Azure Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 11,211 13,019 14,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.00% 21.07% 19.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.89% 54.50% 49.42%
Number of salaries quoted 8,805 7,446 9,479
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £79,500 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.23% +4.00% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23,410 23,889 28,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.42% 38.66% 40.39%
Number of salaries quoted 17,370 14,248 19,879
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
North of England 0 3,055 £55,000 - 608
South East -2 2,780 £55,000 -4.35% 504
Midlands +2 1,930 £50,000 -9.09% 393
North West 0 1,630 £57,500 +4.55% 351
South West -1 1,399 £55,000 +4.76% 305
West Midlands +2 1,153 £54,000 -1.82% 241
Yorkshire 0 1,055 £55,000 - 190
Scotland -24 803 £55,000 -7.60% 153
East of England 0 799 £50,000 -4.76% 181
East Midlands +3 774 £48,500 -7.62% 152
North East +4 372 £47,500 -13.64% 73
Wales -2 330 £50,000 - 84
Northern Ireland -7 108 £55,000 +4.76% 42
Isle of Man -4 17 £46,500 -33.57% 2
Channel Islands +1 5 £85,000 -5.56%
Azure
UK

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 873 (7.79%) SharePoint
2 821 (7.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 288 (2.57%) ArcGIS
4 286 (2.55%) GeoServer
5 247 (2.20%) IIS
6 97 (0.87%) CMS
7 94 (0.84%) Confluence
8 85 (0.76%) Umbraco
9 74 (0.66%) Apache
10 63 (0.56%) Apache Spark
11 49 (0.44%) OpenStack
12 43 (0.38%) Kentico
12 43 (0.38%) WebLogic
13 42 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
14 40 (0.36%) Headless CMS
15 30 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
16 25 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2013
16 25 (0.22%) FileNet
16 25 (0.22%) WebSphere
17 22 (0.20%) Captiva
Applications
1 445 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
2 141 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
5 22 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 22 (0.20%) Trello
6 17 (0.15%) Simulink
7 10 (0.089%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.071%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.054%) LightWave 3D
10 4 (0.036%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.027%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.018%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.018%) CATIA
12 2 (0.018%) NASTRAN
12 2 (0.018%) Sketch
12 2 (0.018%) S-PLUS
13 1 (0.009%) 1Password
13 1 (0.009%) Mathematica
13 1 (0.009%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 153 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 73 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 31 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
4 15 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
5 12 (0.11%) Maximo
6 9 (0.080%) Unit4 Business World
7 8 (0.071%) SAP S/4HANA
7 8 (0.071%) Teamcenter
8 7 (0.062%) Payment Gateway
9 6 (0.054%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.054%) SAP PLM
10 5 (0.045%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.045%) SAP IBP
10 5 (0.045%) SAP PP
10 5 (0.045%) Visualfiles
11 4 (0.036%) Elite 3E
11 4 (0.036%) Remedy ITSM
12 3 (0.027%) Oracle Applications
12 3 (0.027%) Oracle EBS
12 3 (0.027%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3,290 (29.35%) AWS
2 2,841 (25.34%) Microsoft 365
3 1,570 (14.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1,179 (10.52%) Entra ID
5 1,134 (10.12%) Power Platform
6 1,094 (9.76%) GCP
7 653 (5.82%) SaaS
8 404 (3.60%) Serverless
9 358 (3.19%) PaaS
10 334 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
11 320 (2.85%) IaaS
12 293 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
13 277 (2.47%) OneDrive
14 274 (2.44%) GitHub
15 261 (2.33%) IBM Cloud
16 252 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
17 236 (2.11%) PowerApps
18 214 (1.91%) Azure Service Bus
19 213 (1.90%) Azure Functions
20 201 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,304 (11.63%) Firewall
2 884 (7.89%) DNS
3 643 (5.74%) WAN
4 576 (5.14%) DHCP
5 468 (4.17%) LAN
6 464 (4.14%) VPN
7 415 (3.70%) TCP/IP
8 306 (2.73%) SAN
9 269 (2.40%) Internet
10 259 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
11 257 (2.29%) VLAN
12 210 (1.87%) Wireless
13 198 (1.77%) Network Security
14 179 (1.60%) VoIP
15 178 (1.59%) SD-WAN
16 168 (1.50%) Broadband
17 119 (1.06%) Remote Desktop
18 98 (0.87%) BGP
19 89 (0.79%) HTTP
19 89 (0.79%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,146 (19.14%) SQL Server
2 829 (7.39%) Power BI
3 753 (6.72%) PostgreSQL
4 724 (6.46%) Data Warehouse
5 540 (4.82%) NoSQL
6 523 (4.67%) MongoDB
7 429 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
8 366 (3.26%) Relational Database
9 349 (3.11%) Data Lake
10 339 (3.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 334 (2.98%) GIS
12 284 (2.53%) QGIS
13 278 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
14 250 (2.23%) MySQL
15 241 (2.15%) DB2
16 203 (1.81%) BigQuery
17 196 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
18 179 (1.60%) Looker
19 171 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 128 (1.14%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 634 (5.66%) Git
2 406 (3.62%) JIRA
3 294 (2.62%) Jenkins
4 238 (2.12%) GitLab
5 202 (1.80%) Visual Studio
6 135 (1.20%) Selenium
7 105 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
8 77 (0.69%) Postman
9 70 (0.62%) Cypress.io
10 65 (0.58%) NUnit
11 48 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
12 44 (0.39%) Jasmine
13 41 (0.37%) Cucumber
14 40 (0.36%) JMeter
15 37 (0.33%) Bitbucket
15 37 (0.33%) SonarQube
16 36 (0.32%) TeamCity
17 33 (0.29%) Artifactory
18 31 (0.28%) Karma Test Runner
19 29 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,501 (22.31%) Social Skills
2 1,480 (13.20%) Finance
3 858 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
4 705 (6.29%) Public Sector
5 510 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 493 (4.40%) Retail
7 474 (4.23%) Law
8 303 (2.70%) Legal
9 279 (2.49%) Marketing
10 226 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
11 219 (1.95%) Banking
12 213 (1.90%) Manufacturing
13 168 (1.50%) Telecoms
14 164 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
15 162 (1.45%) Games
16 153 (1.36%) Aerospace
17 122 (1.09%) Advertising
18 89 (0.79%) Billing
19 85 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
20 59 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2,809 (25.06%) Developer
2 1,783 (15.90%) Senior
3 1,381 (12.32%) .NET Developer
4 997 (8.89%) Architect
5 968 (8.63%) Lead
6 921 (8.22%) Software Engineer
7 784 (6.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 705 (6.29%) Analyst
9 678 (6.05%) Support Engineer
10 612 (5.46%) IT Support
11 599 (5.34%) IT Engineer
12 537 (4.79%) C# Developer
13 496 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
14 466 (4.16%) Senior Developer
15 438 (3.91%) C# .NET Developer
16 391 (3.49%) Senior Software Engineer
17 382 (3.41%) Data Engineer
18 369 (3.29%) IT Support Engineer
19 342 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
20 340 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,083 (27.50%) .NET
2 1,466 (13.08%) React
3 1,416 (12.63%) AngularJS
4 1,402 (12.51%) .NET Core
5 1,376 (12.27%) ASP.NET
6 1,261 (11.25%) CSS
7 1,194 (10.65%) HTML
8 855 (7.63%) .NET Framework
9 851 (7.59%) ASP.NET Web API
10 793 (7.07%) Entity Framework
11 745 (6.65%) ASP.NET MVC
12 659 (5.88%) Vue
13 594 (5.30%) Node.js
14 578 (5.16%) REST
15 545 (4.86%) RESTful
16 471 (4.20%) HTML5
17 439 (3.92%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 436 (3.89%) Web Services
19 401 (3.58%) Blazor
20 361 (3.22%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 612 (5.46%) Public Cloud
2 376 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 368 (3.28%) Data Structures
4 349 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
5 330 (2.94%) Algorithms
6 321 (2.86%) Management Information System
7 309 (2.76%) Product Ownership
8 296 (2.64%) Cloud Native
9 279 (2.49%) Blockchain
10 256 (2.28%) Data Centre
11 254 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
12 235 (2.10%) Driving Licence
13 207 (1.85%) Onboarding
14 186 (1.66%) Private Cloud
15 163 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
16 144 (1.28%) PKI
17 143 (1.28%) Mobile App
18 139 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
19 131 (1.17%) Social Media
20 127 (1.13%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2,623 (23.40%) Windows
2 1,316 (11.74%) Windows Server
3 1,288 (11.49%) Linux
4 466 (4.16%) Windows 10
5 426 (3.80%) Android
6 374 (3.34%) Apple iOS
7 267 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 230 (2.05%) Windows Server 2019
9 204 (1.82%) Ubuntu
10 191 (1.70%) Windows Server 2012
11 150 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 142 (1.27%) Unix
13 135 (1.20%) VMS
14 117 (1.04%) CentOS
15 111 (0.99%) Mac OS
16 92 (0.82%) Debian
17 48 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
19 32 (0.29%) Windows 7
20 22 (0.20%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,703 (33.03%) Agile
2 3,069 (27.37%) DevOps
3 1,818 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
4 1,751 (15.62%) Full Stack Development
5 1,362 (12.15%) Software Engineering
6 1,358 (12.11%) CI/CD
7 1,293 (11.53%) Microservices
8 1,261 (11.25%) MVC
9 1,077 (9.61%) Mentoring
10 1,034 (9.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 1,021 (9.11%) Scrum
12 920 (8.21%) Business Intelligence
13 898 (8.01%) ITIL
14 848 (7.56%) Artificial Intelligence
15 840 (7.49%) Cybersecurity
16 796 (7.10%) Migration
17 794 (7.08%) Roadmaps
18 749 (6.68%) Customer Service
19 743 (6.63%) Actionable Insight
20 741 (6.61%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2,980 (26.58%) C#
2 2,697 (24.06%) SQL
3 2,558 (22.82%) JavaScript
4 1,404 (12.52%) Python
5 931 (8.30%) PowerShell
6 893 (7.97%) Java
7 776 (6.92%) TypeScript
8 453 (4.04%) T-SQL
9 326 (2.91%) Bash
10 105 (0.94%) Bicep
10 105 (0.94%) C++
10 105 (0.94%) Go
11 83 (0.74%) PHP
12 76 (0.68%) VB.NET
13 74 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 68 (0.61%) VB
15 64 (0.57%) Kotlin
16 62 (0.55%) Ruby
17 56 (0.50%) C
18 39 (0.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,237 (11.03%) Security Cleared
2 1,124 (10.03%) Degree
3 899 (8.02%) SC Cleared
4 596 (5.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 522 (4.66%) Azure Certification
6 317 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
7 253 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 252 (2.25%) DV Cleared
9 237 (2.11%) CCNA
10 213 (1.90%) DBS Check
11 193 (1.72%) AWS Certification
12 163 (1.45%) CISSP
13 148 (1.32%) MCSE
14 96 (0.86%) CCNP
15 88 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
16 86 (0.77%) Master's Degree
17 82 (0.73%) MCSA
18 79 (0.70%) CISM
19 76 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 76 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 476 (4.25%) QA
2 346 (3.09%) GDPR
3 289 (2.58%) Data Quality
4 246 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 238 (2.12%) SLA
6 162 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 133 (1.19%) NIST
8 75 (0.67%) Accessibility
9 60 (0.54%) PCI DSS
10 27 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 25 (0.22%) NCSC
12 22 (0.20%) PMO
13 19 (0.17%) SOC 2
14 17 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 15 (0.13%) HIPAA
16 14 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 12 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 10 (0.089%) ISO 9001
19 8 (0.071%) GRC
19 8 (0.071%) PSD2
System Software
1 2,112 (18.84%) Active Directory
2 891 (7.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 846 (7.55%) Hyper-V
4 836 (7.46%) Docker
5 283 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
6 142 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 138 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
8 127 (1.13%) vSphere
9 59 (0.53%) VMware NSX
10 58 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
11 34 (0.30%) XenApp
12 28 (0.25%) Terminal Services
13 26 (0.23%) XenDesktop
14 24 (0.21%) Firmware
15 19 (0.17%) VMware Server
16 11 (0.098%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 8 (0.071%) KVM
17 8 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 8 (0.071%) pfSense
18 7 (0.062%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,010 (9.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 927 (8.27%) Kubernetes
3 766 (6.83%) Terraform
4 407 (3.63%) Ansible
5 216 (1.93%) SCCM
6 120 (1.07%) Puppet
7 102 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
8 98 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
9 90 (0.80%) vCenter Server
10 85 (0.76%) WSUS
11 81 (0.72%) SCOM
12 75 (0.67%) Progress Chef
13 70 (0.62%) Grafana
14 67 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 62 (0.55%) Prometheus
16 57 (0.51%) FortiGate
17 32 (0.29%) CASB
17 32 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
18 26 (0.23%) ZABBIX
19 24 (0.21%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 5,000 (44.60%) Microsoft
2 1,337 (11.93%) VMware
3 705 (6.29%) Google
4 550 (4.91%) Cisco
5 380 (3.39%) Red Hat
6 356 (3.18%) IBM
7 318 (2.84%) Oracle
8 302 (2.69%) Citrix
9 289 (2.58%) ESRI
10 283 (2.52%) Databricks
11 280 (2.50%) Veeam
12 167 (1.49%) HP
13 166 (1.48%) Meraki
14 120 (1.07%) Dell
14 120 (1.07%) Fortinet
15 114 (1.02%) Apple
16 111 (0.99%) Aruba
17 105 (0.94%) ServiceNow
18 104 (0.93%) Sophos
19 93 (0.83%) SolarWinds