Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
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The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with 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 4 July 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Microsoft Azure
England > Yorkshire
6 months to
4 Jul 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 5 3 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 +3
Permanent jobs citing Azure 1,573 1,294 676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.32% 22.20% 16.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 53.09% 51.59% 49.31%
Number of salaries quoted 989 1,099 588
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £31,675
25th Percentile £41,503 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,975 £50,000 £48,150
Median % change year-on-year +9.95% +3.84% +1.37%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £58,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.93% +2.61% -

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 advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

All Cloud Skills
Yorkshire
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,963 2,508 1,371
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.27% 43.02% 33.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,992 2,115 1,202
10th Percentile £26,450 £29,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £69,000
England median annual salary £61,650 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.75% +4.35% +4.55%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Yorkshire

Azure
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure in Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Azure in Yorkshire

Azure
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 4 July 2022.

Salary histogram for Azure in Yorkshire

Azure
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 July 2022. 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
West Yorkshire -1 1,119 £52,500 - 142
North Yorkshire -1 191 £55,000 +10.00% 31
South Yorkshire -6 180 £52,500 -2.78% 35
East Yorkshire -6 30 £55,000 +30.95% 4
Azure
England

For the 6 months to 4 July 2022, IT jobs citing Azure also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Yorkshire region with a requirement for Azure.

1 668 (42.47%) AWS
2 654 (41.58%) Agile
3 617 (39.22%) Microsoft
4 581 (36.94%) DevOps
5 408 (25.94%) Social Skills
6 396 (25.17%) JavaScript
7 395 (25.11%) .NET
8 383 (24.35%) SQL
9 358 (22.76%) Python
10 352 (22.38%) C#
11 329 (20.92%) React
12 287 (18.25%) Java
13 283 (17.99%) Software Engineering
14 281 (17.86%) Docker
15 278 (17.67%) Windows
15 278 (17.67%) Active Directory
16 267 (16.97%) SQL Server
17 254 (16.15%) GCP
18 250 (15.89%) CI/CD
18 250 (15.89%) Azure DevOps
19 236 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
19 236 (15.00%) Scrum
20 231 (14.69%) Mentoring
21 227 (14.43%) Node.js
22 210 (13.35%) AngularJS
23 203 (12.91%) Kubernetes
24 197 (12.52%) HTML
25 196 (12.46%) Analytics
26 190 (12.08%) Finance
27 187 (11.89%) CSS

Azure
Co-occurring IT Skills in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 96 (6.10%) SharePoint
2 41 (2.61%) Confluence
3 32 (2.03%) MS Exchange
4 29 (1.84%) CMS
4 29 (1.84%) WebSphere
5 27 (1.72%) Umbraco
6 23 (1.46%) Apache Spark
7 22 (1.40%) Cloud Foundry
8 21 (1.34%) IIS
9 17 (1.08%) Apache
10 16 (1.02%) WebLogic
11 12 (0.76%) JBoss
11 12 (0.76%) OpenEdge
11 12 (0.76%) WebSphere Application Server
12 10 (0.64%) Drupal
13 5 (0.32%) Headless CMS
13 5 (0.32%) SAS
13 5 (0.32%) WordPress
14 4 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
15 3 (0.19%) EPiServer
Applications
1 82 (5.21%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.70%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.064%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 19 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.45%) Unit4 Business World
3 6 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.25%) SAP MDM
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.064%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.064%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 668 (42.47%) AWS
2 254 (16.15%) GCP
3 250 (15.89%) Azure DevOps
4 236 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
5 156 (9.92%) Azure Active Directory
6 96 (6.10%) PaaS
7 87 (5.53%) Serverless
8 78 (4.96%) SaaS
9 71 (4.51%) IaaS
10 70 (4.45%) Azure Data Factory
11 67 (4.26%) Power Platform
12 66 (4.20%) AWS CloudFormation
13 43 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
14 40 (2.54%) GitHub
14 40 (2.54%) OpenShift
15 39 (2.48%) OneDrive
16 37 (2.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 36 (2.29%) Azure Functions
18 32 (2.03%) Azure AKS
19 30 (1.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 119 (7.57%) Firewall
2 97 (6.17%) DNS
3 90 (5.72%) WAN
4 70 (4.45%) LAN
5 52 (3.31%) DHCP
6 49 (3.12%) TCP/IP
7 44 (2.80%) Wireless
8 42 (2.67%) VPN
9 37 (2.35%) SAN
10 31 (1.97%) VLAN
11 27 (1.72%) SD-WAN
11 27 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
12 26 (1.65%) Broadband
13 20 (1.27%) MPLS
14 18 (1.14%) HTTP
15 17 (1.08%) SSL
16 16 (1.02%) Remote Desktop
17 15 (0.95%) OSPF
18 12 (0.76%) BGP
18 12 (0.76%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (16.97%) SQL Server
2 119 (7.57%) Big Data
3 118 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
4 109 (6.93%) Data Lake
5 63 (4.01%) MySQL
6 48 (3.05%) Power BI
7 45 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 41 (2.61%) NoSQL
9 39 (2.48%) Metadata
10 32 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
11 28 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
12 26 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
13 25 (1.59%) Relational Database
14 21 (1.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 19 (1.21%) Tableau
16 17 (1.08%) DynamoDB
17 16 (1.02%) MongoDB
17 16 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 14 (0.89%) Hadoop
19 11 (0.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 186 (11.82%) Git (software)
2 98 (6.23%) Jenkins
3 93 (5.91%) JIRA
4 50 (3.18%) Visual Studio
5 39 (2.48%) Selenium
6 34 (2.16%) Team Foundation Server
7 32 (2.03%) GitLab
8 24 (1.53%) Postman
9 22 (1.40%) Octopus Deploy
9 22 (1.40%) Subversion
10 18 (1.14%) Ant
10 18 (1.14%) Maven
10 18 (1.14%) webpack
11 15 (0.95%) Bitbucket
12 12 (0.76%) TeamCity
13 11 (0.70%) SpecFlow
13 11 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (0.32%) Visual Studio Team System
15 5 (0.32%) WebDriver
General
1 408 (25.94%) Social Skills
2 190 (12.08%) Finance
3 129 (8.20%) Games
4 128 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (4.83%) Retail
6 75 (4.77%) Public Sector
7 53 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 41 (2.61%) Law
9 39 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
10 29 (1.84%) Banking
10 29 (1.84%) Marketing
11 25 (1.59%) Local Government
12 22 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
13 16 (1.02%) Publishing
14 15 (0.95%) Manufacturing
15 14 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (0.89%) Telecoms
16 12 (0.76%) Legal
17 10 (0.64%) Automotive
17 10 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 418 (26.57%) Developer
2 149 (9.47%) Architect
3 130 (8.26%) Software Engineer
4 119 (7.57%) .NET Developer
4 119 (7.57%) Senior Developer
5 110 (6.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 108 (6.87%) Analyst
7 103 (6.55%) DevOps Engineer
8 79 (5.02%) Azure Engineer
9 75 (4.77%) Trainee
10 73 (4.64%) Full Stack Developer
11 71 (4.51%) Software Developer
12 61 (3.88%) Data Engineer
13 53 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
14 51 (3.24%) Cloud Engineer
15 48 (3.05%) Azure Architect
16 42 (2.67%) Data Architect
17 40 (2.54%) Senior .NET Developer
18 39 (2.48%) Support Engineer
19 37 (2.35%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 395 (25.11%) .NET
2 329 (20.92%) React
3 227 (14.43%) Node.js
4 210 (13.35%) AngularJS
5 197 (12.52%) HTML
6 187 (11.89%) CSS
7 177 (11.25%) .NET Core
8 163 (10.36%) Vue.js
9 158 (10.04%) .NET Framework
10 103 (6.55%) Spring
11 67 (4.26%) Web Services
12 62 (3.94%) ASP.NET
13 59 (3.75%) Kafka
14 53 (3.37%) Sass
15 52 (3.31%) RESTful
16 50 (3.18%) jQuery
17 46 (2.92%) XML
18 42 (2.67%) GraphQL
18 42 (2.67%) WCF
19 41 (2.61%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 91 (5.79%) Greenfield Project
2 88 (5.59%) Algorithms
3 82 (5.21%) Mobile App
4 52 (3.31%) Public Cloud
4 52 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
5 41 (2.61%) IoT
6 38 (2.42%) Cloud Native
6 38 (2.42%) Management Information System
7 35 (2.23%) User Experience
8 34 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
9 33 (2.10%) Data Structures
10 30 (1.91%) Data Centre
11 29 (1.84%) Cyberattack
11 29 (1.84%) Social Media
12 28 (1.78%) Cyber Defence
13 26 (1.65%) NHS
14 21 (1.34%) Client/Server
15 20 (1.27%) Tandem
16 17 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
17 16 (1.02%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 278 (17.67%) Windows
2 128 (8.14%) Windows Server
3 111 (7.06%) Linux
4 82 (5.21%) Windows 10
5 50 (3.18%) Android
6 39 (2.48%) Windows Server 2012
7 38 (2.42%) Unix
8 31 (1.97%) Apple iOS
9 23 (1.46%) VMS
10 20 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
11 17 (1.08%) Windows Server 2008
12 16 (1.02%) Mac OS
13 13 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
14 8 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.32%) Solaris
16 4 (0.25%) CentOS
17 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 2 (0.13%) Windows 7
18 1 (0.064%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 654 (41.58%) Agile
2 581 (36.94%) DevOps
3 283 (17.99%) Software Engineering
4 250 (15.89%) CI/CD
5 236 (15.00%) Scrum
6 231 (14.69%) Mentoring
7 196 (12.46%) Analytics
8 185 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
9 152 (9.66%) Cybersecurity
10 144 (9.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 126 (8.01%) Microservices
12 124 (7.88%) Information Security
12 124 (7.88%) MVC
13 118 (7.50%) Full Stack Development
14 117 (7.44%) Data Analytics
14 117 (7.44%) Migration
15 115 (7.31%) Machine Learning
16 112 (7.12%) TDD
17 110 (6.99%) Continuous Integration
18 109 (6.93%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 396 (25.17%) JavaScript
2 383 (24.35%) SQL
3 358 (22.76%) Python
4 352 (22.38%) C#
5 287 (18.25%) Java
6 147 (9.35%) PowerShell
7 116 (7.37%) TypeScript
8 77 (4.90%) Bash
9 74 (4.70%) PHP
10 63 (4.01%) Go
10 63 (4.01%) Scala
11 51 (3.24%) Ruby
12 48 (3.05%) T-SQL
13 41 (2.61%) Kotlin
14 31 (1.97%) Shell Script
15 30 (1.91%) C++
16 29 (1.84%) ES6
17 18 (1.14%) Perl
18 17 (1.08%) AWK
19 14 (0.89%) C
Qualifications
1 81 (5.15%) Degree
2 66 (4.20%) Security Cleared
3 63 (4.01%) Microsoft Certification
4 57 (3.62%) SC Cleared
5 37 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
6 34 (2.16%) CCNA
7 17 (1.08%) MCSA
7 17 (1.08%) MCSE
8 16 (1.02%) CCNP
9 14 (0.89%) CISSP
10 13 (0.83%) CISM
11 10 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 9 (0.57%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 6 (0.38%) A+ Certification
14 6 (0.38%) HNC
14 6 (0.38%) MCDST
15 5 (0.32%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.32%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (7.37%) QA
2 61 (3.88%) SLA
3 33 (2.10%) Data Quality
4 25 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.53%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.14%) NIST
7 16 (1.02%) WAI
8 13 (0.83%) GDPR
8 13 (0.83%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.45%) ISO 9001
10 7 (0.45%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.25%) WCAG
12 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.13%) ITGC
13 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.064%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.064%) PMO
System Software
1 281 (17.86%) Docker
2 278 (17.67%) Active Directory
3 99 (6.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (3.88%) Hyper-V
5 26 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (1.40%) vSphere
6 22 (1.40%) XenApp
7 16 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (1.02%) XenDesktop
8 7 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.19%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.19%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.19%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.13%) Apache Flume
10 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.064%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 203 (12.91%) Kubernetes
2 156 (9.92%) Terraform
3 84 (5.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 67 (4.26%) Ansible
5 51 (3.24%) Puppet
6 40 (2.54%) SCCM
7 23 (1.46%) WSUS
8 21 (1.34%) Opscode Chef
9 14 (0.89%) Cobbler
10 13 (0.83%) NetBackup
11 12 (0.76%) SCOM
12 11 (0.70%) FortiGate
13 10 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.57%) Rancher
15 8 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 8 (0.51%) Nagios
16 7 (0.45%) Grafana
16 7 (0.45%) Istio
17 6 (0.38%) SCVMM
18 5 (0.32%) Consul
Vendors
1 617 (39.22%) Microsoft
2 132 (8.39%) VMware
3 64 (4.07%) Cisco
4 57 (3.62%) Databricks
5 56 (3.56%) Citrix
6 52 (3.31%) Google
6 52 (3.31%) Oracle
7 36 (2.29%) Adobe
8 33 (2.10%) Veeam
9 29 (1.84%) Apple
10 27 (1.72%) Xamarin
11 23 (1.46%) Dynatrace
12 22 (1.40%) IBM
12 22 (1.40%) Northgate
13 21 (1.34%) Salesforce.com
14 20 (1.27%) HP
15 15 (0.95%) NEC
15 15 (0.95%) Red Hat
15 15 (0.95%) Sitecore
16 14 (0.89%) SaltStack