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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +3
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,218 7,541 9,847
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.57% 22.35% 24.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.27% 51.62% 50.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,090 6,069 7,229
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £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 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £64,500
% change year-on-year +5.93% -8.53% +3.20%

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 6,531 14,610 19,552
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.67% 43.31% 48.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,453 11,911 14,275
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £38,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,900 £97,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -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 16 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
1 199 (6.18%) Confluence
2 175 (5.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 175 (5.44%) SharePoint
3 43 (1.34%) IIS
4 33 (1.03%) Apache Spark
5 27 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
6 23 (0.71%) CMS
7 18 (0.56%) Umbraco
8 16 (0.50%) Apache
9 11 (0.34%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.22%) Headless CMS
11 6 (0.19%) IBM Domino
12 5 (0.16%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.16%) Moodle
12 5 (0.16%) OpenEdge
13 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
13 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
13 4 (0.12%) WordPress
14 3 (0.093%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.093%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 68 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 11 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.22%) Trello
6 5 (0.16%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.031%) 1Password
7 1 (0.031%) Sketch
7 1 (0.031%) S-PLUS
7 1 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 66 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.25%) Sage 50
4 6 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.19%) Shopify
5 5 (0.16%) Elite 3E
5 5 (0.16%) Sage 200
6 4 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.093%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.093%) Magento
8 2 (0.062%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.062%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.062%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 1 (0.031%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.031%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.031%) Endur
9 1 (0.031%) Sage 1000
9 1 (0.031%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.031%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.031%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,413 (43.91%) AWS
2 908 (28.22%) GCP
3 557 (17.31%) Microsoft 365
4 421 (13.08%) Power Platform
5 401 (12.46%) Azure DevOps
6 312 (9.70%) Serverless
7 257 (7.99%) SaaS
8 233 (7.24%) Entra ID
9 231 (7.18%) AWS Lambda
10 163 (5.07%) Dynamics 365
11 141 (4.38%) GitHub
12 138 (4.29%) Power Automate
13 133 (4.13%) PaaS
14 132 (4.10%) PowerApps
15 107 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
16 93 (2.89%) IaaS
17 86 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
18 84 (2.61%) Azure Service Bus
19 77 (2.39%) Cloud Computing
20 72 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 257 (7.99%) Firewall
2 216 (6.71%) Broadband
3 146 (4.54%) WAN
4 137 (4.26%) DNS
5 116 (3.60%) VPN
6 103 (3.20%) LAN
7 87 (2.70%) DHCP
8 66 (2.05%) SD-WAN
9 58 (1.80%) TCP/IP
10 50 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
11 49 (1.52%) VLAN
12 47 (1.46%) Network Security
13 46 (1.43%) Wireless
14 33 (1.03%) Internet
14 33 (1.03%) SAN
15 30 (0.93%) VoIP
16 28 (0.87%) OSPF
17 27 (0.84%) BGP
18 25 (0.78%) WLAN
19 20 (0.62%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 645 (20.04%) SQL Server
2 282 (8.76%) Power BI
3 138 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
4 114 (3.54%) Elasticsearch
5 100 (3.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 99 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 98 (3.05%) Azure SQL Database
8 93 (2.89%) MySQL
8 93 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
9 88 (2.73%) NoSQL
10 87 (2.70%) Data Lake
11 76 (2.36%) MongoDB
12 56 (1.74%) Relational Database
13 48 (1.49%) Tableau
14 42 (1.31%) BigQuery
15 37 (1.15%) Big Data
16 28 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
16 28 (0.87%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 28 (0.87%) DB2
16 28 (0.87%) Redis
Development Applications
1 343 (10.66%) JIRA
2 283 (8.79%) Selenium
2 283 (8.79%) SonarQube
3 277 (8.61%) GitLab
4 268 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 260 (8.08%) Cucumber
6 257 (7.99%) Maven
7 252 (7.83%) Bitbucket
8 244 (7.58%) Git
9 84 (2.61%) Jenkins
10 78 (2.42%) Visual Studio
11 39 (1.21%) Octopus Deploy
12 35 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
13 34 (1.06%) JUnit
14 26 (0.81%) MSBuild
15 24 (0.75%) Mockito
16 23 (0.71%) Cypress.io
16 23 (0.71%) Protractor
17 22 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
18 20 (0.62%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 871 (27.07%) Finance
2 745 (23.15%) Social Skills
3 591 (18.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 523 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
5 402 (12.49%) Banking
6 217 (6.74%) Retail
7 148 (4.60%) Law
8 96 (2.98%) Investment Banking
9 93 (2.89%) Public Sector
10 90 (2.80%) Corporate Banking
11 70 (2.18%) Legal
12 48 (1.49%) Marketing
13 45 (1.40%) Manufacturing
14 37 (1.15%) Games
15 33 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
16 31 (0.96%) Telecoms
17 28 (0.87%) Automotive
18 27 (0.84%) Advertising
19 25 (0.78%) Tech for Good
20 24 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 858 (26.66%) Senior
2 611 (18.99%) Developer
3 610 (18.96%) Software Engineer
4 235 (7.30%) Senior Software Engineer
5 233 (7.24%) Architect
6 232 (7.21%) Lead
7 222 (6.90%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 217 (6.74%) Analyst
9 138 (4.29%) Senior Developer
10 133 (4.13%) IT Support
11 124 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
12 121 (3.76%) .NET Developer
13 115 (3.57%) Support Engineer
14 110 (3.42%) Data Engineer
15 108 (3.36%) Software Developer
16 107 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
17 96 (2.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 96 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
18 89 (2.77%) C# Developer
19 87 (2.70%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 773 (24.02%) .NET
2 523 (16.25%) React
3 437 (13.58%) CSS
4 418 (12.99%) HTML
5 344 (10.69%) Node.js
6 313 (9.73%) Kafka
7 307 (9.54%) Spring
8 296 (9.20%) Spring Boot
9 277 (8.61%) Redux
10 271 (8.42%) JPA
11 232 (7.21%) REST
12 205 (6.37%) RESTful
13 191 (5.94%) ASP.NET
14 182 (5.66%) AngularJS
14 182 (5.66%) Hibernate
15 150 (4.66%) .NET Core
16 149 (4.63%) .NET Framework
17 128 (3.98%) HTML5
18 123 (3.82%) Jest
19 106 (3.29%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 455 (14.14%) Self-Motivation
2 336 (10.44%) Product Ownership
3 282 (8.76%) Enterprise Software
4 227 (7.05%) Cyberattack
5 189 (5.87%) Linux Command Line
6 129 (4.01%) Management Information System
7 122 (3.79%) Cloud Native
8 103 (3.20%) Data Centre
9 71 (2.21%) Public Cloud
10 64 (1.99%) Onboarding
11 50 (1.55%) Data Structures
12 42 (1.31%) Algorithms
12 42 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
12 42 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
12 42 (1.31%) Mobile App
13 38 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
14 37 (1.15%) Driving Licence
15 35 (1.09%) Security Posture
16 32 (0.99%) Private Cloud
17 31 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 491 (15.26%) Windows
2 481 (14.95%) Linux
3 201 (6.25%) Windows Server
4 76 (2.36%) Android
5 64 (1.99%) Windows 10
6 51 (1.58%) Windows Server 2016
7 49 (1.52%) Mac OS
8 45 (1.40%) Apple iOS
9 44 (1.37%) Unix
10 42 (1.31%) Windows Server 2019
11 26 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
12 12 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
13 10 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 10 (0.31%) Ubuntu
13 10 (0.31%) VMS
14 8 (0.25%) CentOS
15 6 (0.19%) Debian
16 4 (0.12%) SUSE
16 4 (0.12%) Windows 7
17 3 (0.093%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,413 (43.91%) Agile
2 1,063 (33.03%) DevOps
3 1,030 (32.01%) CI/CD
4 854 (26.54%) Software Engineering
5 816 (25.36%) Problem-Solving
6 800 (24.86%) Mentoring
7 741 (23.03%) Microservices
8 504 (15.66%) Containerisation
9 480 (14.92%) Machine Learning
10 446 (13.86%) Clean Code
11 436 (13.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 414 (12.87%) Full-Stack Development
13 395 (12.27%) Test Automation
14 360 (11.19%) User Experience
15 359 (11.16%) SDLC
16 322 (10.01%) Scrum
17 318 (9.88%) Front End Development
17 318 (9.88%) Migration
18 310 (9.63%) Performance Optimisation
19 302 (9.38%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 997 (30.98%) SQL
2 905 (28.12%) Python
3 897 (27.87%) JavaScript
4 746 (23.18%) Java
5 541 (16.81%) C#
6 491 (15.26%) TypeScript
7 291 (9.04%) C++
8 287 (8.92%) PowerShell
9 255 (7.92%) Go
10 227 (7.05%) Rust
11 91 (2.83%) T-SQL
12 84 (2.61%) Bash
13 63 (1.96%) PHP
14 46 (1.43%) Bicep
15 35 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 34 (1.06%) VB.NET
17 32 (0.99%) VBA
18 29 (0.90%) PL/SQL
19 28 (0.87%) R
20 24 (0.75%) C
Qualifications
1 590 (18.33%) Degree
2 351 (10.91%) Security Cleared
3 235 (7.30%) AWS Certification
3 235 (7.30%) DV Cleared
4 222 (6.90%) PhD
5 201 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 179 (5.56%) AWS Certified Developer
7 158 (4.91%) Azure Certification
8 144 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 129 (4.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 97 (3.01%) SC Cleared
11 71 (2.21%) DBS Check
12 63 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
13 44 (1.37%) Master's Degree
14 41 (1.27%) CISSP
15 40 (1.24%) CCNP
16 35 (1.09%) CCNA
17 33 (1.03%) MCSA
18 28 (0.87%) MCSE
19 27 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 355 (11.03%) QA
2 124 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 89 (2.77%) GDPR
4 79 (2.45%) Data Quality
5 67 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 59 (1.83%) SLA
7 45 (1.40%) NIST
8 25 (0.78%) PCI DSS
9 22 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
10 20 (0.62%) HIPAA
11 13 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 12 (0.37%) NCSC
12 12 (0.37%) SOC 2
13 9 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.22%) COBIT
15 6 (0.19%) CDISC
15 6 (0.19%) GRC
15 6 (0.19%) PMO
16 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 3 (0.093%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 607 (18.86%) Docker
2 411 (12.77%) Active Directory
3 134 (4.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 77 (2.39%) Hyper-V
5 55 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
6 30 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (0.50%) XenApp
9 15 (0.47%) vSphere
10 6 (0.19%) KVM
11 5 (0.16%) Postfix
11 5 (0.16%) Terminal Services
11 5 (0.16%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.12%) HDFS
12 4 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.093%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.093%) Firmware
13 3 (0.093%) NFS
13 3 (0.093%) Xen
14 2 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 604 (18.77%) Kubernetes
2 305 (9.48%) Terraform
3 232 (7.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 154 (4.79%) Ansible
5 61 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
6 44 (1.37%) Prometheus
7 40 (1.24%) Grafana
8 39 (1.21%) SCCM
9 18 (0.56%) Progress Chef
10 15 (0.47%) Failover Clustering
11 14 (0.44%) Istio
12 13 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 13 (0.40%) Puppet
13 11 (0.34%) AWS Copilot
14 9 (0.28%) Argo
14 9 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (0.25%) Nessus
16 7 (0.22%) FortiGate
16 7 (0.22%) PaperCut
17 6 (0.19%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1,061 (32.97%) Microsoft
2 247 (7.68%) Solace
3 208 (6.46%) VMware
4 156 (4.85%) Databricks
5 154 (4.79%) Google
6 151 (4.69%) Cisco
7 92 (2.86%) Oracle
8 88 (2.73%) Meraki
9 64 (1.99%) IBM
10 52 (1.62%) Citrix
11 46 (1.43%) SAP
12 38 (1.18%) CheckPoint
12 38 (1.18%) ServiceNow
13 30 (0.93%) Fortinet
13 30 (0.93%) Palo Alto
14 27 (0.84%) Apple
15 26 (0.81%) SolarWinds
16 24 (0.75%) Facebook
17 23 (0.71%) SonicWALL
18 20 (0.62%) Okta