Microsoft Azure
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 5 4
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 7,026 16,719 22,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.01% 16.91% 22.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 46.08% 47.27% 51.65%
Number of salaries quoted 5,238 13,220 14,490
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,966 £36,748
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,000 £64,140
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% -8.01% +2.62%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,249 35,371 43,844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.24% 35.78% 42.70%
Number of salaries quoted 10,888 26,751 28,802
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,751 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 8 May 2025.

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 8 May 2025. 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 -4 6,410 £62,500 +5.04% 5,489
UK excluding London -5 4,097 £55,000 +4.76% 3,840
Work from Home -3 2,972 £62,500 +4.17% 3,390
London -1 2,509 £76,000 +1.33% 2,639
North of England -11 1,116 £60,000 +9.09% 1,007
South East -6 969 £60,000 +11.11% 1,329
Midlands -10 869 £52,500 +5.00% 522
North West -19 688 £60,500 +5.22% 583
West Midlands -8 595 £55,000 +1.11% 322
South West -5 433 £55,000 - 351
East of England -8 362 £50,000 - 309
Yorkshire -11 339 £57,500 +4.55% 296
East Midlands -14 272 £46,000 -3.16% 176
Scotland +4 245 £58,750 +6.82% 252
Wales -12 95 £55,000 +10.00% 101
North East -10 93 £57,500 +21.05% 140
Northern Ireland -10 17 £52,500 -4.55% 79
Isle of Man +3 5 £38,000 -18.28% 8
Channel Islands -2 2 £78,750 -7.35%

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
1 528 (7.51%) SharePoint
2 491 (6.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 256 (3.64%) Confluence
4 99 (1.41%) Apache Spark
5 84 (1.20%) IIS
6 75 (1.07%) CMS
7 70 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
8 46 (0.65%) Apache
9 24 (0.34%) Umbraco
10 21 (0.30%) IBM Domino
11 19 (0.27%) Tomcat
12 18 (0.26%) Headless CMS
13 14 (0.20%) WordPress
14 8 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 7 (0.100%) SAS
16 6 (0.085%) Apache Solr
16 6 (0.085%) Liferay
16 6 (0.085%) OpenStack
16 6 (0.085%) SharePoint Server
16 6 (0.085%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 210 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 139 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 43 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (0.54%) MS Visio
5 26 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
6 25 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 17 (0.24%) Trello
8 10 (0.14%) Maya
9 7 (0.100%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.043%) Productboard
11 3 (0.043%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.028%) S-PLUS
13 1 (0.014%) 1Password
13 1 (0.014%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.014%) Revit
13 1 (0.014%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 164 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
4 10 (0.14%) Endur
5 9 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
5 9 (0.13%) Elite 3E
6 8 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
6 8 (0.11%) Sage 50
6 8 (0.11%) SAP IBP
7 7 (0.100%) Fidessa
7 7 (0.100%) Shopify
8 6 (0.085%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.071%) Carpe Diem
9 5 (0.071%) Markit EDM
9 5 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.071%) Sage 200
10 4 (0.057%) Magento
10 4 (0.057%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 2 (0.028%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 2,307 (32.84%) AWS
2 1,515 (21.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1,311 (18.66%) GCP
4 953 (13.56%) Power Platform
5 912 (12.98%) Azure DevOps
6 663 (9.44%) Entra ID
7 521 (7.42%) SaaS
8 376 (5.35%) Azure Data Factory
9 344 (4.90%) Dynamics 365
10 319 (4.54%) PaaS
11 292 (4.16%) GitHub
12 273 (3.89%) PowerApps
13 271 (3.86%) Power Automate
14 262 (3.73%) Serverless
15 239 (3.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 217 (3.09%) Azure Logic Apps
17 200 (2.85%) IaaS
18 174 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
19 171 (2.43%) OneDrive
20 167 (2.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 767 (10.92%) Firewall
2 455 (6.48%) DNS
3 450 (6.40%) WAN
4 365 (5.19%) LAN
5 354 (5.04%) VPN
6 319 (4.54%) DHCP
7 250 (3.56%) Network Security
8 218 (3.10%) TCP/IP
9 186 (2.65%) VLAN
10 181 (2.58%) SD-WAN
11 161 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
12 113 (1.61%) Wireless
13 110 (1.57%) VoIP
14 99 (1.41%) SAN
15 79 (1.12%) BGP
16 68 (0.97%) Internet
16 68 (0.97%) OSPF
17 57 (0.81%) MPLS
18 55 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
19 50 (0.71%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,033 (14.70%) SQL Server
2 636 (9.05%) Power BI
3 356 (5.07%) Data Warehouse
4 298 (4.24%) Data Lake
5 241 (3.43%) NoSQL
6 222 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
7 184 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
8 168 (2.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 162 (2.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 153 (2.18%) MongoDB
11 137 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
11 137 (1.95%) Relational Database
12 136 (1.94%) MySQL
13 131 (1.86%) Tableau
14 119 (1.69%) Big Data
15 106 (1.51%) Metadata
16 78 (1.11%) BigQuery
17 72 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
18 55 (0.78%) Hadoop
19 48 (0.68%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 462 (6.58%) JIRA
2 445 (6.33%) Git
3 314 (4.47%) GitLab
4 291 (4.14%) Selenium
5 271 (3.86%) SonarQube
6 262 (3.73%) Sonatype Nexus
7 253 (3.60%) Maven
8 230 (3.27%) Bitbucket
8 230 (3.27%) Cucumber
9 223 (3.17%) Jenkins
10 142 (2.02%) Visual Studio
11 72 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
11 72 (1.02%) Postman
12 64 (0.91%) TeamCity
13 52 (0.74%) JUnit
13 52 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
14 44 (0.63%) Cypress.io
15 39 (0.56%) MSBuild
16 38 (0.54%) JMeter
17 35 (0.50%) webpack
General
1 2,039 (29.02%) Social Skills
2 1,740 (24.77%) Finance
3 773 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
4 668 (9.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 616 (8.77%) Banking
6 444 (6.32%) Law
7 334 (4.75%) Retail
8 229 (3.26%) Public Sector
9 222 (3.16%) Legal
10 152 (2.16%) Marketing
11 142 (2.02%) Manufacturing
12 94 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
13 92 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
14 85 (1.21%) Telecoms
15 81 (1.15%) Front Office
16 75 (1.07%) Investment Banking
17 70 (1.00%) Games
18 65 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
19 57 (0.81%) Advertising
19 57 (0.81%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,362 (19.39%) Senior
2 1,132 (16.11%) Developer
3 744 (10.59%) Lead
4 697 (9.92%) Software Engineer
5 691 (9.83%) Architect
6 585 (8.33%) Analyst
7 375 (5.34%) Data Engineer
8 356 (5.07%) IT Support
9 335 (4.77%) Azure Engineer
10 333 (4.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 328 (4.67%) Support Engineer
12 288 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
13 266 (3.79%) Senior Developer
14 262 (3.73%) Senior Software Engineer
15 261 (3.71%) Solutions Architect
16 219 (3.12%) IT Engineer
17 216 (3.07%) .NET Developer
18 203 (2.89%) DevOps Engineer
19 187 (2.66%) Support Analyst
20 154 (2.19%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,214 (17.28%) .NET
2 757 (10.77%) React
3 570 (8.11%) CSS
4 548 (7.80%) HTML
5 384 (5.47%) Kafka
6 383 (5.45%) Node.js
7 345 (4.91%) REST
8 331 (4.71%) Spring
9 318 (4.53%) AngularJS
10 317 (4.51%) Spring Boot
11 285 (4.06%) .NET Framework
12 279 (3.97%) ASP.NET
12 279 (3.97%) RESTful
13 260 (3.70%) .NET Core
14 253 (3.60%) Redux
15 241 (3.43%) JPA
16 195 (2.78%) Hibernate
17 179 (2.55%) JSON
18 132 (1.88%) Entity Framework
18 132 (1.88%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 422 (6.01%) Product Ownership
2 299 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
3 295 (4.20%) Cloud Native
4 290 (4.13%) Management Information System
5 226 (3.22%) Self-Motivation
6 206 (2.93%) Data Centre
7 196 (2.79%) Public Cloud
8 167 (2.38%) Cyberattack
9 143 (2.04%) Onboarding
10 139 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
11 134 (1.91%) Security Posture
12 120 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
13 119 (1.69%) Algorithms
13 119 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
14 109 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
15 107 (1.52%) Data Structures
16 95 (1.35%) Driving Licence
17 88 (1.25%) Mobile App
17 88 (1.25%) Private Cloud
18 79 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1,399 (19.91%) Windows
2 717 (10.20%) Linux
3 668 (9.51%) Windows Server
4 235 (3.34%) Windows 10
5 135 (1.92%) Android
6 120 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
7 117 (1.67%) Mac OS
8 99 (1.41%) Apple iOS
9 95 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 89 (1.27%) Unix
11 66 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
12 40 (0.57%) VMS
13 33 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 27 (0.38%) Ubuntu
15 22 (0.31%) CentOS
16 17 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
17 11 (0.16%) Windows 7
18 10 (0.14%) SUSE
19 8 (0.11%) Debian
19 8 (0.11%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,138 (30.43%) Agile
2 2,107 (29.99%) DevOps
3 1,597 (22.73%) CI/CD
4 1,561 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 1,154 (16.42%) Software Engineering
6 998 (14.20%) Mentoring
7 923 (13.14%) Microservices
8 856 (12.18%) Analytics
9 779 (11.09%) Containerisation
10 726 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 695 (9.89%) Business Intelligence
12 617 (8.78%) ITIL
13 601 (8.55%) Full-Stack Development
14 597 (8.50%) Test Automation
15 595 (8.47%) Roadmaps
16 558 (7.94%) Cybersecurity
17 555 (7.90%) Data Engineering
18 554 (7.88%) Migration
19 538 (7.66%) Computer Science
20 514 (7.32%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1,974 (28.10%) SQL
2 1,501 (21.36%) Python
3 1,185 (16.87%) JavaScript
4 1,074 (15.29%) C#
5 1,004 (14.29%) Java
6 772 (10.99%) PowerShell
7 402 (5.72%) TypeScript
8 285 (4.06%) C++
9 236 (3.36%) Go
10 219 (3.12%) Bash
11 216 (3.07%) T-SQL
12 193 (2.75%) Rust
13 92 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 91 (1.30%) Bicep
15 80 (1.14%) R
16 77 (1.10%) PHP
16 77 (1.10%) Scala
17 51 (0.73%) C
18 49 (0.70%) PL/SQL
19 48 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,034 (14.72%) Degree
2 553 (7.87%) Security Cleared
3 440 (6.26%) Azure Certification
4 385 (5.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 347 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 284 (4.04%) SC Cleared
7 270 (3.84%) AWS Certification
8 220 (3.13%) DV Cleared
9 197 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
10 176 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 152 (2.16%) DBS Check
12 141 (2.01%) Master's Degree
13 119 (1.69%) AWS Certified Developer
14 110 (1.57%) CCNP
15 105 (1.49%) CISSP
16 101 (1.44%) CCNA
17 63 (0.90%) CISM
18 60 (0.85%) MCSA
19 59 (0.84%) MCSE
20 53 (0.75%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 511 (7.27%) QA
2 288 (4.10%) GDPR
3 246 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 240 (3.42%) Data Quality
5 169 (2.41%) NIST
6 161 (2.29%) Accessibility
7 137 (1.95%) SLA
8 99 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
9 91 (1.30%) PCI DSS
10 47 (0.67%) SOC 2
11 45 (0.64%) HIPAA
12 36 (0.51%) NCSC
13 30 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 25 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 21 (0.30%) COBIT
15 21 (0.30%) GRC
16 19 (0.27%) PMO
17 14 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 8 (0.11%) ISO 9001
19 7 (0.100%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1,125 (16.01%) Active Directory
2 957 (13.62%) Docker
3 398 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 279 (3.97%) Hyper-V
5 128 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 128 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
6 83 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
7 60 (0.85%) vSphere
8 38 (0.54%) VMware NSX
9 31 (0.44%) Firmware
10 20 (0.28%) XenApp
11 16 (0.23%) Terminal Services
12 12 (0.17%) BitLocker
13 9 (0.13%) NFS
14 8 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
14 8 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
15 7 (0.100%) DFS Replication
15 7 (0.100%) HDFS
16 5 (0.071%) Apache Flume
16 5 (0.071%) KVM
Systems Management
1 1,049 (14.93%) Kubernetes
2 751 (10.69%) Terraform
3 609 (8.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 344 (4.90%) Ansible
5 152 (2.16%) SCCM
6 105 (1.49%) Grafana
7 101 (1.44%) Prometheus
8 92 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
9 68 (0.97%) FortiGate
10 59 (0.84%) Puppet
11 56 (0.80%) Progress Chef
12 40 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 37 (0.53%) vCenter Server
14 29 (0.41%) Nagios
15 28 (0.40%) NetBackup
16 24 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
17 23 (0.33%) SCOM
17 23 (0.33%) WSUS
18 22 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
19 20 (0.28%) Istio
Vendors
1 2,896 (41.22%) Microsoft
2 631 (8.98%) VMware
3 459 (6.53%) Databricks
4 454 (6.46%) Cisco
5 444 (6.32%) Google
6 211 (3.00%) Solace
7 183 (2.60%) Citrix
8 178 (2.53%) Oracle
9 177 (2.52%) Meraki
10 150 (2.13%) ServiceNow
11 125 (1.78%) IBM
12 122 (1.74%) SAP
13 109 (1.55%) Palo Alto
14 105 (1.49%) SolarWinds
15 99 (1.41%) Fortinet
16 97 (1.38%) CheckPoint
17 95 (1.35%) Veeam
18 80 (1.14%) Apple
19 74 (1.05%) Red Hat
20 63 (0.90%) F5