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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 5 4
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 6,640 15,078 19,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.46% 16.79% 22.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.26% 48.83% 51.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,609 11,996 12,446
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% -9.23% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year +5.93% -6.35% +0.80%

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 14,050 30,881 37,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.49% 34.38% 43.50%
Number of salaries quoted 9,440 24,362 24,827
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,605
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -3 2,462 £75,000 - 2,580
North of England -13 1,242 £59,000 +7.27% 1,043
South East -6 1,020 £60,000 +9.09% 777
Midlands -8 821 £52,500 +2.94% 489
North West -19 766 £60,000 +4.35% 633
West Midlands -5 554 £55,000 - 316
East of England -2 429 £50,000 - 280
South West -4 418 £53,430 -2.86% 397
Yorkshire -10 355 £59,738 +8.61% 298
East Midlands -19 265 £45,500 -5.21% 169
North East -8 125 £56,500 +13.00% 121
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
1 461 (6.94%) SharePoint
2 425 (6.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 197 (2.97%) Confluence
4 104 (1.57%) Apache Spark
5 73 (1.10%) CMS
6 70 (1.05%) IIS
7 59 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
8 40 (0.60%) Apache
9 14 (0.21%) Headless CMS
9 14 (0.21%) Tomcat
10 13 (0.20%) IBM Domino
11 12 (0.18%) WordPress
12 11 (0.17%) Umbraco
13 10 (0.15%) nginx
14 8 (0.12%) Moodle
15 7 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
16 6 (0.090%) Drupal
17 5 (0.075%) OpenEdge
17 5 (0.075%) OpenStack
17 5 (0.075%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 187 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
2 137 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 52 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (0.44%) MS Visio
5 28 (0.42%) Chatbot
6 17 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
7 14 (0.21%) Trello
8 10 (0.15%) Maya
9 4 (0.060%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.045%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 3 (0.045%) Productboard
10 3 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.015%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.015%) Sketch
11 1 (0.015%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 128 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 12 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
5 11 (0.17%) Elite 3E
6 9 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
6 9 (0.14%) Endur
7 8 (0.12%) SAP IBP
7 8 (0.12%) Shopify
8 7 (0.11%) Carpe Diem
8 7 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
9 6 (0.090%) Payment Gateway
9 6 (0.090%) Sage 50
10 5 (0.075%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.060%) Fidessa
11 4 (0.060%) Sage 200
12 3 (0.045%) Markit EDM
13 2 (0.030%) Magento
13 2 (0.030%) Sage 1000
14 1 (0.015%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,380 (35.84%) AWS
2 1,415 (21.31%) GCP
3 1,353 (20.38%) Microsoft 365
4 893 (13.45%) Power Platform
5 817 (12.30%) Azure DevOps
6 691 (10.41%) Entra ID
7 443 (6.67%) Serverless
8 418 (6.30%) SaaS
9 355 (5.35%) Azure Data Factory
10 314 (4.73%) Dynamics 365
11 279 (4.20%) PaaS
12 276 (4.16%) Power Automate
13 258 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
14 252 (3.80%) GitHub
15 250 (3.77%) PowerApps
16 223 (3.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 204 (3.07%) Azure Logic Apps
18 180 (2.71%) IaaS
19 147 (2.21%) OneDrive
20 144 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 708 (10.66%) Firewall
2 437 (6.58%) WAN
3 405 (6.10%) DNS
4 343 (5.17%) LAN
5 325 (4.89%) VPN
6 274 (4.13%) DHCP
7 216 (3.25%) Broadband
8 196 (2.95%) TCP/IP
9 188 (2.83%) Network Security
10 171 (2.58%) VLAN
11 167 (2.52%) SD-WAN
12 133 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
13 105 (1.58%) VoIP
14 97 (1.46%) SAN
15 94 (1.42%) Wireless
16 75 (1.13%) BGP
17 71 (1.07%) OSPF
18 59 (0.89%) MPLS
19 49 (0.74%) Internet
20 47 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 909 (13.69%) SQL Server
2 626 (9.43%) Power BI
3 342 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
4 318 (4.79%) Data Lake
5 226 (3.40%) NoSQL
6 187 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 165 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
8 161 (2.42%) MongoDB
9 154 (2.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 145 (2.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 133 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
11 133 (2.00%) MySQL
12 124 (1.87%) Relational Database
13 107 (1.61%) Big Data
14 106 (1.60%) Metadata
14 106 (1.60%) Tableau
15 77 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
16 61 (0.92%) BigQuery
17 50 (0.75%) Hadoop
18 44 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 420 (6.33%) JIRA
2 400 (6.02%) Git
3 283 (4.26%) GitLab
4 271 (4.08%) Selenium
5 254 (3.83%) SonarQube
6 238 (3.58%) Sonatype Nexus
7 227 (3.42%) Maven
8 212 (3.19%) Bitbucket
8 212 (3.19%) Cucumber
9 182 (2.74%) Jenkins
10 104 (1.57%) Visual Studio
11 75 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
12 60 (0.90%) Postman
13 59 (0.89%) TeamCity
14 47 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
15 42 (0.63%) Cypress.io
16 38 (0.57%) JUnit
17 32 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
18 31 (0.47%) JMeter
18 31 (0.47%) MSBuild
General
1 1,790 (26.96%) Social Skills
2 1,563 (23.54%) Finance
3 914 (13.77%) Analytical Skills
4 718 (10.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 564 (8.49%) Banking
6 499 (7.52%) Law
7 364 (5.48%) Retail
8 236 (3.55%) Legal
9 194 (2.92%) Public Sector
10 136 (2.05%) Marketing
11 123 (1.85%) Manufacturing
12 112 (1.69%) Investment Banking
13 93 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
14 90 (1.36%) Corporate Banking
15 88 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
16 76 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
17 74 (1.11%) Front Office
18 70 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
18 70 (1.05%) Telecoms
19 64 (0.96%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,460 (21.99%) Senior
2 1,008 (15.18%) Developer
3 687 (10.35%) Lead
4 661 (9.95%) Software Engineer
5 591 (8.90%) Architect
6 538 (8.10%) Analyst
7 386 (5.81%) IT Support
8 344 (5.18%) Data Engineer
9 343 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
10 325 (4.89%) Support Engineer
11 284 (4.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 271 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
13 244 (3.67%) Cloud Engineer
14 226 (3.40%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 219 (3.30%) Senior Developer
16 210 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
17 199 (3.00%) Support Analyst
18 197 (2.97%) DevOps Engineer
19 193 (2.91%) IT Engineer
20 180 (2.71%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,092 (16.45%) .NET
2 655 (9.86%) React
3 465 (7.00%) CSS
4 459 (6.91%) HTML
5 428 (6.45%) Node.js
6 367 (5.53%) Kafka
7 343 (5.17%) REST
8 281 (4.23%) Spring
9 278 (4.19%) Spring Boot
10 277 (4.17%) RESTful
11 260 (3.92%) AngularJS
12 241 (3.63%) ASP.NET
13 236 (3.55%) Redux
14 225 (3.39%) .NET Core
15 224 (3.37%) .NET Framework
16 219 (3.30%) JPA
17 160 (2.41%) HTML5
18 155 (2.33%) JSON
19 133 (2.00%) Jest
20 132 (1.99%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 483 (7.27%) Self-Motivation
2 398 (5.99%) Product Ownership
3 293 (4.41%) Cloud Native
4 269 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
5 250 (3.77%) Management Information System
6 229 (3.45%) Cyberattack
7 196 (2.95%) Linux Command Line
8 173 (2.61%) Data Centre
9 156 (2.35%) Public Cloud
10 136 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
11 116 (1.75%) Security Posture
12 115 (1.73%) Data Structures
13 111 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
14 110 (1.66%) Algorithms
14 110 (1.66%) Onboarding
15 106 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
16 101 (1.52%) Driving Licence
17 98 (1.48%) NHS
18 85 (1.28%) Private Cloud
19 81 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1,252 (18.86%) Windows
2 676 (10.18%) Linux
3 622 (9.37%) Windows Server
4 206 (3.10%) Windows 10
5 124 (1.87%) Mac OS
6 122 (1.84%) Android
7 106 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 95 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 88 (1.33%) Apple iOS
10 66 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
11 49 (0.74%) Unix
12 34 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 30 (0.45%) VMS
14 25 (0.38%) Ubuntu
15 18 (0.27%) CentOS
16 13 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
17 9 (0.14%) SUSE
17 9 (0.14%) Windows 7
18 7 (0.11%) Debian
18 7 (0.11%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,215 (33.36%) Agile
2 1,854 (27.92%) DevOps
3 1,686 (25.39%) CI/CD
4 1,631 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
5 1,230 (18.52%) Mentoring
6 1,073 (16.16%) Software Engineering
7 895 (13.48%) Microservices
8 816 (12.29%) Analytics
9 728 (10.96%) Machine Learning
10 696 (10.48%) Containerisation
11 656 (9.88%) Business Intelligence
12 620 (9.34%) Continuous Improvement
13 614 (9.25%) ITIL
14 592 (8.92%) Data Engineering
15 564 (8.49%) Migration
16 561 (8.45%) Test Automation
17 546 (8.22%) Data Science
18 543 (8.18%) Roadmaps
19 522 (7.86%) Full-Stack Development
20 512 (7.71%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,849 (27.85%) SQL
2 1,691 (25.47%) Python
3 1,064 (16.02%) JavaScript
4 953 (14.35%) Java
5 896 (13.49%) C#
6 706 (10.63%) PowerShell
7 606 (9.13%) TypeScript
8 304 (4.58%) C++
9 280 (4.22%) Go
10 257 (3.87%) Rust
11 191 (2.88%) T-SQL
12 184 (2.77%) Bash
13 91 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 89 (1.34%) Bicep
15 74 (1.11%) Scala
16 69 (1.04%) PHP
17 63 (0.95%) R
18 39 (0.59%) VBA
19 37 (0.56%) VB.NET
20 35 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,211 (18.24%) Degree
2 586 (8.83%) Security Cleared
3 430 (6.48%) Azure Certification
4 347 (5.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 336 (5.06%) AWS Certification
6 324 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 282 (4.25%) DV Cleared
8 268 (4.04%) SC Cleared
9 242 (3.64%) PhD
10 236 (3.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 223 (3.36%) DBS Check
12 181 (2.73%) AWS Certified Developer
13 169 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
14 139 (2.09%) Master's Degree
15 103 (1.55%) CCNA
16 99 (1.49%) CCNP
17 84 (1.27%) CISSP
18 54 (0.81%) A+ Certification
19 53 (0.80%) MCSA
20 52 (0.78%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 445 (6.70%) QA
2 282 (4.25%) GDPR
3 242 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 215 (3.24%) Data Quality
5 185 (2.79%) Accessibility
6 157 (2.36%) NIST
7 112 (1.69%) SLA
8 89 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 68 (1.02%) PCI DSS
10 52 (0.78%) HIPAA
11 44 (0.66%) SOC 2
12 38 (0.57%) NCSC
13 23 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 23 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 22 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 21 (0.32%) COBIT
16 16 (0.24%) PMO
17 13 (0.20%) GRC
18 7 (0.11%) ISO 9001
18 7 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1,114 (16.78%) Active Directory
2 836 (12.59%) Docker
3 356 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 241 (3.63%) Hyper-V
5 129 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
6 97 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 82 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
8 53 (0.80%) vSphere
9 32 (0.48%) VMware NSX
10 22 (0.33%) XenApp
11 19 (0.29%) Terminal Services
12 14 (0.21%) Firmware
13 11 (0.17%) BitLocker
13 11 (0.17%) NFS
14 8 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
15 7 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
16 6 (0.090%) Apache Flume
16 6 (0.090%) Dovecot
16 6 (0.090%) Postfix
17 5 (0.075%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 931 (14.02%) Kubernetes
2 690 (10.39%) Terraform
3 592 (8.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 326 (4.91%) Ansible
5 138 (2.08%) SCCM
6 115 (1.73%) Grafana
7 109 (1.64%) Prometheus
8 92 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
9 52 (0.78%) FortiGate
10 51 (0.77%) Puppet
11 47 (0.71%) Progress Chef
12 38 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 31 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
14 30 (0.45%) Nagios
14 30 (0.45%) vCenter Server
15 27 (0.41%) NetBackup
16 21 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
16 21 (0.32%) SCOM
17 19 (0.29%) WSUS
18 18 (0.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 2,695 (40.59%) Microsoft
2 569 (8.57%) VMware
3 454 (6.84%) Databricks
4 405 (6.10%) Cisco
5 385 (5.80%) Google
6 198 (2.98%) Solace
7 178 (2.68%) Meraki
8 172 (2.59%) Citrix
9 164 (2.47%) Oracle
10 134 (2.02%) ServiceNow
11 116 (1.75%) IBM
12 99 (1.49%) SAP
13 93 (1.40%) Palo Alto
14 90 (1.36%) SolarWinds
15 88 (1.33%) Veeam
16 85 (1.28%) CheckPoint
17 82 (1.23%) Fortinet
18 71 (1.07%) Red Hat
19 62 (0.93%) Apple
20 59 (0.89%) Salesforce