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

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 5 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 4,296 11,287 12,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.96% 15.90% 20.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.32% 48.00% 54.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,030 8,846 7,163
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £66,650 £71,500
90th Percentile £85,022 £78,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £64,987
% change year-on-year +5.93% -9.21% +3.98%

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 9,079 23,516 22,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.16% 33.12% 38.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6,245 17,436 13,723
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,701 £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 12 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 12 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 -11 1,251 £60,000 +9.09% 1,052
South East -6 995 £60,000 +11.11% 1,431
Midlands -8 876 £52,500 +5.00% 555
North West -17 781 £60,000 +4.35% 583
West Midlands -5 598 £55,000 - 359
South West -4 440 £55,000 - 387
East of England -7 391 £50,000 - 328
Yorkshire -10 351 £56,250 +2.27% 337
East Midlands -14 276 £46,000 -3.16% 169
Scotland -1 243 £57,500 +4.55% 291
North East -7 123 £57,500 +21.05% 146
Wales -13 95 £55,000 +10.00% 103
Northern Ireland -18 13 £52,500 -4.55% 77
Isle of Man +4 5 £38,000 -18.28% 7
Channel Islands -2 2 £78,750 -7.35%
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
1 305 (7.10%) SharePoint
2 264 (6.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 203 (4.73%) Confluence
4 68 (1.58%) IIS
5 42 (0.98%) CMS
6 31 (0.72%) Apache Spark
7 22 (0.51%) Umbraco
8 19 (0.44%) IBM Domino
9 16 (0.37%) Apache
9 16 (0.37%) Tomcat
10 12 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
11 9 (0.21%) Headless CMS
12 6 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
12 6 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.14%) WordPress
13 5 (0.12%) Apache Solr
13 5 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 5 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
14 4 (0.093%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 127 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
2 89 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.30%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.16%) Trello
7 3 (0.070%) Productboard
8 2 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.047%) S-PLUS
9 1 (0.023%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.023%) Revit
Business Applications
1 57 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
3 7 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
4 6 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.12%) Markit EDM
6 3 (0.070%) Magento
6 3 (0.070%) Sage 50
6 3 (0.070%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.047%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.047%) Shopify
8 1 (0.023%) GoldMine
8 1 (0.023%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 1 (0.023%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.023%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.023%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.023%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.023%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.023%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.023%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,442 (33.57%) AWS
2 962 (22.39%) Microsoft 365
3 783 (18.23%) GCP
4 528 (12.29%) Power Platform
5 503 (11.71%) Azure DevOps
6 465 (10.82%) Entra ID
7 324 (7.54%) SaaS
8 188 (4.38%) Azure Data Factory
9 184 (4.28%) PaaS
10 166 (3.86%) Power Automate
11 155 (3.61%) Serverless
12 149 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
12 149 (3.47%) PowerApps
13 146 (3.40%) GitHub
14 125 (2.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 125 (2.91%) IaaS
15 118 (2.75%) Azure Logic Apps
16 111 (2.58%) Azure Service Bus
17 92 (2.14%) Snowflake
18 90 (2.09%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 451 (10.50%) Firewall
2 309 (7.19%) WAN
3 301 (7.01%) DNS
4 233 (5.42%) LAN
5 197 (4.59%) VPN
6 196 (4.56%) DHCP
7 127 (2.96%) VLAN
8 124 (2.89%) Network Security
9 121 (2.82%) TCP/IP
10 117 (2.72%) SD-WAN
11 98 (2.28%) VoIP
12 85 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
13 77 (1.79%) SAN
14 51 (1.19%) Wireless
15 33 (0.77%) NAS
16 31 (0.72%) BGP
16 31 (0.72%) OSPF
16 31 (0.72%) Remote Desktop
17 30 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
18 29 (0.68%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 798 (18.58%) SQL Server
2 380 (8.85%) Power BI
3 180 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
4 172 (4.00%) Data Lake
5 138 (3.21%) NoSQL
6 126 (2.93%) Azure SQL Database
7 114 (2.65%) MySQL
7 114 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
8 94 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
8 94 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 91 (2.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 82 (1.91%) Relational Database
11 78 (1.82%) MongoDB
12 71 (1.65%) Tableau
13 68 (1.58%) Big Data
14 55 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
15 51 (1.19%) BigQuery
16 48 (1.12%) Metadata
17 38 (0.88%) Data Mining
18 29 (0.68%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 392 (9.12%) JIRA
2 298 (6.94%) Git
3 296 (6.89%) GitLab
4 288 (6.70%) Selenium
5 281 (6.54%) SonarQube
6 267 (6.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 264 (6.15%) Cucumber
8 257 (5.98%) Bitbucket
8 257 (5.98%) Maven
9 112 (2.61%) Jenkins
10 107 (2.49%) Visual Studio
11 52 (1.21%) Octopus Deploy
12 43 (1.00%) Team Foundation Server
13 38 (0.88%) MSBuild
14 36 (0.84%) Postman
15 35 (0.81%) JUnit
16 29 (0.68%) webpack
17 28 (0.65%) Cypress.io
17 28 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
17 28 (0.65%) TeamCity
General
1 1,155 (26.89%) Social Skills
2 939 (21.86%) Finance
3 598 (13.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 435 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
5 410 (9.54%) Banking
6 310 (7.22%) Retail
7 272 (6.33%) Law
8 122 (2.84%) Manufacturing
9 118 (2.75%) Public Sector
10 102 (2.37%) Legal
11 95 (2.21%) Investment Banking
12 90 (2.09%) Corporate Banking
13 75 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
14 72 (1.68%) Marketing
15 46 (1.07%) Automotive
16 45 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
17 42 (0.98%) Telecoms
18 40 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
19 32 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
20 31 (0.72%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 832 (19.37%) Senior
2 702 (16.34%) Developer
3 668 (15.55%) Software Engineer
4 453 (10.54%) Lead
5 326 (7.59%) Analyst
6 286 (6.66%) Architect
7 266 (6.19%) IT Support
8 262 (6.10%) Senior Software Engineer
9 227 (5.28%) Support Engineer
10 172 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 163 (3.79%) Senior Developer
12 162 (3.77%) Data Engineer
13 144 (3.35%) IT Engineer
14 142 (3.31%) .NET Developer
15 141 (3.28%) Azure Engineer
16 140 (3.26%) Cloud Engineer
17 127 (2.96%) 2nd Line Support
18 121 (2.82%) DevOps Engineer
19 111 (2.58%) Software Developer
20 105 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 863 (20.09%) .NET
2 599 (13.94%) React
3 489 (11.38%) CSS
4 448 (10.43%) HTML
5 338 (7.87%) Node.js
6 329 (7.66%) Spring Boot
7 328 (7.64%) Spring
8 323 (7.52%) Kafka
9 275 (6.40%) REST
10 272 (6.33%) JPA
11 268 (6.24%) Redux
12 225 (5.24%) RESTful
13 207 (4.82%) ASP.NET
14 192 (4.47%) AngularJS
15 189 (4.40%) Hibernate
16 168 (3.91%) .NET Framework
17 153 (3.56%) .NET Core
18 138 (3.21%) HTML5
19 120 (2.79%) Jest
20 112 (2.61%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 363 (8.45%) Product Ownership
2 280 (6.52%) Enterprise Software
3 259 (6.03%) Self-Motivation
4 209 (4.86%) Cyberattack
5 182 (4.24%) Linux Command Line
6 117 (2.72%) Management Information System
7 112 (2.61%) Cloud Native
8 106 (2.47%) Public Cloud
9 95 (2.21%) Data Centre
10 92 (2.14%) NHS
11 82 (1.91%) Onboarding
12 81 (1.89%) Driving Licence
13 76 (1.77%) Algorithms
14 69 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
15 68 (1.58%) Data Structures
15 68 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
15 68 (1.58%) Private Cloud
16 58 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
17 54 (1.26%) Security Posture
18 51 (1.19%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 863 (20.09%) Windows
2 548 (12.76%) Linux
3 427 (9.94%) Windows Server
4 135 (3.14%) Windows 10
5 92 (2.14%) Android
6 80 (1.86%) Mac OS
7 71 (1.65%) Apple iOS
7 71 (1.65%) Unix
7 71 (1.65%) Windows Server 2016
8 60 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 36 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
10 25 (0.58%) VMS
11 22 (0.51%) Ubuntu
12 15 (0.35%) CentOS
13 12 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 9 (0.21%) SUSE
15 7 (0.16%) Rocky
15 7 (0.16%) Windows 7
16 6 (0.14%) Debian
17 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,434 (33.38%) Agile
2 1,288 (29.98%) DevOps
3 964 (22.44%) CI/CD
4 949 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
5 924 (21.51%) Software Engineering
6 790 (18.39%) Mentoring
7 767 (17.85%) Microservices
8 569 (13.24%) Containerisation
9 486 (11.31%) Analytics
10 484 (11.27%) Test Automation
11 474 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 473 (11.01%) Full-Stack Development
13 446 (10.38%) ITIL
14 423 (9.85%) Business Intelligence
15 418 (9.73%) SDLC
16 410 (9.54%) Data Engineering
17 396 (9.22%) User Experience
18 383 (8.92%) Scrum
19 344 (8.01%) Performance Optimisation
20 333 (7.75%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,305 (30.38%) SQL
2 930 (21.65%) JavaScript
3 850 (19.79%) Java
4 818 (19.04%) Python
5 656 (15.27%) C#
6 398 (9.26%) PowerShell
7 298 (6.94%) TypeScript
8 287 (6.68%) C++
9 236 (5.49%) Go
10 231 (5.38%) Rust
11 134 (3.12%) T-SQL
12 100 (2.33%) Bash
13 65 (1.51%) PHP
14 61 (1.42%) Bicep
15 53 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 51 (1.19%) R
17 29 (0.68%) VBA
18 28 (0.65%) C
19 27 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
20 21 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 632 (14.71%) Degree
2 435 (10.13%) Security Cleared
3 249 (5.80%) DV Cleared
4 237 (5.52%) AWS Certification
4 237 (5.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 235 (5.47%) Azure Certification
6 209 (4.86%) DBS Check
7 196 (4.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 175 (4.07%) AWS Certified Developer
9 162 (3.77%) SC Cleared
10 159 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
11 72 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
12 50 (1.16%) A+ Certification
13 49 (1.14%) MCSA
14 46 (1.07%) MCSE
15 44 (1.02%) CISSP
16 43 (1.00%) Network+ Certification
17 42 (0.98%) Master's Degree
18 40 (0.93%) CCNA
18 40 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 410 (9.54%) QA
2 151 (3.51%) Accessibility
3 150 (3.49%) Data Quality
4 142 (3.31%) GDPR
5 118 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 72 (1.68%) SLA
7 67 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
8 62 (1.44%) NIST
9 42 (0.98%) PCI DSS
10 27 (0.63%) NCSC
11 22 (0.51%) HIPAA
12 17 (0.40%) COBIT
13 16 (0.37%) SOC 2
14 14 (0.33%) GRC
15 12 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 11 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 7 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 6 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
19 5 (0.12%) ISO 22301
20 4 (0.093%) PMO
System Software
1 788 (18.34%) Active Directory
2 686 (15.97%) Docker
3 251 (5.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 203 (4.73%) Hyper-V
5 83 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
6 70 (1.63%) Virtual Desktop
7 49 (1.14%) vSphere
8 41 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
9 21 (0.49%) Firmware
10 18 (0.42%) XenApp
11 16 (0.37%) Terminal Services
12 9 (0.21%) DFS Replication
12 9 (0.21%) NFS
12 9 (0.21%) VMware NSX
13 8 (0.19%) BitLocker
14 7 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
15 6 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
16 5 (0.12%) KVM
16 5 (0.12%) Postfix
17 3 (0.070%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 686 (15.97%) Kubernetes
2 333 (7.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 321 (7.47%) Terraform
4 166 (3.86%) Ansible
5 54 (1.26%) Grafana
6 50 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
7 42 (0.98%) Prometheus
8 41 (0.95%) SCCM
9 40 (0.93%) Puppet
10 30 (0.70%) Progress Chef
11 24 (0.56%) FortiGate
11 24 (0.56%) vCenter Server
12 19 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
13 13 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 12 (0.28%) vMotion
15 10 (0.23%) SmoothWall
15 10 (0.23%) WSUS
16 9 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
16 9 (0.21%) Nagios
17 8 (0.19%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,795 (41.78%) Microsoft
2 361 (8.40%) VMware
3 246 (5.73%) Solace
4 242 (5.63%) Cisco
5 231 (5.38%) Databricks
6 185 (4.31%) Google
7 116 (2.70%) Meraki
8 107 (2.49%) Oracle
9 89 (2.07%) IBM
10 81 (1.89%) Citrix
11 66 (1.54%) ServiceNow
12 61 (1.42%) SAP
13 59 (1.37%) Apple
14 57 (1.33%) Fortinet
15 49 (1.14%) Veeam
16 44 (1.02%) Palo Alto
17 43 (1.00%) SolarWinds
18 42 (0.98%) Red Hat
19 38 (0.88%) CheckPoint
19 38 (0.88%) HP