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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 6,623 8,184 9,574
As % of all permanent jobs in England 12.73% 16.50% 21.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.66% 45.24% 50.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4,689 5,456 8,229
10th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £47,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +7.44% -6.92%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 18,574 18,091 18,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.71% 36.48% 41.67%
Number of salaries quoted 10,314 10,780 15,807
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £99,625 £103,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.69%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +1 2,355 £75,000 - 1,611
North of England -11 1,245 £52,500 -4.55% 668
South East -1 1,072 £52,500 -12.50% 656
Midlands -14 882 £57,500 +4.55% 307
North West -11 578 £57,500 +4.55% 386
South West +1 561 £52,500 -12.50% 250
West Midlands -14 549 £60,000 +4.35% 201
Yorkshire +7 498 £47,500 -10.38% 208
East of England -7 393 £42,500 -11.46% 178
East Midlands +5 323 £48,500 -3.00% 106
North East +2 171 £50,000 -11.50% 84
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
1 507 (7.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 447 (6.75%) SharePoint
3 96 (1.45%) Apache Spark
4 75 (1.13%) Confluence
5 56 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
6 55 (0.83%) IIS
7 34 (0.51%) Apache
8 28 (0.42%) WordPress
9 22 (0.33%) CMS
10 16 (0.24%) Appian
11 13 (0.20%) nginx
12 11 (0.17%) Apache Solr
13 9 (0.14%) Skype for Business
14 8 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 8 (0.12%) SAS
15 7 (0.11%) Anypoint
16 6 (0.091%) BizTalk Server
16 6 (0.091%) OpenStack
17 5 (0.075%) Exchange Server 2013
17 5 (0.075%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 434 (6.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 135 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.12%) Maya
7 7 (0.11%) CATIA
7 7 (0.11%) Trello
8 6 (0.091%) Siemens NX
9 5 (0.075%) MadCap Flare
10 4 (0.060%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 4 (0.060%) PlantUML
10 4 (0.060%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.045%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.045%) CINEMA 4D
11 3 (0.045%) SOLIDWORKS
11 3 (0.045%) Windchill
12 2 (0.030%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.030%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 138 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (0.29%) Endur
4 13 (0.20%) SAP ERP
5 12 (0.18%) NetSuite
6 11 (0.17%) Shopify
7 10 (0.15%) SAP IBP
8 7 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
9 6 (0.091%) Fidessa
9 6 (0.091%) Magento
9 6 (0.091%) Teamcenter
10 4 (0.060%) Markit EDM
10 4 (0.060%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 4 (0.060%) Visualfiles
11 3 (0.045%) Elite 3E
11 3 (0.045%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.045%) SAP CX
12 2 (0.030%) Aladdin
12 2 (0.030%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,005 (30.27%) AWS
2 1,470 (22.20%) Microsoft 365
3 1,108 (16.73%) Power Platform
4 856 (12.92%) GCP
5 795 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
6 777 (11.73%) Entra ID
7 553 (8.35%) GitHub
8 471 (7.11%) SaaS
9 340 (5.13%) Azure AI
10 264 (3.99%) Azure Data Factory
11 257 (3.88%) Serverless
12 241 (3.64%) Power Automate
13 236 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
14 226 (3.41%) PaaS
15 205 (3.10%) Azure Logic Apps
16 199 (3.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 198 (2.99%) PowerApps
18 156 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
18 156 (2.36%) IaaS
19 149 (2.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 684 (10.33%) Firewall
2 522 (7.88%) DNS
3 426 (6.43%) DHCP
4 378 (5.71%) VPN
5 308 (4.65%) WAN
6 274 (4.14%) Internet
7 266 (4.02%) TCP/IP
8 249 (3.76%) LAN
9 225 (3.40%) VLAN
10 194 (2.93%) Wi-Fi
11 136 (2.05%) Wireless
12 135 (2.04%) Network Security
13 124 (1.87%) VoIP
14 111 (1.68%) SD-WAN
15 109 (1.65%) SAN
16 49 (0.74%) BGP
17 46 (0.69%) OSPF
18 36 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
19 29 (0.44%) Remote Desktop
20 27 (0.41%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 815 (12.31%) Power BI
2 584 (8.82%) SQL Server
3 352 (5.31%) Data Warehouse
4 283 (4.27%) Data Lake
5 281 (4.24%) Tableau
6 190 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 189 (2.85%) NoSQL
8 155 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
9 139 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
10 133 (2.01%) MongoDB
11 117 (1.77%) Relational Database
12 116 (1.75%) MySQL
13 109 (1.65%) Metadata
14 99 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 83 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 82 (1.24%) Big Data
17 79 (1.19%) SAP BW
18 72 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
19 48 (0.72%) Hadoop
20 46 (0.69%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 626 (9.45%) Git
2 211 (3.19%) JIRA
3 169 (2.55%) Jenkins
4 116 (1.75%) GitLab
5 67 (1.01%) Selenium
6 54 (0.82%) Visual Studio
7 43 (0.65%) Cypress.io
8 39 (0.59%) MLflow
9 35 (0.53%) Postman
10 27 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
10 27 (0.41%) Snyk
11 25 (0.38%) Robot Framework
12 24 (0.36%) Bitbucket
13 21 (0.32%) TeamCity
14 17 (0.26%) JMeter
15 15 (0.23%) Artifactory
15 15 (0.23%) Burp Suite
15 15 (0.23%) CircleCI
15 15 (0.23%) JUnit
16 14 (0.21%) REST Assured
General
1 2,462 (37.17%) Social Skills
2 1,192 (18.00%) Finance
3 679 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
4 374 (5.65%) Law
5 291 (4.39%) Retail
6 242 (3.65%) Public Sector
7 235 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 227 (3.43%) Multimedia
9 199 (3.00%) Banking
10 197 (2.97%) Legal
11 184 (2.78%) Marketing
12 143 (2.16%) Manufacturing
13 132 (1.99%) Telecoms
14 119 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
14 119 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
15 84 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
16 73 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
17 63 (0.95%) Financial Institution
18 61 (0.92%) Advertising
19 49 (0.74%) Billing
Job Titles
1 976 (14.74%) Developer
2 939 (14.18%) Senior
3 924 (13.95%) Analyst
4 664 (10.03%) Lead
5 658 (9.94%) Architect
6 521 (7.87%) Junior
7 473 (7.14%) IT Support
8 470 (7.10%) Junior Analyst
9 450 (6.79%) Support Engineer
10 342 (5.16%) Azure Engineer
11 338 (5.10%) Data Engineer
12 309 (4.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 298 (4.50%) IT Engineer
14 276 (4.17%) Software Developer
15 272 (4.11%) Security Analyst
16 271 (4.09%) Data Analyst
17 250 (3.77%) Cybersecurity Analyst
18 235 (3.55%) Junior Data Analyst
18 235 (3.55%) Junior Security Analyst
19 231 (3.49%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 781 (11.79%) .NET
2 431 (6.51%) CSS
3 420 (6.34%) HTML
4 405 (6.12%) React
5 263 (3.97%) REST
6 217 (3.28%) .NET Core
7 205 (3.10%) RESTful
8 190 (2.87%) AngularJS
9 172 (2.60%) ASP.NET
10 167 (2.52%) .NET Framework
11 156 (2.36%) Node.js
12 108 (1.63%) Vue
13 105 (1.59%) Kafka
14 89 (1.34%) PySpark
15 83 (1.25%) YAML
16 81 (1.22%) Web Services
17 80 (1.21%) Entity Framework
18 78 (1.18%) JSON
18 78 (1.18%) OAuth
19 75 (1.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 437 (6.60%) Cloud Native
2 208 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
2 208 (3.14%) Product Ownership
3 195 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 194 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
5 176 (2.66%) Management Information System
6 162 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 151 (2.28%) Data Centre
8 147 (2.22%) Driving Licence
9 135 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
10 133 (2.01%) Security Posture
11 119 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
12 93 (1.40%) Public Cloud
13 92 (1.39%) Low-Code
14 82 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
15 80 (1.21%) AI Agents
16 79 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
17 75 (1.13%) Mobile App
18 46 (0.69%) Data Structures
18 46 (0.69%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1,287 (19.43%) Windows
2 781 (11.79%) Windows Server
3 466 (7.04%) Linux
4 203 (3.07%) Windows 10
5 140 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 105 (1.59%) Mac OS
7 92 (1.39%) Apple iOS
8 88 (1.33%) Android
9 83 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
10 54 (0.82%) Unix
11 52 (0.79%) VMS
12 27 (0.41%) Ubuntu
13 20 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 15 (0.23%) Mac OS X
14 15 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
15 14 (0.21%) Debian
16 12 (0.18%) CentOS
17 11 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
18 5 (0.075%) Amazon Linux
18 5 (0.075%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,576 (23.80%) DevOps
2 1,448 (21.86%) Problem-Solving
3 1,422 (21.47%) Agile
4 1,295 (19.55%) CI/CD
5 1,192 (18.00%) Mentoring
6 1,076 (16.25%) AI
6 1,076 (16.25%) Cybersecurity
7 864 (13.05%) Business Intelligence
8 782 (11.81%) Analytics
9 767 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 631 (9.53%) Roadmaps
11 604 (9.12%) ITIL
12 591 (8.92%) Data Modelling
13 569 (8.59%) Infrastructure as Code
14 560 (8.46%) Migration
15 541 (8.17%) Software Engineering
16 521 (7.87%) Computer Science
17 505 (7.62%) Customer Service
18 494 (7.46%) Microservices
19 457 (6.90%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,580 (23.86%) Python
2 1,511 (22.81%) SQL
3 824 (12.44%) C#
4 759 (11.46%) JavaScript
5 670 (10.12%) PowerShell
6 307 (4.64%) Java
7 295 (4.45%) TypeScript
8 175 (2.64%) Bash
9 163 (2.46%) R
10 134 (2.02%) Bicep
11 94 (1.42%) T-SQL
12 76 (1.15%) PHP
13 63 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 52 (0.79%) C++
15 51 (0.77%) Go
16 50 (0.75%) Scala
17 44 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
18 21 (0.32%) C
19 17 (0.26%) Kotlin
19 17 (0.26%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,071 (16.17%) Azure Certification
2 889 (13.42%) Degree
3 549 (8.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 548 (8.27%) Security Cleared
5 430 (6.49%) AWS Certification
6 402 (6.07%) SC Cleared
7 371 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 273 (4.12%) CompTIA Security+
9 239 (3.61%) CompTIA CySA+
10 234 (3.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 158 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
12 147 (2.22%) Master's Degree
13 140 (2.11%) CISSP
14 126 (1.90%) DV Cleared
15 100 (1.51%) TOGAF Certification
16 90 (1.36%) DBS Check
17 84 (1.27%) CCNP
18 76 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 75 (1.13%) MCP
20 73 (1.10%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 335 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 285 (4.30%) GDPR
3 281 (4.24%) Data Quality
4 277 (4.18%) QA
5 224 (3.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 212 (3.20%) NIST
7 142 (2.14%) PCI DSS
8 111 (1.68%) Accessibility
9 106 (1.60%) SLA
10 58 (0.88%) NCSC
11 49 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 40 (0.60%) PMO
13 33 (0.50%) GRC
14 31 (0.47%) HIPAA
15 29 (0.44%) EU AI Act
16 23 (0.35%) PSD2
16 23 (0.35%) SOC 2
17 21 (0.32%) Solvency II
18 17 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
19 14 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1,136 (17.15%) Active Directory
2 513 (7.75%) Docker
3 382 (5.77%) Hyper-V
4 310 (4.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 86 (1.30%) Terminal Server
6 78 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
7 64 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
8 47 (0.71%) vSphere
9 33 (0.50%) Firmware
10 32 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
11 14 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
12 12 (0.18%) VMware NSX
13 10 (0.15%) XenApp
14 9 (0.14%) BitLocker
14 9 (0.14%) XenDesktop
15 8 (0.12%) Postfix
15 8 (0.12%) ProxySG
16 6 (0.091%) vCloud
17 5 (0.075%) DFS Replication
17 5 (0.075%) KVM
Systems Management
1 663 (10.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 634 (9.57%) Terraform
3 565 (8.53%) Kubernetes
4 245 (3.70%) Ansible
5 122 (1.84%) SCCM
6 110 (1.66%) Grafana
7 103 (1.56%) Prometheus
8 77 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
9 48 (0.72%) FortiGate
10 36 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
11 30 (0.45%) Autotask
12 24 (0.36%) Argo
13 20 (0.30%) Nessus
14 19 (0.29%) vCenter Server
15 18 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 18 (0.27%) CASB
16 17 (0.26%) Puppet
17 13 (0.20%) Nagios
17 13 (0.20%) Nmap
18 11 (0.17%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3,278 (49.49%) Microsoft
2 555 (8.38%) VMware
3 347 (5.24%) Databricks
4 298 (4.50%) Cisco
5 237 (3.58%) ForeScout
5 237 (3.58%) Google
6 188 (2.84%) SAP
7 173 (2.61%) Veeam
8 161 (2.43%) SolarWinds
9 140 (2.11%) Oracle
10 138 (2.08%) Splunk
11 126 (1.90%) Palo Alto
12 122 (1.84%) ServiceNow
13 105 (1.59%) Fortinet
14 101 (1.52%) Salesforce
15 98 (1.48%) Meraki
16 95 (1.43%) Tanium
17 94 (1.42%) Apple
18 93 (1.40%) Nimble Storage
19 86 (1.30%) Brocade