Azure Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 11,258 12,406 14,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.89% 20.80% 19.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.99% 54.29% 49.21%
Number of salaries quoted 8,813 7,146 9,374
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,650 £71,250 £68,188
90th Percentile £79,500 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £64,815 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.97% +3.70% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23,457 22,850 28,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.10% 38.32% 39.98%
Number of salaries quoted 17,386 13,678 19,676
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
North of England 0 3,092 £55,000 - 671
South East -2 2,776 £54,000 -6.09% 514
Midlands +2 1,919 £50,000 -9.09% 489
North West 0 1,649 £57,500 +4.55% 367
South West -3 1,401 £55,000 +3.14% 353
West Midlands +1 1,149 £55,000 - 289
Yorkshire 0 1,059 £55,000 - 224
Scotland -24 813 £55,000 -6.16% 147
East of England 0 791 £50,000 - 189
East Midlands +3 766 £47,500 -9.52% 198
North East +4 386 £47,500 -13.64% 84
Wales 0 339 £50,000 +0.50% 94
Northern Ireland -5 115 £55,000 +4.76% 60
Isle of Man -2 17 £46,500 -33.57% 3
Channel Islands +1 5 £85,000 -5.56%
Azure
UK

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 864 (7.67%) SharePoint
2 811 (7.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 288 (2.56%) ArcGIS
4 286 (2.54%) GeoServer
5 233 (2.07%) IIS
6 99 (0.88%) CMS
7 89 (0.79%) Confluence
8 84 (0.75%) Umbraco
9 78 (0.69%) Apache
10 69 (0.61%) Apache Spark
11 49 (0.44%) OpenStack
12 44 (0.39%) Kentico
13 43 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
13 43 (0.38%) WebLogic
14 41 (0.36%) Headless CMS
15 32 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
16 26 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
17 25 (0.22%) WebSphere
18 23 (0.20%) FileNet
19 22 (0.20%) Captiva
Applications
1 441 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
2 147 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 22 (0.20%) Trello
7 21 (0.19%) Simulink
8 10 (0.089%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.071%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.053%) LightWave 3D
11 4 (0.036%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.027%) Spreadsheet
13 2 (0.018%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.018%) CATIA
13 2 (0.018%) NASTRAN
13 2 (0.018%) Sketch
13 2 (0.018%) S-PLUS
14 1 (0.009%) 1Password
14 1 (0.009%) GNU Octave
14 1 (0.009%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 157 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 73 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 32 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
4 14 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
5 10 (0.089%) Maximo
6 9 (0.080%) Unit4 Business World
7 8 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
7 8 (0.071%) SAP S/4HANA
7 8 (0.071%) Teamcenter
8 7 (0.062%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.053%) SAP PLM
10 5 (0.044%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.044%) SAP IBP
10 5 (0.044%) SAP PP
11 4 (0.036%) Elite 3E
11 4 (0.036%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.036%) Visualfiles
12 3 (0.027%) Oracle Applications
12 3 (0.027%) Remedy ITSM
13 2 (0.018%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 3,330 (29.58%) AWS
2 2,838 (25.21%) Microsoft 365
3 1,546 (13.73%) Azure DevOps
4 1,173 (10.42%) Entra ID
5 1,138 (10.11%) Power Platform
6 1,096 (9.74%) GCP
7 650 (5.77%) SaaS
8 406 (3.61%) Serverless
9 350 (3.11%) PaaS
10 333 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
11 315 (2.80%) IaaS
12 295 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
13 284 (2.52%) OneDrive
14 276 (2.45%) GitHub
15 275 (2.44%) IBM Cloud
16 247 (2.19%) Azure Data Factory
17 241 (2.14%) PowerApps
18 218 (1.94%) Azure Service Bus
19 216 (1.92%) Azure Functions
20 204 (1.81%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,292 (11.48%) Firewall
2 863 (7.67%) DNS
3 632 (5.61%) WAN
4 559 (4.97%) DHCP
5 467 (4.15%) LAN
6 463 (4.11%) VPN
7 408 (3.62%) TCP/IP
8 295 (2.62%) SAN
9 276 (2.45%) Internet
10 256 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
11 239 (2.12%) VLAN
12 209 (1.86%) Wireless
13 203 (1.80%) Network Security
14 178 (1.58%) SD-WAN
15 168 (1.49%) Broadband
16 167 (1.48%) VoIP
17 118 (1.05%) Remote Desktop
18 97 (0.86%) BGP
19 86 (0.76%) HTTP
20 85 (0.76%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,135 (18.96%) SQL Server
2 832 (7.39%) Power BI
3 775 (6.88%) PostgreSQL
4 741 (6.58%) Data Warehouse
5 553 (4.91%) MongoDB
6 548 (4.87%) NoSQL
7 424 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
8 375 (3.33%) Relational Database
9 371 (3.30%) Data Lake
10 333 (2.96%) GIS
11 330 (2.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 284 (2.52%) QGIS
13 282 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
14 256 (2.27%) DB2
15 239 (2.12%) MySQL
16 204 (1.81%) BigQuery
17 189 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
18 180 (1.60%) Looker
19 165 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 136 (1.21%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 641 (5.69%) Git
2 399 (3.54%) JIRA
3 274 (2.43%) Jenkins
4 228 (2.03%) GitLab
5 206 (1.83%) Visual Studio
6 133 (1.18%) Selenium
7 101 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
8 73 (0.65%) Postman
9 69 (0.61%) Cypress.io
10 65 (0.58%) NUnit
11 50 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
12 43 (0.38%) Jasmine
13 41 (0.36%) JMeter
14 40 (0.36%) Cucumber
15 37 (0.33%) Bitbucket
16 33 (0.29%) Artifactory
16 33 (0.29%) TeamCity
17 30 (0.27%) Karma Test Runner
17 30 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
17 30 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 2,547 (22.62%) Social Skills
2 1,474 (13.09%) Finance
3 855 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
4 723 (6.42%) Public Sector
5 528 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 488 (4.33%) Retail
7 469 (4.17%) Law
8 291 (2.58%) Legal
9 281 (2.50%) Marketing
10 245 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
11 225 (2.00%) Manufacturing
12 207 (1.84%) Banking
13 172 (1.53%) Telecoms
14 168 (1.49%) Aerospace
15 165 (1.47%) Games
16 164 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
17 123 (1.09%) Advertising
18 91 (0.81%) Billing
19 75 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
20 54 (0.48%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2,860 (25.40%) Developer
2 1,751 (15.55%) Senior
3 1,420 (12.61%) .NET Developer
4 1,009 (8.96%) Architect
5 984 (8.74%) Lead
6 918 (8.15%) Software Engineer
7 767 (6.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 692 (6.15%) Support Engineer
9 687 (6.10%) Analyst
10 620 (5.51%) IT Support
11 597 (5.30%) IT Engineer
12 560 (4.97%) C# Developer
13 477 (4.24%) Azure Engineer
14 465 (4.13%) Senior Developer
15 457 (4.06%) C# .NET Developer
16 388 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
17 385 (3.42%) Data Engineer
18 379 (3.37%) IT Support Engineer
19 340 (3.02%) Cloud Engineer
20 330 (2.93%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,141 (27.90%) .NET
2 1,483 (13.17%) React
3 1,446 (12.84%) AngularJS
4 1,421 (12.62%) .NET Core
5 1,408 (12.51%) ASP.NET
6 1,285 (11.41%) CSS
7 1,220 (10.84%) HTML
8 889 (7.90%) ASP.NET Web API
9 884 (7.85%) .NET Framework
10 822 (7.30%) Entity Framework
11 754 (6.70%) ASP.NET MVC
12 686 (6.09%) Vue
13 618 (5.49%) Node.js
14 583 (5.18%) REST
15 551 (4.89%) RESTful
16 481 (4.27%) HTML5
17 458 (4.07%) Web Services
18 452 (4.01%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 405 (3.60%) Blazor
20 373 (3.31%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 593 (5.27%) Public Cloud
2 393 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
3 364 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 350 (3.11%) Algorithms
5 345 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
6 318 (2.82%) Management Information System
7 311 (2.76%) Product Ownership
8 294 (2.61%) Blockchain
9 282 (2.50%) Cloud Native
10 259 (2.30%) Data Centre
11 255 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
12 231 (2.05%) Driving Licence
13 210 (1.87%) Onboarding
14 183 (1.63%) Private Cloud
15 160 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
16 145 (1.29%) PKI
17 144 (1.28%) Mobile App
18 135 (1.20%) Social Media
19 133 (1.18%) e-Learning
20 128 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2,612 (23.20%) Windows
2 1,300 (11.55%) Windows Server
3 1,291 (11.47%) Linux
4 470 (4.17%) Windows 10
5 451 (4.01%) Android
6 389 (3.46%) Apple iOS
7 269 (2.39%) Windows Server 2016
8 222 (1.97%) Windows Server 2019
9 214 (1.90%) Ubuntu
10 187 (1.66%) Windows Server 2012
11 153 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 134 (1.19%) VMS
13 131 (1.16%) Unix
14 127 (1.13%) CentOS
15 109 (0.97%) Mac OS
16 95 (0.84%) Debian
17 41 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
19 32 (0.28%) Windows 7
20 23 (0.20%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,729 (33.12%) Agile
2 3,064 (27.22%) DevOps
3 1,805 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
4 1,804 (16.02%) Full Stack Development
5 1,352 (12.01%) Software Engineering
6 1,350 (11.99%) CI/CD
7 1,295 (11.50%) Microservices
8 1,283 (11.40%) MVC
9 1,091 (9.69%) Mentoring
10 1,022 (9.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 999 (8.87%) Scrum
12 917 (8.15%) Business Intelligence
13 903 (8.02%) ITIL
14 893 (7.93%) Artificial Intelligence
15 850 (7.55%) Cybersecurity
16 806 (7.16%) Roadmaps
17 803 (7.13%) Migration
18 759 (6.74%) Web Development
19 748 (6.64%) Customer Service
20 723 (6.42%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3,032 (26.93%) C#
2 2,675 (23.76%) SQL
3 2,591 (23.01%) JavaScript
4 1,409 (12.52%) Python
5 914 (8.12%) Java
6 897 (7.97%) PowerShell
7 776 (6.89%) TypeScript
8 442 (3.93%) T-SQL
9 311 (2.76%) Bash
10 107 (0.95%) C++
11 103 (0.91%) Go
12 102 (0.91%) Bicep
13 80 (0.71%) PHP
14 78 (0.69%) VB.NET
15 74 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 73 (0.65%) VB
17 68 (0.60%) Kotlin
18 60 (0.53%) Ruby
19 57 (0.51%) C
20 39 (0.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,245 (11.06%) Security Cleared
2 1,138 (10.11%) Degree
3 916 (8.14%) SC Cleared
4 599 (5.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 548 (4.87%) Azure Certification
6 318 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
7 263 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 253 (2.25%) DV Cleared
9 239 (2.12%) CCNA
10 217 (1.93%) AWS Certification
11 208 (1.85%) DBS Check
12 165 (1.47%) CISSP
13 148 (1.31%) MCSE
14 99 (0.88%) CCNP
15 90 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
16 89 (0.79%) Master's Degree
17 82 (0.73%) MCSA
18 81 (0.72%) CISM
19 77 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 70 (0.62%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 475 (4.22%) QA
2 340 (3.02%) GDPR
3 293 (2.60%) Data Quality
4 252 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 236 (2.10%) SLA
6 161 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 135 (1.20%) NIST
8 73 (0.65%) Accessibility
9 61 (0.54%) PCI DSS
10 25 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 24 (0.21%) NCSC
12 19 (0.17%) PMO
12 19 (0.17%) SOC 2
13 18 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 16 (0.14%) HIPAA
14 16 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 12 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 10 (0.089%) ISO 9001
17 9 (0.080%) GRC
18 8 (0.071%) PSD2
System Software
1 2,100 (18.65%) Active Directory
2 867 (7.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 838 (7.44%) Hyper-V
4 802 (7.12%) Docker
5 284 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
6 147 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 141 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
8 127 (1.13%) vSphere
9 55 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
10 51 (0.45%) VMware NSX
11 38 (0.34%) XenApp
12 31 (0.28%) XenDesktop
13 28 (0.25%) Terminal Services
14 22 (0.20%) Firmware
15 19 (0.17%) VMware Server
16 11 (0.098%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 9 (0.080%) KVM
18 8 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 8 (0.071%) pfSense
19 7 (0.062%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,011 (8.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 915 (8.13%) Kubernetes
3 771 (6.85%) Terraform
4 419 (3.72%) Ansible
5 220 (1.95%) SCCM
6 119 (1.06%) Puppet
7 97 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
8 96 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
9 90 (0.80%) vCenter Server
10 83 (0.74%) WSUS
11 76 (0.68%) SCOM
12 74 (0.66%) Progress Chef
13 68 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 61 (0.54%) Grafana
15 54 (0.48%) FortiGate
16 53 (0.47%) Prometheus
17 31 (0.28%) CASB
18 28 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
18 28 (0.25%) ZABBIX
19 24 (0.21%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 4,994 (44.36%) Microsoft
2 1,310 (11.64%) VMware
3 702 (6.24%) Google
4 544 (4.83%) Cisco
5 394 (3.50%) Red Hat
6 361 (3.21%) IBM
7 325 (2.89%) Oracle
8 306 (2.72%) Citrix
9 289 (2.57%) ESRI
10 276 (2.45%) Veeam
11 275 (2.44%) Databricks
12 166 (1.47%) HP
13 157 (1.39%) Meraki
14 124 (1.10%) Dell
15 121 (1.07%) Fortinet
16 112 (0.99%) Apple
17 105 (0.93%) Aruba
17 105 (0.93%) ServiceNow
18 100 (0.89%) Sophos
19 89 (0.79%) SolarWinds