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 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 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 16,746 22,151 30,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.80% 22.24% 19.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.31% 51.80% 39.90%
Number of salaries quoted 13,166 14,115 18,796
10th Percentile £34,000 £36,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £64,402 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.39% +3.04% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £98,750
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 35,393 42,765 77,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.51% 42.94% 48.41%
Number of salaries quoted 26,672 28,066 41,284
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
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 £96,250 £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 16 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 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
England -1 14,831 £59,000 -9.23% 3,546
UK excluding London -1 11,312 £52,500 -4.55% 2,449
Work from Home +1 7,533 £60,000 -7.69% 2,198
London 0 4,664 £75,000 - 1,280
North of England 0 3,109 £55,000 - 674
South East -2 2,786 £54,000 -6.09% 501
Midlands +2 1,927 £50,000 -9.09% 492
North West 0 1,658 £57,500 +4.55% 372
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% 195
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
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 1,154 (6.89%) SharePoint
2 1,054 (6.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 334 (1.99%) ArcGIS
4 332 (1.98%) GeoServer
5 284 (1.70%) IIS
6 252 (1.50%) Apache
7 218 (1.30%) Apache Spark
8 182 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
9 137 (0.82%) CMS
10 133 (0.79%) Confluence
11 98 (0.59%) Umbraco
12 56 (0.33%) OpenStack
12 56 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
13 55 (0.33%) WebLogic
14 49 (0.29%) Kentico
15 41 (0.24%) Headless CMS
16 36 (0.21%) nginx
17 35 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
17 35 (0.21%) WordPress
18 31 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 546 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
2 249 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 63 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 52 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 39 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 30 (0.18%) Trello
7 21 (0.13%) 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 3 (0.018%) S-PLUS
14 2 (0.012%) 1Password
14 2 (0.012%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.012%) CATIA
14 2 (0.012%) NASTRAN
14 2 (0.012%) Sketch
15 1 (0.006%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 265 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 84 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 39 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
4 31 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
5 13 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.078%) Teamcenter
6 10 (0.060%) Elite 3E
6 10 (0.060%) Maximo
6 10 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
6 10 (0.060%) Remedy ITSM
6 10 (0.060%) Unit4 Business World
7 9 (0.054%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.036%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.036%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 6 (0.036%) Primavera
8 6 (0.036%) SAP PLM
9 5 (0.030%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.030%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.030%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.030%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 5,165 (30.84%) AWS
2 3,783 (22.59%) Microsoft 365
3 2,286 (13.65%) Azure DevOps
4 2,059 (12.30%) GCP
5 1,917 (11.45%) Power Platform
6 1,749 (10.44%) Entra ID
7 1,030 (6.15%) SaaS
8 699 (4.17%) Serverless
9 697 (4.16%) PaaS
10 671 (4.01%) Dynamics 365
11 610 (3.64%) IaaS
12 499 (2.98%) PowerApps
13 498 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
14 461 (2.75%) GitHub
15 452 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
16 411 (2.45%) Power Automate
17 370 (2.21%) Azure Functions
18 369 (2.20%) OneDrive
19 360 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
20 354 (2.11%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1,709 (10.21%) Firewall
2 1,149 (6.86%) DNS
3 850 (5.08%) WAN
4 712 (4.25%) DHCP
5 679 (4.05%) LAN
6 632 (3.77%) VPN
7 533 (3.18%) TCP/IP
8 399 (2.38%) SAN
9 389 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
10 358 (2.14%) Internet
11 337 (2.01%) Network Security
12 321 (1.92%) Wireless
13 311 (1.86%) Broadband
14 303 (1.81%) VLAN
15 262 (1.56%) SD-WAN
16 212 (1.27%) 5G
17 193 (1.15%) VoIP
18 139 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
19 137 (0.82%) BGP
20 113 (0.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,864 (17.10%) SQL Server
2 1,327 (7.92%) Power BI
3 1,088 (6.50%) Data Warehouse
4 1,018 (6.08%) PostgreSQL
5 733 (4.38%) NoSQL
6 704 (4.20%) MongoDB
7 638 (3.81%) Data Lake
8 637 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
9 517 (3.09%) Relational Database
10 449 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 380 (2.27%) GIS
12 378 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
13 330 (1.97%) QGIS
14 309 (1.85%) MySQL
15 283 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 266 (1.59%) Big Data
16 266 (1.59%) DB2
17 253 (1.51%) BigQuery
18 216 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
19 201 (1.20%) Looker
Development Applications
1 946 (5.65%) Git
2 550 (3.28%) JIRA
3 483 (2.88%) Jenkins
4 333 (1.99%) GitLab
5 300 (1.79%) Visual Studio
6 165 (0.99%) Selenium
7 145 (0.87%) Cypress.io
8 132 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
9 105 (0.63%) Postman
10 84 (0.50%) NUnit
11 67 (0.40%) TeamCity
12 61 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
13 60 (0.36%) JMeter
14 58 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
15 56 (0.33%) Bitbucket
16 54 (0.32%) Cucumber
17 53 (0.32%) SonarQube
18 50 (0.30%) CircleCI
19 49 (0.29%) Jasmine
20 43 (0.26%) Artifactory
General
1 3,830 (22.87%) Social Skills
2 2,761 (16.49%) Finance
3 1,475 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
4 981 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 976 (5.83%) Public Sector
6 674 (4.02%) Law
7 614 (3.67%) Retail
8 485 (2.90%) Banking
9 461 (2.75%) Legal
10 439 (2.62%) Marketing
11 400 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
12 285 (1.70%) Front Office
13 278 (1.66%) Manufacturing
14 234 (1.40%) Telecoms
15 221 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
16 202 (1.21%) Games
17 192 (1.15%) Aerospace
18 153 (0.91%) Advertising
19 133 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
20 122 (0.73%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 4,101 (24.49%) Developer
2 3,008 (17.96%) Senior
3 1,899 (11.34%) Architect
4 1,794 (10.71%) .NET Developer
5 1,525 (9.11%) Lead
6 1,354 (8.09%) Software Engineer
7 1,070 (6.39%) Analyst
8 954 (5.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 820 (4.90%) Support Engineer
10 803 (4.80%) Azure Engineer
11 780 (4.66%) Senior Developer
12 760 (4.54%) C# Developer
13 721 (4.31%) IT Support
14 707 (4.22%) IT Engineer
15 705 (4.21%) Data Engineer
16 637 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
17 564 (3.37%) C# .NET Developer
18 547 (3.27%) Full Stack Developer
19 542 (3.24%) Senior Software Engineer
20 515 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,282 (25.57%) .NET
2 2,062 (12.31%) React
3 1,860 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 1,790 (10.69%) .NET Core
5 1,773 (10.59%) ASP.NET
6 1,562 (9.33%) CSS
7 1,496 (8.93%) HTML
8 1,120 (6.69%) .NET Framework
9 1,033 (6.17%) ASP.NET Web API
10 977 (5.83%) Entity Framework
11 888 (5.30%) Vue
12 884 (5.28%) ASP.NET MVC
13 808 (4.83%) Node.js
14 789 (4.71%) REST
15 709 (4.23%) RESTful
16 614 (3.67%) Web Services
17 590 (3.52%) HTML5
18 507 (3.03%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 449 (2.68%) Blazor
20 428 (2.56%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 788 (4.71%) Public Cloud
2 528 (3.15%) Management Information System
3 466 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 463 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 453 (2.71%) Data Structures
6 449 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
7 446 (2.66%) Product Ownership
8 437 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
9 433 (2.59%) Algorithms
10 428 (2.56%) Data Centre
11 309 (1.85%) Blockchain
12 305 (1.82%) Onboarding
13 294 (1.76%) Social Media
14 278 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
15 262 (1.56%) Fixed Income
16 247 (1.47%) Hedge funds
17 241 (1.44%) Driving Licence
18 226 (1.35%) Private Cloud
19 222 (1.33%) PKI
20 218 (1.30%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3,419 (20.42%) Windows
2 1,787 (10.67%) Linux
3 1,665 (9.94%) Windows Server
4 606 (3.62%) Windows 10
5 526 (3.14%) Android
6 464 (2.77%) Apple iOS
7 400 (2.39%) Ubuntu
8 325 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
9 268 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 246 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
11 195 (1.16%) Unix
12 187 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 155 (0.93%) VMS
14 145 (0.87%) CentOS
15 137 (0.82%) Mac OS
16 97 (0.58%) Debian
17 51 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
19 35 (0.21%) Windows 7
20 32 (0.19%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,417 (32.35%) Agile
2 4,524 (27.02%) DevOps
3 2,558 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
4 2,371 (14.16%) Full Stack Development
5 2,213 (13.22%) Software Engineering
6 2,112 (12.61%) CI/CD
7 1,769 (10.56%) Microservices
8 1,533 (9.15%) Mentoring
9 1,503 (8.98%) MVC
10 1,431 (8.55%) Business Intelligence
10 1,431 (8.55%) Scrum
11 1,425 (8.51%) Artificial Intelligence
12 1,385 (8.27%) Cybersecurity
13 1,289 (7.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 1,258 (7.51%) ITIL
15 1,230 (7.35%) Migration
16 1,225 (7.32%) Roadmaps
17 1,172 (7.00%) Analytics
18 1,114 (6.65%) ETL
19 1,031 (6.16%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4,176 (24.94%) C#
2 4,104 (24.51%) SQL
3 3,333 (19.90%) JavaScript
4 2,627 (15.69%) Python
5 1,444 (8.62%) PowerShell
6 1,335 (7.97%) Java
7 1,210 (7.23%) TypeScript
8 616 (3.68%) T-SQL
9 585 (3.49%) Bash
10 182 (1.09%) Go
11 175 (1.05%) Bicep
12 153 (0.91%) C++
13 145 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 142 (0.85%) R
15 110 (0.66%) Kotlin
15 110 (0.66%) PHP
16 103 (0.62%) Ruby
17 97 (0.58%) Scala
18 83 (0.50%) VB.NET
19 80 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 1,864 (11.13%) Degree
2 1,645 (9.82%) Security Cleared
3 1,224 (7.31%) SC Cleared
4 865 (5.17%) Azure Certification
5 830 (4.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 508 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 436 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
8 341 (2.04%) AWS Certification
9 302 (1.80%) CISSP
10 293 (1.75%) CCNA
11 280 (1.67%) DV Cleared
12 237 (1.42%) DBS Check
13 200 (1.19%) MCSE
14 187 (1.12%) Master's Degree
15 155 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
15 155 (0.93%) CISM
16 148 (0.88%) CCNP
17 127 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
18 114 (0.68%) MCSA
19 108 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 705 (4.21%) QA
2 472 (2.82%) Data Quality
3 439 (2.62%) GDPR
4 413 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 298 (1.78%) SLA
6 230 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
7 217 (1.30%) NIST
8 155 (0.93%) Accessibility
9 117 (0.70%) PCI DSS
10 64 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 46 (0.27%) PMO
12 45 (0.27%) NCSC
13 35 (0.21%) COBIT
13 35 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 31 (0.19%) GRC
15 28 (0.17%) HIPAA
16 27 (0.16%) ISO 9001
17 25 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 24 (0.14%) SOC 2
19 16 (0.096%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2,970 (17.74%) Active Directory
2 1,221 (7.29%) Docker
3 1,087 (6.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 906 (5.41%) Hyper-V
5 382 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
6 209 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
7 196 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 178 (1.06%) vSphere
9 89 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
10 57 (0.34%) XenApp
11 55 (0.33%) VMware NSX
12 46 (0.27%) XenDesktop
13 35 (0.21%) Firmware
14 31 (0.19%) Terminal Services
15 21 (0.13%) KVM
16 18 (0.11%) HDFS
16 18 (0.11%) VMware Server
17 12 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 11 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 11 (0.066%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 1,490 (8.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 1,450 (8.66%) Kubernetes
3 1,346 (8.04%) Terraform
4 615 (3.67%) Ansible
5 320 (1.91%) SCCM
6 267 (1.59%) Jamf Pro
7 197 (1.18%) Puppet
8 173 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
9 149 (0.89%) vCenter Server
10 130 (0.78%) Progress Chef
11 111 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 105 (0.63%) Grafana
13 94 (0.56%) Prometheus
14 88 (0.53%) WSUS
15 83 (0.50%) SCOM
16 71 (0.42%) FortiGate
17 51 (0.30%) CASB
18 44 (0.26%) Nagios
19 38 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
20 34 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7,230 (43.17%) Microsoft
2 1,672 (9.98%) VMware
3 1,102 (6.58%) Google
4 810 (4.84%) Cisco
5 617 (3.68%) Databricks
6 496 (2.96%) Oracle
7 448 (2.68%) Citrix
8 429 (2.56%) Red Hat
9 406 (2.42%) IBM
10 354 (2.11%) Veeam
11 335 (2.00%) ESRI
12 254 (1.52%) CyberArk
13 229 (1.37%) Meraki
14 227 (1.36%) HP
15 210 (1.25%) Tanium
16 191 (1.14%) ServiceNow
17 173 (1.03%) Fortinet
18 160 (0.96%) Dell
19 156 (0.93%) Apple
20 155 (0.93%) SAP