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 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 5 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 16,700 23,180 30,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.98% 22.29% 19.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.24% 51.79% 40.53%
Number of salaries quoted 13,221 14,733 19,169
10th Percentile £34,000 £36,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,059 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% +4.00% +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 35,351 44,760 75,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.95% 43.04% 48.21%
Number of salaries quoted 26,770 29,299 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 £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 29 April 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 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
England -1 14,814 £59,513 -8.44% 3,571
UK excluding London -1 11,248 £52,500 -4.55% 2,387
Work from Home +1 7,550 £60,000 -7.69% 2,145
London 0 4,678 £75,000 - 1,348
North of England 0 3,062 £55,000 - 663
South East -2 2,791 £55,000 -4.35% 523
Midlands +2 1,938 £50,000 -9.09% 446
North West 0 1,632 £57,500 +4.55% 372
South West -2 1,404 £55,000 +4.76% 312
West Midlands +2 1,160 £54,000 -1.82% 275
Yorkshire 0 1,059 £55,000 - 213
Scotland -24 806 £55,000 -7.60% 159
East of England 0 799 £50,000 -4.76% 192
East Midlands +3 775 £48,500 -7.62% 170
North East +4 373 £47,500 -13.64% 84
Wales 0 333 £50,000 - 93
Northern Ireland -6 108 £55,000 +4.76% 43
Isle of Man -4 17 £46,500 -33.57% 1
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 1,185 (7.10%) SharePoint
2 1,094 (6.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 334 (2.00%) ArcGIS
4 332 (1.99%) GeoServer
5 297 (1.78%) IIS
6 220 (1.32%) Apache
7 215 (1.29%) Apache Spark
8 159 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
9 139 (0.83%) CMS
10 135 (0.81%) Confluence
11 101 (0.60%) Umbraco
12 56 (0.34%) OpenStack
13 55 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
13 55 (0.33%) WebLogic
14 50 (0.30%) Kentico
15 40 (0.24%) Headless CMS
16 39 (0.23%) WordPress
17 38 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
18 37 (0.22%) nginx
19 36 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 552 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
2 238 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 60 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 39 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 30 (0.18%) Trello
7 17 (0.10%) 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%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 265 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 84 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 37 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
4 32 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
5 13 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.078%) Teamcenter
6 12 (0.072%) Maximo
7 10 (0.060%) Elite 3E
7 10 (0.060%) Unit4 Business World
8 8 (0.048%) Payment Gateway
8 8 (0.048%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.048%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.036%) Primavera
9 6 (0.036%) SAP PLM
10 5 (0.030%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.030%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 5 (0.030%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.030%) SAP IBP
10 5 (0.030%) SAP PP
10 5 (0.030%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 5,069 (30.35%) AWS
2 3,847 (23.04%) Microsoft 365
3 2,353 (14.09%) Azure DevOps
4 2,047 (12.26%) GCP
5 1,912 (11.45%) Power Platform
6 1,751 (10.49%) Entra ID
7 1,042 (6.24%) SaaS
8 722 (4.32%) PaaS
9 694 (4.16%) Serverless
10 676 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
11 635 (3.80%) IaaS
12 505 (3.02%) Azure Data Factory
13 500 (2.99%) PowerApps
14 459 (2.75%) GitHub
15 452 (2.71%) Cloud Computing
16 397 (2.38%) Power Automate
17 366 (2.19%) Azure Functions
18 362 (2.17%) OneDrive
19 360 (2.16%) Azure Logic Apps
20 356 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1,747 (10.46%) Firewall
2 1,181 (7.07%) DNS
3 869 (5.20%) WAN
4 744 (4.46%) DHCP
5 695 (4.16%) LAN
6 659 (3.95%) VPN
7 538 (3.22%) TCP/IP
8 422 (2.53%) SAN
9 398 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
10 359 (2.15%) Internet
11 339 (2.03%) Network Security
12 335 (2.01%) VLAN
12 335 (2.01%) Wireless
13 311 (1.86%) Broadband
14 267 (1.60%) SD-WAN
15 212 (1.27%) 5G
16 206 (1.23%) VoIP
17 143 (0.86%) Remote Desktop
18 138 (0.83%) BGP
19 115 (0.69%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,863 (17.14%) SQL Server
2 1,318 (7.89%) Power BI
3 1,056 (6.32%) Data Warehouse
4 972 (5.82%) PostgreSQL
5 730 (4.37%) NoSQL
6 666 (3.99%) MongoDB
7 630 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
8 620 (3.71%) Data Lake
9 504 (3.02%) Relational Database
10 448 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 381 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
11 381 (2.28%) GIS
12 330 (1.98%) QGIS
13 320 (1.92%) MySQL
14 282 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 264 (1.58%) Big Data
16 261 (1.56%) BigQuery
17 251 (1.50%) DB2
18 221 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
19 200 (1.20%) Looker
Development Applications
1 928 (5.56%) Git
2 563 (3.37%) JIRA
3 502 (3.01%) Jenkins
4 344 (2.06%) GitLab
5 291 (1.74%) Visual Studio
6 170 (1.02%) Selenium
7 133 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
8 130 (0.78%) Cypress.io
9 111 (0.66%) Postman
10 83 (0.50%) NUnit
11 68 (0.41%) TeamCity
12 61 (0.37%) JMeter
12 61 (0.37%) SonarQube
13 60 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
14 55 (0.33%) Cucumber
15 54 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
16 53 (0.32%) Bitbucket
17 52 (0.31%) Jasmine
18 49 (0.29%) CircleCI
19 45 (0.27%) Artifactory
General
1 3,770 (22.57%) Social Skills
2 2,740 (16.41%) Finance
3 1,473 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 961 (5.75%) Public Sector
5 953 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 695 (4.16%) Law
7 618 (3.70%) Retail
8 479 (2.87%) Legal
9 472 (2.83%) Banking
10 442 (2.65%) Marketing
11 379 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
12 277 (1.66%) Front Office
13 264 (1.58%) Manufacturing
14 236 (1.41%) Telecoms
15 223 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
16 198 (1.19%) Games
17 170 (1.02%) Aerospace
18 153 (0.92%) Advertising
19 140 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
20 114 (0.68%) Billing
Job Titles
1 4,043 (24.21%) Developer
2 3,034 (18.17%) Senior
3 1,856 (11.11%) Architect
4 1,760 (10.54%) .NET Developer
5 1,499 (8.98%) Lead
6 1,323 (7.92%) Software Engineer
7 1,099 (6.58%) Analyst
8 992 (5.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 817 (4.89%) Azure Engineer
10 808 (4.84%) Support Engineer
11 779 (4.66%) Senior Developer
12 735 (4.40%) C# Developer
13 723 (4.33%) IT Support
14 716 (4.29%) IT Engineer
15 685 (4.10%) Data Engineer
16 641 (3.84%) Solutions Architect
17 543 (3.25%) C# .NET Developer
18 540 (3.23%) Senior Software Engineer
19 529 (3.17%) Full Stack Developer
20 524 (3.14%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,224 (25.29%) .NET
2 2,014 (12.06%) React
3 1,830 (10.96%) AngularJS
4 1,781 (10.66%) .NET Core
5 1,737 (10.40%) ASP.NET
6 1,538 (9.21%) CSS
7 1,472 (8.81%) HTML
8 1,096 (6.56%) .NET Framework
9 990 (5.93%) ASP.NET Web API
10 941 (5.63%) Entity Framework
11 872 (5.22%) ASP.NET MVC
12 861 (5.16%) Vue
13 783 (4.69%) REST
14 772 (4.62%) Node.js
15 705 (4.22%) RESTful
16 585 (3.50%) Web Services
17 578 (3.46%) HTML5
18 490 (2.93%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 444 (2.66%) Blazor
20 412 (2.47%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 819 (4.90%) Public Cloud
2 531 (3.18%) Management Information System
3 463 (2.77%) Cloud Native
3 463 (2.77%) Data Structures
4 450 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 450 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
5 442 (2.65%) Data Centre
6 440 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
7 437 (2.62%) Product Ownership
8 414 (2.48%) Algorithms
9 309 (1.85%) Onboarding
10 299 (1.79%) Blockchain
11 293 (1.75%) Social Media
12 282 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
13 252 (1.51%) Fixed Income
14 243 (1.46%) Driving Licence
15 235 (1.41%) Private Cloud
16 230 (1.38%) Hedge funds
17 221 (1.32%) PKI
18 220 (1.32%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3,467 (20.76%) Windows
2 1,799 (10.77%) Linux
3 1,715 (10.27%) Windows Server
4 604 (3.62%) Windows 10
5 502 (3.01%) Android
6 447 (2.68%) Apple iOS
7 390 (2.34%) Ubuntu
8 322 (1.93%) Windows Server 2016
9 274 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
10 258 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
11 220 (1.32%) Unix
12 182 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 155 (0.93%) VMS
14 143 (0.86%) Mac OS
15 133 (0.80%) CentOS
16 94 (0.56%) Debian
17 55 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
19 35 (0.21%) Windows 7
20 31 (0.19%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,359 (32.09%) Agile
2 4,538 (27.17%) DevOps
3 2,581 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
4 2,283 (13.67%) Full Stack Development
5 2,199 (13.17%) Software Engineering
6 2,119 (12.69%) CI/CD
7 1,760 (10.54%) Microservices
8 1,523 (9.12%) Mentoring
9 1,481 (8.87%) MVC
10 1,442 (8.63%) Scrum
11 1,420 (8.50%) Business Intelligence
12 1,384 (8.29%) Cybersecurity
13 1,357 (8.13%) Artificial Intelligence
14 1,323 (7.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 1,267 (7.59%) ITIL
16 1,207 (7.23%) Migration
17 1,205 (7.22%) Roadmaps
18 1,184 (7.09%) Analytics
19 1,118 (6.69%) ETL
20 1,021 (6.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4,133 (24.75%) C#
2 4,121 (24.68%) SQL
3 3,306 (19.80%) JavaScript
4 2,592 (15.52%) Python
5 1,489 (8.92%) PowerShell
6 1,301 (7.79%) Java
7 1,191 (7.13%) TypeScript
8 629 (3.77%) T-SQL
9 592 (3.54%) Bash
10 186 (1.11%) Go
11 183 (1.10%) Bicep
12 149 (0.89%) C++
13 144 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 143 (0.86%) R
15 121 (0.72%) PHP
16 111 (0.66%) Ruby
17 100 (0.60%) Kotlin
18 90 (0.54%) Scala
19 82 (0.49%) VB.NET
20 80 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 1,844 (11.04%) Degree
2 1,643 (9.84%) Security Cleared
3 1,214 (7.27%) SC Cleared
4 841 (5.04%) Azure Certification
5 826 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 492 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 439 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
8 309 (1.85%) AWS Certification
9 308 (1.84%) CISSP
10 292 (1.75%) CCNA
11 273 (1.63%) DV Cleared
12 235 (1.41%) DBS Check
13 202 (1.21%) MCSE
14 187 (1.12%) Master's Degree
15 167 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
16 159 (0.95%) CISM
17 147 (0.88%) CCNP
18 128 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
19 116 (0.69%) MCSA
20 108 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 701 (4.20%) QA
2 480 (2.87%) Data Quality
3 454 (2.72%) GDPR
4 411 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 294 (1.76%) SLA
6 232 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
7 218 (1.31%) NIST
8 169 (1.01%) Accessibility
9 115 (0.69%) PCI DSS
10 69 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 46 (0.28%) NCSC
12 45 (0.27%) PMO
13 34 (0.20%) COBIT
14 33 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 30 (0.18%) GRC
16 28 (0.17%) HIPAA
17 24 (0.14%) ISO 9001
17 24 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 23 (0.14%) SOC 2
19 14 (0.084%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 3,016 (18.06%) Active Directory
2 1,254 (7.51%) Docker
3 1,149 (6.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 927 (5.55%) Hyper-V
5 376 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
6 213 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
7 196 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 181 (1.08%) vSphere
9 93 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
10 62 (0.37%) VMware NSX
11 42 (0.25%) XenApp
12 35 (0.21%) Firmware
13 31 (0.19%) Terminal Services
14 30 (0.18%) XenDesktop
15 19 (0.11%) VMware Server
16 18 (0.11%) HDFS
17 17 (0.10%) KVM
18 14 (0.084%) vCloud
19 12 (0.072%) DFS Replication
20 11 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 1,503 (9.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1,454 (8.71%) Kubernetes
3 1,331 (7.97%) Terraform
4 600 (3.59%) Ansible
5 314 (1.88%) SCCM
6 270 (1.62%) Jamf Pro
7 197 (1.18%) Puppet
8 168 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
9 148 (0.89%) vCenter Server
10 131 (0.78%) Progress Chef
11 116 (0.69%) Grafana
12 106 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 100 (0.60%) Prometheus
14 94 (0.56%) WSUS
15 88 (0.53%) SCOM
16 75 (0.45%) FortiGate
17 51 (0.31%) CASB
18 43 (0.26%) Nagios
19 38 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
20 37 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 7,252 (43.43%) Microsoft
2 1,740 (10.42%) VMware
3 1,076 (6.44%) Google
4 827 (4.95%) Cisco
5 623 (3.73%) Databricks
6 483 (2.89%) Oracle
7 457 (2.74%) Citrix
8 408 (2.44%) IBM
9 407 (2.44%) Red Hat
10 364 (2.18%) Veeam
11 335 (2.01%) ESRI
12 256 (1.53%) CyberArk
13 248 (1.49%) Meraki
14 232 (1.39%) HP
15 210 (1.26%) Tanium
16 197 (1.18%) ServiceNow
17 176 (1.05%) Fortinet
18 168 (1.01%) SAP
19 161 (0.96%) SolarWinds
20 160 (0.96%) Apple