Azure Jobs in England

Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 14,807 20,897 25,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.43% 22.39% 19.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.96% 51.46% 41.47%
Number of salaries quoted 11,972 13,352 16,889
10th Percentile £34,000 £36,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,526 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.23% +4.00% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 30,242 40,609 62,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.60% 43.51% 47.89%
Number of salaries quoted 24,231 26,776 37,135
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,798 £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% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 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
London 0 4,673 £75,000 - 1,238
North of England 0 3,059 £55,000 - 614
South East -1 2,793 £54,500 -4.91% 515
Midlands +2 1,933 £50,000 -9.09% 397
North West 0 1,634 £57,500 +4.55% 357
South West -1 1,404 £55,000 +4.76% 307
West Midlands +2 1,155 £54,000 -1.82% 243
Yorkshire 0 1,056 £55,000 - 189
East of England 0 801 £50,000 -4.76% 184
East Midlands +3 775 £48,500 -7.62% 154
North East +4 371 £47,500 -13.64% 74
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 1,097 (7.41%) SharePoint
2 1,039 (7.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 265 (1.79%) IIS
4 204 (1.38%) Apache
5 200 (1.35%) Apache Spark
5 200 (1.35%) ArcGIS
6 198 (1.34%) GeoServer
7 152 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
8 130 (0.88%) CMS
9 121 (0.82%) Confluence
10 89 (0.60%) Umbraco
11 53 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
12 49 (0.33%) Kentico
12 49 (0.33%) OpenStack
13 40 (0.27%) Headless CMS
14 39 (0.26%) WordPress
15 37 (0.25%) nginx
16 35 (0.24%) WebLogic
17 33 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
18 30 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 529 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 212 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 45 (0.30%) MS Visio
4 37 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
5 30 (0.20%) Trello
6 17 (0.11%) Simulink
7 10 (0.068%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.054%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.041%) LightWave 3D
10 4 (0.027%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.027%) SPSS
11 3 (0.020%) 1Password
11 3 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.014%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.014%) CATIA
12 2 (0.014%) NASTRAN
12 2 (0.014%) Sketch
12 2 (0.014%) S-PLUS
13 1 (0.007%) Notion
Business Applications
1 232 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 64 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 35 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
4 21 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
5 13 (0.088%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.088%) Teamcenter
6 12 (0.081%) Maximo
7 10 (0.068%) Elite 3E
8 9 (0.061%) Unit4 Business World
9 8 (0.054%) Payment Gateway
9 8 (0.054%) Remedy ITSM
9 8 (0.054%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.041%) Primavera
10 6 (0.041%) SAP PLM
11 5 (0.034%) Oracle General Ledger
11 5 (0.034%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 5 (0.034%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.034%) SAP IBP
11 5 (0.034%) SAP PP
11 5 (0.034%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 4,257 (28.75%) AWS
2 3,510 (23.71%) Microsoft 365
3 2,111 (14.26%) Azure DevOps
4 1,712 (11.56%) GCP
5 1,703 (11.50%) Power Platform
6 1,589 (10.73%) Entra ID
7 886 (5.98%) SaaS
8 628 (4.24%) PaaS
8 628 (4.24%) Serverless
9 577 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
10 559 (3.78%) IaaS
11 472 (3.19%) Azure Data Factory
12 424 (2.86%) PowerApps
13 395 (2.67%) GitHub
14 375 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
15 338 (2.28%) Power Automate
16 337 (2.28%) Azure Functions
17 331 (2.24%) Azure Service Bus
18 328 (2.22%) OneDrive
19 319 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,632 (11.02%) Firewall
2 1,093 (7.38%) DNS
3 781 (5.27%) WAN
4 715 (4.83%) DHCP
5 636 (4.30%) LAN
6 599 (4.05%) VPN
7 486 (3.28%) TCP/IP
8 400 (2.70%) SAN
9 384 (2.59%) Wi-Fi
10 318 (2.15%) Internet
11 316 (2.13%) Wireless
12 313 (2.11%) VLAN
13 300 (2.03%) Broadband
14 297 (2.01%) Network Security
15 235 (1.59%) SD-WAN
16 212 (1.43%) 5G
17 201 (1.36%) VoIP
18 116 (0.78%) Remote Desktop
19 115 (0.78%) NAS
20 111 (0.75%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,604 (17.59%) SQL Server
2 1,203 (8.12%) Power BI
3 948 (6.40%) Data Warehouse
4 796 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
5 648 (4.38%) NoSQL
6 639 (4.32%) MongoDB
7 563 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 534 (3.61%) Data Lake
9 433 (2.92%) Relational Database
10 424 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 361 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
12 297 (2.01%) MySQL
13 264 (1.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 249 (1.68%) DB2
15 248 (1.67%) BigQuery
16 245 (1.65%) GIS
17 223 (1.51%) Big Data
18 198 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
19 196 (1.32%) QGIS
20 191 (1.29%) Looker
Development Applications
1 847 (5.72%) Git
2 497 (3.36%) JIRA
3 412 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 294 (1.99%) GitLab
5 259 (1.75%) Visual Studio
6 132 (0.89%) Selenium
7 118 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
8 108 (0.73%) Cypress.io
9 88 (0.59%) Postman
10 75 (0.51%) NUnit
11 66 (0.45%) TeamCity
12 56 (0.38%) SonarQube
12 56 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
13 54 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
14 52 (0.35%) Bitbucket
15 51 (0.34%) Cucumber
16 50 (0.34%) JMeter
17 49 (0.33%) Jasmine
18 41 (0.28%) Artifactory
19 34 (0.23%) JUnit
General
1 3,351 (22.63%) Social Skills
2 2,345 (15.84%) Finance
3 1,378 (9.31%) Analytical Skills
4 854 (5.77%) Public Sector
5 709 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 582 (3.93%) Retail
7 530 (3.58%) Law
8 397 (2.68%) Legal
9 372 (2.51%) Banking
10 327 (2.21%) Marketing
11 273 (1.84%) Front Office
12 270 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
13 255 (1.72%) Manufacturing
14 206 (1.39%) Telecoms
15 198 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
16 165 (1.11%) Aerospace
17 149 (1.01%) Games
18 145 (0.98%) Advertising
19 133 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
20 104 (0.70%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3,632 (24.53%) Developer
2 2,523 (17.04%) Senior
3 1,657 (11.19%) .NET Developer
4 1,582 (10.68%) Architect
5 1,236 (8.35%) Lead
6 1,008 (6.81%) Software Engineer
7 999 (6.75%) Analyst
8 924 (6.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 742 (5.01%) Support Engineer
10 717 (4.84%) Azure Engineer
11 693 (4.68%) C# Developer
12 679 (4.59%) IT Support
13 669 (4.52%) IT Engineer
14 653 (4.41%) Senior Developer
15 588 (3.97%) Data Engineer
16 558 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
17 522 (3.53%) C# .NET Developer
18 466 (3.15%) Full Stack Developer
19 448 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
20 425 (2.87%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,715 (25.09%) .NET
2 1,763 (11.91%) React
3 1,678 (11.33%) AngularJS
4 1,625 (10.97%) ASP.NET
5 1,519 (10.26%) .NET Core
6 1,350 (9.12%) HTML
7 1,307 (8.83%) CSS
8 993 (6.71%) .NET Framework
9 912 (6.16%) ASP.NET Web API
10 848 (5.73%) Entity Framework
11 816 (5.51%) ASP.NET MVC
12 802 (5.42%) Vue
13 701 (4.73%) REST
14 681 (4.60%) Node.js
15 638 (4.31%) RESTful
16 550 (3.71%) HTML5
17 522 (3.53%) Web Services
18 469 (3.17%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 405 (2.74%) Blazor
20 399 (2.69%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 606 (4.09%) Public Cloud
2 450 (3.04%) Management Information System
3 426 (2.88%) Data Structures
3 426 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
4 424 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 394 (2.66%) Product Ownership
6 388 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
7 363 (2.45%) Data Centre
8 359 (2.42%) Cloud Native
9 340 (2.30%) Algorithms
10 291 (1.97%) Blockchain
11 277 (1.87%) Social Media
12 248 (1.67%) Fixed Income
13 233 (1.57%) Driving Licence
14 226 (1.53%) Hedge funds
15 223 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
16 201 (1.36%) Mobile App
17 200 (1.35%) Equities
18 197 (1.33%) Private Cloud
19 187 (1.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3,221 (21.75%) Windows
2 1,597 (10.79%) Linux
3 1,590 (10.74%) Windows Server
4 567 (3.83%) Windows 10
5 477 (3.22%) Android
6 432 (2.92%) Apple iOS
7 361 (2.44%) Ubuntu
8 314 (2.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 265 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
10 245 (1.65%) Windows Server 2012
11 170 (1.15%) Unix
12 162 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 141 (0.95%) VMS
14 139 (0.94%) Mac OS
15 125 (0.84%) CentOS
16 92 (0.62%) Debian
17 55 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
19 31 (0.21%) Windows 7
20 30 (0.20%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,635 (31.30%) Agile
2 3,895 (26.31%) DevOps
3 2,211 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
4 2,095 (14.15%) Full Stack Development
5 1,790 (12.09%) CI/CD
6 1,748 (11.81%) Software Engineering
7 1,613 (10.89%) Microservices
8 1,381 (9.33%) MVC
9 1,337 (9.03%) Mentoring
10 1,280 (8.64%) Business Intelligence
11 1,261 (8.52%) Scrum
12 1,244 (8.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 1,243 (8.39%) Cybersecurity
14 1,186 (8.01%) Artificial Intelligence
15 1,172 (7.92%) ITIL
16 1,065 (7.19%) Roadmaps
17 1,053 (7.11%) ETL
18 1,047 (7.07%) Migration
19 1,028 (6.94%) Analytics
20 899 (6.07%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3,695 (24.95%) SQL
2 3,645 (24.62%) C#
3 2,941 (19.86%) JavaScript
4 2,219 (14.99%) Python
5 1,392 (9.40%) PowerShell
6 1,090 (7.36%) TypeScript
7 1,043 (7.04%) Java
8 582 (3.93%) T-SQL
9 559 (3.78%) Bash
10 176 (1.19%) Bicep
11 145 (0.98%) Go
12 139 (0.94%) R
13 135 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 122 (0.82%) C++
15 109 (0.74%) PHP
16 94 (0.63%) Kotlin
17 87 (0.59%) Ruby
17 87 (0.59%) Scala
18 76 (0.51%) VB.NET
19 69 (0.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,669 (11.27%) Degree
2 1,301 (8.79%) Security Cleared
3 919 (6.21%) SC Cleared
4 749 (5.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 748 (5.05%) Azure Certification
6 438 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 388 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
8 268 (1.81%) DV Cleared
9 261 (1.76%) CISSP
10 252 (1.70%) CCNA
11 240 (1.62%) AWS Certification
12 212 (1.43%) DBS Check
13 189 (1.28%) MCSE
14 168 (1.13%) Master's Degree
15 131 (0.88%) CCNP
16 116 (0.78%) CISM
17 115 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
18 113 (0.76%) MCSA
19 106 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
20 97 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 604 (4.08%) QA
2 447 (3.02%) Data Quality
3 411 (2.78%) GDPR
4 365 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 276 (1.86%) SLA
6 202 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 186 (1.26%) NIST
8 141 (0.95%) Accessibility
9 105 (0.71%) PCI DSS
10 54 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 46 (0.31%) PMO
12 43 (0.29%) NCSC
13 32 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 28 (0.19%) COBIT
14 28 (0.19%) HIPAA
15 24 (0.16%) GRC
16 19 (0.13%) SOC 2
17 17 (0.11%) ISO 9001
17 17 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 14 (0.095%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2,775 (18.74%) Active Directory
2 1,093 (7.38%) Docker
3 1,040 (7.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 883 (5.96%) Hyper-V
5 349 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
6 204 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
7 182 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 177 (1.20%) vSphere
9 94 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
10 41 (0.28%) XenApp
11 35 (0.24%) Firmware
12 31 (0.21%) Terminal Services
13 28 (0.19%) VMware NSX
14 24 (0.16%) XenDesktop
15 19 (0.13%) VMware Server
16 18 (0.12%) HDFS
17 16 (0.11%) KVM
18 14 (0.095%) vCloud
19 11 (0.074%) Citrix Hypervisor
19 11 (0.074%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 1,395 (9.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 1,245 (8.41%) Kubernetes
3 1,133 (7.65%) Terraform
4 511 (3.45%) Ansible
5 294 (1.99%) SCCM
6 269 (1.82%) Jamf Pro
7 180 (1.22%) Puppet
8 159 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
9 142 (0.96%) vCenter Server
10 110 (0.74%) Progress Chef
11 105 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 94 (0.63%) WSUS
13 85 (0.57%) Grafana
14 82 (0.55%) SCOM
15 74 (0.50%) Prometheus
16 60 (0.41%) FortiGate
17 43 (0.29%) Nagios
18 42 (0.28%) CASB
19 38 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
20 37 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 6,566 (44.34%) Microsoft
2 1,590 (10.74%) VMware
3 921 (6.22%) Google
4 757 (5.11%) Cisco
5 579 (3.91%) Databricks
6 431 (2.91%) Citrix
7 406 (2.74%) Oracle
8 402 (2.71%) Red Hat
9 378 (2.55%) IBM
10 334 (2.26%) Veeam
11 252 (1.70%) CyberArk
12 221 (1.49%) HP
12 221 (1.49%) Meraki
13 210 (1.42%) Tanium
14 201 (1.36%) ESRI
15 168 (1.13%) ServiceNow
16 161 (1.09%) Fortinet
17 157 (1.06%) SolarWinds
18 154 (1.04%) Apple
18 154 (1.04%) Aruba