Azure Jobs in the South East

Microsoft Azure
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 6 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 +2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 1,041 2,950 2,589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 10.82% 15.65% 19.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.80% 54.14% 54.10%
Number of salaries quoted 634 2,285 1,887
10th Percentile £34,125 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -0.43%
75th Percentile £73,438 £66,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.93% -9.23% +4.00%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,133 5,449 4,786
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 22.17% 28.91% 36.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,265 4,135 3,488
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £69,840 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the South East

Azure
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure in the South East.

Salary trend for Azure in the South East

Azure
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the South East over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure in the South East

Azure
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
Thames Valley -2 461 £52,500 +2.94% 2,807
Berkshire -3 281 £67,420 +28.42% 1,710
Surrey +1 201 £62,500 +9.65% 770
Hampshire -12 172 £57,500 +4.55% 1,169
Buckinghamshire -22 97 £50,000 +5.26% 714
Oxfordshire -6 83 £47,500 -6.86% 390
Middlesex +8 76 £37,500 - 2
Kent -16 61 £55,000 - 652
West Sussex -2 34 £60,000 +9.09% 387
East Sussex -26 20 £50,000 - 355
Sussex +1 8 £42,500 -15.00% 26
Isle of Wight - 1 £47,500 - 6
Home Counties - 1 £70,000 -
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 96 (9.22%) SharePoint
2 59 (5.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (2.40%) CMS
4 19 (1.83%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.15%) Confluence
5 12 (1.15%) IBM Domino
6 8 (0.77%) Exchange Server 2013
7 7 (0.67%) IIS
7 7 (0.67%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.29%) Apache
8 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.29%) Appian
9 1 (0.096%) nginx
9 1 (0.096%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.096%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.096%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 24 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.58%) Trello
4 2 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.19%) Productboard
5 1 (0.096%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.096%) Autodesk Inventor
5 1 (0.096%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.096%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.096%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 9 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.38%) Sage 1000
3 2 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.19%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.096%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.096%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 265 (25.46%) AWS
2 220 (21.13%) Microsoft 365
3 195 (18.73%) Azure DevOps
4 160 (15.37%) GCP
5 136 (13.06%) Power Platform
6 105 (10.09%) Entra ID
7 83 (7.97%) SaaS
8 74 (7.11%) PaaS
9 62 (5.96%) Azure Data Factory
10 58 (5.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 55 (5.28%) Serverless
12 51 (4.90%) Azure Service Bus
13 50 (4.80%) Power Automate
14 49 (4.71%) PowerApps
15 44 (4.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 36 (3.46%) Snowflake
17 35 (3.36%) GitHub
18 32 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
19 30 (2.88%) IaaS
20 29 (2.79%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 84 (8.07%) Firewall
2 56 (5.38%) WAN
3 52 (5.00%) DNS
4 49 (4.71%) LAN
5 39 (3.75%) DHCP
6 30 (2.88%) SAN
6 30 (2.88%) VPN
7 27 (2.59%) TCP/IP
8 25 (2.40%) Broadband
8 25 (2.40%) VLAN
9 22 (2.11%) SD-WAN
10 20 (1.92%) Network Security
11 16 (1.54%) VoIP
12 15 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (1.15%) NAS
14 10 (0.96%) IP Telephony
14 10 (0.96%) Remote Desktop
14 10 (0.96%) Wireless
15 9 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
16 8 (0.77%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (11.53%) Data Lake
2 103 (9.89%) Power BI
3 102 (9.80%) SQL Server
4 71 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
5 50 (4.80%) Elasticsearch
6 45 (4.32%) Big Data
7 30 (2.88%) Metadata
8 28 (2.69%) Tableau
9 26 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 24 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
11 23 (2.21%) NoSQL
12 22 (2.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 20 (1.92%) MongoDB
13 20 (1.92%) Relational Database
14 18 (1.73%) MySQL
15 17 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
16 16 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
17 13 (1.25%) Data Mining
18 11 (1.06%) Hadoop
19 7 (0.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 77 (7.40%) Git
2 44 (4.23%) Visual Studio
3 36 (3.46%) JIRA
4 35 (3.36%) Octopus Deploy
5 30 (2.88%) MSBuild
6 29 (2.79%) Team Foundation Server
7 18 (1.73%) Selenium
8 16 (1.54%) Jenkins
9 14 (1.34%) GitLab
10 11 (1.06%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.06%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.86%) Maven
12 8 (0.77%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.38%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
14 3 (0.29%) git-flow
14 3 (0.29%) JUnit
14 3 (0.29%) Mockito
14 3 (0.29%) TestComplete
General
1 371 (35.64%) Social Skills
2 176 (16.91%) Finance
3 175 (16.81%) Law
4 170 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (6.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 55 (5.28%) Legal
6 55 (5.28%) Retail
7 41 (3.94%) Influencing Skills
8 29 (2.79%) Marketing
9 26 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
10 25 (2.40%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (1.83%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.44%) Banking
14 11 (1.06%) Advertising
15 8 (0.77%) Automotive
16 6 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
17 5 (0.48%) Games
17 5 (0.48%) Retail Banking
18 4 (0.38%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 229 (22.00%) Senior
2 178 (17.10%) Lead
3 131 (12.58%) Developer
4 94 (9.03%) Architect
5 76 (7.30%) Support Engineer
6 70 (6.72%) Analyst
7 49 (4.71%) IT Support
8 46 (4.42%) Software Engineer
9 43 (4.13%) DevOps Engineer
10 42 (4.03%) Azure Engineer
10 42 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
11 37 (3.55%) Data Engineer
11 37 (3.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 34 (3.27%) IT Engineer
12 34 (3.27%) Technical Architect
13 31 (2.98%) IT Support Engineer
14 30 (2.88%) Senior Developer
14 30 (2.88%) Team Leader
15 28 (2.69%) Security Engineer
16 25 (2.40%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (18.64%) .NET
2 77 (7.40%) HTML
3 73 (7.01%) CSS
4 59 (5.67%) ASP.NET
5 54 (5.19%) REST
6 52 (5.00%) React
7 42 (4.03%) Node.js
8 41 (3.94%) XML
9 40 (3.84%) JSON
9 40 (3.84%) Kafka
10 38 (3.65%) .NET Framework
11 35 (3.36%) Bootstrap
12 29 (2.79%) gRPC
13 28 (2.69%) AngularJS
14 24 (2.31%) Pandas
15 22 (2.11%) YAML
16 18 (1.73%) .NET Core
17 16 (1.54%) Blazor
17 16 (1.54%) Spring Boot
18 15 (1.44%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 57 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
2 46 (4.42%) Analytical Mindset
3 45 (4.32%) Cloud Native
3 45 (4.32%) Product Ownership
4 35 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
5 30 (2.88%) Security Posture
6 28 (2.69%) Management Information System
7 23 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
8 21 (2.02%) Algorithms
9 20 (1.92%) PKI
9 20 (1.92%) Public Cloud
10 19 (1.83%) Cyberattack
10 19 (1.83%) e-Learning
10 19 (1.83%) NHS
11 18 (1.73%) Onboarding
12 16 (1.54%) Clustering
12 16 (1.54%) Data Centre
13 13 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.25%) Replication
14 11 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 187 (17.96%) Windows
2 94 (9.03%) Windows Server
3 75 (7.20%) Linux
4 44 (4.23%) Mac OS
5 29 (2.79%) Apple iOS
6 28 (2.69%) Android
7 26 (2.50%) Windows 10
8 13 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
9 8 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.67%) SUSE
11 5 (0.48%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 5 (0.48%) Unix
12 4 (0.38%) VMS
13 3 (0.29%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.19%) Debian
15 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (34.87%) Agile
2 303 (29.11%) DevOps
3 287 (27.57%) Problem-Solving
4 216 (20.75%) Analytics
5 211 (20.27%) CI/CD
6 207 (19.88%) Mentoring
7 145 (13.93%) Roadmaps
8 140 (13.45%) Data Science
9 133 (12.78%) Business Intelligence
10 122 (11.72%) Machine Learning
11 120 (11.53%) Data Engineering
12 112 (10.76%) Computer Science
13 111 (10.66%) Data Governance
14 108 (10.37%) Software Engineering
15 104 (9.99%) Continuous Improvement
16 102 (9.80%) Coaching
17 97 (9.32%) ITIL
18 95 (9.13%) Artificial Intelligence
18 95 (9.13%) Test Automation
19 92 (8.84%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 265 (25.46%) SQL
2 226 (21.71%) Python
3 196 (18.83%) C#
4 133 (12.78%) JavaScript
5 106 (10.18%) PowerShell
6 101 (9.70%) Java
7 40 (3.84%) TypeScript
8 39 (3.75%) Rust
9 30 (2.88%) Bash
10 22 (2.11%) C++
11 20 (1.92%) Go
12 17 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 15 (1.44%) Bicep
13 15 (1.44%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.96%) X++
15 8 (0.77%) R
16 7 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.58%) VB.NET
18 5 (0.48%) PHP
18 5 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 222 (21.33%) Degree
2 77 (7.40%) Security Cleared
3 68 (6.53%) Azure Certification
4 63 (6.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 50 (4.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 49 (4.71%) DV Cleared
7 43 (4.13%) Master's Degree
8 38 (3.65%) DBS Check
9 31 (2.98%) SC Cleared
10 25 (2.40%) PhD
11 17 (1.63%) MCP
12 15 (1.44%) AWS Certification
13 14 (1.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 11 (1.06%) A+ Certification
15 10 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
16 9 (0.86%) CISSP
17 8 (0.77%) CCNP
17 8 (0.77%) MCSE
18 7 (0.67%) CCNA
19 6 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (6.82%) Data Quality
2 69 (6.63%) GDPR
3 61 (5.86%) QA
4 49 (4.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 41 (3.94%) Accessibility
6 32 (3.07%) NIST
7 19 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
7 19 (1.83%) NCSC
8 15 (1.44%) SLA
9 12 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 9 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 8 (0.77%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.29%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.19%) GRC
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.19%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.096%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 1 (0.096%) WCAG
System Software
1 159 (15.27%) Active Directory
2 117 (11.24%) Docker
3 73 (7.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (6.63%) Hyper-V
5 35 (3.36%) Virtual Machines
6 33 (3.17%) VMware ESXi
7 22 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (1.63%) vSphere
9 16 (1.54%) Terminal Services
10 6 (0.58%) BitLocker
10 6 (0.58%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (0.58%) NFS
11 2 (0.19%) HDFS
11 2 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.096%) vCloud
12 1 (0.096%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.096%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 108 (10.37%) Kubernetes
2 78 (7.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 72 (6.92%) Terraform
4 58 (5.57%) Ansible
5 22 (2.11%) Grafana
5 22 (2.11%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.54%) Puppet
6 16 (1.54%) SCCM
7 15 (1.44%) vCenter Server
8 12 (1.15%) vMotion
9 10 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.67%) PowerCLI
10 7 (0.67%) vRealize
11 6 (0.58%) Nagios
12 5 (0.48%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.38%) PaperCut
13 4 (0.38%) QRadar
14 3 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.29%) Computer Incident Response Team
15 2 (0.19%) FTK
Vendors
1 497 (47.74%) Microsoft
2 90 (8.65%) VMware
3 86 (8.26%) Databricks
4 40 (3.84%) Cisco
4 40 (3.84%) Google
5 37 (3.55%) Citrix
6 33 (3.17%) Apple
6 33 (3.17%) SAP
7 29 (2.79%) ServiceNow
8 27 (2.59%) IBM
9 22 (2.11%) Salesforce
10 21 (2.02%) Meraki
11 19 (1.83%) Red Hat
11 19 (1.83%) Veeam
12 17 (1.63%) HP
13 15 (1.44%) Sophos
14 14 (1.34%) OpenAI
15 12 (1.15%) Palo Alto
16 11 (1.06%) Rackspace
17 9 (0.86%) Sage