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 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 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 11,312 12,337 14,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.84% 20.82% 19.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.09% 54.31% 49.26%
Number of salaries quoted 8,825 7,066 9,311
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 £66,500 £71,250 £68,275
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £64,402 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.39% +3.04% +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 23,521 22,714 28,584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.94% 38.33% 39.88%
Number of salaries quoted 17,411 13,547 19,534
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,298 £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 16 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 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
North of England 0 3,109 £55,000 - 675
South East -2 2,786 £54,000 -6.09% 501
Midlands +2 1,927 £50,000 -9.09% 493
North West 0 1,658 £57,500 +4.55% 373
South West -2 1,414 £55,000 +3.95% 355
West Midlands +2 1,153 £55,000 - 296
Yorkshire 0 1,063 £55,000 - 226
Scotland -24 815 £55,000 -5.17% 146
East of England 0 785 £50,000 - 177
East Midlands +3 769 £47,500 -9.52% 196
North East +5 390 £47,500 -13.64% 79
Wales 0 343 £50,000 +1.01% 89
Northern Ireland -5 119 £55,000 +4.76% 59
Isle of Man -3 17 £46,500 -33.57% 4
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
1 862 (7.62%) SharePoint
2 805 (7.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 288 (2.55%) ArcGIS
4 286 (2.53%) GeoServer
5 230 (2.03%) IIS
6 98 (0.87%) CMS
7 91 (0.80%) Confluence
8 82 (0.72%) Umbraco
9 80 (0.71%) Apache
10 70 (0.62%) Apache Spark
11 49 (0.43%) OpenStack
12 43 (0.38%) Kentico
12 43 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
12 43 (0.38%) WebLogic
13 41 (0.36%) Headless CMS
14 32 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
15 26 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
16 20 (0.18%) nginx
16 20 (0.18%) WebSphere
17 18 (0.16%) FileNet
Applications
1 441 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
2 147 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (0.21%) MS Visio
6 22 (0.19%) Trello
7 21 (0.19%) Simulink
8 10 (0.088%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.071%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.053%) LightWave 3D
11 4 (0.035%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.027%) S-PLUS
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
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 (0.088%) 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 (0.035%) Elite 3E
11 4 (0.035%) Visualfiles
12 3 (0.027%) Oracle Applications
12 3 (0.027%) Remedy ITSM
12 3 (0.027%) SAP ERP
13 2 (0.018%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 3,371 (29.80%) AWS
2 2,832 (25.04%) Microsoft 365
3 1,544 (13.65%) Azure DevOps
4 1,174 (10.38%) Entra ID
5 1,141 (10.09%) Power Platform
6 1,091 (9.64%) GCP
7 649 (5.74%) SaaS
8 406 (3.59%) Serverless
9 344 (3.04%) PaaS
10 333 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
11 311 (2.75%) IaaS
12 294 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
13 286 (2.53%) OneDrive
14 275 (2.43%) IBM Cloud
15 273 (2.41%) GitHub
16 249 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
17 243 (2.15%) PowerApps
18 220 (1.94%) Azure Service Bus
19 217 (1.92%) Azure Functions
20 206 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,288 (11.39%) Firewall
2 856 (7.57%) DNS
3 628 (5.55%) WAN
4 553 (4.89%) DHCP
5 463 (4.09%) LAN
6 459 (4.06%) VPN
7 410 (3.62%) TCP/IP
8 296 (2.62%) SAN
9 278 (2.46%) Internet
10 256 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
11 239 (2.11%) VLAN
12 210 (1.86%) Wireless
13 204 (1.80%) Network Security
14 177 (1.56%) SD-WAN
15 168 (1.49%) Broadband
16 165 (1.46%) VoIP
17 118 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
18 96 (0.85%) BGP
19 88 (0.78%) HTTP
20 85 (0.75%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,149 (19.00%) SQL Server
2 835 (7.38%) Power BI
3 774 (6.84%) PostgreSQL
4 746 (6.59%) Data Warehouse
5 557 (4.92%) MongoDB
6 548 (4.84%) NoSQL
7 426 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
8 375 (3.32%) Relational Database
9 367 (3.24%) Data Lake
10 333 (2.94%) GIS
11 329 (2.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 284 (2.51%) QGIS
13 280 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
14 256 (2.26%) DB2
15 242 (2.14%) MySQL
16 204 (1.80%) BigQuery
17 191 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
18 180 (1.59%) Looker
19 164 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 136 (1.20%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 644 (5.69%) Git
2 393 (3.47%) JIRA
3 276 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 229 (2.02%) GitLab
5 208 (1.84%) Visual Studio
6 134 (1.18%) Selenium
7 102 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
8 74 (0.65%) Postman
9 70 (0.62%) Cypress.io
10 66 (0.58%) NUnit
11 50 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
12 44 (0.39%) Jasmine
13 43 (0.38%) JMeter
14 40 (0.35%) Cucumber
15 38 (0.34%) Bitbucket
16 34 (0.30%) TeamCity
17 33 (0.29%) Artifactory
18 31 (0.27%) SonarQube
19 30 (0.27%) Karma Test Runner
20 28 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,576 (22.77%) Social Skills
2 1,468 (12.98%) Finance
3 854 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
4 728 (6.44%) Public Sector
5 528 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 487 (4.31%) Retail
7 468 (4.14%) Law
8 289 (2.55%) Legal
9 279 (2.47%) Marketing
10 245 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
11 228 (2.02%) Manufacturing
12 197 (1.74%) Banking
13 175 (1.55%) Aerospace
14 171 (1.51%) Telecoms
15 166 (1.47%) Games
16 164 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
17 124 (1.10%) Advertising
18 91 (0.80%) Billing
19 76 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
20 56 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,876 (25.42%) Developer
2 1,752 (15.49%) Senior
3 1,431 (12.65%) .NET Developer
4 1,043 (9.22%) Architect
5 990 (8.75%) Lead
6 922 (8.15%) Software Engineer
7 768 (6.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 691 (6.11%) Support Engineer
9 678 (5.99%) Analyst
10 616 (5.45%) IT Support
11 597 (5.28%) IT Engineer
12 565 (4.99%) C# Developer
13 474 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
14 469 (4.15%) Senior Developer
15 460 (4.07%) C# .NET Developer
16 389 (3.44%) Senior Software Engineer
17 384 (3.39%) Data Engineer
18 378 (3.34%) IT Support Engineer
19 343 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
20 335 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,160 (27.93%) .NET
2 1,492 (13.19%) React
3 1,458 (12.89%) AngularJS
4 1,426 (12.61%) .NET Core
5 1,413 (12.49%) ASP.NET
6 1,288 (11.39%) CSS
7 1,221 (10.79%) HTML
8 897 (7.93%) ASP.NET Web API
9 890 (7.87%) .NET Framework
10 831 (7.35%) Entity Framework
11 756 (6.68%) ASP.NET MVC
12 692 (6.12%) Vue
13 623 (5.51%) Node.js
14 584 (5.16%) REST
15 554 (4.90%) RESTful
16 484 (4.28%) HTML5
17 459 (4.06%) Web Services
18 453 (4.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 407 (3.60%) Blazor
20 374 (3.31%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 593 (5.24%) Public Cloud
2 393 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
3 365 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 350 (3.09%) Algorithms
5 346 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
6 319 (2.82%) Management Information System
7 311 (2.75%) Product Ownership
8 296 (2.62%) Cloud Native
9 290 (2.56%) Blockchain
10 258 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
11 256 (2.26%) Data Centre
12 233 (2.06%) Driving Licence
13 210 (1.86%) Onboarding
14 178 (1.57%) Private Cloud
15 161 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
16 145 (1.28%) PKI
17 144 (1.27%) Mobile App
18 136 (1.20%) Social Media
19 131 (1.16%) e-Learning
20 129 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2,612 (23.09%) Windows
2 1,297 (11.47%) Windows Server
3 1,288 (11.39%) Linux
4 473 (4.18%) Windows 10
5 454 (4.01%) Android
6 391 (3.46%) Apple iOS
7 270 (2.39%) Windows Server 2016
8 222 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
9 215 (1.90%) Ubuntu
10 187 (1.65%) Windows Server 2012
11 155 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 134 (1.18%) VMS
13 127 (1.12%) CentOS
14 122 (1.08%) Unix
15 108 (0.95%) Mac OS
16 95 (0.84%) Debian
17 44 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
19 32 (0.28%) Windows 7
20 23 (0.20%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,760 (33.24%) Agile
2 3,089 (27.31%) DevOps
3 1,822 (16.11%) Full Stack Development
4 1,804 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
5 1,361 (12.03%) Software Engineering
6 1,359 (12.01%) CI/CD
7 1,304 (11.53%) Microservices
8 1,282 (11.33%) MVC
9 1,094 (9.67%) Mentoring
10 1,024 (9.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 1,008 (8.91%) Scrum
12 916 (8.10%) Business Intelligence
13 903 (7.98%) ITIL
14 890 (7.87%) Artificial Intelligence
15 845 (7.47%) Cybersecurity
16 820 (7.25%) Migration
17 805 (7.12%) Roadmaps
18 755 (6.67%) Web Development
19 745 (6.59%) Customer Service
20 723 (6.39%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3,047 (26.94%) C#
2 2,676 (23.66%) SQL
3 2,599 (22.98%) JavaScript
4 1,411 (12.47%) Python
5 917 (8.11%) Java
6 891 (7.88%) PowerShell
7 779 (6.89%) TypeScript
8 439 (3.88%) T-SQL
9 311 (2.75%) Bash
10 107 (0.95%) C++
11 103 (0.91%) Bicep
12 102 (0.90%) Go
13 81 (0.72%) PHP
14 78 (0.69%) VB.NET
15 76 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 73 (0.65%) VB
17 67 (0.59%) Kotlin
18 58 (0.51%) Ruby
19 57 (0.50%) C
20 39 (0.34%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,252 (11.07%) Security Cleared
2 1,142 (10.10%) Degree
3 922 (8.15%) SC Cleared
4 601 (5.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 548 (4.84%) Azure Certification
6 318 (2.81%) Cisco Certification
7 267 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 258 (2.28%) DV Cleared
9 239 (2.11%) CCNA
10 220 (1.94%) AWS Certification
11 211 (1.87%) DBS Check
12 164 (1.45%) CISSP
13 146 (1.29%) MCSE
14 100 (0.88%) CCNP
15 91 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
16 89 (0.79%) Master's Degree
17 82 (0.72%) MCSA
18 80 (0.71%) CISM
19 77 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 75 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 481 (4.25%) QA
2 334 (2.95%) GDPR
3 292 (2.58%) Data Quality
4 251 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 237 (2.10%) SLA
6 161 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 135 (1.19%) NIST
8 73 (0.65%) Accessibility
9 62 (0.55%) PCI DSS
10 25 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 23 (0.20%) NCSC
12 19 (0.17%) SOC 2
13 18 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 18 (0.16%) PMO
14 17 (0.15%) HIPAA
15 16 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 13 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 10 (0.088%) ISO 9001
18 9 (0.080%) GRC
19 8 (0.071%) PSD2
System Software
1 2,092 (18.49%) Active Directory
2 863 (7.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 835 (7.38%) Hyper-V
4 807 (7.13%) Docker
5 282 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
6 147 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 141 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
8 129 (1.14%) vSphere
9 55 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
10 52 (0.46%) VMware NSX
11 37 (0.33%) XenApp
12 31 (0.27%) XenDesktop
13 28 (0.25%) Terminal Services
14 23 (0.20%) Firmware
15 18 (0.16%) VMware Server
16 11 (0.097%) 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 1,009 (8.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 919 (8.12%) Kubernetes
3 778 (6.88%) Terraform
4 422 (3.73%) Ansible
5 222 (1.96%) SCCM
6 121 (1.07%) Puppet
7 100 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
8 97 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
9 90 (0.80%) vCenter Server
10 82 (0.72%) WSUS
11 75 (0.66%) SCOM
12 74 (0.65%) Progress Chef
13 68 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 60 (0.53%) Grafana
15 53 (0.47%) FortiGate
15 53 (0.47%) Prometheus
16 31 (0.27%) CASB
17 28 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
17 28 (0.25%) ZABBIX
18 25 (0.22%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4,996 (44.17%) Microsoft
2 1,309 (11.57%) VMware
3 709 (6.27%) Google
4 544 (4.81%) Cisco
5 396 (3.50%) Red Hat
6 357 (3.16%) IBM
7 323 (2.86%) Oracle
8 303 (2.68%) Citrix
9 289 (2.55%) ESRI
10 276 (2.44%) Veeam
11 274 (2.42%) Databricks
12 166 (1.47%) HP
13 157 (1.39%) Meraki
14 125 (1.11%) Dell
15 120 (1.06%) Fortinet
16 110 (0.97%) Apple
17 105 (0.93%) Aruba
18 100 (0.88%) ServiceNow
19 99 (0.88%) Sophos
20 88 (0.78%) CyberArk