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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 5 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 4,253 11,548 12,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.72% 15.42% 21.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.14% 48.06% 54.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,866 8,912 7,012
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,223
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% -4.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,250 £78,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year +5.93% -6.35% +0.80%

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 8,654 24,030 22,280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 21.81% 32.09% 38.87%
Number of salaries quoted 5,753 17,653 13,381
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,450 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,650 £70,125
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK 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 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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -13 1,242 £59,000 +7.27% 1,043
South East -6 1,020 £60,000 +9.09% 777
Midlands -8 821 £52,500 +2.94% 489
North West -19 766 £60,000 +4.35% 633
West Midlands -5 554 £55,000 - 316
East of England -2 429 £50,000 - 280
South West -4 418 £53,430 -2.86% 397
Yorkshire -10 355 £59,738 +8.61% 298
East Midlands -19 265 £45,500 -5.21% 169
Scotland -12 234 £57,500 +4.55% 269
North East -8 125 £56,500 +13.00% 121
Wales -17 83 £62,500 +25.00% 93
Northern Ireland -15 12 £52,500 -12.50% 78
Isle of Man +4 4 £43,500 -6.45% 3
Channel Islands -3 3 £60,000 -29.41% 100
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
1 296 (6.96%) SharePoint
2 253 (5.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 206 (4.84%) Confluence
4 59 (1.39%) IIS
5 47 (1.11%) CMS
6 45 (1.06%) Apache Spark
7 25 (0.59%) Umbraco
8 17 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
9 16 (0.38%) Apache
10 14 (0.33%) Tomcat
11 13 (0.31%) IBM Domino
12 10 (0.24%) Headless CMS
13 7 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
13 7 (0.16%) nginx
14 6 (0.14%) WordPress
15 5 (0.12%) Appian
15 5 (0.12%) Jupyter
16 4 (0.094%) Apache Solr
16 4 (0.094%) OpenStack
16 4 (0.094%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 124 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
2 98 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.28%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.19%) Trello
7 7 (0.16%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.071%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 3 (0.071%) Productboard
9 2 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.047%) S-PLUS
10 1 (0.024%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 57 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
3 6 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
3 6 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.071%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.071%) Sage 50
4 3 (0.071%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.047%) Magento
5 2 (0.047%) Sage 1000
6 1 (0.024%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.024%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.024%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.024%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.024%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.024%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.024%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.024%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.024%) Shopify
6 1 (0.024%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,512 (35.55%) AWS
2 938 (22.06%) Microsoft 365
3 848 (19.94%) GCP
4 537 (12.63%) Power Platform
5 468 (11.00%) Azure DevOps
6 459 (10.79%) Entra ID
7 276 (6.49%) SaaS
8 203 (4.77%) Serverless
9 188 (4.42%) Azure Data Factory
10 182 (4.28%) Power Automate
11 174 (4.09%) PaaS
12 156 (3.67%) PowerApps
13 144 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
14 130 (3.06%) GitHub
15 122 (2.87%) Azure Logic Apps
15 122 (2.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 122 (2.87%) IaaS
16 104 (2.45%) Azure Service Bus
17 99 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
18 90 (2.12%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 449 (10.56%) Firewall
2 296 (6.96%) WAN
3 276 (6.49%) DNS
4 226 (5.31%) LAN
5 185 (4.35%) DHCP
6 179 (4.21%) VPN
7 132 (3.10%) VLAN
8 122 (2.87%) TCP/IP
9 108 (2.54%) Network Security
10 102 (2.40%) SD-WAN
11 96 (2.26%) VoIP
12 84 (1.98%) SAN
13 76 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
14 66 (1.55%) Broadband
15 53 (1.25%) Wireless
16 36 (0.85%) OSPF
17 34 (0.80%) BGP
17 34 (0.80%) NAS
18 28 (0.66%) Remote Desktop
19 27 (0.63%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 769 (18.08%) SQL Server
2 395 (9.29%) Power BI
3 193 (4.54%) Data Warehouse
4 192 (4.51%) Data Lake
5 143 (3.36%) NoSQL
6 123 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
7 109 (2.56%) MySQL
8 105 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
9 95 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 92 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
10 92 (2.16%) Relational Database
11 90 (2.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 88 (2.07%) MongoDB
13 76 (1.79%) Big Data
14 65 (1.53%) Tableau
15 63 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
16 51 (1.20%) BigQuery
16 51 (1.20%) Metadata
17 38 (0.89%) Data Mining
18 36 (0.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 391 (9.19%) JIRA
2 290 (6.82%) Selenium
3 289 (6.80%) GitLab
4 284 (6.68%) Git
5 275 (6.47%) SonarQube
6 264 (6.21%) Sonatype Nexus
7 263 (6.18%) Cucumber
8 258 (6.07%) Bitbucket
9 253 (5.95%) Maven
10 99 (2.33%) Jenkins
11 89 (2.09%) Visual Studio
12 52 (1.22%) Octopus Deploy
13 39 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
14 32 (0.75%) MSBuild
14 32 (0.75%) Postman
15 30 (0.71%) JUnit
16 28 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
17 27 (0.63%) TeamCity
18 26 (0.61%) Cypress.io
19 22 (0.52%) Mockito
General
1 1,177 (27.67%) Social Skills
2 934 (21.96%) Finance
3 600 (14.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 474 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
5 400 (9.41%) Banking
6 319 (7.50%) Law
7 317 (7.45%) Retail
8 127 (2.99%) Legal
9 115 (2.70%) Public Sector
10 113 (2.66%) Manufacturing
11 95 (2.23%) Investment Banking
12 90 (2.12%) Corporate Banking
13 74 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
14 72 (1.69%) Marketing
15 63 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
16 54 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
17 41 (0.96%) Automotive
18 39 (0.92%) Advertising
19 36 (0.85%) Telecoms
20 35 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 835 (19.63%) Senior
2 695 (16.34%) Developer
3 640 (15.05%) Software Engineer
4 456 (10.72%) Lead
5 327 (7.69%) Analyst
6 296 (6.96%) IT Support
7 272 (6.40%) Architect
8 241 (5.67%) Senior Software Engineer
9 239 (5.62%) Support Engineer
10 158 (3.72%) Data Engineer
11 155 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 152 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
13 148 (3.48%) Senior Developer
14 143 (3.36%) 2nd Line Support
15 137 (3.22%) Cloud Engineer
16 132 (3.10%) .NET Developer
16 132 (3.10%) IT Engineer
17 124 (2.92%) Support Analyst
18 119 (2.80%) DevOps Engineer
19 113 (2.66%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 821 (19.30%) .NET
2 559 (13.14%) React
3 453 (10.65%) CSS
4 411 (9.66%) HTML
5 336 (7.90%) Node.js
6 335 (7.88%) Kafka
7 320 (7.52%) Spring Boot
8 314 (7.38%) Spring
9 269 (6.32%) REST
10 267 (6.28%) JPA
11 263 (6.18%) Redux
12 215 (5.06%) RESTful
13 184 (4.33%) ASP.NET
14 181 (4.26%) Hibernate
15 160 (3.76%) AngularJS
16 146 (3.43%) .NET Core
17 139 (3.27%) .NET Framework
18 133 (3.13%) HTML5
19 115 (2.70%) Jest
20 107 (2.52%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 366 (8.61%) Product Ownership
2 303 (7.12%) Self-Motivation
3 278 (6.54%) Enterprise Software
4 209 (4.91%) Cyberattack
5 180 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
6 132 (3.10%) Cloud Native
7 115 (2.70%) Management Information System
8 94 (2.21%) Public Cloud
9 92 (2.16%) Driving Licence
10 87 (2.05%) NHS
11 80 (1.88%) Data Centre
12 78 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
13 76 (1.79%) Onboarding
14 68 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
15 67 (1.58%) Data Structures
16 66 (1.55%) Algorithms
17 64 (1.50%) Private Cloud
18 60 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
19 56 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
20 54 (1.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 864 (20.32%) Windows
2 512 (12.04%) Linux
3 438 (10.30%) Windows Server
4 135 (3.17%) Windows 10
5 91 (2.14%) Mac OS
6 80 (1.88%) Android
7 68 (1.60%) Unix
8 65 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
9 64 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
10 58 (1.36%) Apple iOS
11 37 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
12 25 (0.59%) VMS
13 23 (0.54%) Ubuntu
14 13 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 11 (0.26%) CentOS
16 8 (0.19%) SUSE
17 7 (0.16%) Rocky
18 6 (0.14%) Debian
18 6 (0.14%) Windows 7
19 5 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,478 (34.75%) Agile
2 1,226 (28.83%) DevOps
3 1,007 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
4 1,001 (23.54%) CI/CD
5 891 (20.95%) Software Engineering
6 838 (19.70%) Mentoring
7 751 (17.66%) Microservices
8 541 (12.72%) Containerisation
9 506 (11.90%) Analytics
10 478 (11.24%) Test Automation
11 476 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 454 (10.67%) Full-Stack Development
13 441 (10.37%) Business Intelligence
14 417 (9.80%) Data Engineering
15 416 (9.78%) ITIL
16 407 (9.57%) Machine Learning
17 406 (9.55%) SDLC
18 402 (9.45%) User Experience
19 363 (8.54%) Scrum
20 348 (8.18%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,311 (30.83%) SQL
2 876 (20.60%) Python
3 875 (20.57%) JavaScript
4 827 (19.45%) Java
5 613 (14.41%) C#
6 380 (8.93%) PowerShell
7 335 (7.88%) TypeScript
8 280 (6.58%) C++
9 231 (5.43%) Rust
10 230 (5.41%) Go
11 128 (3.01%) T-SQL
12 85 (2.00%) Bash
13 60 (1.41%) PHP
14 54 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 52 (1.22%) Bicep
16 42 (0.99%) R
17 38 (0.89%) VBA
18 26 (0.61%) C
19 23 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
20 20 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 678 (15.94%) Degree
2 435 (10.23%) Security Cleared
3 251 (5.90%) DV Cleared
4 248 (5.83%) AWS Certification
5 234 (5.50%) Azure Certification
6 231 (5.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 222 (5.22%) DBS Check
8 198 (4.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 189 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 174 (4.09%) AWS Certified Developer
11 167 (3.93%) SC Cleared
12 71 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
12 71 (1.67%) PhD
13 65 (1.53%) Master's Degree
14 52 (1.22%) A+ Certification
15 51 (1.20%) MCSA
16 48 (1.13%) MCSE
17 45 (1.06%) CCNA
17 45 (1.06%) Network+ Certification
18 43 (1.01%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 387 (9.10%) QA
2 155 (3.64%) GDPR
3 152 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 152 (3.57%) Data Quality
4 120 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 67 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
5 67 (1.58%) NIST
6 57 (1.34%) SLA
7 38 (0.89%) PCI DSS
8 27 (0.63%) HIPAA
8 27 (0.63%) NCSC
9 17 (0.40%) COBIT
9 17 (0.40%) SOC 2
10 13 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 11 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 8 (0.19%) GRC
14 7 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 7 (0.16%) PMO
15 6 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 770 (18.10%) Active Directory
2 655 (15.40%) Docker
3 240 (5.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 198 (4.66%) Hyper-V
5 82 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
6 62 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 47 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
8 41 (0.96%) vSphere
9 20 (0.47%) XenApp
10 19 (0.45%) Firmware
10 19 (0.45%) Terminal Services
11 9 (0.21%) NFS
12 8 (0.19%) VMware NSX
13 7 (0.16%) BitLocker
13 7 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
14 6 (0.14%) Dovecot
14 6 (0.14%) Postfix
15 5 (0.12%) DFS Replication
15 5 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.071%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 658 (15.47%) Kubernetes
2 360 (8.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 321 (7.55%) Terraform
4 170 (4.00%) Ansible
5 71 (1.67%) Grafana
6 61 (1.43%) Prometheus
7 50 (1.18%) SCCM
8 48 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
9 35 (0.82%) Puppet
10 24 (0.56%) Progress Chef
11 22 (0.52%) FortiGate
12 21 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
12 21 (0.49%) vCenter Server
13 12 (0.28%) Proxmox
13 12 (0.28%) vMotion
14 11 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 9 (0.21%) SmoothWall
15 9 (0.21%) WSUS
16 8 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
16 8 (0.19%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1,762 (41.43%) Microsoft
2 346 (8.14%) VMware
3 246 (5.78%) Solace
4 227 (5.34%) Databricks
5 225 (5.29%) Cisco
6 195 (4.58%) Google
7 108 (2.54%) Meraki
8 105 (2.47%) Oracle
9 85 (2.00%) Citrix
10 81 (1.90%) IBM
11 58 (1.36%) SAP
11 58 (1.36%) ServiceNow
12 57 (1.34%) Apple
13 55 (1.29%) Fortinet
14 53 (1.25%) Veeam
15 43 (1.01%) Palo Alto
16 41 (0.96%) HP
17 38 (0.89%) CheckPoint
17 38 (0.89%) Red Hat
18 34 (0.80%) Salesforce