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.85% +2.45% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23,918 22,569 29,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.32% 38.85% 39.77%
Number of salaries quoted 17,639 13,443 19,621
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,500 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,650 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland -23 812 £55,000 -5.17% 159
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
Wales -1 351 £50,000 +7.86% 81
Northern Ireland -4 130 £60,000 +14.29% 58
Isle of Man 0 17 £46,500 -33.57% 4
Channel Islands +1 5 £85,000 -5.56%
Azure
UK

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 842 (7.31%) SharePoint
2 807 (7.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 288 (2.50%) ArcGIS
4 286 (2.48%) GeoServer
5 229 (1.99%) IIS
6 101 (0.88%) CMS
7 90 (0.78%) Confluence
8 82 (0.71%) Apache
9 81 (0.70%) Umbraco
10 69 (0.60%) Apache Spark
11 48 (0.42%) OpenStack
12 43 (0.37%) Kentico
12 43 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
12 43 (0.37%) WebLogic
13 41 (0.36%) Headless CMS
14 32 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
15 25 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2013
16 19 (0.17%) nginx
17 18 (0.16%) WordPress
18 17 (0.15%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 438 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
2 150 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
5 25 (0.22%) Simulink
6 24 (0.21%) MS Visio
7 21 (0.18%) Trello
8 8 (0.069%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.069%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.052%) LightWave 3D
10 5 (0.043%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.026%) S-PLUS
11 3 (0.026%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.017%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.017%) CATIA
12 2 (0.017%) NASTRAN
12 2 (0.017%) Sketch
13 1 (0.009%) 1Password
13 1 (0.009%) InfoPath
13 1 (0.009%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 163 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 71 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 32 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
4 14 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
5 9 (0.078%) Unit4 Business World
6 8 (0.069%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.069%) Payment Gateway
6 8 (0.069%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (0.069%) Teamcenter
7 7 (0.061%) Maximo
7 7 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.052%) SAP PLM
9 5 (0.043%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.043%) SAP PP
10 4 (0.035%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.035%) Visualfiles
11 3 (0.026%) Oracle Applications
11 3 (0.026%) SAP ERP
12 2 (0.017%) Remedy ITSM
12 2 (0.017%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3,433 (29.82%) AWS
2 2,825 (24.54%) Microsoft 365
3 1,560 (13.55%) Azure DevOps
4 1,189 (10.33%) Entra ID
5 1,171 (10.17%) Power Platform
6 1,077 (9.36%) GCP
7 653 (5.67%) SaaS
8 395 (3.43%) Serverless
9 333 (2.89%) Dynamics 365
10 331 (2.88%) PaaS
11 304 (2.64%) Cloud Computing
12 302 (2.62%) IaaS
13 287 (2.49%) OneDrive
14 272 (2.36%) IBM Cloud
15 263 (2.28%) GitHub
16 252 (2.19%) Azure Data Factory
17 249 (2.16%) PowerApps
18 216 (1.88%) Azure Functions
19 215 (1.87%) Azure Service Bus
20 208 (1.81%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,299 (11.28%) Firewall
2 862 (7.49%) DNS
3 623 (5.41%) WAN
4 554 (4.81%) DHCP
5 463 (4.02%) LAN
6 462 (4.01%) VPN
7 418 (3.63%) TCP/IP
8 300 (2.61%) SAN
9 283 (2.46%) Internet
10 258 (2.24%) Wi-Fi
11 241 (2.09%) VLAN
12 213 (1.85%) Wireless
13 204 (1.77%) Network Security
14 179 (1.56%) SD-WAN
15 168 (1.46%) Broadband
16 160 (1.39%) VoIP
17 119 (1.03%) Remote Desktop
18 94 (0.82%) BGP
19 92 (0.80%) HTTP
20 87 (0.76%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,148 (18.66%) SQL Server
2 866 (7.52%) Power BI
3 771 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
4 759 (6.59%) Data Warehouse
5 556 (4.83%) MongoDB
6 539 (4.68%) NoSQL
7 423 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 375 (3.26%) Relational Database
9 357 (3.10%) Data Lake
10 331 (2.88%) GIS
11 329 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 284 (2.47%) QGIS
13 274 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
14 256 (2.22%) DB2
15 232 (2.02%) MySQL
16 202 (1.75%) BigQuery
17 184 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
18 180 (1.56%) Looker
19 162 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 137 (1.19%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 654 (5.68%) Git
2 396 (3.44%) JIRA
3 275 (2.39%) Jenkins
4 232 (2.02%) GitLab
5 206 (1.79%) Visual Studio
6 128 (1.11%) Selenium
7 101 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
8 74 (0.64%) Postman
9 70 (0.61%) NUnit
10 66 (0.57%) Cypress.io
11 50 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
12 46 (0.40%) Jasmine
13 44 (0.38%) JMeter
14 42 (0.36%) SonarQube
15 41 (0.36%) Bitbucket
16 36 (0.31%) TeamCity
17 33 (0.29%) Artifactory
18 32 (0.28%) Cucumber
19 30 (0.26%) Karma Test Runner
20 29 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,626 (22.81%) Social Skills
2 1,453 (12.62%) Finance
3 866 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
4 724 (6.29%) Public Sector
5 523 (4.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 479 (4.16%) Retail
7 458 (3.98%) Law
8 281 (2.44%) Legal
9 278 (2.42%) Marketing
10 266 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
11 235 (2.04%) Manufacturing
12 192 (1.67%) Aerospace
13 174 (1.51%) Telecoms
14 168 (1.46%) Games
15 162 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
16 160 (1.39%) Banking
17 129 (1.12%) Advertising
18 92 (0.80%) Billing
19 75 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
20 59 (0.51%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2,956 (25.68%) Developer
2 1,788 (15.53%) Senior
3 1,495 (12.99%) .NET Developer
4 1,102 (9.57%) Architect
5 997 (8.66%) Lead
6 912 (7.92%) Software Engineer
7 780 (6.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 698 (6.06%) Support Engineer
9 658 (5.72%) Analyst
10 613 (5.33%) IT Support
11 595 (5.17%) IT Engineer
12 592 (5.14%) C# Developer
13 494 (4.29%) Senior Developer
14 492 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
15 486 (4.22%) C# .NET Developer
16 387 (3.36%) Senior Software Engineer
17 382 (3.32%) Data Engineer
18 377 (3.28%) IT Support Engineer
19 357 (3.10%) Cloud Engineer
20 350 (3.04%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,238 (28.13%) .NET
2 1,509 (13.11%) React
3 1,490 (12.94%) AngularJS
4 1,448 (12.58%) .NET Core
5 1,426 (12.39%) ASP.NET
6 1,298 (11.28%) CSS
7 1,227 (10.66%) HTML
8 930 (8.08%) ASP.NET Web API
9 918 (7.97%) .NET Framework
10 849 (7.38%) Entity Framework
11 755 (6.56%) ASP.NET MVC
12 706 (6.13%) Vue
13 640 (5.56%) Node.js
14 579 (5.03%) REST
15 567 (4.93%) RESTful
16 490 (4.26%) HTML5
17 462 (4.01%) Web Services
18 454 (3.94%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 405 (3.52%) Blazor
20 372 (3.23%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 592 (5.14%) Public Cloud
2 393 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 370 (3.21%) Data Structures
4 350 (3.04%) Algorithms
5 348 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
6 323 (2.81%) Product Ownership
7 322 (2.80%) Management Information System
8 306 (2.66%) Cloud Native
9 282 (2.45%) Blockchain
10 260 (2.26%) Data Centre
11 255 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
12 230 (2.00%) Driving Licence
13 210 (1.82%) Onboarding
14 164 (1.42%) Private Cloud
15 161 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
16 148 (1.29%) PKI
17 144 (1.25%) Mobile App
18 140 (1.22%) Social Media
19 134 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
20 129 (1.12%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 2,623 (22.79%) Windows
2 1,294 (11.24%) Windows Server
3 1,288 (11.19%) Linux
4 477 (4.14%) Windows 10
5 458 (3.98%) Android
6 391 (3.40%) Apple iOS
7 266 (2.31%) Windows Server 2016
8 228 (1.98%) Windows Server 2019
9 221 (1.92%) Ubuntu
10 183 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
11 165 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 136 (1.18%) VMS
13 130 (1.13%) CentOS
14 110 (0.96%) Mac OS
15 104 (0.90%) Unix
16 97 (0.84%) Debian
17 47 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
19 31 (0.27%) Windows 7
20 24 (0.21%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,804 (33.05%) Agile
2 3,152 (27.38%) DevOps
3 1,879 (16.32%) Full Stack Development
4 1,823 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
5 1,400 (12.16%) CI/CD
6 1,374 (11.94%) Software Engineering
7 1,303 (11.32%) Microservices
8 1,280 (11.12%) MVC
9 1,115 (9.69%) Mentoring
10 1,038 (9.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 1,022 (8.88%) Scrum
12 936 (8.13%) Business Intelligence
13 895 (7.78%) ITIL
14 882 (7.66%) Artificial Intelligence
15 848 (7.37%) Cybersecurity
16 831 (7.22%) Migration
17 802 (6.97%) Roadmaps
18 756 (6.57%) Web Development
19 744 (6.46%) Customer Service
20 720 (6.25%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3,133 (27.22%) C#
2 2,670 (23.20%) SQL
3 2,633 (22.87%) JavaScript
4 1,444 (12.54%) Python
5 909 (7.90%) PowerShell
6 904 (7.85%) Java
7 792 (6.88%) TypeScript
8 426 (3.70%) T-SQL
9 308 (2.68%) Bash
10 112 (0.97%) Bicep
11 102 (0.89%) C++
12 100 (0.87%) Go
13 80 (0.69%) VB.NET
14 79 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 79 (0.69%) PHP
15 76 (0.66%) VB
16 66 (0.57%) Kotlin
17 60 (0.52%) C
18 58 (0.50%) Ruby
19 42 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 1,282 (11.14%) Security Cleared
2 1,144 (9.94%) Degree
3 947 (8.23%) SC Cleared
4 600 (5.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 559 (4.86%) Azure Certification
6 312 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
7 283 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 274 (2.38%) DV Cleared
9 236 (2.05%) CCNA
10 230 (2.00%) AWS Certification
11 210 (1.82%) DBS Check
12 166 (1.44%) CISSP
13 142 (1.23%) MCSE
14 97 (0.84%) CCNP
15 93 (0.81%) Master's Degree
16 88 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
17 82 (0.71%) MCSA
18 81 (0.70%) CISM
19 78 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 73 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 489 (4.25%) QA
2 324 (2.81%) GDPR
3 294 (2.55%) Data Quality
4 254 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 237 (2.06%) SLA
6 168 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
7 137 (1.19%) NIST
8 73 (0.63%) Accessibility
9 66 (0.57%) PCI DSS
10 27 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 24 (0.21%) NCSC
12 19 (0.17%) SOC 2
13 18 (0.16%) HIPAA
13 18 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 18 (0.16%) PMO
14 16 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 14 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 9 (0.078%) GRC
17 8 (0.069%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.069%) PSD2
System Software
1 2,102 (18.26%) Active Directory
2 864 (7.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 841 (7.31%) Hyper-V
4 824 (7.16%) Docker
5 287 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
6 155 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 137 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
8 132 (1.15%) vSphere
9 58 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
10 48 (0.42%) VMware NSX
11 39 (0.34%) XenApp
12 33 (0.29%) XenDesktop
13 27 (0.23%) Terminal Services
14 23 (0.20%) Firmware
15 18 (0.16%) VMware Server
16 10 (0.087%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 10 (0.087%) KVM
17 9 (0.078%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 9 (0.078%) pfSense
18 7 (0.061%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,018 (8.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 938 (8.15%) Kubernetes
3 806 (7.00%) Terraform
4 447 (3.88%) Ansible
5 227 (1.97%) SCCM
6 125 (1.09%) Puppet
7 102 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
8 98 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
9 92 (0.80%) vCenter Server
10 84 (0.73%) WSUS
11 78 (0.68%) SCOM
12 75 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 74 (0.64%) Progress Chef
14 61 (0.53%) Grafana
15 54 (0.47%) Prometheus
16 51 (0.44%) FortiGate
17 30 (0.26%) CASB
17 30 (0.26%) ZABBIX
18 29 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
19 27 (0.23%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5,028 (43.68%) Microsoft
2 1,310 (11.38%) VMware
3 705 (6.12%) Google
4 547 (4.75%) Cisco
5 403 (3.50%) Red Hat
6 343 (2.98%) IBM
7 310 (2.69%) Oracle
8 301 (2.61%) Citrix
9 289 (2.51%) ESRI
10 284 (2.47%) Veeam
11 268 (2.33%) Databricks
12 169 (1.47%) HP
13 156 (1.36%) Meraki
14 128 (1.11%) Dell
15 121 (1.05%) Fortinet
16 110 (0.96%) Apple
17 105 (0.91%) Aruba
18 102 (0.89%) Sophos
19 99 (0.86%) ServiceNow
20 90 (0.78%) SolarWinds