Azure Jobs in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 +2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 383 989 1,247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.21% 14.66% 20.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.82% 49.45% 54.01%
Number of salaries quoted 254 792 753
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,100 £30,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £81,875 £64,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £93,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £54,000 £56,750
% change year-on-year +11.11% -4.85% -2.99%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 874 2,000 2,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 30.14% 29.64% 37.41%
Number of salaries quoted 508 1,547 1,461
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,750 £73,875
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £90,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the Thames Valley

Azure
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Azure in the Thames Valley

Azure
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure in the Thames Valley

Azure
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Berkshire -3 210 £64,500 +22.86% 186
Buckinghamshire -5 101 £60,000 +14.95% 48
Oxfordshire -4 72 £49,000 -6.67% 95
Azure
South East

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 55 (14.36%) SharePoint
2 21 (5.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (5.22%) IBM Domino
4 3 (0.78%) IIS
5 2 (0.52%) Apache
5 2 (0.52%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.26%) CMS
6 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.26%) SAS
6 1 (0.26%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.26%) Umbraco
Applications
1 18 (4.70%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.78%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 89 (23.24%) AWS
2 85 (22.19%) Microsoft 365
3 76 (19.84%) Azure DevOps
4 60 (15.67%) Power Platform
5 54 (14.10%) GCP
6 38 (9.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 38 (9.92%) Power Automate
7 37 (9.66%) PowerApps
8 31 (8.09%) Azure Service Bus
9 28 (7.31%) Entra ID
10 26 (6.79%) SonarCloud
11 22 (5.74%) Azure Data Factory
11 22 (5.74%) SaaS
12 19 (4.96%) Snowflake
13 18 (4.70%) GitHub
14 16 (4.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 13 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
16 11 (2.87%) IaaS
16 11 (2.87%) PaaS
16 11 (2.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.05%) Firewall
2 21 (5.48%) DNS
3 19 (4.96%) DHCP
4 18 (4.70%) WAN
5 15 (3.92%) LAN
5 15 (3.92%) TCP/IP
6 9 (2.35%) VPN
7 8 (2.09%) Network Security
8 7 (1.83%) VLAN
9 6 (1.57%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (1.31%) Internet
11 4 (1.04%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (1.04%) VoIP
11 4 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (1.04%) Wireless
12 3 (0.78%) SAN
12 3 (0.78%) SD-WAN
13 2 (0.52%) Cisco Firepower
13 2 (0.52%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.52%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (14.36%) Data Lake
2 47 (12.27%) SQL Server
3 43 (11.23%) Power BI
4 37 (9.66%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (7.31%) Big Data
5 28 (7.31%) Elasticsearch
6 27 (7.05%) Tableau
7 16 (4.18%) NoSQL
8 15 (3.92%) Data Mining
8 15 (3.92%) Metadata
9 10 (2.61%) MySQL
10 9 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (1.57%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.52%) DynamoDB
14 2 (0.52%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 48 (12.53%) Git
2 38 (9.92%) Visual Studio
3 26 (6.79%) MSBuild
3 26 (6.79%) Octopus Deploy
3 26 (6.79%) Team Foundation Server
4 14 (3.66%) JIRA
5 5 (1.31%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.31%) JUnit
5 5 (1.31%) Mockito
6 4 (1.04%) GitLab
7 2 (0.52%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.52%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.52%) Jasmine
7 2 (0.52%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (0.52%) Moq
7 2 (0.52%) Protractor
7 2 (0.52%) Selenium
7 2 (0.52%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.26%) gulp
General
1 101 (26.37%) Social Skills
2 87 (22.72%) Law
3 51 (13.32%) Retail
4 40 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (7.83%) Finance
6 10 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.35%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.04%) Automotive
8 4 (1.04%) Public Sector
9 3 (0.78%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.52%) Marketing
10 2 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.26%) Electronics
11 1 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 97 (25.33%) Lead
2 58 (15.14%) Senior
3 53 (13.84%) Developer
4 49 (12.79%) Architect
5 31 (8.09%) Support Engineer
6 30 (7.83%) Technical Architect
7 26 (6.79%) Analyst
8 20 (5.22%) IT Support
9 18 (4.70%) Software Engineer
10 17 (4.44%) IT Engineer
11 16 (4.18%) IT Support Engineer
12 14 (3.66%) IT Manager
13 13 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
13 13 (3.39%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (3.13%) Azure Developer
14 12 (3.13%) IT Analyst
14 12 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (2.87%) Administrator
15 11 (2.87%) Full-Stack Developer
15 11 (2.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (21.67%) .NET
2 49 (12.79%) CSS
3 48 (12.53%) ASP.NET
3 48 (12.53%) HTML
4 37 (9.66%) React
5 36 (9.40%) REST
6 34 (8.88%) XML
7 27 (7.05%) Bootstrap
7 27 (7.05%) JSON
8 26 (6.79%) gRPC
9 22 (5.74%) AngularJS
10 17 (4.44%) .NET Framework
11 16 (4.18%) HTML5
12 11 (2.87%) .NET Core
12 11 (2.87%) RESTful
13 10 (2.61%) ASP.NET MVC
14 9 (2.35%) Kafka
14 9 (2.35%) SPFx
15 8 (2.09%) RabbitMQ
16 7 (1.83%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.79%) Product Ownership
2 23 (6.01%) Algorithms
3 17 (4.44%) Cloud Native
4 9 (2.35%) Public Cloud
5 7 (1.83%) Data Structures
5 7 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.57%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.57%) Replication
6 6 (1.57%) Security Posture
6 6 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.31%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.04%) CCTV
8 4 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.04%) Operational Technology
9 3 (0.78%) AS400
9 3 (0.78%) Client/Server
9 3 (0.78%) Clustering
9 3 (0.78%) IoT
9 3 (0.78%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 82 (21.41%) Windows
2 29 (7.57%) Linux
3 26 (6.79%) Windows Server
4 19 (4.96%) Mac OS
5 13 (3.39%) Android
6 11 (2.87%) Windows 10
7 9 (2.35%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.83%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (1.31%) SUSE
9 5 (1.31%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.52%) VMS
10 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.26%) Unix
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (33.42%) DevOps
2 107 (27.94%) Analytics
3 91 (23.76%) Problem-Solving
4 78 (20.37%) Business Intelligence
5 72 (18.80%) Agile
6 64 (16.71%) Data Engineering
7 63 (16.45%) Data Management
8 58 (15.14%) Data Governance
8 58 (15.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 55 (14.36%) Roadmaps
10 53 (13.84%) Mentoring
11 51 (13.32%) CI/CD
12 46 (12.01%) Microservices
13 45 (11.75%) Computer Science
13 45 (11.75%) Data Strategy
14 42 (10.97%) Data Architecture
14 42 (10.97%) Data Modelling
15 41 (10.70%) Data Science
16 40 (10.44%) Design Patterns
16 40 (10.44%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 92 (24.02%) SQL
2 80 (20.89%) C#
3 70 (18.28%) Python
4 68 (17.75%) JavaScript
5 38 (9.92%) PowerShell
6 21 (5.48%) Java
7 15 (3.92%) Bash
7 15 (3.92%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.31%) C++
8 5 (1.31%) X++
9 4 (1.04%) Go
10 3 (0.78%) RPG
10 3 (0.78%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.52%) Rust
12 1 (0.26%) C
12 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.26%) Delphi
12 1 (0.26%) Scala
12 1 (0.26%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 68 (17.75%) Degree
2 25 (6.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 18 (4.70%) Security Cleared
4 15 (3.92%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.13%) MCP
6 11 (2.87%) A+ Certification
7 9 (2.35%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.09%) CompTIA CySA+
9 6 (1.57%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.57%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (1.04%) MCSE
11 3 (0.78%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.78%) CCNP
11 3 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.78%) CISSP
11 3 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.78%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.78%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.78%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (14.36%) Data Quality
2 32 (8.36%) GDPR
3 25 (6.53%) QA
4 23 (6.01%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.35%) SLA
6 8 (2.09%) GRC
6 8 (2.09%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.31%) ISO 22301
10 4 (1.04%) NIST
11 2 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.26%) CDISC
12 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 62 (16.19%) Active Directory
2 53 (13.84%) Docker
3 28 (7.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (5.48%) Hyper-V
5 10 (2.61%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.57%) NFS
7 6 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.52%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.52%) vSphere
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.26%) vCloud
9 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (7.05%) Terraform
2 25 (6.53%) Kubernetes
3 18 (4.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (3.39%) Ansible
5 7 (1.83%) vCenter Server
6 5 (1.31%) FortiGate
6 5 (1.31%) SCCM
7 4 (1.04%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (1.04%) WSUS
8 3 (0.78%) Grafana
8 3 (0.78%) Graylog
8 3 (0.78%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.78%) Puppet
9 2 (0.52%) Kubespray
9 2 (0.52%) PaperCut
9 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.26%) Argo
10 1 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.26%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.26%) vRealize
Vendors
1 210 (54.83%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.14%) VMware
3 31 (8.09%) SAP
4 26 (6.79%) ServiceNow
5 22 (5.74%) Databricks
6 20 (5.22%) Cisco
7 14 (3.66%) Salesforce
8 12 (3.13%) Google
9 10 (2.61%) Apple
10 9 (2.35%) Fortinet
11 8 (2.09%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.31%) Oracle
13 4 (1.04%) Citrix
13 4 (1.04%) IBM
13 4 (1.04%) OpenAI
14 3 (0.78%) SolarWinds
14 3 (0.78%) Veeam
15 2 (0.52%) CheckPoint
15 2 (0.52%) HP
15 2 (0.52%) Meraki