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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 806 874 983
Rank change year-on-year +68 +109 -295
Permanent jobs citing Azure Storage 90 96 249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.092% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.26% 0.21% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 76 76 122
10th Percentile £45,249 £42,500 £40,800
25th Percentile £59,000 £51,250 £48,830
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,813 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £82,500 £96,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £56,158
% change year-on-year +7.27% -2.06% -13.60%

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 35,208 45,118 74,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.91% 43.11% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 29,500 41,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
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 £95,000 £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 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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Top 11 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 27 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
England +130 88 £62,500 -3.85% 22
Work from Home +101 57 £59,000 -5.60% 16
UK excluding London +18 44 £59,000 +7.27% 13
London +138 43 £75,000 -3.23% 8
South East +43 28 £59,000 +15.12% 5
South West +5 7 £62,500 +7.76% 1
North of England +45 5 £45,000 -25.00%
West Midlands +26 4 £47,500 -19.15% 1
Midlands +7 4 £47,500 -9.52% 4
North West +10 3 £60,000 -
Yorkshire - 2 £37,500 -

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 22 (24.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.44%) IIS
Business Applications
1 4 (4.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 90 (100.00%) Azure
2 44 (48.89%) Entra ID
3 30 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
4 28 (31.11%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (28.89%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (21.11%) Serverless
7 16 (17.78%) Azure Functions
8 10 (11.11%) Azure App Service
8 10 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (7.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 7 (7.78%) IaaS
9 7 (7.78%) Power Platform
10 6 (6.67%) Azure AKS
10 6 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (5.56%) Azure API Management
11 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (4.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (4.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (4.44%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 25 (27.78%) DNS
2 23 (25.56%) Firewall
3 18 (20.00%) DHCP
4 5 (5.56%) SAN
5 4 (4.44%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (4.44%) NetScaler
5 4 (4.44%) Network Security
6 3 (3.33%) VPN
7 1 (1.11%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 19 (21.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (6.67%) Data Lake
3 6 (6.67%) Power BI
4 4 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (4.44%) Redis
5 3 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.11%) Big Data
6 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.11%) OLTP
6 1 (1.11%) PolyBase
6 1 (1.11%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (8.89%) Git
2 6 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.33%) Moq
3 3 (3.33%) Postman
3 3 (3.33%) Selenium
3 3 (3.33%) SoapUI
3 3 (3.33%) SpecFlow
3 3 (3.33%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.11%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 39 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.33%) Finance
3 10 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.67%) Law
5 3 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 22 (24.44%) Lead
2 16 (17.78%) Developer
3 14 (15.56%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (15.56%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (15.56%) Azure Engineer
3 14 (15.56%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (15.56%) Support Specialist
4 10 (11.11%) Senior
5 9 (10.00%) Architect
5 9 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) Site Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) .NET Developer
7 6 (6.67%) Data Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Software Developer
8 5 (5.56%) Data Architect
8 5 (5.56%) Lead Developer
8 5 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (32.22%) ARM Templates
2 24 (26.67%) .NET
3 13 (14.44%) .NET Framework
4 12 (13.33%) .NET Core
5 10 (11.11%) CSS
6 9 (10.00%) REST
6 9 (10.00%) Sass
7 8 (8.89%) Vue
8 7 (7.78%) Entity Framework
9 6 (6.67%) ASP.NET
9 6 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
9 6 (6.67%) HTML
9 6 (6.67%) Web Services
10 5 (5.56%) Swagger
10 5 (5.56%) YAML
11 4 (4.44%) ASP.NET MVC
11 4 (4.44%) LESS
11 4 (4.44%) React
11 4 (4.44%) SignalR
12 3 (3.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.00%) PKI
2 14 (15.56%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.44%) Driving Licence
4 4 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (4.44%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.44%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.33%) W3C
6 2 (2.22%) Replication
7 1 (1.11%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 31 (34.44%) Windows
2 26 (28.89%) Windows Server
3 23 (25.56%) Linux
4 18 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 18 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (55.56%) DevOps
2 43 (47.78%) Agile
3 35 (38.89%) CI/CD
4 32 (35.56%) Analytics
5 27 (30.00%) Log Analytics
6 25 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (22.22%) ITIL
8 19 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (20.00%) Identity Management
9 18 (20.00%) RBAC
9 18 (20.00%) Service Management
10 17 (18.89%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 16 (17.78%) Release Management
12 15 (16.67%) Microservices
13 14 (15.56%) Privileged Identity Management
14 13 (14.44%) Containerisation
15 12 (13.33%) Software Engineering
16 11 (12.22%) ETL
16 11 (12.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 11 (12.22%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 41 (45.56%) C#
2 39 (43.33%) PowerShell
3 19 (21.11%) SQL
4 15 (16.67%) Bicep
4 15 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 14 (15.56%) Python
5 14 (15.56%) VB
5 14 (15.56%) VBScript
6 7 (7.78%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.44%) Bash
8 2 (2.22%) Java
9 1 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.11%) PHP
9 1 (1.11%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (25.56%) Degree
2 21 (23.33%) Security Cleared
3 15 (16.67%) Azure Certification
4 14 (15.56%) DV Cleared
4 14 (15.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 8 (8.89%) SC Cleared
6 6 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (4.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (2.22%) CCNA
9 2 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (2.22%) MCSE
10 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.44%) SLA
2 3 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.33%) WCAG
3 2 (2.22%) PMO
4 1 (1.11%) QA
System Software
1 46 (51.11%) Active Directory
2 35 (38.89%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (21.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (12.22%) Docker
5 4 (4.44%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (3.33%) Xen
6 3 (3.33%) XenApp
7 2 (2.22%) Firmware
7 2 (2.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 18 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 17 (18.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (18.89%) SCCM
4 16 (17.78%) SCOM
4 16 (17.78%) WSUS
5 9 (10.00%) Terraform
6 7 (7.78%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (4.44%) PowerCLI
7 4 (4.44%) vCenter Server
7 4 (4.44%) vRealize
7 4 (4.44%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 2 (2.22%) HP SIM
8 2 (2.22%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 59 (65.56%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.78%) Citrix
2 7 (7.78%) VMware
3 6 (6.67%) Databricks
4 4 (4.44%) 3PAR
4 4 (4.44%) BMC
4 4 (4.44%) Brocade
4 4 (4.44%) HP
4 4 (4.44%) Nimble Storage
4 4 (4.44%) Remedy
5 3 (3.33%) Cisco
5 3 (3.33%) Commvault
5 3 (3.33%) Veeam
6 2 (2.22%) Forcepoint
6 2 (2.22%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.11%) CA
7 1 (1.11%) EMC
7 1 (1.11%) Isilon
7 1 (1.11%) NetApp
7 1 (1.11%) Varonis