Azure Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 4 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 7,558 9,987 14,026
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.36% 24.14% 20.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 51.68% 50.31% 38.62%
Number of salaries quoted 6,100 7,352 9,487
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,438 £50,000 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £64,140 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.01% +2.62% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,626 19,849 36,322
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 43.27% 47.97% 52.81%
Number of salaries quoted 11,957 14,523 21,667
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,134 £37,491
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £83,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure.

Azure salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Azure salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 455 (6.02%) SharePoint
2 391 (5.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 218 (2.88%) ArcGIS
4 214 (2.83%) GeoServer
5 151 (2.00%) IIS
6 90 (1.19%) CMS
7 77 (1.02%) Umbraco
8 71 (0.94%) Apache Spark
9 51 (0.67%) Apache
10 47 (0.62%) Sitecore CMS
11 46 (0.61%) Kentico
11 46 (0.61%) WebLogic
12 45 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
13 36 (0.48%) Headless CMS
14 35 (0.46%) Confluence
15 25 (0.33%) OpenStack
16 24 (0.32%) nginx
17 13 (0.17%) NServiceBus
18 11 (0.15%) Apache Solr
18 11 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 168 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 83 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 24 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (0.28%) Simulink
6 17 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.12%) Trello
8 3 (0.040%) SPSS
9 2 (0.026%) 1Password
9 2 (0.026%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.026%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.026%) CATIA
9 2 (0.026%) NASTRAN
9 2 (0.026%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.026%) Sketch
9 2 (0.026%) S-PLUS
10 1 (0.013%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.013%) Mathematica
10 1 (0.013%) Notion
10 1 (0.013%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 123 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 53 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 15 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
4 10 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
5 9 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.11%) Elite 3E
6 8 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.079%) Oracle General Ledger
7 6 (0.079%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 6 (0.079%) Primavera
8 5 (0.066%) Dynamics AX
9 4 (0.053%) Visualfiles
10 2 (0.026%) BusinessWorks
10 2 (0.026%) Oracle Applications
10 2 (0.026%) Oracle Assets
10 2 (0.026%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.026%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.026%) SAP Business One
10 2 (0.026%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.026%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,413 (31.93%) AWS
2 1,435 (18.99%) Microsoft 365
3 1,013 (13.40%) Azure DevOps
4 930 (12.30%) Power Platform
5 788 (10.43%) Entra ID
6 770 (10.19%) GCP
7 528 (6.99%) SaaS
8 314 (4.15%) Dynamics 365
9 288 (3.81%) PaaS
10 263 (3.48%) Azure Data Factory
11 259 (3.43%) Serverless
12 249 (3.29%) IaaS
13 231 (3.06%) PowerApps
14 209 (2.77%) GitHub
15 196 (2.59%) Power Automate
16 177 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
17 154 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 120 (1.59%) Snowflake
19 116 (1.53%) Azure Functions
20 99 (1.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 620 (8.20%) Firewall
2 515 (6.81%) DNS
3 334 (4.42%) WAN
4 293 (3.88%) Broadband
5 261 (3.45%) LAN
6 253 (3.35%) DHCP
7 236 (3.12%) TCP/IP
8 210 (2.78%) 5G
9 205 (2.71%) Internet
10 203 (2.69%) VPN
11 170 (2.25%) Wi-Fi
12 160 (2.12%) SAN
13 144 (1.91%) Network Security
14 139 (1.84%) SD-WAN
15 138 (1.83%) Wireless
16 95 (1.26%) VLAN
17 84 (1.11%) BGP
18 70 (0.93%) SSL
19 61 (0.81%) VoIP
20 49 (0.65%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,725 (22.82%) SQL Server
2 673 (8.90%) Power BI
3 508 (6.72%) Data Warehouse
4 420 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 387 (5.12%) PostgreSQL
6 345 (4.56%) MongoDB
7 304 (4.02%) Data Lake
8 299 (3.96%) Elasticsearch
9 253 (3.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 235 (3.11%) GIS
11 222 (2.94%) NoSQL
12 214 (2.83%) QGIS
12 214 (2.83%) Relational Database
13 169 (2.24%) MySQL
14 150 (1.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 111 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
16 98 (1.30%) Big Data
17 85 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 76 (1.01%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
19 57 (0.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 449 (5.94%) Git
2 218 (2.88%) JIRA
3 215 (2.84%) GitLab
4 206 (2.73%) Jenkins
5 169 (2.24%) Visual Studio
6 73 (0.97%) Selenium
7 71 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
8 63 (0.83%) Postman
9 48 (0.64%) Cypress.io
10 41 (0.54%) Jasmine
11 39 (0.52%) JMeter
12 38 (0.50%) TeamCity
12 38 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
13 36 (0.48%) NUnit
14 29 (0.38%) Karma Test Runner
15 28 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
16 27 (0.36%) Maven
17 23 (0.30%) SonarQube
18 21 (0.28%) Artifactory
18 21 (0.28%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,722 (22.78%) Social Skills
2 1,290 (17.07%) Finance
3 666 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
4 435 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 416 (5.50%) Public Sector
6 374 (4.95%) Retail
7 215 (2.84%) Law
8 202 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
9 194 (2.57%) Legal
10 159 (2.10%) Marketing
11 151 (2.00%) Banking
12 126 (1.67%) Front Office
13 102 (1.35%) Advertising
14 91 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
15 90 (1.19%) Games
16 85 (1.12%) Back Office
17 83 (1.10%) Telecoms
18 67 (0.89%) Aerospace
19 66 (0.87%) Manufacturing
20 59 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,142 (28.34%) Developer
2 1,607 (21.26%) Senior
3 1,078 (14.26%) .NET Developer
4 761 (10.07%) Architect
5 742 (9.82%) Lead
6 638 (8.44%) Software Engineer
7 433 (5.73%) Senior Developer
8 427 (5.65%) C# Developer
9 404 (5.35%) Senior Software Engineer
10 393 (5.20%) Analyst
11 381 (5.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 326 (4.31%) C# .NET Developer
13 324 (4.29%) Data Engineer
14 306 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
15 300 (3.97%) Support Engineer
16 291 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
17 287 (3.80%) DevOps Engineer
18 286 (3.78%) Consultant
19 255 (3.37%) IT Engineer
20 227 (3.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,239 (29.62%) .NET
2 1,259 (16.66%) .NET Core
3 1,089 (14.41%) ASP.NET
4 1,015 (13.43%) AngularJS
5 974 (12.89%) React
6 793 (10.49%) ASP.NET MVC
7 720 (9.53%) HTML
8 711 (9.41%) .NET Framework
9 680 (9.00%) CSS
10 671 (8.88%) Entity Framework
11 621 (8.22%) ASP.NET Web API
12 448 (5.93%) Node.js
12 448 (5.93%) RESTful
13 399 (5.28%) HTML5
14 395 (5.23%) Vue
15 270 (3.57%) Blazor
16 247 (3.27%) REST
17 216 (2.86%) PostGIS
18 214 (2.83%) Leaflet
18 214 (2.83%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 419 (5.54%) Public Cloud
2 275 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
3 259 (3.43%) Social Media
4 218 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
5 215 (2.84%) Management Information System
6 189 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
7 180 (2.38%) Cloud Native
8 176 (2.33%) Product Ownership
9 158 (2.09%) PKI
10 154 (2.04%) Data Centre
11 139 (1.84%) Private Cloud
12 129 (1.71%) Onboarding
13 117 (1.55%) Mobile App
14 115 (1.52%) Fixed Income
15 113 (1.50%) Derivative
16 111 (1.47%) Equities
17 103 (1.36%) Driving Licence
18 101 (1.34%) Hedge funds
19 99 (1.31%) Data Structures
20 82 (1.08%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1,165 (15.41%) Windows
2 791 (10.47%) Linux
3 596 (7.89%) Windows Server
4 293 (3.88%) Ubuntu
5 221 (2.92%) Windows 10
6 144 (1.91%) Android
7 133 (1.76%) Windows Server 2016
8 101 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
9 100 (1.32%) VMS
10 95 (1.26%) Unix
11 94 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 93 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
13 86 (1.14%) Apple iOS
14 33 (0.44%) CentOS
15 24 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
16 18 (0.24%) Mac OS
17 15 (0.20%) Windows 7
18 14 (0.19%) Solaris
19 10 (0.13%) AIX
19 10 (0.13%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,808 (37.15%) Agile
2 2,097 (27.75%) DevOps
3 1,141 (15.10%) Full Stack Development
4 1,100 (14.55%) Microservices
5 1,065 (14.09%) Software Engineering
6 990 (13.10%) CI/CD
7 973 (12.87%) MVC
8 945 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 807 (10.68%) Scrum
10 747 (9.88%) Business Intelligence
11 714 (9.45%) TDD
12 650 (8.60%) Mentoring
13 642 (8.49%) Cybersecurity
14 621 (8.22%) Artificial Intelligence
15 592 (7.83%) Migration
16 585 (7.74%) Roadmaps
17 539 (7.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 518 (6.85%) Analytics
19 516 (6.83%) Actionable Insight
20 513 (6.79%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 2,191 (28.99%) C#
2 1,893 (25.05%) SQL
3 1,849 (24.46%) JavaScript
4 1,123 (14.86%) Python
5 663 (8.77%) TypeScript
6 572 (7.57%) PowerShell
7 548 (7.25%) Java
8 358 (4.74%) Bash
9 338 (4.47%) T-SQL
10 84 (1.11%) R
11 82 (1.08%) Go
12 76 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 71 (0.94%) C++
14 69 (0.91%) Bicep
15 65 (0.86%) VB.NET
16 64 (0.85%) VB
17 63 (0.83%) PHP
18 51 (0.67%) Kotlin
19 48 (0.64%) Ruby
20 43 (0.57%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 843 (11.15%) Security Cleared
2 800 (10.58%) Degree
3 618 (8.18%) SC Cleared
4 413 (5.46%) Azure Certification
5 335 (4.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 233 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 183 (2.42%) AWS Certification
8 169 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
9 155 (2.05%) DBS Check
10 123 (1.63%) CISSP
11 103 (1.36%) CCNA
12 101 (1.34%) DV Cleared
13 72 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
14 71 (0.94%) Master's Degree
15 66 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 66 (0.87%) CISM
16 57 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
17 54 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 53 (0.70%) CCNP
19 52 (0.69%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 270 (3.57%) QA
2 185 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 154 (2.04%) Data Quality
4 114 (1.51%) NIST
5 103 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
6 102 (1.35%) GDPR
7 82 (1.08%) SLA
8 71 (0.94%) Accessibility
9 60 (0.79%) PCI DSS
10 22 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 21 (0.28%) COBIT
11 21 (0.28%) NCSC
12 18 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 17 (0.22%) GRC
14 14 (0.19%) PMO
15 12 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 11 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 11 (0.15%) SOC 2
17 10 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 6 (0.079%) GAAP
System Software
1 1,207 (15.97%) Active Directory
2 623 (8.24%) Docker
3 403 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 289 (3.82%) Hyper-V
5 227 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
6 118 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
7 101 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
8 60 (0.79%) vSphere
9 30 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
10 18 (0.24%) Firmware
11 10 (0.13%) DFS Replication
11 10 (0.13%) VMware Server
12 9 (0.12%) Terminal Services
13 8 (0.11%) XenDesktop
14 7 (0.093%) Embedded Firmware
14 7 (0.093%) XenApp
15 6 (0.079%) KVM
15 6 (0.079%) NFS
16 3 (0.040%) Gluster
16 3 (0.040%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 680 (9.00%) Kubernetes
2 679 (8.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 628 (8.31%) Terraform
4 309 (4.09%) Ansible
5 215 (2.84%) Jamf Pro
6 113 (1.50%) SCCM
7 102 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
8 78 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 67 (0.89%) vCenter Server
10 57 (0.75%) Grafana
10 57 (0.75%) Puppet
11 53 (0.70%) Progress Chef
12 47 (0.62%) Prometheus
13 42 (0.56%) WSUS
14 35 (0.46%) SCOM
15 34 (0.45%) CASB
16 25 (0.33%) Microsoft Clustering
17 22 (0.29%) Nagios
18 18 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
19 17 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3,610 (47.76%) Microsoft
2 606 (8.02%) VMware
3 394 (5.21%) Google
4 310 (4.10%) Cisco
5 263 (3.48%) Databricks
6 229 (3.03%) CyberArk
7 218 (2.88%) ESRI
8 211 (2.79%) Oracle
9 210 (2.78%) Tanium
10 149 (1.97%) Citrix
11 127 (1.68%) Meraki
12 104 (1.38%) Fortinet
13 97 (1.28%) Veeam
14 89 (1.18%) ServiceNow
15 81 (1.07%) HP
16 77 (1.02%) Facebook
17 75 (0.99%) IBM
18 70 (0.93%) Aruba
19 69 (0.91%) SolarWinds
20 68 (0.90%) Sitecore