Microsoft Azure
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 13,672 17,560 33,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.13% 21.76% 18.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 46.34% 51.65% 39.59%
Number of salaries quoted 10,216 12,615 19,302
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure 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 29,506 33,998 84,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.65% 42.13% 47.94%
Number of salaries quoted 21,274 25,227 42,049
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 12,140 £60,000 -4.99% 1,562
UK excluding London -3 9,113 £55,000 - 1,340
Work from Home -1 5,710 £60,000 -4.00% 991
London -1 3,910 £75,000 - 433
North of England 0 2,592 £55,000 - 379
South East -2 2,252 £55,000 -4.35% 321
Midlands 0 1,557 £54,000 -1.82% 212
North West -2 1,430 £57,500 +4.55% 186
South West -3 1,164 £55,000 -1.79% 168
West Midlands -3 892 £56,988 +3.61% 144
Yorkshire 0 873 £55,000 +4.76% 129
East Midlands +1 662 £47,500 -9.52% 68
Scotland -20 631 £55,000 - 90
East of England -2 511 £49,000 -2.00% 115
North East +5 289 £50,000 -9.09% 71
Wales 0 284 £50,000 +5.26% 28
Northern Ireland -2 113 £65,000 +23.81% 77
Isle of Man -2 14 £46,500 -33.57% 3
Channel Islands -3 3 £85,000 +25.93%

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
1 900 (6.58%) SharePoint
2 843 (6.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 262 (1.92%) Apache
4 222 (1.62%) ArcGIS
5 214 (1.57%) GeoServer
6 209 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
6 209 (1.53%) IIS
7 168 (1.23%) Apache Spark
8 129 (0.94%) Confluence
9 100 (0.73%) CMS
10 78 (0.57%) Umbraco
11 55 (0.40%) WebLogic
12 44 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
13 34 (0.25%) nginx
14 32 (0.23%) Kentico
15 28 (0.20%) Headless CMS
16 25 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
16 25 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
17 24 (0.18%) OpenStack
17 24 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 412 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
2 194 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 48 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 37 (0.27%) Simulink
6 29 (0.21%) Trello
7 21 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.051%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.044%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.044%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.022%) S-PLUS
11 2 (0.015%) PrintSoft PReS
11 2 (0.015%) Revit
12 1 (0.007%) 1Password
12 1 (0.007%) InfoPath
12 1 (0.007%) NASTRAN
12 1 (0.007%) Notion
12 1 (0.007%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.007%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.007%) Weka
Business Applications
1 258 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 69 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 27 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
4 22 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
5 13 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
6 12 (0.088%) Remedy ITSM
7 10 (0.073%) SAP S/4HANA
8 9 (0.066%) Elite 3E
8 9 (0.066%) Payment Gateway
9 8 (0.059%) Salesforce CRM
10 7 (0.051%) Teamcenter
11 6 (0.044%) Oracle General Ledger
11 6 (0.044%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 5 (0.037%) Oracle Receivables
12 5 (0.037%) SAP IBP
12 5 (0.037%) SAP PP
13 4 (0.029%) Fidessa
13 4 (0.029%) Oracle Applications
13 4 (0.029%) Oracle Cash Management
13 4 (0.029%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 4,188 (30.63%) AWS
2 2,942 (21.52%) Microsoft 365
3 1,947 (14.24%) Azure DevOps
4 1,662 (12.16%) GCP
5 1,537 (11.24%) Power Platform
6 1,500 (10.97%) Entra ID
7 898 (6.57%) SaaS
8 598 (4.37%) Serverless
9 590 (4.32%) Dynamics 365
10 532 (3.89%) PaaS
11 472 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
11 472 (3.45%) IaaS
12 448 (3.28%) PowerApps
13 382 (2.79%) GitHub
14 377 (2.76%) Power Automate
15 375 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
16 363 (2.66%) Azure Logic Apps
17 354 (2.59%) Azure Functions
18 346 (2.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 340 (2.49%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1,306 (9.55%) Firewall
2 857 (6.27%) DNS
3 685 (5.01%) WAN
4 556 (4.07%) LAN
5 519 (3.80%) DHCP
6 516 (3.77%) VPN
7 418 (3.06%) TCP/IP
8 295 (2.16%) Wi-Fi
9 290 (2.12%) Network Security
10 270 (1.97%) Wireless
11 269 (1.97%) Broadband
12 266 (1.95%) SAN
13 239 (1.75%) VLAN
14 229 (1.67%) SD-WAN
15 227 (1.66%) 5G
16 202 (1.48%) Internet
17 129 (0.94%) VoIP
18 123 (0.90%) BGP
19 113 (0.83%) SSL
20 96 (0.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,837 (13.44%) SQL Server
2 1,071 (7.83%) Power BI
3 834 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
4 833 (6.09%) Data Warehouse
5 628 (4.59%) NoSQL
6 518 (3.79%) MongoDB
7 506 (3.70%) Data Lake
8 474 (3.47%) Relational Database
9 456 (3.34%) Azure SQL Database
10 321 (2.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 255 (1.87%) DB2
12 250 (1.83%) GIS
13 233 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 219 (1.60%) Big Data
15 214 (1.57%) QGIS
16 211 (1.54%) MySQL
17 190 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
18 181 (1.32%) BigQuery
19 179 (1.31%) Tableau
20 160 (1.17%) Looker
Development Applications
1 852 (6.23%) Git
2 432 (3.16%) JIRA
3 322 (2.36%) Jenkins
4 239 (1.75%) Visual Studio
5 209 (1.53%) GitLab
6 126 (0.92%) Cypress.io
7 123 (0.90%) Selenium
8 104 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
9 79 (0.58%) Postman
10 77 (0.56%) SonarQube
11 71 (0.52%) NUnit
12 62 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
13 61 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
14 49 (0.36%) TeamCity
15 48 (0.35%) CircleCI
16 47 (0.34%) Bitbucket
17 46 (0.34%) Jasmine
18 41 (0.30%) Vagrant
19 37 (0.27%) Artifactory
20 36 (0.26%) JMeter
General
1 3,098 (22.66%) Social Skills
2 2,205 (16.13%) Finance
3 1,331 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
4 910 (6.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 774 (5.66%) Public Sector
6 520 (3.80%) Law
7 396 (2.90%) Banking
8 391 (2.86%) Retail
9 384 (2.81%) Legal
10 339 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
11 318 (2.33%) Marketing
12 245 (1.79%) Front Office
13 225 (1.65%) Manufacturing
14 213 (1.56%) Telecoms
15 188 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
16 159 (1.16%) Aerospace
16 159 (1.16%) Games
17 120 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
18 110 (0.80%) Advertising
19 98 (0.72%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3,141 (22.97%) Developer
2 2,402 (17.57%) Senior
3 1,681 (12.30%) Architect
4 1,299 (9.50%) Lead
5 1,270 (9.29%) .NET Developer
6 1,107 (8.10%) Software Engineer
7 834 (6.10%) Azure Engineer
8 777 (5.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 771 (5.64%) Analyst
10 669 (4.89%) Senior Developer
11 632 (4.62%) C# Developer
12 604 (4.42%) Data Engineer
13 582 (4.26%) Support Engineer
14 530 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
15 504 (3.69%) Cloud Engineer
16 502 (3.67%) Full Stack Developer
17 491 (3.59%) IT Engineer
18 485 (3.55%) IT Support
19 459 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
20 452 (3.31%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,271 (23.92%) .NET
2 1,625 (11.89%) React
3 1,310 (9.58%) AngularJS
4 1,232 (9.01%) CSS
5 1,114 (8.15%) .NET Core
6 1,100 (8.05%) HTML
7 1,099 (8.04%) ASP.NET
8 764 (5.59%) .NET Framework
9 664 (4.86%) REST
10 663 (4.85%) Vue
11 636 (4.65%) ASP.NET Web API
12 585 (4.28%) Node.js
13 551 (4.03%) Entity Framework
14 531 (3.88%) RESTful
15 515 (3.77%) Web Services
16 410 (3.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 389 (2.85%) jQuery
18 348 (2.55%) ASP.NET Core
19 308 (2.25%) ASP.NET MVC
20 298 (2.18%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 536 (3.92%) Public Cloud
2 489 (3.58%) Cloud Native
3 468 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 431 (3.15%) Algorithms
5 410 (3.00%) Management Information System
6 402 (2.94%) Product Ownership
7 395 (2.89%) Data Structures
8 343 (2.51%) Data Centre
9 334 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
10 291 (2.13%) Blockchain
11 280 (2.05%) Social Media
12 254 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
13 231 (1.69%) Onboarding
14 197 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
15 196 (1.43%) Fixed Income
16 194 (1.42%) Hedge funds
16 194 (1.42%) PKI
17 177 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
18 169 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
19 158 (1.16%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2,711 (19.83%) Windows
2 1,488 (10.88%) Linux
3 1,294 (9.46%) Windows Server
4 485 (3.55%) Windows 10
5 472 (3.45%) Android
6 415 (3.04%) Apple iOS
7 355 (2.60%) Ubuntu
8 253 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
9 221 (1.62%) Windows Server 2019
10 201 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 169 (1.24%) Windows Server 2012
12 152 (1.11%) CentOS
13 135 (0.99%) Unix
14 122 (0.89%) VMS
15 111 (0.81%) Mac OS
16 87 (0.64%) Debian
17 43 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
18 39 (0.29%) Alpine Linux
19 33 (0.24%) Mac OS X
20 30 (0.22%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,966 (29.01%) Agile
2 3,838 (28.07%) DevOps
3 2,145 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
4 1,922 (14.06%) Software Engineering
5 1,920 (14.04%) CI/CD
6 1,743 (12.75%) Full Stack Development
7 1,325 (9.69%) Mentoring
8 1,231 (9.00%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1,177 (8.61%) Microservices
10 1,176 (8.60%) Cybersecurity
11 1,085 (7.94%) Business Intelligence
12 1,071 (7.83%) Analytics
13 1,070 (7.83%) Scrum
14 1,028 (7.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 968 (7.08%) Roadmaps
16 963 (7.04%) ITIL
17 947 (6.93%) Migration
18 940 (6.88%) Infrastructure as Code
19 874 (6.39%) Computer Science
20 820 (6.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3,296 (24.11%) C#
2 3,226 (23.60%) SQL
3 2,393 (17.50%) JavaScript
4 2,304 (16.85%) Python
5 1,232 (9.01%) PowerShell
6 1,133 (8.29%) Java
7 901 (6.59%) TypeScript
8 548 (4.01%) Bash
9 413 (3.02%) T-SQL
10 186 (1.36%) Bicep
11 160 (1.17%) C++
12 116 (0.85%) Go
12 116 (0.85%) Kotlin
13 112 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 111 (0.81%) R
15 104 (0.76%) Scala
16 83 (0.61%) VB.NET
17 77 (0.56%) PHP
18 69 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
19 68 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,536 (11.23%) Degree
2 1,345 (9.84%) Security Cleared
3 1,002 (7.33%) SC Cleared
4 758 (5.54%) Azure Certification
5 655 (4.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 561 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 338 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
8 291 (2.13%) AWS Certification
9 251 (1.84%) CISSP
10 247 (1.81%) DV Cleared
11 218 (1.59%) CCNA
12 168 (1.23%) Master's Degree
13 147 (1.08%) MCSE
14 140 (1.02%) DBS Check
15 134 (0.98%) CISM
16 129 (0.94%) CCNP
17 128 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
18 108 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
19 103 (0.75%) MCSA
20 80 (0.59%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 603 (4.41%) QA
2 380 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 353 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 326 (2.38%) GDPR
5 250 (1.83%) SLA
6 198 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 169 (1.24%) NIST
8 130 (0.95%) Accessibility
9 97 (0.71%) PCI DSS
10 59 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 56 (0.41%) NCSC
12 38 (0.28%) HIPAA
13 35 (0.26%) SOC 2
14 30 (0.22%) PMO
15 26 (0.19%) ISO 9001
16 25 (0.18%) COBIT
16 25 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 18 (0.13%) GRC
17 18 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 14 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2,445 (17.88%) Active Directory
2 1,011 (7.39%) Docker
3 815 (5.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 670 (4.90%) Hyper-V
5 339 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
6 165 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 152 (1.11%) vSphere
8 141 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
9 70 (0.51%) XenApp
10 62 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
10 62 (0.45%) XenDesktop
11 28 (0.20%) VMware NSX
12 25 (0.18%) Firmware
13 24 (0.18%) Terminal Services
14 16 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 14 (0.10%) KVM
15 14 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
16 12 (0.088%) NFS
16 12 (0.088%) pfSense
17 8 (0.059%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 1,260 (9.22%) Terraform
2 1,237 (9.05%) Kubernetes
3 1,222 (8.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 563 (4.12%) Ansible
5 286 (2.09%) SCCM
6 257 (1.88%) Jamf Pro
7 167 (1.22%) Puppet
8 137 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
9 108 (0.79%) vCenter Server
10 106 (0.78%) Grafana
10 106 (0.78%) Prometheus
11 100 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 93 (0.68%) Progress Chef
13 70 (0.51%) SCOM
14 66 (0.48%) WSUS
15 56 (0.41%) FortiGate
16 35 (0.26%) Istio
17 31 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
17 31 (0.23%) Nagios
18 30 (0.22%) Nessus
Vendors
1 5,445 (39.83%) Microsoft
2 1,266 (9.26%) VMware
3 859 (6.28%) Google
4 672 (4.92%) Cisco
5 527 (3.85%) Databricks
6 412 (3.01%) Red Hat
7 376 (2.75%) Oracle
8 347 (2.54%) IBM
9 318 (2.33%) Citrix
10 253 (1.85%) CyberArk
11 226 (1.65%) Veeam
12 217 (1.59%) ESRI
13 210 (1.54%) Tanium
14 192 (1.40%) Meraki
15 178 (1.30%) ServiceNow
16 168 (1.23%) HP
17 150 (1.10%) Dell
18 140 (1.02%) Splunk
19 138 (1.01%) Fortinet
20 125 (0.91%) SolarWinds