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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 16,707 22,947 30,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.94% 22.11% 19.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.22% 51.69% 40.40%
Number of salaries quoted 13,206 14,630 19,123
10th Percentile £33,983 £36,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £64,815 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.97% +3.70% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £98,500
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 35,382 44,396 75,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.88% 42.78% 48.26%
Number of salaries quoted 26,757 29,121 41,951
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,788 £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 £96,000 £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 3 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 3 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 14,814 £59,000 -9.23% 3,438
UK excluding London -1 11,263 £52,500 -4.55% 2,377
Work from Home +1 7,546 £60,000 -7.69% 2,063
London 0 4,664 £75,000 - 1,256
North of England 0 3,060 £55,000 - 625
South East -2 2,795 £54,000 -6.09% 502
Midlands +2 1,939 £50,000 -9.09% 463
North West 0 1,631 £57,500 +4.55% 349
South West -2 1,412 £55,000 +4.76% 332
West Midlands +2 1,163 £54,000 -1.82% 278
Yorkshire 0 1,051 £55,000 - 211
Scotland -24 811 £55,000 -7.60% 175
East of England 0 796 £50,000 -4.76% 181
East Midlands +3 773 £47,500 -9.52% 184
North East +4 380 £47,500 -13.64% 71
Wales -1 334 £50,000 - 94
Northern Ireland -7 109 £55,000 +4.76% 49
Isle of Man -1 17 £46,500 -33.57% 1
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 1,173 (7.02%) SharePoint
2 1,088 (6.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 334 (2.00%) ArcGIS
4 332 (1.99%) GeoServer
5 295 (1.77%) IIS
6 230 (1.38%) Apache
7 217 (1.30%) 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
1 547 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
2 243 (1.45%) 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%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 267 (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 12 (0.072%) 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%) Primavera
10 6 (0.036%) SAP PLM
11 5 (0.030%) Oracle General Ledger
11 5 (0.030%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 5 (0.030%) SAP IBP
11 5 (0.030%) SAP PP
12 4 (0.024%) Oracle EBS
12 4 (0.024%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 5,085 (30.44%) AWS
2 3,836 (22.96%) Microsoft 365
3 2,350 (14.07%) Azure DevOps
4 2,051 (12.28%) GCP
5 1,920 (11.49%) Power Platform
6 1,755 (10.50%) Entra ID
7 1,038 (6.21%) SaaS
8 720 (4.31%) PaaS
9 701 (4.20%) Serverless
10 677 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
11 632 (3.78%) IaaS
12 504 (3.02%) Azure Data Factory
13 499 (2.99%) PowerApps
14 465 (2.78%) GitHub
15 452 (2.71%) Cloud Computing
16 404 (2.42%) Power Automate
17 370 (2.21%) Azure Functions
18 364 (2.18%) OneDrive
19 362 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
20 357 (2.14%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1,743 (10.43%) Firewall
2 1,178 (7.05%) DNS
3 867 (5.19%) WAN
4 736 (4.41%) DHCP
5 692 (4.14%) LAN
6 651 (3.90%) VPN
7 535 (3.20%) TCP/IP
8 413 (2.47%) SAN
9 392 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
10 356 (2.13%) Internet
11 339 (2.03%) Network Security
12 333 (1.99%) Wireless
13 324 (1.94%) VLAN
14 311 (1.86%) Broadband
15 265 (1.59%) SD-WAN
16 212 (1.27%) 5G
17 204 (1.22%) VoIP
18 142 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
19 140 (0.84%) BGP
20 115 (0.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,857 (17.10%) SQL Server
2 1,326 (7.94%) Power BI
3 1,059 (6.34%) Data Warehouse
4 1,000 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
5 742 (4.44%) NoSQL
6 686 (4.11%) MongoDB
7 634 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 617 (3.69%) Data Lake
9 513 (3.07%) Relational Database
10 452 (2.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 383 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
12 382 (2.29%) GIS
13 330 (1.98%) QGIS
14 318 (1.90%) MySQL
15 285 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 266 (1.59%) DB2
17 264 (1.58%) Big Data
18 258 (1.54%) BigQuery
19 218 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
20 201 (1.20%) Looker
Development Applications
1 942 (5.64%) Git
2 564 (3.38%) JIRA
3 506 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 349 (2.09%) GitLab
5 297 (1.78%) Visual Studio
6 171 (1.02%) Selenium
7 133 (0.80%) Cypress.io
8 129 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
9 111 (0.66%) Postman
10 84 (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 56 (0.34%) Cucumber
15 55 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
16 52 (0.31%) Bitbucket
17 51 (0.31%) Jasmine
18 50 (0.30%) CircleCI
19 45 (0.27%) Artifactory
General
1 3,774 (22.59%) Social Skills
2 2,738 (16.39%) Finance
3 1,471 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
4 976 (5.84%) Public Sector
5 967 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 685 (4.10%) Law
7 617 (3.69%) Retail
8 483 (2.89%) Banking
9 475 (2.84%) Legal
10 443 (2.65%) Marketing
11 379 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
12 277 (1.66%) Front Office
13 267 (1.60%) Manufacturing
14 237 (1.42%) Telecoms
15 222 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
16 197 (1.18%) Games
17 176 (1.05%) Aerospace
18 149 (0.89%) Advertising
19 137 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
20 114 (0.68%) Billing
Job Titles
1 4,052 (24.25%) Developer
2 3,030 (18.14%) Senior
3 1,860 (11.13%) Architect
4 1,757 (10.52%) .NET Developer
5 1,508 (9.03%) Lead
6 1,327 (7.94%) Software Engineer
7 1,098 (6.57%) Analyst
8 984 (5.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 820 (4.91%) Azure Engineer
10 813 (4.87%) Support Engineer
11 775 (4.64%) Senior Developer
12 736 (4.41%) C# Developer
13 726 (4.35%) IT Support
14 717 (4.29%) IT Engineer
15 687 (4.11%) Data Engineer
16 640 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
17 542 (3.24%) C# .NET Developer
18 537 (3.21%) Full Stack Developer
18 537 (3.21%) Senior Software Engineer
19 531 (3.18%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,252 (25.45%) .NET
2 2,025 (12.12%) React
3 1,829 (10.95%) AngularJS
4 1,782 (10.67%) .NET Core
5 1,755 (10.50%) ASP.NET
6 1,551 (9.28%) CSS
7 1,484 (8.88%) HTML
8 1,103 (6.60%) .NET Framework
9 995 (5.96%) ASP.NET Web API
10 950 (5.69%) Entity Framework
11 873 (5.23%) Vue
12 872 (5.22%) ASP.NET MVC
13 794 (4.75%) REST
14 781 (4.67%) Node.js
15 701 (4.20%) RESTful
16 606 (3.63%) Web Services
17 579 (3.47%) HTML5
18 503 (3.01%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 441 (2.64%) Blazor
20 425 (2.54%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 814 (4.87%) Public Cloud
2 528 (3.16%) Management Information System
3 478 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 466 (2.79%) Cloud Native
4 466 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 451 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 438 (2.62%) Product Ownership
7 433 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
8 432 (2.59%) Data Centre
9 430 (2.57%) Algorithms
10 314 (1.88%) Blockchain
11 311 (1.86%) Onboarding
12 294 (1.76%) Social Media
13 281 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
14 251 (1.50%) Fixed Income
15 243 (1.45%) Driving Licence
16 234 (1.40%) Hedge funds
17 233 (1.39%) Private Cloud
18 223 (1.33%) PKI
19 219 (1.31%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3,479 (20.82%) Windows
2 1,816 (10.87%) Linux
3 1,713 (10.25%) Windows Server
4 605 (3.62%) Windows 10
5 521 (3.12%) Android
6 464 (2.78%) Apple iOS
7 394 (2.36%) Ubuntu
8 328 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
9 272 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
10 257 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
11 216 (1.29%) Unix
12 187 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 156 (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 5,369 (32.14%) Agile
2 4,540 (27.17%) DevOps
3 2,573 (15.40%) Problem-Solving
4 2,306 (13.80%) Full Stack Development
5 2,201 (13.17%) Software Engineering
6 2,137 (12.79%) CI/CD
7 1,755 (10.50%) Microservices
8 1,536 (9.19%) Mentoring
9 1,498 (8.97%) MVC
10 1,440 (8.62%) Scrum
11 1,429 (8.55%) Business Intelligence
12 1,397 (8.36%) Cybersecurity
13 1,384 (8.28%) Artificial Intelligence
14 1,316 (7.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 1,260 (7.54%) ITIL
16 1,209 (7.24%) Migration
17 1,196 (7.16%) Roadmaps
18 1,181 (7.07%) Analytics
19 1,118 (6.69%) ETL
20 1,020 (6.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4,147 (24.82%) C#
2 4,128 (24.71%) SQL
3 3,306 (19.79%) JavaScript
4 2,610 (15.62%) Python
5 1,484 (8.88%) PowerShell
6 1,315 (7.87%) Java
7 1,191 (7.13%) TypeScript
8 632 (3.78%) T-SQL
9 595 (3.56%) Bash
10 185 (1.11%) Go
11 177 (1.06%) Bicep
12 149 (0.89%) C++
13 144 (0.86%) R
14 142 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 120 (0.72%) PHP
16 107 (0.64%) Ruby
17 104 (0.62%) Kotlin
18 94 (0.56%) Scala
19 82 (0.49%) VB.NET
20 80 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 1,850 (11.07%) Degree
2 1,660 (9.94%) Security Cleared
3 1,226 (7.34%) SC Cleared
4 838 (5.02%) Azure Certification
5 828 (4.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 496 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 442 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
8 312 (1.87%) AWS Certification
9 308 (1.84%) CISSP
10 293 (1.75%) CCNA
11 276 (1.65%) DV Cleared
12 237 (1.42%) DBS Check
13 202 (1.21%) MCSE
14 188 (1.13%) Master's Degree
15 167 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
16 160 (0.96%) CISM
17 149 (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
1 701 (4.20%) QA
2 474 (2.84%) Data Quality
3 456 (2.73%) GDPR
4 413 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 294 (1.76%) SLA
6 231 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
7 223 (1.33%) NIST
8 167 (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 3,011 (18.02%) Active Directory
2 1,247 (7.46%) Docker
3 1,132 (6.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 923 (5.52%) Hyper-V
5 382 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
6 213 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
7 195 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 179 (1.07%) vSphere
9 92 (0.55%) 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%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 1,500 (8.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 1,453 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 1,343 (8.04%) Terraform
4 609 (3.65%) Ansible
5 319 (1.91%) SCCM
6 268 (1.60%) Jamf Pro
7 198 (1.19%) Puppet
8 166 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
9 149 (0.89%) vCenter Server
10 129 (0.77%) Progress Chef
11 116 (0.69%) Grafana
12 109 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 101 (0.60%) Prometheus
14 93 (0.56%) WSUS
15 86 (0.51%) SCOM
16 76 (0.45%) FortiGate
17 50 (0.30%) CASB
18 43 (0.26%) Nagios
19 39 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
20 35 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 7,241 (43.34%) Microsoft
2 1,720 (10.30%) VMware
3 1,091 (6.53%) Google
4 821 (4.91%) Cisco
5 617 (3.69%) Databricks
6 491 (2.94%) Oracle
7 454 (2.72%) Citrix
8 426 (2.55%) Red Hat
9 419 (2.51%) IBM
10 355 (2.12%) Veeam
11 335 (2.01%) ESRI
12 255 (1.53%) CyberArk
13 240 (1.44%) Meraki
14 231 (1.38%) HP
15 210 (1.26%) Tanium
16 197 (1.18%) ServiceNow
17 176 (1.05%) Fortinet
18 165 (0.99%) SAP
19 159 (0.95%) Apple
20 157 (0.94%) SolarWinds