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 10 August 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Microsoft AzureUK
6 months to 10 Aug 2022
Same period 2021
Same period 2020
Rank
5
4
6
Rank change year-on-year
-1
+2
+5
Permanent jobs citing Azure
32,594
22,493
11,779
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK
19.17%
19.70%
18.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category
42.64%
45.42%
48.89%
Number of salaries quoted
19,214
17,603
9,724
10th Percentile
£37,500
£36,250
£36,250
25th Percentile
£47,500
£45,000
£43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile)
£62,500
£60,000
£57,500
Median % change year-on-year
+4.17%
+4.35%
+4.55%
75th Percentile
£82,500
£77,500
£75,000
90th Percentile
£100,000
£92,500
£90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary
£55,000
£52,500
£50,000
% change year-on-year
+4.76%
+5.00%
-
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.
All Cloud SkillsUK
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills
76,437
49,517
24,091
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK
44.95%
43.36%
37.41%
Number of salaries quoted
39,035
35,493
19,877
10th Percentile
£33,580
£32,500
£32,500
25th Percentile
£45,000
£42,500
£42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile)
£61,500
£60,000
£57,500
Median % change year-on-year
+2.50%
+4.35%
+4.55%
75th Percentile
£82,500
£78,750
£75,000
90th Percentile
£97,500
£95,000
£93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary
£52,500
£50,000
£50,000
% change year-on-year
+5.00%
-
+5.26%
Azure Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
Azure Salary Trend
3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure.
Azure Salary Histogram
Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure over the 6 months to 10 August 2022.
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 10 August 2022.
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
27,818
£63,000
+5.00%
3,361
Work from Home
-1
16,027
£62,500
+5.93%
1,617
UK excluding London
0
14,940
£55,000
+4.76%
2,226
London
+1
14,097
£75,000
+4.17%
1,355
North of England
0
4,313
£54,590
+3.98%
594
South East
-2
3,878
£59,750
+8.64%
451
Midlands
+1
2,502
£55,000
+4.76%
429
North West
+2
2,372
£55,000
+1.85%
330
West Midlands
+1
1,674
£55,000
-
261
Yorkshire
-1
1,646
£55,000
+7.84%
184
South West
-3
1,612
£52,500
+7.14%
262
East of England
0
1,173
£55,000
+4.76%
243
Scotland
0
1,109
£55,000
+4.76%
168
East Midlands
+1
789
£50,000
+11.11%
165
Wales
+1
367
£50,000
+11.11%
59
North East
-2
294
£50,000
+11.11%
81
Northern Ireland
+14
152
£50,000
+33.33%
23
Isle of Man
+13
2
£81,250
+132.14%
Channel Islands
-14
1
£85,000
-
1
For the 6 months to 10 August 2022, IT jobs citing Azure also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Azure.
1
14,623 (44.86%)
AWS
2
14,424 (44.25%)
Agile
3
12,969 (39.79%)
DevOps
4
11,349 (34.82%)
Microsoft
5
9,892 (30.35%)
SQL
6
8,624 (26.46%)
.NET
7
8,346 (25.61%)
CI/CD
8
8,102 (24.86%)
Python
9
7,862 (24.12%)
C#
10
7,853 (24.09%)
Finance
11
7,738 (23.74%)
GCP
12
7,718 (23.68%)
Social Skills
13
7,255 (22.26%)
JavaScript
14
6,266 (19.22%)
Software Engineering
14
6,266 (19.22%)
Kubernetes
14
6,266 (19.22%)
Docker
15
6,212 (19.06%)
Java
16
6,042 (18.54%)
Git (software)
17
5,742 (17.62%)
SQL Server
18
5,582 (17.13%)
Azure DevOps
19
5,146 (15.79%)
Windows
20
5,126 (15.73%)
Terraform
21
4,968 (15.24%)
React
22
4,702 (14.43%)
Microservices
23
4,387 (13.46%)
Scrum
24
4,272 (13.11%)
Analytics
25
4,232 (12.98%)
Mentoring
26
4,227 (12.97%)
Problem-Solving
27
4,161 (12.77%)
Microsoft 365
28
3,822 (11.73%)
HTML
Azure Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
Cloud Services
1
14,623 (44.86%)
AWS
2
7,738 (23.74%)
GCP
3
5,582 (17.13%)
Azure DevOps
4
4,161 (12.77%)
Microsoft 365
5
3,148 (9.66%)
Serverless
6
2,771 (8.50%)
SaaS
7
2,626 (8.06%)
Power Platform
8
2,262 (6.94%)
PaaS
9
1,859 (5.70%)
Azure Active Directory
10
1,705 (5.23%)
GitHub
11
1,498 (4.60%)
IaaS
12
1,265 (3.88%)
Azure Data Factory
13
1,179 (3.62%)
Azure Service Bus
14
1,086 (3.33%)
Cloud Computing
15
1,053 (3.23%)
AWS Lambda
16
1,040 (3.19%)
Azure Functions
17
990 (3.04%)
AWS CloudFormation
18
917 (2.81%)
Azure Cosmos DB
19
815 (2.50%)
Dynamics 365
20
732 (2.25%)
Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1
5,742 (17.62%)
SQL Server
2
2,914 (8.94%)
NoSQL
3
2,382 (7.31%)
Data Warehouse
4
2,026 (6.22%)
Power BI
5
1,776 (5.45%)
Big Data
6
1,638 (5.03%)
Relational Database
7
1,586 (4.87%)
Data Lake
8
1,449 (4.45%)
PostgreSQL
9
1,272 (3.90%)
MySQL
10
1,265 (3.88%)
SQL Server Integration Services
11
1,202 (3.69%)
MongoDB
12
963 (2.95%)
Azure SQL Database
13
840 (2.58%)
Elasticsearch
14
825 (2.53%)
SQL Server Reporting Services
15
732 (2.25%)
Hadoop
16
706 (2.17%)
Tableau
17
531 (1.63%)
SQL Server Analysis Services
18
505 (1.55%)
Apache Cassandra
19
428 (1.31%)
Redis
20
427 (1.31%)
BigQuery
General
1
7,853 (24.09%)
Finance
2
7,718 (23.68%)
Social Skills
3
2,814 (8.63%)
Analytical Skills
4
2,071 (6.35%)
Banking
5
1,886 (5.79%)
Inclusion and Diversity
6
1,665 (5.11%)
Retail
7
1,582 (4.85%)
Marketing
8
1,581 (4.85%)
Public Sector
9
1,289 (3.95%)
Manufacturing
10
1,285 (3.94%)
Games
11
941 (2.89%)
Legal
12
903 (2.77%)
Law
13
683 (2.10%)
Presentation Skills
14
497 (1.52%)
Organisational Skills
15
458 (1.41%)
Telecoms
16
447 (1.37%)
Front Office
17
310 (0.95%)
Advertising
18
295 (0.91%)
Automotive
19
264 (0.81%)
Local Government
20
232 (0.71%)
Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1
7,514 (23.05%)
Developer
2
3,461 (10.62%)
Software Engineer
3
2,779 (8.53%)
Architect
4
2,460 (7.55%)
DevOps Engineer
5
1,974 (6.06%)
.NET Developer
6
1,946 (5.97%)
Senior Developer
7
1,910 (5.86%)
Data Engineer
8
1,723 (5.29%)
Analyst
9
1,439 (4.41%)
Cloud Engineer
10
1,411 (4.33%)
Azure Engineer
11
1,379 (4.23%)
Infrastructure Engineer
12
1,224 (3.76%)
Software Developer
13
1,118 (3.43%)
Solutions Architect
14
1,087 (3.33%)
Consultant
15
1,056 (3.24%)
Full Stack Developer
16
973 (2.99%)
C# Developer
17
872 (2.68%)
Senior Software Engineer
18
844 (2.59%)
Senior DevOps
19
768 (2.36%)
Senior DevOps Engineer
20
737 (2.26%)
Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1
8,624 (26.46%)
.NET
2
4,968 (15.24%)
React
3
3,822 (11.73%)
HTML
4
3,636 (11.16%)
CSS
5
3,520 (10.80%)
AngularJS
6
3,488 (10.70%)
.NET Core
7
2,923 (8.97%)
Node.js
8
2,731 (8.38%)
ASP.NET
9
2,428 (7.45%)
.NET Framework
10
1,904 (5.84%)
RESTful
11
1,712 (5.25%)
Spring
12
1,685 (5.17%)
REST
13
1,585 (4.86%)
Kafka
14
1,387 (4.26%)
Entity Framework
15
1,104 (3.39%)
Web Services
16
1,074 (3.30%)
jQuery
17
1,021 (3.13%)
ASP.NET Web API
18
1,015 (3.11%)
JSON
19
909 (2.79%)
Vue.js
20
751 (2.30%)
Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1
14,424 (44.25%)
Agile
2
12,969 (39.79%)
DevOps
3
8,346 (25.61%)
CI/CD
4
6,266 (19.22%)
Software Engineering
5
4,702 (14.43%)
Microservices
6
4,387 (13.46%)
Scrum
7
4,272 (13.11%)
Analytics
8
4,232 (12.98%)
Mentoring
9
4,227 (12.97%)
Problem-Solving
10
3,636 (11.16%)
Test Automation
11
3,309 (10.15%)
Full Stack Development
12
3,154 (9.68%)
Infrastructure as Code
13
3,141 (9.64%)
TDD
14
2,930 (8.99%)
MVC
15
2,727 (8.37%)
Business Intelligence
16
2,515 (7.72%)
Cybersecurity
17
2,484 (7.62%)
Continuous Integration
18
2,442 (7.49%)
SDLC
19
2,383 (7.31%)
Data Science
20
2,336 (7.17%)
Coaching
Programming Languages
1
9,892 (30.35%)
SQL
2
8,102 (24.86%)
Python
3
7,862 (24.12%)
C#
4
7,255 (22.26%)
JavaScript
5
6,212 (19.06%)
Java
6
3,747 (11.50%)
PowerShell
7
2,347 (7.20%)
TypeScript
8
1,915 (5.88%)
Go
9
1,882 (5.77%)
Bash
10
1,505 (4.62%)
T-SQL
11
1,397 (4.29%)
Ruby
12
757 (2.32%)
Scala
13
640 (1.96%)
PHP
14
578 (1.77%)
C++
15
544 (1.67%)
Shell Script
16
516 (1.58%)
R
17
485 (1.49%)
C
18
451 (1.38%)
Groovy
19
442 (1.36%)
Kotlin
20
427 (1.31%)
Perl