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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 16,685 22,282 30,942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.85% 22.20% 19.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.26% 51.76% 39.98%
Number of salaries quoted 13,162 14,236 18,944
10th Percentile £34,000 £36,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £64,815 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.97% +3.70% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +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 35,306 43,046 77,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.65% 42.90% 48.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 28,295 41,613
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
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% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
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 14 May 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 14 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
England -1 14,779 £59,500 -8.46% 3,667
UK excluding London -1 11,258 £52,500 -4.55% 2,477
Work from Home +1 7,514 £60,000 -7.69% 2,165
London 0 4,655 £75,000 - 1,369
North of England 0 3,092 £55,000 - 667
South East -2 2,776 £54,000 -6.09% 516
Midlands +2 1,919 £50,000 -9.09% 492
North West 0 1,649 £57,500 +4.55% 361
South West -3 1,401 £55,000 +3.14% 351
West Midlands +1 1,149 £55,000 - 294
Yorkshire 0 1,059 £55,000 - 226
Scotland -24 813 £55,000 -6.16% 149
East of England 0 791 £50,000 - 187
East Midlands +3 766 £47,500 -9.52% 197
North East +4 386 £47,500 -13.64% 83
Wales 0 339 £50,000 +0.50% 94
Northern Ireland -5 115 £55,000 +4.76% 69
Isle of Man -2 17 £46,500 -33.57% 3
Channel Islands +1 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 1,154 (6.92%) SharePoint
2 1,059 (6.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 334 (2.00%) ArcGIS
4 332 (1.99%) GeoServer
5 287 (1.72%) IIS
6 247 (1.48%) Apache
7 214 (1.28%) Apache Spark
8 180 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
9 139 (0.83%) CMS
10 132 (0.79%) Confluence
11 100 (0.60%) Umbraco
12 56 (0.34%) OpenStack
12 56 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
13 55 (0.33%) WebLogic
14 51 (0.31%) Kentico
15 41 (0.25%) Headless CMS
16 37 (0.22%) WebSphere
17 35 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
17 35 (0.21%) nginx
17 35 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 549 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
2 247 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 63 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 51 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 39 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 30 (0.18%) Trello
7 21 (0.13%) Simulink
8 10 (0.060%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.048%) Photoshop
10 7 (0.042%) Spreadsheet
11 6 (0.036%) LightWave 3D
12 4 (0.024%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.024%) SPSS
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%) Sketch
13 2 (0.012%) S-PLUS
14 1 (0.006%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 265 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 84 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 39 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
4 31 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
5 13 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.078%) Teamcenter
6 10 (0.060%) Elite 3E
6 10 (0.060%) Maximo
6 10 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
6 10 (0.060%) Remedy ITSM
6 10 (0.060%) Unit4 Business World
7 9 (0.054%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.036%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.036%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 6 (0.036%) Primavera
8 6 (0.036%) SAP PLM
9 5 (0.030%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.030%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.030%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.030%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 5,114 (30.65%) AWS
2 3,796 (22.75%) Microsoft 365
3 2,290 (13.72%) Azure DevOps
4 2,060 (12.35%) GCP
5 1,908 (11.44%) Power Platform
6 1,750 (10.49%) Entra ID
7 1,034 (6.20%) SaaS
8 702 (4.21%) PaaS
9 697 (4.18%) Serverless
10 669 (4.01%) Dynamics 365
11 614 (3.68%) IaaS
12 497 (2.98%) PowerApps
13 496 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
14 466 (2.79%) GitHub
15 452 (2.71%) Cloud Computing
16 409 (2.45%) Power Automate
17 368 (2.21%) Azure Functions
18 367 (2.20%) OneDrive
19 357 (2.14%) Azure Logic Apps
20 350 (2.10%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1,714 (10.27%) Firewall
2 1,158 (6.94%) DNS
3 856 (5.13%) WAN
4 721 (4.32%) DHCP
5 686 (4.11%) LAN
6 637 (3.82%) VPN
7 532 (3.19%) TCP/IP
8 401 (2.40%) SAN
9 390 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
10 358 (2.15%) Internet
11 340 (2.04%) Network Security
12 322 (1.93%) Wireless
13 311 (1.86%) Broadband
14 304 (1.82%) VLAN
15 265 (1.59%) SD-WAN
16 212 (1.27%) 5G
17 195 (1.17%) VoIP
18 139 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
19 137 (0.82%) BGP
20 111 (0.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,849 (17.08%) SQL Server
2 1,320 (7.91%) Power BI
3 1,077 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
4 1,018 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
5 734 (4.40%) NoSQL
6 702 (4.21%) MongoDB
7 639 (3.83%) Data Lake
8 632 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
9 517 (3.10%) Relational Database
10 448 (2.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 381 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
12 380 (2.28%) GIS
13 330 (1.98%) QGIS
14 308 (1.85%) MySQL
15 284 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 266 (1.59%) Big Data
16 266 (1.59%) DB2
17 253 (1.52%) BigQuery
18 213 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
19 201 (1.20%) Looker
Development Applications
1 941 (5.64%) Git
2 557 (3.34%) JIRA
3 483 (2.89%) Jenkins
4 333 (2.00%) GitLab
5 297 (1.78%) Visual Studio
6 166 (0.99%) Selenium
7 144 (0.86%) Cypress.io
8 129 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
9 104 (0.62%) Postman
10 83 (0.50%) NUnit
11 65 (0.39%) TeamCity
12 61 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
13 58 (0.35%) JMeter
13 58 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
14 55 (0.33%) Bitbucket
15 54 (0.32%) Cucumber
16 53 (0.32%) SonarQube
17 50 (0.30%) CircleCI
18 48 (0.29%) Jasmine
19 44 (0.26%) Artifactory
General
1 3,803 (22.79%) Social Skills
2 2,759 (16.54%) Finance
3 1,472 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 978 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 972 (5.83%) Public Sector
6 676 (4.05%) Law
7 615 (3.69%) Retail
8 492 (2.95%) Banking
9 462 (2.77%) Legal
10 441 (2.64%) Marketing
11 401 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
12 287 (1.72%) Front Office
13 275 (1.65%) Manufacturing
14 236 (1.41%) Telecoms
15 222 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
16 200 (1.20%) Games
17 185 (1.11%) Aerospace
18 152 (0.91%) Advertising
19 132 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
20 120 (0.72%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 4,082 (24.47%) Developer
2 3,007 (18.02%) Senior
3 1,858 (11.14%) Architect
4 1,781 (10.67%) .NET Developer
5 1,515 (9.08%) Lead
6 1,343 (8.05%) Software Engineer
7 1,081 (6.48%) Analyst
8 956 (5.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 820 (4.91%) Support Engineer
10 799 (4.79%) Azure Engineer
11 774 (4.64%) Senior Developer
12 752 (4.51%) C# Developer
13 726 (4.35%) IT Support
14 707 (4.24%) IT Engineer
15 698 (4.18%) Data Engineer
16 623 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
17 559 (3.35%) C# .NET Developer
18 544 (3.26%) Full Stack Developer
19 540 (3.24%) Senior Software Engineer
20 514 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,265 (25.56%) .NET
2 2,050 (12.29%) React
3 1,846 (11.06%) AngularJS
4 1,787 (10.71%) .NET Core
5 1,767 (10.59%) ASP.NET
6 1,559 (9.34%) CSS
7 1,494 (8.95%) HTML
8 1,111 (6.66%) .NET Framework
9 1,023 (6.13%) ASP.NET Web API
10 965 (5.78%) Entity Framework
11 884 (5.30%) Vue
12 883 (5.29%) ASP.NET MVC
13 801 (4.80%) Node.js
14 786 (4.71%) REST
15 705 (4.23%) RESTful
16 612 (3.67%) Web Services
17 588 (3.52%) HTML5
18 505 (3.03%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 446 (2.67%) Blazor
20 426 (2.55%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 787 (4.72%) Public Cloud
2 527 (3.16%) Management Information System
3 463 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 453 (2.72%) Data Structures
5 452 (2.71%) Cloud Native
6 450 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
7 444 (2.66%) Product Ownership
8 435 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
9 432 (2.59%) Algorithms
10 430 (2.58%) Data Centre
11 313 (1.88%) Blockchain
12 307 (1.84%) Onboarding
13 294 (1.76%) Social Media
14 276 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
15 263 (1.58%) Fixed Income
16 246 (1.47%) Hedge funds
17 239 (1.43%) Driving Licence
18 231 (1.38%) Private Cloud
19 223 (1.34%) PKI
20 218 (1.31%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3,419 (20.49%) Windows
2 1,796 (10.76%) Linux
3 1,667 (9.99%) Windows Server
4 601 (3.60%) Windows 10
5 522 (3.13%) Android
6 461 (2.76%) Apple iOS
7 400 (2.40%) Ubuntu
8 323 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
9 267 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 246 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
11 208 (1.25%) Unix
12 184 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 155 (0.93%) VMS
14 145 (0.87%) CentOS
15 138 (0.83%) Mac OS
16 97 (0.58%) Debian
17 48 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
19 35 (0.21%) Windows 7
20 32 (0.19%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,373 (32.20%) Agile
2 4,497 (26.95%) DevOps
3 2,565 (15.37%) Problem-Solving
4 2,352 (14.10%) Full Stack Development
5 2,199 (13.18%) Software Engineering
6 2,101 (12.59%) CI/CD
7 1,753 (10.51%) Microservices
8 1,527 (9.15%) Mentoring
9 1,504 (9.01%) MVC
10 1,432 (8.58%) Artificial Intelligence
11 1,425 (8.54%) Business Intelligence
12 1,413 (8.47%) Scrum
13 1,390 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
14 1,289 (7.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 1,266 (7.59%) ITIL
16 1,222 (7.32%) Roadmaps
17 1,208 (7.24%) Migration
18 1,166 (6.99%) Analytics
19 1,111 (6.66%) ETL
20 1,022 (6.13%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4,164 (24.96%) C#
2 4,102 (24.58%) SQL
3 3,324 (19.92%) JavaScript
4 2,624 (15.73%) Python
5 1,455 (8.72%) PowerShell
6 1,325 (7.94%) Java
7 1,209 (7.25%) TypeScript
8 618 (3.70%) T-SQL
9 585 (3.51%) Bash
10 184 (1.10%) Go
11 175 (1.05%) Bicep
12 150 (0.90%) C++
13 142 (0.85%) R
14 141 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 110 (0.66%) PHP
16 106 (0.64%) Kotlin
16 106 (0.64%) Ruby
17 93 (0.56%) Scala
18 83 (0.50%) VB.NET
19 80 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 1,854 (11.11%) Degree
2 1,636 (9.81%) Security Cleared
3 1,219 (7.31%) SC Cleared
4 867 (5.20%) Azure Certification
5 829 (4.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 500 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 437 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
8 337 (2.02%) AWS Certification
9 304 (1.82%) CISSP
10 294 (1.76%) CCNA
11 274 (1.64%) DV Cleared
12 234 (1.40%) DBS Check
13 202 (1.21%) MCSE
14 186 (1.11%) Master's Degree
15 157 (0.94%) CISM
16 156 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
17 147 (0.88%) CCNP
18 115 (0.69%) MCSA
18 115 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
19 108 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 689 (4.13%) QA
2 473 (2.83%) Data Quality
3 447 (2.68%) GDPR
4 417 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 295 (1.77%) SLA
6 230 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
7 219 (1.31%) NIST
8 154 (0.92%) Accessibility
9 116 (0.70%) PCI DSS
10 65 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 47 (0.28%) PMO
12 44 (0.26%) NCSC
13 35 (0.21%) COBIT
13 35 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 31 (0.19%) GRC
15 27 (0.16%) HIPAA
15 27 (0.16%) ISO 9001
16 24 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 24 (0.14%) SOC 2
17 16 (0.096%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2,984 (17.88%) Active Directory
2 1,212 (7.26%) Docker
3 1,095 (6.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 909 (5.45%) Hyper-V
5 380 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
6 209 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
7 196 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 176 (1.05%) vSphere
9 90 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
10 54 (0.32%) VMware NSX
10 54 (0.32%) XenApp
11 42 (0.25%) XenDesktop
12 34 (0.20%) Firmware
13 31 (0.19%) Terminal Services
14 21 (0.13%) KVM
15 19 (0.11%) VMware Server
16 18 (0.11%) HDFS
17 12 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 12 (0.072%) vCloud
18 11 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 1,489 (8.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 1,444 (8.65%) Kubernetes
3 1,335 (8.00%) Terraform
4 615 (3.69%) Ansible
5 316 (1.89%) SCCM
6 266 (1.59%) Jamf Pro
7 197 (1.18%) Puppet
8 168 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
9 149 (0.89%) vCenter Server
10 131 (0.79%) Progress Chef
11 110 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 107 (0.64%) Grafana
13 94 (0.56%) Prometheus
14 90 (0.54%) WSUS
15 84 (0.50%) SCOM
16 72 (0.43%) FortiGate
17 51 (0.31%) CASB
18 44 (0.26%) Nagios
19 38 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
20 34 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 7,223 (43.29%) Microsoft
2 1,677 (10.05%) VMware
3 1,091 (6.54%) Google
4 808 (4.84%) Cisco
5 612 (3.67%) Databricks
6 500 (3.00%) Oracle
7 450 (2.70%) Citrix
8 426 (2.55%) Red Hat
9 411 (2.46%) IBM
10 358 (2.15%) Veeam
11 335 (2.01%) ESRI
12 254 (1.52%) CyberArk
13 231 (1.38%) Meraki
14 228 (1.37%) HP
15 210 (1.26%) Tanium
16 196 (1.17%) ServiceNow
17 175 (1.05%) Fortinet
18 163 (0.98%) SAP
19 158 (0.95%) Apple
19 158 (0.95%) Dell