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

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 15,070 19,418 27,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.84% 22.48% 19.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.88% 51.47% 40.41%
Number of salaries quoted 12,009 12,481 16,529
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 £100,114 £100,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.09% +1.60% +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 30,832 37,724 67,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.46% 43.67% 48.22%
Number of salaries quoted 24,360 24,919 36,452
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 29 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 29 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 4,685 £75,000 - 1,327
North of England 0 3,171 £55,000 - 727
South East -2 2,858 £55,000 -4.35% 465
Midlands +2 1,987 £51,000 -7.27% 425
North West 0 1,686 £57,500 +4.55% 401
South West -3 1,427 £55,000 - 316
West Midlands +1 1,180 £55,000 - 264
Yorkshire 0 1,084 £55,000 - 245
East Midlands +2 802 £48,500 -7.62% 161
East of England -1 791 £50,000 - 174
North East +4 403 £50,000 -9.09% 85
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 1,060 (7.03%) SharePoint
2 999 (6.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 261 (1.73%) IIS
4 248 (1.65%) Apache
5 200 (1.33%) ArcGIS
6 198 (1.31%) GeoServer
7 193 (1.28%) Apache Spark
8 187 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
9 132 (0.88%) CMS
10 125 (0.83%) Confluence
11 88 (0.58%) Umbraco
12 55 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
13 49 (0.33%) Kentico
14 46 (0.31%) 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 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
2 220 (1.46%) 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
1 239 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 61 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 37 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
4 20 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
5 13 (0.086%) Teamcenter
6 11 (0.073%) SAP S/4HANA
7 10 (0.066%) Payment Gateway
7 10 (0.066%) Remedy ITSM
8 9 (0.060%) Elite 3E
8 9 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
8 9 (0.060%) Unit4 Business World
9 7 (0.046%) 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 4,410 (29.26%) AWS
2 3,443 (22.85%) Microsoft 365
3 2,057 (13.65%) Azure DevOps
4 1,746 (11.59%) Power Platform
5 1,726 (11.45%) GCP
6 1,608 (10.67%) Entra ID
7 884 (5.87%) SaaS
8 625 (4.15%) Serverless
9 578 (3.84%) Dynamics 365
10 575 (3.82%) PaaS
11 511 (3.39%) IaaS
12 470 (3.12%) Azure Data Factory
13 438 (2.91%) PowerApps
14 380 (2.52%) GitHub
15 375 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
16 371 (2.46%) Power Automate
17 343 (2.28%) Azure Functions
18 337 (2.24%) OneDrive
19 326 (2.16%) Azure Logic Apps
20 324 (2.15%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1,616 (10.72%) Firewall
2 1,066 (7.07%) DNS
3 769 (5.10%) WAN
4 682 (4.53%) DHCP
5 617 (4.09%) LAN
6 575 (3.82%) VPN
7 490 (3.25%) TCP/IP
8 380 (2.52%) Wi-Fi
9 371 (2.46%) SAN
10 324 (2.15%) Internet
11 312 (2.07%) Network Security
12 301 (2.00%) Wireless
13 300 (1.99%) Broadband
14 277 (1.84%) VLAN
15 237 (1.57%) SD-WAN
16 212 (1.41%) 5G
17 176 (1.17%) VoIP
18 112 (0.74%) BGP
18 112 (0.74%) Remote Desktop
19 110 (0.73%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,632 (17.47%) SQL Server
2 1,252 (8.31%) Power BI
3 984 (6.53%) Data Warehouse
4 847 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
5 680 (4.51%) MongoDB
6 638 (4.23%) NoSQL
7 562 (3.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 533 (3.54%) Data Lake
9 452 (3.00%) Relational Database
10 436 (2.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 341 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
12 279 (1.85%) MySQL
13 273 (1.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 266 (1.77%) DB2
15 241 (1.60%) GIS
16 239 (1.59%) BigQuery
17 222 (1.47%) Big Data
18 196 (1.30%) QGIS
19 194 (1.29%) Looker
20 183 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 884 (5.87%) Git
2 483 (3.21%) JIRA
3 390 (2.59%) Jenkins
4 293 (1.94%) GitLab
5 269 (1.79%) Visual Studio
6 129 (0.86%) Cypress.io
7 125 (0.83%) Selenium
8 120 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
9 81 (0.54%) Postman
10 76 (0.50%) NUnit
11 61 (0.40%) TeamCity
12 60 (0.40%) SonarQube
13 59 (0.39%) Bitbucket
14 58 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
15 57 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
16 49 (0.33%) JMeter
17 45 (0.30%) Jasmine
18 44 (0.29%) Cucumber
19 42 (0.28%) CircleCI
20 38 (0.25%) Artifactory
General
1 3,445 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 2,377 (15.77%) Finance
3 1,381 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
4 886 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 745 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 573 (3.80%) Retail
7 486 (3.22%) Law
8 377 (2.50%) Legal
9 371 (2.46%) Banking
10 326 (2.16%) Marketing
11 292 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
12 288 (1.91%) Front Office
13 277 (1.84%) Manufacturing
14 213 (1.41%) Telecoms
15 203 (1.35%) Aerospace
16 199 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
17 155 (1.03%) Advertising
18 152 (1.01%) Games
19 125 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
20 120 (0.80%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3,764 (24.98%) Developer
2 2,527 (16.77%) Senior
3 1,750 (11.61%) .NET Developer
4 1,635 (10.85%) Architect
5 1,275 (8.46%) Lead
6 1,053 (6.99%) Software Engineer
7 952 (6.32%) Analyst
8 897 (5.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 765 (5.08%) Support Engineer
10 754 (5.00%) C# Developer
11 731 (4.85%) Azure Engineer
12 688 (4.57%) Senior Developer
13 677 (4.49%) IT Support
14 659 (4.37%) IT Engineer
15 617 (4.09%) Data Engineer
16 575 (3.82%) C# .NET Developer
17 542 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
18 510 (3.38%) Full Stack Developer
19 475 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
20 451 (2.99%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,828 (25.40%) .NET
2 1,838 (12.20%) React
3 1,736 (11.52%) AngularJS
4 1,678 (11.13%) ASP.NET
5 1,544 (10.25%) .NET Core
6 1,384 (9.18%) HTML
7 1,344 (8.92%) CSS
8 1,030 (6.83%) .NET Framework
9 984 (6.53%) ASP.NET Web API
10 897 (5.95%) Entity Framework
11 842 (5.59%) Vue
12 827 (5.49%) ASP.NET MVC
13 735 (4.88%) Node.js
14 705 (4.68%) REST
15 653 (4.33%) RESTful
16 558 (3.70%) HTML5
17 550 (3.65%) Web Services
18 489 (3.24%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 420 (2.79%) jQuery
20 411 (2.73%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 570 (3.78%) Public Cloud
2 467 (3.10%) Management Information System
3 437 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 429 (2.85%) Data Structures
5 426 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
6 417 (2.77%) Product Ownership
7 384 (2.55%) Cloud Native
8 373 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
9 362 (2.40%) Algorithms
10 361 (2.40%) Data Centre
11 298 (1.98%) Blockchain
12 282 (1.87%) Social Media
13 259 (1.72%) Fixed Income
14 245 (1.63%) Hedge funds
15 227 (1.51%) Driving Licence
16 222 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
17 211 (1.40%) Equities
18 198 (1.31%) Mobile App
19 189 (1.25%) Onboarding
20 188 (1.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3,194 (21.19%) Windows
2 1,597 (10.60%) Linux
3 1,531 (10.16%) Windows Server
4 579 (3.84%) Windows 10
5 509 (3.38%) Android
6 451 (2.99%) Apple iOS
7 379 (2.51%) Ubuntu
8 307 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
9 259 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
10 223 (1.48%) Windows Server 2012
11 175 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 144 (0.96%) CentOS
13 143 (0.95%) VMS
14 137 (0.91%) Unix
15 136 (0.90%) Mac OS
16 97 (0.64%) Debian
17 53 (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 4,730 (31.39%) Agile
2 3,929 (26.07%) DevOps
3 2,244 (14.89%) Full Stack Development
4 2,236 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
5 1,848 (12.26%) CI/CD
6 1,818 (12.06%) Software Engineering
7 1,618 (10.74%) Microservices
8 1,406 (9.33%) MVC
9 1,385 (9.19%) Mentoring
10 1,321 (8.77%) Business Intelligence
11 1,275 (8.46%) Scrum
12 1,258 (8.35%) Artificial Intelligence
13 1,239 (8.22%) Cybersecurity
14 1,220 (8.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 1,156 (7.67%) ITIL
16 1,068 (7.09%) Roadmaps
17 1,059 (7.03%) Migration
18 1,051 (6.97%) Analytics
19 1,036 (6.87%) ETL
20 919 (6.10%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3,770 (25.02%) C#
2 3,690 (24.49%) SQL
3 3,004 (19.93%) JavaScript
4 2,322 (15.41%) Python
5 1,372 (9.10%) PowerShell
6 1,133 (7.52%) TypeScript
7 1,074 (7.13%) Java
8 563 (3.74%) T-SQL
9 559 (3.71%) Bash
10 167 (1.11%) Bicep
11 141 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 138 (0.92%) Go
13 137 (0.91%) R
14 124 (0.82%) C++
15 105 (0.70%) Kotlin
16 97 (0.64%) Scala
17 91 (0.60%) PHP
18 81 (0.54%) Ruby
18 81 (0.54%) VB.NET
19 77 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,714 (11.37%) Degree
2 1,370 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 976 (6.48%) SC Cleared
4 781 (5.18%) Azure Certification
5 759 (5.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 489 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 383 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
8 302 (2.00%) DV Cleared
9 277 (1.84%) AWS Certification
10 265 (1.76%) CISSP
11 250 (1.66%) CCNA
12 212 (1.41%) DBS Check
13 182 (1.21%) MCSE
14 174 (1.15%) Master's Degree
15 135 (0.90%) CCNP
16 121 (0.80%) CISM
17 111 (0.74%) MCSA
17 111 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
18 101 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
19 94 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 617 (4.09%) QA
2 443 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 387 (2.57%) GDPR
4 360 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 285 (1.89%) SLA
6 201 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 190 (1.26%) NIST
8 127 (0.84%) Accessibility
9 111 (0.74%) PCI DSS
10 46 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 45 (0.30%) NCSC
11 45 (0.30%) PMO
12 34 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 31 (0.21%) HIPAA
14 28 (0.19%) COBIT
15 25 (0.17%) GRC
16 22 (0.15%) SOC 2
17 19 (0.13%) ISO 9001
17 19 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 16 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2,746 (18.22%) Active Directory
2 1,082 (7.18%) Docker
3 979 (6.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 860 (5.71%) Hyper-V
5 364 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
6 191 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
7 188 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 176 (1.17%) vSphere
9 89 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
10 64 (0.42%) XenApp
11 47 (0.31%) XenDesktop
12 35 (0.23%) Firmware
13 31 (0.21%) Terminal Services
14 25 (0.17%) VMware NSX
15 22 (0.15%) KVM
16 18 (0.12%) VMware Server
17 16 (0.11%) HDFS
18 13 (0.086%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 11 (0.073%) NFS
20 10 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 1,398 (9.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 1,273 (8.45%) Kubernetes
3 1,191 (7.90%) Terraform
4 561 (3.72%) Ansible
5 306 (2.03%) SCCM
6 265 (1.76%) Jamf Pro
7 187 (1.24%) Puppet
8 162 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
9 145 (0.96%) vCenter Server
10 112 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 106 (0.70%) Progress Chef
12 89 (0.59%) WSUS
13 83 (0.55%) Grafana
14 79 (0.52%) SCOM
15 77 (0.51%) Prometheus
16 55 (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 6,577 (43.64%) Microsoft
2 1,520 (10.09%) VMware
3 948 (6.29%) Google
4 746 (4.95%) Cisco
5 566 (3.76%) Databricks
6 436 (2.89%) Red Hat
7 413 (2.74%) Citrix
8 408 (2.71%) Oracle
9 360 (2.39%) IBM
10 327 (2.17%) Veeam
11 251 (1.67%) CyberArk
12 216 (1.43%) HP
13 210 (1.39%) Tanium
14 203 (1.35%) Meraki
15 201 (1.33%) ESRI
16 164 (1.09%) ServiceNow
17 163 (1.08%) Dell
18 162 (1.07%) Fortinet
19 147 (0.98%) SolarWinds
20 144 (0.96%) Apple