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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 11,292 12,436 13,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.92% 20.68% 19.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.04% 54.14% 48.99%
Number of salaries quoted 8,839 7,183 9,306
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £64,140 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.01% +2.62% +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 23,505 22,968 28,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.15% 38.19% 40.08%
Number of salaries quoted 17,423 13,774 19,590
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £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 £67,125 £71,250 £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% +8.70%

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 9 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 9 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 3,086 £55,000 - 639
South East -2 2,789 £54,000 -6.09% 490
Midlands +2 1,931 £50,000 -9.09% 476
North West 0 1,644 £57,500 +4.55% 351
South West -2 1,411 £55,000 +4.76% 332
West Midlands +1 1,154 £54,395 -1.10% 281
Yorkshire 0 1,059 £55,000 - 223
Scotland -24 817 £55,000 -6.47% 156
East of England 0 793 £50,000 - 185
East Midlands +4 773 £48,500 -7.62% 194
North East +4 385 £47,500 -13.64% 68
Wales 0 338 £50,000 - 88
Northern Ireland -4 115 £55,000 +4.76% 58
Isle of Man -2 17 £46,500 -33.57% 3
Channel Islands +1 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
1 871 (7.71%) SharePoint
2 824 (7.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 288 (2.55%) ArcGIS
4 286 (2.53%) GeoServer
5 241 (2.13%) IIS
6 100 (0.89%) CMS
7 90 (0.80%) Confluence
8 84 (0.74%) Umbraco
9 78 (0.69%) Apache
10 69 (0.61%) Apache Spark
11 49 (0.43%) OpenStack
12 44 (0.39%) Kentico
13 43 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
13 43 (0.38%) WebLogic
14 41 (0.36%) Headless CMS
15 32 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
16 26 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
17 25 (0.22%) WebSphere
18 24 (0.21%) FileNet
19 22 (0.19%) Captiva
Applications
1 443 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
2 145 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 42 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 22 (0.19%) Trello
7 21 (0.19%) Simulink
8 10 (0.089%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.071%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.053%) LightWave 3D
11 4 (0.035%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.027%) Spreadsheet
13 2 (0.018%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.018%) CATIA
13 2 (0.018%) NASTRAN
13 2 (0.018%) Sketch
13 2 (0.018%) S-PLUS
14 1 (0.009%) 1Password
14 1 (0.009%) InfoPath
14 1 (0.009%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 155 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 74 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 31 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
4 14 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
5 11 (0.097%) Maximo
6 9 (0.080%) Unit4 Business World
7 8 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
7 8 (0.071%) SAP S/4HANA
7 8 (0.071%) Teamcenter
8 6 (0.053%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.053%) SAP PLM
9 5 (0.044%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.044%) SAP PP
10 4 (0.035%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.035%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.035%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.035%) Visualfiles
11 3 (0.027%) Oracle Applications
11 3 (0.027%) Remedy ITSM
12 2 (0.018%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3,344 (29.61%) AWS
2 2,851 (25.25%) Microsoft 365
3 1,567 (13.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1,177 (10.42%) Entra ID
5 1,145 (10.14%) Power Platform
6 1,099 (9.73%) GCP
7 650 (5.76%) SaaS
8 408 (3.61%) Serverless
9 352 (3.12%) PaaS
10 335 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
11 314 (2.78%) IaaS
12 297 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
13 283 (2.51%) OneDrive
14 277 (2.45%) GitHub
15 275 (2.44%) IBM Cloud
16 251 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
17 245 (2.17%) PowerApps
18 219 (1.94%) Azure Service Bus
19 217 (1.92%) Azure Functions
20 206 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,301 (11.52%) Firewall
2 865 (7.66%) DNS
3 638 (5.65%) WAN
4 564 (4.99%) DHCP
5 468 (4.14%) VPN
6 467 (4.14%) LAN
7 409 (3.62%) TCP/IP
8 299 (2.65%) SAN
9 277 (2.45%) Internet
10 257 (2.28%) Wi-Fi
11 243 (2.15%) VLAN
12 211 (1.87%) Wireless
13 204 (1.81%) Network Security
14 177 (1.57%) SD-WAN
15 172 (1.52%) VoIP
16 168 (1.49%) Broadband
17 117 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
18 98 (0.87%) BGP
19 89 (0.79%) HTTP
20 86 (0.76%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,145 (19.00%) SQL Server
2 836 (7.40%) Power BI
3 773 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
4 737 (6.53%) Data Warehouse
5 552 (4.89%) NoSQL
6 551 (4.88%) MongoDB
7 428 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 375 (3.32%) Relational Database
9 359 (3.18%) Data Lake
10 334 (2.96%) GIS
11 331 (2.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 284 (2.52%) QGIS
13 282 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
14 256 (2.27%) DB2
15 244 (2.16%) MySQL
16 204 (1.81%) BigQuery
17 190 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
18 180 (1.59%) Looker
19 166 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 136 (1.20%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 648 (5.74%) Git
2 400 (3.54%) JIRA
3 289 (2.56%) Jenkins
4 238 (2.11%) GitLab
5 208 (1.84%) Visual Studio
6 135 (1.20%) Selenium
7 102 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
8 74 (0.66%) Postman
9 70 (0.62%) Cypress.io
10 65 (0.58%) NUnit
11 50 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
12 44 (0.39%) Jasmine
13 41 (0.36%) JMeter
14 40 (0.35%) Cucumber
15 39 (0.35%) SonarQube
16 37 (0.33%) Bitbucket
17 35 (0.31%) TeamCity
18 33 (0.29%) Artifactory
19 31 (0.27%) Karma Test Runner
20 30 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,537 (22.47%) Social Skills
2 1,467 (12.99%) Finance
3 850 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
4 727 (6.44%) Public Sector
5 527 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 487 (4.31%) Retail
7 469 (4.15%) Law
8 295 (2.61%) Legal
9 282 (2.50%) Marketing
10 235 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
11 222 (1.97%) Manufacturing
12 207 (1.83%) Banking
13 173 (1.53%) Telecoms
14 166 (1.47%) Aerospace
15 165 (1.46%) Games
16 163 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
17 122 (1.08%) Advertising
18 90 (0.80%) Billing
19 78 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
20 55 (0.49%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2,857 (25.30%) Developer
2 1,760 (15.59%) Senior
3 1,417 (12.55%) .NET Developer
4 1,019 (9.02%) Architect
5 983 (8.71%) Lead
6 922 (8.17%) Software Engineer
7 771 (6.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 698 (6.18%) Analyst
9 689 (6.10%) Support Engineer
10 621 (5.50%) IT Support
11 599 (5.30%) IT Engineer
12 557 (4.93%) C# Developer
13 491 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
14 466 (4.13%) Senior Developer
15 453 (4.01%) C# .NET Developer
16 390 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
17 384 (3.40%) Data Engineer
18 378 (3.35%) IT Support Engineer
19 340 (3.01%) Cloud Engineer
20 336 (2.98%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,149 (27.89%) .NET
2 1,485 (13.15%) React
3 1,448 (12.82%) AngularJS
4 1,423 (12.60%) .NET Core
5 1,412 (12.50%) ASP.NET
6 1,288 (11.41%) CSS
7 1,224 (10.84%) HTML
8 886 (7.85%) .NET Framework
9 885 (7.84%) ASP.NET Web API
10 823 (7.29%) Entity Framework
11 756 (6.70%) ASP.NET MVC
12 685 (6.07%) Vue
13 615 (5.45%) Node.js
14 588 (5.21%) REST
15 554 (4.91%) RESTful
16 481 (4.26%) HTML5
17 458 (4.06%) Web Services
18 452 (4.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 407 (3.60%) Blazor
20 373 (3.30%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 608 (5.38%) Public Cloud
2 393 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 375 (3.32%) Data Structures
4 348 (3.08%) Algorithms
5 346 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
6 320 (2.83%) Management Information System
7 311 (2.75%) Product Ownership
8 294 (2.60%) Blockchain
9 293 (2.59%) Cloud Native
10 262 (2.32%) Data Centre
11 254 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
12 232 (2.05%) Driving Licence
13 212 (1.88%) Onboarding
14 184 (1.63%) Private Cloud
15 160 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
16 145 (1.28%) PKI
17 143 (1.27%) Mobile App
18 142 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
19 135 (1.20%) Social Media
20 134 (1.19%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 2,626 (23.26%) Windows
2 1,307 (11.57%) Windows Server
3 1,306 (11.57%) Linux
4 470 (4.16%) Windows 10
5 451 (3.99%) Android
6 390 (3.45%) Apple iOS
7 271 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 224 (1.98%) Windows Server 2019
9 214 (1.90%) Ubuntu
10 191 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
11 156 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 134 (1.19%) VMS
13 132 (1.17%) Unix
14 127 (1.12%) CentOS
15 112 (0.99%) Mac OS
16 95 (0.84%) Debian
17 41 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
19 32 (0.28%) Windows 7
20 23 (0.20%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,745 (33.17%) Agile
2 3,080 (27.28%) DevOps
3 1,811 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
4 1,801 (15.95%) Full Stack Development
5 1,367 (12.11%) CI/CD
5 1,367 (12.11%) Software Engineering
6 1,308 (11.58%) Microservices
7 1,286 (11.39%) MVC
8 1,096 (9.71%) Mentoring
9 1,026 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 1,023 (9.06%) Scrum
11 923 (8.17%) Business Intelligence
12 903 (8.00%) ITIL
13 874 (7.74%) Artificial Intelligence
14 852 (7.55%) Cybersecurity
15 808 (7.16%) Migration
16 791 (7.00%) Roadmaps
17 761 (6.74%) Web Development
18 749 (6.63%) Customer Service
19 727 (6.44%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 3,040 (26.92%) C#
2 2,692 (23.84%) SQL
3 2,598 (23.01%) JavaScript
4 1,412 (12.50%) Python
5 919 (8.14%) PowerShell
6 910 (8.06%) Java
7 780 (6.91%) TypeScript
8 447 (3.96%) T-SQL
9 323 (2.86%) Bash
10 107 (0.95%) C++
11 102 (0.90%) Bicep
11 102 (0.90%) Go
12 83 (0.74%) PHP
13 78 (0.69%) VB.NET
14 74 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 73 (0.65%) VB
16 67 (0.59%) Kotlin
17 61 (0.54%) Ruby
18 57 (0.50%) C
19 39 (0.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,256 (11.12%) Security Cleared
2 1,142 (10.11%) Degree
3 917 (8.12%) SC Cleared
4 603 (5.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 536 (4.75%) Azure Certification
6 319 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
7 260 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 254 (2.25%) DV Cleared
9 239 (2.12%) CCNA
10 209 (1.85%) DBS Check
11 206 (1.82%) AWS Certification
12 163 (1.44%) CISSP
13 150 (1.33%) MCSE
14 99 (0.88%) CCNP
15 92 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
16 87 (0.77%) Master's Degree
17 83 (0.74%) MCSA
18 80 (0.71%) CISM
19 76 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 76 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 475 (4.21%) QA
2 344 (3.05%) GDPR
3 285 (2.52%) Data Quality
4 252 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 240 (2.13%) SLA
6 162 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 136 (1.20%) NIST
8 77 (0.68%) Accessibility
9 61 (0.54%) PCI DSS
10 25 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 25 (0.22%) NCSC
11 19 (0.17%) PMO
11 19 (0.17%) SOC 2
12 18 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 16 (0.14%) HIPAA
13 16 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 12 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.089%) ISO 9001
16 9 (0.080%) GRC
17 8 (0.071%) PSD2
System Software
1 2,108 (18.67%) Active Directory
2 875 (7.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 841 (7.45%) Hyper-V
4 819 (7.25%) Docker
5 284 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
6 145 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 142 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
8 127 (1.12%) vSphere
9 56 (0.50%) VMware NSX
10 55 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
11 38 (0.34%) XenApp
12 31 (0.27%) XenDesktop
13 28 (0.25%) Terminal Services
14 23 (0.20%) Firmware
15 19 (0.17%) VMware Server
16 11 (0.097%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 9 (0.080%) KVM
18 8 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 8 (0.071%) pfSense
19 7 (0.062%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,013 (8.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 922 (8.17%) Kubernetes
3 778 (6.89%) Terraform
4 422 (3.74%) Ansible
5 223 (1.97%) SCCM
6 119 (1.05%) Puppet
7 98 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
8 97 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
9 91 (0.81%) vCenter Server
10 82 (0.73%) WSUS
11 78 (0.69%) SCOM
12 73 (0.65%) Progress Chef
13 70 (0.62%) Grafana
14 68 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 63 (0.56%) Prometheus
16 55 (0.49%) FortiGate
17 31 (0.27%) CASB
18 30 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
19 27 (0.24%) ZABBIX
20 24 (0.21%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 5,007 (44.34%) Microsoft
2 1,322 (11.71%) VMware
3 704 (6.23%) Google
4 548 (4.85%) Cisco
5 396 (3.51%) Red Hat
6 364 (3.22%) IBM
7 324 (2.87%) Oracle
8 308 (2.73%) Citrix
9 289 (2.56%) ESRI
10 278 (2.46%) Veeam
11 276 (2.44%) Databricks
12 168 (1.49%) HP
13 160 (1.42%) Meraki
14 125 (1.11%) Dell
15 121 (1.07%) Fortinet
16 114 (1.01%) Apple
17 108 (0.96%) Aruba
18 105 (0.93%) ServiceNow
19 100 (0.89%) Sophos
20 89 (0.79%) SolarWinds