Microsoft Azure Storage
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Azure Storage skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 693 649 758
Rank change year-on-year -44 +109 -3
Permanent jobs citing Azure Storage 68 35 126
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.069% 0.071% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% 0.22% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 61 31 97
10th Percentile £53,750 £42,500 £48,929
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,750 £57,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -12.59% +3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £68,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £88,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% - -1.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

Azure Storage 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 27,060 15,940 33,582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.43% 32.39% 33.18%
Number of salaries quoted 17,658 11,111 25,497
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,333
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.27% -6.67%

Azure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure Storage relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Azure Storage job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure Storage
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Storage.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Storage

Azure Storage
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Storage over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Storage within the UK over the 6 months to 12 July 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
England -28 66 £60,000 +1.69% 9
UK excluding London -51 36 £60,000 +1.69% 8
London -1 30 £80,000 +23.08% 2
South East -16 15 £60,000 +1.69% 5
East of England -13 9 £60,000 +33.33%
East Midlands - 9 £60,000 -
Midlands - 9 £60,000 - 1
Work from Home -10 5 £36,250 -44.23% 8
North of England -20 2 £45,000 -30.77% 1
North West -12 1 £55,000 -15.38%
Yorkshire -33 1 £35,000 -45.10% 1
South West -59 1 £38,979 -22.04%

Azure Storage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.47%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 68 (100.00%) Azure
2 41 (60.29%) Azure Key Vault
3 31 (45.59%) Azure AKS
4 30 (44.12%) IaaS
5 28 (41.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 22 (32.35%) Azure Monitor
7 14 (20.59%) Azure Service Bus
7 14 (20.59%) GitHub
7 14 (20.59%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (17.65%) Power Platform
9 11 (16.18%) Azure Functions
9 11 (16.18%) Serverless
10 10 (14.71%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (10.29%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (7.35%) Entra ID
12 5 (7.35%) SaaS
13 4 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
14 2 (2.94%) Azure App Service
14 2 (2.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (41.18%) DNS
2 13 (19.12%) DMARC
3 1 (1.47%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.65%) Power BI
2 8 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (4.41%) Data Lake
4 3 (4.41%) Star Schema
5 2 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.47%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (7.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (4.41%) Git
3 2 (2.94%) JUnit
3 2 (2.94%) Liquibase
3 2 (2.94%) Mockito
General
1 29 (42.65%) Law
2 9 (13.24%) Finance
3 7 (10.29%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.94%) Advertising
4 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (55.88%) Azure Engineer
2 29 (42.65%) Cloud Engineer
3 28 (41.18%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 14 (20.59%) Lead
5 7 (10.29%) Technical Leader
6 6 (8.82%) Data Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) Java Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) Lead Java Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Senior
7 5 (7.35%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Applications Support
8 3 (4.41%) Architect
8 3 (4.41%) Azure Data Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Data Manager
8 3 (4.41%) Engineering Manager
8 3 (4.41%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Site Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) Reliability Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) Senior Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (23.53%) RESTful
2 13 (19.12%) Node.js
2 13 (19.12%) OAuth
2 13 (19.12%) OAuth2
2 13 (19.12%) Spring
2 13 (19.12%) Spring Boot
2 13 (19.12%) YAML
3 7 (10.29%) .NET
4 5 (7.35%) .NET Core
5 3 (4.41%) PySpark
6 2 (2.94%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (2.94%) WireMock
6 2 (2.94%) WPF
7 1 (1.47%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.47%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.06%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.41%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.47%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.47%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.47%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.47%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.35%) VMS
2 3 (4.41%) Windows
3 1 (1.47%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (64.71%) Containerisation
2 38 (55.88%) Root Cause Analysis
3 34 (50.00%) Agile
4 29 (42.65%) High Availability
5 28 (41.18%) Load Balancing
6 26 (38.24%) DevOps
7 25 (36.76%) CI/CD
8 19 (27.94%) Mentoring
9 17 (25.00%) Microservices
10 16 (23.53%) Event-Driven
11 15 (22.06%) Analytics
12 14 (20.59%) API Design
12 14 (20.59%) Technical Debt
13 13 (19.12%) Test Automation
14 12 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
15 11 (16.18%) Data Engineering
16 10 (14.71%) Data Pipeline
17 9 (13.24%) Log Analytics
18 8 (11.76%) Data Architecture
18 8 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 37 (54.41%) PowerShell
2 20 (29.41%) SQL
3 15 (22.06%) Java
4 11 (16.18%) Python
5 7 (10.29%) C#
6 5 (7.35%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.47%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 29 (42.65%) Azure Certification
2 4 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.47%) Degree
4 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.47%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (20.59%) QA
2 7 (10.29%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.41%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (7.35%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.88%) Docker
3 2 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (45.59%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.94%) Grafana
2 2 (2.94%) Kibana
2 2 (2.94%) Terraform
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (19.12%) SendGrid
2 10 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 9 (13.24%) Databricks
4 1 (1.47%) Cisco