Azure Job Trends in West Sussex

Microsoft Azure
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +6
Permanent jobs citing Azure 44 44 89
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 11.03% 14.29% 20.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.26% 40.37% 60.14%
Number of salaries quoted 32 29 70
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £38,975
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% - -5.58%
75th Percentile £74,063 £73,750 £69,688
90th Percentile £96,500 £76,000 £73,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -6.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Sussex

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 in West Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 115 109 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 28.82% 35.39% 33.64%
Number of salaries quoted 97 58 121
10th Percentile £27,650 £32,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,000 £75,000 £73,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Azure job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Azure
Salary Trend in West Sussex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in West Sussex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in West Sussex over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in West Sussex

Azure
Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Chichester - 13 £70,000 - 1
Horsham -1 10 £72,500 +3.57% 1
Worthing +2 8 £65,000 +8.33% 4
Burgess Hill +1 5 £32,500 -23.53% 2
Crawley 0 5 £30,000 -6.25% 39
Azure
South East

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.82%) Confluence
2 2 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.27%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.82%) Azure DevOps
2 11 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (18.18%) Entra ID
3 8 (18.18%) IaaS
3 8 (18.18%) PaaS
3 8 (18.18%) Power Platform
4 6 (13.64%) Azure AI
5 5 (11.36%) AWS
5 5 (11.36%) Azure AKS
5 5 (11.36%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (9.09%) SaaS
7 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (6.82%) Power Automate
8 2 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.55%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (4.55%) PowerApps
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (2.27%) GitHub
9 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (4.55%) Internet
2 2 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.18%) Power BI
2 5 (11.36%) Tableau
3 1 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (6.82%) JIRA
2 2 (4.55%) Appium
2 2 (4.55%) Artifactory
2 2 (4.55%) GitLab
2 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.55%) REST Assured
2 2 (4.55%) Selenium
3 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.27%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.27%) Git
3 1 (2.27%) JUnit
3 1 (2.27%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (2.27%) Postman
3 1 (2.27%) SpecFlow
3 1 (2.27%) TestNG
3 1 (2.27%) WebDriver
General
1 16 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.36%) Billing
2 5 (11.36%) Finance
3 3 (6.82%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Multimedia
5 1 (2.27%) Advertising
5 1 (2.27%) Agriculture
5 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Banking
5 1 (2.27%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (22.73%) Analyst
1 10 (22.73%) Junior
1 10 (22.73%) Junior Analyst
2 8 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (15.91%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (11.36%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 5 (11.36%) Data Analyst
4 5 (11.36%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) IT Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) IT Support
4 5 (11.36%) IT Support Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Junior Data Analyst
4 5 (11.36%) Junior Security Analyst
4 5 (11.36%) Lead
4 5 (11.36%) Security Analyst
4 5 (11.36%) Support Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.82%) React
2 2 (4.55%) .NET
2 2 (4.55%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.55%) CSS
2 2 (4.55%) HTML
2 2 (4.55%) Playwright
2 2 (4.55%) Tailwind CSS
2 2 (4.55%) Web Services
3 1 (2.27%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.27%) REST
3 1 (2.27%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.36%) Windows
1 5 (11.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.91%) DevOps
2 13 (29.55%) CI/CD
3 11 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (22.73%) Mentoring
5 9 (20.45%) AI
6 8 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (13.64%) Agile
7 6 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (11.36%) Cost Management
8 5 (11.36%) FinOps
8 5 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (11.36%) Server Management
9 4 (9.09%) Containerisation
9 4 (9.09%) Service Delivery
10 3 (6.82%) Change Management
10 3 (6.82%) Coaching
10 3 (6.82%) ITIL
10 3 (6.82%) Line Management
10 3 (6.82%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.27%) Python
2 7 (15.91%) PowerShell
3 6 (13.64%) SQL
4 4 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.82%) Bicep
6 2 (4.55%) Java
7 1 (2.27%) C#
7 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (34.09%) Azure Certification
2 5 (11.36%) CompTIA CySA+
2 5 (11.36%) CompTIA Security+
2 5 (11.36%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.55%) Degree
4 1 (2.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) PMO
2 2 (4.55%) NIST
2 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.55%) QA
3 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.27%) GRC
3 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (11.36%) Hyper-V
2 3 (6.82%) Docker
2 3 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (22.73%) Terraform
2 9 (20.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (15.91%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (59.09%) Microsoft
2 8 (18.18%) VMware
3 5 (11.36%) ForeScout
3 5 (11.36%) Veeam
4 4 (9.09%) Rackspace
5 1 (2.27%) Databricks