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

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 5 4
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 7,239 16,748 22,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.23% 16.88% 22.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 46.64% 47.30% 51.63%
Number of salaries quoted 5,271 13,220 14,300
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,000 £36,748
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,000 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% -8.53% +3.20%
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 15,521 35,410 43,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.37% 35.69% 42.85%
Number of salaries quoted 10,973 26,750 28,485
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,792
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,751 £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 11 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 11 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 6,619 £62,500 +5.04% 5,286
UK excluding London -5 4,294 £55,000 +4.76% 3,678
Work from Home -3 3,099 £62,500 +4.17% 3,279
London -1 2,516 £76,000 +1.33% 2,569
North of England -11 1,241 £60,000 +9.09% 964
South East -5 996 £60,000 +11.11% 1,273
Midlands -9 881 £52,500 +5.00% 499
North West -17 780 £60,000 +4.35% 548
West Midlands -5 604 £55,000 - 324
South West -5 443 £55,000 - 342
East of England -8 386 £50,000 - 277
Yorkshire -10 351 £57,500 +4.55% 292
East Midlands -14 275 £46,000 -3.16% 154
Scotland -1 246 £57,500 +4.55% 262
North East -7 114 £57,500 +21.05% 137
Wales -13 96 £55,000 +10.00% 97
Northern Ireland -17 13 £52,500 -4.55% 66
Isle of Man +4 5 £38,000 -18.28% 8
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
1 537 (7.42%) SharePoint
2 496 (6.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 254 (3.51%) Confluence
4 98 (1.35%) Apache Spark
5 86 (1.19%) IIS
6 76 (1.05%) CMS
7 70 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
8 46 (0.64%) Apache
9 24 (0.33%) Umbraco
10 20 (0.28%) Tomcat
11 19 (0.26%) IBM Domino
12 18 (0.25%) Headless CMS
13 15 (0.21%) WordPress
14 8 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 7 (0.097%) Moodle
15 7 (0.097%) nginx
15 7 (0.097%) SAS
15 7 (0.097%) SharePoint Server
16 6 (0.083%) Apache Solr
16 6 (0.083%) Drupal
Applications
1 210 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
2 146 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 50 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 26 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
6 25 (0.35%) Chatbot
7 17 (0.23%) Trello
8 10 (0.14%) Maya
9 7 (0.097%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.041%) Productboard
11 3 (0.041%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.028%) S-PLUS
13 1 (0.014%) 1Password
13 1 (0.014%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.014%) Revit
13 1 (0.014%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 162 (2.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
4 11 (0.15%) Elite 3E
5 10 (0.14%) Endur
6 9 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
6 9 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
7 8 (0.11%) Sage 50
7 8 (0.11%) SAP IBP
8 7 (0.097%) Carpe Diem
8 7 (0.097%) Fidessa
8 7 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
8 7 (0.097%) Shopify
9 5 (0.069%) Magento
9 5 (0.069%) Markit EDM
9 5 (0.069%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.069%) Sage 200
10 4 (0.055%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 2 (0.028%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 2,420 (33.43%) AWS
2 1,532 (21.16%) Microsoft 365
3 1,371 (18.94%) GCP
4 983 (13.58%) Power Platform
5 935 (12.92%) Azure DevOps
6 741 (10.24%) Entra ID
7 538 (7.43%) SaaS
8 378 (5.22%) Azure Data Factory
9 343 (4.74%) Dynamics 365
10 334 (4.61%) PaaS
11 292 (4.03%) Power Automate
12 288 (3.98%) GitHub
13 277 (3.83%) PowerApps
14 264 (3.65%) Serverless
15 239 (3.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 216 (2.98%) Azure Logic Apps
17 213 (2.94%) IaaS
18 175 (2.42%) OneDrive
19 172 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
20 167 (2.31%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 787 (10.87%) Firewall
2 476 (6.58%) DNS
3 471 (6.51%) WAN
4 370 (5.11%) LAN
5 369 (5.10%) VPN
6 324 (4.48%) DHCP
7 250 (3.45%) Network Security
8 219 (3.03%) TCP/IP
9 196 (2.71%) SD-WAN
10 186 (2.57%) VLAN
11 162 (2.24%) Wi-Fi
12 114 (1.57%) Wireless
13 112 (1.55%) VoIP
14 102 (1.41%) SAN
15 79 (1.09%) BGP
16 68 (0.94%) OSPF
17 65 (0.90%) Internet
18 58 (0.80%) MPLS
19 56 (0.77%) Intrusion Detection
20 50 (0.69%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,076 (14.86%) SQL Server
2 674 (9.31%) Power BI
3 361 (4.99%) Data Warehouse
4 320 (4.42%) Data Lake
5 239 (3.30%) NoSQL
6 219 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
7 184 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
8 167 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 160 (2.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 152 (2.10%) MongoDB
11 150 (2.07%) MySQL
12 141 (1.95%) Relational Database
13 137 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
14 134 (1.85%) Tableau
15 118 (1.63%) Big Data
16 108 (1.49%) Metadata
17 78 (1.08%) BigQuery
18 73 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
19 54 (0.75%) Hadoop
20 49 (0.68%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 500 (6.91%) JIRA
2 458 (6.33%) Git
3 351 (4.85%) GitLab
4 328 (4.53%) Selenium
5 307 (4.24%) SonarQube
6 298 (4.12%) Sonatype Nexus
7 288 (3.98%) Maven
8 266 (3.67%) Cucumber
9 264 (3.65%) Bitbucket
10 227 (3.14%) Jenkins
11 143 (1.98%) Visual Studio
12 72 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
12 72 (0.99%) Postman
13 64 (0.88%) TeamCity
14 52 (0.72%) JUnit
14 52 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
15 46 (0.64%) Cypress.io
16 39 (0.54%) MSBuild
17 38 (0.52%) JMeter
18 35 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 2,040 (28.18%) Social Skills
2 1,788 (24.70%) Finance
3 781 (10.79%) Analytical Skills
4 771 (10.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 655 (9.05%) Banking
6 458 (6.33%) Law
7 386 (5.33%) Retail
8 229 (3.16%) Public Sector
9 225 (3.11%) Legal
10 154 (2.13%) Marketing
11 147 (2.03%) Manufacturing
12 112 (1.55%) Investment Banking
13 96 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
14 94 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
15 90 (1.24%) Corporate Banking
16 85 (1.17%) Telecoms
17 82 (1.13%) Front Office
18 69 (0.95%) Games
19 67 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
20 61 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,427 (19.71%) Senior
2 1,148 (15.86%) Developer
3 795 (10.98%) Software Engineer
4 745 (10.29%) Lead
5 704 (9.73%) Architect
6 582 (8.04%) Analyst
7 372 (5.14%) Data Engineer
8 365 (5.04%) IT Support
9 337 (4.66%) Azure Engineer
10 334 (4.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 329 (4.54%) Support Engineer
12 325 (4.49%) Senior Software Engineer
13 289 (3.99%) Cloud Engineer
14 268 (3.70%) Senior Developer
15 254 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
16 220 (3.04%) IT Engineer
17 218 (3.01%) .NET Developer
18 208 (2.87%) DevOps Engineer
19 189 (2.61%) Support Analyst
20 153 (2.11%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,280 (17.68%) .NET
2 793 (10.95%) React
3 606 (8.37%) CSS
4 582 (8.04%) HTML
5 443 (6.12%) Node.js
6 418 (5.77%) Kafka
7 381 (5.26%) REST
8 366 (5.06%) Spring
9 353 (4.88%) Spring Boot
10 316 (4.37%) AngularJS
11 314 (4.34%) RESTful
12 289 (3.99%) Redux
13 285 (3.94%) .NET Framework
14 278 (3.84%) ASP.NET
15 277 (3.83%) JPA
16 263 (3.63%) .NET Core
17 195 (2.69%) Hibernate
18 181 (2.50%) JSON
19 165 (2.28%) HTML5
20 137 (1.89%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 457 (6.31%) Product Ownership
2 341 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
3 297 (4.10%) Cloud Native
4 293 (4.05%) Management Information System
5 289 (3.99%) Self-Motivation
6 229 (3.16%) Cyberattack
7 222 (3.07%) Data Centre
8 203 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
9 199 (2.75%) Public Cloud
10 145 (2.00%) Onboarding
11 134 (1.85%) Security Posture
12 125 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
13 119 (1.64%) Algorithms
14 118 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
15 115 (1.59%) Data Structures
16 106 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
17 102 (1.41%) NHS
18 97 (1.34%) Driving Licence
19 92 (1.27%) Private Cloud
20 87 (1.20%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1,405 (19.41%) Windows
2 784 (10.83%) Linux
3 672 (9.28%) Windows Server
4 236 (3.26%) Windows 10
5 135 (1.86%) Android
6 123 (1.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 116 (1.60%) Mac OS
8 98 (1.35%) Apple iOS
8 98 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 92 (1.27%) Unix
10 67 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
11 41 (0.57%) VMS
12 33 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 27 (0.37%) Ubuntu
14 22 (0.30%) CentOS
15 17 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
16 11 (0.15%) Windows 7
17 10 (0.14%) SUSE
18 8 (0.11%) Debian
18 8 (0.11%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,263 (31.26%) Agile
2 2,167 (29.94%) DevOps
3 1,653 (22.83%) CI/CD
4 1,565 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
5 1,243 (17.17%) Software Engineering
6 1,103 (15.24%) Mentoring
7 1,021 (14.10%) Microservices
8 889 (12.28%) Analytics
9 819 (11.31%) Containerisation
10 727 (10.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 708 (9.78%) Business Intelligence
12 689 (9.52%) ITIL
13 641 (8.85%) Test Automation
14 635 (8.77%) Full-Stack Development
15 618 (8.54%) Data Engineering
16 611 (8.44%) Roadmaps
17 609 (8.41%) Migration
18 552 (7.63%) Cybersecurity
19 540 (7.46%) SDLC
20 538 (7.43%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 2,043 (28.22%) SQL
2 1,570 (21.69%) Python
3 1,276 (17.63%) JavaScript
4 1,106 (15.28%) Java
5 1,072 (14.81%) C#
6 795 (10.98%) PowerShell
7 434 (6.00%) TypeScript
8 348 (4.81%) C++
9 300 (4.14%) Go
10 256 (3.54%) Rust
11 217 (3.00%) Bash
12 213 (2.94%) T-SQL
13 107 (1.48%) Bicep
14 93 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 82 (1.13%) R
16 80 (1.11%) PHP
17 76 (1.05%) Scala
18 53 (0.73%) C
19 49 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
20 47 (0.65%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,102 (15.22%) Degree
2 622 (8.59%) Security Cleared
3 459 (6.34%) Azure Certification
4 391 (5.40%) Microsoft Certification
5 345 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 333 (4.60%) AWS Certification
7 289 (3.99%) SC Cleared
8 283 (3.91%) DV Cleared
9 237 (3.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 223 (3.08%) DBS Check
11 200 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
12 182 (2.51%) AWS Certified Developer
13 141 (1.95%) Master's Degree
14 114 (1.57%) CCNP
15 105 (1.45%) CISSP
16 104 (1.44%) CCNA
17 63 (0.87%) CISM
18 61 (0.84%) MCSA
19 59 (0.82%) MCSE
20 53 (0.73%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 547 (7.56%) QA
2 294 (4.06%) GDPR
3 248 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 238 (3.29%) Data Quality
5 198 (2.74%) Accessibility
6 169 (2.33%) NIST
7 137 (1.89%) SLA
8 99 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
9 91 (1.26%) PCI DSS
10 46 (0.64%) SOC 2
11 44 (0.61%) HIPAA
12 37 (0.51%) NCSC
13 32 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 25 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 21 (0.29%) COBIT
16 19 (0.26%) GRC
16 19 (0.26%) PMO
17 14 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 8 (0.11%) ISO 9001
19 7 (0.097%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 1,196 (16.52%) Active Directory
2 995 (13.74%) Docker
3 407 (5.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 280 (3.87%) Hyper-V
5 144 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
6 122 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
7 84 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
8 62 (0.86%) vSphere
9 39 (0.54%) VMware NSX
10 31 (0.43%) Firmware
11 21 (0.29%) XenApp
12 16 (0.22%) Terminal Services
13 12 (0.17%) BitLocker
14 9 (0.12%) DFS Replication
14 9 (0.12%) NFS
15 8 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
15 8 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
16 7 (0.097%) HDFS
17 5 (0.069%) KVM
17 5 (0.069%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1,090 (15.06%) Kubernetes
2 753 (10.40%) Terraform
3 623 (8.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 344 (4.75%) Ansible
5 150 (2.07%) SCCM
6 108 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
7 106 (1.46%) Grafana
8 99 (1.37%) Prometheus
9 69 (0.95%) FortiGate
10 59 (0.82%) Puppet
11 56 (0.77%) Progress Chef
12 40 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 37 (0.51%) vCenter Server
14 29 (0.40%) Nagios
14 29 (0.40%) NetBackup
15 26 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
16 24 (0.33%) WSUS
17 23 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
17 23 (0.32%) SCOM
18 20 (0.28%) Istio
Vendors
1 2,975 (41.10%) Microsoft
2 644 (8.90%) VMware
3 474 (6.55%) Databricks
4 463 (6.40%) Cisco
5 441 (6.09%) Google
6 247 (3.41%) Solace
7 198 (2.74%) Meraki
8 186 (2.57%) Citrix
9 181 (2.50%) Oracle
10 150 (2.07%) ServiceNow
11 128 (1.77%) IBM
12 122 (1.69%) SAP
13 110 (1.52%) Palo Alto
14 104 (1.44%) SolarWinds
15 100 (1.38%) CheckPoint
15 100 (1.38%) Fortinet
16 94 (1.30%) Veeam
17 77 (1.06%) Red Hat
18 74 (1.02%) Apple
19 65 (0.90%) F5