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 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 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 11,547 12,377 14,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.49% 21.33% 19.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.10% 54.75% 49.56%
Number of salaries quoted 8,923 7,025 9,337
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,310
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.09% +1.60% +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 24,005 22,607 29,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.19% 38.97% 39.74%
Number of salaries quoted 17,654 13,410 19,518
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £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 £66,500 £70,938 £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 29 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 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
North of England 0 3,171 £55,000 - 730
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% 402
South West -3 1,427 £55,000 - 316
West Midlands +1 1,180 £55,000 - 264
Yorkshire 0 1,084 £55,000 - 247
Scotland -23 815 £55,000 -5.17% 161
East Midlands +2 802 £48,500 -7.62% 161
East of England -1 791 £50,000 - 175
North East +4 403 £50,000 -9.09% 85
Wales -1 352 £50,000 +7.86% 82
Northern Ireland -4 132 £60,000 +14.29% 58
Isle of Man -2 17 £46,500 -33.57% 4
Channel Islands +2 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
1 844 (7.31%) SharePoint
2 806 (6.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 288 (2.49%) ArcGIS
4 286 (2.48%) GeoServer
5 229 (1.98%) IIS
6 102 (0.88%) CMS
7 89 (0.77%) Confluence
8 82 (0.71%) Apache
9 81 (0.70%) Umbraco
10 69 (0.60%) Apache Spark
11 46 (0.40%) 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 (0.16%) nginx
17 18 (0.16%) WordPress
18 17 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 437 (3.78%) Microsoft Office
2 149 (1.29%) 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%) GNU Octave
13 1 (0.009%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 164 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 71 (0.61%) 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%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 3,447 (29.85%) AWS
2 2,834 (24.54%) Microsoft 365
3 1,556 (13.48%) Azure DevOps
4 1,197 (10.37%) Entra ID
5 1,175 (10.18%) Power Platform
6 1,077 (9.33%) GCP
7 655 (5.67%) SaaS
8 392 (3.39%) Serverless
9 334 (2.89%) Dynamics 365
10 327 (2.83%) PaaS
11 302 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
12 300 (2.60%) IaaS
13 288 (2.49%) OneDrive
14 272 (2.36%) IBM Cloud
15 261 (2.26%) GitHub
16 252 (2.18%) Azure Data Factory
16 252 (2.18%) PowerApps
17 215 (1.86%) Azure Functions
17 215 (1.86%) Azure Service Bus
18 209 (1.81%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,307 (11.32%) Firewall
2 865 (7.49%) DNS
3 625 (5.41%) WAN
4 559 (4.84%) DHCP
5 465 (4.03%) LAN
6 463 (4.01%) VPN
7 422 (3.65%) TCP/IP
8 300 (2.60%) SAN
9 283 (2.45%) Internet
10 260 (2.25%) Wi-Fi
11 244 (2.11%) VLAN
12 214 (1.85%) Wireless
13 206 (1.78%) Network Security
14 178 (1.54%) SD-WAN
15 168 (1.45%) Broadband
16 160 (1.39%) VoIP
17 119 (1.03%) Remote Desktop
18 94 (0.81%) BGP
19 92 (0.80%) HTTP
20 87 (0.75%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,155 (18.66%) SQL Server
2 867 (7.51%) Power BI
3 770 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 759 (6.57%) Data Warehouse
5 557 (4.82%) MongoDB
6 535 (4.63%) NoSQL
7 426 (3.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 375 (3.25%) Relational Database
9 357 (3.09%) Data Lake
10 332 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 331 (2.87%) GIS
12 284 (2.46%) QGIS
13 274 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
14 256 (2.22%) DB2
15 231 (2.00%) MySQL
16 202 (1.75%) BigQuery
17 183 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
18 180 (1.56%) Looker
19 165 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 138 (1.20%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 655 (5.67%) Git
2 394 (3.41%) JIRA
3 268 (2.32%) Jenkins
4 232 (2.01%) GitLab
5 207 (1.79%) Visual Studio
6 127 (1.10%) Selenium
7 101 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
8 75 (0.65%) 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 43 (0.37%) 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%) CircleCI
19 30 (0.26%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 2,624 (22.72%) Social Skills
2 1,444 (12.51%) Finance
3 864 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
4 730 (6.32%) Public Sector
5 523 (4.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 481 (4.17%) Retail
7 456 (3.95%) Law
8 284 (2.46%) Legal
9 282 (2.44%) Marketing
10 260 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
11 236 (2.04%) Manufacturing
12 191 (1.65%) Aerospace
13 173 (1.50%) Telecoms
14 169 (1.46%) Games
15 162 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
16 149 (1.29%) Banking
17 130 (1.13%) Advertising
18 92 (0.80%) Billing
19 74 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
20 60 (0.52%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2,971 (25.73%) Developer
2 1,787 (15.48%) Senior
3 1,503 (13.02%) .NET Developer
4 1,111 (9.62%) Architect
5 1,000 (8.66%) Lead
6 913 (7.91%) Software Engineer
7 780 (6.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 696 (6.03%) Support Engineer
9 658 (5.70%) Analyst
10 614 (5.32%) IT Support
11 598 (5.18%) C# Developer
12 593 (5.14%) IT Engineer
13 502 (4.35%) Senior Developer
14 493 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
15 491 (4.25%) C# .NET Developer
16 387 (3.35%) Senior Software Engineer
17 380 (3.29%) Data Engineer
18 377 (3.26%) IT Support Engineer
19 355 (3.07%) Cloud Engineer
19 355 (3.07%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,253 (28.17%) .NET
2 1,511 (13.09%) React
3 1,491 (12.91%) AngularJS
4 1,452 (12.57%) .NET Core
5 1,426 (12.35%) ASP.NET
6 1,297 (11.23%) CSS
7 1,226 (10.62%) HTML
8 933 (8.08%) ASP.NET Web API
9 919 (7.96%) .NET Framework
10 850 (7.36%) Entity Framework
11 754 (6.53%) ASP.NET MVC
12 706 (6.11%) Vue
13 640 (5.54%) Node.js
14 576 (4.99%) REST
15 565 (4.89%) RESTful
16 490 (4.24%) HTML5
17 460 (3.98%) Web Services
18 454 (3.93%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 407 (3.52%) Blazor
20 373 (3.23%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 585 (5.07%) Public Cloud
2 395 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
3 370 (3.20%) Data Structures
4 350 (3.03%) Algorithms
5 345 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
6 323 (2.80%) Management Information System
6 323 (2.80%) Product Ownership
7 305 (2.64%) Cloud Native
8 281 (2.43%) Blockchain
9 261 (2.26%) Data Centre
10 256 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
11 230 (1.99%) Driving Licence
12 211 (1.83%) Onboarding
13 162 (1.40%) Private Cloud
14 160 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
15 150 (1.30%) PKI
16 144 (1.25%) Mobile App
17 141 (1.22%) Social Media
18 133 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
19 129 (1.12%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 2,620 (22.69%) Windows
2 1,298 (11.24%) Windows Server
3 1,285 (11.13%) Linux
4 477 (4.13%) Windows 10
5 460 (3.98%) Android
6 393 (3.40%) Apple iOS
7 265 (2.29%) Windows Server 2016
8 229 (1.98%) Windows Server 2019
9 222 (1.92%) Ubuntu
10 183 (1.58%) Windows Server 2012
11 165 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 137 (1.19%) VMS
13 130 (1.13%) CentOS
14 111 (0.96%) Mac OS
15 102 (0.88%) Unix
16 97 (0.84%) Debian
17 48 (0.42%) 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 3,797 (32.88%) Agile
2 3,146 (27.25%) DevOps
3 1,884 (16.32%) Full Stack Development
4 1,821 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
5 1,402 (12.14%) CI/CD
6 1,381 (11.96%) Software Engineering
7 1,304 (11.29%) Microservices
8 1,282 (11.10%) MVC
9 1,118 (9.68%) Mentoring
10 1,038 (8.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 1,022 (8.85%) Scrum
12 937 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
13 891 (7.72%) ITIL
14 882 (7.64%) Artificial Intelligence
15 852 (7.38%) Cybersecurity
16 835 (7.23%) Migration
17 800 (6.93%) Roadmaps
18 756 (6.55%) Web Development
19 742 (6.43%) Customer Service
20 718 (6.22%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3,141 (27.20%) C#
2 2,671 (23.13%) SQL
3 2,634 (22.81%) JavaScript
4 1,442 (12.49%) Python
5 904 (7.83%) PowerShell
6 900 (7.79%) Java
7 795 (6.88%) TypeScript
8 428 (3.71%) T-SQL
9 309 (2.68%) Bash
10 111 (0.96%) Bicep
11 103 (0.89%) C++
12 100 (0.87%) Go
13 80 (0.69%) PHP
13 80 (0.69%) VB.NET
14 79 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 76 (0.66%) VB
16 65 (0.56%) Kotlin
17 61 (0.53%) C
18 58 (0.50%) Ruby
19 42 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 1,286 (11.14%) Security Cleared
2 1,153 (9.99%) Degree
3 951 (8.24%) SC Cleared
4 600 (5.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 561 (4.86%) Azure Certification
6 313 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
7 285 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 278 (2.41%) DV Cleared
9 236 (2.04%) CCNA
10 230 (1.99%) AWS Certification
11 211 (1.83%) DBS Check
12 166 (1.44%) CISSP
13 141 (1.22%) MCSE
14 98 (0.85%) CCNP
15 93 (0.81%) Master's Degree
16 89 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
17 82 (0.71%) MCSA
18 81 (0.70%) CISM
19 78 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 72 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 489 (4.23%) QA
2 326 (2.82%) GDPR
3 295 (2.55%) Data Quality
4 257 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 242 (2.10%) SLA
6 171 (1.48%) 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 26 (0.23%) NCSC
12 19 (0.16%) 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 2,111 (18.28%) Active Directory
2 868 (7.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 841 (7.28%) Hyper-V
4 825 (7.14%) Docker
5 287 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
6 154 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 137 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
7 137 (1.19%) vSphere
8 58 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
9 49 (0.42%) VMware NSX
10 41 (0.36%) XenApp
11 35 (0.30%) XenDesktop
12 27 (0.23%) Terminal Services
13 23 (0.20%) Firmware
14 18 (0.16%) VMware Server
15 10 (0.087%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 10 (0.087%) KVM
16 9 (0.078%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 9 (0.078%) pfSense
17 7 (0.061%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,018 (8.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 938 (8.12%) Kubernetes
3 799 (6.92%) Terraform
4 442 (3.83%) Ansible
5 228 (1.97%) SCCM
6 126 (1.09%) Puppet
7 102 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
8 98 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
9 93 (0.81%) vCenter Server
10 85 (0.74%) WSUS
11 78 (0.68%) SCOM
12 76 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 70 (0.61%) 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 5,030 (43.56%) Microsoft
2 1,315 (11.39%) VMware
3 700 (6.06%) Google
4 550 (4.76%) Cisco
5 403 (3.49%) Red Hat
6 337 (2.92%) IBM
7 310 (2.68%) Oracle
8 303 (2.62%) Citrix
9 289 (2.50%) ESRI
10 285 (2.47%) Veeam
11 267 (2.31%) Databricks
12 168 (1.45%) HP
13 156 (1.35%) Meraki
14 128 (1.11%) Dell
15 121 (1.05%) Fortinet
16 110 (0.95%) Apple
17 105 (0.91%) Aruba
18 101 (0.87%) Sophos
19 99 (0.86%) ServiceNow
20 89 (0.77%) SolarWinds