Microsoft Azure
UK

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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 16,663 22,893 30,490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.91% 22.11% 19.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.19% 51.68% 40.40%
Number of salaries quoted 13,173 14,612 19,108
10th Percentile £33,973 £36,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £64,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.53% +3.20% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,310 44,297 75,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.84% 42.78% 48.22%
Number of salaries quoted 26,696 29,083 41,953
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% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the UK

Azure
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Azure in the UK

Azure
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure in the UK

Azure
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England -1 14,772 £59,030 -9.19% 3,383
UK excluding London -1 11,238 £52,500 -4.55% 2,337
Work from Home +1 7,527 £60,000 -7.69% 2,103
London 0 4,650 £75,000 - 1,229
North of England 0 3,051 £55,000 - 626
South East -2 2,788 £54,000 -6.09% 484
Midlands +2 1,934 £50,000 -9.09% 452
North West 0 1,627 £57,500 +4.55% 348
South West -2 1,410 £55,000 +4.76% 331
West Midlands +2 1,160 £54,000 -1.82% 266
Yorkshire 0 1,046 £55,000 - 210
Scotland -22 811 £55,000 -7.60% 164
East of England 0 795 £50,000 -4.76% 183
East Midlands +2 771 £47,500 -9.52% 185
North East +4 380 £47,500 -13.64% 73
Wales -1 333 £50,000 - 96
Northern Ireland -7 109 £55,000 +4.76% 47
Isle of Man -1 17 £46,500 -33.57% 3
Channel Islands +1 5 £85,000 -5.56%

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1,168 (7.01%) SharePoint
2 1,085 (6.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 334 (2.00%) ArcGIS
4 332 (1.99%) GeoServer
5 293 (1.76%) IIS
6 230 (1.38%) Apache
7 214 (1.28%) Apache Spark
8 165 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
9 139 (0.83%) CMS
10 134 (0.80%) Confluence
11 98 (0.59%) Umbraco
12 56 (0.34%) OpenStack
13 55 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
13 55 (0.33%) WebLogic
14 50 (0.30%) Kentico
15 40 (0.24%) Headless CMS
16 39 (0.23%) WordPress
17 37 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
17 37 (0.22%) nginx
18 36 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 546 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
2 243 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 60 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 50 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 39 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 30 (0.18%) Trello
7 19 (0.11%) Simulink
8 10 (0.060%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.048%) Photoshop
10 7 (0.042%) Spreadsheet
11 6 (0.036%) LightWave 3D
12 4 (0.024%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.024%) SPSS
13 2 (0.012%) 1Password
13 2 (0.012%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.012%) CATIA
13 2 (0.012%) NASTRAN
13 2 (0.012%) Sketch
13 2 (0.012%) S-PLUS
14 1 (0.006%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 266 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 85 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 38 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
4 31 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
5 13 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.078%) Teamcenter
6 11 (0.066%) Maximo
7 10 (0.060%) Elite 3E
7 10 (0.060%) Unit4 Business World
8 9 (0.054%) Remedy ITSM
9 8 (0.048%) Payment Gateway
9 8 (0.048%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.036%) Oracle General Ledger
10 6 (0.036%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 6 (0.036%) Primavera
10 6 (0.036%) SAP PLM
11 5 (0.030%) SAP IBP
11 5 (0.030%) SAP PP
12 4 (0.024%) Oracle EBS
12 4 (0.024%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 5,072 (30.44%) AWS
2 3,822 (22.94%) Microsoft 365
3 2,337 (14.03%) Azure DevOps
4 2,045 (12.27%) GCP
5 1,912 (11.47%) Power Platform
6 1,752 (10.51%) Entra ID
7 1,034 (6.21%) SaaS
8 718 (4.31%) PaaS
9 699 (4.19%) Serverless
10 675 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
11 631 (3.79%) IaaS
12 501 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
13 499 (2.99%) PowerApps
14 464 (2.78%) GitHub
15 451 (2.71%) Cloud Computing
16 404 (2.42%) Power Automate
17 369 (2.21%) Azure Functions
18 363 (2.18%) OneDrive
19 361 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
20 356 (2.14%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1,737 (10.42%) Firewall
2 1,175 (7.05%) DNS
3 865 (5.19%) WAN
4 735 (4.41%) DHCP
5 690 (4.14%) LAN
6 649 (3.89%) VPN
7 535 (3.21%) TCP/IP
8 412 (2.47%) SAN
9 392 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
10 356 (2.14%) Internet
11 338 (2.03%) Network Security
12 332 (1.99%) Wireless
13 323 (1.94%) VLAN
14 311 (1.87%) Broadband
15 265 (1.59%) SD-WAN
16 212 (1.27%) 5G
17 203 (1.22%) VoIP
18 141 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
19 139 (0.83%) BGP
20 115 (0.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,852 (17.12%) SQL Server
2 1,321 (7.93%) Power BI
3 1,055 (6.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1,000 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
5 741 (4.45%) NoSQL
6 685 (4.11%) MongoDB
7 634 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 613 (3.68%) Data Lake
9 513 (3.08%) Relational Database
10 450 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 381 (2.29%) GIS
12 379 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
13 330 (1.98%) QGIS
14 317 (1.90%) MySQL
15 284 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 266 (1.60%) DB2
17 264 (1.58%) Big Data
18 258 (1.55%) BigQuery
19 217 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
20 201 (1.21%) Looker
Development Applications
1 938 (5.63%) Git
2 564 (3.38%) JIRA
3 505 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 349 (2.09%) GitLab
5 297 (1.78%) Visual Studio
6 170 (1.02%) Selenium
7 133 (0.80%) Cypress.io
8 128 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
9 110 (0.66%) Postman
10 83 (0.50%) NUnit
11 67 (0.40%) TeamCity
12 63 (0.38%) SonarQube
13 60 (0.36%) JMeter
13 60 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
14 55 (0.33%) Cucumber
14 55 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
15 52 (0.31%) Bitbucket
16 51 (0.31%) Jasmine
17 50 (0.30%) CircleCI
18 45 (0.27%) Artifactory
General
1 3,760 (22.56%) Social Skills
2 2,732 (16.40%) Finance
3 1,466 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
4 976 (5.86%) Public Sector
5 967 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 684 (4.10%) Law
7 616 (3.70%) Retail
8 483 (2.90%) Banking
9 474 (2.84%) Legal
10 440 (2.64%) Marketing
11 376 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
12 277 (1.66%) Front Office
13 267 (1.60%) Manufacturing
14 236 (1.42%) Telecoms
15 222 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
16 198 (1.19%) Games
17 176 (1.06%) Aerospace
18 149 (0.89%) Advertising
19 136 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
20 114 (0.68%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 4,044 (24.27%) Developer
2 3,018 (18.11%) Senior
3 1,855 (11.13%) Architect
4 1,754 (10.53%) .NET Developer
5 1,507 (9.04%) Lead
6 1,324 (7.95%) Software Engineer
7 1,094 (6.57%) Analyst
8 980 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 815 (4.89%) Azure Engineer
10 811 (4.87%) Support Engineer
11 774 (4.65%) Senior Developer
12 735 (4.41%) C# Developer
13 724 (4.34%) IT Support
14 714 (4.28%) IT Engineer
15 684 (4.10%) Data Engineer
16 639 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
17 542 (3.25%) C# .NET Developer
18 538 (3.23%) Full Stack Developer
19 536 (3.22%) Senior Software Engineer
20 529 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,242 (25.46%) .NET
2 2,025 (12.15%) React
3 1,828 (10.97%) AngularJS
4 1,777 (10.66%) .NET Core
5 1,753 (10.52%) ASP.NET
6 1,550 (9.30%) CSS
7 1,483 (8.90%) HTML
8 1,101 (6.61%) .NET Framework
9 996 (5.98%) ASP.NET Web API
10 949 (5.70%) Entity Framework
11 873 (5.24%) Vue
12 872 (5.23%) ASP.NET MVC
13 791 (4.75%) REST
14 781 (4.69%) Node.js
15 700 (4.20%) RESTful
16 606 (3.64%) Web Services
17 579 (3.47%) HTML5
18 503 (3.02%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 441 (2.65%) Blazor
20 425 (2.55%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 814 (4.89%) Public Cloud
2 529 (3.17%) Management Information System
3 478 (2.87%) Data Structures
4 466 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 464 (2.78%) Cloud Native
6 450 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
7 437 (2.62%) Product Ownership
8 433 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
9 431 (2.59%) Data Centre
10 430 (2.58%) Algorithms
11 314 (1.88%) Blockchain
12 312 (1.87%) Onboarding
13 294 (1.76%) Social Media
14 281 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
15 251 (1.51%) Fixed Income
16 243 (1.46%) Driving Licence
17 234 (1.40%) Hedge funds
18 233 (1.40%) Private Cloud
19 221 (1.33%) PKI
20 219 (1.31%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3,471 (20.83%) Windows
2 1,813 (10.88%) Linux
3 1,706 (10.24%) Windows Server
4 604 (3.62%) Windows 10
5 521 (3.13%) Android
6 464 (2.78%) Apple iOS
7 394 (2.36%) Ubuntu
8 327 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
9 270 (1.62%) Windows Server 2019
10 255 (1.53%) Windows Server 2012
11 216 (1.30%) Unix
12 187 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 155 (0.93%) VMS
14 139 (0.83%) Mac OS
15 137 (0.82%) CentOS
16 95 (0.57%) Debian
17 51 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
19 35 (0.21%) Windows 7
20 31 (0.19%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,350 (32.11%) Agile
2 4,525 (27.16%) DevOps
3 2,566 (15.40%) Problem-Solving
4 2,306 (13.84%) Full Stack Development
5 2,198 (13.19%) Software Engineering
6 2,131 (12.79%) CI/CD
7 1,749 (10.50%) Microservices
8 1,531 (9.19%) Mentoring
9 1,495 (8.97%) MVC
10 1,436 (8.62%) Scrum
11 1,424 (8.55%) Business Intelligence
12 1,392 (8.35%) Cybersecurity
13 1,382 (8.29%) Artificial Intelligence
14 1,312 (7.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 1,258 (7.55%) ITIL
16 1,206 (7.24%) Migration
17 1,196 (7.18%) Roadmaps
18 1,180 (7.08%) Analytics
19 1,117 (6.70%) ETL
20 1,013 (6.08%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4,137 (24.83%) C#
2 4,117 (24.71%) SQL
3 3,302 (19.82%) JavaScript
4 2,601 (15.61%) Python
5 1,475 (8.85%) PowerShell
6 1,309 (7.86%) Java
7 1,190 (7.14%) TypeScript
8 628 (3.77%) T-SQL
9 593 (3.56%) Bash
10 185 (1.11%) Go
11 177 (1.06%) Bicep
12 149 (0.89%) C++
13 143 (0.86%) R
14 142 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 119 (0.71%) PHP
16 107 (0.64%) Ruby
17 103 (0.62%) Kotlin
18 94 (0.56%) Scala
19 82 (0.49%) VB.NET
20 80 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 1,838 (11.03%) Degree
2 1,656 (9.94%) Security Cleared
3 1,223 (7.34%) SC Cleared
4 838 (5.03%) Azure Certification
5 827 (4.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 493 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 440 (2.64%) Cisco Certification
8 312 (1.87%) AWS Certification
9 307 (1.84%) CISSP
10 293 (1.76%) CCNA
11 276 (1.66%) DV Cleared
12 236 (1.42%) DBS Check
13 202 (1.21%) MCSE
14 187 (1.12%) Master's Degree
15 166 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
16 159 (0.95%) CISM
17 148 (0.89%) CCNP
18 128 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
19 115 (0.69%) MCSA
20 108 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 698 (4.19%) QA
2 473 (2.84%) Data Quality
3 454 (2.72%) GDPR
4 412 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 294 (1.76%) SLA
6 229 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
7 222 (1.33%) NIST
8 166 (1.00%) Accessibility
9 115 (0.69%) PCI DSS
10 66 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 46 (0.28%) NCSC
12 44 (0.26%) PMO
13 35 (0.21%) COBIT
14 34 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 30 (0.18%) GRC
16 28 (0.17%) HIPAA
17 25 (0.15%) ISO 9001
17 25 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 23 (0.14%) SOC 2
19 14 (0.084%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 3,003 (18.02%) Active Directory
2 1,244 (7.47%) Docker
3 1,130 (6.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 922 (5.53%) Hyper-V
5 382 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
6 212 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
7 195 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 178 (1.07%) vSphere
9 90 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
10 61 (0.37%) VMware NSX
11 47 (0.28%) XenApp
12 35 (0.21%) XenDesktop
13 34 (0.20%) Firmware
14 31 (0.19%) Terminal Services
15 20 (0.12%) KVM
16 19 (0.11%) VMware Server
17 18 (0.11%) HDFS
18 13 (0.078%) vCloud
19 11 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
19 11 (0.066%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 1,496 (8.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 1,451 (8.71%) Kubernetes
3 1,339 (8.04%) Terraform
4 608 (3.65%) Ansible
5 319 (1.91%) SCCM
6 268 (1.61%) Jamf Pro
7 198 (1.19%) Puppet
8 165 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
9 149 (0.89%) vCenter Server
10 129 (0.77%) Progress Chef
11 115 (0.69%) Grafana
12 108 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 101 (0.61%) Prometheus
14 92 (0.55%) WSUS
15 86 (0.52%) SCOM
16 75 (0.45%) FortiGate
17 50 (0.30%) CASB
18 43 (0.26%) Nagios
19 38 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
20 35 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 7,223 (43.35%) Microsoft
2 1,718 (10.31%) VMware
3 1,087 (6.52%) Google
4 819 (4.92%) Cisco
5 615 (3.69%) Databricks
6 491 (2.95%) Oracle
7 454 (2.72%) Citrix
8 426 (2.56%) Red Hat
9 416 (2.50%) IBM
10 355 (2.13%) Veeam
11 335 (2.01%) ESRI
12 255 (1.53%) CyberArk
13 240 (1.44%) Meraki
14 231 (1.39%) HP
15 210 (1.26%) Tanium
16 197 (1.18%) ServiceNow
17 175 (1.05%) Fortinet
18 166 (1.00%) SAP
19 159 (0.95%) Apple
20 155 (0.93%) SolarWinds