Azure Job Trends in Cambridge

Microsoft Azure
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 4 19
Rank change year-on-year -6 +15 -8
Permanent jobs citing Azure 93 59 86
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 11.25% 22.87% 7.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.57% 57.28% 32.45%
Number of salaries quoted 21 49 76
10th Percentile £33,750 - £32,233
25th Percentile £47,500 £26,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £27,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +118.55% -45.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £73,750 £51,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £77,750 £92,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £53,000 £42,500 £48,750
% change year-on-year +24.71% -12.82% -2.50%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cambridge

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 235 103 265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 28.42% 39.92% 24.49%
Number of salaries quoted 137 70 214
10th Percentile £32,700 - £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £26,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £33,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +78.07% -41.30% +15.00%
75th Percentile £78,250 £55,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,988 £77,500 £87,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% +5.00%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Azure job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Azure
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in Cambridge over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in Cambridge

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.15%) SharePoint
1 2 (2.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (18.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 23 (24.73%) Azure AI
2 17 (18.28%) Power Platform
3 15 (16.13%) AWS
4 6 (6.45%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.38%) GCP
5 5 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (5.38%) SaaS
6 4 (4.30%) IaaS
6 4 (4.30%) PaaS
7 3 (3.23%) GitHub
8 2 (2.15%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (1.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.08%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (1.08%) AWS KMS
9 1 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.75%) Firewall
2 6 (6.45%) VPN
3 4 (4.30%) DHCP
3 4 (4.30%) DNS
3 4 (4.30%) LAN
3 4 (4.30%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.30%) VLAN
3 4 (4.30%) WAN
3 4 (4.30%) Wireless
3 4 (4.30%) WLAN
4 1 (1.08%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.28%) Power BI
1 17 (18.28%) Tableau
2 4 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.15%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.08%) MySQL
4 1 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Git
1 1 (1.08%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.08%) JIRA
1 1 (1.08%) Selenium
General
1 67 (72.04%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (5.38%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.23%) Finance
6 1 (1.08%) Advertising
6 1 (1.08%) Legal
6 1 (1.08%) Multimedia
6 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (37.63%) Analyst
2 34 (36.56%) Junior
2 34 (36.56%) Junior Analyst
3 18 (19.35%) Security Analyst
4 17 (18.28%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 17 (18.28%) Data Analyst
4 17 (18.28%) Junior Data Analyst
4 17 (18.28%) Junior Security Analyst
5 15 (16.13%) Ethical Hacker
6 14 (15.05%) Network Engineer
7 9 (9.68%) Lead
8 6 (6.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Developer
9 4 (4.30%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Consultant
9 4 (4.30%) Infrastructure Consultant
9 4 (4.30%) Senior
9 4 (4.30%) Senior Network Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Site Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.30%) AngularJS
2 3 (3.23%) .NET
3 2 (2.15%) .NET Core
3 2 (2.15%) .NET Framework
3 2 (2.15%) ASP.NET
3 2 (2.15%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (2.15%) CSS
3 2 (2.15%) Node.js
3 2 (2.15%) Vue
4 1 (1.08%) HTML
4 1 (1.08%) jQuery
4 1 (1.08%) Nuxt
4 1 (1.08%) Playwright
4 1 (1.08%) pytest
4 1 (1.08%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.13%) Cyberattack
2 5 (5.38%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.38%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.30%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.08%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.08%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.30%) VMS
1 4 (4.30%) Windows
1 4 (4.30%) Windows Server
1 4 (4.30%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (1.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (48.39%) Cybersecurity
2 29 (31.18%) AI
3 22 (23.66%) Mentoring
4 17 (18.28%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (16.13%) Ethical Hacking
6 10 (10.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (8.60%) CI/CD
9 6 (6.45%) Agile
9 6 (6.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
9 6 (6.45%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (6.45%) Microservices
9 6 (6.45%) Project Delivery
10 5 (5.38%) Collaborative Culture
10 5 (5.38%) Observability
10 5 (5.38%) Runbook
11 4 (4.30%) Insurtech
11 4 (4.30%) Proactive Maintenance
11 4 (4.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 4 (4.30%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 25 (26.88%) Python
2 21 (22.58%) SQL
3 7 (7.53%) C#
4 4 (4.30%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.15%) PHP
5 2 (2.15%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.08%) Bash
6 1 (1.08%) C++
6 1 (1.08%) Java
6 1 (1.08%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.08%) R
6 1 (1.08%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 66 (70.97%) Azure Certification
2 19 (20.43%) CompTIA Security+
3 18 (19.35%) CompTIA CySA+
4 15 (16.13%) CEH
5 11 (11.83%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (10.75%) CCNA
6 10 (10.75%) Network+ Certification
7 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (4.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (4.30%) CCNP
8 4 (4.30%) Security Cleared
9 3 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (3.23%) Degree
10 2 (2.15%) CISM
10 2 (2.15%) CISSP
10 2 (2.15%) DBS Check
11 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
11 1 (1.08%) CRISC
11 1 (1.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 1 (1.08%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.15%) NIST
1 2 (2.15%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.08%) GRC
2 1 (1.08%) ISO 31000
2 1 (1.08%) NIST 800
2 1 (1.08%) QA
System Software
1 6 (6.45%) Active Directory
1 6 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (4.30%) vSphere
3 2 (2.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 4 (4.30%) SolarWinds Orion
1 4 (4.30%) vCenter Server
2 3 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.15%) Terraform
4 1 (1.08%) Ansible
4 1 (1.08%) Proxmox
4 1 (1.08%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 71 (76.34%) Microsoft
2 38 (40.86%) ForeScout
3 12 (12.90%) Cisco
4 8 (8.60%) VMware
5 4 (4.30%) Aruba
5 4 (4.30%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (4.30%) Fortinet
5 4 (4.30%) Palo Alto
5 4 (4.30%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.15%) Google
6 2 (2.15%) Veeam