Azure Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 3 4 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 7,633 9,729 14,852
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.22% 24.46% 20.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 51.40% 50.51% 38.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6,108 7,145 9,640
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £64,029 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.85% +2.45% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,850 19,261 39,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 43.23% 48.43% 53.32%
Number of salaries quoted 12,043 14,020 22,023
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,193 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +7.76%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure.

Azure salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Azure salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 456 (5.97%) SharePoint
2 377 (4.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 218 (2.86%) ArcGIS
4 214 (2.80%) GeoServer
5 151 (1.98%) IIS
6 90 (1.18%) CMS
7 74 (0.97%) Umbraco
8 66 (0.86%) Apache Spark
9 51 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
10 50 (0.66%) Apache
11 48 (0.63%) Sitecore CMS
12 46 (0.60%) WebLogic
13 44 (0.58%) Kentico
14 39 (0.51%) Confluence
15 36 (0.47%) Headless CMS
16 25 (0.33%) OpenStack
17 22 (0.29%) nginx
18 15 (0.20%) NServiceBus
19 11 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
20 10 (0.13%) EPiServer
Applications
1 166 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 85 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 25 (0.33%) Simulink
5 24 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.12%) Trello
8 3 (0.039%) S-PLUS
8 3 (0.039%) SPSS
9 2 (0.026%) 1Password
9 2 (0.026%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.026%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.026%) CATIA
9 2 (0.026%) NASTRAN
9 2 (0.026%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.026%) Sketch
10 1 (0.013%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.013%) Notion
10 1 (0.013%) Revit
10 1 (0.013%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 123 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 53 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 16 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
4 10 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
4 10 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
5 8 (0.10%) Elite 3E
5 8 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
6 6 (0.079%) Oracle General Ledger
6 6 (0.079%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.079%) Primavera
7 5 (0.066%) Dynamics AX
8 4 (0.052%) Visualfiles
9 2 (0.026%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.026%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.026%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.026%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.026%) SystmOne
9 2 (0.026%) Teamcenter
10 1 (0.013%) Magento
10 1 (0.013%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2,435 (31.90%) AWS
2 1,438 (18.84%) Microsoft 365
3 1,007 (13.19%) Azure DevOps
4 939 (12.30%) Power Platform
5 800 (10.48%) Entra ID
6 759 (9.94%) GCP
7 532 (6.97%) SaaS
8 308 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
9 274 (3.59%) PaaS
10 265 (3.47%) Azure Data Factory
11 252 (3.30%) Serverless
12 236 (3.09%) IaaS
13 234 (3.07%) PowerApps
14 207 (2.71%) GitHub
15 206 (2.70%) Power Automate
16 177 (2.32%) Cloud Computing
17 162 (2.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 119 (1.56%) Snowflake
19 116 (1.52%) Azure Functions
20 102 (1.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 629 (8.24%) Firewall
2 507 (6.64%) DNS
3 336 (4.40%) WAN
4 293 (3.84%) Broadband
5 261 (3.42%) LAN
6 249 (3.26%) DHCP
7 239 (3.13%) TCP/IP
8 210 (2.75%) 5G
9 208 (2.73%) Internet
10 195 (2.55%) VPN
11 175 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
12 161 (2.11%) SAN
13 152 (1.99%) Network Security
14 141 (1.85%) SD-WAN
14 141 (1.85%) Wireless
15 98 (1.28%) VLAN
16 83 (1.09%) BGP
17 71 (0.93%) SSL
18 56 (0.73%) VoIP
19 54 (0.71%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,724 (22.59%) SQL Server
2 688 (9.01%) Power BI
3 522 (6.84%) Data Warehouse
4 421 (5.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 380 (4.98%) PostgreSQL
6 343 (4.49%) MongoDB
7 307 (4.02%) Data Lake
8 296 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
9 251 (3.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 235 (3.08%) GIS
11 225 (2.95%) NoSQL
12 218 (2.86%) Relational Database
13 214 (2.80%) QGIS
14 159 (2.08%) MySQL
15 149 (1.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 106 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
17 92 (1.21%) Big Data
18 83 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 77 (1.01%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
20 58 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 449 (5.88%) Git
2 219 (2.87%) JIRA
3 215 (2.82%) GitLab
4 198 (2.59%) Jenkins
5 166 (2.17%) Visual Studio
6 73 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
7 68 (0.89%) Selenium
8 62 (0.81%) Postman
9 50 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 39 (0.51%) JMeter
11 37 (0.48%) Jasmine
12 36 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
13 35 (0.46%) NUnit
13 35 (0.46%) TeamCity
14 28 (0.37%) Karma Test Runner
15 27 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
16 23 (0.30%) SonarQube
17 21 (0.28%) Artifactory
17 21 (0.28%) Cucumber
18 20 (0.26%) Vagrant
General
1 1,753 (22.97%) Social Skills
2 1,298 (17.01%) Finance
3 663 (8.69%) Analytical Skills
4 449 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 415 (5.44%) Public Sector
6 372 (4.87%) Retail
7 215 (2.82%) Law
8 204 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
9 193 (2.53%) Legal
10 161 (2.11%) Marketing
11 141 (1.85%) Banking
12 125 (1.64%) Front Office
13 107 (1.40%) Advertising
14 90 (1.18%) Games
15 88 (1.15%) Back Office
16 85 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
17 84 (1.10%) Telecoms
18 73 (0.96%) Aerospace
19 71 (0.93%) Manufacturing
20 61 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,154 (28.22%) Developer
2 1,610 (21.09%) Senior
3 1,095 (14.35%) .NET Developer
4 797 (10.44%) Architect
5 755 (9.89%) Lead
6 655 (8.58%) Software Engineer
7 448 (5.87%) C# Developer
8 440 (5.76%) Senior Developer
9 405 (5.31%) Senior Software Engineer
10 387 (5.07%) Analyst
11 374 (4.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 344 (4.51%) C# .NET Developer
13 334 (4.38%) Data Engineer
14 315 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
15 300 (3.93%) Azure Engineer
16 299 (3.92%) Support Engineer
17 293 (3.84%) Consultant
18 283 (3.71%) DevOps Engineer
19 263 (3.45%) IT Engineer
20 236 (3.09%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,249 (29.46%) .NET
2 1,256 (16.45%) .NET Core
3 1,085 (14.21%) ASP.NET
4 1,025 (13.43%) AngularJS
5 987 (12.93%) React
6 790 (10.35%) ASP.NET MVC
7 713 (9.34%) HTML
8 712 (9.33%) .NET Framework
9 679 (8.90%) CSS
10 677 (8.87%) Entity Framework
11 619 (8.11%) ASP.NET Web API
12 457 (5.99%) Node.js
13 446 (5.84%) RESTful
14 399 (5.23%) HTML5
15 395 (5.17%) Vue
16 267 (3.50%) Blazor
17 238 (3.12%) REST
18 214 (2.80%) Leaflet
18 214 (2.80%) OpenLayers
18 214 (2.80%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 406 (5.32%) Public Cloud
2 266 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
3 259 (3.39%) Social Media
4 219 (2.87%) Management Information System
5 218 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
6 200 (2.62%) Cloud Native
7 191 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
8 179 (2.35%) Product Ownership
9 157 (2.06%) PKI
10 152 (1.99%) Data Centre
11 134 (1.76%) Private Cloud
12 130 (1.70%) Onboarding
13 117 (1.53%) Mobile App
14 107 (1.40%) Equities
14 107 (1.40%) Fixed Income
15 106 (1.39%) Derivative
16 105 (1.38%) Driving Licence
17 100 (1.31%) Data Structures
18 96 (1.26%) Hedge funds
19 81 (1.06%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1,167 (15.29%) Windows
2 795 (10.42%) Linux
3 588 (7.70%) Windows Server
4 298 (3.90%) Ubuntu
5 227 (2.97%) Windows 10
6 150 (1.97%) Android
7 134 (1.76%) Windows Server 2016
8 104 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 99 (1.30%) VMS
10 95 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 95 (1.24%) Unix
11 90 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
12 88 (1.15%) Apple iOS
13 36 (0.47%) CentOS
14 23 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
15 20 (0.26%) Mac OS
16 15 (0.20%) Windows 7
17 14 (0.18%) Solaris
18 11 (0.14%) Mac OS X
19 10 (0.13%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,832 (37.10%) Agile
2 2,096 (27.46%) DevOps
3 1,177 (15.42%) Full Stack Development
4 1,101 (14.42%) Software Engineering
5 1,091 (14.29%) Microservices
6 1,004 (13.15%) CI/CD
7 968 (12.68%) MVC
8 954 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 818 (10.72%) Scrum
10 756 (9.90%) Business Intelligence
11 729 (9.55%) TDD
12 657 (8.61%) Mentoring
13 649 (8.50%) Cybersecurity
14 632 (8.28%) Artificial Intelligence
15 603 (7.90%) Roadmaps
16 589 (7.72%) Migration
17 541 (7.09%) Analytics
18 532 (6.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 521 (6.83%) BDD
20 515 (6.75%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 2,225 (29.15%) C#
2 1,910 (25.02%) SQL
3 1,863 (24.41%) JavaScript
4 1,151 (15.08%) Python
5 667 (8.74%) TypeScript
6 578 (7.57%) PowerShell
7 555 (7.27%) Java
8 356 (4.66%) Bash
9 333 (4.36%) T-SQL
10 80 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 79 (1.03%) Go
12 78 (1.02%) Bicep
13 76 (1.00%) C++
13 76 (1.00%) R
14 67 (0.88%) VB
14 67 (0.88%) VB.NET
15 56 (0.73%) PHP
16 50 (0.66%) Kotlin
17 44 (0.58%) Groovy
17 44 (0.58%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 862 (11.29%) Security Cleared
2 823 (10.78%) Degree
3 633 (8.29%) SC Cleared
4 418 (5.48%) Azure Certification
5 347 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 260 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 184 (2.41%) AWS Certification
8 169 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
9 157 (2.06%) DBS Check
10 126 (1.65%) CISSP
11 116 (1.52%) DV Cleared
12 105 (1.38%) CCNA
13 74 (0.97%) Master's Degree
14 72 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
15 69 (0.90%) CISM
15 69 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
16 66 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 54 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 54 (0.71%) CCNP
18 51 (0.67%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (3.62%) QA
2 182 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 155 (2.03%) Data Quality
4 113 (1.48%) NIST
5 107 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 98 (1.28%) GDPR
7 80 (1.05%) SLA
8 72 (0.94%) Accessibility
9 63 (0.83%) PCI DSS
10 23 (0.30%) NCSC
11 22 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 20 (0.26%) COBIT
13 18 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 17 (0.22%) GRC
15 14 (0.18%) PMO
16 13 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.14%) ISO 9001
17 11 (0.14%) SOC 2
18 10 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
19 6 (0.079%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1,211 (15.87%) Active Directory
2 611 (8.00%) Docker
3 394 (5.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 289 (3.79%) Hyper-V
5 233 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
6 127 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
7 91 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
8 58 (0.76%) vSphere
9 32 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
10 20 (0.26%) Firmware
11 11 (0.14%) Terminal Services
11 11 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 10 (0.13%) VMware Server
12 10 (0.13%) XenApp
13 8 (0.10%) DFS Replication
13 8 (0.10%) NFS
14 7 (0.092%) Embedded Firmware
15 6 (0.079%) KVM
16 4 (0.052%) VMware NSX
17 3 (0.039%) Gluster
Systems Management
1 678 (8.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 668 (8.75%) Kubernetes
3 634 (8.31%) Terraform
4 312 (4.09%) Ansible
5 215 (2.82%) Jamf Pro
6 112 (1.47%) SCCM
7 99 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
8 80 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 67 (0.88%) vCenter Server
10 57 (0.75%) Grafana
11 48 (0.63%) Prometheus
11 48 (0.63%) Puppet
12 47 (0.62%) Progress Chef
13 41 (0.54%) WSUS
14 38 (0.50%) SCOM
15 34 (0.45%) CASB
16 26 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
17 22 (0.29%) Nagios
18 19 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
19 18 (0.24%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3,631 (47.57%) Microsoft
2 597 (7.82%) VMware
3 391 (5.12%) Google
4 308 (4.04%) Cisco
5 261 (3.42%) Databricks
6 229 (3.00%) CyberArk
7 218 (2.86%) ESRI
8 210 (2.75%) Tanium
9 203 (2.66%) Oracle
10 141 (1.85%) Citrix
11 124 (1.62%) Meraki
12 104 (1.36%) Fortinet
13 98 (1.28%) Veeam
14 93 (1.22%) ServiceNow
15 81 (1.06%) HP
16 77 (1.01%) Facebook
17 73 (0.96%) SolarWinds
18 69 (0.90%) IBM
19 66 (0.86%) Apple
19 66 (0.86%) Sitecore