Azure Jobs in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 987 1,254 1,328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.65% 20.45% 19.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.45% 53.91% 50.04%
Number of salaries quoted 783 764 900
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,436 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £64,750 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £98,375 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,750
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.43% +5.00%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,996 2,326 2,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 29.63% 37.93% 38.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,537 1,482 1,833
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £41,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £92,375 £83,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the Thames Valley

Azure
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Azure in the Thames Valley

Azure
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure in the Thames Valley

Azure
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Berkshire -5 434 £52,500 -19.23% 69
Buckinghamshire -1 304 £52,198 -1.51% 53
Oxfordshire 0 249 £52,500 -4.55% 37
Azure
South East

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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
1 116 (11.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 76 (7.70%) SharePoint
3 39 (3.95%) IIS
4 30 (3.04%) OpenStack
5 29 (2.94%) ArcGIS
5 29 (2.94%) GeoServer
6 24 (2.43%) CMS
6 24 (2.43%) Headless CMS
6 24 (2.43%) Kentico
7 19 (1.93%) Sitecore CMS
7 19 (1.93%) Umbraco
8 17 (1.72%) Confluence
8 17 (1.72%) Exchange Server 2010
9 7 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.71%) nginx
9 7 (0.71%) WordPress
10 5 (0.51%) Apache
11 4 (0.41%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.30%) Alfresco
12 3 (0.30%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 20 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 29 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.32%) Dynamics NAV
3 9 (0.91%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.10%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.10%) SAP PLM
6 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 293 (29.69%) Microsoft 365
2 256 (25.94%) AWS
3 177 (17.93%) Azure DevOps
4 126 (12.77%) Power Platform
5 90 (9.12%) Entra ID
6 68 (6.89%) GCP
7 58 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
8 44 (4.46%) Azure Monitor
9 33 (3.34%) PowerApps
10 32 (3.24%) SaaS
11 30 (3.04%) Serverless
12 27 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
13 25 (2.53%) OneDrive
14 24 (2.43%) Amazon ECS
15 23 (2.33%) Azure Storage
16 22 (2.23%) Azure Sentinel
16 22 (2.23%) Cloud Computing
17 21 (2.13%) GitHub
18 20 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
18 20 (2.03%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 149 (15.10%) Firewall
2 123 (12.46%) DNS
3 76 (7.70%) DHCP
4 52 (5.27%) VPN
5 36 (3.65%) WAN
6 33 (3.34%) SAN
7 28 (2.84%) LAN
7 28 (2.84%) TCP/IP
8 23 (2.33%) Wireless
9 20 (2.03%) Internet
10 18 (1.82%) Intrusion Detection
11 17 (1.72%) Network Security
11 17 (1.72%) VLAN
12 15 (1.52%) NAS
12 15 (1.52%) SNMP
13 14 (1.42%) VoIP
14 12 (1.22%) BGP
15 11 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
16 10 (1.01%) DKIM
16 10 (1.01%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (11.96%) SQL Server
2 82 (8.31%) Data Warehouse
2 82 (8.31%) Power BI
3 72 (7.29%) PostgreSQL
4 44 (4.46%) Data Lake
5 41 (4.15%) BigQuery
6 40 (4.05%) Looker
6 40 (4.05%) Relational Database
7 37 (3.75%) NoSQL
8 31 (3.14%) GIS
9 30 (3.04%) Azure SQL Database
10 29 (2.94%) QGIS
11 22 (2.23%) MySQL
12 21 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
13 19 (1.93%) MongoDB
14 16 (1.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 15 (1.52%) Power Query
15 15 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 9 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 71 (7.19%) Git
2 52 (5.27%) Jenkins
3 45 (4.56%) JIRA
4 25 (2.53%) Visual Studio
5 23 (2.33%) NUnit
6 16 (1.62%) Selenium
7 14 (1.42%) GitLab
8 13 (1.32%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (0.91%) WebDriver
10 6 (0.61%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.51%) Bugzilla
11 5 (0.51%) MSTest
11 5 (0.51%) Visual Studio Team System
11 5 (0.51%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.30%) Mockito
12 3 (0.30%) Postman
13 2 (0.20%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.20%) IntelliJ
13 2 (0.20%) Robot Framework
General
1 239 (24.21%) Social Skills
2 114 (11.55%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (6.69%) Finance
4 50 (5.07%) Public Sector
4 50 (5.07%) Retail
5 39 (3.95%) Legal
6 31 (3.14%) Law
7 30 (3.04%) Billing
8 29 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
9 26 (2.63%) Manufacturing
10 25 (2.53%) Marketing
11 16 (1.62%) Back Office
12 15 (1.52%) Health Technology
13 14 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.42%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
14 13 (1.32%) Tech for Good
15 7 (0.71%) Games
15 7 (0.71%) Police
Job Titles
1 260 (26.34%) Developer
2 149 (15.10%) Senior
3 96 (9.73%) .NET Developer
4 87 (8.81%) Analyst
5 81 (8.21%) Architect
6 73 (7.40%) Senior Developer
7 69 (6.99%) Lead
8 66 (6.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 65 (6.59%) Software Engineer
10 55 (5.57%) Support Engineer
11 49 (4.96%) C# Developer
12 47 (4.76%) C# .NET Developer
13 45 (4.56%) Azure Engineer
14 40 (4.05%) IT Engineer
14 40 (4.05%) IT Support
15 39 (3.95%) Full Stack Developer
16 38 (3.85%) Senior .NET Developer
17 34 (3.44%) Java Developer
18 33 (3.34%) IT Analyst
19 29 (2.94%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (23.40%) .NET
2 123 (12.46%) .NET Core
3 115 (11.65%) React
4 89 (9.02%) ASP.NET
4 89 (9.02%) CSS
5 76 (7.70%) AngularJS
6 68 (6.89%) .NET Framework
7 59 (5.98%) HTML
8 57 (5.78%) ASP.NET MVC
9 50 (5.07%) Node.js
10 42 (4.26%) Entity Framework
11 38 (3.85%) JSON
12 35 (3.55%) Web Services
13 34 (3.44%) RESTful
14 33 (3.34%) ASP.NET Web API
14 33 (3.34%) Spring Boot
15 32 (3.24%) Spring
16 31 (3.14%) XML
17 30 (3.04%) REST
18 29 (2.94%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 59 (5.98%) Self-Motivation
2 49 (4.96%) Product Ownership
3 39 (3.95%) PKI
4 32 (3.24%) Data Centre
4 32 (3.24%) Management Information System
5 26 (2.63%) Driving Licence
6 20 (2.03%) Client/Server
6 20 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (1.93%) Cyber Threat
8 18 (1.82%) Public Cloud
9 16 (1.62%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.52%) CMDB
11 13 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.32%) Private Cloud
11 13 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
11 13 (1.32%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (1.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 223 (22.59%) Windows
2 142 (14.39%) Windows Server
3 131 (13.27%) Linux
4 76 (7.70%) Windows 10
5 50 (5.07%) Windows Server 2019
6 47 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
7 26 (2.63%) Windows Server 2012
8 16 (1.62%) Windows XP
9 15 (1.52%) Android
9 15 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (1.42%) Apple iOS
10 14 (1.42%) Ubuntu
11 10 (1.01%) CentOS
11 10 (1.01%) VMS
12 6 (0.61%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (0.51%) Windows 8
14 4 (0.41%) Mac OS X
14 4 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.30%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.30%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (33.13%) DevOps
2 315 (31.91%) Agile
3 171 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
4 128 (12.97%) CI/CD
5 119 (12.06%) Scrum
6 117 (11.85%) Full Stack Development
7 99 (10.03%) Analytics
7 99 (10.03%) Microservices
8 94 (9.52%) Software Engineering
9 91 (9.22%) MVC
10 86 (8.71%) Business Intelligence
11 83 (8.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 82 (8.31%) ITIL
13 81 (8.21%) Project Management
14 80 (8.11%) Mentoring
15 74 (7.50%) Web Development
16 72 (7.29%) CRM
17 67 (6.79%) Cybersecurity
18 65 (6.59%) Data Modelling
18 65 (6.59%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 231 (23.40%) C#
2 216 (21.88%) JavaScript
3 205 (20.77%) SQL
4 132 (13.37%) Python
5 75 (7.60%) Java
5 75 (7.60%) PowerShell
6 57 (5.78%) TypeScript
7 33 (3.34%) T-SQL
8 32 (3.24%) Bash
9 22 (2.23%) VBScript
10 20 (2.03%) VB
11 17 (1.72%) Bicep
12 15 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 15 (1.52%) Kotlin
13 10 (1.01%) Go
13 10 (1.01%) VB.NET
14 9 (0.91%) Ruby
15 7 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (0.71%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 191 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 133 (13.48%) Degree
3 132 (13.37%) SC Cleared
4 54 (5.47%) DV Cleared
5 48 (4.86%) Azure Certification
6 46 (4.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 41 (4.15%) Cisco Certification
8 32 (3.24%) CCNA
9 29 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (2.63%) CISSP
11 23 (2.33%) AWS Certification
12 21 (2.13%) DBS Check
13 20 (2.03%) CTC Cleared
14 18 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
14 18 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 13 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
16 12 (1.22%) CCNP
16 12 (1.22%) MCP
17 11 (1.11%) MCSE
18 9 (0.91%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (6.48%) QA
2 36 (3.65%) GDPR
3 34 (3.44%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.23%) SLA
5 20 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 12 (1.22%) NIST
8 5 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 215 (21.78%) Active Directory
2 85 (8.61%) Docker
3 80 (8.11%) Hyper-V
4 56 (5.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 28 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.71%) vSphere
9 6 (0.61%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 3 (0.30%) XenApp
10 3 (0.30%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.20%) Firmware
12 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 119 (12.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 87 (8.81%) Kubernetes
3 60 (6.08%) Terraform
4 50 (5.07%) Ansible
5 41 (4.15%) SCOM
6 39 (3.95%) SCCM
7 29 (2.94%) WSUS
8 27 (2.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 17 (1.72%) vCenter Server
10 15 (1.52%) EMC NetWorker
11 12 (1.22%) NetBackup
12 8 (0.81%) CASB
13 7 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
13 7 (0.71%) Puppet
14 6 (0.61%) Grafana
15 5 (0.51%) HP Quality Center
15 5 (0.51%) Red Hat Spacewalk
16 3 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
16 3 (0.30%) Progress Chef
16 3 (0.30%) Suricata
Vendors
1 512 (51.87%) Microsoft
2 113 (11.45%) VMware
3 68 (6.89%) Google
4 48 (4.86%) Cisco
5 41 (4.15%) Oracle
6 29 (2.94%) ESRI
7 28 (2.84%) HP
7 28 (2.84%) Juniper
8 25 (2.53%) Citrix
8 25 (2.53%) Databricks
8 25 (2.53%) Veeam
9 24 (2.43%) Dell
10 20 (2.03%) EMC
11 19 (1.93%) Optimizely
11 19 (1.93%) Palo Alto
11 19 (1.93%) Sitecore
12 18 (1.82%) WSO2
13 15 (1.52%) Dynatrace
14 14 (1.42%) Aruba
14 14 (1.42%) ServiceNow