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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 5 4
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 6,780 16,726 23,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.03% 16.98% 22.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.98% 47.25% 51.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,345 13,234 14,725
10th Percentile £35,409 £34,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £46,500 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% -9.23% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -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 15,072 35,400 44,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.96% 35.94% 43.03%
Number of salaries quoted 11,031 26,787 29,292
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,670 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,738 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £96,250 £102,500
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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -4 6,202 £62,500 +5.04% 4,846
UK excluding London -5 3,818 £55,000 +4.76% 3,408
Work from Home -3 2,694 £62,500 +4.17% 2,811
London 0 2,540 £75,000 - 2,116
South East -3 966 £60,000 +9.09% 1,070
North of England -15 940 £60,000 +9.09% 869
Midlands -10 820 £52,500 +5.00% 531
West Midlands -8 582 £55,000 +1.85% 326
North West -29 509 £60,000 +4.35% 526
South West -5 435 £55,000 - 378
East of England -3 349 £50,000 - 314
Yorkshire -10 344 £57,500 +4.55% 244
East Midlands -15 236 £45,000 -7.22% 175
Scotland -3 203 £60,000 +9.09% 218
Wales -9 95 £55,000 +10.00% 79
North East -10 91 £57,500 +21.05% 104
Northern Ireland -6 22 £52,500 -4.55% 59
Isle of Man +5 5 £38,000 -18.28% 7
Channel Islands -2 2 £78,750 -7.35%

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
1 544 (8.02%) SharePoint
2 500 (7.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 102 (1.50%) Apache Spark
4 100 (1.47%) Confluence
5 81 (1.19%) IIS
6 74 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
7 72 (1.06%) CMS
8 48 (0.71%) Apache
9 24 (0.35%) Umbraco
10 21 (0.31%) IBM Domino
11 18 (0.27%) Headless CMS
12 16 (0.24%) Tomcat
13 14 (0.21%) WordPress
14 9 (0.13%) SAS
15 8 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 6 (0.088%) Liferay
16 6 (0.088%) nginx
16 6 (0.088%) NServiceBus
16 6 (0.088%) OpenStack
16 6 (0.088%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 217 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
2 132 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (0.59%) MS Visio
4 35 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
6 23 (0.34%) Chatbot
7 19 (0.28%) Trello
8 10 (0.15%) Maya
9 7 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.044%) Productboard
11 3 (0.044%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.029%) S-PLUS
13 1 (0.015%) 1Password
13 1 (0.015%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.015%) Revit
13 1 (0.015%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 164 (2.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
4 10 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
4 10 (0.15%) Endur
5 9 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
5 9 (0.13%) Sage 50
6 8 (0.12%) Elite 3E
6 8 (0.12%) SAP IBP
7 7 (0.10%) Fidessa
7 7 (0.10%) Shopify
8 6 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
8 6 (0.088%) Sage 200
9 5 (0.074%) Carpe Diem
9 5 (0.074%) Markit EDM
9 5 (0.074%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.059%) Magento
10 4 (0.059%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 2 (0.029%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 1,994 (29.41%) AWS
2 1,545 (22.79%) Microsoft 365
3 1,031 (15.21%) GCP
4 952 (14.04%) Power Platform
5 922 (13.60%) Azure DevOps
6 677 (9.99%) Entra ID
7 532 (7.85%) SaaS
8 379 (5.59%) Azure Data Factory
9 357 (5.27%) Dynamics 365
10 315 (4.65%) PaaS
11 310 (4.57%) GitHub
12 274 (4.04%) PowerApps
13 269 (3.97%) Power Automate
14 263 (3.88%) Serverless
15 245 (3.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 216 (3.19%) Azure Logic Apps
17 200 (2.95%) IaaS
18 175 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
18 175 (2.58%) OneDrive
19 160 (2.36%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 780 (11.50%) Firewall
2 461 (6.80%) DNS
3 448 (6.61%) WAN
4 367 (5.41%) LAN
5 359 (5.29%) VPN
6 324 (4.78%) DHCP
7 258 (3.81%) Network Security
8 222 (3.27%) TCP/IP
9 188 (2.77%) VLAN
10 183 (2.70%) SD-WAN
11 163 (2.40%) Wi-Fi
12 115 (1.70%) Wireless
13 109 (1.61%) VoIP
14 93 (1.37%) SAN
15 83 (1.22%) BGP
16 69 (1.02%) Internet
16 69 (1.02%) OSPF
17 60 (0.88%) MPLS
18 56 (0.83%) Intrusion Detection
19 54 (0.80%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 842 (12.42%) SQL Server
2 626 (9.23%) Power BI
3 354 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
4 297 (4.38%) Data Lake
5 235 (3.47%) NoSQL
6 231 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 185 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
8 175 (2.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 168 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 145 (2.14%) MongoDB
11 141 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
11 141 (2.08%) MySQL
12 138 (2.04%) Relational Database
13 129 (1.90%) Tableau
14 121 (1.78%) Big Data
15 102 (1.50%) Metadata
16 77 (1.14%) BigQuery
17 69 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
18 55 (0.81%) Hadoop
19 49 (0.72%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 445 (6.56%) Git
2 266 (3.92%) JIRA
3 228 (3.36%) Jenkins
4 148 (2.18%) Visual Studio
5 104 (1.53%) GitLab
6 79 (1.17%) Selenium
7 73 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
8 71 (1.05%) Postman
9 66 (0.97%) TeamCity
10 61 (0.90%) SonarQube
11 53 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
12 52 (0.77%) JUnit
12 52 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
13 43 (0.63%) Cypress.io
14 42 (0.62%) Maven
15 40 (0.59%) MSBuild
16 39 (0.58%) JMeter
17 34 (0.50%) webpack
18 33 (0.49%) NUnit
19 31 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2,065 (30.46%) Social Skills
2 1,537 (22.67%) Finance
3 768 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
4 434 (6.40%) Law
5 401 (5.91%) Banking
6 326 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 275 (4.06%) Retail
8 226 (3.33%) Public Sector
9 225 (3.32%) Legal
10 155 (2.29%) Marketing
11 145 (2.14%) Manufacturing
12 93 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
12 93 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
13 88 (1.30%) Telecoms
14 82 (1.21%) Front Office
15 70 (1.03%) Games
16 66 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
17 59 (0.87%) Advertising
18 58 (0.86%) Automotive
19 52 (0.77%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,269 (18.72%) Senior
2 1,148 (16.93%) Developer
3 753 (11.11%) Lead
4 707 (10.43%) Architect
5 601 (8.86%) Analyst
6 381 (5.62%) Data Engineer
7 377 (5.56%) Software Engineer
8 347 (5.12%) IT Support
9 336 (4.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 324 (4.78%) Support Engineer
11 320 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
12 293 (4.32%) Cloud Engineer
13 280 (4.13%) Senior Developer
14 275 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
15 232 (3.42%) .NET Developer
16 230 (3.39%) IT Engineer
17 197 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
18 190 (2.80%) Support Analyst
19 159 (2.35%) Software Developer
20 150 (2.21%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,146 (16.90%) .NET
2 546 (8.05%) React
3 376 (5.55%) CSS
4 356 (5.25%) HTML
5 328 (4.84%) AngularJS
6 305 (4.50%) .NET Framework
7 301 (4.44%) ASP.NET
8 296 (4.37%) REST
9 273 (4.03%) .NET Core
10 264 (3.89%) Node.js
11 231 (3.41%) RESTful
12 176 (2.60%) JSON
13 174 (2.57%) Kafka
14 140 (2.06%) Entity Framework
15 126 (1.86%) XML
16 124 (1.83%) Web Services
17 122 (1.80%) Vue
18 119 (1.76%) Spring
19 107 (1.58%) ASP.NET Web API
19 107 (1.58%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 293 (4.32%) Management Information System
2 288 (4.25%) Cloud Native
3 213 (3.14%) Product Ownership
4 211 (3.11%) Data Centre
5 198 (2.92%) Public Cloud
6 146 (2.15%) Onboarding
7 137 (2.02%) Security Posture
8 122 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
9 116 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
10 115 (1.70%) Algorithms
11 107 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
12 104 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
13 97 (1.43%) Data Structures
14 94 (1.39%) Driving Licence
15 91 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
15 91 (1.34%) Mobile App
16 87 (1.28%) Private Cloud
17 82 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
18 70 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
19 66 (0.97%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1,414 (20.86%) Windows
2 673 (9.93%) Windows Server
3 600 (8.85%) Linux
4 248 (3.66%) Windows 10
5 132 (1.95%) Android
6 130 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
7 114 (1.68%) Mac OS
8 101 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
9 97 (1.43%) Apple iOS
10 86 (1.27%) Unix
11 70 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
12 40 (0.59%) VMS
13 33 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 28 (0.41%) Ubuntu
15 22 (0.32%) CentOS
16 16 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
17 11 (0.16%) Windows 7
18 10 (0.15%) SUSE
19 8 (0.12%) Debian
19 8 (0.12%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,915 (28.24%) DevOps
2 1,806 (26.64%) Agile
3 1,566 (23.10%) Problem-Solving
4 1,397 (20.60%) CI/CD
5 849 (12.52%) Analytics
6 843 (12.43%) Software Engineering
7 815 (12.02%) Mentoring
8 694 (10.24%) Business Intelligence
9 630 (9.29%) ITIL
10 599 (8.83%) Microservices
10 599 (8.83%) Roadmaps
11 576 (8.50%) Cybersecurity
12 575 (8.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 558 (8.23%) Containerisation
14 540 (7.96%) Computer Science
15 515 (7.60%) Infrastructure as Code
16 497 (7.33%) Migration
17 486 (7.17%) Artificial Intelligence
18 455 (6.71%) Data Modelling
19 448 (6.61%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,761 (25.97%) SQL
2 1,395 (20.58%) Python
3 1,116 (16.46%) C#
4 870 (12.83%) JavaScript
5 773 (11.40%) PowerShell
6 677 (9.99%) Java
7 350 (5.16%) TypeScript
8 226 (3.33%) Bash
9 218 (3.22%) T-SQL
10 172 (2.54%) C++
11 122 (1.80%) Go
12 95 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 94 (1.39%) Bicep
14 83 (1.22%) PHP
15 79 (1.17%) R
16 78 (1.15%) Rust
16 78 (1.15%) Scala
17 52 (0.77%) PL/SQL
18 51 (0.75%) C
19 50 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,043 (15.38%) Degree
2 441 (6.50%) Azure Certification
3 438 (6.46%) Security Cleared
4 387 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 344 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 286 (4.22%) SC Cleared
7 202 (2.98%) Cisco Certification
8 154 (2.27%) AWS Certification
9 145 (2.14%) DBS Check
9 145 (2.14%) Master's Degree
10 111 (1.64%) CCNP
10 111 (1.64%) CISSP
11 105 (1.55%) DV Cleared
12 99 (1.46%) CCNA
13 67 (0.99%) CISM
14 60 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 58 (0.86%) MCSA
16 56 (0.83%) MCSE
17 55 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
18 53 (0.78%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 299 (4.41%) QA
2 289 (4.26%) GDPR
3 250 (3.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 236 (3.48%) Data Quality
5 177 (2.61%) NIST
6 139 (2.05%) SLA
7 112 (1.65%) Accessibility
8 102 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 92 (1.36%) PCI DSS
10 47 (0.69%) SOC 2
11 43 (0.63%) HIPAA
12 35 (0.52%) NCSC
13 29 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 25 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 22 (0.32%) COBIT
15 22 (0.32%) GRC
16 20 (0.29%) PMO
17 14 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 8 (0.12%) ISO 9001
19 7 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1,148 (16.93%) Active Directory
2 746 (11.00%) Docker
3 401 (5.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 283 (4.17%) Hyper-V
5 131 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
5 131 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
6 81 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
7 59 (0.87%) vSphere
8 37 (0.55%) VMware NSX
9 31 (0.46%) Firmware
10 21 (0.31%) XenApp
11 14 (0.21%) Terminal Services
12 12 (0.18%) DFS Replication
13 11 (0.16%) BitLocker
14 10 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
15 9 (0.13%) NFS
16 7 (0.10%) HDFS
16 7 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
17 5 (0.074%) Apache Flume
17 5 (0.074%) KVM
Systems Management
1 835 (12.32%) Kubernetes
2 761 (11.22%) Terraform
3 613 (9.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 338 (4.99%) Ansible
5 153 (2.26%) SCCM
6 105 (1.55%) Grafana
7 101 (1.49%) Prometheus
8 88 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
9 68 (1.00%) FortiGate
10 56 (0.83%) Puppet
11 55 (0.81%) Progress Chef
12 43 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 38 (0.56%) vCenter Server
14 28 (0.41%) Nagios
14 28 (0.41%) NetBackup
15 25 (0.37%) SCOM
16 24 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
16 24 (0.35%) WSUS
17 22 (0.32%) Istio
18 21 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 2,933 (43.26%) Microsoft
2 637 (9.40%) VMware
3 469 (6.92%) Databricks
4 458 (6.76%) Cisco
5 441 (6.50%) Google
6 188 (2.77%) Citrix
7 180 (2.65%) Meraki
8 177 (2.61%) Oracle
9 157 (2.32%) ServiceNow
10 122 (1.80%) SAP
11 112 (1.65%) Palo Alto
12 110 (1.62%) IBM
13 109 (1.61%) SolarWinds
14 100 (1.47%) CheckPoint
15 96 (1.42%) Fortinet
16 93 (1.37%) Veeam
17 83 (1.22%) Apple
18 63 (0.93%) Salesforce
19 62 (0.91%) F5
20 60 (0.88%) Red Hat