Azure Jobs in England

Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 6,243 14,728 21,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.70% 17.52% 22.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 45.07% 49.05% 51.73%
Number of salaries quoted 4,993 11,948 13,540
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,481 £36,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% -8.46% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.93% -9.23% +4.00%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,851 30,028 41,174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.41% 35.73% 43.50%
Number of salaries quoted 10,274 24,133 27,074
10th Percentile £31,599 £30,000 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £103,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +4.00%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in England

Azure
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure in England.

Salary trend for Azure in England

Azure
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in England over the 6 months to 21 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure in England

Azure
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the England region over the 6 months to 21 April 2025. 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
London 0 2,568 £77,000 +2.67% 3,005
South East -5 961 £60,000 +9.09% 875
North of England -14 957 £60,000 +9.09% 847
Midlands -8 826 £52,500 +5.00% 510
West Midlands -7 587 £55,000 +3.29% 329
North West -24 518 £61,603 +7.13% 491
South West -5 432 £55,000 - 384
Yorkshire -9 349 £55,000 - 262
East of England -4 346 £50,000 - 282
East Midlands -10 237 £47,500 -5.00% 170
North East -5 94 £57,500 +21.05% 96
Azure
UK

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 507 (8.12%) SharePoint
2 469 (7.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 91 (1.46%) Confluence
4 83 (1.33%) Apache Spark
5 78 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
5 78 (1.25%) IIS
6 57 (0.91%) CMS
7 43 (0.69%) Apache
8 21 (0.34%) IBM Domino
9 15 (0.24%) Tomcat
10 14 (0.22%) WordPress
11 12 (0.19%) Headless CMS
12 9 (0.14%) nginx
13 8 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 8 (0.13%) SAS
14 7 (0.11%) Umbraco
15 6 (0.096%) Liferay
15 6 (0.096%) NServiceBus
15 6 (0.096%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.080%) Jupyter
Applications
1 186 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
2 119 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 34 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.35%) Chatbot
6 15 (0.24%) Trello
7 13 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
8 10 (0.16%) Maya
9 6 (0.096%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.048%) Productboard
10 3 (0.048%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.048%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.032%) InDesign
11 2 (0.032%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.016%) Revit
12 1 (0.016%) Sketch
12 1 (0.016%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 146 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
2 13 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
3 10 (0.16%) Sage 50
4 9 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
4 9 (0.14%) Endur
5 8 (0.13%) Elite 3E
6 7 (0.11%) Sage 200
6 7 (0.11%) SAP IBP
7 6 (0.096%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.096%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.096%) Shopify
8 5 (0.080%) Markit EDM
8 5 (0.080%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.064%) Carpe Diem
9 4 (0.064%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.064%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 3 (0.048%) Magento
11 2 (0.032%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,839 (29.46%) AWS
2 1,452 (23.26%) Microsoft 365
3 922 (14.77%) GCP
4 862 (13.81%) Power Platform
5 854 (13.68%) Azure DevOps
6 636 (10.19%) Entra ID
7 483 (7.74%) SaaS
8 358 (5.73%) Azure Data Factory
9 326 (5.22%) Dynamics 365
10 300 (4.81%) GitHub
11 287 (4.60%) PaaS
12 253 (4.05%) PowerApps
13 237 (3.80%) Power Automate
14 232 (3.72%) Serverless
15 230 (3.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 193 (3.09%) Azure Logic Apps
17 190 (3.04%) IaaS
18 162 (2.59%) Cloud Computing
19 159 (2.55%) OneDrive
20 134 (2.15%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 728 (11.66%) Firewall
2 426 (6.82%) DNS
3 424 (6.79%) WAN
4 355 (5.69%) LAN
5 334 (5.35%) VPN
6 304 (4.87%) DHCP
7 235 (3.76%) Network Security
8 198 (3.17%) TCP/IP
9 177 (2.84%) VLAN
10 172 (2.76%) SD-WAN
11 152 (2.43%) Wi-Fi
12 108 (1.73%) Wireless
13 101 (1.62%) VoIP
14 82 (1.31%) SAN
15 81 (1.30%) BGP
16 68 (1.09%) OSPF
17 67 (1.07%) Internet
18 61 (0.98%) Intrusion Detection
18 61 (0.98%) MPLS
19 53 (0.85%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 772 (12.37%) SQL Server
2 555 (8.89%) Power BI
3 329 (5.27%) Data Warehouse
4 281 (4.50%) Data Lake
5 215 (3.44%) Azure SQL Database
5 215 (3.44%) NoSQL
6 166 (2.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 154 (2.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 139 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
9 135 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
9 135 (2.16%) MongoDB
10 128 (2.05%) MySQL
11 108 (1.73%) Tableau
12 106 (1.70%) Big Data
13 103 (1.65%) Relational Database
14 92 (1.47%) Metadata
15 63 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
16 61 (0.98%) BigQuery
17 45 (0.72%) Power Query
18 43 (0.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 424 (6.79%) Git
2 237 (3.80%) JIRA
3 210 (3.36%) Jenkins
4 130 (2.08%) Visual Studio
5 91 (1.46%) GitLab
6 75 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
7 71 (1.14%) Selenium
8 67 (1.07%) TeamCity
9 64 (1.03%) Postman
9 64 (1.03%) SonarQube
10 52 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
10 52 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
11 46 (0.74%) JUnit
12 39 (0.62%) Maven
13 38 (0.61%) Cypress.io
13 38 (0.61%) MSBuild
14 32 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 31 (0.50%) JMeter
15 31 (0.50%) NUnit
16 29 (0.46%) Mockito
General
1 1,871 (29.97%) Social Skills
2 1,413 (22.63%) Finance
3 705 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
4 421 (6.74%) Law
5 359 (5.75%) Banking
6 277 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 259 (4.15%) Retail
8 220 (3.52%) Legal
9 195 (3.12%) Public Sector
10 147 (2.35%) Marketing
11 136 (2.18%) Manufacturing
12 90 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
13 87 (1.39%) Telecoms
14 83 (1.33%) Front Office
15 78 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
16 67 (1.07%) Games
17 57 (0.91%) Automotive
18 56 (0.90%) Advertising
19 55 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
20 54 (0.86%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,192 (19.09%) Senior
2 1,069 (17.12%) Developer
3 703 (11.26%) Lead
4 629 (10.08%) Architect
5 562 (9.00%) Analyst
6 375 (6.01%) Data Engineer
7 324 (5.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 319 (5.11%) IT Support
9 309 (4.95%) Software Engineer
9 309 (4.95%) Support Engineer
10 299 (4.79%) Azure Engineer
11 279 (4.47%) Cloud Engineer
12 272 (4.36%) Senior Developer
13 249 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
14 226 (3.62%) .NET Developer
15 221 (3.54%) IT Engineer
16 182 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
17 181 (2.90%) Support Analyst
18 158 (2.53%) Software Developer
19 147 (2.35%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,074 (17.20%) .NET
2 496 (7.94%) React
3 335 (5.37%) CSS
4 329 (5.27%) HTML
5 303 (4.85%) AngularJS
6 295 (4.73%) ASP.NET
7 285 (4.57%) .NET Framework
8 270 (4.32%) REST
9 254 (4.07%) .NET Core
9 254 (4.07%) Node.js
10 197 (3.16%) RESTful
11 154 (2.47%) Kafka
12 151 (2.42%) JSON
13 130 (2.08%) Entity Framework
14 120 (1.92%) XML
15 113 (1.81%) Pandas
16 110 (1.76%) Vue
16 110 (1.76%) Web Services
17 100 (1.60%) ASP.NET Web API
17 100 (1.60%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 283 (4.53%) Management Information System
2 264 (4.23%) Cloud Native
3 205 (3.28%) Data Centre
4 194 (3.11%) Product Ownership
5 171 (2.74%) Public Cloud
6 135 (2.16%) Onboarding
6 135 (2.16%) Security Posture
7 125 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 112 (1.79%) Algorithms
9 99 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
10 97 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
11 93 (1.49%) Data Structures
12 92 (1.47%) Mobile App
13 85 (1.36%) Driving Licence
14 82 (1.31%) Private Cloud
15 80 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
16 76 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
17 74 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
18 72 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
19 59 (0.95%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 1,321 (21.16%) Windows
2 645 (10.33%) Windows Server
3 538 (8.62%) Linux
4 243 (3.89%) Windows 10
5 135 (2.16%) Android
6 111 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
7 101 (1.62%) Mac OS
8 100 (1.60%) Apple iOS
9 99 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
10 65 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
11 41 (0.66%) Unix
12 37 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 33 (0.53%) VMS
14 27 (0.43%) Ubuntu
15 23 (0.37%) CentOS
16 17 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
17 10 (0.16%) SUSE
18 8 (0.13%) Mac OS X
18 8 (0.13%) Windows 7
19 7 (0.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,744 (27.94%) DevOps
2 1,596 (25.56%) Agile
3 1,452 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
4 1,283 (20.55%) CI/CD
5 766 (12.27%) Analytics
6 760 (12.17%) Software Engineering
7 723 (11.58%) Mentoring
8 626 (10.03%) Business Intelligence
9 583 (9.34%) ITIL
10 544 (8.71%) Microservices
11 539 (8.63%) Roadmaps
12 531 (8.51%) Cybersecurity
13 526 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
14 524 (8.39%) Containerisation
15 498 (7.98%) Computer Science
16 482 (7.72%) Infrastructure as Code
17 443 (7.10%) Migration
18 431 (6.90%) Data Engineering
19 423 (6.78%) Artificial Intelligence
20 422 (6.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,579 (25.29%) SQL
2 1,323 (21.19%) Python
3 1,035 (16.58%) C#
4 792 (12.69%) JavaScript
5 714 (11.44%) PowerShell
6 611 (9.79%) Java
7 308 (4.93%) TypeScript
8 210 (3.36%) Bash
9 206 (3.30%) T-SQL
10 147 (2.35%) C++
11 116 (1.86%) Go
12 97 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 92 (1.47%) Bicep
14 80 (1.28%) PHP
14 80 (1.28%) Rust
15 78 (1.25%) Scala
16 66 (1.06%) R
17 49 (0.78%) VB.NET
18 45 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
19 43 (0.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 975 (15.62%) Degree
2 403 (6.46%) Azure Certification
3 401 (6.42%) Security Cleared
4 340 (5.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 312 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 258 (4.13%) SC Cleared
7 195 (3.12%) Cisco Certification
8 145 (2.32%) AWS Certification
9 131 (2.10%) DBS Check
10 124 (1.99%) Master's Degree
11 110 (1.76%) CCNP
12 106 (1.70%) CISSP
13 99 (1.59%) DV Cleared
14 93 (1.49%) CCNA
15 64 (1.03%) CISM
16 60 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 52 (0.83%) A+ Certification
17 52 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
18 50 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
19 44 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (4.37%) GDPR
2 256 (4.10%) QA
3 237 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 208 (3.33%) Data Quality
5 170 (2.72%) NIST
6 126 (2.02%) SLA
7 99 (1.59%) Accessibility
8 96 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 87 (1.39%) PCI DSS
10 46 (0.74%) SOC 2
11 42 (0.67%) HIPAA
12 36 (0.58%) NCSC
13 27 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 25 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 22 (0.35%) COBIT
15 22 (0.35%) GRC
16 16 (0.26%) PMO
17 14 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 8 (0.13%) ISO 9001
19 7 (0.11%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 1,090 (17.46%) Active Directory
2 713 (11.42%) Docker
3 372 (5.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 261 (4.18%) Hyper-V
5 124 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
6 121 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
7 67 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
8 58 (0.93%) vSphere
9 32 (0.51%) VMware NSX
10 21 (0.34%) XenApp
11 20 (0.32%) Firmware
12 12 (0.19%) DFS Replication
13 10 (0.16%) Terminal Services
13 10 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
14 9 (0.14%) NFS
15 8 (0.13%) BitLocker
16 5 (0.080%) Apache Flume
16 5 (0.080%) KVM
16 5 (0.080%) Postfix
16 5 (0.080%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 776 (12.43%) Kubernetes
2 737 (11.81%) Terraform
3 558 (8.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 321 (5.14%) Ansible
5 149 (2.39%) SCCM
6 96 (1.54%) Prometheus
7 95 (1.52%) Grafana
8 68 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
9 65 (1.04%) FortiGate
10 57 (0.91%) Progress Chef
11 54 (0.86%) Puppet
12 42 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 32 (0.51%) vCenter Server
14 28 (0.45%) NetBackup
15 27 (0.43%) WSUS
16 26 (0.42%) Nagios
17 24 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
18 22 (0.35%) Istio
19 21 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
19 21 (0.34%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2,709 (43.39%) Microsoft
2 596 (9.55%) VMware
3 447 (7.16%) Cisco
4 443 (7.10%) Databricks
5 385 (6.17%) Google
6 180 (2.88%) Citrix
7 174 (2.79%) Meraki
8 158 (2.53%) Oracle
9 153 (2.45%) ServiceNow
10 111 (1.78%) Palo Alto
11 110 (1.76%) SolarWinds
12 106 (1.70%) SAP
13 95 (1.52%) CheckPoint
14 91 (1.46%) Fortinet
14 91 (1.46%) IBM
15 88 (1.41%) Veeam
16 76 (1.22%) Apple
17 61 (0.98%) Salesforce
18 58 (0.93%) F5
19 54 (0.86%) Red Hat