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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 11,239 12,688 14,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.97% 20.69% 19.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.87% 54.24% 49.33%
Number of salaries quoted 8,812 7,341 9,492
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,000
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 £78,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £64,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.53% +3.20% +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 23,477 23,392 28,614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.35% 38.14% 40.24%
Number of salaries quoted 17,392 14,038 19,888
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 5 May 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 5 May 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 3,052 £55,000 - 649
South East -2 2,788 £54,000 -6.09% 545
Midlands +2 1,934 £50,000 -9.09% 467
North West 0 1,627 £57,500 +4.55% 364
South West -2 1,410 £55,000 +4.76% 346
West Midlands +2 1,160 £54,000 -1.82% 275
Yorkshire 0 1,047 £55,000 - 217
Scotland -22 811 £55,000 -7.60% 179
East of England 0 795 £50,000 -1.96% 191
East Midlands +4 771 £47,500 -9.52% 191
North East +4 380 £47,500 -13.64% 73
Wales -1 333 £50,000 - 99
Northern Ireland -7 109 £55,000 +4.76% 53
Isle of Man -1 17 £46,500 -33.57% 3
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
1 870 (7.74%) SharePoint
2 826 (7.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 288 (2.56%) ArcGIS
4 286 (2.54%) GeoServer
5 243 (2.16%) IIS
6 97 (0.86%) CMS
7 92 (0.82%) Confluence
8 82 (0.73%) Umbraco
9 77 (0.69%) Apache
10 67 (0.60%) 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 32 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
16 25 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2013
16 25 (0.22%) WebSphere
17 24 (0.21%) FileNet
18 22 (0.20%) Captiva
Applications
1 440 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
2 143 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 22 (0.20%) Trello
7 19 (0.17%) Simulink
8 10 (0.089%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.071%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.053%) LightWave 3D
11 4 (0.036%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.027%) Spreadsheet
13 2 (0.018%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.018%) CATIA
13 2 (0.018%) NASTRAN
13 2 (0.018%) Sketch
13 2 (0.018%) S-PLUS
14 1 (0.009%) 1Password
14 1 (0.009%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.009%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 156 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 74 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 32 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
4 14 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
5 11 (0.098%) 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 (0.053%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.053%) SAP PLM
10 5 (0.044%) SAP IBP
10 5 (0.044%) SAP PP
11 4 (0.036%) Elite 3E
11 4 (0.036%) Oracle EBS
11 4 (0.036%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.036%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.036%) Visualfiles
12 3 (0.027%) Oracle Applications
12 3 (0.027%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3,307 (29.42%) AWS
2 2,848 (25.34%) Microsoft 365
3 1,569 (13.96%) Azure DevOps
4 1,184 (10.53%) Entra ID
5 1,144 (10.18%) Power Platform
6 1,098 (9.77%) GCP
7 652 (5.80%) SaaS
8 410 (3.65%) Serverless
9 357 (3.18%) PaaS
10 337 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
11 319 (2.84%) IaaS
12 295 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
13 278 (2.47%) OneDrive
14 276 (2.46%) GitHub
15 275 (2.45%) IBM Cloud
16 250 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
17 243 (2.16%) PowerApps
18 220 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
19 218 (1.94%) Azure Functions
20 207 (1.84%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,310 (11.66%) Firewall
2 878 (7.81%) DNS
3 641 (5.70%) WAN
4 572 (5.09%) DHCP
5 469 (4.17%) LAN
6 465 (4.14%) VPN
7 412 (3.67%) TCP/IP
8 303 (2.70%) SAN
9 271 (2.41%) Internet
10 258 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
11 251 (2.23%) VLAN
12 213 (1.90%) Wireless
13 201 (1.79%) Network Security
14 178 (1.58%) SD-WAN
15 176 (1.57%) VoIP
16 168 (1.49%) Broadband
17 118 (1.05%) Remote Desktop
18 98 (0.87%) BGP
19 90 (0.80%) HTTP
20 87 (0.77%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,144 (19.08%) SQL Server
2 836 (7.44%) Power BI
3 775 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 726 (6.46%) Data Warehouse
5 554 (4.93%) NoSQL
6 541 (4.81%) MongoDB
7 427 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 374 (3.33%) Relational Database
9 349 (3.11%) Data Lake
10 338 (3.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 334 (2.97%) GIS
12 284 (2.53%) QGIS
13 279 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
14 256 (2.28%) DB2
15 249 (2.22%) MySQL
16 204 (1.82%) BigQuery
17 193 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
18 180 (1.60%) Looker
19 171 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 130 (1.16%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 646 (5.75%) Git
2 403 (3.59%) JIRA
3 292 (2.60%) Jenkins
4 240 (2.14%) GitLab
5 207 (1.84%) Visual Studio
6 136 (1.21%) Selenium
7 101 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
8 77 (0.69%) Postman
9 69 (0.61%) Cypress.io
10 65 (0.58%) NUnit
11 49 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
12 45 (0.40%) Jasmine
13 41 (0.36%) Cucumber
14 40 (0.36%) JMeter
15 38 (0.34%) SonarQube
16 36 (0.32%) Bitbucket
17 35 (0.31%) TeamCity
18 33 (0.29%) Artifactory
19 31 (0.28%) Karma Test Runner
20 30 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,500 (22.24%) Social Skills
2 1,473 (13.11%) Finance
3 854 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
4 720 (6.41%) Public Sector
5 523 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 490 (4.36%) Retail
7 472 (4.20%) Law
8 300 (2.67%) Legal
9 278 (2.47%) Marketing
10 222 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
11 217 (1.93%) Banking
12 216 (1.92%) Manufacturing
13 169 (1.50%) Telecoms
14 164 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
15 163 (1.45%) Games
16 159 (1.41%) Aerospace
17 120 (1.07%) Advertising
18 90 (0.80%) Billing
19 81 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
20 57 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2,830 (25.18%) Developer
2 1,774 (15.78%) Senior
3 1,390 (12.37%) .NET Developer
4 1,000 (8.90%) Architect
5 977 (8.69%) Lead
6 920 (8.19%) Software Engineer
7 784 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 701 (6.24%) Analyst
9 683 (6.08%) Support Engineer
10 617 (5.49%) IT Support
11 601 (5.35%) IT Engineer
12 543 (4.83%) C# Developer
13 492 (4.38%) Azure Engineer
14 467 (4.16%) Senior Developer
15 442 (3.93%) C# .NET Developer
16 390 (3.47%) Senior Software Engineer
17 383 (3.41%) Data Engineer
18 373 (3.32%) IT Support Engineer
19 341 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
20 340 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,121 (27.77%) .NET
2 1,477 (13.14%) React
3 1,430 (12.72%) AngularJS
4 1,406 (12.51%) .NET Core
5 1,398 (12.44%) ASP.NET
6 1,279 (11.38%) CSS
7 1,213 (10.79%) HTML
8 872 (7.76%) .NET Framework
9 861 (7.66%) ASP.NET Web API
10 808 (7.19%) Entity Framework
11 745 (6.63%) ASP.NET MVC
12 677 (6.02%) Vue
13 604 (5.37%) Node.js
14 590 (5.25%) REST
15 545 (4.85%) RESTful
16 472 (4.20%) HTML5
17 454 (4.04%) Web Services
18 452 (4.02%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 399 (3.55%) Blazor
20 373 (3.32%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 609 (5.42%) Public Cloud
2 392 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
3 383 (3.41%) Data Structures
4 347 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
5 346 (3.08%) Algorithms
6 320 (2.85%) Management Information System
7 308 (2.74%) Product Ownership
8 294 (2.62%) Blockchain
8 294 (2.62%) Cloud Native
9 257 (2.29%) Data Centre
10 250 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
11 235 (2.09%) Driving Licence
12 213 (1.90%) Onboarding
13 185 (1.65%) Private Cloud
14 164 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
15 144 (1.28%) PKI
16 143 (1.27%) Mobile App
17 141 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
18 134 (1.19%) e-Learning
18 134 (1.19%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2,641 (23.50%) Windows
2 1,317 (11.72%) Windows Server
3 1,305 (11.61%) Linux
4 471 (4.19%) Windows 10
5 448 (3.99%) Android
6 391 (3.48%) Apple iOS
7 273 (2.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 226 (2.01%) Windows Server 2019
9 208 (1.85%) Ubuntu
10 193 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
11 155 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 138 (1.23%) Unix
13 134 (1.19%) VMS
14 121 (1.08%) CentOS
15 111 (0.99%) Mac OS
16 93 (0.83%) Debian
17 44 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
19 32 (0.28%) Windows 7
20 22 (0.20%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,716 (33.06%) Agile
2 3,068 (27.30%) DevOps
3 1,813 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
4 1,776 (15.80%) Full Stack Development
5 1,366 (12.15%) CI/CD
6 1,362 (12.12%) Software Engineering
7 1,294 (11.51%) Microservices
8 1,276 (11.35%) MVC
9 1,094 (9.73%) Mentoring
10 1,036 (9.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 1,021 (9.08%) Scrum
12 923 (8.21%) Business Intelligence
13 901 (8.02%) ITIL
14 864 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
15 848 (7.55%) Cybersecurity
16 796 (7.08%) Migration
17 783 (6.97%) Roadmaps
18 761 (6.77%) Web Development
19 747 (6.65%) Customer Service
20 744 (6.62%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 3,008 (26.76%) C#
2 2,700 (24.02%) SQL
3 2,570 (22.87%) JavaScript
4 1,413 (12.57%) Python
5 919 (8.18%) PowerShell
6 908 (8.08%) Java
7 776 (6.90%) TypeScript
8 453 (4.03%) T-SQL
9 327 (2.91%) Bash
10 108 (0.96%) C++
11 103 (0.92%) Go
12 101 (0.90%) Bicep
13 85 (0.76%) PHP
14 77 (0.69%) VB.NET
15 74 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 73 (0.65%) VB
17 66 (0.59%) Kotlin
18 61 (0.54%) Ruby
19 57 (0.51%) C
20 39 (0.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,256 (11.18%) Security Cleared
2 1,127 (10.03%) Degree
3 912 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 601 (5.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 521 (4.64%) Azure Certification
6 321 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
7 256 (2.28%) DV Cleared
8 255 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 239 (2.13%) CCNA
10 211 (1.88%) DBS Check
11 195 (1.74%) AWS Certification
12 164 (1.46%) CISSP
13 149 (1.33%) MCSE
14 100 (0.89%) CCNP
15 92 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
16 86 (0.77%) Master's Degree
17 82 (0.73%) MCSA
18 80 (0.71%) CISM
19 76 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 76 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 474 (4.22%) QA
2 345 (3.07%) GDPR
3 287 (2.55%) Data Quality
4 247 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 237 (2.11%) SLA
6 160 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 138 (1.23%) NIST
8 77 (0.69%) Accessibility
9 60 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 25 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 25 (0.22%) NCSC
11 19 (0.17%) PMO
11 19 (0.17%) SOC 2
12 18 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 15 (0.13%) HIPAA
14 14 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 12 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 10 (0.089%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.071%) GRC
17 8 (0.071%) PSD2
System Software
1 2,115 (18.82%) Active Directory
2 889 (7.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 845 (7.52%) Hyper-V
4 829 (7.38%) Docker
5 284 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
6 144 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 141 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
8 126 (1.12%) vSphere
9 58 (0.52%) VMware NSX
10 55 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
11 35 (0.31%) XenApp
12 28 (0.25%) Terminal Services
12 28 (0.25%) XenDesktop
13 23 (0.20%) Firmware
14 19 (0.17%) VMware Server
15 11 (0.098%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 9 (0.080%) KVM
17 8 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 8 (0.071%) pfSense
18 7 (0.062%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,014 (9.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 924 (8.22%) Kubernetes
3 769 (6.84%) Terraform
4 416 (3.70%) Ansible
5 222 (1.98%) SCCM
6 120 (1.07%) Puppet
7 98 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
8 97 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
9 91 (0.81%) vCenter Server
10 84 (0.75%) WSUS
11 79 (0.70%) SCOM
12 73 (0.65%) Progress Chef
13 69 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 69 (0.61%) Grafana
14 62 (0.55%) Prometheus
15 56 (0.50%) FortiGate
16 32 (0.28%) CASB
17 31 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
18 26 (0.23%) ZABBIX
19 24 (0.21%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 4,996 (44.45%) Microsoft
2 1,337 (11.90%) VMware
3 710 (6.32%) Google
4 549 (4.88%) Cisco
5 397 (3.53%) Red Hat
6 366 (3.26%) IBM
7 323 (2.87%) Oracle
8 304 (2.70%) Citrix
9 289 (2.57%) ESRI
10 278 (2.47%) Databricks
10 278 (2.47%) Veeam
11 168 (1.49%) HP
12 162 (1.44%) Meraki
13 122 (1.09%) Dell
13 122 (1.09%) Fortinet
14 113 (1.01%) Apple
15 109 (0.97%) Aruba
16 107 (0.95%) ServiceNow
17 101 (0.90%) Sophos
18 92 (0.82%) SolarWinds