Azure Job Trends in England

Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 6 5
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 10,667 6,560 14,383
As % of all permanent jobs in England 13.25% 16.78% 17.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.72% 46.90% 48.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5,844 4,796 11,960
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £34,250
25th Percentile £46,015 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +5.04% -8.46%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.93% -9.21%

All Cloud Computing 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 23,855 13,987 29,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.64% 35.78% 35.29%
Number of salaries quoted 13,656 10,021 24,231
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +6.52% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Azure job vacancy trend in England

Azure
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

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 12 May 2026. 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 2,893 £80,000 +5.26% 972
North of England +4 2,480 £55,000 -8.33% 547
South East +4 1,829 £57,500 -4.17% 674
Midlands +2 1,720 £60,000 +14.29% 289
Yorkshire +8 1,103 £48,445 -13.88% 160
North West +1 1,053 £57,500 -4.17% 291
South West +5 1,010 £52,500 -4.55% 254
West Midlands -8 937 £60,000 +9.09% 159
East Midlands +4 774 £55,000 +19.57% 128
East of England +9 658 £55,000 +10.00% 178
North East +3 324 £52,500 -8.70% 96
Azure
UK

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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
1 527 (4.94%) SharePoint
2 455 (4.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 97 (0.91%) Apache Spark
4 87 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
5 83 (0.78%) Confluence
6 61 (0.57%) WordPress
7 50 (0.47%) IIS
8 40 (0.37%) Apache
9 34 (0.32%) CMS
10 20 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
11 14 (0.13%) Umbraco
12 11 (0.10%) Appian
13 7 (0.066%) Anypoint
13 7 (0.066%) Camunda
13 7 (0.066%) nginx
13 7 (0.066%) SAS
14 6 (0.056%) Moodle
14 6 (0.056%) Sitecore CMS
15 5 (0.047%) GeoServer
15 5 (0.047%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1,079 (10.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 144 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 24 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 23 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.084%) PlantUML
7 9 (0.084%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.056%) AutoCAD
9 5 (0.047%) DaVinci Resolve
10 4 (0.037%) Trello
11 3 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.028%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.009%) FrameMaker
12 1 (0.009%) MadCap Flare
12 1 (0.009%) Maya
12 1 (0.009%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 69 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 24 (0.22%) Cloudability
4 20 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 15 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
6 14 (0.13%) Magento
7 13 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
8 12 (0.11%) Endur
9 11 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
10 10 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
11 9 (0.084%) Dynamics GP
12 8 (0.075%) NetSuite
13 6 (0.056%) Shopify
14 5 (0.047%) Fidessa
14 5 (0.047%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
14 5 (0.047%) Visualfiles
15 4 (0.037%) Elite 3E
15 4 (0.037%) Exchequer
15 4 (0.037%) Primavera
16 3 (0.028%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 2,290 (21.47%) AWS
2 1,829 (17.15%) Power Platform
3 1,588 (14.89%) Microsoft 365
4 1,457 (13.66%) Azure AI
5 1,022 (9.58%) GCP
6 958 (8.98%) Entra ID
7 926 (8.68%) Azure DevOps
8 563 (5.28%) GitHub
9 435 (4.08%) SaaS
10 329 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
11 296 (2.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 265 (2.48%) Serverless
13 248 (2.32%) PaaS
14 241 (2.26%) Power Automate
15 231 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
16 222 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
17 218 (2.04%) IaaS
18 213 (2.00%) PowerApps
19 201 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
19 201 (1.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 774 (7.26%) Firewall
2 566 (5.31%) DNS
3 448 (4.20%) VPN
4 416 (3.90%) DHCP
5 365 (3.42%) WAN
6 269 (2.52%) LAN
7 241 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
8 231 (2.17%) TCP/IP
9 217 (2.03%) Network Security
10 207 (1.94%) Internet
11 197 (1.85%) VLAN
12 140 (1.31%) SD-WAN
13 90 (0.84%) SAN
14 85 (0.80%) VoIP
15 83 (0.78%) Wireless
16 62 (0.58%) BGP
17 53 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
18 52 (0.49%) WLAN
19 50 (0.47%) OSPF
20 44 (0.41%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,558 (14.61%) Power BI
2 1,059 (9.93%) Tableau
3 712 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 324 (3.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 289 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
6 254 (2.38%) Data Lake
7 250 (2.34%) MongoDB
8 191 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
9 172 (1.61%) NoSQL
10 127 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
11 117 (1.10%) Metadata
12 103 (0.97%) Relational Database
13 98 (0.92%) MySQL
14 95 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 94 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 89 (0.83%) BigQuery
17 84 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
18 81 (0.76%) Big Data
19 55 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
20 51 (0.48%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 558 (5.23%) Git
2 241 (2.26%) JIRA
3 208 (1.95%) Jenkins
4 186 (1.74%) GitLab
5 67 (0.63%) MLflow
6 59 (0.55%) Selenium
7 55 (0.52%) Postman
8 41 (0.38%) Cypress.io
9 31 (0.29%) Visual Studio
10 27 (0.25%) Bitbucket
11 25 (0.23%) Eclipse
12 22 (0.21%) CircleCI
12 22 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
13 20 (0.19%) Chocolatey
13 20 (0.19%) TeamCity
14 18 (0.17%) JUnit
14 18 (0.17%) REST Assured
14 18 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 16 (0.15%) Vite
16 15 (0.14%) Maven
General
1 4,998 (46.85%) Social Skills
2 1,463 (13.72%) Finance
3 761 (7.13%) Analytical Skills
4 355 (3.33%) Public Sector
5 332 (3.11%) Law
6 318 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 240 (2.25%) Banking
8 196 (1.84%) Retail
9 179 (1.68%) Legal
10 171 (1.60%) Multimedia
11 148 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
12 121 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
13 112 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
14 99 (0.93%) Manufacturing
15 82 (0.77%) Marketing
15 82 (0.77%) Telecoms
16 57 (0.53%) Advertising
17 56 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
18 43 (0.40%) Financial Institution
19 39 (0.37%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 2,412 (22.61%) Analyst
2 2,014 (18.88%) Junior
3 1,978 (18.54%) Junior Analyst
4 1,218 (11.42%) Senior
5 1,102 (10.33%) Developer
6 1,042 (9.77%) Data Analyst
7 1,026 (9.62%) Security Analyst
8 1,003 (9.40%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 988 (9.26%) Junior Data Analyst
9 988 (9.26%) Junior Security Analyst
10 835 (7.83%) Architect
11 763 (7.15%) Lead
12 709 (6.65%) Azure Engineer
13 705 (6.61%) Ethical Hacker
14 538 (5.04%) IT Support
15 443 (4.15%) Network Engineer
16 430 (4.03%) Support Engineer
17 423 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
18 414 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 409 (3.83%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 920 (8.62%) .NET
2 447 (4.19%) React
3 418 (3.92%) CSS
4 387 (3.63%) HTML
5 354 (3.32%) .NET Core
6 316 (2.96%) REST
7 303 (2.84%) ASP.NET
8 268 (2.51%) RESTful
9 229 (2.15%) Node.js
10 198 (1.86%) ASP.NET Core
11 176 (1.65%) AngularJS
12 158 (1.48%) Kafka
13 136 (1.27%) .NET Framework
14 134 (1.26%) OAuth
15 125 (1.17%) PySpark
16 117 (1.10%) JSON
17 108 (1.01%) Blazor
18 102 (0.96%) Entity Framework
18 102 (0.96%) Vue
19 96 (0.90%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 742 (6.96%) Cyberattack
2 538 (5.04%) Cloud Native
3 259 (2.43%) Product Ownership
4 185 (1.73%) Data Centre
5 180 (1.69%) Management Information System
6 179 (1.68%) Onboarding
7 170 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
8 167 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
9 166 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
10 158 (1.48%) Public Cloud
11 155 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
12 145 (1.36%) Driving Licence
13 142 (1.33%) Security Posture
14 140 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
15 133 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
16 105 (0.98%) Data Structures
17 102 (0.96%) Low-Code
18 85 (0.80%) Mobile App
19 79 (0.74%) AI Agents
20 76 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1,208 (11.32%) Windows
2 657 (6.16%) Windows Server
3 481 (4.51%) Linux
4 197 (1.85%) Windows 10
5 116 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
6 97 (0.91%) Mac OS
7 84 (0.79%) Apple iOS
8 78 (0.73%) Android
9 60 (0.56%) Unix
10 56 (0.52%) VMS
11 53 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
12 49 (0.46%) Ubuntu
13 29 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
14 28 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 27 (0.25%) CentOS
16 13 (0.12%) Debian
17 8 (0.075%) Kali Linux
17 8 (0.075%) Windows 7
18 7 (0.066%) Windows 8
19 6 (0.056%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,578 (24.17%) Cybersecurity
2 2,333 (21.87%) AI
3 1,972 (18.49%) Mentoring
4 1,917 (17.97%) DevOps
5 1,618 (15.17%) Business Intelligence
6 1,595 (14.95%) CI/CD
7 1,545 (14.48%) Agile
8 1,313 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
9 940 (8.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 821 (7.70%) Infrastructure as Code
11 816 (7.65%) Analytics
12 763 (7.15%) Roadmaps
13 717 (6.72%) Ethical Hacking
14 622 (5.83%) Software Engineering
15 614 (5.76%) ITIL
16 611 (5.73%) Data Modelling
17 555 (5.20%) Microservices
18 547 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 545 (5.11%) Data Engineering
19 545 (5.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2,876 (26.96%) Python
2 2,603 (24.40%) SQL
3 1,002 (9.39%) C#
4 732 (6.86%) JavaScript
5 715 (6.70%) PowerShell
6 397 (3.72%) Java
7 374 (3.51%) TypeScript
8 289 (2.71%) Bash
9 171 (1.60%) R
10 149 (1.40%) Bicep
11 106 (0.99%) PHP
12 93 (0.87%) Go
13 88 (0.82%) T-SQL
14 78 (0.73%) C++
15 49 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 48 (0.45%) C
17 47 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
18 42 (0.39%) Scala
19 41 (0.38%) Rust
20 30 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3,782 (35.46%) Azure Certification
2 1,034 (9.69%) CompTIA Security+
3 1,004 (9.41%) CompTIA CySA+
4 803 (7.53%) Degree
5 758 (7.11%) CEH
6 727 (6.82%) Security Cleared
7 533 (5.00%) SC Cleared
8 446 (4.18%) Cisco Certification
9 445 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 378 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
11 354 (3.32%) CCNA
12 328 (3.07%) AWS Certification
13 312 (2.92%) Network+ Certification
14 180 (1.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 169 (1.58%) CISSP
16 144 (1.35%) DV Cleared
17 78 (0.73%) CCNP
18 76 (0.71%) CISM
19 74 (0.69%) Master's Degree
20 63 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (3.10%) Data Quality
1 331 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 297 (2.78%) QA
3 278 (2.61%) GDPR
4 235 (2.20%) NIST
5 196 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
6 172 (1.61%) SLA
7 128 (1.20%) PCI DSS
8 127 (1.19%) Accessibility
9 65 (0.61%) GRC
10 63 (0.59%) NCSC
11 58 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 49 (0.46%) PMO
13 43 (0.40%) SOC 2
14 28 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 21 (0.20%) JSP 440
15 21 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 15 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 15 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 1,181 (11.07%) Active Directory
2 571 (5.35%) Docker
3 323 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 307 (2.88%) Hyper-V
5 136 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
6 93 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
7 58 (0.54%) vSphere
8 42 (0.39%) Terminal Server
9 25 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
10 23 (0.22%) Firmware
11 22 (0.21%) KVM
12 16 (0.15%) BitLocker
12 16 (0.15%) ProxySG
13 12 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
14 8 (0.075%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 7 (0.066%) VMware NSX
15 7 (0.066%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.047%) XenDesktop
17 2 (0.019%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 2 (0.019%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 904 (8.47%) Terraform
2 695 (6.52%) Kubernetes
3 611 (5.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 304 (2.85%) Ansible
5 157 (1.47%) Grafana
6 122 (1.14%) Prometheus
7 101 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
8 96 (0.90%) SCCM
9 45 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
10 40 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 39 (0.37%) Argo
11 39 (0.37%) FortiGate
12 22 (0.21%) vCenter Server
13 20 (0.19%) Puppet
14 18 (0.17%) Nagios
15 14 (0.13%) CASB
15 14 (0.13%) Istio
15 14 (0.13%) Kibana
15 14 (0.13%) VxRail
16 13 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 6,124 (57.41%) Microsoft
2 1,975 (18.52%) ForeScout
3 581 (5.45%) Cisco
4 573 (5.37%) Databricks
5 544 (5.10%) VMware
6 268 (2.51%) Google
7 175 (1.64%) ServiceNow
8 134 (1.26%) Oracle
9 132 (1.24%) SolarWinds
10 129 (1.21%) Apple
11 123 (1.15%) Veeam
12 122 (1.14%) Splunk
13 115 (1.08%) Meraki
13 115 (1.08%) Palo Alto
14 106 (0.99%) OpenAI
15 103 (0.97%) SAP
16 102 (0.96%) Adobe
16 102 (0.96%) Fortinet
17 94 (0.88%) CrowdStrike
18 88 (0.82%) Salesforce