Microsoft Azure
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 16,639 23,426 30,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.97% 22.38% 19.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.26% 51.92% 40.75%
Number of salaries quoted 13,173 14,855 19,134
10th Percentile £33,966 £36,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,208 45,118 74,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.91% 43.11% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 29,500 41,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £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 £95,000 £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
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the UK

Azure
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Azure in the UK

Azure
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure in the UK

Azure
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 -1 14,762 £59,500 -8.46% 3,263
UK excluding London -1 11,211 £52,500 -4.55% 2,226
Work from Home +1 7,528 £60,000 -7.69% 2,056
London 0 4,658 £75,000 - 1,202
North of England 0 3,055 £55,000 - 610
South East -2 2,780 £55,000 -4.35% 507
Midlands +2 1,930 £50,000 -9.09% 394
North West 0 1,630 £57,500 +4.55% 351
South West -1 1,399 £55,000 +4.76% 306
West Midlands +2 1,153 £54,000 -1.82% 241
Yorkshire 0 1,055 £55,000 - 192
Scotland -24 803 £55,000 -7.60% 154
East of England 0 799 £50,000 -4.76% 182
East Midlands +3 774 £48,500 -7.62% 153
North East +4 372 £47,500 -13.64% 73
Wales -2 330 £50,000 - 84
Northern Ireland -7 108 £55,000 +4.76% 42
Isle of Man -4 17 £46,500 -33.57% 2
Channel Islands +1 5 £85,000 -5.56%

Azure
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 1,182 (7.10%) SharePoint
2 1,089 (6.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 334 (2.01%) ArcGIS
4 332 (2.00%) GeoServer
5 297 (1.78%) IIS
6 215 (1.29%) Apache
7 214 (1.29%) Apache Spark
8 155 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
9 139 (0.84%) CMS
10 134 (0.81%) Confluence
11 101 (0.61%) Umbraco
12 56 (0.34%) OpenStack
13 55 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
13 55 (0.33%) WebLogic
14 50 (0.30%) Kentico
15 40 (0.24%) Headless CMS
16 39 (0.23%) WordPress
17 37 (0.22%) nginx
18 36 (0.22%) WebSphere
19 35 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 552 (3.32%) Microsoft Office
2 238 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 60 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 39 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 30 (0.18%) Trello
7 17 (0.10%) Simulink
8 10 (0.060%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.048%) Photoshop
10 7 (0.042%) Spreadsheet
11 6 (0.036%) LightWave 3D
12 4 (0.024%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.024%) SPSS
13 2 (0.012%) 1Password
13 2 (0.012%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.012%) CATIA
13 2 (0.012%) NASTRAN
13 2 (0.012%) Sketch
13 2 (0.012%) S-PLUS
14 1 (0.006%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 264 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 84 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 37 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
4 32 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
5 13 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.078%) Teamcenter
6 12 (0.072%) Maximo
7 10 (0.060%) Elite 3E
7 10 (0.060%) Unit4 Business World
8 8 (0.048%) Payment Gateway
8 8 (0.048%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.048%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.036%) Primavera
9 6 (0.036%) SAP PLM
10 5 (0.030%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.030%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 5 (0.030%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.030%) SAP IBP
10 5 (0.030%) SAP PP
10 5 (0.030%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 5,048 (30.34%) AWS
2 3,835 (23.05%) Microsoft 365
3 2,348 (14.11%) Azure DevOps
4 2,036 (12.24%) GCP
5 1,907 (11.46%) Power Platform
6 1,747 (10.50%) Entra ID
7 1,037 (6.23%) SaaS
8 720 (4.33%) PaaS
9 690 (4.15%) Serverless
10 675 (4.06%) Dynamics 365
11 634 (3.81%) IaaS
12 504 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
13 498 (2.99%) PowerApps
14 457 (2.75%) GitHub
15 450 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
16 395 (2.37%) Power Automate
17 363 (2.18%) Azure Functions
18 362 (2.18%) OneDrive
19 358 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
20 353 (2.12%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1,740 (10.46%) Firewall
2 1,181 (7.10%) DNS
3 868 (5.22%) WAN
4 744 (4.47%) DHCP
5 695 (4.18%) LAN
6 656 (3.94%) VPN
7 537 (3.23%) TCP/IP
8 422 (2.54%) SAN
9 398 (2.39%) Wi-Fi
10 357 (2.15%) Internet
11 339 (2.04%) Network Security
12 335 (2.01%) VLAN
12 335 (2.01%) Wireless
13 311 (1.87%) Broadband
14 266 (1.60%) SD-WAN
15 212 (1.27%) 5G
16 206 (1.24%) VoIP
17 143 (0.86%) Remote Desktop
18 138 (0.83%) BGP
19 115 (0.69%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,856 (17.16%) SQL Server
2 1,314 (7.90%) Power BI
3 1,054 (6.33%) Data Warehouse
4 963 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
5 727 (4.37%) NoSQL
6 661 (3.97%) MongoDB
7 629 (3.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 617 (3.71%) Data Lake
9 500 (3.00%) Relational Database
10 448 (2.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 381 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
11 381 (2.29%) GIS
12 330 (1.98%) QGIS
13 318 (1.91%) MySQL
14 282 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 264 (1.59%) Big Data
16 260 (1.56%) BigQuery
17 249 (1.50%) DB2
18 221 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
19 200 (1.20%) Looker
Development Applications
1 926 (5.57%) Git
2 562 (3.38%) JIRA
3 502 (3.02%) Jenkins
4 343 (2.06%) GitLab
5 290 (1.74%) Visual Studio
6 169 (1.02%) Selenium
7 133 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
8 127 (0.76%) Cypress.io
9 111 (0.67%) Postman
10 83 (0.50%) NUnit
11 68 (0.41%) TeamCity
12 62 (0.37%) SonarQube
13 61 (0.37%) JMeter
14 60 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
15 56 (0.34%) Cucumber
16 54 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
17 53 (0.32%) Bitbucket
18 52 (0.31%) Jasmine
19 48 (0.29%) CircleCI
20 45 (0.27%) Artifactory
General
1 3,758 (22.59%) Social Skills
2 2,732 (16.42%) Finance
3 1,469 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
4 957 (5.75%) Public Sector
5 949 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 693 (4.16%) Law
7 618 (3.71%) Retail
8 477 (2.87%) Legal
9 470 (2.82%) Banking
10 442 (2.66%) Marketing
11 378 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
12 273 (1.64%) Front Office
13 264 (1.59%) Manufacturing
14 235 (1.41%) Telecoms
15 221 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
16 197 (1.18%) Games
17 170 (1.02%) Aerospace
18 152 (0.91%) Advertising
19 139 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
20 114 (0.69%) Billing
Job Titles
1 4,024 (24.18%) Developer
2 3,026 (18.19%) Senior
3 1,851 (11.12%) Architect
4 1,753 (10.54%) .NET Developer
5 1,492 (8.97%) Lead
6 1,316 (7.91%) Software Engineer
7 1,097 (6.59%) Analyst
8 991 (5.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 816 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
10 805 (4.84%) Support Engineer
11 775 (4.66%) Senior Developer
12 730 (4.39%) C# Developer
13 721 (4.33%) IT Support
14 713 (4.29%) IT Engineer
15 677 (4.07%) Data Engineer
16 638 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
17 541 (3.25%) C# .NET Developer
18 538 (3.23%) Senior Software Engineer
19 523 (3.14%) Full Stack Developer
20 520 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,207 (25.28%) .NET
2 2,004 (12.04%) React
3 1,826 (10.97%) AngularJS
4 1,778 (10.69%) .NET Core
5 1,731 (10.40%) ASP.NET
6 1,529 (9.19%) CSS
7 1,461 (8.78%) HTML
8 1,088 (6.54%) .NET Framework
9 987 (5.93%) ASP.NET Web API
10 935 (5.62%) Entity Framework
11 870 (5.23%) ASP.NET MVC
12 859 (5.16%) Vue
13 778 (4.68%) REST
14 767 (4.61%) Node.js
15 702 (4.22%) RESTful
16 581 (3.49%) Web Services
17 578 (3.47%) HTML5
18 487 (2.93%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 443 (2.66%) Blazor
20 409 (2.46%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 819 (4.92%) Public Cloud
2 529 (3.18%) Management Information System
3 461 (2.77%) Data Structures
4 458 (2.75%) Cloud Native
5 450 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 447 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 440 (2.64%) Data Centre
7 440 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
8 435 (2.61%) Product Ownership
9 412 (2.48%) Algorithms
10 306 (1.84%) Onboarding
11 297 (1.78%) Blockchain
12 291 (1.75%) Social Media
13 281 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
14 248 (1.49%) Fixed Income
15 243 (1.46%) Driving Licence
16 234 (1.41%) Private Cloud
17 226 (1.36%) Hedge funds
18 222 (1.33%) PKI
19 218 (1.31%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3,455 (20.76%) Windows
2 1,793 (10.78%) Linux
3 1,708 (10.27%) Windows Server
4 600 (3.61%) Windows 10
5 499 (3.00%) Android
6 446 (2.68%) Apple iOS
7 389 (2.34%) Ubuntu
8 322 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
9 274 (1.65%) Windows Server 2019
10 255 (1.53%) Windows Server 2012
11 219 (1.32%) Unix
12 181 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 155 (0.93%) VMS
14 143 (0.86%) Mac OS
15 132 (0.79%) CentOS
16 94 (0.56%) Debian
17 55 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
19 35 (0.21%) Windows 7
20 31 (0.19%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,342 (32.11%) Agile
2 4,521 (27.17%) DevOps
3 2,569 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
4 2,269 (13.64%) Full Stack Development
5 2,188 (13.15%) Software Engineering
6 2,110 (12.68%) CI/CD
7 1,752 (10.53%) Microservices
8 1,516 (9.11%) Mentoring
9 1,476 (8.87%) MVC
10 1,438 (8.64%) Scrum
11 1,416 (8.51%) Business Intelligence
12 1,383 (8.31%) Cybersecurity
13 1,347 (8.10%) Artificial Intelligence
14 1,321 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 1,265 (7.60%) ITIL
16 1,206 (7.25%) Migration
17 1,203 (7.23%) Roadmaps
18 1,172 (7.04%) Analytics
19 1,114 (6.70%) ETL
20 1,018 (6.12%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4,115 (24.73%) C#
2 4,109 (24.69%) SQL
3 3,297 (19.81%) JavaScript
4 2,575 (15.48%) Python
5 1,489 (8.95%) PowerShell
6 1,290 (7.75%) Java
7 1,184 (7.12%) TypeScript
8 625 (3.76%) T-SQL
9 592 (3.56%) Bash
10 187 (1.12%) Go
11 184 (1.11%) Bicep
12 148 (0.89%) C++
13 143 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 142 (0.85%) R
15 120 (0.72%) PHP
16 110 (0.66%) Ruby
17 100 (0.60%) Kotlin
18 91 (0.55%) Scala
19 81 (0.49%) VB.NET
20 80 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 1,839 (11.05%) Degree
2 1,636 (9.83%) Security Cleared
3 1,209 (7.27%) SC Cleared
4 838 (5.04%) Azure Certification
5 823 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 489 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 437 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
8 308 (1.85%) AWS Certification
9 307 (1.85%) CISSP
10 291 (1.75%) CCNA
11 273 (1.64%) DV Cleared
12 235 (1.41%) DBS Check
13 201 (1.21%) MCSE
14 186 (1.12%) Master's Degree
15 163 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
16 158 (0.95%) CISM
17 145 (0.87%) CCNP
18 128 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
19 116 (0.70%) MCSA
20 107 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 699 (4.20%) QA
2 477 (2.87%) Data Quality
3 454 (2.73%) GDPR
4 411 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 295 (1.77%) SLA
6 232 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
7 217 (1.30%) NIST
8 168 (1.01%) Accessibility
9 115 (0.69%) PCI DSS
10 69 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 46 (0.28%) NCSC
11 46 (0.28%) PMO
12 34 (0.20%) COBIT
13 33 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 30 (0.18%) GRC
15 28 (0.17%) HIPAA
16 24 (0.14%) ISO 9001
16 24 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 23 (0.14%) SOC 2
18 14 (0.084%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 3,010 (18.09%) Active Directory
2 1,250 (7.51%) Docker
3 1,146 (6.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 927 (5.57%) Hyper-V
5 375 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
6 210 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
7 195 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 181 (1.09%) vSphere
9 93 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
10 62 (0.37%) VMware NSX
11 42 (0.25%) XenApp
12 35 (0.21%) Firmware
13 31 (0.19%) Terminal Services
14 29 (0.17%) XenDesktop
15 19 (0.11%) VMware Server
16 18 (0.11%) HDFS
17 17 (0.10%) KVM
18 14 (0.084%) vCloud
19 12 (0.072%) DFS Replication
20 11 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 1,495 (8.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 1,449 (8.71%) Kubernetes
3 1,325 (7.96%) Terraform
4 597 (3.59%) Ansible
5 312 (1.88%) SCCM
6 270 (1.62%) Jamf Pro
7 197 (1.18%) Puppet
8 168 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
9 147 (0.88%) vCenter Server
10 131 (0.79%) Progress Chef
11 114 (0.69%) Grafana
12 106 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 98 (0.59%) Prometheus
14 94 (0.56%) WSUS
15 88 (0.53%) SCOM
16 75 (0.45%) FortiGate
17 51 (0.31%) CASB
18 43 (0.26%) Nagios
19 38 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
20 37 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 7,236 (43.49%) Microsoft
2 1,735 (10.43%) VMware
3 1,068 (6.42%) Google
4 825 (4.96%) Cisco
5 620 (3.73%) Databricks
6 482 (2.90%) Oracle
7 455 (2.73%) Citrix
8 406 (2.44%) IBM
9 405 (2.43%) Red Hat
10 361 (2.17%) Veeam
11 335 (2.01%) ESRI
12 256 (1.54%) CyberArk
13 248 (1.49%) Meraki
14 232 (1.39%) HP
15 210 (1.26%) Tanium
16 197 (1.18%) ServiceNow
17 174 (1.05%) Fortinet
18 168 (1.01%) SAP
19 161 (0.97%) SolarWinds
20 160 (0.96%) Apple