Azure Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -5
Permanent jobs citing Azure 7,243 4,490 6,796
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 8.38% 12.90% 13.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.24% 48.50% 47.75%
Number of salaries quoted 4,863 2,919 4,225
10th Percentile £32,000 £28,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,589 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.60% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -

All Cloud Computing 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 16,752 9,258 14,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.39% 26.59% 27.82%
Number of salaries quoted 11,814 6,205 8,123
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £59,186 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.60% -8.94% +4.00%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Azure job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Azure
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

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 9 October 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
North of England -1 2,001 £60,000 +9.09% 1,122
South East -1 1,644 £60,000 +11.63% 849
Midlands -3 1,333 £57,500 +4.55% 572
North West +5 1,008 £60,000 +4.35% 586
South West -2 868 £60,000 +17.51% 429
West Midlands -4 787 £60,000 +4.35% 375
Yorkshire +7 662 £57,500 +4.55% 391
East of England -7 568 £52,750 +17.22% 313
East Midlands +4 546 £52,500 +16.67% 197
Wales +1 355 £55,000 -4.35% 139
North East -3 337 £65,000 +30.00% 152
Scotland 0 303 £62,500 +28.21% 389
Northern Ireland +12 224 £39,000 -27.10% 131
Isle of Man -2 3 £35,000 -37.78% 4
Azure
UK

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 569 (7.86%) SharePoint
2 537 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 78 (1.08%) Confluence
4 76 (1.05%) IIS
5 58 (0.80%) Apache
6 53 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
6 53 (0.73%) Apache Spark
7 26 (0.36%) CMS
8 21 (0.29%) WordPress
9 19 (0.26%) nginx
10 9 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
10 9 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
11 8 (0.11%) CICS
11 8 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 7 (0.097%) JBoss
13 6 (0.083%) Headless CMS
13 6 (0.083%) SAS
14 5 (0.069%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.069%) Tomcat
14 5 (0.069%) Umbraco
Applications
1 234 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.15%) Chatbot
5 11 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.12%) Trello
8 3 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.041%) Notion
9 2 (0.028%) Lightworks
9 2 (0.028%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 80 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
3 19 (0.26%) Cloudability
4 13 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 7 (0.097%) Maximo
5 7 (0.097%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.083%) Sage 200
6 6 (0.083%) SAP IBP
7 4 (0.055%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.055%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.055%) Shopify
8 3 (0.041%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.041%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.041%) Visualfiles
9 2 (0.028%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.028%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 2 (0.028%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.028%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.028%) Towers Watson Igloo
10 1 (0.014%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,705 (23.54%) AWS
2 1,583 (21.86%) Microsoft 365
3 1,029 (14.21%) Entra ID
4 936 (12.92%) Azure DevOps
5 821 (11.34%) Power Platform
6 676 (9.33%) GCP
7 550 (7.59%) Azure AI
8 402 (5.55%) GitHub
9 391 (5.40%) SaaS
10 227 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
11 216 (2.98%) Power Automate
12 211 (2.91%) OneDrive
13 195 (2.69%) Serverless
14 173 (2.39%) PowerApps
15 171 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
16 169 (2.33%) PaaS
17 150 (2.07%) GitHub Copilot
18 147 (2.03%) Microsoft Copilot
19 144 (1.99%) IaaS
20 134 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 580 (8.01%) Firewall
2 574 (7.92%) DNS
3 442 (6.10%) DHCP
4 426 (5.88%) VPN
5 298 (4.11%) WAN
6 268 (3.70%) LAN
7 252 (3.48%) TCP/IP
8 168 (2.32%) VLAN
9 152 (2.10%) Network Security
10 142 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
11 121 (1.67%) Wireless
12 115 (1.59%) Internet
13 86 (1.19%) VoIP
14 70 (0.97%) SD-WAN
15 55 (0.76%) SAN
16 44 (0.61%) SSL
17 43 (0.59%) WLAN
18 42 (0.58%) MQTT
19 27 (0.37%) BGP
20 25 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 578 (7.98%) Azure SQL Database
2 507 (7.00%) Power BI
3 494 (6.82%) SQL Server
4 474 (6.54%) MongoDB
5 200 (2.76%) Tableau
6 189 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
7 187 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
8 166 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
9 122 (1.68%) Data Lake
10 120 (1.66%) NoSQL
11 119 (1.64%) MySQL
12 111 (1.53%) Relational Database
13 102 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
14 85 (1.17%) Metadata
15 71 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 61 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 37 (0.51%) Star Schema
18 35 (0.48%) Big Data
19 28 (0.39%) Power Query
19 28 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 500 (6.90%) Git
2 238 (3.29%) JIRA
3 149 (2.06%) GitLab
4 137 (1.89%) Jenkins
5 53 (0.73%) Selenium
6 45 (0.62%) Postman
7 42 (0.58%) Cypress.io
8 35 (0.48%) JUnit
9 24 (0.33%) Cucumber
10 18 (0.25%) Maven
10 18 (0.25%) SonarQube
11 17 (0.23%) JMeter
11 17 (0.23%) Mockito
11 17 (0.23%) Visual Studio
12 15 (0.21%) Eclipse
12 15 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
13 14 (0.19%) Bitbucket
13 14 (0.19%) Burp Suite
14 13 (0.18%) fastlane
14 13 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2,654 (36.64%) Social Skills
2 897 (12.38%) Finance
3 681 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
4 456 (6.30%) Public Sector
5 329 (4.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 245 (3.38%) Law
7 243 (3.35%) Legal
8 194 (2.68%) Retail
9 134 (1.85%) Manufacturing
10 102 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
11 97 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
12 96 (1.33%) Aerospace
13 87 (1.20%) Marketing
14 86 (1.19%) Advertising
15 84 (1.16%) Games
16 83 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
17 78 (1.08%) Telecoms
18 74 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
19 45 (0.62%) Banking
20 34 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,193 (16.47%) Developer
2 1,173 (16.19%) Senior
3 756 (10.44%) Analyst
4 622 (8.59%) Architect
5 617 (8.52%) Azure Engineer
6 606 (8.37%) Lead
7 545 (7.52%) .NET Developer
8 538 (7.43%) IT Support
9 422 (5.83%) IT Engineer
10 421 (5.81%) Support Engineer
11 393 (5.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 383 (5.29%) Junior
13 356 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
14 344 (4.75%) Cloud Engineer
15 332 (4.58%) Junior Analyst
16 315 (4.35%) Data Engineer
17 311 (4.29%) IT Support Engineer
18 293 (4.05%) Software Engineer
19 232 (3.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 232 (3.20%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,063 (14.68%) .NET
2 679 (9.37%) Terraform
3 550 (7.59%) .NET Core
4 547 (7.55%) ASP.NET
5 504 (6.96%) ASP.NET Core
6 472 (6.52%) React
7 358 (4.94%) RESTful
8 294 (4.06%) Node.js
9 282 (3.89%) REST
10 276 (3.81%) CSS
11 269 (3.71%) HTML
12 248 (3.42%) AngularJS
13 218 (3.01%) Blazor
14 212 (2.93%) Vue
15 207 (2.86%) Entity Framework
16 177 (2.44%) ASP.NET Web API
17 145 (2.00%) ML.NET
18 128 (1.77%) .NET Framework
19 126 (1.74%) Kafka
20 117 (1.62%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 436 (6.02%) Cloud Native
2 294 (4.06%) Onboarding
3 253 (3.49%) Driving Licence
4 202 (2.79%) Product Ownership
5 197 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
6 182 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
7 175 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
8 172 (2.37%) Cyberattack
9 162 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
9 162 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
10 135 (1.86%) Management Information System
11 125 (1.73%) Security Posture
12 123 (1.70%) Data Centre
13 115 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
14 103 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
15 93 (1.28%) Mobile App
16 74 (1.02%) Public Cloud
17 67 (0.93%) AI Agents
18 63 (0.87%) Replication
19 54 (0.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,296 (17.89%) Windows
2 740 (10.22%) Windows Server
3 543 (7.50%) Linux
4 124 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
5 89 (1.23%) Windows 10
6 86 (1.19%) Mac OS
7 77 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
8 64 (0.88%) Unix
9 63 (0.87%) Android
10 49 (0.68%) Ubuntu
11 43 (0.59%) Apple iOS
12 33 (0.46%) VMS
13 29 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 25 (0.35%) CentOS
15 22 (0.30%) Debian
16 8 (0.11%) Rocky
16 8 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
17 6 (0.083%) Windows 7
18 5 (0.069%) Embedded Linux
18 5 (0.069%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,761 (24.31%) DevOps
2 1,583 (21.86%) Agile
3 1,476 (20.38%) CI/CD
4 1,436 (19.83%) AI
5 1,413 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
6 1,146 (15.82%) Cybersecurity
7 1,131 (15.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,091 (15.06%) Mentoring
9 760 (10.49%) Infrastructure as Code
10 699 (9.65%) Full-Stack Development
11 657 (9.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 647 (8.93%) Software Engineering
13 612 (8.45%) ITIL
14 565 (7.80%) Business Intelligence
15 561 (7.75%) Roadmaps
16 551 (7.61%) Stakeholder Management
17 539 (7.44%) Microservices
18 535 (7.39%) Technical Leadership
19 526 (7.26%) Analytics
20 490 (6.77%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,663 (22.96%) SQL
2 1,291 (17.82%) Python
3 1,203 (16.61%) C#
4 612 (8.45%) JavaScript
5 553 (7.63%) PowerShell
6 403 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 360 (4.97%) Java
8 201 (2.78%) Bash
9 148 (2.04%) Bicep
10 91 (1.26%) PHP
11 89 (1.23%) C++
12 79 (1.09%) T-SQL
13 63 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 63 (0.87%) Go
14 48 (0.66%) Shell Script
15 39 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
16 38 (0.52%) R
17 37 (0.51%) Rust
18 29 (0.40%) Scala
19 27 (0.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,179 (16.28%) Azure Certification
2 784 (10.82%) Security Cleared
3 631 (8.71%) SC Cleared
4 570 (7.87%) Degree
5 288 (3.98%) Cisco Certification
6 283 (3.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 254 (3.51%) Network+ Certification
8 233 (3.22%) CCNA
9 226 (3.12%) CompTIA Security+
10 218 (3.01%) CISSP
11 188 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
12 184 (2.54%) CompTIA CySA+
13 182 (2.51%) CEH
13 182 (2.51%) CISM
14 163 (2.25%) DV Cleared
15 131 (1.81%) AWS Certification
16 83 (1.15%) A+ Certification
17 76 (1.05%) DBS Check
18 66 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
19 63 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 303 (4.18%) Cyber Essentials
2 270 (3.73%) QA
3 266 (3.67%) Data Quality
4 263 (3.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 195 (2.69%) NIST
6 186 (2.57%) GDPR
7 130 (1.79%) Accessibility
8 105 (1.45%) PCI DSS
9 97 (1.34%) GRC
10 92 (1.27%) SLA
11 86 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 55 (0.76%) WCAG
13 52 (0.72%) ISO 22301
13 52 (0.72%) NCSC
14 19 (0.26%) NIST 800
15 18 (0.25%) ISO 9001
16 16 (0.22%) PMO
17 14 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 14 (0.19%) JSP 440
18 10 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 1,217 (16.80%) Active Directory
2 670 (9.25%) Docker
3 423 (5.84%) Hyper-V
4 351 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 95 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 88 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
7 72 (0.99%) Terminal Server
8 53 (0.73%) vSphere
9 41 (0.57%) Firmware
10 25 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
11 16 (0.22%) VMware NSX
12 15 (0.21%) KVM
13 12 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
14 10 (0.14%) NDS
15 9 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 9 (0.12%) VMware Server
16 5 (0.069%) ClearTrust
16 5 (0.069%) DFS Replication
16 5 (0.069%) Squid
17 3 (0.041%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 738 (10.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 698 (9.64%) Kubernetes
3 173 (2.39%) Ansible
4 88 (1.21%) Grafana
5 81 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
6 75 (1.04%) Prometheus
7 49 (0.68%) SCCM
8 41 (0.57%) Puppet
9 35 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
10 30 (0.41%) Argo
11 28 (0.39%) FortiGate
12 19 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 19 (0.26%) ZABBIX
13 16 (0.22%) Progress Chef
13 16 (0.22%) vCenter Server
14 15 (0.21%) Proxmox
15 14 (0.19%) Autotask
15 14 (0.19%) Graylog
16 13 (0.18%) Nessus
17 12 (0.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 3,906 (53.93%) Microsoft
2 556 (7.68%) VMware
3 486 (6.71%) ForeScout
4 416 (5.74%) Cisco
5 280 (3.87%) Google
6 265 (3.66%) Databricks
7 191 (2.64%) Veeam
8 134 (1.85%) Splunk
9 116 (1.60%) ServiceNow
10 110 (1.52%) Apple
10 110 (1.52%) SolarWinds
11 109 (1.50%) Oracle
12 101 (1.39%) Meraki
13 98 (1.35%) Fortinet
14 82 (1.13%) CyberArk
15 74 (1.02%) Brocade
16 73 (1.01%) Nimble Storage
17 72 (0.99%) Tanium
18 62 (0.86%) Facebook
18 62 (0.86%) Salesforce