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 18 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 8,424 14,638 25,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.98% 18.95% 22.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 45.02% 49.25% 52.04%
Number of salaries quoted 5,470 12,095 16,423
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,526 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% -8.42% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,875 £76,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,443 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.41% -4.55% -

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 18,710 29,723 48,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.06% 38.48% 43.99%
Number of salaries quoted 10,917 23,682 32,192
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £34,781
25th Percentile £47,000 £41,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £97,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 18 February 2025.

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 18 February 2025. 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 -6 7,682 £65,000 +8.33% 2,987
UK excluding London -4 5,010 £57,443 +9.41% 1,962
Work from Home -2 3,366 £65,000 +8.33% 2,217
London -1 3,028 £77,500 +6.90% 1,435
North of England -8 1,217 £57,500 +4.55% 534
South East -2 1,212 £60,000 +14.29% 624
Midlands -4 1,007 £55,000 +4.76% 286
West Midlands -2 722 £57,500 +9.52% 174
North West -12 684 £60,000 +4.35% 276
South West -4 651 £60,000 +9.09% 216
East of England -4 419 £50,000 - 187
Yorkshire -5 402 £53,000 -3.64% 161
Scotland -6 354 £60,000 +9.09% 100
East Midlands -9 281 £50,000 -4.76% 105
North East -3 135 £61,500 +29.47% 101
Wales -6 118 £65,000 +30.00% 49
Northern Ireland +2 62 £52,500 +16.67% 13
Isle of Man +4 5 £38,000 -11.63% 2
Channel Islands -2 5 £64,000 -24.71% 2

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
1 649 (7.70%) SharePoint
2 619 (7.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 106 (1.26%) Confluence
4 93 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
5 82 (0.97%) Apache Spark
6 78 (0.93%) IIS
7 60 (0.71%) Apache
8 46 (0.55%) CMS
9 39 (0.46%) Umbraco
10 21 (0.25%) Tomcat
11 16 (0.19%) nginx
12 13 (0.15%) IBM Domino
12 13 (0.15%) SAS
13 10 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
13 10 (0.12%) WordPress
14 7 (0.083%) BizTalk Server
14 7 (0.083%) SharePoint Server
14 7 (0.083%) WebSphere
15 6 (0.071%) Apache Solr
15 6 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 267 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
2 147 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (0.44%) MS Visio
4 34 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 14 (0.17%) Trello
8 6 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.059%) Simulink
10 4 (0.047%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.047%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.036%) Productboard
11 3 (0.036%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.024%) 3ds Max
12 2 (0.024%) InDesign
12 2 (0.024%) Oracle Smart View
12 2 (0.024%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.024%) Revit
13 1 (0.012%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 195 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
3 13 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
4 11 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
5 10 (0.12%) Sage 200
6 8 (0.095%) Dynamics NAV
6 8 (0.095%) Elite 3E
6 8 (0.095%) Endur
7 7 (0.083%) Sage 50
8 6 (0.071%) GoldMine
8 6 (0.071%) SAP S/4HANA
8 6 (0.071%) Shopify
9 5 (0.059%) Dynamics GP
9 5 (0.059%) Markit EDM
9 5 (0.059%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.047%) Magento
10 4 (0.047%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 3 (0.036%) Fidessa
11 3 (0.036%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
12 2 (0.024%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 2,479 (29.43%) AWS
2 1,859 (22.07%) Microsoft 365
3 1,336 (15.86%) Azure DevOps
4 1,213 (14.40%) GCP
5 1,073 (12.74%) Power Platform
6 808 (9.59%) Entra ID
7 691 (8.20%) SaaS
8 522 (6.20%) PaaS
9 443 (5.26%) Serverless
10 428 (5.08%) IaaS
11 411 (4.88%) GitHub
12 395 (4.69%) PowerApps
13 385 (4.57%) Dynamics 365
14 365 (4.33%) Power Automate
15 362 (4.30%) Azure Data Factory
16 335 (3.98%) Azure Logic Apps
17 315 (3.74%) Cloud Computing
18 297 (3.53%) Azure Functions
19 287 (3.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 204 (2.42%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 944 (11.21%) Firewall
2 595 (7.06%) DNS
3 433 (5.14%) Network Security
4 426 (5.06%) WAN
5 402 (4.77%) VPN
6 392 (4.65%) DHCP
6 392 (4.65%) LAN
7 300 (3.56%) TCP/IP
8 194 (2.30%) VLAN
9 192 (2.28%) Wi-Fi
10 178 (2.11%) Wireless
11 167 (1.98%) SD-WAN
12 137 (1.63%) Internet
13 124 (1.47%) Broadband
14 121 (1.44%) SAN
15 105 (1.25%) VoIP
16 102 (1.21%) Intrusion Detection
17 99 (1.18%) BGP
18 84 (1.00%) MPLS
19 80 (0.95%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,142 (13.56%) SQL Server
2 638 (7.57%) Power BI
3 352 (4.18%) Data Warehouse
4 337 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 308 (3.66%) Data Lake
6 303 (3.60%) NoSQL
7 248 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
8 194 (2.30%) MongoDB
9 185 (2.20%) MySQL
9 185 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 171 (2.03%) Relational Database
11 153 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 127 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
13 99 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
14 96 (1.14%) Tableau
15 95 (1.13%) Big Data
16 69 (0.82%) Metadata
17 62 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
18 61 (0.72%) Redis
19 60 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 634 (7.53%) Git
2 337 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 325 (3.86%) JIRA
4 181 (2.15%) Visual Studio
5 130 (1.54%) GitLab
6 103 (1.22%) Octopus Deploy
7 97 (1.15%) Selenium
8 94 (1.12%) TeamCity
9 91 (1.08%) SonarQube
10 86 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
11 79 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
12 71 (0.84%) Postman
13 69 (0.82%) Maven
14 53 (0.63%) MSBuild
15 49 (0.58%) Bitbucket
16 46 (0.55%) Cypress.io
17 43 (0.51%) Mockito
18 38 (0.45%) webpack
19 36 (0.43%) Gradle
20 34 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2,419 (28.72%) Social Skills
2 1,606 (19.06%) Finance
3 860 (10.21%) Analytical Skills
4 405 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 375 (4.45%) Law
6 371 (4.40%) Banking
7 316 (3.75%) Public Sector
8 283 (3.36%) Retail
9 241 (2.86%) Legal
10 196 (2.33%) Marketing
11 167 (1.98%) Manufacturing
12 139 (1.65%) Telecoms
13 120 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
14 100 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
15 78 (0.93%) Tech for Good
16 77 (0.91%) Automotive
17 76 (0.90%) Advertising
18 73 (0.87%) Games
19 72 (0.85%) Front Office
20 64 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,761 (20.90%) Senior
2 1,430 (16.98%) Developer
3 885 (10.51%) Architect
4 866 (10.28%) Lead
5 800 (9.50%) Analyst
6 538 (6.39%) Software Engineer
7 483 (5.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 440 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
9 439 (5.21%) Senior Developer
10 404 (4.80%) Azure Engineer
11 378 (4.49%) Data Engineer
12 366 (4.34%) .NET Developer
13 328 (3.89%) Support Engineer
14 319 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
15 318 (3.77%) IT Support
16 300 (3.56%) IT Engineer
17 246 (2.92%) Consultant
17 246 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
18 241 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
19 225 (2.67%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,572 (18.66%) .NET
2 680 (8.07%) React
3 536 (6.36%) CSS
3 536 (6.36%) HTML
4 482 (5.72%) ASP.NET
5 462 (5.48%) AngularJS
6 430 (5.10%) .NET Framework
7 389 (4.62%) .NET Core
8 363 (4.31%) REST
9 341 (4.05%) RESTful
10 257 (3.05%) Node.js
11 226 (2.68%) Entity Framework
12 205 (2.43%) JSON
13 188 (2.23%) Kafka
14 165 (1.96%) Web Services
15 160 (1.90%) XML
16 155 (1.84%) ASP.NET Web API
16 155 (1.84%) Spring
17 151 (1.79%) HTML5
18 130 (1.54%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 387 (4.59%) Cloud Native
2 352 (4.18%) Management Information System
3 295 (3.50%) Data Centre
4 248 (2.94%) Public Cloud
5 241 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 226 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
7 220 (2.61%) Cyber Threat
8 209 (2.48%) Data Structures
9 199 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
10 198 (2.35%) Onboarding
11 165 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
12 129 (1.53%) Security Posture
13 128 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
14 123 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
15 121 (1.44%) Mobile App
16 118 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
17 114 (1.35%) Cyberattack
18 104 (1.23%) Driving Licence
19 103 (1.22%) Social Media
20 101 (1.20%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1,734 (20.58%) Windows
2 826 (9.81%) Windows Server
3 699 (8.30%) Linux
4 341 (4.05%) Windows 10
5 133 (1.58%) Android
6 131 (1.56%) Apple iOS
7 129 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 121 (1.44%) Unix
9 112 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 87 (1.03%) Mac OS
11 71 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
12 55 (0.65%) Ubuntu
13 49 (0.58%) CentOS
14 44 (0.52%) VMS
15 38 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 19 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
17 17 (0.20%) SUSE
18 15 (0.18%) Mac OS X
19 11 (0.13%) Solaris
20 8 (0.095%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,566 (30.46%) DevOps
2 2,207 (26.20%) Agile
3 1,747 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
4 1,577 (18.72%) CI/CD
5 1,148 (13.63%) Software Engineering
6 887 (10.53%) Mentoring
7 825 (9.79%) Cybersecurity
8 797 (9.46%) Microservices
9 782 (9.28%) Infrastructure as Code
10 716 (8.50%) ITIL
11 708 (8.40%) Analytics
12 702 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 696 (8.26%) Business Intelligence
14 630 (7.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 619 (7.35%) Roadmaps
16 595 (7.06%) Computer Science
17 551 (6.54%) Containerisation
18 544 (6.46%) Migration
19 538 (6.39%) Full-Stack Development
20 509 (6.04%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 2,133 (25.32%) SQL
2 1,525 (18.10%) C#
3 1,497 (17.77%) Python
4 1,110 (13.18%) JavaScript
5 866 (10.28%) PowerShell
6 691 (8.20%) Java
7 447 (5.31%) TypeScript
8 270 (3.21%) T-SQL
9 264 (3.13%) Bash
10 167 (1.98%) C++
11 129 (1.53%) Bicep
12 113 (1.34%) PHP
13 112 (1.33%) Go
14 98 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 81 (0.96%) Scala
16 77 (0.91%) R
17 74 (0.88%) C
18 58 (0.69%) VB.NET
19 47 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
20 44 (0.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,178 (13.98%) Degree
2 631 (7.49%) Azure Certification
3 565 (6.71%) Security Cleared
4 440 (5.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 390 (4.63%) SC Cleared
6 378 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 277 (3.29%) Cisco Certification
8 184 (2.18%) AWS Certification
9 143 (1.70%) CCNP
10 132 (1.57%) CCNA
11 130 (1.54%) CISSP
12 126 (1.50%) Master's Degree
13 85 (1.01%) DV Cleared
14 73 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 71 (0.84%) DBS Check
16 68 (0.81%) CISM
17 66 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
18 57 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
19 56 (0.66%) MCSA
19 56 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 367 (4.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 349 (4.14%) GDPR
3 301 (3.57%) QA
4 269 (3.19%) NIST
5 203 (2.41%) Data Quality
6 176 (2.09%) SLA
7 135 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 130 (1.54%) HIPAA
9 113 (1.34%) Accessibility
10 99 (1.18%) PCI DSS
11 57 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 37 (0.44%) SOC 2
13 34 (0.40%) NCSC
13 34 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 24 (0.28%) COBIT
15 16 (0.19%) HL7
15 16 (0.19%) PMO
16 14 (0.17%) GRC
17 13 (0.15%) ISO 9001
18 9 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1,409 (16.73%) Active Directory
2 941 (11.17%) Docker
3 546 (6.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 425 (5.05%) Hyper-V
5 158 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
6 136 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
7 94 (1.12%) vSphere
8 70 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
9 50 (0.59%) Firmware
10 40 (0.47%) VMware NSX
11 37 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
12 22 (0.26%) XenApp
13 13 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
14 12 (0.14%) DFS Replication
15 9 (0.11%) NDS
15 9 (0.11%) NetIQ eDirectory
15 9 (0.11%) XenDesktop
16 8 (0.095%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 7 (0.083%) HDFS
17 7 (0.083%) NFS
Systems Management
1 984 (11.68%) Kubernetes
2 921 (10.93%) Terraform
3 647 (7.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 371 (4.40%) Ansible
5 184 (2.18%) SCCM
6 118 (1.40%) Grafana
7 110 (1.31%) Prometheus
8 106 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
9 88 (1.04%) FortiGate
10 77 (0.91%) Puppet
11 66 (0.78%) Progress Chef
12 48 (0.57%) vCenter Server
13 46 (0.55%) WSUS
14 45 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 41 (0.49%) Nagios
16 33 (0.39%) CASB
17 32 (0.38%) Argo
18 27 (0.32%) SCOM
19 26 (0.31%) NetBackup
20 22 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 3,635 (43.15%) Microsoft
2 829 (9.84%) VMware
3 529 (6.28%) Cisco
4 522 (6.20%) Databricks
5 466 (5.53%) Google
6 192 (2.28%) Meraki
7 189 (2.24%) Citrix
7 189 (2.24%) Oracle
8 147 (1.75%) Palo Alto
8 147 (1.75%) Veeam
9 128 (1.52%) ServiceNow
10 126 (1.50%) SAP
11 114 (1.35%) IBM
12 107 (1.27%) SolarWinds
13 98 (1.16%) HP
14 94 (1.12%) Fortinet
15 93 (1.10%) Salesforce
16 92 (1.09%) CheckPoint
17 89 (1.06%) Apple
17 89 (1.06%) Red Hat