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 10 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 17,271 21,050 32,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.84% 22.66% 18.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.27% 52.66% 39.07%
Number of salaries quoted 13,352 13,699 18,803
10th Percentile £34,000 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +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 36,539 39,971 83,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.52% 43.04% 48.57%
Number of salaries quoted 27,252 27,063 41,340
10th Percentile £30,250 £34,182 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% +2.40% +5.93%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,900 £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
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 10 June 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 10 June 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 15,326 £59,000 -9.23% 3,043
UK excluding London -1 11,774 £54,000 -1.82% 2,088
Work from Home +1 7,721 £60,000 -7.69% 1,838
London -1 4,720 £75,000 - 1,092
North of England -1 3,246 £55,000 - 646
South East -2 2,918 £55,000 -4.35% 412
Midlands +1 2,038 £52,500 -4.55% 380
North West 0 1,738 £57,500 +4.55% 367
South West -3 1,456 £55,000 - 301
West Midlands -2 1,196 £55,000 - 232
Yorkshire +1 1,095 £55,000 - 216
East Midlands +2 838 £48,500 -7.62% 146
Scotland -22 799 £55,000 -4.86% 145
East of England 0 797 £50,000 - 126
North East +5 415 £50,000 -9.09% 64
Wales -1 372 £50,000 +7.53% 59
Northern Ireland -3 134 £65,000 +23.81% 52
Isle of Man 0 17 £46,500 -33.57% 4
Channel Islands +2 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 1,158 (6.70%) SharePoint
2 1,075 (6.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 310 (1.79%) ArcGIS
4 308 (1.78%) GeoServer
5 276 (1.60%) IIS
6 260 (1.51%) Apache
7 211 (1.22%) Apache Spark
8 193 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
9 146 (0.85%) CMS
10 139 (0.80%) Confluence
11 99 (0.57%) Umbraco
12 59 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
13 55 (0.32%) WebLogic
14 49 (0.28%) Kentico
14 49 (0.28%) OpenStack
15 41 (0.24%) Headless CMS
16 38 (0.22%) WordPress
17 34 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
17 34 (0.20%) nginx
18 30 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 544 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
2 245 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 63 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (0.24%) MS Visio
5 29 (0.17%) Simulink
5 29 (0.17%) Trello
6 27 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
7 8 (0.046%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.041%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.041%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.041%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.035%) LightWave 3D
10 4 (0.023%) SPSS
11 3 (0.017%) S-PLUS
12 2 (0.012%) 1Password
12 2 (0.012%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.012%) CATIA
12 2 (0.012%) NASTRAN
12 2 (0.012%) Revit
12 2 (0.012%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 282 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 80 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 39 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
4 31 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 13 (0.075%) Remedy ITSM
5 13 (0.075%) Teamcenter
6 12 (0.069%) Oracle EBS
7 11 (0.064%) SAP S/4HANA
8 10 (0.058%) Payment Gateway
9 9 (0.052%) Elite 3E
10 8 (0.046%) Salesforce CRM
11 6 (0.035%) Maximo
11 6 (0.035%) Oracle General Ledger
11 6 (0.035%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 6 (0.035%) Primavera
11 6 (0.035%) SAP PLM
12 5 (0.029%) NetSuite
12 5 (0.029%) Oracle Receivables
12 5 (0.029%) SAP IBP
12 5 (0.029%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 5,253 (30.42%) AWS
2 3,825 (22.15%) Microsoft 365
3 2,313 (13.39%) Azure DevOps
4 2,031 (11.76%) GCP
5 1,986 (11.50%) Power Platform
6 1,804 (10.45%) Entra ID
7 1,047 (6.06%) SaaS
8 696 (4.03%) Dynamics 365
9 675 (3.91%) Serverless
10 654 (3.79%) PaaS
11 586 (3.39%) IaaS
12 517 (2.99%) PowerApps
13 511 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
14 464 (2.69%) Cloud Computing
15 433 (2.51%) Power Automate
16 424 (2.45%) GitHub
17 382 (2.21%) OneDrive
18 374 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
19 373 (2.16%) Azure Functions
20 351 (2.03%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1,763 (10.21%) Firewall
2 1,157 (6.70%) DNS
3 862 (4.99%) WAN
4 725 (4.20%) DHCP
5 690 (4.00%) LAN
6 636 (3.68%) VPN
7 547 (3.17%) TCP/IP
8 411 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
9 385 (2.23%) SAN
10 360 (2.08%) Internet
11 356 (2.06%) Network Security
12 336 (1.95%) Wireless
13 311 (1.80%) Broadband
14 308 (1.78%) VLAN
15 268 (1.55%) SD-WAN
16 212 (1.23%) 5G
17 187 (1.08%) VoIP
18 139 (0.80%) BGP
19 135 (0.78%) Remote Desktop
20 116 (0.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,921 (16.91%) SQL Server
2 1,394 (8.07%) Power BI
3 1,112 (6.44%) Data Warehouse
4 991 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
5 708 (4.10%) NoSQL
6 707 (4.09%) MongoDB
7 643 (3.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 632 (3.66%) Data Lake
9 528 (3.06%) Relational Database
10 469 (2.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 358 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
12 353 (2.04%) GIS
13 306 (1.77%) QGIS
14 293 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 291 (1.68%) MySQL
16 266 (1.54%) Big Data
16 266 (1.54%) DB2
17 248 (1.44%) BigQuery
18 209 (1.21%) Tableau
19 208 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 969 (5.61%) Git
2 547 (3.17%) JIRA
3 437 (2.53%) Jenkins
4 326 (1.89%) GitLab
5 297 (1.72%) Visual Studio
6 154 (0.89%) Selenium
7 146 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 138 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
9 105 (0.61%) Postman
10 86 (0.50%) NUnit
11 64 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
12 62 (0.36%) SonarQube
13 60 (0.35%) Bitbucket
13 60 (0.35%) TeamCity
14 57 (0.33%) JMeter
15 55 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
16 51 (0.30%) CircleCI
17 46 (0.27%) Cucumber
17 46 (0.27%) Jasmine
18 41 (0.24%) Artifactory
General
1 3,954 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 2,757 (15.96%) Finance
3 1,498 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
4 990 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 980 (5.67%) Public Sector
6 620 (3.59%) Law
7 619 (3.58%) Retail
8 458 (2.65%) Legal
9 438 (2.54%) Marketing
10 432 (2.50%) Banking
11 391 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
12 295 (1.71%) Manufacturing
13 285 (1.65%) Front Office
14 239 (1.38%) Telecoms
15 220 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
16 210 (1.22%) Games
17 207 (1.20%) Aerospace
18 173 (1.00%) Advertising
19 134 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
20 127 (0.74%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 4,302 (24.91%) Developer
2 3,051 (17.67%) Senior
3 2,000 (11.58%) Architect
4 1,957 (11.33%) .NET Developer
5 1,550 (8.97%) Lead
6 1,338 (7.75%) Software Engineer
7 1,053 (6.10%) Analyst
8 992 (5.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 857 (4.96%) Azure Engineer
10 844 (4.89%) Senior Developer
11 834 (4.83%) C# Developer
12 821 (4.75%) Support Engineer
13 739 (4.28%) IT Support
14 727 (4.21%) Data Engineer
15 715 (4.14%) IT Engineer
16 644 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
17 635 (3.68%) C# .NET Developer
18 581 (3.36%) Full Stack Developer
19 544 (3.15%) Cloud Engineer
20 530 (3.07%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,472 (25.89%) .NET
2 2,106 (12.19%) React
3 1,939 (11.23%) AngularJS
4 1,842 (10.67%) .NET Core
5 1,813 (10.50%) ASP.NET
6 1,585 (9.18%) CSS
7 1,514 (8.77%) HTML
8 1,172 (6.79%) .NET Framework
9 1,125 (6.51%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1,022 (5.92%) Entity Framework
11 919 (5.32%) Vue
12 877 (5.08%) ASP.NET MVC
13 834 (4.83%) Node.js
14 773 (4.48%) REST
15 736 (4.26%) RESTful
16 621 (3.60%) Web Services
17 590 (3.42%) HTML5
18 514 (2.98%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 451 (2.61%) Blazor
20 435 (2.52%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 722 (4.18%) Public Cloud
2 532 (3.08%) Management Information System
3 498 (2.88%) Cloud Native
4 468 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 459 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
6 457 (2.65%) Data Structures
7 449 (2.60%) Product Ownership
8 438 (2.54%) Algorithms
9 430 (2.49%) Data Centre
10 424 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
11 309 (1.79%) Social Media
12 304 (1.76%) Onboarding
13 295 (1.71%) Blockchain
14 274 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
15 255 (1.48%) Fixed Income
16 242 (1.40%) Hedge funds
17 241 (1.40%) Driving Licence
18 223 (1.29%) PKI
19 219 (1.27%) Mobile App
20 206 (1.19%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 3,464 (20.06%) Windows
2 1,761 (10.20%) Linux
3 1,683 (9.74%) Windows Server
4 618 (3.58%) Windows 10
5 535 (3.10%) Android
6 462 (2.68%) Apple iOS
7 392 (2.27%) Ubuntu
8 324 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
9 277 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 230 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
11 196 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 164 (0.95%) Unix
13 160 (0.93%) VMS
14 157 (0.91%) CentOS
15 147 (0.85%) Mac OS
16 99 (0.57%) Debian
17 55 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.23%) Alpine Linux
19 35 (0.20%) Windows 7
20 34 (0.20%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,450 (31.56%) Agile
2 4,594 (26.60%) DevOps
3 2,671 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
4 2,520 (14.59%) Full Stack Development
5 2,251 (13.03%) Software Engineering
6 2,173 (12.58%) CI/CD
7 1,798 (10.41%) Microservices
8 1,584 (9.17%) Mentoring
9 1,508 (8.73%) MVC
10 1,471 (8.52%) Business Intelligence
11 1,444 (8.36%) Scrum
12 1,420 (8.22%) Artificial Intelligence
13 1,377 (7.97%) Cybersecurity
14 1,329 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 1,267 (7.34%) Migration
16 1,259 (7.29%) ITIL
17 1,238 (7.17%) Analytics
18 1,226 (7.10%) Roadmaps
19 1,107 (6.41%) ETL
20 1,038 (6.01%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4,382 (25.37%) C#
2 4,149 (24.02%) SQL
3 3,384 (19.59%) JavaScript
4 2,714 (15.71%) Python
5 1,478 (8.56%) PowerShell
6 1,301 (7.53%) Java
7 1,261 (7.30%) TypeScript
8 601 (3.48%) T-SQL
9 595 (3.45%) Bash
10 183 (1.06%) Bicep
11 174 (1.01%) Go
12 159 (0.92%) C++
13 149 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 137 (0.79%) R
15 113 (0.65%) Kotlin
16 105 (0.61%) PHP
16 105 (0.61%) Scala
17 102 (0.59%) Ruby
18 91 (0.53%) VB.NET
19 84 (0.49%) C
Qualifications
1 1,913 (11.08%) Degree
2 1,684 (9.75%) Security Cleared
3 1,243 (7.20%) SC Cleared
4 885 (5.12%) Azure Certification
5 840 (4.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 578 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 433 (2.51%) Cisco Certification
8 361 (2.09%) AWS Certification
9 316 (1.83%) DV Cleared
10 306 (1.77%) CISSP
11 291 (1.68%) CCNA
12 240 (1.39%) DBS Check
13 198 (1.15%) Master's Degree
14 197 (1.14%) MCSE
15 161 (0.93%) CISM
16 153 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
17 152 (0.88%) CCNP
18 124 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
19 111 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 110 (0.64%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 732 (4.24%) QA
2 477 (2.76%) Data Quality
3 421 (2.44%) GDPR
4 410 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 315 (1.82%) SLA
6 244 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
7 217 (1.26%) NIST
8 158 (0.91%) Accessibility
9 118 (0.68%) PCI DSS
10 66 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 49 (0.28%) NCSC
12 48 (0.28%) PMO
13 34 (0.20%) COBIT
13 34 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 31 (0.18%) HIPAA
15 30 (0.17%) GRC
16 28 (0.16%) ISO 9001
17 26 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 25 (0.14%) SOC 2
19 16 (0.093%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 3,029 (17.54%) Active Directory
2 1,223 (7.08%) Docker
3 1,096 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 911 (5.27%) Hyper-V
5 405 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
6 206 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 194 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
8 184 (1.07%) vSphere
9 95 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
10 71 (0.41%) XenApp
11 59 (0.34%) XenDesktop
12 48 (0.28%) VMware NSX
13 37 (0.21%) Firmware
14 32 (0.19%) Terminal Services
15 24 (0.14%) KVM
16 16 (0.093%) VMware Server
17 15 (0.087%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 14 (0.081%) HDFS
19 13 (0.075%) NFS
20 12 (0.069%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 1,503 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 1,461 (8.46%) Kubernetes
3 1,371 (7.94%) Terraform
4 642 (3.72%) Ansible
5 326 (1.89%) SCCM
6 266 (1.54%) Jamf Pro
7 201 (1.16%) Puppet
8 171 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
9 147 (0.85%) vCenter Server
10 118 (0.68%) Progress Chef
11 115 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 107 (0.62%) Grafana
13 100 (0.58%) Prometheus
14 89 (0.52%) WSUS
15 83 (0.48%) SCOM
16 71 (0.41%) FortiGate
17 50 (0.29%) CASB
18 47 (0.27%) Nagios
19 41 (0.24%) Microsoft Clustering
20 36 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7,362 (42.63%) Microsoft
2 1,666 (9.65%) VMware
3 1,083 (6.27%) Google
4 834 (4.83%) Cisco
5 613 (3.55%) Databricks
6 480 (2.78%) Oracle
7 443 (2.56%) Red Hat
8 440 (2.55%) Citrix
9 366 (2.12%) IBM
10 353 (2.04%) Veeam
11 311 (1.80%) ESRI
12 254 (1.47%) CyberArk
13 232 (1.34%) Meraki
14 228 (1.32%) HP
15 210 (1.22%) Tanium
16 191 (1.11%) ServiceNow
17 175 (1.01%) Fortinet
18 174 (1.01%) Dell
19 150 (0.87%) Apple
20 148 (0.86%) SolarWinds