Azure Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 20 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 5,240 7,837 13,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.45% 19.21% 21.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.58% 52.52% 54.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,208 6,152 8,174
10th Percentile £33,199 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,250 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +5.01%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,755 14,921 23,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.70% 36.58% 39.74%
Number of salaries quoted 6,261 11,410 15,461
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,283 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,250 £81,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%

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 20 January 2025.

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 20 January 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
North of England -7 1,314 £55,000 - 661
South East -2 1,273 £60,000 +14.29% 346
Midlands -3 1,026 £55,000 +4.76% 299
West Midlands -2 739 £57,500 +9.52% 198
North West -12 710 £55,000 -4.35% 421
South West -4 668 £60,000 +9.09% 253
Yorkshire -6 447 £54,000 -1.82% 162
East of England -4 423 £48,500 -3.00% 161
Scotland -12 385 £57,500 +4.55% 109
East Midlands -12 285 £50,000 -9.09% 101
North East -3 161 £60,000 +20.00% 79
Wales -4 127 £55,000 +7.84% 71
Northern Ireland -1 57 £52,500 +16.67% 43
Isle of Man - 6 £37,000 - 1
Channel Islands -5 3 £64,000 -30.81% 2
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
1 411 (7.84%) SharePoint
2 381 (7.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 73 (1.39%) IIS
4 54 (1.03%) Confluence
5 40 (0.76%) Apache
5 40 (0.76%) Umbraco
6 25 (0.48%) CMS
7 18 (0.34%) Tomcat
8 15 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.29%) Apache Spark
9 14 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
10 12 (0.23%) nginx
11 10 (0.19%) Apache Solr
11 10 (0.19%) SAS
12 8 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 8 (0.15%) IBM Domino
13 7 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
14 6 (0.11%) Appian
14 6 (0.11%) Jupyter
15 4 (0.076%) OpenStack
Applications
1 172 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
2 73 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.25%) Simulink
5 7 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.11%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.095%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.057%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.057%) Productboard
8 3 (0.057%) Trello
9 2 (0.038%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.019%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.019%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.019%) Revit
Business Applications
1 90 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
3 10 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
4 7 (0.13%) Maximo
5 6 (0.11%) GoldMine
6 5 (0.095%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.095%) Markit EDM
7 4 (0.076%) Magento
7 4 (0.076%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.057%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 3 (0.057%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.057%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.057%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.038%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.038%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.038%) Shopify
9 2 (0.038%) TIBCO iProcess
9 2 (0.038%) Unit4 Business World
10 1 (0.019%) Academy Housing
10 1 (0.019%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 1,384 (26.41%) AWS
2 1,204 (22.98%) Microsoft 365
3 950 (18.13%) Azure DevOps
4 640 (12.21%) Power Platform
5 582 (11.11%) Entra ID
6 547 (10.44%) GCP
7 476 (9.08%) SaaS
8 337 (6.43%) PaaS
9 314 (5.99%) Serverless
10 290 (5.53%) PowerApps
11 285 (5.44%) IaaS
12 273 (5.21%) Azure Logic Apps
13 263 (5.02%) GitHub
14 257 (4.90%) Power Automate
15 233 (4.45%) Azure Functions
16 212 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
17 196 (3.74%) Azure Data Factory
18 171 (3.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 158 (3.02%) Azure Service Bus
20 155 (2.96%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 574 (10.95%) Firewall
2 420 (8.02%) DNS
3 279 (5.32%) DHCP
4 250 (4.77%) WAN
5 240 (4.58%) VPN
6 213 (4.06%) LAN
7 212 (4.05%) TCP/IP
8 200 (3.82%) Network Security
9 129 (2.46%) VLAN
10 96 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
11 89 (1.70%) Internet
12 87 (1.66%) VoIP
13 86 (1.64%) Wireless
14 81 (1.55%) SAN
15 74 (1.41%) SD-WAN
16 66 (1.26%) Intrusion Detection
17 56 (1.07%) SSL
18 45 (0.86%) BGP
18 45 (0.86%) MPLS
19 43 (0.82%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 890 (16.98%) SQL Server
2 343 (6.55%) Power BI
3 267 (5.10%) Azure SQL Database
4 188 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
5 167 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
6 149 (2.84%) NoSQL
7 134 (2.56%) MySQL
8 115 (2.19%) Relational Database
9 114 (2.18%) Data Lake
10 112 (2.14%) MongoDB
11 101 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
12 97 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 75 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 54 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
15 46 (0.88%) Tableau
16 45 (0.86%) Redis
17 43 (0.82%) Big Data
18 39 (0.74%) RDBMS
19 33 (0.63%) BigQuery
20 32 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 445 (8.49%) Git
2 217 (4.14%) JIRA
3 158 (3.02%) Jenkins
4 148 (2.82%) Visual Studio
5 94 (1.79%) GitLab
6 81 (1.55%) Octopus Deploy
7 74 (1.41%) Team Foundation Server
8 71 (1.35%) Selenium
9 52 (0.99%) SonarQube
10 50 (0.95%) MSBuild
11 47 (0.90%) Postman
12 45 (0.86%) Bitbucket
13 37 (0.71%) TeamCity
14 26 (0.50%) CircleCI
15 25 (0.48%) webpack
16 23 (0.44%) Cypress.io
16 23 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
17 19 (0.36%) Cucumber
18 17 (0.32%) Artifactory
18 17 (0.32%) Vagrant
General
1 1,487 (28.38%) Social Skills
2 657 (12.54%) Finance
3 489 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
4 291 (5.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 269 (5.13%) Public Sector
6 228 (4.35%) Law
7 205 (3.91%) Retail
8 128 (2.44%) Manufacturing
9 116 (2.21%) Legal
10 106 (2.02%) Telecoms
11 102 (1.95%) Marketing
12 94 (1.79%) Banking
13 88 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
14 85 (1.62%) Automotive
15 51 (0.97%) Tech for Good
16 38 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
17 35 (0.67%) Advertising
17 35 (0.67%) Electronics
18 30 (0.57%) Police
18 30 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,042 (19.89%) Senior
2 1,037 (19.79%) Developer
3 522 (9.96%) Lead
4 470 (8.97%) Analyst
5 414 (7.90%) Architect
6 403 (7.69%) Software Engineer
7 341 (6.51%) Senior Developer
8 311 (5.94%) .NET Developer
9 304 (5.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 262 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
11 243 (4.64%) Azure Engineer
12 221 (4.22%) IT Support
13 218 (4.16%) Support Engineer
14 215 (4.10%) IT Engineer
15 201 (3.84%) Data Engineer
16 163 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
17 162 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
18 159 (3.03%) Senior Software Engineer
19 149 (2.84%) Full-Stack Developer
20 143 (2.73%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,219 (23.26%) .NET
2 485 (9.26%) React
3 437 (8.34%) HTML
4 436 (8.32%) CSS
5 425 (8.11%) ASP.NET
6 347 (6.62%) .NET Framework
7 338 (6.45%) AngularJS
8 312 (5.95%) .NET Core
9 272 (5.19%) REST
10 215 (4.10%) RESTful
11 185 (3.53%) Entity Framework
12 168 (3.21%) Node.js
13 137 (2.61%) ASP.NET Web API
14 136 (2.60%) HTML5
15 120 (2.29%) XML
16 116 (2.21%) JSON
17 114 (2.18%) Blazor
17 114 (2.18%) Web Services
18 101 (1.93%) Vue
19 98 (1.87%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 169 (3.23%) Data Structures
2 160 (3.05%) Product Ownership
3 152 (2.90%) Management Information System
4 148 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
5 137 (2.61%) Data Centre
6 131 (2.50%) Cloud Native
7 128 (2.44%) Onboarding
8 122 (2.33%) Public Cloud
9 105 (2.00%) Mobile App
9 105 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
10 98 (1.87%) Cyber Threat
11 93 (1.77%) Driving Licence
11 93 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
12 92 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
13 69 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
14 59 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
15 57 (1.09%) IoT
16 55 (1.05%) Algorithms
16 55 (1.05%) Private Cloud
17 53 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1,122 (21.41%) Windows
2 535 (10.21%) Windows Server
3 500 (9.54%) Linux
4 190 (3.63%) Windows 10
5 119 (2.27%) Android
6 105 (2.00%) Apple iOS
7 93 (1.77%) Unix
8 91 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
9 69 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 48 (0.92%) Ubuntu
11 41 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
12 37 (0.71%) Mac OS
13 36 (0.69%) CentOS
14 29 (0.55%) VMS
15 24 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 10 (0.19%) Mac OS X
17 9 (0.17%) SUSE
18 7 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
19 6 (0.11%) AIX
19 6 (0.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,642 (31.34%) DevOps
2 1,383 (26.39%) Agile
3 1,113 (21.24%) Problem-Solving
4 904 (17.25%) CI/CD
5 749 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 543 (10.36%) Mentoring
7 511 (9.75%) Microservices
8 497 (9.48%) Cybersecurity
9 436 (8.32%) ITIL
10 419 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 418 (7.98%) Full-Stack Development
12 407 (7.77%) Business Intelligence
13 400 (7.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 399 (7.61%) Infrastructure as Code
15 398 (7.60%) Roadmaps
16 369 (7.04%) Customer Service
17 356 (6.79%) Computer Science
18 343 (6.55%) Analytics
19 341 (6.51%) MVC
20 336 (6.41%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,498 (28.59%) SQL
2 1,155 (22.04%) C#
3 822 (15.69%) JavaScript
4 812 (15.50%) Python
5 501 (9.56%) PowerShell
6 428 (8.17%) Java
7 329 (6.28%) TypeScript
8 185 (3.53%) T-SQL
9 168 (3.21%) Bash
10 147 (2.81%) C++
11 94 (1.79%) PHP
12 88 (1.68%) Bicep
13 61 (1.16%) C
14 58 (1.11%) Go
15 56 (1.07%) R
16 52 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 41 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
18 35 (0.67%) VB.NET
19 33 (0.63%) VB
20 30 (0.57%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 705 (13.45%) Degree
2 480 (9.16%) Azure Certification
3 452 (8.63%) Security Cleared
4 306 (5.84%) SC Cleared
5 301 (5.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 192 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 126 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
8 90 (1.72%) AWS Certification
9 76 (1.45%) DV Cleared
10 70 (1.34%) CCNA
11 67 (1.28%) CISSP
12 64 (1.22%) DBS Check
13 63 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
14 54 (1.03%) CCNP
15 52 (0.99%) Master's Degree
16 46 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
17 40 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 38 (0.73%) A+ Certification
19 37 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
20 36 (0.69%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (3.74%) QA
2 170 (3.24%) GDPR
3 167 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 143 (2.73%) SLA
5 115 (2.19%) Data Quality
6 88 (1.68%) NIST
7 75 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 54 (1.03%) Accessibility
9 44 (0.84%) PCI DSS
10 40 (0.76%) HIPAA
11 30 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 21 (0.40%) HL7
12 21 (0.40%) NCSC
13 13 (0.25%) COBIT
14 12 (0.23%) GRC
15 11 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 11 (0.21%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 7 (0.13%) PMO
17 5 (0.095%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 944 (18.02%) Active Directory
2 536 (10.23%) Docker
3 369 (7.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 350 (6.68%) Hyper-V
5 112 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
6 86 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
7 81 (1.55%) vSphere
8 37 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
9 32 (0.61%) Firmware
10 31 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
11 15 (0.29%) VMware NSX
12 13 (0.25%) XenApp
13 12 (0.23%) DFS Replication
14 9 (0.17%) NDS
14 9 (0.17%) NetIQ eDirectory
15 8 (0.15%) KVM
16 7 (0.13%) Terminal Server
16 7 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
17 6 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 4 (0.076%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 512 (9.77%) Kubernetes
2 441 (8.42%) Terraform
3 368 (7.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 198 (3.78%) Ansible
5 67 (1.28%) Grafana
6 65 (1.24%) SCCM
7 55 (1.05%) Puppet
8 51 (0.97%) Prometheus
9 36 (0.69%) vCenter Server
10 35 (0.67%) Progress Chef
11 31 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
12 22 (0.42%) WSUS
13 21 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 20 (0.38%) Argo
15 19 (0.36%) FortiGate
15 19 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
16 17 (0.32%) AWS Copilot
16 17 (0.32%) ZABBIX
17 13 (0.25%) SCOM
18 12 (0.23%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2,350 (44.85%) Microsoft
2 551 (10.52%) VMware
3 256 (4.89%) Databricks
4 243 (4.64%) Cisco
5 217 (4.14%) Google
6 105 (2.00%) Oracle
7 98 (1.87%) Citrix
7 98 (1.87%) Veeam
8 86 (1.64%) Meraki
9 78 (1.49%) Xamarin
10 71 (1.35%) IBM
11 64 (1.22%) ServiceNow
12 62 (1.18%) SAP
13 55 (1.05%) Palo Alto
13 55 (1.05%) SolarWinds
14 52 (0.99%) Apple
14 52 (0.99%) HP
14 52 (0.99%) Red Hat
15 51 (0.97%) Fortinet
16 46 (0.88%) Salesforce