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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 14,772 20,349 26,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.34% 22.06% 19.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.87% 51.18% 41.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11,920 13,124 16,833
10th Percentile £34,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,030 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.19% +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 £64,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.53% +3.20% +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 30,228 39,762 63,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.48% 43.11% 48.03%
Number of salaries quoted 24,173 26,367 37,131
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,723 £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 £103,771 £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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4,650 £75,000 - 1,223
North of England 0 3,051 £55,000 - 625
South East -2 2,788 £54,000 -6.09% 484
Midlands +2 1,934 £50,000 -9.09% 451
North West 0 1,627 £57,500 +4.55% 347
South West -2 1,410 £55,000 +4.76% 331
West Midlands +2 1,160 £54,000 -1.82% 266
Yorkshire 0 1,046 £55,000 - 210
East of England 0 795 £50,000 -4.76% 181
East Midlands +2 771 £47,500 -9.52% 184
North East +4 380 £47,500 -13.64% 73
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 1,076 (7.28%) SharePoint
2 1,031 (6.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 261 (1.77%) IIS
4 218 (1.48%) Apache
5 200 (1.35%) ArcGIS
6 198 (1.34%) GeoServer
7 196 (1.33%) Apache Spark
8 162 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
9 130 (0.88%) CMS
10 122 (0.83%) Confluence
11 87 (0.59%) Umbraco
12 53 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
13 49 (0.33%) Kentico
13 49 (0.33%) OpenStack
14 40 (0.27%) Headless CMS
15 39 (0.26%) WordPress
16 37 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
16 37 (0.25%) nginx
17 35 (0.24%) WebLogic
18 30 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 521 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
2 217 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 46 (0.31%) MS Visio
4 45 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 37 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
6 30 (0.20%) Trello
7 19 (0.13%) Simulink
8 10 (0.068%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.054%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.041%) LightWave 3D
11 4 (0.027%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.027%) SPSS
12 3 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
13 2 (0.014%) 1Password
13 2 (0.014%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.014%) CATIA
13 2 (0.014%) NASTRAN
13 2 (0.014%) Sketch
13 2 (0.014%) S-PLUS
14 1 (0.007%) Notion
Business Applications
1 231 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 64 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 36 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
4 20 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
5 13 (0.088%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.088%) Teamcenter
6 11 (0.074%) Maximo
7 10 (0.068%) Elite 3E
8 9 (0.061%) Remedy ITSM
8 9 (0.061%) Unit4 Business World
9 8 (0.054%) Payment Gateway
9 8 (0.054%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.041%) Oracle General Ledger
10 6 (0.041%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 6 (0.041%) Primavera
10 6 (0.041%) SAP PLM
11 5 (0.034%) SAP IBP
11 5 (0.034%) SAP PP
12 4 (0.027%) NetSuite
12 4 (0.027%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 4,257 (28.82%) AWS
2 3,479 (23.55%) Microsoft 365
3 2,091 (14.16%) Azure DevOps
4 1,713 (11.60%) GCP
5 1,700 (11.51%) Power Platform
6 1,588 (10.75%) Entra ID
7 876 (5.93%) SaaS
8 636 (4.31%) Serverless
9 620 (4.20%) PaaS
10 574 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
11 549 (3.72%) IaaS
12 466 (3.15%) Azure Data Factory
13 423 (2.86%) PowerApps
14 398 (2.69%) GitHub
15 370 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
16 348 (2.36%) Power Automate
17 343 (2.32%) Azure Functions
18 332 (2.25%) Azure Service Bus
19 328 (2.22%) OneDrive
20 322 (2.18%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,619 (10.96%) Firewall
2 1,081 (7.32%) DNS
3 776 (5.25%) WAN
4 702 (4.75%) DHCP
5 628 (4.25%) LAN
6 592 (4.01%) VPN
7 481 (3.26%) TCP/IP
8 390 (2.64%) SAN
9 377 (2.55%) Wi-Fi
10 317 (2.15%) Internet
11 312 (2.11%) Wireless
12 300 (2.03%) Broadband
13 298 (2.02%) VLAN
14 296 (2.00%) Network Security
15 234 (1.58%) SD-WAN
16 212 (1.44%) 5G
17 194 (1.31%) VoIP
18 114 (0.77%) Remote Desktop
19 112 (0.76%) BGP
19 112 (0.76%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,594 (17.56%) SQL Server
2 1,203 (8.14%) Power BI
3 947 (6.41%) Data Warehouse
4 831 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
5 663 (4.49%) MongoDB
5 663 (4.49%) NoSQL
6 564 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 521 (3.53%) Data Lake
8 446 (3.02%) Relational Database
9 426 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 356 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
11 296 (2.00%) MySQL
12 266 (1.80%) DB2
12 266 (1.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 247 (1.67%) BigQuery
14 245 (1.66%) GIS
15 223 (1.51%) Big Data
16 196 (1.33%) QGIS
17 192 (1.30%) Looker
18 190 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 859 (5.82%) Git
2 498 (3.37%) JIRA
3 415 (2.81%) Jenkins
4 300 (2.03%) GitLab
5 266 (1.80%) Visual Studio
6 134 (0.91%) Selenium
7 115 (0.78%) Cypress.io
8 114 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
9 86 (0.58%) Postman
10 75 (0.51%) NUnit
11 65 (0.44%) TeamCity
12 57 (0.39%) SonarQube
13 56 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
14 55 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
15 51 (0.35%) Bitbucket
15 51 (0.35%) Cucumber
16 49 (0.33%) JMeter
17 48 (0.32%) Jasmine
18 41 (0.28%) Artifactory
19 36 (0.24%) CircleCI
General
1 3,341 (22.62%) Social Skills
2 2,337 (15.82%) Finance
3 1,364 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
4 874 (5.92%) Public Sector
5 721 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 579 (3.92%) Retail
7 514 (3.48%) Law
8 389 (2.63%) Legal
9 384 (2.60%) Banking
10 325 (2.20%) Marketing
11 277 (1.88%) Front Office
12 266 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
13 256 (1.73%) Manufacturing
14 208 (1.41%) Telecoms
15 199 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
16 171 (1.16%) Aerospace
17 151 (1.02%) Games
18 142 (0.96%) Advertising
19 130 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
20 109 (0.74%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3,644 (24.67%) Developer
2 2,503 (16.94%) Senior
3 1,653 (11.19%) .NET Developer
4 1,571 (10.63%) Architect
5 1,247 (8.44%) Lead
6 1,014 (6.86%) Software Engineer
7 989 (6.70%) Analyst
8 907 (6.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 744 (5.04%) Support Engineer
10 713 (4.83%) Azure Engineer
11 696 (4.71%) C# Developer
12 675 (4.57%) IT Support
13 662 (4.48%) IT Engineer
14 653 (4.42%) Senior Developer
15 591 (4.00%) Data Engineer
16 551 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
17 523 (3.54%) C# .NET Developer
18 480 (3.25%) Full Stack Developer
19 459 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
20 419 (2.84%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,739 (25.31%) .NET
2 1,784 (12.08%) React
3 1,681 (11.38%) AngularJS
4 1,648 (11.16%) ASP.NET
5 1,513 (10.24%) .NET Core
6 1,371 (9.28%) HTML
7 1,326 (8.98%) CSS
8 1,001 (6.78%) .NET Framework
9 921 (6.23%) ASP.NET Web API
10 859 (5.82%) Entity Framework
11 819 (5.54%) ASP.NET MVC
12 818 (5.54%) Vue
13 714 (4.83%) REST
14 697 (4.72%) Node.js
15 637 (4.31%) RESTful
16 550 (3.72%) HTML5
17 546 (3.70%) Web Services
18 485 (3.28%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 416 (2.82%) jQuery
20 404 (2.73%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 600 (4.06%) Public Cloud
2 452 (3.06%) Management Information System
3 443 (3.00%) Data Structures
3 443 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 426 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
5 396 (2.68%) Product Ownership
6 381 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
7 364 (2.46%) Cloud Native
8 356 (2.41%) Algorithms
9 355 (2.40%) Data Centre
10 308 (2.09%) Blockchain
11 279 (1.89%) Social Media
12 251 (1.70%) Fixed Income
13 234 (1.58%) Hedge funds
14 232 (1.57%) Driving Licence
15 223 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
16 202 (1.37%) Equities
16 202 (1.37%) Mobile App
17 195 (1.32%) Private Cloud
18 190 (1.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3,218 (21.78%) Windows
2 1,613 (10.92%) Linux
3 1,574 (10.66%) Windows Server
4 568 (3.85%) Windows 10
5 498 (3.37%) Android
6 448 (3.03%) Apple iOS
7 366 (2.48%) Ubuntu
8 315 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 257 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
10 242 (1.64%) Windows Server 2012
11 168 (1.14%) Unix
12 167 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 141 (0.95%) VMS
14 135 (0.91%) Mac OS
15 129 (0.87%) CentOS
16 93 (0.63%) Debian
17 51 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
19 31 (0.21%) Windows 7
20 29 (0.20%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,629 (31.34%) Agile
2 3,891 (26.34%) DevOps
3 2,203 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
4 2,132 (14.43%) Full Stack Development
5 1,809 (12.25%) CI/CD
6 1,754 (11.87%) Software Engineering
7 1,600 (10.83%) Microservices
8 1,399 (9.47%) MVC
9 1,344 (9.10%) Mentoring
10 1,283 (8.69%) Business Intelligence
11 1,261 (8.54%) Scrum
12 1,242 (8.41%) Cybersecurity
13 1,229 (8.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 1,219 (8.25%) Artificial Intelligence
15 1,159 (7.85%) ITIL
16 1,054 (7.14%) Roadmaps
17 1,051 (7.11%) ETL
18 1,042 (7.05%) Migration
19 1,030 (6.97%) Analytics
20 889 (6.02%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3,687 (24.96%) SQL
2 3,659 (24.77%) C#
3 2,945 (19.94%) JavaScript
4 2,237 (15.14%) Python
5 1,375 (9.31%) PowerShell
6 1,097 (7.43%) TypeScript
7 1,058 (7.16%) Java
8 581 (3.93%) T-SQL
9 555 (3.76%) Bash
10 168 (1.14%) Bicep
11 143 (0.97%) Go
12 139 (0.94%) R
13 134 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 123 (0.83%) C++
15 108 (0.73%) PHP
16 97 (0.66%) Kotlin
17 90 (0.61%) Scala
18 84 (0.57%) Ruby
19 77 (0.52%) VB.NET
20 74 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,660 (11.24%) Degree
2 1,323 (8.96%) Security Cleared
3 936 (6.34%) SC Cleared
4 752 (5.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 744 (5.04%) Azure Certification
6 442 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 390 (2.64%) Cisco Certification
8 271 (1.83%) DV Cleared
9 259 (1.75%) CISSP
10 254 (1.72%) CCNA
11 243 (1.65%) AWS Certification
12 213 (1.44%) DBS Check
13 188 (1.27%) MCSE
14 169 (1.14%) Master's Degree
15 134 (0.91%) CCNP
16 115 (0.78%) CISM
17 113 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
18 112 (0.76%) MCSA
19 111 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
20 95 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 603 (4.08%) QA
2 441 (2.99%) Data Quality
3 407 (2.76%) GDPR
4 361 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 275 (1.86%) SLA
6 196 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 188 (1.27%) NIST
8 139 (0.94%) Accessibility
9 105 (0.71%) PCI DSS
10 50 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 43 (0.29%) NCSC
11 43 (0.29%) PMO
12 33 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 29 (0.20%) COBIT
14 28 (0.19%) HIPAA
15 24 (0.16%) GRC
16 19 (0.13%) SOC 2
17 18 (0.12%) ISO 9001
17 18 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 14 (0.095%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2,754 (18.64%) Active Directory
2 1,084 (7.34%) Docker
3 1,021 (6.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 874 (5.92%) Hyper-V
5 354 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
6 205 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
7 182 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 173 (1.17%) vSphere
9 90 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
10 46 (0.31%) XenApp
11 34 (0.23%) Firmware
12 31 (0.21%) Terminal Services
13 29 (0.20%) XenDesktop
14 28 (0.19%) VMware NSX
15 19 (0.13%) VMware Server
16 18 (0.12%) HDFS
16 18 (0.12%) KVM
17 13 (0.088%) vCloud
18 11 (0.074%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 11 (0.074%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 1,393 (9.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 1,243 (8.41%) Kubernetes
3 1,144 (7.74%) Terraform
4 522 (3.53%) Ansible
5 298 (2.02%) SCCM
6 267 (1.81%) Jamf Pro
7 181 (1.23%) Puppet
8 157 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
9 143 (0.97%) vCenter Server
10 108 (0.73%) Progress Chef
11 107 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 92 (0.62%) WSUS
13 86 (0.58%) Grafana
14 80 (0.54%) SCOM
15 77 (0.52%) Prometheus
16 60 (0.41%) FortiGate
17 43 (0.29%) Nagios
18 41 (0.28%) CASB
19 38 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
20 35 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 6,531 (44.21%) Microsoft
2 1,566 (10.60%) VMware
3 931 (6.30%) Google
4 747 (5.06%) Cisco
5 572 (3.87%) Databricks
6 427 (2.89%) Citrix
7 423 (2.86%) Red Hat
8 413 (2.80%) Oracle
9 388 (2.63%) IBM
10 326 (2.21%) Veeam
11 252 (1.71%) CyberArk
12 220 (1.49%) HP
13 213 (1.44%) Meraki
14 210 (1.42%) Tanium
15 201 (1.36%) ESRI
16 167 (1.13%) ServiceNow
17 162 (1.10%) Fortinet
18 152 (1.03%) Apple
19 151 (1.02%) SolarWinds
20 150 (1.02%) Aruba