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 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 16,959 21,911 32,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.53% 22.51% 19.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.34% 52.07% 39.58%
Number of salaries quoted 13,258 13,945 18,949
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,293 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £64,029 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.85% +2.45% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +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 35,821 42,083 81,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.91% 43.23% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,874 27,585 41,557
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,723 £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% +7.76%
75th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 28 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 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
England -1 15,027 £59,000 -9.23% 3,558
UK excluding London -1 11,511 £53,000 -3.64% 2,405
Work from Home +1 7,633 £60,000 -7.69% 2,167
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
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
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 1,147 (6.76%) SharePoint
2 1,055 (6.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 334 (1.97%) ArcGIS
4 332 (1.96%) GeoServer
5 285 (1.68%) IIS
6 260 (1.53%) Apache
7 213 (1.26%) Apache Spark
8 191 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
9 141 (0.83%) CMS
10 136 (0.80%) Confluence
11 99 (0.58%) Umbraco
12 57 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
13 55 (0.32%) OpenStack
13 55 (0.32%) WebLogic
14 49 (0.29%) Kentico
15 41 (0.24%) Headless CMS
16 35 (0.21%) nginx
16 35 (0.21%) WordPress
17 34 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
18 30 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 544 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
2 248 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 65 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 50 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 37 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 29 (0.17%) Trello
7 25 (0.15%) Simulink
8 8 (0.047%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.047%) Photoshop
9 7 (0.041%) Spreadsheet
10 6 (0.035%) LightWave 3D
11 5 (0.029%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.024%) SPSS
13 3 (0.018%) S-PLUS
14 2 (0.012%) 1Password
14 2 (0.012%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.012%) CATIA
14 2 (0.012%) NASTRAN
14 2 (0.012%) Sketch
15 1 (0.006%) Notion
Business Applications
1 270 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 82 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 39 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
4 31 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 13 (0.077%) Teamcenter
6 11 (0.065%) SAP S/4HANA
7 10 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
7 10 (0.059%) Remedy ITSM
7 10 (0.059%) Unit4 Business World
8 9 (0.053%) Elite 3E
8 9 (0.053%) Salesforce CRM
9 8 (0.047%) Oracle EBS
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
Cloud Services
1 5,242 (30.91%) AWS
2 3,760 (22.17%) Microsoft 365
3 2,294 (13.53%) Azure DevOps
4 2,047 (12.07%) GCP
5 1,959 (11.55%) Power Platform
6 1,760 (10.38%) Entra ID
7 1,027 (6.06%) SaaS
8 685 (4.04%) Serverless
9 674 (3.97%) Dynamics 365
10 671 (3.96%) PaaS
11 589 (3.47%) IaaS
12 506 (2.98%) PowerApps
13 502 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
14 467 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
15 440 (2.59%) GitHub
16 423 (2.49%) Power Automate
17 371 (2.19%) OneDrive
18 370 (2.18%) Azure Functions
19 366 (2.16%) Azure Logic Apps
20 352 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1,724 (10.17%) Firewall
2 1,151 (6.79%) DNS
3 847 (4.99%) WAN
4 710 (4.19%) DHCP
5 672 (3.96%) LAN
6 629 (3.71%) VPN
7 543 (3.20%) TCP/IP
8 394 (2.32%) SAN
9 391 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
10 360 (2.12%) Internet
11 347 (2.05%) Network Security
12 319 (1.88%) Wireless
13 311 (1.83%) Broadband
14 299 (1.76%) VLAN
15 268 (1.58%) SD-WAN
16 212 (1.25%) 5G
17 187 (1.10%) VoIP
18 138 (0.81%) BGP
18 138 (0.81%) Remote Desktop
19 117 (0.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,868 (16.91%) SQL Server
2 1,370 (8.08%) Power BI
3 1,107 (6.53%) Data Warehouse
4 1,018 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
5 722 (4.26%) NoSQL
6 700 (4.13%) MongoDB
7 633 (3.73%) Data Lake
8 630 (3.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 521 (3.07%) Relational Database
10 456 (2.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 378 (2.23%) GIS
12 363 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
13 330 (1.95%) QGIS
14 295 (1.74%) MySQL
15 287 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 266 (1.57%) DB2
17 263 (1.55%) Big Data
18 250 (1.47%) BigQuery
19 210 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
20 205 (1.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 957 (5.64%) Git
2 545 (3.21%) JIRA
3 481 (2.84%) Jenkins
4 333 (1.96%) GitLab
5 299 (1.76%) Visual Studio
6 157 (0.93%) Selenium
7 146 (0.86%) Cypress.io
8 134 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
9 104 (0.61%) Postman
10 84 (0.50%) NUnit
11 64 (0.38%) SonarQube
12 63 (0.37%) TeamCity
13 61 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
14 59 (0.35%) Bitbucket
14 59 (0.35%) JMeter
15 58 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
16 52 (0.31%) CircleCI
17 48 (0.28%) Jasmine
18 47 (0.28%) Cucumber
19 42 (0.25%) Artifactory
General
1 3,890 (22.94%) Social Skills
2 2,765 (16.30%) Finance
3 1,476 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 987 (5.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 975 (5.75%) Public Sector
6 655 (3.86%) Law
7 608 (3.59%) Retail
8 462 (2.72%) Banking
9 455 (2.68%) Legal
10 439 (2.59%) Marketing
11 424 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
12 288 (1.70%) Front Office
13 287 (1.69%) Manufacturing
14 239 (1.41%) Telecoms
15 219 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
16 209 (1.23%) Aerospace
17 204 (1.20%) Games
18 159 (0.94%) Advertising
19 132 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
20 125 (0.74%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 4,182 (24.66%) Developer
2 3,054 (18.01%) Senior
3 1,954 (11.52%) Architect
4 1,864 (10.99%) .NET Developer
5 1,527 (9.00%) Lead
6 1,356 (8.00%) Software Engineer
7 1,042 (6.14%) Analyst
8 968 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 829 (4.89%) Azure Engineer
10 828 (4.88%) Support Engineer
11 810 (4.78%) Senior Developer
12 791 (4.66%) C# Developer
13 723 (4.26%) IT Support
14 712 (4.20%) Data Engineer
15 711 (4.19%) IT Engineer
16 632 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
17 593 (3.50%) C# .NET Developer
18 571 (3.37%) Full Stack Developer
19 540 (3.18%) Senior Software Engineer
20 535 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,352 (25.66%) .NET
2 2,084 (12.29%) React
3 1,896 (11.18%) AngularJS
4 1,810 (10.67%) .NET Core
5 1,787 (10.54%) ASP.NET
6 1,575 (9.29%) CSS
7 1,502 (8.86%) HTML
8 1,144 (6.75%) .NET Framework
9 1,067 (6.29%) ASP.NET Web API
10 996 (5.87%) Entity Framework
11 900 (5.31%) Vue
12 881 (5.19%) ASP.NET MVC
13 835 (4.92%) Node.js
14 778 (4.59%) REST
15 726 (4.28%) RESTful
16 620 (3.66%) Web Services
17 592 (3.49%) HTML5
18 508 (3.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 447 (2.64%) Blazor
20 429 (2.53%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 776 (4.58%) Public Cloud
2 530 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 489 (2.88%) Cloud Native
4 461 (2.72%) Product Ownership
5 459 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 454 (2.68%) Data Structures
7 452 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
8 435 (2.57%) Algorithms
9 431 (2.54%) Data Centre
10 427 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
11 302 (1.78%) Onboarding
12 301 (1.77%) Blockchain
13 298 (1.76%) Social Media
14 279 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
15 259 (1.53%) Fixed Income
16 245 (1.44%) Hedge funds
17 238 (1.40%) Driving Licence
18 221 (1.30%) PKI
19 216 (1.27%) Mobile App
20 211 (1.24%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 3,425 (20.20%) Windows
2 1,779 (10.49%) Linux
3 1,651 (9.74%) Windows Server
4 609 (3.59%) Windows 10
5 529 (3.12%) Android
6 463 (2.73%) Apple iOS
7 406 (2.39%) Ubuntu
8 319 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
9 271 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 236 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
11 195 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 177 (1.04%) Unix
13 156 (0.92%) VMS
14 150 (0.88%) CentOS
15 139 (0.82%) Mac OS
16 99 (0.58%) Debian
17 52 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
19 32 (0.19%) Windows 7
20 31 (0.18%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,469 (32.25%) Agile
2 4,593 (27.08%) DevOps
3 2,591 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
4 2,439 (14.38%) Full Stack Development
5 2,249 (13.26%) Software Engineering
6 2,170 (12.80%) CI/CD
7 1,766 (10.41%) Microservices
8 1,559 (9.19%) Mentoring
9 1,505 (8.87%) MVC
10 1,463 (8.63%) Business Intelligence
11 1,442 (8.50%) Scrum
12 1,429 (8.43%) Artificial Intelligence
13 1,381 (8.14%) Cybersecurity
14 1,301 (7.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 1,248 (7.36%) ITIL
16 1,237 (7.29%) Migration
17 1,215 (7.16%) Analytics
17 1,215 (7.16%) Roadmaps
18 1,103 (6.50%) ETL
19 1,043 (6.15%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4,260 (25.12%) C#
2 4,105 (24.21%) SQL
3 3,377 (19.91%) JavaScript
4 2,697 (15.90%) Python
5 1,464 (8.63%) PowerShell
6 1,323 (7.80%) Java
7 1,230 (7.25%) TypeScript
8 605 (3.57%) T-SQL
9 587 (3.46%) Bash
10 180 (1.06%) Go
11 179 (1.06%) Bicep
12 150 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 148 (0.87%) C++
14 141 (0.83%) R
15 112 (0.66%) Kotlin
16 104 (0.61%) Ruby
17 103 (0.61%) Scala
18 102 (0.60%) PHP
19 86 (0.51%) VB.NET
20 83 (0.49%) C
Qualifications
1 1,873 (11.04%) Degree
2 1,689 (9.96%) Security Cleared
3 1,255 (7.40%) SC Cleared
4 879 (5.18%) Azure Certification
5 831 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 535 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 432 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
8 357 (2.11%) AWS Certification
9 308 (1.82%) CISSP
10 302 (1.78%) DV Cleared
11 290 (1.71%) CCNA
12 236 (1.39%) DBS Check
13 197 (1.16%) Master's Degree
13 197 (1.16%) MCSE
14 160 (0.94%) CISM
15 150 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
16 147 (0.87%) CCNP
17 126 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
18 114 (0.67%) MCSA
19 111 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 712 (4.20%) QA
2 470 (2.77%) Data Quality
3 423 (2.49%) GDPR
4 407 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 298 (1.76%) SLA
6 231 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 221 (1.30%) NIST
8 155 (0.91%) Accessibility
9 119 (0.70%) PCI DSS
10 62 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 46 (0.27%) NCSC
12 45 (0.27%) PMO
13 35 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 34 (0.20%) COBIT
15 31 (0.18%) GRC
16 30 (0.18%) HIPAA
17 26 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 25 (0.15%) ISO 9001
18 25 (0.15%) SOC 2
19 16 (0.094%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2,968 (17.50%) Active Directory
2 1,236 (7.29%) Docker
3 1,080 (6.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 908 (5.35%) Hyper-V
5 390 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
6 204 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 200 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
8 176 (1.04%) vSphere
9 90 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
10 62 (0.37%) XenApp
11 51 (0.30%) VMware NSX
11 51 (0.30%) XenDesktop
12 34 (0.20%) Firmware
13 31 (0.18%) Terminal Services
14 24 (0.14%) KVM
15 18 (0.11%) VMware Server
16 16 (0.094%) HDFS
17 13 (0.077%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 11 (0.065%) NFS
19 10 (0.059%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 1,493 (8.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 1,479 (8.72%) Kubernetes
3 1,388 (8.18%) Terraform
4 650 (3.83%) Ansible
5 324 (1.91%) SCCM
6 265 (1.56%) Jamf Pro
7 202 (1.19%) Puppet
8 170 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
9 150 (0.88%) vCenter Server
10 130 (0.77%) Progress Chef
11 113 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 107 (0.63%) Grafana
13 96 (0.57%) Prometheus
14 88 (0.52%) WSUS
15 85 (0.50%) SCOM
16 69 (0.41%) FortiGate
17 52 (0.31%) CASB
18 47 (0.28%) Nagios
19 40 (0.24%) Microsoft Clustering
20 36 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7,247 (42.73%) Microsoft
2 1,659 (9.78%) VMware
3 1,105 (6.52%) Google
4 812 (4.79%) Cisco
5 612 (3.61%) Databricks
6 483 (2.85%) Oracle
7 439 (2.59%) Citrix
7 439 (2.59%) Red Hat
8 385 (2.27%) IBM
9 357 (2.11%) Veeam
10 335 (1.98%) ESRI
11 254 (1.50%) CyberArk
12 229 (1.35%) Meraki
13 228 (1.34%) HP
14 210 (1.24%) Tanium
15 192 (1.13%) ServiceNow
16 175 (1.03%) Fortinet
17 167 (0.98%) Dell
18 153 (0.90%) SolarWinds
19 151 (0.89%) Apple