Azure Storage Job Trends

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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 617 652 624
Rank change year-on-year +35 -28 +282
Permanent jobs citing Azure Storage 36 47 97
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.060% 0.088% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.18% 0.24% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 26 29 81
10th Percentile £54,125 £47,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,500 £56,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% +1.45%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,400 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £59,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.26% -0.83% -9.09%

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 20,529 19,355 22,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.22% 36.17% 40.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11,258 11,374 18,418
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,375 £46,713 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Top 11 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 14 January 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 +54 30 £82,500 +29.41% 14
London +64 20 £82,500 - 6
Work from Home +48 10 £57,500 -28.13% 4
UK excluding London +29 8 £58,750 -1.26% 8
South East +32 3 £75,000 +26.85% 2
North West +16 2 £55,000 -33.33% 1
North of England -9 2 £55,000 -15.38% 2
Midlands +22 1 £60,000 -31.82%
South West +12 1 £57,500 +9.52% 4
East of England - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £60,000 -

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 6 (16.67%) IIS
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (47.22%) Azure Functions
3 17 (47.22%) Azure Monitor
3 17 (47.22%) Serverless
4 13 (36.11%) Entra ID
5 10 (27.78%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (22.22%) Azure AKS
6 8 (22.22%) GitHub
7 7 (19.44%) Power Platform
8 6 (16.67%) Azure Event Grid
8 6 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 6 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (13.89%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (13.89%) Datadog
10 4 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (11.11%) Azure Pipelines
10 4 (11.11%) PaaS
11 3 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 15 (41.67%) Firewall
2 13 (36.11%) VPN
3 10 (27.78%) WAN
4 6 (16.67%) SD-WAN
4 6 (16.67%) SSL
5 5 (13.89%) Network Security
6 3 (8.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (38.89%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (19.44%) Power BI
3 3 (8.33%) Data Lake
3 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.56%) Spark SQL
5 1 (2.78%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.78%) HDInsight
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 14 (38.89%) Finance
2 2 (5.56%) Advertising
2 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (5.56%) Law
2 2 (5.56%) Retail
2 2 (5.56%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 8 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Applications Support
4 6 (16.67%) Applications Support Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Architect
5 4 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Operations Support Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Platform Support Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior
6 3 (8.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Lead
7 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.00%) .NET
2 6 (16.67%) WPF
3 4 (11.11%) ADO
3 4 (11.11%) OAuth
3 4 (11.11%) SAML
3 4 (11.11%) YAML
4 3 (8.33%) ARM Templates
5 2 (5.56%) REST
6 1 (2.78%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.78%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.78%) CSS
6 1 (2.78%) CSS3
6 1 (2.78%) Entity Framework
6 1 (2.78%) HTML
6 1 (2.78%) HTML5
6 1 (2.78%) Kafka
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (2.78%) React
6 1 (2.78%) RESTful
6 1 (2.78%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) CMDB
2 2 (5.56%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.78%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (38.89%) Windows
2 7 (19.44%) Windows Server
3 6 (16.67%) VMS
4 1 (2.78%) Linux
4 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) DevOps
2 21 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 20 (55.56%) Analytics
4 15 (41.67%) Log Analytics
5 14 (38.89%) Storage Management
6 13 (36.11%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (36.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (36.11%) Migration
6 13 (36.11%) Observability
7 12 (33.33%) Runbook
8 11 (30.56%) Incident Management
9 10 (27.78%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (27.78%) Proactive Monitoring
9 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
11 8 (22.22%) Incident Response
11 8 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 7 (19.44%) API Management
12 7 (19.44%) Network Virtualisation
12 7 (19.44%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 25 (69.44%) SQL
2 15 (41.67%) PowerShell
3 10 (27.78%) Python
4 8 (22.22%) C#
5 5 (13.89%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (8.33%) Bicep
7 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.56%) Scala
8 1 (2.78%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (2.78%) Bash
8 1 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.78%) Java
8 1 (2.78%) R
8 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) GDPR
2 4 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 4 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (11.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (30.56%) Active Directory
2 8 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (19.44%) Docker
3 7 (19.44%) Hyper-V
4 6 (16.67%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (2.78%) vCloud
5 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (47.22%) Terraform
2 9 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (16.67%) Grafana
3 6 (16.67%) Kibana
3 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (13.89%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 7 (19.44%) Databricks
3 6 (16.67%) SonicWALL
4 4 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 4 (11.11%) Zscaler
5 1 (2.78%) NetApp
5 1 (2.78%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.78%) VMware