Microsoft Azure Storage
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Storage skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Storage 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 821 867 987
Rank change year-on-year +46 +120 -305
Permanent jobs citing Azure Storage 93 97 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.094% 0.094% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.26% 0.22% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 78 77 118
10th Percentile £46,150 £43,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £59,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,375 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £92,750 £82,500 £95,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +7.27% -15.38%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure Storage is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,320 44,215 75,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.85% 42.74% 48.20%
Number of salaries quoted 26,705 29,050 41,939
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,988 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,600 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Azure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Azure Storage in the UK

Azure Storage
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Storage over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

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 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
England +123 91 £62,500 -5.30% 26
Work from Home +83 59 £59,000 -5.60% 21
London +136 46 £75,000 - 9
UK excluding London -4 44 £59,000 - 16
South East +40 28 £59,000 +7.27% 3
South West -20 7 £62,500 +7.76% 2
North of England +39 5 £45,000 -26.53% 1
West Midlands +20 4 £47,500 -19.15%
Midlands +16 4 £47,500 -9.52% 6
North West +10 3 £60,000 -
Yorkshire - 2 £37,500 - 1

Azure Storage
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 22 (23.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.38%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.30%) IIS
Business Applications
1 5 (5.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 93 (100.00%) Azure
2 46 (49.46%) Entra ID
3 31 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
4 30 (32.26%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (29.03%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (19.35%) Serverless
7 15 (16.13%) Azure Functions
8 10 (10.75%) Azure App Service
8 10 (10.75%) Azure Service Bus
9 9 (9.68%) IaaS
10 7 (7.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 7 (7.53%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (7.53%) Power Platform
11 6 (6.45%) Azure AKS
11 6 (6.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (5.38%) Azure API Management
12 5 (5.38%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (5.38%) PaaS
12 5 (5.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (27.96%) DNS
2 23 (24.73%) Firewall
3 18 (19.35%) DHCP
4 5 (5.38%) SAN
5 4 (4.30%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (4.30%) NetScaler
5 4 (4.30%) Network Security
6 3 (3.23%) VPN
7 1 (1.08%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (22.58%) SQL Server
2 20 (21.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (6.45%) Data Lake
3 6 (6.45%) Power BI
4 4 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (4.30%) Redis
5 3 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.08%) Big Data
6 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.08%) OLTP
6 1 (1.08%) PolyBase
6 1 (1.08%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (9.68%) Git
2 6 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.23%) Moq
3 3 (3.23%) Postman
3 3 (3.23%) Selenium
3 3 (3.23%) SoapUI
3 3 (3.23%) SpecFlow
3 3 (3.23%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.08%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 39 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (11.83%) Finance
3 7 (7.53%) Law
4 3 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (23.66%) Lead
2 16 (17.20%) Developer
3 15 (16.13%) Azure Engineer
4 14 (15.05%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (15.05%) Active Directory Support
4 14 (15.05%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (15.05%) Support Specialist
5 11 (11.83%) Senior
6 10 (10.75%) Architect
6 10 (10.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 8 (8.60%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (7.53%) Site Engineer
9 6 (6.45%) .NET Developer
9 6 (6.45%) Data Engineer
9 6 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (6.45%) IT Engineer
9 6 (6.45%) Lead DevOps
9 6 (6.45%) Software Developer
10 5 (5.38%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (31.18%) ARM Templates
2 24 (25.81%) .NET
3 13 (13.98%) .NET Framework
4 12 (12.90%) .NET Core
5 11 (11.83%) CSS
6 9 (9.68%) REST
6 9 (9.68%) Sass
7 8 (8.60%) Vue
8 7 (7.53%) Entity Framework
8 7 (7.53%) HTML
9 6 (6.45%) ASP.NET
9 6 (6.45%) ASP.NET Web API
9 6 (6.45%) Web Services
9 6 (6.45%) YAML
10 5 (5.38%) React
10 5 (5.38%) Swagger
11 4 (4.30%) ASP.NET MVC
11 4 (4.30%) LESS
11 4 (4.30%) SignalR
12 3 (3.23%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 18 (19.35%) PKI
2 15 (16.13%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (5.38%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (5.38%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.30%) Driving Licence
5 4 (4.30%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (4.30%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.23%) W3C
7 2 (2.15%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.15%) Replication
8 1 (1.08%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 34 (36.56%) Windows
2 28 (30.11%) Windows Server
3 25 (26.88%) Linux
4 18 (19.35%) Windows Server 2016
4 18 (19.35%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (2.15%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.08%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (55.91%) DevOps
2 43 (46.24%) Agile
3 36 (38.71%) CI/CD
4 33 (35.48%) Analytics
5 28 (30.11%) Log Analytics
6 26 (27.96%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (21.51%) ITIL
7 20 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (20.43%) RBAC
8 19 (20.43%) Service Management
9 18 (19.35%) Identity Management
10 17 (18.28%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 16 (17.20%) Microservices
12 15 (16.13%) Release Management
13 14 (15.05%) Containerisation
13 14 (15.05%) Privileged Identity Management
14 13 (13.98%) Software Engineering
15 12 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 12 (12.90%) Scrum
16 11 (11.83%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (45.16%) PowerShell
2 41 (44.09%) C#
3 19 (20.43%) SQL
4 15 (16.13%) Bicep
4 15 (16.13%) JavaScript
4 15 (16.13%) Python
5 14 (15.05%) VB
5 14 (15.05%) VBScript
6 7 (7.53%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.38%) Bash
8 2 (2.15%) Java
9 1 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.08%) PHP
9 1 (1.08%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (25.81%) Degree
2 22 (23.66%) Security Cleared
3 16 (17.20%) Azure Certification
4 14 (15.05%) DV Cleared
4 14 (15.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 8 (8.60%) SC Cleared
6 7 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (4.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (2.15%) CCNA
9 2 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (2.15%) MCSE
10 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.30%) SLA
2 3 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.23%) PMO
2 3 (3.23%) WCAG
3 1 (1.08%) QA
System Software
1 48 (51.61%) Active Directory
2 36 (38.71%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (20.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (11.83%) Docker
5 4 (4.30%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (4.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (3.23%) Xen
6 3 (3.23%) XenApp
7 2 (2.15%) Firmware
7 2 (2.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (25.81%) Kubernetes
2 18 (19.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 17 (18.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (18.28%) SCCM
4 16 (17.20%) SCOM
4 16 (17.20%) WSUS
5 9 (9.68%) Terraform
6 7 (7.53%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (4.30%) PowerCLI
7 4 (4.30%) vCenter Server
7 4 (4.30%) vRealize
7 4 (4.30%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 2 (2.15%) HP SIM
8 2 (2.15%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 60 (64.52%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.53%) Citrix
2 7 (7.53%) VMware
3 6 (6.45%) Databricks
4 5 (5.38%) BMC
4 5 (5.38%) Remedy
5 4 (4.30%) 3PAR
5 4 (4.30%) Brocade
5 4 (4.30%) HP
5 4 (4.30%) Nimble Storage
6 3 (3.23%) Cisco
6 3 (3.23%) Commvault
6 3 (3.23%) Veeam
7 2 (2.15%) CA
7 2 (2.15%) Forcepoint
7 2 (2.15%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.08%) EMC
8 1 (1.08%) Isilon
8 1 (1.08%) NetApp
8 1 (1.08%) Varonis