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 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 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 16,732 22,375 30,343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.88% 22.08% 19.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.29% 51.58% 40.01%
Number of salaries quoted 13,207 14,313 18,766
10th Percentile £33,986 £36,547 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £64,140 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.01% +2.62% +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 35,381 43,379 75,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.70% 42.80% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,736 28,530 41,309
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,784 £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 £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 9 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 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
England -1 14,823 £59,000 -9.23% 3,493
UK excluding London -1 11,292 £52,500 -4.55% 2,377
Work from Home +1 7,547 £60,000 -7.69% 2,063
London 0 4,665 £75,000 - 1,297
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
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 1,165 (6.96%) SharePoint
2 1,076 (6.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 334 (2.00%) ArcGIS
4 332 (1.98%) GeoServer
5 293 (1.75%) IIS
6 243 (1.45%) Apache
7 215 (1.28%) Apache Spark
8 175 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
9 141 (0.84%) CMS
10 132 (0.79%) Confluence
11 100 (0.60%) Umbraco
12 56 (0.33%) OpenStack
12 56 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
13 55 (0.33%) WebLogic
14 51 (0.30%) Kentico
15 41 (0.25%) Headless CMS
16 37 (0.22%) WebSphere
17 36 (0.22%) nginx
17 36 (0.22%) WordPress
18 35 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 550 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
2 245 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 61 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 50 (0.30%) 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 2 (0.012%) 1Password
13 2 (0.012%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.012%) CATIA
13 2 (0.012%) NASTRAN
13 2 (0.012%) Sketch
13 2 (0.012%) S-PLUS
14 1 (0.006%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 264 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 85 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 38 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
4 31 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
5 13 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.078%) Teamcenter
6 11 (0.066%) Maximo
7 10 (0.060%) Elite 3E
7 10 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
7 10 (0.060%) Unit4 Business World
8 9 (0.054%) Remedy ITSM
9 8 (0.048%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.036%) Oracle General Ledger
10 6 (0.036%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 6 (0.036%) Primavera
10 6 (0.036%) SAP PLM
11 5 (0.030%) NetSuite
11 5 (0.030%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.030%) SAP IBP
11 5 (0.030%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 5,128 (30.65%) AWS
2 3,818 (22.82%) Microsoft 365
3 2,324 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
4 2,060 (12.31%) GCP
5 1,915 (11.45%) Power Platform
6 1,751 (10.46%) Entra ID
7 1,035 (6.19%) SaaS
8 711 (4.25%) PaaS
9 695 (4.15%) Serverless
10 676 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
11 622 (3.72%) IaaS
12 504 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
13 501 (2.99%) PowerApps
14 467 (2.79%) GitHub
15 453 (2.71%) Cloud Computing
16 408 (2.44%) Power Automate
17 367 (2.19%) Azure Functions
17 367 (2.19%) OneDrive
18 361 (2.16%) Azure Logic Apps
19 354 (2.12%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1,721 (10.29%) Firewall
2 1,162 (6.94%) DNS
3 862 (5.15%) WAN
4 726 (4.34%) DHCP
5 686 (4.10%) LAN
6 644 (3.85%) VPN
7 535 (3.20%) TCP/IP
8 405 (2.42%) SAN
9 388 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
10 359 (2.15%) Internet
11 340 (2.03%) Network Security
12 329 (1.97%) Wireless
13 311 (1.86%) Broadband
14 310 (1.85%) VLAN
15 264 (1.58%) SD-WAN
16 212 (1.27%) 5G
17 199 (1.19%) VoIP
18 138 (0.82%) Remote Desktop
19 137 (0.82%) BGP
20 114 (0.68%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,861 (17.10%) SQL Server
2 1,323 (7.91%) Power BI
3 1,071 (6.40%) Data Warehouse
4 1,012 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
5 735 (4.39%) NoSQL
6 699 (4.18%) MongoDB
7 641 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
8 629 (3.76%) Data Lake
9 516 (3.08%) Relational Database
10 443 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 382 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
12 381 (2.28%) GIS
13 330 (1.97%) QGIS
14 315 (1.88%) MySQL
15 280 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 268 (1.60%) Big Data
17 266 (1.59%) DB2
18 253 (1.51%) BigQuery
19 213 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
20 201 (1.20%) Looker
Development Applications
1 948 (5.67%) Git
2 561 (3.35%) JIRA
3 499 (2.98%) Jenkins
4 344 (2.06%) GitLab
5 297 (1.78%) Visual Studio
6 169 (1.01%) Selenium
7 141 (0.84%) Cypress.io
8 129 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
9 106 (0.63%) Postman
10 83 (0.50%) NUnit
11 68 (0.41%) TeamCity
12 64 (0.38%) SonarQube
13 61 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
14 59 (0.35%) JMeter
15 57 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
16 54 (0.32%) Bitbucket
16 54 (0.32%) Cucumber
17 50 (0.30%) CircleCI
18 49 (0.29%) Jasmine
19 44 (0.26%) Artifactory
General
1 3,797 (22.69%) Social Skills
2 2,749 (16.43%) Finance
3 1,469 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
4 978 (5.85%) Public Sector
5 974 (5.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 676 (4.04%) Law
7 614 (3.67%) Retail
8 488 (2.92%) Banking
9 466 (2.79%) Legal
10 440 (2.63%) Marketing
11 390 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
12 286 (1.71%) Front Office
13 273 (1.63%) Manufacturing
14 237 (1.42%) Telecoms
15 221 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
16 200 (1.20%) Games
17 183 (1.09%) Aerospace
18 149 (0.89%) Advertising
19 134 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
20 117 (0.70%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 4,082 (24.40%) Developer
2 3,017 (18.03%) Senior
3 1,878 (11.22%) Architect
4 1,778 (10.63%) .NET Developer
5 1,511 (9.03%) Lead
6 1,342 (8.02%) Software Engineer
7 1,096 (6.55%) Analyst
8 961 (5.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 818 (4.89%) Support Engineer
10 815 (4.87%) Azure Engineer
11 773 (4.62%) Senior Developer
12 751 (4.49%) C# Developer
13 728 (4.35%) IT Support
14 712 (4.26%) IT Engineer
15 688 (4.11%) Data Engineer
16 637 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
17 555 (3.32%) C# .NET Developer
18 543 (3.25%) Full Stack Developer
19 540 (3.23%) Senior Software Engineer
20 530 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,277 (25.56%) .NET
2 2,049 (12.25%) React
3 1,849 (11.05%) AngularJS
4 1,793 (10.72%) .NET Core
5 1,769 (10.57%) ASP.NET
6 1,562 (9.34%) CSS
7 1,498 (8.95%) HTML
8 1,117 (6.68%) .NET Framework
9 1,020 (6.10%) ASP.NET Web API
10 966 (5.77%) Entity Framework
11 885 (5.29%) ASP.NET MVC
12 883 (5.28%) Vue
13 798 (4.77%) Node.js
14 792 (4.73%) REST
15 710 (4.24%) RESTful
16 612 (3.66%) Web Services
17 589 (3.52%) HTML5
18 505 (3.02%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 448 (2.68%) Blazor
20 426 (2.55%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 809 (4.84%) Public Cloud
2 528 (3.16%) Management Information System
3 468 (2.80%) Data Structures
4 466 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 465 (2.78%) Cloud Native
6 448 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
7 443 (2.65%) Product Ownership
8 438 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
9 433 (2.59%) Data Centre
10 432 (2.58%) Algorithms
11 313 (1.87%) Blockchain
12 310 (1.85%) Onboarding
13 294 (1.76%) Social Media
14 278 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
15 261 (1.56%) Fixed Income
16 244 (1.46%) Hedge funds
17 240 (1.43%) Driving Licence
18 232 (1.39%) Private Cloud
19 221 (1.32%) PKI
20 219 (1.31%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3,444 (20.58%) Windows
2 1,812 (10.83%) Linux
3 1,685 (10.07%) Windows Server
4 601 (3.59%) Windows 10
5 524 (3.13%) Android
6 464 (2.77%) Apple iOS
7 400 (2.39%) Ubuntu
8 324 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
9 266 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
10 251 (1.50%) Windows Server 2012
11 208 (1.24%) Unix
12 188 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 155 (0.93%) VMS
14 145 (0.87%) CentOS
15 142 (0.85%) Mac OS
16 97 (0.58%) Debian
17 48 (0.29%) 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 5,395 (32.24%) Agile
2 4,525 (27.04%) DevOps
3 2,568 (15.35%) Problem-Solving
4 2,345 (14.02%) Full Stack Development
5 2,217 (13.25%) Software Engineering
6 2,121 (12.68%) CI/CD
7 1,768 (10.57%) Microservices
8 1,530 (9.14%) Mentoring
9 1,506 (9.00%) MVC
10 1,442 (8.62%) Scrum
11 1,428 (8.53%) Business Intelligence
12 1,404 (8.39%) Artificial Intelligence
13 1,394 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
14 1,293 (7.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 1,264 (7.55%) ITIL
16 1,214 (7.26%) Migration
17 1,206 (7.21%) Roadmaps
18 1,177 (7.03%) Analytics
19 1,107 (6.62%) ETL
20 1,026 (6.13%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4,177 (24.96%) C#
2 4,116 (24.60%) SQL
3 3,333 (19.92%) JavaScript
4 2,612 (15.61%) Python
5 1,474 (8.81%) PowerShell
6 1,315 (7.86%) Java
7 1,210 (7.23%) TypeScript
8 620 (3.71%) T-SQL
9 598 (3.57%) Bash
10 181 (1.08%) Go
11 176 (1.05%) Bicep
12 150 (0.90%) C++
13 143 (0.85%) R
14 142 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 114 (0.68%) PHP
16 107 (0.64%) Ruby
17 105 (0.63%) Kotlin
18 94 (0.56%) Scala
19 83 (0.50%) VB.NET
20 80 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 1,854 (11.08%) Degree
2 1,649 (9.86%) Security Cleared
3 1,221 (7.30%) SC Cleared
4 852 (5.09%) Azure Certification
5 832 (4.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 497 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 439 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
8 324 (1.94%) AWS Certification
9 303 (1.81%) CISSP
10 295 (1.76%) CCNA
11 275 (1.64%) DV Cleared
12 235 (1.40%) DBS Check
13 203 (1.21%) MCSE
14 186 (1.11%) Master's Degree
15 159 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
16 156 (0.93%) CISM
17 148 (0.88%) CCNP
18 128 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
19 115 (0.69%) MCSA
20 107 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 692 (4.14%) QA
2 469 (2.80%) Data Quality
3 450 (2.69%) GDPR
4 417 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 299 (1.79%) SLA
6 230 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
7 219 (1.31%) NIST
8 160 (0.96%) Accessibility
9 116 (0.69%) PCI DSS
10 65 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 47 (0.28%) PMO
12 45 (0.27%) NCSC
13 35 (0.21%) COBIT
14 34 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 31 (0.19%) GRC
16 27 (0.16%) HIPAA
16 27 (0.16%) ISO 9001
17 24 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 24 (0.14%) SOC 2
18 16 (0.096%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2,996 (17.91%) Active Directory
2 1,233 (7.37%) Docker
3 1,106 (6.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 912 (5.45%) Hyper-V
5 381 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
6 210 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
7 194 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 176 (1.05%) vSphere
9 90 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
10 59 (0.35%) VMware NSX
11 53 (0.32%) XenApp
12 41 (0.25%) XenDesktop
13 34 (0.20%) Firmware
14 31 (0.19%) Terminal Services
15 21 (0.13%) KVM
16 19 (0.11%) VMware Server
17 18 (0.11%) HDFS
18 12 (0.072%) vCloud
19 11 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
19 11 (0.066%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 1,492 (8.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 1,452 (8.68%) Kubernetes
3 1,344 (8.03%) Terraform
4 616 (3.68%) Ansible
5 323 (1.93%) SCCM
6 269 (1.61%) Jamf Pro
7 197 (1.18%) Puppet
8 166 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
9 149 (0.89%) vCenter Server
10 130 (0.78%) Progress Chef
11 118 (0.71%) Grafana
12 110 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 105 (0.63%) Prometheus
14 89 (0.53%) WSUS
15 85 (0.51%) SCOM
16 73 (0.44%) FortiGate
17 50 (0.30%) CASB
18 44 (0.26%) Nagios
19 37 (0.22%) Microsoft Clustering
20 34 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 7,237 (43.25%) Microsoft
2 1,692 (10.11%) VMware
3 1,089 (6.51%) Google
4 814 (4.86%) Cisco
5 614 (3.67%) Databricks
6 493 (2.95%) Oracle
7 454 (2.71%) Citrix
8 428 (2.56%) Red Hat
9 414 (2.47%) IBM
10 355 (2.12%) Veeam
11 335 (2.00%) ESRI
12 254 (1.52%) CyberArk
13 235 (1.40%) Meraki
14 230 (1.37%) HP
15 210 (1.26%) Tanium
16 196 (1.17%) ServiceNow
17 175 (1.05%) Fortinet
18 165 (0.99%) SAP
19 161 (0.96%) Apple
20 155 (0.93%) Dell