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

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 11,927 26,399 25,723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.15% 20.89% 19.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 51.91% 48.35% 42.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9,346 17,931 19,590
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,339 £48,250 £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 £53,850
% change year-on-year - +2.14% +7.70%

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 22,975 54,604 60,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 42.66% 43.21% 46.73%
Number of salaries quoted 18,185 36,102 42,496
10th Percentile £32,750 £34,575 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +5.83% +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 30 November 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 30 November 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 10,553 £62,500 -3.85% 4,195
UK excluding London +1 6,850 £55,000 - 2,994
Work from Home 0 5,616 £62,004 -4.61% 2,510
London 0 4,310 £75,000 - 1,562
North of England -2 1,818 £55,000 -4.35% 800
South East +3 1,533 £55,000 -8.33% 842
Midlands +3 1,262 £53,500 -2.73% 513
South West +4 1,061 £55,000 +4.76% 342
North West -1 951 £57,500 +4.55% 408
Yorkshire -2 769 £52,750 -9.83% 289
West Midlands +3 757 £52,500 -7.08% 318
East Midlands +2 502 £55,000 +4.76% 193
Scotland -3 465 £55,000 -4.35% 156
East of England 0 332 £52,500 -4.55% 262
Wales +1 294 £51,000 -2.86% 114
Northern Ireland -1 124 £46,000 -20.00% 38
North East 0 98 £57,500 +4.55% 112
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
1 881 (7.39%) SharePoint
2 241 (2.02%) MS Exchange
3 182 (1.53%) IIS
4 164 (1.38%) Apache Spark
5 147 (1.23%) Confluence
6 99 (0.83%) Apache
7 86 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
8 84 (0.70%) CMS
9 64 (0.54%) Umbraco
10 38 (0.32%) WebSphere
11 32 (0.27%) nginx
12 30 (0.25%) Tomcat
13 23 (0.19%) FileNet
14 21 (0.18%) Captiva
15 20 (0.17%) SAS
16 18 (0.15%) NServiceBus
17 17 (0.14%) OpenStack
18 13 (0.11%) Kentico
18 13 (0.11%) WordPress
19 12 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 379 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
2 165 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 69 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 54 (0.45%) MS Visio
5 24 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
6 20 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 13 (0.11%) Trello
8 9 (0.075%) AutoCAD
8 9 (0.075%) PTC Creo
8 9 (0.075%) SOLIDWORKS
9 6 (0.050%) Simulink
9 6 (0.050%) 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
1 468 (3.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.13%) Maximo
2 16 (0.13%) Shopify
3 14 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
3 14 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 13 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
4 13 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
5 12 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
6 11 (0.092%) Dynamics NAV
7 10 (0.084%) NetSuite
8 9 (0.075%) SAP Business One
9 8 (0.067%) Remedy ITSM
10 6 (0.050%) BusinessWorks
10 6 (0.050%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.042%) Endur
11 5 (0.042%) Magento
12 4 (0.034%) Elite 3E
12 4 (0.034%) Salesforce CRM
13 3 (0.025%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 3,653 (30.63%) AWS
2 2,592 (21.73%) Microsoft 365
3 2,084 (17.47%) Azure DevOps
4 1,746 (14.64%) Power Platform
5 1,624 (13.62%) GCP
6 1,178 (9.88%) SaaS
7 1,170 (9.81%) PaaS
8 1,135 (9.52%) Entra ID
9 1,030 (8.64%) IaaS
10 889 (7.45%) Dynamics 365
11 800 (6.71%) Serverless
12 501 (4.20%) Azure Data Factory
13 469 (3.93%) GitHub
14 454 (3.81%) Azure Functions
15 371 (3.11%) PowerApps
16 344 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
17 272 (2.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 261 (2.19%) Azure Logic Apps
19 246 (2.06%) Power Automate
20 239 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1,166 (9.78%) Firewall
2 915 (7.67%) DNS
3 702 (5.89%) DHCP
4 579 (4.85%) WAN
5 537 (4.50%) VPN
6 479 (4.02%) LAN
7 444 (3.72%) TCP/IP
8 341 (2.86%) SAN
9 296 (2.48%) VLAN
10 290 (2.43%) Wireless
11 248 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
12 234 (1.96%) Network Security
13 178 (1.49%) SD-WAN
14 176 (1.48%) Internet
15 170 (1.43%) VoIP
16 145 (1.22%) HTTP
17 109 (0.91%) BGP
18 98 (0.82%) OSPF
19 84 (0.70%) Remote Desktop
20 69 (0.58%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,548 (12.98%) SQL Server
2 942 (7.90%) Power BI
3 717 (6.01%) Data Warehouse
4 522 (4.38%) NoSQL
5 510 (4.28%) Data Lake
6 374 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 326 (2.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 260 (2.18%) Big Data
8 260 (2.18%) Relational Database
9 245 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
10 236 (1.98%) MongoDB
11 230 (1.93%) MySQL
12 200 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 192 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
14 189 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
15 154 (1.29%) Tableau
16 145 (1.22%) Hadoop
17 126 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 107 (0.90%) Metadata
19 98 (0.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 700 (5.87%) Git
2 590 (4.95%) Jenkins
3 411 (3.45%) JIRA
4 216 (1.81%) Selenium
5 209 (1.75%) GitLab
6 155 (1.30%) Visual Studio
7 117 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
8 109 (0.91%) Cucumber
9 103 (0.86%) TeamCity
10 79 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 79 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
11 73 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
12 71 (0.60%) Postman
13 68 (0.57%) Maven
14 57 (0.48%) SonarQube
15 55 (0.46%) Visual Studio Team System
16 48 (0.40%) Bitbucket
17 46 (0.39%) NUnit
17 46 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
18 45 (0.38%) Artifactory
General
1 2,831 (23.74%) Finance
2 2,568 (21.53%) Social Skills
3 930 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
4 626 (5.25%) Banking
5 601 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 425 (3.56%) Retail
7 396 (3.32%) Law
7 396 (3.32%) Public Sector
8 293 (2.46%) Legal
9 278 (2.33%) Marketing
10 263 (2.21%) Telecoms
11 247 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
12 211 (1.77%) Front Office
13 166 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
14 157 (1.32%) Manufacturing
15 120 (1.01%) Aerospace
16 102 (0.86%) Financial Institution
17 91 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
18 80 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
19 79 (0.66%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2,201 (18.45%) Developer
2 1,930 (16.18%) Senior
3 1,846 (15.48%) Architect
4 1,106 (9.27%) Lead
5 826 (6.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 820 (6.88%) Analyst
7 754 (6.32%) Solutions Architect
8 734 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
9 689 (5.78%) Software Engineer
10 671 (5.63%) DevOps Engineer
11 610 (5.11%) .NET Developer
12 554 (4.64%) Support Engineer
13 549 (4.60%) Data Engineer
14 490 (4.11%) Senior Developer
15 485 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
16 440 (3.69%) IT Engineer
17 422 (3.54%) Dynamics 365 Architect
18 382 (3.20%) IT Support
19 328 (2.75%) Consultant
20 321 (2.69%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,108 (17.67%) .NET
2 889 (7.45%) React
3 822 (6.89%) AngularJS
4 667 (5.59%) HTML
5 618 (5.18%) .NET Core
6 591 (4.96%) CSS
7 514 (4.31%) ASP.NET
8 491 (4.12%) .NET Framework
9 462 (3.87%) REST
10 377 (3.16%) Node.js
11 332 (2.78%) JSON
12 276 (2.31%) Kafka
13 273 (2.29%) RESTful
14 255 (2.14%) Web Services
15 227 (1.90%) Vue
16 214 (1.79%) YAML
17 193 (1.62%) ASP.NET Web API
18 186 (1.56%) Entity Framework
19 185 (1.55%) ARM Templates
19 185 (1.55%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 739 (6.20%) Public Cloud
2 500 (4.19%) Data Centre
3 453 (3.80%) Cloud Native
4 335 (2.81%) Product Ownership
5 316 (2.65%) Management Information System
6 280 (2.35%) Private Cloud
7 263 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
8 244 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
9 223 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
10 187 (1.57%) Virtual Team
11 167 (1.40%) Data Structures
12 158 (1.32%) Onboarding
13 144 (1.21%) Derivative
14 140 (1.17%) Driving Licence
15 134 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
16 130 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
17 127 (1.06%) Hedge funds
18 125 (1.05%) Clustering
19 119 (1.00%) Fixed Income
20 113 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2,531 (21.22%) Windows
2 1,340 (11.24%) Windows Server
3 1,061 (8.90%) Linux
4 457 (3.83%) Windows 10
5 268 (2.25%) Unix
6 267 (2.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 258 (2.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 233 (1.95%) Windows Server 2012
9 195 (1.63%) Android
10 166 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 150 (1.26%) Apple iOS
12 145 (1.22%) Mac OS
13 84 (0.70%) Ubuntu
14 49 (0.41%) VMS
15 41 (0.34%) CentOS
16 39 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
17 30 (0.25%) Windows 7
17 30 (0.25%) Windows 8
18 25 (0.21%) Debian
18 25 (0.21%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,044 (33.91%) Agile
2 4,002 (33.55%) DevOps
3 1,870 (15.68%) CI/CD
4 1,737 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
5 1,263 (10.59%) Software Engineering
6 1,253 (10.51%) Mentoring
7 1,248 (10.46%) Roadmaps
8 1,179 (9.89%) Actionable Insight
9 1,138 (9.54%) Infrastructure as Code
10 1,064 (8.92%) ITIL
11 1,046 (8.77%) Microservices
12 1,037 (8.69%) Business Intelligence
13 1,003 (8.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 1,001 (8.39%) Analytics
15 952 (7.98%) Scrum
16 905 (7.59%) Cybersecurity
17 891 (7.47%) Migration
18 783 (6.56%) Full Stack Development
19 696 (5.84%) Test Automation
20 694 (5.82%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 2,866 (24.03%) SQL
2 2,222 (18.63%) C#
3 1,932 (16.20%) Python
4 1,637 (13.73%) PowerShell
5 1,556 (13.05%) JavaScript
6 1,056 (8.85%) Java
7 610 (5.11%) Bash
8 502 (4.21%) TypeScript
9 428 (3.59%) T-SQL
10 263 (2.21%) Go
11 185 (1.55%) C++
12 179 (1.50%) Bicep
13 159 (1.33%) Ruby
14 141 (1.18%) PHP
15 102 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 101 (0.85%) R
17 88 (0.74%) Kotlin
18 71 (0.60%) Scala
19 69 (0.58%) Perl
20 68 (0.57%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1,541 (12.92%) Degree
2 1,125 (9.43%) Security Cleared
3 748 (6.27%) SC Cleared
4 600 (5.03%) Azure Certification
5 473 (3.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 437 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 245 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
8 232 (1.95%) DV Cleared
9 213 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
10 206 (1.73%) AWS Certification
11 177 (1.48%) CISSP
12 165 (1.38%) Master's Degree
13 132 (1.11%) CCNA
13 132 (1.11%) CCNP
14 117 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
15 114 (0.96%) MCSE
16 90 (0.75%) MCSA
17 84 (0.70%) DBS Check
18 80 (0.67%) CISM
19 67 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 468 (3.92%) QA
2 309 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 288 (2.41%) SLA
4 274 (2.30%) Data Quality
5 177 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 173 (1.45%) GDPR
7 109 (0.91%) Accessibility
8 108 (0.91%) NIST
9 82 (0.69%) PCI DSS
10 63 (0.53%) NCSC
11 62 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 40 (0.34%) PMO
13 21 (0.18%) COBIT
14 15 (0.13%) SOC 2
15 14 (0.12%) ISO 9001
15 14 (0.12%) WCAG
16 13 (0.11%) GRC
17 8 (0.067%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 8 (0.067%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 8 (0.067%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2,240 (18.78%) Active Directory
2 1,344 (11.27%) Docker
3 978 (8.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 676 (5.67%) Hyper-V
5 231 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
6 171 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 167 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
8 163 (1.37%) vSphere
9 72 (0.60%) Firmware
10 64 (0.54%) VMware NSX
11 63 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
12 37 (0.31%) XenApp
13 23 (0.19%) BitLocker
14 18 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 17 (0.14%) XenDesktop
16 15 (0.13%) Terminal Services
17 14 (0.12%) DFS Replication
17 14 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
18 13 (0.11%) vCloud
19 12 (0.10%) LXC
Systems Management
1 1,604 (13.45%) Kubernetes
2 1,336 (11.20%) Terraform
3 923 (7.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 725 (6.08%) Ansible
5 371 (3.11%) SCCM
6 247 (2.07%) Puppet
7 137 (1.15%) Grafana
8 133 (1.12%) Progress Chef
9 127 (1.06%) SCOM
10 109 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 104 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
12 89 (0.75%) Prometheus
13 79 (0.66%) FortiGate
14 61 (0.51%) WSUS
15 57 (0.48%) vCenter Server
16 50 (0.42%) Argo
17 48 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
18 45 (0.38%) Nagios
19 44 (0.37%) Istio
20 42 (0.35%) Packer
Vendors
1 4,907 (41.14%) Microsoft
2 1,417 (11.88%) VMware
3 645 (5.41%) Cisco
4 534 (4.48%) Google
5 460 (3.86%) Oracle
6 457 (3.83%) Databricks
7 445 (3.73%) Citrix
8 221 (1.85%) Meraki
9 211 (1.77%) SAP
10 205 (1.72%) Veeam
11 172 (1.44%) Palo Alto
12 165 (1.38%) ServiceNow
13 159 (1.33%) HP
14 144 (1.21%) IBM
15 141 (1.18%) Red Hat
16 130 (1.09%) SolarWinds
17 121 (1.01%) Splunk
18 120 (1.01%) Aruba
19 112 (0.94%) CheckPoint
20 101 (0.85%) Dell