Azure Jobs in England

Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 14,831 19,650 26,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.19% 22.18% 19.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.95% 51.20% 40.68%
Number of salaries quoted 11,919 12,676 16,526
10th Percentile £34,200 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,114 £100,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £64,402 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.39% +3.04% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 30,300 38,376 64,864
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.12% 43.31% 48.10%
Number of salaries quoted 24,155 25,447 36,491
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in England

Azure
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Azure in England

Azure
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure in England

Azure
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
London 0 4,664 £75,000 - 1,279
North of England 0 3,109 £55,000 - 680
South East -2 2,786 £54,000 -6.09% 510
Midlands +2 1,927 £50,000 -9.09% 486
North West 0 1,658 £57,500 +4.55% 369
South West -2 1,414 £55,000 +3.95% 353
West Midlands +2 1,153 £55,000 - 293
Yorkshire 0 1,063 £55,000 - 232
East of England 0 785 £50,000 - 183
East Midlands +3 769 £47,500 -9.52% 192
North East +5 390 £47,500 -13.64% 82
Azure
UK

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1,065 (7.18%) SharePoint
2 1,002 (6.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 256 (1.73%) IIS
4 240 (1.62%) Apache
5 200 (1.35%) Apache Spark
5 200 (1.35%) ArcGIS
6 198 (1.34%) GeoServer
7 179 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
8 128 (0.86%) CMS
9 122 (0.82%) Confluence
10 87 (0.59%) Umbraco
11 54 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
12 49 (0.33%) Kentico
12 49 (0.33%) OpenStack
13 41 (0.28%) Headless CMS
14 36 (0.24%) nginx
15 35 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
15 35 (0.24%) WebLogic
15 35 (0.24%) WordPress
16 31 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 523 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
2 223 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 48 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 48 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 37 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
5 30 (0.20%) Trello
6 21 (0.14%) Simulink
7 10 (0.067%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.054%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.040%) LightWave 3D
10 4 (0.027%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.027%) SPSS
11 3 (0.020%) S-PLUS
11 3 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.013%) 1Password
12 2 (0.013%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.013%) CATIA
12 2 (0.013%) NASTRAN
12 2 (0.013%) Sketch
13 1 (0.007%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 230 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 63 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 37 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
4 20 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
5 13 (0.088%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.088%) Teamcenter
6 10 (0.067%) Elite 3E
6 10 (0.067%) Maximo
6 10 (0.067%) Payment Gateway
6 10 (0.067%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
7 9 (0.061%) Unit4 Business World
8 6 (0.040%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.040%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 6 (0.040%) Primavera
8 6 (0.040%) SAP PLM
9 5 (0.034%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.034%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.034%) SAP PP
10 4 (0.027%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 4,329 (29.19%) AWS
2 3,448 (23.25%) Microsoft 365
3 2,047 (13.80%) Azure DevOps
4 1,730 (11.66%) GCP
5 1,701 (11.47%) Power Platform
6 1,590 (10.72%) Entra ID
7 876 (5.91%) SaaS
8 637 (4.30%) Serverless
9 602 (4.06%) PaaS
10 568 (3.83%) Dynamics 365
11 530 (3.57%) IaaS
12 463 (3.12%) Azure Data Factory
13 421 (2.84%) PowerApps
14 398 (2.68%) GitHub
15 370 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
16 353 (2.38%) Power Automate
17 342 (2.31%) Azure Functions
18 334 (2.25%) OneDrive
19 327 (2.20%) Azure Service Bus
20 319 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,590 (10.72%) Firewall
2 1,060 (7.15%) DNS
3 765 (5.16%) WAN
4 680 (4.58%) DHCP
5 619 (4.17%) LAN
6 575 (3.88%) VPN
7 480 (3.24%) TCP/IP
8 377 (2.54%) SAN
9 374 (2.52%) Wi-Fi
10 319 (2.15%) Internet
11 301 (2.03%) Wireless
12 300 (2.02%) Broadband
13 297 (2.00%) Network Security
14 278 (1.87%) VLAN
15 231 (1.56%) SD-WAN
16 212 (1.43%) 5G
17 184 (1.24%) VoIP
18 113 (0.76%) Remote Desktop
19 110 (0.74%) BGP
19 110 (0.74%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,609 (17.59%) SQL Server
2 1,209 (8.15%) Power BI
3 970 (6.54%) Data Warehouse
4 849 (5.72%) PostgreSQL
5 681 (4.59%) MongoDB
6 654 (4.41%) NoSQL
7 566 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 536 (3.61%) Data Lake
9 448 (3.02%) Relational Database
10 425 (2.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 354 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
12 290 (1.96%) MySQL
13 266 (1.79%) DB2
14 265 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 244 (1.65%) GIS
16 242 (1.63%) BigQuery
17 225 (1.52%) Big Data
18 196 (1.32%) QGIS
19 192 (1.29%) Looker
20 190 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 870 (5.87%) Git
2 488 (3.29%) JIRA
3 401 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 292 (1.97%) GitLab
5 269 (1.81%) Visual Studio
6 130 (0.88%) Selenium
7 128 (0.86%) Cypress.io
8 119 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
9 81 (0.55%) Postman
10 76 (0.51%) NUnit
11 65 (0.44%) TeamCity
12 58 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
13 57 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
14 55 (0.37%) Bitbucket
15 52 (0.35%) SonarQube
16 51 (0.34%) Cucumber
17 49 (0.33%) JMeter
18 46 (0.31%) Jasmine
19 39 (0.26%) Artifactory
20 38 (0.26%) CircleCI
General
1 3,393 (22.88%) Social Skills
2 2,367 (15.96%) Finance
3 1,377 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
4 879 (5.93%) Public Sector
5 732 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 576 (3.88%) Retail
7 506 (3.41%) Law
8 392 (2.64%) Banking
9 379 (2.56%) Legal
10 322 (2.17%) Marketing
11 285 (1.92%) Front Office
12 282 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
13 267 (1.80%) Manufacturing
14 207 (1.40%) Telecoms
15 199 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
16 187 (1.26%) Aerospace
17 153 (1.03%) Games
18 146 (0.98%) Advertising
19 127 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
20 116 (0.78%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3,684 (24.84%) Developer
2 2,484 (16.75%) Senior
3 1,685 (11.36%) .NET Developer
4 1,596 (10.76%) Architect
5 1,264 (8.52%) Lead
6 1,042 (7.03%) Software Engineer
7 969 (6.53%) Analyst
8 882 (5.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 756 (5.10%) Support Engineer
10 721 (4.86%) C# Developer
11 702 (4.73%) Azure Engineer
12 673 (4.54%) IT Support
13 656 (4.42%) IT Engineer
14 655 (4.42%) Senior Developer
15 611 (4.12%) Data Engineer
16 548 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
17 545 (3.67%) C# .NET Developer
18 487 (3.28%) Full Stack Developer
19 455 (3.07%) DevOps Engineer
20 437 (2.95%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,760 (25.35%) .NET
2 1,820 (12.27%) React
3 1,706 (11.50%) AngularJS
4 1,665 (11.23%) ASP.NET
5 1,523 (10.27%) .NET Core
6 1,383 (9.33%) HTML
7 1,336 (9.01%) CSS
8 1,015 (6.84%) .NET Framework
9 955 (6.44%) ASP.NET Web API
10 884 (5.96%) Entity Framework
11 832 (5.61%) Vue
12 829 (5.59%) ASP.NET MVC
13 721 (4.86%) Node.js
14 714 (4.81%) REST
15 642 (4.33%) RESTful
16 560 (3.78%) HTML5
17 550 (3.71%) Web Services
18 488 (3.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 418 (2.82%) jQuery
20 411 (2.77%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 583 (3.93%) Public Cloud
2 458 (3.09%) Management Information System
3 440 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
4 428 (2.89%) Data Structures
5 424 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 405 (2.73%) Product Ownership
7 384 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
8 366 (2.47%) Cloud Native
9 359 (2.42%) Algorithms
10 355 (2.39%) Data Centre
11 305 (2.06%) Blockchain
12 278 (1.87%) Social Media
13 262 (1.77%) Fixed Income
14 247 (1.67%) Hedge funds
15 230 (1.55%) Driving Licence
16 222 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
17 212 (1.43%) Equities
18 200 (1.35%) Mobile App
19 189 (1.27%) Onboarding
19 189 (1.27%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3,180 (21.44%) Windows
2 1,598 (10.77%) Linux
3 1,536 (10.36%) Windows Server
4 573 (3.86%) Windows 10
5 503 (3.39%) Android
6 448 (3.02%) Apple iOS
7 372 (2.51%) Ubuntu
8 313 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 255 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
10 233 (1.57%) Windows Server 2012
11 167 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 153 (1.03%) Unix
13 141 (0.95%) VMS
14 137 (0.92%) CentOS
15 133 (0.90%) Mac OS
16 95 (0.64%) Debian
17 51 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
19 31 (0.21%) Windows 7
20 30 (0.20%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,680 (31.56%) Agile
2 3,880 (26.16%) DevOps
3 2,200 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
4 2,189 (14.76%) Full Stack Development
5 1,797 (12.12%) CI/CD
6 1,771 (11.94%) Software Engineering
7 1,621 (10.93%) Microservices
8 1,404 (9.47%) MVC
9 1,347 (9.08%) Mentoring
10 1,289 (8.69%) Business Intelligence
11 1,262 (8.51%) Scrum
12 1,246 (8.40%) Artificial Intelligence
13 1,239 (8.35%) Cybersecurity
14 1,207 (8.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 1,159 (7.81%) ITIL
16 1,078 (7.27%) Roadmaps
17 1,051 (7.09%) Migration
18 1,048 (7.07%) ETL
19 1,019 (6.87%) Analytics
20 907 (6.12%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3,685 (24.85%) C#
2 3,674 (24.77%) SQL
3 2,973 (20.05%) JavaScript
4 2,264 (15.27%) Python
5 1,351 (9.11%) PowerShell
6 1,115 (7.52%) TypeScript
7 1,082 (7.30%) Java
8 568 (3.83%) T-SQL
9 553 (3.73%) Bash
10 166 (1.12%) Bicep
11 140 (0.94%) Go
12 138 (0.93%) R
13 137 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 127 (0.86%) C++
15 104 (0.70%) Kotlin
16 99 (0.67%) PHP
17 93 (0.63%) Scala
18 81 (0.55%) Ruby
19 78 (0.53%) VB.NET
20 75 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,684 (11.35%) Degree
2 1,321 (8.91%) Security Cleared
3 943 (6.36%) SC Cleared
4 766 (5.16%) Azure Certification
5 756 (5.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 457 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 386 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
8 276 (1.86%) DV Cleared
9 264 (1.78%) AWS Certification
10 256 (1.73%) CISSP
11 254 (1.71%) CCNA
12 213 (1.44%) DBS Check
13 187 (1.26%) MCSE
14 168 (1.13%) Master's Degree
15 134 (0.90%) CCNP
16 113 (0.76%) CISM
17 112 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
18 111 (0.75%) MCSA
19 105 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
20 93 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 606 (4.09%) QA
2 440 (2.97%) Data Quality
3 395 (2.66%) GDPR
4 362 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 279 (1.88%) SLA
6 197 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 185 (1.25%) NIST
8 128 (0.86%) Accessibility
9 107 (0.72%) PCI DSS
10 48 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 45 (0.30%) PMO
12 42 (0.28%) NCSC
13 34 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 29 (0.20%) COBIT
15 28 (0.19%) HIPAA
16 25 (0.17%) GRC
17 20 (0.13%) ISO 9001
17 20 (0.13%) SOC 2
18 18 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 16 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2,734 (18.43%) Active Directory
2 1,070 (7.21%) Docker
3 980 (6.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 858 (5.79%) Hyper-V
5 353 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
6 202 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
7 183 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 173 (1.17%) vSphere
9 89 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
10 57 (0.38%) XenApp
11 40 (0.27%) XenDesktop
12 35 (0.24%) Firmware
13 31 (0.21%) Terminal Services
14 26 (0.18%) VMware NSX
15 19 (0.13%) KVM
16 18 (0.12%) HDFS
16 18 (0.12%) VMware Server
17 12 (0.081%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 11 (0.074%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 11 (0.074%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 1,392 (9.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 1,247 (8.41%) Kubernetes
3 1,154 (7.78%) Terraform
4 531 (3.58%) Ansible
5 300 (2.02%) SCCM
6 266 (1.79%) Jamf Pro
7 180 (1.21%) Puppet
8 165 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
9 143 (0.96%) vCenter Server
10 110 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 109 (0.73%) Progress Chef
12 88 (0.59%) WSUS
13 81 (0.55%) Grafana
14 77 (0.52%) SCOM
15 75 (0.51%) Prometheus
16 56 (0.38%) FortiGate
17 44 (0.30%) Nagios
18 43 (0.29%) CASB
19 38 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
20 33 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6,542 (44.11%) Microsoft
2 1,524 (10.28%) VMware
3 947 (6.39%) Google
4 738 (4.98%) Cisco
5 573 (3.86%) Databricks
6 426 (2.87%) Red Hat
7 422 (2.85%) Citrix
8 419 (2.83%) Oracle
9 379 (2.56%) IBM
10 325 (2.19%) Veeam
11 251 (1.69%) CyberArk
12 216 (1.46%) HP
13 210 (1.42%) Tanium
14 202 (1.36%) Meraki
15 201 (1.36%) ESRI
16 163 (1.10%) ServiceNow
17 160 (1.08%) Fortinet
18 155 (1.05%) Dell
19 149 (1.00%) Apple
20 142 (0.96%) SolarWinds