Microsoft Azure Storage
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Storage skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Storage 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 804 865 979
Rank change year-on-year +61 +114 -262
Permanent jobs citing Azure Storage 107 96 268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.099% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.30% 0.23% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 90 76 114
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,875 £55,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -5.36%
75th Percentile £77,000 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £94,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.67% -4.00% -3.85%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure Storage 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 35,937 42,041 80,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.80% 43.27% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,911 27,490 41,315
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 £96,000 £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 Storage
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Storage as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Storage.

Salary trend for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Storage over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Storage within the UK 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
England +88 102 £62,500 -7.41% 43
Work from Home +81 75 £59,000 -5.98% 36
UK excluding London +7 58 £59,000 -1.67% 30
London +107 46 £73,500 -5.16% 16
South East +15 31 £59,000 -5.60% 5
Midlands -11 9 £52,000 -0.95% 9
North of England +28 8 £65,996 +7.75% 4
South West -12 7 £62,500 +7.76% 6
West Midlands +2 6 £50,000 -5.66% 1
Yorkshire - 5 £71,991 - 4
North West -4 3 £60,000 -
East Midlands -23 3 £67,500 +108.10% 8
Scotland -60 3 £66,500 - 4

Azure Storage
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 25 (23.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.67%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.80%) IIS
Business Applications
1 8 (7.48%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 107 (100.00%) Azure
2 58 (54.21%) Entra ID
3 38 (35.51%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (34.58%) Azure Monitor
5 32 (29.91%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (15.89%) Serverless
7 14 (13.08%) Azure Functions
8 11 (10.28%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (9.35%) Azure App Service
9 10 (9.35%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (9.35%) IaaS
10 7 (6.54%) Azure AKS
10 7 (6.54%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (6.54%) PaaS
11 6 (5.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (5.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 6 (5.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (5.61%) Power Platform
11 6 (5.61%) SaaS
12 5 (4.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (26.17%) DNS
2 26 (24.30%) Firewall
3 20 (18.69%) DHCP
4 4 (3.74%) Network Security
4 4 (3.74%) SAN
5 3 (2.80%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (2.80%) NetScaler
5 3 (2.80%) VPN
6 1 (0.93%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (21.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 23 (21.50%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.61%) Data Lake
3 5 (4.67%) Power BI
4 4 (3.74%) Redis
5 3 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.93%) Big Data
6 1 (0.93%) OLTP
6 1 (0.93%) PolyBase
6 1 (0.93%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (13.08%) Git
2 6 (5.61%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.80%) Moq
3 3 (2.80%) Postman
3 3 (2.80%) Selenium
3 3 (2.80%) SoapUI
3 3 (2.80%) SpecFlow
3 3 (2.80%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 46 (42.99%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.82%) Finance
3 14 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.41%) Law
5 3 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (19.63%) Azure Engineer
1 21 (19.63%) Lead
2 17 (15.89%) Active Directory Specialist
2 17 (15.89%) Active Directory Support
2 17 (15.89%) Azure Specialist
2 17 (15.89%) Support Specialist
3 16 (14.95%) Developer
4 13 (12.15%) Cloud Engineer
4 13 (12.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 10 (9.35%) Architect
6 9 (8.41%) Senior
7 8 (7.48%) IT Engineer
7 8 (7.48%) Site Engineer
8 7 (6.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) .NET Developer
9 6 (5.61%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) Software Developer
10 5 (4.67%) Data Architect
10 5 (4.67%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (34.58%) ARM Templates
2 22 (20.56%) .NET
3 13 (12.15%) .NET Framework
4 12 (11.21%) .NET Core
5 11 (10.28%) CSS
5 11 (10.28%) YAML
6 9 (8.41%) REST
6 9 (8.41%) Sass
7 8 (7.48%) Vue
8 7 (6.54%) Entity Framework
8 7 (6.54%) HTML
9 6 (5.61%) ASP.NET
9 6 (5.61%) ASP.NET Web API
9 6 (5.61%) Web Services
10 5 (4.67%) React
10 5 (4.67%) Swagger
11 4 (3.74%) ASP.NET MVC
11 4 (3.74%) LESS
11 4 (3.74%) SignalR
12 3 (2.80%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.69%) PKI
2 18 (16.82%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (7.48%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (7.48%) Public Cloud
4 5 (4.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.74%) Driving Licence
5 4 (3.74%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.74%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.80%) iPhone
6 3 (2.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (2.80%) W3C
7 2 (1.87%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 40 (37.38%) Windows
2 32 (29.91%) Windows Server
3 30 (28.04%) Linux
4 20 (18.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 20 (18.69%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (3.74%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.93%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.93%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (57.94%) DevOps
2 47 (43.93%) Agile
3 46 (42.99%) CI/CD
4 38 (35.51%) Analytics
5 34 (31.78%) Log Analytics
6 32 (29.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 26 (24.30%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (23.36%) Service Management
9 24 (22.43%) RBAC
10 23 (21.50%) ITIL
11 21 (19.63%) Identity Management
12 20 (18.69%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 17 (15.89%) Privileged Identity Management
13 17 (15.89%) Release Management
14 16 (14.95%) Microservices
15 15 (14.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 14 (13.08%) Containerisation
16 14 (13.08%) Incident Management
17 13 (12.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 13 (12.15%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (49.53%) PowerShell
2 41 (38.32%) C#
3 23 (21.50%) Bicep
4 20 (18.69%) SQL
5 17 (15.89%) VB
5 17 (15.89%) VBScript
6 15 (14.02%) JavaScript
7 13 (12.15%) Python
8 8 (7.48%) Bash
8 8 (7.48%) Kusto Query Language
9 7 (6.54%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.93%) Java
10 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (27.10%) Degree
2 28 (26.17%) Security Cleared
3 22 (20.56%) Azure Certification
4 17 (15.89%) DV Cleared
4 17 (15.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 11 (10.28%) SC Cleared
6 9 (8.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.93%) CCNA
8 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.93%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.67%) SLA
2 3 (2.80%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.80%) PMO
2 3 (2.80%) WCAG
3 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 60 (56.07%) Active Directory
2 44 (41.12%) Virtual Machines
3 31 (28.97%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (11.21%) Docker
5 3 (2.80%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.80%) Xen
5 3 (2.80%) XenApp
6 1 (0.93%) Firmware
6 1 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (25.23%) Kubernetes
2 21 (19.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 21 (19.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (18.69%) SCCM
4 18 (16.82%) SCOM
4 18 (16.82%) WSUS
5 15 (14.02%) Terraform
6 6 (5.61%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.80%) PowerCLI
7 3 (2.80%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.80%) vRealize
7 3 (2.80%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (0.93%) HP SIM
8 1 (0.93%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 68 (63.55%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.48%) BMC
2 8 (7.48%) Remedy
3 6 (5.61%) Citrix
3 6 (5.61%) Databricks
3 6 (5.61%) VMware
4 4 (3.74%) CA
5 3 (2.80%) 3PAR
5 3 (2.80%) Brocade
5 3 (2.80%) HP
5 3 (2.80%) Nimble Storage
6 2 (1.87%) Cisco
6 2 (1.87%) Commvault
6 2 (1.87%) Forcepoint
6 2 (1.87%) Veeam
7 1 (0.93%) EMC
7 1 (0.93%) Isilon
7 1 (0.93%) NetApp
7 1 (0.93%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.93%) Varonis