Azure Jobs in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 1,016 1,133 1,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.72% 20.34% 17.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.63% 54.89% 48.23%
Number of salaries quoted 765 754 801
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,525 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £104,625 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +5.45%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,047 2,064 2,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.64% 37.06% 36.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,485 1,400 1,710
10th Percentile £30,150 £30,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £77,313 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,750 £92,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the Thames Valley

Azure
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Azure in the Thames Valley

Azure
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure in the Thames Valley

Azure
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Berkshire -3 465 £52,500 -19.23% 67
Buckinghamshire -4 282 £47,500 -9.52% 51
Oxfordshire -1 269 £52,500 -5.83% 39
Azure
South East

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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
1 124 (12.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 76 (7.48%) SharePoint
3 33 (3.25%) IIS
4 27 (2.66%) ArcGIS
4 27 (2.66%) GeoServer
5 24 (2.36%) CMS
5 24 (2.36%) Headless CMS
5 24 (2.36%) Kentico
6 23 (2.26%) OpenStack
7 19 (1.87%) Exchange Server 2010
7 19 (1.87%) Sitecore CMS
7 19 (1.87%) Umbraco
8 15 (1.48%) Confluence
9 7 (0.69%) WordPress
10 6 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.59%) nginx
11 5 (0.49%) Apache
12 4 (0.39%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.30%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 18 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.30%) Trello
4 1 (0.098%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.098%) Revit
Business Applications
1 28 (2.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.08%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (0.79%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.098%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.098%) SAP PLM
5 1 (0.098%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 300 (29.53%) Microsoft 365
2 265 (26.08%) AWS
3 161 (15.85%) Azure DevOps
4 122 (12.01%) Power Platform
5 107 (10.53%) Entra ID
6 80 (7.87%) GCP
7 53 (5.22%) Dynamics 365
8 52 (5.12%) Azure Monitor
9 42 (4.13%) SaaS
10 35 (3.44%) OneDrive
11 32 (3.15%) Cloud Computing
12 28 (2.76%) Azure Storage
12 28 (2.76%) PowerApps
13 21 (2.07%) Azure Sentinel
13 21 (2.07%) Power Automate
14 20 (1.97%) Serverless
15 19 (1.87%) GitHub
15 19 (1.87%) Kontent
16 18 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
17 16 (1.57%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 151 (14.86%) Firewall
2 119 (11.71%) DNS
3 71 (6.99%) DHCP
4 60 (5.91%) VPN
5 32 (3.15%) WAN
6 31 (3.05%) SAN
7 28 (2.76%) Wireless
8 26 (2.56%) TCP/IP
9 23 (2.26%) Network Security
10 22 (2.17%) Internet
10 22 (2.17%) LAN
11 20 (1.97%) Intrusion Detection
12 17 (1.67%) VLAN
13 15 (1.48%) NAS
13 15 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
14 13 (1.28%) VoIP
15 11 (1.08%) SD-WAN
16 10 (0.98%) BGP
17 9 (0.89%) Broadband
17 9 (0.89%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 89 (8.76%) Data Warehouse
3 81 (7.97%) Power BI
4 60 (5.91%) PostgreSQL
5 41 (4.04%) BigQuery
6 40 (3.94%) Looker
7 39 (3.84%) Data Lake
8 35 (3.44%) Relational Database
9 31 (3.05%) Azure SQL Database
9 31 (3.05%) NoSQL
10 29 (2.85%) GIS
11 28 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
12 27 (2.66%) QGIS
13 22 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 20 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
14 20 (1.97%) MySQL
15 18 (1.77%) MongoDB
16 17 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 11 (1.08%) Power Query
18 10 (0.98%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 61 (6.00%) Git
2 42 (4.13%) JIRA
3 41 (4.04%) Jenkins
4 27 (2.66%) Visual Studio
5 24 (2.36%) NUnit
6 14 (1.38%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.38%) Selenium
7 13 (1.28%) GitLab
8 10 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (0.89%) WebDriver
10 6 (0.59%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.49%) Bugzilla
11 5 (0.49%) MSTest
11 5 (0.49%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.30%) Postman
13 2 (0.20%) SonarQube
14 1 (0.098%) Appium
14 1 (0.098%) Mockito
14 1 (0.098%) Robot Framework
14 1 (0.098%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 245 (24.11%) Social Skills
2 111 (10.93%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (6.79%) Finance
4 48 (4.72%) Retail
5 47 (4.63%) Public Sector
6 41 (4.04%) Manufacturing
7 40 (3.94%) Legal
8 33 (3.25%) Billing
9 28 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (2.26%) Marketing
10 23 (2.26%) Telecoms
11 20 (1.97%) Law
12 18 (1.77%) Back Office
13 16 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
14 14 (1.38%) Health Technology
15 13 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 12 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (1.08%) Tech for Good
18 10 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
19 9 (0.89%) Games
Job Titles
1 266 (26.18%) Developer
2 144 (14.17%) Senior
3 101 (9.94%) .NET Developer
4 92 (9.06%) Architect
5 82 (8.07%) Analyst
6 80 (7.87%) Lead
7 74 (7.28%) Senior Developer
8 68 (6.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 67 (6.59%) Software Engineer
10 62 (6.10%) Support Engineer
11 59 (5.81%) C# Developer
12 50 (4.92%) Azure Engineer
13 49 (4.82%) C# .NET Developer
14 41 (4.04%) Full Stack Developer
14 41 (4.04%) IT Support
15 39 (3.84%) Active Directory Specialist
15 39 (3.84%) Azure Specialist
15 39 (3.84%) Senior .NET Developer
16 38 (3.74%) Software Developer
17 35 (3.44%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 239 (23.52%) .NET
2 135 (13.29%) .NET Core
3 114 (11.22%) React
4 89 (8.76%) CSS
5 86 (8.46%) ASP.NET
6 69 (6.79%) .NET Framework
7 64 (6.30%) AngularJS
8 58 (5.71%) ASP.NET MVC
8 58 (5.71%) HTML
9 45 (4.43%) Entity Framework
10 41 (4.04%) Node.js
11 35 (3.44%) ASP.NET Web API
12 32 (3.15%) RESTful
13 31 (3.05%) Web Services
14 27 (2.66%) Leaflet
14 27 (2.66%) OpenLayers
14 27 (2.66%) PostGIS
15 25 (2.46%) JSON
15 25 (2.46%) Vue
16 24 (2.36%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 67 (6.59%) Self-Motivation
2 49 (4.82%) Product Ownership
3 42 (4.13%) PKI
4 37 (3.64%) Management Information System
5 33 (3.25%) Data Centre
6 20 (1.97%) Driving Licence
7 18 (1.77%) Client/Server
7 18 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
7 18 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (1.67%) Smartphone
9 16 (1.57%) Public Cloud
10 15 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.38%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.28%) Replication
12 13 (1.28%) Security Operations Centre
12 13 (1.28%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 223 (21.95%) Windows
2 130 (12.80%) Linux
3 129 (12.70%) Windows Server
4 87 (8.56%) Windows 10
5 52 (5.12%) Windows Server 2016
6 49 (4.82%) Windows Server 2019
7 24 (2.36%) Android
8 23 (2.26%) Windows Server 2012
9 22 (2.17%) Apple iOS
10 16 (1.57%) Windows XP
11 14 (1.38%) Ubuntu
12 12 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 11 (1.08%) CentOS
14 9 (0.89%) VMS
15 5 (0.49%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.39%) Mac OS X
16 4 (0.39%) Rocky
16 4 (0.39%) Windows 8
17 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
18 2 (0.20%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (31.20%) DevOps
2 307 (30.22%) Agile
3 193 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
4 138 (13.58%) CI/CD
5 127 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
6 99 (9.74%) Scrum
7 94 (9.25%) Software Engineering
8 87 (8.56%) Business Intelligence
8 87 (8.56%) MVC
9 85 (8.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 85 (8.37%) ITIL
10 83 (8.17%) Analytics
11 82 (8.07%) Mentoring
11 82 (8.07%) Microservices
12 77 (7.58%) Project Management
13 75 (7.38%) CRM
14 68 (6.69%) Web Development
15 66 (6.50%) ETL
16 65 (6.40%) Data Modelling
17 63 (6.20%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 253 (24.90%) C#
2 207 (20.37%) JavaScript
3 200 (19.69%) SQL
4 137 (13.48%) Python
5 86 (8.46%) PowerShell
6 64 (6.30%) Java
7 60 (5.91%) TypeScript
8 32 (3.15%) Bash
9 30 (2.95%) T-SQL
10 25 (2.46%) VB
10 25 (2.46%) VBScript
11 21 (2.07%) Bicep
12 16 (1.57%) Kotlin
13 13 (1.28%) Go
14 10 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 10 (0.98%) VB.NET
15 8 (0.79%) Ruby
16 7 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.59%) R
18 5 (0.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 179 (17.62%) Security Cleared
2 141 (13.88%) Degree
3 131 (12.89%) SC Cleared
4 53 (5.22%) DV Cleared
5 48 (4.72%) Azure Certification
5 48 (4.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 41 (4.04%) Cisco Certification
7 34 (3.35%) CCNA
8 32 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (2.66%) CISSP
10 23 (2.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 22 (2.17%) AWS Certification
12 21 (2.07%) DBS Check
13 20 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (1.38%) CCNP
14 14 (1.38%) CTC Cleared
15 13 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
16 12 (1.18%) MCP
17 10 (0.98%) Master's Degree
17 10 (0.98%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.59%) QA
2 29 (2.85%) Data Quality
3 28 (2.76%) GDPR
4 25 (2.46%) SLA
5 21 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 12 (1.18%) NIST
8 8 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.098%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 225 (22.15%) Active Directory
2 79 (7.78%) Docker
3 74 (7.28%) Hyper-V
4 52 (5.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 33 (3.25%) Virtual Machines
6 30 (2.95%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.69%) vSphere
9 5 (0.49%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 3 (0.30%) XenApp
10 3 (0.30%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.20%) Firmware
12 1 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 119 (11.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 90 (8.86%) Kubernetes
3 55 (5.41%) Terraform
4 47 (4.63%) SCCM
5 44 (4.33%) Ansible
6 40 (3.94%) SCOM
7 33 (3.25%) WSUS
8 32 (3.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 18 (1.77%) vCenter Server
10 16 (1.57%) EMC NetWorker
11 13 (1.28%) NetBackup
12 7 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (0.59%) CASB
13 6 (0.59%) Puppet
14 5 (0.49%) HP Quality Center
14 5 (0.49%) Red Hat Spacewalk
14 5 (0.49%) Suricata
15 3 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
15 3 (0.30%) Nagios
15 3 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 502 (49.41%) Microsoft
2 112 (11.02%) VMware
3 67 (6.59%) Google
4 55 (5.41%) Cisco
5 40 (3.94%) Oracle
6 34 (3.35%) Citrix
7 29 (2.85%) Juniper
8 27 (2.66%) ESRI
9 26 (2.56%) HP
9 26 (2.56%) Veeam
10 24 (2.36%) Dell
11 23 (2.26%) Palo Alto
12 22 (2.17%) Databricks
13 19 (1.87%) EMC
13 19 (1.87%) Optimizely
13 19 (1.87%) Sitecore
14 15 (1.48%) Aruba
15 14 (1.38%) Splunk
16 13 (1.28%) Apple
16 13 (1.28%) Fortinet