Azure Job Trends in Kent

Microsoft Azure
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 11 6
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 218 83 144
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 12.65% 11.07% 13.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 56.92% 38.97% 50.70%
Number of salaries quoted 121 72 96
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £29,750 £45,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £37,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -42.31% +23.81%
75th Percentile £62,500 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £118,750 £97,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 383 213 284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 22.22% 28.40% 26.22%
Number of salaries quoted 239 153 162
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £30,750 £30,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £39,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.79% -35.00% +31.87%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £72,250
90th Percentile £75,500 £83,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Kent

Azure
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in Kent over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in Kent

Azure
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Kent region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
Canterbury +2 43 £55,000 +37.50% 3
Chatham -1 37 £92,500 +12.12% 2
Maidstone +4 21 £55,000 +77.42% 7
Tunbridge Wells -1 21 £55,000 -56.00% 1
West Malling +2 17 £65,000 +18.18% 2
Folkestone +2 15 £29,000 - 1
Broadstairs - 6 £47,500 - 2
Swanley - 5 £52,500 - 1
Sevenoaks - 4 £45,000 -
Dartford -10 3 £47,500 -5.00% 3
Whitstable - 3 £42,500 -
Stansted - 2 £65,000 - 3
Tonbridge - 2 £45,000 -
Rochester - 2 £55,000 -
Sittingbourne -1 1 £42,500 +6.25% 2
Westerham - 1 £27,500 -
Azure
South East

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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 11 (5.05%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.38%) IIS
Applications
1 18 (8.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.92%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 41 (18.81%) Azure AI
2 35 (16.06%) Power Platform
3 31 (14.22%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (7.80%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (7.34%) AWS
6 15 (6.88%) Entra ID
7 12 (5.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 10 (4.59%) GitHub
9 9 (4.13%) Azure Machine Learning
9 9 (4.13%) GitHub Copilot
9 9 (4.13%) Snowflake
10 7 (3.21%) SaaS
11 6 (2.75%) OneDrive
12 5 (2.29%) ClickUp
12 5 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (1.83%) Anthropic Claude
13 4 (1.83%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (1.83%) Nutanix
13 4 (1.83%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.42%) DHCP
1 14 (6.42%) DNS
1 14 (6.42%) Firewall
2 8 (3.67%) SAN
2 8 (3.67%) WAN
3 7 (3.21%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.75%) LAN
4 6 (2.75%) NAS
4 6 (2.75%) VPN
5 5 (2.29%) VLAN
6 4 (1.83%) Internet
7 3 (1.38%) HTTP
8 2 (0.92%) Network Security
9 1 (0.46%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (14.68%) Azure SQL Database
1 32 (14.68%) Power BI
2 31 (14.22%) SQL Server
3 30 (13.76%) MongoDB
4 16 (7.34%) Elasticsearch
4 16 (7.34%) Tableau
5 4 (1.83%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.92%) MySQL
7 2 (0.92%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.92%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.46%) Metadata
8 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (4.13%) Git
2 4 (1.83%) Selenium
3 3 (1.38%) Postman
4 2 (0.92%) JIRA
5 1 (0.46%) NUnit
General
1 95 (43.58%) Social Skills
2 28 (12.84%) Finance
3 8 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (2.29%) Games
4 5 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (1.83%) Advertising
5 4 (1.83%) Marketing
5 4 (1.83%) Retail
6 3 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.38%) French Language
7 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.46%) Aviation
7 1 (0.46%) Legal
7 1 (0.46%) Military
7 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (26.15%) Developer
2 49 (22.48%) Analyst
3 38 (17.43%) .NET Developer
4 32 (14.68%) Junior
4 32 (14.68%) Junior Analyst
5 18 (8.26%) Data Analyst
6 16 (7.34%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 16 (7.34%) Ethical Hacker
6 16 (7.34%) Junior Data Analyst
6 16 (7.34%) Junior Security Analyst
6 16 (7.34%) Security Analyst
7 15 (6.88%) Senior
8 14 (6.42%) Network Engineer
9 12 (5.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 12 (5.50%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (4.13%) Data Manager
10 9 (4.13%) Engineering Manager
10 9 (4.13%) Finance Manager
11 8 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.21%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (26.15%) .NET
2 32 (14.68%) .NET Core
3 30 (13.76%) ASP.NET
3 30 (13.76%) ASP.NET Core
4 25 (11.47%) Blazor
5 22 (10.09%) ASP.NET Web API
6 18 (8.26%) CSS
7 17 (7.80%) AngularJS
8 16 (7.34%) Node.js
8 16 (7.34%) Vue
9 15 (6.88%) HTML
10 13 (5.96%) jQuery
10 13 (5.96%) React
11 10 (4.59%) Ajax
11 10 (4.59%) CSS3
11 10 (4.59%) Entity Framework
11 10 (4.59%) HTML5
11 10 (4.59%) LESS
11 10 (4.59%) RESTful
11 10 (4.59%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.34%) Cyberattack
2 13 (5.96%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (3.67%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (3.21%) IoT
5 6 (2.75%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.75%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.29%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.38%) CCTV
7 3 (1.38%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.38%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.38%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.92%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.46%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.46%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.55%) Windows
2 17 (7.80%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.21%) Linux
4 4 (1.83%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (29.82%) AI
2 49 (22.48%) Agile
3 45 (20.64%) Full-Stack Development
4 44 (20.18%) Business Intelligence
5 43 (19.72%) Cybersecurity
6 32 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (13.30%) Mentoring
8 25 (11.47%) DevOps
9 24 (11.01%) Machine Learning
10 22 (10.09%) Microservices
11 19 (8.72%) User Experience
12 17 (7.80%) Data Modelling
12 17 (7.80%) Roadmaps
13 16 (7.34%) Ethical Hacking
14 15 (6.88%) MVC
15 14 (6.42%) Line Management
16 13 (5.96%) Kanban
17 12 (5.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
17 12 (5.50%) Data Engineering
17 12 (5.50%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 83 (38.07%) SQL
2 70 (32.11%) C#
3 45 (20.64%) Python
4 21 (9.63%) JavaScript
5 15 (6.88%) TypeScript
6 10 (4.59%) PowerShell
7 7 (3.21%) PHP
8 5 (2.29%) Java
8 5 (2.29%) VB.NET
9 3 (1.38%) C++
9 3 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.92%) Bash
10 2 (0.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (34.86%) Azure Certification
2 16 (7.34%) CEH
2 16 (7.34%) CompTIA CySA+
2 16 (7.34%) CompTIA Security+
3 13 (5.96%) CCNA
3 13 (5.96%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (5.50%) Network+ Certification
5 6 (2.75%) Degree
6 4 (1.83%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.38%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.92%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.83%) SLA
2 3 (1.38%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.46%) GDPR
3 1 (0.46%) QA
System Software
1 21 (9.63%) Active Directory
2 14 (6.42%) Docker
3 12 (5.50%) Hyper-V
4 10 (4.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (4.13%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.29%) Firmware
7 4 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (6.42%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.92%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 151 (69.27%) Microsoft
2 44 (20.18%) ForeScout
3 16 (7.34%) Cisco
3 16 (7.34%) VMware
4 11 (5.05%) HP
5 9 (4.13%) Databricks
5 9 (4.13%) Google
6 8 (3.67%) Facebook
7 5 (2.29%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.83%) Instagram
9 3 (1.38%) Dell
9 3 (1.38%) WatchGuard
10 2 (0.92%) Commvault
10 2 (0.92%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.92%) Meraki
10 2 (0.92%) Veeam
10 2 (0.92%) Zerto
11 1 (0.46%) Dell Compellent
11 1 (0.46%) Nimble Storage
11 1 (0.46%) OpenAI