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

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 16,734 22,157 30,886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.87% 22.22% 19.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.32% 51.80% 39.90%
Number of salaries quoted 13,171 14,106 18,809
10th Percentile £34,000 £36,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £64,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.53% +3.20% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +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 35,363 42,773 77,403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.65% 42.90% 48.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26,666 28,061 41,330
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,924
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% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
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 15 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 15 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 14,820 £59,000 -9.23% 3,524
UK excluding London -1 11,302 £52,500 -4.55% 2,433
Work from Home +1 7,541 £60,000 -7.69% 2,129
London 0 4,660 £75,000 - 1,258
North of England 0 3,107 £55,000 - 674
South East -2 2,782 £54,000 -6.09% 507
Midlands +2 1,926 £50,000 -9.09% 477
North West 0 1,656 £57,500 +4.55% 366
South West -2 1,411 £55,000 +3.95% 346
West Midlands +2 1,150 £55,000 - 287
Yorkshire 0 1,064 £55,000 - 227
Scotland -24 815 £55,000 -6.07% 139
East of England 0 788 £50,000 - 182
East Midlands +2 771 £47,500 -9.52% 188
North East +4 389 £47,500 -13.64% 85
Wales 0 342 £50,000 - 93
Northern Ireland -5 117 £55,000 +4.76% 59
Isle of Man -2 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 1,151 (6.88%) SharePoint
2 1,054 (6.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 334 (2.00%) ArcGIS
4 332 (1.98%) GeoServer
5 287 (1.72%) IIS
6 250 (1.49%) Apache
7 217 (1.30%) Apache Spark
8 181 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
9 139 (0.83%) CMS
10 134 (0.80%) Confluence
11 100 (0.60%) Umbraco
12 56 (0.33%) OpenStack
12 56 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
13 55 (0.33%) WebLogic
14 49 (0.29%) Kentico
15 41 (0.25%) Headless CMS
16 37 (0.22%) WebSphere
17 36 (0.22%) nginx
18 35 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
18 35 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 548 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
2 248 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 63 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 52 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 39 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 30 (0.18%) Trello
7 21 (0.13%) Simulink
8 10 (0.060%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.048%) Photoshop
10 7 (0.042%) Spreadsheet
11 6 (0.036%) LightWave 3D
12 4 (0.024%) 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%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 265 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 84 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 39 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
4 31 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
5 13 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.078%) Teamcenter
6 10 (0.060%) Elite 3E
6 10 (0.060%) Maximo
6 10 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
6 10 (0.060%) Remedy ITSM
6 10 (0.060%) Unit4 Business World
7 9 (0.054%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.036%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.036%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 6 (0.036%) Primavera
8 6 (0.036%) SAP PLM
9 5 (0.030%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.030%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.030%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.030%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 5,164 (30.86%) AWS
2 3,780 (22.59%) Microsoft 365
3 2,292 (13.70%) Azure DevOps
4 2,066 (12.35%) GCP
5 1,917 (11.46%) Power Platform
6 1,749 (10.45%) Entra ID
7 1,031 (6.16%) SaaS
8 700 (4.18%) Serverless
9 694 (4.15%) PaaS
10 671 (4.01%) Dynamics 365
11 608 (3.63%) IaaS
12 500 (2.99%) PowerApps
13 499 (2.98%) Azure Data Factory
14 467 (2.79%) GitHub
15 451 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
16 411 (2.46%) Power Automate
17 370 (2.21%) Azure Functions
18 367 (2.19%) OneDrive
19 360 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
20 353 (2.11%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1,711 (10.22%) Firewall
2 1,148 (6.86%) DNS
3 849 (5.07%) WAN
4 713 (4.26%) DHCP
5 679 (4.06%) LAN
6 630 (3.76%) VPN
7 533 (3.19%) TCP/IP
8 399 (2.38%) SAN
9 388 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
10 359 (2.15%) Internet
11 340 (2.03%) Network Security
12 321 (1.92%) Wireless
13 311 (1.86%) Broadband
14 302 (1.80%) VLAN
15 263 (1.57%) SD-WAN
16 212 (1.27%) 5G
17 193 (1.15%) VoIP
18 139 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
19 136 (0.81%) BGP
20 113 (0.68%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,863 (17.11%) SQL Server
2 1,327 (7.93%) Power BI
3 1,088 (6.50%) Data Warehouse
4 1,017 (6.08%) PostgreSQL
5 735 (4.39%) NoSQL
6 703 (4.20%) MongoDB
7 636 (3.80%) Data Lake
8 635 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
9 517 (3.09%) Relational Database
10 448 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 380 (2.27%) GIS
12 379 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
13 330 (1.97%) QGIS
14 310 (1.85%) MySQL
15 284 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 266 (1.59%) DB2
17 265 (1.58%) Big Data
18 253 (1.51%) BigQuery
19 213 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
20 201 (1.20%) Looker
Development Applications
1 948 (5.67%) Git
2 559 (3.34%) JIRA
3 485 (2.90%) Jenkins
4 332 (1.98%) GitLab
5 302 (1.80%) Visual Studio
6 166 (0.99%) Selenium
7 145 (0.87%) Cypress.io
8 131 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
9 105 (0.63%) Postman
10 84 (0.50%) NUnit
11 66 (0.39%) TeamCity
12 62 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
13 60 (0.36%) JMeter
14 58 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
15 56 (0.33%) Bitbucket
16 54 (0.32%) Cucumber
17 53 (0.32%) SonarQube
18 51 (0.30%) CircleCI
19 49 (0.29%) Jasmine
20 43 (0.26%) Artifactory
General
1 3,827 (22.87%) Social Skills
2 2,759 (16.49%) Finance
3 1,475 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
4 978 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 975 (5.83%) Public Sector
6 674 (4.03%) Law
7 612 (3.66%) Retail
8 488 (2.92%) Banking
9 460 (2.75%) Legal
10 439 (2.62%) Marketing
11 401 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
12 286 (1.71%) Front Office
13 277 (1.66%) Manufacturing
14 235 (1.40%) Telecoms
15 222 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
16 202 (1.21%) Games
17 191 (1.14%) Aerospace
18 152 (0.91%) Advertising
19 131 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
20 121 (0.72%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 4,101 (24.51%) Developer
2 3,008 (17.98%) Senior
3 1,884 (11.26%) Architect
4 1,791 (10.70%) .NET Developer
5 1,523 (9.10%) Lead
6 1,355 (8.10%) Software Engineer
7 1,071 (6.40%) Analyst
8 955 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 821 (4.91%) Support Engineer
10 799 (4.77%) Azure Engineer
11 779 (4.66%) Senior Developer
12 761 (4.55%) C# Developer
13 722 (4.31%) IT Support
14 708 (4.23%) IT Engineer
15 704 (4.21%) Data Engineer
16 635 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
17 565 (3.38%) C# .NET Developer
18 546 (3.26%) Full Stack Developer
19 541 (3.23%) Senior Software Engineer
20 516 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,277 (25.56%) .NET
2 2,061 (12.32%) React
3 1,856 (11.09%) AngularJS
4 1,790 (10.70%) .NET Core
5 1,772 (10.59%) ASP.NET
6 1,564 (9.35%) CSS
7 1,499 (8.96%) HTML
8 1,119 (6.69%) .NET Framework
9 1,028 (6.14%) ASP.NET Web API
10 973 (5.81%) Entity Framework
11 886 (5.29%) Vue
12 885 (5.29%) ASP.NET MVC
13 806 (4.82%) Node.js
14 787 (4.70%) REST
15 710 (4.24%) RESTful
16 613 (3.66%) Web Services
17 591 (3.53%) HTML5
18 507 (3.03%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 448 (2.68%) Blazor
20 428 (2.56%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 788 (4.71%) Public Cloud
2 530 (3.17%) Management Information System
3 463 (2.77%) Cloud Native
3 463 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 454 (2.71%) Data Structures
5 450 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
6 445 (2.66%) Product Ownership
7 437 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
8 432 (2.58%) Algorithms
9 428 (2.56%) Data Centre
10 309 (1.85%) Blockchain
11 307 (1.83%) Onboarding
12 294 (1.76%) Social Media
13 278 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
14 263 (1.57%) Fixed Income
15 248 (1.48%) Hedge funds
16 241 (1.44%) Driving Licence
17 231 (1.38%) Private Cloud
18 222 (1.33%) PKI
19 218 (1.30%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3,418 (20.43%) Windows
2 1,797 (10.74%) Linux
3 1,664 (9.94%) Windows Server
4 603 (3.60%) Windows 10
5 525 (3.14%) Android
6 463 (2.77%) Apple iOS
7 400 (2.39%) Ubuntu
8 323 (1.93%) Windows Server 2016
9 266 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
10 245 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
11 202 (1.21%) Unix
12 187 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 155 (0.93%) VMS
14 146 (0.87%) CentOS
15 138 (0.82%) Mac OS
16 98 (0.59%) Debian
17 50 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
19 35 (0.21%) Windows 7
20 32 (0.19%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,411 (32.34%) Agile
2 4,529 (27.06%) DevOps
3 2,569 (15.35%) Problem-Solving
4 2,366 (14.14%) Full Stack Development
5 2,211 (13.21%) Software Engineering
6 2,116 (12.64%) CI/CD
7 1,761 (10.52%) Microservices
8 1,533 (9.16%) Mentoring
9 1,505 (8.99%) MVC
10 1,430 (8.55%) Business Intelligence
10 1,430 (8.55%) Scrum
11 1,429 (8.54%) Artificial Intelligence
12 1,388 (8.29%) Cybersecurity
13 1,287 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 1,261 (7.54%) ITIL
15 1,227 (7.33%) Migration
16 1,224 (7.31%) Roadmaps
17 1,175 (7.02%) Analytics
18 1,116 (6.67%) ETL
19 1,030 (6.16%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4,176 (24.96%) C#
2 4,107 (24.54%) SQL
3 3,337 (19.94%) JavaScript
4 2,628 (15.70%) Python
5 1,448 (8.65%) PowerShell
6 1,335 (7.98%) Java
7 1,209 (7.22%) TypeScript
8 616 (3.68%) T-SQL
9 585 (3.50%) Bash
10 183 (1.09%) Go
11 175 (1.05%) Bicep
12 153 (0.91%) C++
13 144 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 142 (0.85%) R
15 110 (0.66%) PHP
16 108 (0.65%) Kotlin
17 103 (0.62%) Ruby
18 95 (0.57%) Scala
19 83 (0.50%) VB.NET
20 80 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 1,864 (11.14%) Degree
2 1,647 (9.84%) Security Cleared
3 1,225 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 866 (5.18%) Azure Certification
5 828 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 507 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 437 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
8 339 (2.03%) AWS Certification
9 305 (1.82%) CISSP
10 293 (1.75%) CCNA
11 280 (1.67%) DV Cleared
12 237 (1.42%) DBS Check
13 199 (1.19%) MCSE
14 187 (1.12%) Master's Degree
15 157 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
15 157 (0.94%) CISM
16 148 (0.88%) CCNP
17 127 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
18 114 (0.68%) MCSA
19 108 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 701 (4.19%) QA
2 473 (2.83%) Data Quality
3 445 (2.66%) GDPR
4 416 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 297 (1.77%) SLA
6 230 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
7 218 (1.30%) NIST
8 155 (0.93%) Accessibility
9 117 (0.70%) PCI DSS
10 65 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 48 (0.29%) PMO
12 45 (0.27%) NCSC
13 35 (0.21%) COBIT
13 35 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 31 (0.19%) GRC
15 27 (0.16%) HIPAA
15 27 (0.16%) ISO 9001
16 24 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 24 (0.14%) SOC 2
17 16 (0.096%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2,972 (17.76%) Active Directory
2 1,218 (7.28%) Docker
3 1,089 (6.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 906 (5.41%) Hyper-V
5 380 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
6 209 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
7 196 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 176 (1.05%) vSphere
9 89 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
10 55 (0.33%) VMware NSX
11 54 (0.32%) XenApp
12 43 (0.26%) XenDesktop
13 35 (0.21%) Firmware
14 31 (0.19%) Terminal Services
15 21 (0.13%) KVM
16 18 (0.11%) HDFS
16 18 (0.11%) VMware Server
17 12 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 11 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 11 (0.066%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 1,486 (8.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 1,448 (8.65%) Kubernetes
3 1,339 (8.00%) Terraform
4 616 (3.68%) Ansible
5 317 (1.89%) SCCM
6 266 (1.59%) Jamf Pro
7 199 (1.19%) Puppet
8 171 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
9 149 (0.89%) vCenter Server
10 130 (0.78%) Progress Chef
11 111 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 106 (0.63%) Grafana
13 94 (0.56%) Prometheus
14 90 (0.54%) WSUS
15 84 (0.50%) SCOM
16 71 (0.42%) FortiGate
17 51 (0.30%) CASB
18 45 (0.27%) Nagios
19 38 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
20 34 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7,228 (43.19%) Microsoft
2 1,671 (9.99%) VMware
3 1,100 (6.57%) Google
4 807 (4.82%) Cisco
5 613 (3.66%) Databricks
6 504 (3.01%) Oracle
7 447 (2.67%) Citrix
8 429 (2.56%) Red Hat
9 412 (2.46%) IBM
10 356 (2.13%) Veeam
11 335 (2.00%) ESRI
12 254 (1.52%) CyberArk
13 229 (1.37%) Meraki
14 225 (1.34%) HP
15 210 (1.25%) Tanium
16 197 (1.18%) ServiceNow
17 173 (1.03%) Fortinet
18 162 (0.97%) SAP
19 159 (0.95%) Dell
20 156 (0.93%) Apple