Azure Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Azure
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 6 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,694 7,553 10,246
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.02% 22.32% 23.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 45.83% 51.52% 50.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,200 6,116 7,587
10th Percentile £35,135 £37,500 £39,667
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,889 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £98,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.93% -9.23% +4.00%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,878 14,660 20,366
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.31% 43.32% 47.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4,639 12,011 14,950
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,640 £37,790
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +1.28%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £97,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure.

Azure salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Azure over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Azure salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 184 (6.83%) SharePoint
2 179 (6.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 44 (1.63%) Confluence
4 39 (1.45%) Apache Spark
4 39 (1.45%) IIS
5 31 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
6 21 (0.78%) CMS
7 19 (0.71%) Umbraco
8 15 (0.56%) Apache
9 7 (0.26%) Headless CMS
9 7 (0.26%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.22%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.22%) IBM Domino
11 5 (0.19%) OpenEdge
11 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 4 (0.15%) Moodle
12 4 (0.15%) NServiceBus
13 3 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.11%) Skype for Business
13 3 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 67 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 11 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.30%) Trello
7 7 (0.26%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.037%) 1Password
8 1 (0.037%) Sketch
8 1 (0.037%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.037%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 76 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (0.33%) Sage 50
4 6 (0.22%) Sage 200
4 6 (0.22%) Shopify
5 5 (0.19%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.15%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.074%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.074%) Magento
8 2 (0.074%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.074%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.037%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.037%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.037%) Endur
9 1 (0.037%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.037%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.037%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.037%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 818 (30.36%) AWS
2 563 (20.90%) Microsoft 365
3 407 (15.11%) Azure DevOps
4 399 (14.81%) Power Platform
5 392 (14.55%) GCP
6 254 (9.43%) SaaS
7 219 (8.13%) Entra ID
8 178 (6.61%) Dynamics 365
9 169 (6.27%) GitHub
10 133 (4.94%) PowerApps
11 117 (4.34%) PaaS
12 116 (4.31%) Power Automate
13 114 (4.23%) Azure Data Factory
14 108 (4.01%) Serverless
15 87 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
16 79 (2.93%) Cloud Computing
17 78 (2.90%) IaaS
18 73 (2.71%) AWS CloudFormation
19 71 (2.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 69 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 258 (9.58%) Firewall
2 139 (5.16%) WAN
3 134 (4.97%) DNS
4 110 (4.08%) LAN
4 110 (4.08%) VPN
5 89 (3.30%) DHCP
6 61 (2.26%) Network Security
7 60 (2.23%) TCP/IP
8 59 (2.19%) SD-WAN
9 57 (2.12%) Wi-Fi
10 56 (2.08%) VLAN
11 44 (1.63%) Wireless
12 34 (1.26%) Internet
13 28 (1.04%) SAN
14 27 (1.00%) BGP
15 26 (0.97%) OSPF
15 26 (0.97%) VoIP
15 26 (0.97%) WLAN
16 22 (0.82%) HTTP
17 21 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 419 (15.55%) SQL Server
2 234 (8.69%) Power BI
3 140 (5.20%) Data Warehouse
4 113 (4.19%) Elasticsearch
5 108 (4.01%) Azure SQL Database
6 107 (3.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 107 (3.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 102 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
8 101 (3.75%) NoSQL
9 87 (3.23%) Data Lake
10 80 (2.97%) MySQL
11 74 (2.75%) MongoDB
12 56 (2.08%) Relational Database
13 47 (1.74%) Tableau
14 43 (1.60%) BigQuery
15 41 (1.52%) Big Data
16 36 (1.34%) DB2
17 30 (1.11%) Redis
18 28 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
19 25 (0.93%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 241 (8.95%) Git
2 103 (3.82%) JIRA
3 93 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 84 (3.12%) Visual Studio
5 41 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
6 37 (1.37%) GitLab
6 37 (1.37%) JUnit
6 37 (1.37%) SonarQube
7 35 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
8 34 (1.26%) Selenium
9 27 (1.00%) Mockito
9 27 (1.00%) MSBuild
10 26 (0.97%) Protractor
11 24 (0.89%) webpack
12 23 (0.85%) Jasmine
12 23 (0.85%) Karma Test Runner
12 23 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
12 23 (0.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 22 (0.82%) Cypress.io
13 22 (0.82%) Eclipse
General
1 796 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 672 (24.94%) Finance
3 311 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 181 (6.72%) Banking
5 177 (6.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 141 (5.23%) Law
7 110 (4.08%) Retail
8 98 (3.64%) Public Sector
9 76 (2.82%) Legal
10 49 (1.82%) Marketing
11 44 (1.63%) Manufacturing
12 39 (1.45%) Games
13 31 (1.15%) Automotive
13 31 (1.15%) Tech for Good
13 31 (1.15%) Telecoms
14 27 (1.00%) Advertising
14 27 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
15 24 (0.89%) Front Office
16 23 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
17 21 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 615 (22.83%) Developer
2 526 (19.52%) Senior
3 246 (9.13%) Lead
4 241 (8.95%) Architect
5 226 (8.39%) Analyst
6 201 (7.46%) Software Engineer
7 155 (5.75%) Senior Developer
8 134 (4.97%) Cloud Engineer
9 126 (4.68%) .NET Developer
10 125 (4.64%) IT Support
11 122 (4.53%) Data Engineer
12 121 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
13 119 (4.42%) Support Engineer
14 113 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
14 113 (4.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 111 (4.12%) Software Developer
16 96 (3.56%) C# Developer
17 90 (3.34%) IT Engineer
18 89 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
19 81 (3.01%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 633 (23.50%) .NET
2 291 (10.80%) React
3 213 (7.91%) CSS
4 207 (7.68%) ASP.NET
5 195 (7.24%) AngularJS
6 192 (7.13%) HTML
7 168 (6.24%) Node.js
8 167 (6.20%) .NET Framework
9 154 (5.72%) .NET Core
10 145 (5.38%) REST
11 122 (4.53%) RESTful
12 90 (3.34%) Entity Framework
13 86 (3.19%) JSON
14 74 (2.75%) Web Services
15 73 (2.71%) Pandas
16 72 (2.67%) jQuery
17 71 (2.64%) Kafka
18 70 (2.60%) Spring
19 69 (2.56%) Vue
20 66 (2.45%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 139 (5.16%) Management Information System
2 125 (4.64%) Cloud Native
3 92 (3.41%) Data Centre
4 87 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 82 (3.04%) Public Cloud
6 71 (2.64%) Onboarding
7 70 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
8 51 (1.89%) Cyberattack
9 47 (1.74%) Algorithms
9 47 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
10 46 (1.71%) Mobile App
11 45 (1.67%) Security Posture
12 41 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
13 39 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
14 38 (1.41%) Driving Licence
15 35 (1.30%) Data Structures
16 32 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
16 32 (1.19%) Private Cloud
17 30 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
18 29 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 506 (18.78%) Windows
2 312 (11.58%) Linux
3 205 (7.61%) Windows Server
4 80 (2.97%) Android
5 63 (2.34%) Windows 10
6 53 (1.97%) Windows Server 2016
7 52 (1.93%) Apple iOS
8 50 (1.86%) Mac OS
9 45 (1.67%) Unix
10 42 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
11 22 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
12 13 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 13 (0.48%) VMS
13 12 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
14 10 (0.37%) Ubuntu
15 8 (0.30%) CentOS
16 6 (0.22%) Debian
17 4 (0.15%) SUSE
17 4 (0.15%) Windows 7
18 3 (0.11%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 863 (32.03%) DevOps
2 794 (29.47%) Agile
3 635 (23.57%) Problem-Solving
4 575 (21.34%) CI/CD
5 465 (17.26%) Software Engineering
6 345 (12.81%) Mentoring
7 338 (12.55%) Microservices
8 298 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 290 (10.76%) Analytics
10 278 (10.32%) Containerisation
11 269 (9.99%) Business Intelligence
12 231 (8.57%) Cybersecurity
13 218 (8.09%) Migration
14 215 (7.98%) ITIL
15 210 (7.80%) Computer Science
16 193 (7.16%) Roadmaps
17 185 (6.87%) Full-Stack Development
18 183 (6.79%) MVC
19 176 (6.53%) Infrastructure as Code
20 166 (6.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 762 (28.29%) SQL
2 577 (21.42%) C#
3 540 (20.04%) Python
4 504 (18.71%) JavaScript
5 344 (12.77%) Java
6 279 (10.36%) PowerShell
7 194 (7.20%) TypeScript
8 116 (4.31%) C++
9 100 (3.71%) T-SQL
10 95 (3.53%) Bash
11 89 (3.30%) Go
12 64 (2.38%) PHP
13 49 (1.82%) Rust
14 40 (1.48%) VB.NET
15 37 (1.37%) PL/SQL
16 35 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 31 (1.15%) Bicep
18 26 (0.97%) C
19 24 (0.89%) R
20 18 (0.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 376 (13.96%) Degree
2 179 (6.64%) Security Cleared
3 144 (5.35%) Azure Certification
4 143 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 129 (4.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 101 (3.75%) SC Cleared
7 67 (2.49%) Cisco Certification
8 59 (2.19%) AWS Certification
9 56 (2.08%) DV Cleared
10 55 (2.04%) DBS Check
11 46 (1.71%) CISSP
12 44 (1.63%) Master's Degree
13 40 (1.48%) CCNP
14 31 (1.15%) CCNA
15 30 (1.11%) MCSA
16 29 (1.08%) CISM
16 29 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
17 28 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
18 26 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
19 25 (0.93%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (4.05%) QA
2 88 (3.27%) GDPR
3 86 (3.19%) Data Quality
4 67 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 59 (2.19%) SLA
6 48 (1.78%) NIST
7 45 (1.67%) Accessibility
8 27 (1.00%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
10 18 (0.67%) HIPAA
11 14 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 13 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.41%) NCSC
13 11 (0.41%) SOC 2
14 8 (0.30%) COBIT
15 6 (0.22%) CDISC
15 6 (0.22%) GRC
16 5 (0.19%) PMO
17 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 3 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 409 (15.18%) Active Directory
2 380 (14.11%) Docker
3 134 (4.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 79 (2.93%) Hyper-V
5 46 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
6 43 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
7 27 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (0.59%) XenApp
9 14 (0.52%) vSphere
10 7 (0.26%) Firmware
11 5 (0.19%) Postfix
11 5 (0.19%) Terminal Services
11 5 (0.19%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.15%) HDFS
12 4 (0.15%) KVM
12 4 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.11%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.11%) NFS
14 2 (0.074%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.074%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 379 (14.07%) Kubernetes
2 316 (11.73%) Terraform
3 223 (8.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 154 (5.72%) Ansible
5 46 (1.71%) Prometheus
6 44 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
7 43 (1.60%) SCCM
8 41 (1.52%) Grafana
9 20 (0.74%) Progress Chef
10 16 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 16 (0.59%) Istio
11 14 (0.52%) Puppet
12 13 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
13 11 (0.41%) AWS Copilot
14 10 (0.37%) Argo
15 9 (0.33%) FortiGate
15 9 (0.33%) vCenter Server
16 7 (0.26%) CASB
16 7 (0.26%) Nessus
16 7 (0.26%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 1,084 (40.24%) Microsoft
2 210 (7.80%) VMware
3 166 (6.16%) Google
4 150 (5.57%) Cisco
5 148 (5.49%) Databricks
6 88 (3.27%) Oracle
7 73 (2.71%) Meraki
8 69 (2.56%) IBM
9 55 (2.04%) Citrix
10 48 (1.78%) ServiceNow
11 43 (1.60%) SAP
12 41 (1.52%) Apple
12 41 (1.52%) CheckPoint
13 33 (1.22%) Fortinet
14 29 (1.08%) Palo Alto
15 28 (1.04%) SolarWinds
16 23 (0.85%) SonicWALL
17 21 (0.78%) Splunk
18 20 (0.74%) Okta
19 19 (0.71%) Xamarin