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 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 11,787 26,196 25,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.09% 20.90% 19.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 51.80% 48.71% 42.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9,225 17,869 19,615
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,306 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,450
% change year-on-year - +1.01% +8.90%

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 22,754 53,785 60,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 42.64% 42.91% 46.78%
Number of salaries quoted 17,950 35,940 42,584
10th Percentile £32,750 £34,664 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.73% +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 2 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Azure in the UK

Azure
Top 18 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 2 December 2023. 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 0 10,430 £62,500 -3.85% 3,972
UK excluding London +1 6,774 £55,000 - 2,789
Work from Home 0 5,532 £62,009 -4.60% 2,293
London 0 4,259 £75,000 - 1,449
North of England -2 1,796 £55,000 -4.35% 749
South East +3 1,517 £55,000 -8.33% 760
Midlands +3 1,246 £53,500 -3.60% 492
South West +4 1,053 £55,000 +4.76% 323
North West -1 935 £57,500 +4.55% 376
Yorkshire -2 764 £52,500 -11.02% 277
West Midlands +3 742 £52,500 -8.70% 309
East Midlands +2 500 £55,000 +4.76% 181
Scotland -4 466 £55,000 -4.35% 170
East of England 0 323 £52,500 -4.55% 224
Wales +1 290 £51,104 -2.66% 101
Northern Ireland -2 122 £45,500 -20.87% 34
North East +1 97 £57,500 +4.55% 104
Channel Islands - 3 £72,500 -

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
1 882 (7.48%) SharePoint
2 237 (2.01%) MS Exchange
3 183 (1.55%) IIS
4 160 (1.36%) Apache Spark
5 145 (1.23%) Confluence
6 94 (0.80%) Apache
7 82 (0.70%) CMS
8 81 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
9 63 (0.53%) Umbraco
10 38 (0.32%) WebSphere
11 32 (0.27%) nginx
12 28 (0.24%) Tomcat
13 24 (0.20%) FileNet
14 22 (0.19%) Captiva
15 20 (0.17%) SAS
16 17 (0.14%) NServiceBus
17 16 (0.14%) OpenStack
18 13 (0.11%) Kentico
18 13 (0.11%) WordPress
19 11 (0.093%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 375 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
2 160 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 67 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (0.53%) MS Visio
5 32 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 19 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 13 (0.11%) Trello
8 9 (0.076%) AutoCAD
8 9 (0.076%) PTC Creo
8 9 (0.076%) SOLIDWORKS
9 6 (0.051%) Simulink
9 6 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.025%) 1Password
10 3 (0.025%) 3ds Max
10 3 (0.025%) Blender
10 3 (0.025%) Maya
11 2 (0.017%) InfoPath
11 2 (0.017%) LightWave 3D
12 1 (0.008%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.008%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 462 (3.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
3 16 (0.14%) Maximo
4 15 (0.13%) Shopify
5 14 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 13 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 12 (0.10%) Dynamics GP
7 12 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
8 11 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
9 10 (0.085%) NetSuite
10 9 (0.076%) Dynamics AX
10 9 (0.076%) SAP Business One
11 8 (0.068%) Remedy ITSM
12 7 (0.059%) BusinessWorks
13 6 (0.051%) SAP ERP
14 5 (0.042%) Endur
14 5 (0.042%) Magento
15 4 (0.034%) Elite 3E
15 4 (0.034%) Salesforce CRM
16 3 (0.025%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 3,603 (30.57%) AWS
2 2,571 (21.81%) Microsoft 365
3 2,067 (17.54%) Azure DevOps
4 1,732 (14.69%) Power Platform
5 1,595 (13.53%) GCP
6 1,172 (9.94%) SaaS
7 1,160 (9.84%) PaaS
8 1,120 (9.50%) Entra ID
9 1,022 (8.67%) IaaS
10 879 (7.46%) Dynamics 365
11 795 (6.74%) Serverless
12 498 (4.22%) Azure Data Factory
13 454 (3.85%) GitHub
14 450 (3.82%) Azure Functions
15 366 (3.11%) PowerApps
16 331 (2.81%) Cloud Computing
17 268 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 259 (2.20%) Azure Logic Apps
19 244 (2.07%) Power Automate
20 234 (1.99%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1,153 (9.78%) Firewall
2 912 (7.74%) DNS
3 698 (5.92%) DHCP
4 574 (4.87%) WAN
5 539 (4.57%) VPN
6 474 (4.02%) LAN
7 444 (3.77%) TCP/IP
8 342 (2.90%) SAN
9 294 (2.49%) VLAN
10 288 (2.44%) Wireless
11 246 (2.09%) Wi-Fi
12 238 (2.02%) Network Security
13 179 (1.52%) SD-WAN
14 175 (1.48%) Internet
15 171 (1.45%) VoIP
16 144 (1.22%) HTTP
17 110 (0.93%) BGP
18 98 (0.83%) OSPF
19 83 (0.70%) Remote Desktop
20 70 (0.59%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,520 (12.90%) SQL Server
2 933 (7.92%) Power BI
3 709 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
4 517 (4.39%) NoSQL
5 504 (4.28%) Data Lake
6 372 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
7 326 (2.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 258 (2.19%) Relational Database
9 257 (2.18%) Big Data
10 236 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
11 231 (1.96%) MongoDB
12 228 (1.93%) MySQL
13 198 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 192 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
15 187 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
16 147 (1.25%) Tableau
17 140 (1.19%) Hadoop
18 127 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 108 (0.92%) Metadata
20 98 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 679 (5.76%) Git
2 576 (4.89%) Jenkins
3 406 (3.44%) JIRA
4 208 (1.76%) GitLab
5 198 (1.68%) Selenium
6 148 (1.26%) Visual Studio
7 116 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
8 107 (0.91%) Cucumber
9 103 (0.87%) TeamCity
10 79 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
11 78 (0.66%) Cypress.io
12 73 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
13 69 (0.59%) Postman
14 57 (0.48%) SonarQube
15 55 (0.47%) Maven
16 54 (0.46%) Visual Studio Team System
17 46 (0.39%) Bitbucket
18 45 (0.38%) Artifactory
19 44 (0.37%) NUnit
19 44 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2,803 (23.78%) Finance
2 2,541 (21.56%) Social Skills
3 917 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
4 625 (5.30%) Banking
5 600 (5.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 419 (3.55%) Retail
7 396 (3.36%) Law
8 394 (3.34%) Public Sector
9 290 (2.46%) Legal
10 270 (2.29%) Marketing
11 260 (2.21%) Telecoms
12 251 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
13 206 (1.75%) Front Office
14 166 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
15 153 (1.30%) Manufacturing
16 121 (1.03%) Aerospace
17 100 (0.85%) Financial Institution
18 90 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
19 81 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
20 77 (0.65%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2,165 (18.37%) Developer
2 1,897 (16.09%) Senior
3 1,835 (15.57%) Architect
4 1,096 (9.30%) Lead
5 822 (6.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 816 (6.92%) Analyst
7 748 (6.35%) Solutions Architect
8 733 (6.22%) Azure Engineer
9 682 (5.79%) Software Engineer
10 664 (5.63%) DevOps Engineer
11 596 (5.06%) .NET Developer
12 546 (4.63%) Support Engineer
13 542 (4.60%) Data Engineer
14 478 (4.06%) Cloud Engineer
15 473 (4.01%) Senior Developer
16 440 (3.73%) IT Engineer
17 422 (3.58%) Dynamics 365 Architect
18 379 (3.22%) IT Support
19 320 (2.71%) C# Developer
20 314 (2.66%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,076 (17.61%) .NET
2 873 (7.41%) React
3 812 (6.89%) AngularJS
4 648 (5.50%) HTML
5 603 (5.12%) .NET Core
6 572 (4.85%) CSS
7 501 (4.25%) ASP.NET
8 484 (4.11%) .NET Framework
9 459 (3.89%) REST
10 355 (3.01%) Node.js
11 318 (2.70%) JSON
12 270 (2.29%) RESTful
13 268 (2.27%) Kafka
14 253 (2.15%) Web Services
15 224 (1.90%) Vue
16 202 (1.71%) YAML
17 186 (1.58%) ASP.NET Web API
17 186 (1.58%) Spring
18 185 (1.57%) ARM Templates
19 182 (1.54%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 733 (6.22%) Public Cloud
2 484 (4.11%) Data Centre
3 447 (3.79%) Cloud Native
4 330 (2.80%) Product Ownership
5 293 (2.49%) Management Information System
6 283 (2.40%) Private Cloud
7 260 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
8 239 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
9 218 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
10 186 (1.58%) Virtual Team
11 166 (1.41%) Data Structures
12 154 (1.31%) Onboarding
13 139 (1.18%) Derivative
13 139 (1.18%) Driving Licence
14 131 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
14 131 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
15 127 (1.08%) Hedge funds
16 124 (1.05%) Clustering
17 118 (1.00%) Fixed Income
18 112 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2,498 (21.19%) Windows
2 1,320 (11.20%) Windows Server
3 1,039 (8.81%) Linux
4 450 (3.82%) Windows 10
5 266 (2.26%) Unix
6 262 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 256 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
8 233 (1.98%) Windows Server 2012
9 194 (1.65%) Android
10 162 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 149 (1.26%) Apple iOS
12 145 (1.23%) Mac OS
13 82 (0.70%) Ubuntu
14 47 (0.40%) VMS
15 40 (0.34%) CentOS
16 37 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
17 30 (0.25%) Windows 7
17 30 (0.25%) Windows 8
18 23 (0.20%) Debian
18 23 (0.20%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,991 (33.86%) Agile
2 3,950 (33.51%) DevOps
3 1,842 (15.63%) CI/CD
4 1,718 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
5 1,252 (10.62%) Software Engineering
6 1,240 (10.52%) Mentoring
7 1,224 (10.38%) Roadmaps
8 1,165 (9.88%) Actionable Insight
9 1,119 (9.49%) Infrastructure as Code
10 1,037 (8.80%) ITIL
11 1,032 (8.76%) Microservices
12 1,023 (8.68%) Business Intelligence
13 997 (8.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 979 (8.31%) Analytics
15 944 (8.01%) Scrum
16 903 (7.66%) Cybersecurity
17 884 (7.50%) Migration
18 776 (6.58%) Full Stack Development
19 686 (5.82%) Customer Service
20 685 (5.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,817 (23.90%) SQL
2 2,182 (18.51%) C#
3 1,897 (16.09%) Python
4 1,617 (13.72%) PowerShell
5 1,508 (12.79%) JavaScript
6 1,033 (8.76%) Java
7 594 (5.04%) Bash
8 491 (4.17%) TypeScript
9 422 (3.58%) T-SQL
10 255 (2.16%) Go
11 183 (1.55%) C++
12 179 (1.52%) Bicep
13 142 (1.20%) Ruby
14 130 (1.10%) PHP
15 102 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 100 (0.85%) R
17 86 (0.73%) Kotlin
18 70 (0.59%) Perl
19 69 (0.59%) Scala
20 66 (0.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1,530 (12.98%) Degree
2 1,114 (9.45%) Security Cleared
3 743 (6.30%) SC Cleared
4 597 (5.06%) Azure Certification
5 472 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 432 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 244 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
8 229 (1.94%) DV Cleared
9 213 (1.81%) TOGAF Certification
10 205 (1.74%) AWS Certification
11 172 (1.46%) CISSP
12 164 (1.39%) Master's Degree
13 132 (1.12%) CCNA
13 132 (1.12%) CCNP
14 116 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
15 114 (0.97%) MCSE
16 88 (0.75%) MCSA
17 83 (0.70%) DBS Check
18 78 (0.66%) CISM
19 67 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 460 (3.90%) QA
2 291 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 286 (2.43%) SLA
4 269 (2.28%) Data Quality
5 175 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 170 (1.44%) GDPR
7 108 (0.92%) Accessibility
8 106 (0.90%) NIST
9 79 (0.67%) PCI DSS
10 62 (0.53%) NCSC
11 61 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 38 (0.32%) PMO
13 21 (0.18%) COBIT
14 14 (0.12%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.11%) ISO 9001
15 13 (0.11%) WCAG
16 11 (0.093%) GRC
17 8 (0.068%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 8 (0.068%) Software Quality Assurance
18 7 (0.059%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2,221 (18.84%) Active Directory
2 1,322 (11.22%) Docker
3 969 (8.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 674 (5.72%) Hyper-V
5 231 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
6 170 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 168 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
8 163 (1.38%) vSphere
9 64 (0.54%) VMware NSX
10 62 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
11 61 (0.52%) Firmware
12 38 (0.32%) XenApp
13 20 (0.17%) BitLocker
14 18 (0.15%) XenDesktop
15 17 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 15 (0.13%) Terminal Services
17 14 (0.12%) DFS Replication
17 14 (0.12%) vCloud
17 14 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
18 11 (0.093%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1,575 (13.36%) Kubernetes
2 1,326 (11.25%) Terraform
3 918 (7.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 703 (5.96%) Ansible
5 364 (3.09%) SCCM
6 244 (2.07%) Puppet
7 134 (1.14%) Grafana
8 125 (1.06%) SCOM
9 118 (1.00%) Progress Chef
10 106 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 100 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
12 87 (0.74%) Prometheus
13 77 (0.65%) FortiGate
14 60 (0.51%) WSUS
15 59 (0.50%) vCenter Server
16 50 (0.42%) Argo
17 46 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
18 44 (0.37%) Istio
19 42 (0.36%) Packer
20 41 (0.35%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 4,842 (41.08%) Microsoft
2 1,407 (11.94%) VMware
3 636 (5.40%) Cisco
4 524 (4.45%) Google
5 453 (3.84%) Oracle
6 452 (3.83%) Databricks
7 445 (3.78%) Citrix
8 218 (1.85%) Meraki
9 208 (1.76%) Veeam
10 204 (1.73%) SAP
11 172 (1.46%) Palo Alto
12 164 (1.39%) ServiceNow
13 158 (1.34%) HP
14 144 (1.22%) IBM
15 138 (1.17%) Red Hat
16 129 (1.09%) SolarWinds
17 122 (1.04%) Aruba
18 109 (0.92%) CheckPoint
19 108 (0.92%) Splunk
20 101 (0.86%) Salesforce