Azure Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 4 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 7,528 10,374 13,703
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.31% 24.04% 20.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 51.51% 50.44% 39.07%
Number of salaries quoted 6,097 7,663 9,525
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,750 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.23% +4.00% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,616 20,567 35,076
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 43.31% 47.67% 52.54%
Number of salaries quoted 11,971 15,067 21,832
10th Percentile £35,500 £37,847 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.96% +10.87%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Azure over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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
1 463 (6.15%) SharePoint
2 408 (5.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 218 (2.90%) ArcGIS
4 214 (2.84%) GeoServer
5 147 (1.95%) IIS
6 91 (1.21%) CMS
7 75 (1.00%) Umbraco
8 74 (0.98%) Apache Spark
9 53 (0.70%) Apache
10 46 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
10 46 (0.61%) Sitecore CMS
10 46 (0.61%) WebLogic
11 45 (0.60%) Kentico
12 38 (0.50%) Confluence
13 35 (0.46%) Headless CMS
14 26 (0.35%) nginx
15 25 (0.33%) OpenStack
16 13 (0.17%) Tomcat
16 13 (0.17%) WordPress
17 11 (0.15%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 172 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
2 79 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 24 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.23%) Simulink
6 9 (0.12%) Trello
7 3 (0.040%) SPSS
8 2 (0.027%) 1Password
8 2 (0.027%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.027%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.027%) CATIA
8 2 (0.027%) NASTRAN
8 2 (0.027%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.027%) Sketch
8 2 (0.027%) S-PLUS
9 1 (0.013%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.013%) Mathematica
9 1 (0.013%) Notion
9 1 (0.013%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 122 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 53 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 15 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
4 10 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
5 8 (0.11%) Elite 3E
6 7 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.080%) Primavera
7 6 (0.080%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.066%) Dynamics AX
8 5 (0.066%) Oracle General Ledger
8 5 (0.066%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.053%) Visualfiles
10 3 (0.040%) SAP Business One
11 2 (0.027%) BusinessWorks
11 2 (0.027%) Oracle Applications
11 2 (0.027%) Oracle Assets
11 2 (0.027%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.027%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.027%) SystmOne
11 2 (0.027%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,395 (31.81%) AWS
2 1,440 (19.13%) Microsoft 365
3 1,029 (13.67%) Azure DevOps
4 923 (12.26%) Power Platform
5 789 (10.48%) Entra ID
6 775 (10.29%) GCP
7 521 (6.92%) SaaS
8 320 (4.25%) Dynamics 365
9 292 (3.88%) PaaS
10 260 (3.45%) Serverless
11 257 (3.41%) IaaS
12 251 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
13 226 (3.00%) PowerApps
14 207 (2.75%) GitHub
15 187 (2.48%) Power Automate
16 176 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
17 148 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 128 (1.70%) Snowflake
19 114 (1.51%) Azure Functions
20 98 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 633 (8.41%) Firewall
2 526 (6.99%) DNS
3 346 (4.60%) WAN
4 293 (3.89%) Broadband
5 274 (3.64%) LAN
6 262 (3.48%) DHCP
7 236 (3.13%) TCP/IP
8 219 (2.91%) VPN
9 210 (2.79%) 5G
10 207 (2.75%) Internet
11 174 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
12 165 (2.19%) SAN
13 150 (1.99%) Wireless
14 148 (1.97%) Network Security
15 143 (1.90%) SD-WAN
16 103 (1.37%) VLAN
17 86 (1.14%) BGP
18 75 (1.00%) SSL
19 64 (0.85%) VoIP
20 52 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,714 (22.77%) SQL Server
2 660 (8.77%) Power BI
3 489 (6.50%) Data Warehouse
4 408 (5.42%) Azure SQL Database
5 385 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
6 334 (4.44%) MongoDB
7 297 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
8 278 (3.69%) Data Lake
9 256 (3.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 235 (3.12%) GIS
11 220 (2.92%) NoSQL
12 214 (2.84%) QGIS
13 207 (2.75%) Relational Database
14 173 (2.30%) MySQL
15 153 (2.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 115 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
17 103 (1.37%) Big Data
18 85 (1.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 56 (0.74%) Oracle Database
19 56 (0.74%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 436 (5.79%) Git
2 222 (2.95%) JIRA
3 216 (2.87%) GitLab
4 213 (2.83%) Jenkins
5 166 (2.21%) Visual Studio
6 75 (1.00%) Selenium
7 72 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
8 68 (0.90%) Postman
9 50 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 46 (0.61%) Jasmine
11 41 (0.54%) JMeter
12 40 (0.53%) TeamCity
13 39 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
14 37 (0.49%) NUnit
15 32 (0.43%) Maven
16 29 (0.39%) Karma Test Runner
17 26 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
18 23 (0.31%) Cucumber
18 23 (0.31%) SpecFlow
19 21 (0.28%) Artifactory
General
1 1,698 (22.56%) Social Skills
2 1,267 (16.83%) Finance
3 665 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
4 427 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 414 (5.50%) Public Sector
6 366 (4.86%) Retail
7 219 (2.91%) Law
8 203 (2.70%) Legal
9 177 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
10 163 (2.17%) Marketing
11 159 (2.11%) Banking
12 128 (1.70%) Front Office
13 102 (1.35%) Advertising
14 92 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
15 91 (1.21%) Games
16 85 (1.13%) Telecoms
17 76 (1.01%) Back Office
18 63 (0.84%) Aerospace
18 63 (0.84%) Manufacturing
19 58 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,130 (28.29%) Developer
2 1,610 (21.39%) Senior
3 1,072 (14.24%) .NET Developer
4 766 (10.18%) Architect
5 728 (9.67%) Lead
6 634 (8.42%) Software Engineer
7 445 (5.91%) Senior Developer
8 415 (5.51%) C# Developer
9 399 (5.30%) Senior Software Engineer
10 394 (5.23%) Analyst
11 390 (5.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 317 (4.21%) C# .NET Developer
13 309 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
14 308 (4.09%) Data Engineer
15 301 (4.00%) Support Engineer
16 292 (3.88%) DevOps Engineer
17 290 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
18 262 (3.48%) Consultant
19 255 (3.39%) IT Engineer
20 228 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,215 (29.42%) .NET
2 1,240 (16.47%) .NET Core
3 1,073 (14.25%) ASP.NET
4 1,025 (13.62%) AngularJS
5 974 (12.94%) React
6 774 (10.28%) ASP.NET MVC
7 717 (9.52%) HTML
8 704 (9.35%) .NET Framework
9 678 (9.01%) CSS
10 662 (8.79%) Entity Framework
11 618 (8.21%) ASP.NET Web API
12 449 (5.96%) RESTful
13 440 (5.84%) Node.js
14 395 (5.25%) HTML5
15 391 (5.19%) Vue
16 268 (3.56%) Blazor
17 248 (3.29%) REST
18 216 (2.87%) PostGIS
19 214 (2.84%) Leaflet
19 214 (2.84%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 430 (5.71%) Public Cloud
2 277 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
3 259 (3.44%) Social Media
4 218 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
5 217 (2.88%) Management Information System
6 191 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
7 186 (2.47%) Cloud Native
8 173 (2.30%) Product Ownership
9 157 (2.09%) PKI
10 148 (1.97%) Data Centre
11 138 (1.83%) Private Cloud
12 126 (1.67%) Onboarding
13 124 (1.65%) Data Structures
14 118 (1.57%) Fixed Income
15 114 (1.51%) Derivative
15 114 (1.51%) Mobile App
16 112 (1.49%) Equities
17 102 (1.35%) Driving Licence
18 101 (1.34%) Hedge funds
19 82 (1.09%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1,174 (15.60%) Windows
2 788 (10.47%) Linux
3 610 (8.10%) Windows Server
4 288 (3.83%) Ubuntu
5 219 (2.91%) Windows 10
6 136 (1.81%) Android
7 134 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
8 106 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 99 (1.32%) VMS
10 96 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
11 95 (1.26%) Unix
12 89 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 84 (1.12%) Apple iOS
14 27 (0.36%) CentOS
14 27 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
15 22 (0.29%) Mac OS
16 14 (0.19%) Windows 7
17 13 (0.17%) Solaris
18 10 (0.13%) AIX
19 9 (0.12%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,812 (37.35%) Agile
2 2,099 (27.88%) DevOps
3 1,147 (15.24%) Full Stack Development
4 1,093 (14.52%) Microservices
5 1,056 (14.03%) Software Engineering
6 988 (13.12%) CI/CD
7 961 (12.77%) MVC
8 945 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
9 820 (10.89%) Scrum
10 730 (9.70%) Business Intelligence
11 695 (9.23%) TDD
12 640 (8.50%) Cybersecurity
12 640 (8.50%) Mentoring
13 593 (7.88%) Migration
14 586 (7.78%) Artificial Intelligence
15 556 (7.39%) Roadmaps
16 543 (7.21%) Actionable Insight
17 540 (7.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 506 (6.72%) BDD
19 498 (6.62%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2,160 (28.69%) C#
2 1,867 (24.80%) SQL
3 1,853 (24.61%) JavaScript
4 1,119 (14.86%) Python
5 669 (8.89%) TypeScript
6 576 (7.65%) PowerShell
7 537 (7.13%) Java
8 357 (4.74%) Bash
9 339 (4.50%) T-SQL
10 85 (1.13%) Go
11 83 (1.10%) R
12 73 (0.97%) Bicep
13 72 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 68 (0.90%) C++
15 67 (0.89%) PHP
16 64 (0.85%) VB.NET
17 63 (0.84%) VB
18 48 (0.64%) Ruby
19 47 (0.62%) Kotlin
20 45 (0.60%) Perl
Qualifications
1 843 (11.20%) Security Cleared
2 784 (10.41%) Degree
3 619 (8.22%) SC Cleared
4 385 (5.11%) Azure Certification
5 328 (4.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 220 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 168 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
8 159 (2.11%) AWS Certification
9 151 (2.01%) DBS Check
10 124 (1.65%) CISSP
11 101 (1.34%) CCNA
12 98 (1.30%) DV Cleared
13 80 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
14 71 (0.94%) Master's Degree
15 69 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
16 66 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 66 (0.88%) CISM
17 55 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 52 (0.69%) CCNP
18 52 (0.69%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 275 (3.65%) QA
2 181 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 156 (2.07%) Data Quality
4 115 (1.53%) NIST
5 103 (1.37%) GDPR
6 101 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 81 (1.08%) SLA
8 79 (1.05%) Accessibility
9 59 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 23 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 23 (0.31%) NCSC
11 21 (0.28%) COBIT
12 17 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 16 (0.21%) GRC
14 12 (0.16%) PMO
14 12 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 11 (0.15%) SOC 2
16 9 (0.12%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 7 (0.093%) IFRS
System Software
1 1,214 (16.13%) Active Directory
2 636 (8.45%) Docker
3 414 (5.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 291 (3.87%) Hyper-V
5 227 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
6 118 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
7 102 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
8 61 (0.81%) vSphere
9 32 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
10 17 (0.23%) Firmware
11 11 (0.15%) DFS Replication
12 10 (0.13%) VMware Server
13 9 (0.12%) Terminal Services
14 7 (0.093%) Embedded Firmware
15 6 (0.080%) KVM
16 5 (0.066%) NFS
17 4 (0.053%) VMware NSX
18 3 (0.040%) Gluster
18 3 (0.040%) XenApp
18 3 (0.040%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 682 (9.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 667 (8.86%) Kubernetes
3 614 (8.16%) Terraform
4 289 (3.84%) Ansible
5 218 (2.90%) Jamf Pro
6 112 (1.49%) SCCM
7 104 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
8 77 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 64 (0.85%) vCenter Server
10 60 (0.80%) Puppet
11 55 (0.73%) Grafana
11 55 (0.73%) Progress Chef
12 44 (0.58%) Prometheus
12 44 (0.58%) WSUS
13 35 (0.46%) CASB
14 34 (0.45%) SCOM
15 26 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
16 23 (0.31%) Nagios
17 19 (0.25%) FortiGate
18 18 (0.24%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3,599 (47.81%) Microsoft
2 615 (8.17%) VMware
3 394 (5.23%) Google
4 324 (4.30%) Cisco
5 258 (3.43%) Databricks
6 231 (3.07%) CyberArk
7 218 (2.90%) ESRI
8 210 (2.79%) Tanium
9 209 (2.78%) Oracle
10 152 (2.02%) Citrix
11 135 (1.79%) Meraki
12 104 (1.38%) Fortinet
13 101 (1.34%) Veeam
14 85 (1.13%) ServiceNow
15 84 (1.12%) HP
16 82 (1.09%) IBM
17 77 (1.02%) Facebook
18 73 (0.97%) Aruba
19 70 (0.93%) Apple
19 70 (0.93%) SolarWinds