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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 10,336 22,750 22,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.28% 21.11% 20.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 51.88% 49.23% 42.69%
Number of salaries quoted 8,347 15,905 17,339
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.84% +7.83%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £61,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.15% +8.33% +4.35%

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 19,923 46,215 52,798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 42.94% 42.89% 47.20%
Number of salaries quoted 16,115 31,877 37,864
10th Percentile £32,700 £34,421 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,639 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £82,548 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +4.35%

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 4,225 £75,000 - 1,466
North of England -2 1,776 £55,000 -4.35% 736
South East +1 1,500 £55,000 -8.33% 825
Midlands +3 1,241 £52,700 -6.69% 537
South West +4 1,040 £55,000 +4.76% 299
North West -1 924 £57,500 +4.55% 366
Yorkshire -2 756 £55,000 -7.60% 271
West Midlands +3 736 £52,500 -8.70% 327
East Midlands +2 501 £55,000 +4.76% 206
East of England 0 318 £52,500 -4.55% 244
North East +1 96 £55,000 -5.98% 107
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
1 838 (8.11%) SharePoint
2 220 (2.13%) MS Exchange
3 152 (1.47%) IIS
4 151 (1.46%) Apache Spark
5 120 (1.16%) Confluence
6 91 (0.88%) Apache
7 83 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
8 74 (0.72%) CMS
9 54 (0.52%) Umbraco
10 33 (0.32%) nginx
10 33 (0.32%) WebSphere
11 20 (0.19%) FileNet
12 19 (0.18%) SAS
13 18 (0.17%) Captiva
13 18 (0.17%) OpenStack
14 15 (0.15%) NServiceBus
14 15 (0.15%) Tomcat
15 14 (0.14%) WordPress
16 12 (0.12%) Kentico
17 10 (0.097%) Luigi
Applications
1 354 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
2 149 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 61 (0.59%) MS Visio
4 57 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 11 (0.11%) Trello
8 9 (0.087%) AutoCAD
8 9 (0.087%) PTC Creo
8 9 (0.087%) SOLIDWORKS
9 6 (0.058%) Simulink
10 4 (0.039%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.029%) 1Password
11 3 (0.029%) 3ds Max
11 3 (0.029%) Blender
11 3 (0.029%) Maya
12 2 (0.019%) InfoPath
12 2 (0.019%) LightWave 3D
13 1 (0.010%) Acrobat
13 1 (0.010%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 325 (3.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
3 17 (0.16%) Maximo
4 16 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 11 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
5 11 (0.11%) Shopify
6 10 (0.097%) Dynamics GP
6 10 (0.097%) Dynamics NAV
6 10 (0.097%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.087%) SAP Business One
8 8 (0.077%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.077%) SAP S/4HANA
9 7 (0.068%) BusinessWorks
9 7 (0.068%) Dynamics AX
10 6 (0.058%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.048%) Endur
11 5 (0.048%) Magento
12 4 (0.039%) Elite 3E
13 3 (0.029%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 3 (0.029%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 3,135 (30.33%) AWS
2 2,401 (23.23%) Microsoft 365
3 1,744 (16.87%) Azure DevOps
4 1,415 (13.69%) Power Platform
5 1,368 (13.24%) GCP
6 1,026 (9.93%) Entra ID
7 938 (9.08%) PaaS
8 935 (9.05%) SaaS
9 827 (8.00%) IaaS
10 663 (6.41%) Dynamics 365
11 624 (6.04%) Serverless
12 461 (4.46%) Azure Data Factory
13 384 (3.72%) GitHub
14 328 (3.17%) PowerApps
15 320 (3.10%) Azure Functions
16 289 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
17 244 (2.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 238 (2.30%) Azure Logic Apps
19 216 (2.09%) Power Automate
20 203 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1,060 (10.26%) Firewall
2 824 (7.97%) DNS
3 630 (6.10%) DHCP
4 520 (5.03%) WAN
5 503 (4.87%) VPN
6 423 (4.09%) LAN
7 394 (3.81%) TCP/IP
8 306 (2.96%) SAN
9 268 (2.59%) VLAN
10 267 (2.58%) Wireless
11 232 (2.24%) Wi-Fi
12 219 (2.12%) Network Security
13 172 (1.66%) Internet
14 169 (1.64%) SD-WAN
15 166 (1.61%) VoIP
16 127 (1.23%) HTTP
17 103 (1.00%) BGP
18 90 (0.87%) OSPF
19 78 (0.75%) Remote Desktop
20 69 (0.67%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,342 (12.98%) SQL Server
2 825 (7.98%) Power BI
3 628 (6.08%) Data Warehouse
4 461 (4.46%) Data Lake
5 448 (4.33%) NoSQL
6 339 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
7 293 (2.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 221 (2.14%) Big Data
9 209 (2.02%) Relational Database
10 208 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
11 198 (1.92%) MongoDB
12 180 (1.74%) MySQL
13 178 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 177 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
15 158 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
16 130 (1.26%) Hadoop
17 126 (1.22%) Tableau
18 113 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 101 (0.98%) Metadata
20 73 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 579 (5.60%) Git
2 514 (4.97%) Jenkins
3 347 (3.36%) JIRA
4 193 (1.87%) GitLab
5 182 (1.76%) Selenium
6 130 (1.26%) Visual Studio
7 103 (1.00%) TeamCity
8 97 (0.94%) Cucumber
9 84 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
10 74 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
11 70 (0.68%) Cypress.io
12 69 (0.67%) Postman
13 66 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
14 50 (0.48%) SonarQube
15 45 (0.44%) Artifactory
16 44 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
17 43 (0.42%) Bitbucket
17 43 (0.42%) Maven
18 38 (0.37%) NUnit
19 37 (0.36%) SpecFlow
General
1 2,400 (23.22%) Finance
2 2,208 (21.36%) Social Skills
3 808 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
4 511 (4.94%) Banking
5 503 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 371 (3.59%) Retail
7 362 (3.50%) Law
8 314 (3.04%) Public Sector
9 280 (2.71%) Legal
10 250 (2.42%) Marketing
11 209 (2.02%) Telecoms
12 203 (1.96%) Front Office
13 194 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
14 146 (1.41%) Manufacturing
15 136 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
16 90 (0.87%) Aerospace
17 85 (0.82%) Financial Institution
18 83 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
19 76 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
20 73 (0.71%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,949 (18.86%) Developer
2 1,636 (15.83%) Senior
3 1,404 (13.58%) Architect
4 1,004 (9.71%) Lead
5 741 (7.17%) Analyst
6 735 (7.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 656 (6.35%) Azure Engineer
8 597 (5.78%) Software Engineer
9 574 (5.55%) Solutions Architect
10 570 (5.51%) DevOps Engineer
11 560 (5.42%) .NET Developer
12 515 (4.98%) Data Engineer
13 506 (4.90%) Support Engineer
14 423 (4.09%) IT Engineer
15 416 (4.02%) Cloud Engineer
16 404 (3.91%) Senior Developer
17 353 (3.42%) IT Support
18 294 (2.84%) C# Developer
19 288 (2.79%) Full Stack Developer
20 268 (2.59%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,839 (17.79%) .NET
2 811 (7.85%) React
3 705 (6.82%) AngularJS
4 555 (5.37%) HTML
5 546 (5.28%) .NET Core
6 484 (4.68%) CSS
7 428 (4.14%) ASP.NET
8 425 (4.11%) .NET Framework
9 422 (4.08%) REST
10 296 (2.86%) Node.js
11 295 (2.85%) JSON
12 236 (2.28%) Kafka
13 214 (2.07%) Web Services
14 212 (2.05%) RESTful
15 199 (1.93%) Vue
16 180 (1.74%) YAML
17 179 (1.73%) Spring
18 176 (1.70%) ARM Templates
19 166 (1.61%) Entity Framework
20 165 (1.60%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 587 (5.68%) Public Cloud
2 383 (3.71%) Data Centre
3 380 (3.68%) Cloud Native
4 294 (2.84%) Product Ownership
5 239 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
5 239 (2.31%) Management Information System
6 233 (2.25%) Private Cloud
7 211 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
8 194 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
9 143 (1.38%) Virtual Team
10 134 (1.30%) Data Structures
11 133 (1.29%) Derivative
12 131 (1.27%) Driving Licence
13 125 (1.21%) Hedge funds
14 116 (1.12%) Fixed Income
15 112 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
15 112 (1.08%) Onboarding
16 111 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 109 (1.05%) Replication
18 105 (1.02%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2,255 (21.82%) Windows
2 1,237 (11.97%) Windows Server
3 892 (8.63%) Linux
4 419 (4.05%) Windows 10
5 242 (2.34%) Windows Server 2016
6 241 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 229 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
8 221 (2.14%) Unix
9 185 (1.79%) Android
10 148 (1.43%) Apple iOS
11 137 (1.33%) Mac OS
12 134 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 72 (0.70%) Ubuntu
14 45 (0.44%) VMS
15 30 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
16 28 (0.27%) CentOS
16 28 (0.27%) Windows 8
17 24 (0.23%) Windows 7
18 23 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
19 22 (0.21%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,387 (32.77%) DevOps
2 3,290 (31.83%) Agile
3 1,620 (15.67%) CI/CD
4 1,452 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
5 1,115 (10.79%) Software Engineering
6 1,013 (9.80%) Roadmaps
7 977 (9.45%) Mentoring
8 959 (9.28%) ITIL
9 947 (9.16%) Infrastructure as Code
10 916 (8.86%) Business Intelligence
11 911 (8.81%) Microservices
12 896 (8.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 893 (8.64%) Analytics
14 792 (7.66%) Migration
15 765 (7.40%) Scrum
16 753 (7.29%) Cybersecurity
17 751 (7.27%) Actionable Insight
18 720 (6.97%) Full Stack Development
19 612 (5.92%) ETL
20 609 (5.89%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 2,541 (24.58%) SQL
2 1,908 (18.46%) C#
3 1,697 (16.42%) Python
4 1,453 (14.06%) PowerShell
5 1,336 (12.93%) JavaScript
6 895 (8.66%) Java
7 493 (4.77%) Bash
8 462 (4.47%) TypeScript
9 397 (3.84%) T-SQL
10 231 (2.23%) Go
11 170 (1.64%) C++
12 155 (1.50%) Bicep
13 123 (1.19%) PHP
14 122 (1.18%) Ruby
15 104 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 100 (0.97%) R
17 85 (0.82%) Kotlin
18 66 (0.64%) Scala
19 63 (0.61%) VBScript
20 60 (0.58%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,287 (12.45%) Degree
2 962 (9.31%) Security Cleared
3 628 (6.08%) SC Cleared
4 495 (4.79%) Azure Certification
5 428 (4.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 336 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 224 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
8 219 (2.12%) DV Cleared
9 161 (1.56%) AWS Certification
10 145 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
11 143 (1.38%) Master's Degree
12 141 (1.36%) CISSP
13 124 (1.20%) CCNA
14 117 (1.13%) CCNP
15 116 (1.12%) MCSE
16 81 (0.78%) MCSA
17 72 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
18 62 (0.60%) DBS Check
18 62 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
19 57 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 420 (4.06%) QA
2 266 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 256 (2.48%) Data Quality
4 255 (2.47%) SLA
5 159 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 151 (1.46%) GDPR
7 98 (0.95%) Accessibility
7 98 (0.95%) NIST
8 66 (0.64%) PCI DSS
9 53 (0.51%) NCSC
10 51 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 33 (0.32%) PMO
12 19 (0.18%) COBIT
13 13 (0.13%) SOC 2
14 11 (0.11%) GRC
15 10 (0.097%) WCAG
16 9 (0.087%) ISO 9001
17 7 (0.068%) HIPAA
17 7 (0.068%) HL7
17 7 (0.068%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2,018 (19.52%) Active Directory
2 1,202 (11.63%) Docker
3 890 (8.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 625 (6.05%) Hyper-V
5 196 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
6 166 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
7 158 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
8 155 (1.50%) vSphere
9 57 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
10 53 (0.51%) Firmware
11 51 (0.49%) VMware NSX
12 34 (0.33%) XenApp
13 17 (0.16%) XenDesktop
14 14 (0.14%) BitLocker
14 14 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 14 (0.14%) vCloud
14 14 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
15 13 (0.13%) Terminal Services
16 11 (0.11%) VMware Server
17 9 (0.087%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,394 (13.49%) Kubernetes
2 1,134 (10.97%) Terraform
3 861 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 587 (5.68%) Ansible
5 347 (3.36%) SCCM
6 208 (2.01%) Puppet
7 118 (1.14%) SCOM
8 115 (1.11%) Grafana
9 111 (1.07%) Progress Chef
10 100 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 91 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
12 71 (0.69%) FortiGate
13 70 (0.68%) Prometheus
14 58 (0.56%) WSUS
15 56 (0.54%) vCenter Server
16 50 (0.48%) Argo
17 43 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
18 41 (0.40%) Packer
18 41 (0.40%) Rancher
19 38 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 4,204 (40.67%) Microsoft
2 1,292 (12.50%) VMware
3 587 (5.68%) Cisco
4 463 (4.48%) Google
5 428 (4.14%) Databricks
6 419 (4.05%) Citrix
7 361 (3.49%) Oracle
8 208 (2.01%) Meraki
9 195 (1.89%) Veeam
10 180 (1.74%) SAP
11 159 (1.54%) Palo Alto
12 157 (1.52%) ServiceNow
13 150 (1.45%) HP
14 137 (1.33%) IBM
15 120 (1.16%) SolarWinds
16 115 (1.11%) Aruba
17 109 (1.05%) Red Hat
18 102 (0.99%) CheckPoint
19 97 (0.94%) Splunk
20 94 (0.91%) Fortinet