Microsoft Azure Blueprints
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Blueprints skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Blueprints over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 893 981 1207
Rank change year-on-year +88 +226 -329
Permanent jobs citing Azure Blueprints 18 18 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.017% 0.004%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.086% 0.058% 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 18 15 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60,000 £38,999 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £42,342 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +53.51% -39.51% +7.69%
75th Percentile £94,326 £54,092 -
90th Percentile £113,750 £81,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £42,342 -
% change year-on-year +41.70% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Azure Blueprints is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,036 31,192 63,274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.35% 30.12% 40.44%
Number of salaries quoted 15,709 19,201 30,320
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Azure Blueprints
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Blueprints as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Blueprints in the UK

Azure Blueprints
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Blueprints.

Salary trend for Azure Blueprints in the UK

Azure Blueprints
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Blueprints over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Blueprints in the UK

Azure Blueprints
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Blueprints within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England +92 18 £65,000 +53.51% 1
UK excluding London -13 12 £60,000 +41.70%
Work from Home +74 11 £60,000 +41.70% 1
Midlands +24 8 £60,000 -
West Midlands +23 8 £60,000 -
London - 6 £102,500 - 1
South East - 4 £66,250 -

Azure Blueprints
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (11.11%) Apache
1 2 (11.11%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (72.22%) AWS
2 13 (72.22%) Azure DevOps
2 13 (72.22%) IaaS
2 13 (72.22%) PaaS
3 10 (55.56%) GitHub
4 8 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (44.44%) SaaS
5 7 (38.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 5 (27.78%) Azure AKS
6 5 (27.78%) GCP
7 4 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (22.22%) Azure Pipelines
8 3 (16.67%) Azure Stack
8 3 (16.67%) Azure Storage
8 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
9 2 (11.11%) Akamai
9 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) VPN
2 3 (16.67%) Firewall
2 3 (16.67%) Network Security
3 2 (11.11%) LAN
3 2 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 3 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (66.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.56%) Gatling
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) JUnit
2 1 (5.56%) LoadRunner
2 1 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Lead
2 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Site Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Project Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (83.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Management Information System
1 8 (44.44%) Onboarding
2 3 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
1 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) DevOps
2 12 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 12 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 9 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 8 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 8 (44.44%) Continuous Delivery
4 8 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (44.44%) Deployment Automation
4 8 (44.44%) DevSecOps
4 8 (44.44%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 8 (44.44%) Functional Testing
4 8 (44.44%) Non-Functional Testing
4 8 (44.44%) Performance Analysis
4 8 (44.44%) Project Management
4 8 (44.44%) Release Management
4 8 (44.44%) Static Application Security Testing
5 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
6 5 (27.78%) Cloud Security
6 5 (27.78%) Microservices
6 5 (27.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) Bicep
2 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 3 (16.67%) Bash
4 2 (11.11%) Korn
4 2 (11.11%) PHP
5 1 (5.56%) Go
5 1 (5.56%) Groovy
5 1 (5.56%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.56%) Python
5 1 (5.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) BPSS Clearance
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) NCSC
2 4 (22.22%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Docker
2 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (11.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (72.22%) Kubernetes
2 8 (44.44%) Ansible
2 8 (44.44%) Terraform
3 5 (27.78%) Istio
4 3 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 4 (22.22%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace