Azure Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 4 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 7,563 9,982 13,981
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.34% 24.01% 20.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 51.62% 50.21% 38.55%
Number of salaries quoted 6,104 7,360 9,483
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,250 £50,000 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,987 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.67% +3.98% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £64,029 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.85% +2.45% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,650 19,880 36,267
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 43.27% 47.81% 52.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11,954 14,556 21,788
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,000 £37,491
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure.

Azure salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Azure salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 454 (6.00%) SharePoint
2 398 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 218 (2.88%) ArcGIS
4 214 (2.83%) GeoServer
5 150 (1.98%) IIS
6 90 (1.19%) CMS
7 76 (1.00%) Umbraco
8 74 (0.98%) Apache Spark
9 53 (0.70%) Apache
10 46 (0.61%) Sitecore CMS
10 46 (0.61%) WebLogic
11 45 (0.60%) Kentico
12 44 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
13 35 (0.46%) Confluence
13 35 (0.46%) Headless CMS
14 25 (0.33%) nginx
14 25 (0.33%) OpenStack
15 13 (0.17%) NServiceBus
16 12 (0.16%) WordPress
17 11 (0.15%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 167 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
2 82 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 24 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (0.25%) Simulink
6 17 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.12%) Trello
8 3 (0.040%) SPSS
9 2 (0.026%) 1Password
9 2 (0.026%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.026%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.026%) CATIA
9 2 (0.026%) NASTRAN
9 2 (0.026%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.026%) Sketch
9 2 (0.026%) S-PLUS
10 1 (0.013%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.013%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.013%) Notion
10 1 (0.013%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 123 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 53 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 16 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
4 10 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
5 8 (0.11%) Elite 3E
5 8 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 8 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.079%) Oracle General Ledger
6 6 (0.079%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.079%) Primavera
7 5 (0.066%) Dynamics AX
8 4 (0.053%) Visualfiles
9 2 (0.026%) Magento
9 2 (0.026%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.026%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.026%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.026%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.026%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.026%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.026%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 2,431 (32.14%) AWS
2 1,439 (19.03%) Microsoft 365
3 1,017 (13.45%) Azure DevOps
4 927 (12.26%) Power Platform
5 786 (10.39%) Entra ID
6 766 (10.13%) GCP
7 526 (6.95%) SaaS
8 313 (4.14%) Dynamics 365
9 290 (3.83%) PaaS
10 261 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
11 260 (3.44%) Serverless
12 250 (3.31%) IaaS
13 228 (3.01%) PowerApps
14 210 (2.78%) GitHub
15 193 (2.55%) Power Automate
16 176 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
17 154 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 121 (1.60%) Snowflake
19 115 (1.52%) Azure Functions
20 99 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 625 (8.26%) Firewall
2 514 (6.80%) DNS
3 338 (4.47%) WAN
4 293 (3.87%) Broadband
5 265 (3.50%) LAN
6 255 (3.37%) DHCP
7 235 (3.11%) TCP/IP
8 210 (2.78%) 5G
8 210 (2.78%) VPN
9 205 (2.71%) Internet
10 168 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
11 163 (2.16%) SAN
12 147 (1.94%) Wireless
13 145 (1.92%) Network Security
14 139 (1.84%) SD-WAN
15 99 (1.31%) VLAN
16 84 (1.11%) BGP
17 70 (0.93%) SSL
18 60 (0.79%) VoIP
19 49 (0.65%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,725 (22.81%) SQL Server
2 667 (8.82%) Power BI
3 520 (6.88%) Data Warehouse
4 422 (5.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 386 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
6 345 (4.56%) MongoDB
7 298 (3.94%) Elasticsearch
8 294 (3.89%) Data Lake
9 251 (3.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 235 (3.11%) GIS
11 220 (2.91%) NoSQL
12 215 (2.84%) Relational Database
13 214 (2.83%) QGIS
14 171 (2.26%) MySQL
15 148 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 112 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
17 100 (1.32%) Big Data
18 86 (1.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 63 (0.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
20 57 (0.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 448 (5.92%) Git
2 220 (2.91%) JIRA
3 216 (2.86%) GitLab
4 208 (2.75%) Jenkins
5 171 (2.26%) Visual Studio
6 73 (0.97%) Selenium
7 71 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
8 63 (0.83%) Postman
9 48 (0.63%) Cypress.io
10 43 (0.57%) Jasmine
11 40 (0.53%) JMeter
12 38 (0.50%) TeamCity
12 38 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
13 36 (0.48%) NUnit
14 29 (0.38%) Karma Test Runner
15 28 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
16 27 (0.36%) Maven
17 23 (0.30%) SonarQube
18 21 (0.28%) Artifactory
18 21 (0.28%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,713 (22.65%) Social Skills
2 1,275 (16.86%) Finance
3 662 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
4 430 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 414 (5.47%) Public Sector
6 371 (4.91%) Retail
7 216 (2.86%) Law
8 194 (2.57%) Legal
9 189 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
10 161 (2.13%) Marketing
11 152 (2.01%) Banking
12 126 (1.67%) Front Office
13 100 (1.32%) Advertising
14 91 (1.20%) Games
14 91 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
15 84 (1.11%) Telecoms
16 83 (1.10%) Back Office
17 67 (0.89%) Aerospace
17 67 (0.89%) Manufacturing
18 59 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,130 (28.16%) Developer
2 1,621 (21.43%) Senior
3 1,077 (14.24%) .NET Developer
4 778 (10.29%) Architect
5 743 (9.82%) Lead
6 636 (8.41%) Software Engineer
7 433 (5.73%) Senior Developer
8 423 (5.59%) C# Developer
9 402 (5.32%) Senior Software Engineer
10 392 (5.18%) Analyst
11 382 (5.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 326 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
13 323 (4.27%) C# .NET Developer
14 320 (4.23%) Data Engineer
15 301 (3.98%) Support Engineer
16 292 (3.86%) DevOps Engineer
17 291 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
18 272 (3.60%) Consultant
19 257 (3.40%) IT Engineer
20 230 (3.04%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,235 (29.55%) .NET
2 1,258 (16.63%) .NET Core
3 1,090 (14.41%) ASP.NET
4 1,019 (13.47%) AngularJS
5 975 (12.89%) React
6 791 (10.46%) ASP.NET MVC
7 722 (9.55%) HTML
8 710 (9.39%) .NET Framework
9 683 (9.03%) CSS
10 672 (8.89%) Entity Framework
11 621 (8.21%) ASP.NET Web API
12 449 (5.94%) Node.js
13 448 (5.92%) RESTful
14 401 (5.30%) HTML5
15 394 (5.21%) Vue
16 271 (3.58%) Blazor
17 249 (3.29%) REST
18 216 (2.86%) PostGIS
19 214 (2.83%) Leaflet
19 214 (2.83%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 423 (5.59%) Public Cloud
2 276 (3.65%) Greenfield Project
3 259 (3.42%) Social Media
4 218 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
5 216 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 201 (2.66%) Cloud Native
7 190 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
8 175 (2.31%) Product Ownership
9 157 (2.08%) PKI
10 154 (2.04%) Data Centre
11 139 (1.84%) Private Cloud
12 130 (1.72%) Onboarding
13 124 (1.64%) Data Structures
14 116 (1.53%) Mobile App
15 115 (1.52%) Fixed Income
16 112 (1.48%) Derivative
17 111 (1.47%) Equities
18 103 (1.36%) Driving Licence
19 101 (1.34%) Hedge funds
20 82 (1.08%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1,171 (15.48%) Windows
2 791 (10.46%) Linux
3 605 (8.00%) Windows Server
4 290 (3.83%) Ubuntu
5 220 (2.91%) Windows 10
6 142 (1.88%) Android
7 134 (1.77%) Windows Server 2016
8 100 (1.32%) VMS
8 100 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
9 95 (1.26%) Windows Server 2012
10 93 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 92 (1.22%) Unix
12 86 (1.14%) Apple iOS
13 30 (0.40%) CentOS
14 26 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
15 21 (0.28%) Mac OS
16 15 (0.20%) Windows 7
17 14 (0.19%) Solaris
18 10 (0.13%) AIX
18 10 (0.13%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,826 (37.37%) Agile
2 2,091 (27.65%) DevOps
3 1,145 (15.14%) Full Stack Development
4 1,100 (14.54%) Microservices
5 1,063 (14.06%) Software Engineering
6 994 (13.14%) CI/CD
7 972 (12.85%) MVC
8 950 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
9 836 (11.05%) Scrum
10 744 (9.84%) Business Intelligence
11 710 (9.39%) TDD
12 649 (8.58%) Mentoring
13 642 (8.49%) Cybersecurity
14 594 (7.85%) Migration
15 593 (7.84%) Artificial Intelligence
16 568 (7.51%) Roadmaps
17 545 (7.21%) Actionable Insight
18 537 (7.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 515 (6.81%) Analytics
20 511 (6.76%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 2,186 (28.90%) C#
2 1,886 (24.94%) SQL
3 1,849 (24.45%) JavaScript
4 1,118 (14.78%) Python
5 665 (8.79%) TypeScript
6 580 (7.67%) PowerShell
7 540 (7.14%) Java
8 358 (4.73%) Bash
9 337 (4.46%) T-SQL
10 84 (1.11%) R
11 82 (1.08%) Go
12 76 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 70 (0.93%) Bicep
14 69 (0.91%) C++
15 66 (0.87%) PHP
16 65 (0.86%) VB.NET
17 64 (0.85%) VB
18 49 (0.65%) Kotlin
19 48 (0.63%) Ruby
20 43 (0.57%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 846 (11.19%) Security Cleared
2 789 (10.43%) Degree
3 615 (8.13%) SC Cleared
4 397 (5.25%) Azure Certification
5 335 (4.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 228 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 172 (2.27%) AWS Certification
8 169 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
9 155 (2.05%) DBS Check
10 125 (1.65%) CISSP
11 102 (1.35%) CCNA
11 102 (1.35%) DV Cleared
12 81 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
13 73 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
14 71 (0.94%) Master's Degree
15 67 (0.89%) CISM
16 66 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 54 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 54 (0.71%) CCNP
18 52 (0.69%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 271 (3.58%) QA
2 185 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 153 (2.02%) Data Quality
4 114 (1.51%) NIST
5 103 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 103 (1.36%) GDPR
6 83 (1.10%) SLA
7 73 (0.97%) Accessibility
8 60 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 23 (0.30%) NCSC
10 22 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 21 (0.28%) COBIT
12 17 (0.22%) GRC
12 17 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 12 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.15%) ISO 9001
14 11 (0.15%) PMO
14 11 (0.15%) SOC 2
15 10 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 6 (0.079%) GAAP
System Software
1 1,212 (16.03%) Active Directory
2 632 (8.36%) Docker
3 404 (5.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 292 (3.86%) Hyper-V
5 226 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
6 117 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 100 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
8 60 (0.79%) vSphere
9 30 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
10 17 (0.22%) Firmware
11 10 (0.13%) DFS Replication
11 10 (0.13%) VMware Server
12 9 (0.12%) Terminal Services
13 7 (0.093%) Embedded Firmware
13 7 (0.093%) XenDesktop
14 6 (0.079%) KVM
14 6 (0.079%) NFS
14 6 (0.079%) XenApp
15 3 (0.040%) Gluster
15 3 (0.040%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 682 (9.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 673 (8.90%) Kubernetes
3 618 (8.17%) Terraform
4 299 (3.95%) Ansible
5 218 (2.88%) Jamf Pro
6 115 (1.52%) SCCM
7 101 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
8 78 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 66 (0.87%) vCenter Server
10 58 (0.77%) Puppet
11 57 (0.75%) Grafana
12 54 (0.71%) Progress Chef
13 47 (0.62%) Prometheus
14 42 (0.56%) WSUS
15 34 (0.45%) CASB
15 34 (0.45%) SCOM
16 25 (0.33%) Microsoft Clustering
17 22 (0.29%) Nagios
18 18 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
19 17 (0.22%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3,610 (47.73%) Microsoft
2 607 (8.03%) VMware
3 397 (5.25%) Google
4 315 (4.17%) Cisco
5 262 (3.46%) Databricks
6 229 (3.03%) CyberArk
7 218 (2.88%) ESRI
8 211 (2.79%) Oracle
9 210 (2.78%) Tanium
10 149 (1.97%) Citrix
11 131 (1.73%) Meraki
12 104 (1.38%) Fortinet
13 97 (1.28%) Veeam
14 88 (1.16%) ServiceNow
15 81 (1.07%) HP
16 77 (1.02%) Facebook
17 76 (1.00%) IBM
18 71 (0.94%) Aruba
19 70 (0.93%) Apple
20 69 (0.91%) SolarWinds