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

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 16,651 22,430 30,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.91% 22.09% 19.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.28% 51.64% 40.07%
Number of salaries quoted 13,158 14,337 18,903
10th Percentile £33,901 £36,743 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £64,029 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.85% +2.45% +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 35,219 43,437 76,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.76% 42.77% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,622 28,539 41,573
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £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 £96,250 £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 7 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 7 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 14,752 £59,000 -9.23% 3,802
UK excluding London -1 11,242 £52,500 -4.55% 2,599
Work from Home +1 7,504 £60,000 -7.67% 2,246
London 0 4,635 £75,000 - 1,403
North of England 0 3,069 £55,000 - 667
South East -2 2,768 £54,000 -6.09% 533
Midlands +2 1,928 £50,000 -9.09% 542
North West 0 1,636 £57,500 +4.55% 375
South West -2 1,409 £55,000 +4.76% 349
West Midlands +2 1,153 £54,698 -0.55% 320
Yorkshire 0 1,053 £55,000 - 224
Scotland -23 814 £55,000 -7.60% 171
East of England 0 797 £50,000 -1.96% 218
East Midlands +4 771 £47,500 -9.52% 220
North East +4 382 £47,500 -13.64% 72
Wales -1 334 £50,000 - 107
Northern Ireland -5 111 £55,000 +4.76% 58
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 1,157 (6.95%) SharePoint
2 1,071 (6.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 334 (2.01%) ArcGIS
4 332 (1.99%) GeoServer
5 292 (1.75%) IIS
6 242 (1.45%) Apache
7 214 (1.29%) Apache Spark
8 174 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
9 138 (0.83%) CMS
10 131 (0.79%) Confluence
11 99 (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 38 (0.23%) WordPress
17 37 (0.22%) WebSphere
18 36 (0.22%) nginx
19 35 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 550 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
2 242 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 61 (0.37%) 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
1 265 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 84 (0.50%) 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%) Payment Gateway
7 10 (0.060%) Unit4 Business World
8 9 (0.054%) Remedy ITSM
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 ERP
11 5 (0.030%) SAP IBP
11 5 (0.030%) SAP PP
12 4 (0.024%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 5,089 (30.56%) AWS
2 3,806 (22.86%) Microsoft 365
3 2,324 (13.96%) Azure DevOps
4 2,042 (12.26%) GCP
5 1,899 (11.40%) Power Platform
6 1,747 (10.49%) Entra ID
7 1,031 (6.19%) SaaS
8 710 (4.26%) PaaS
9 697 (4.19%) Serverless
10 666 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
11 622 (3.74%) IaaS
12 500 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
13 494 (2.97%) PowerApps
14 465 (2.79%) GitHub
15 453 (2.72%) Cloud Computing
16 400 (2.40%) Power Automate
17 368 (2.21%) OneDrive
18 367 (2.20%) Azure Functions
19 360 (2.16%) Azure Logic Apps
20 354 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1,717 (10.31%) Firewall
2 1,163 (6.98%) DNS
3 860 (5.16%) WAN
4 727 (4.37%) DHCP
5 685 (4.11%) LAN
6 645 (3.87%) VPN
7 534 (3.21%) TCP/IP
8 406 (2.44%) SAN
9 386 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
10 357 (2.14%) Internet
11 338 (2.03%) Network Security
12 331 (1.99%) Wireless
13 313 (1.88%) VLAN
14 311 (1.87%) Broadband
15 263 (1.58%) SD-WAN
16 212 (1.27%) 5G
17 198 (1.19%) VoIP
18 138 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
19 137 (0.82%) BGP
20 117 (0.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,852 (17.13%) SQL Server
2 1,308 (7.86%) Power BI
3 1,053 (6.32%) Data Warehouse
4 1,009 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
5 734 (4.41%) NoSQL
6 695 (4.17%) MongoDB
7 641 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 610 (3.66%) Data Lake
9 515 (3.09%) Relational Database
10 445 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 381 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
11 381 (2.29%) GIS
12 330 (1.98%) QGIS
13 313 (1.88%) MySQL
14 279 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 266 (1.60%) Big Data
15 266 (1.60%) DB2
16 253 (1.52%) BigQuery
17 213 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
18 201 (1.21%) Looker
Development Applications
1 942 (5.66%) Git
2 563 (3.38%) JIRA
3 497 (2.98%) Jenkins
4 346 (2.08%) GitLab
5 297 (1.78%) Visual Studio
6 168 (1.01%) Selenium
7 141 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 129 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
9 106 (0.64%) Postman
10 82 (0.49%) NUnit
11 67 (0.40%) TeamCity
12 63 (0.38%) SonarQube
13 60 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
14 59 (0.35%) JMeter
15 57 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
16 54 (0.32%) Cucumber
17 51 (0.31%) Bitbucket
18 50 (0.30%) CircleCI
18 50 (0.30%) Jasmine
19 44 (0.26%) Artifactory
General
1 3,766 (22.62%) Social Skills
2 2,731 (16.40%) Finance
3 1,457 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
4 974 (5.85%) Public Sector
5 965 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 676 (4.06%) Law
7 618 (3.71%) Retail
8 490 (2.94%) Banking
9 464 (2.79%) Legal
10 440 (2.64%) Marketing
11 378 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
12 287 (1.72%) Front Office
13 270 (1.62%) Manufacturing
14 237 (1.42%) Telecoms
15 219 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
16 200 (1.20%) Games
17 180 (1.08%) Aerospace
18 150 (0.90%) Advertising
19 134 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
20 116 (0.70%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 4,069 (24.44%) Developer
2 3,001 (18.02%) Senior
3 1,854 (11.13%) Architect
4 1,775 (10.66%) .NET Developer
5 1,509 (9.06%) Lead
6 1,340 (8.05%) Software Engineer
7 1,085 (6.52%) Analyst
8 961 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 814 (4.89%) Support Engineer
10 813 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
11 768 (4.61%) Senior Developer
12 745 (4.47%) C# Developer
13 729 (4.38%) IT Support
14 710 (4.26%) IT Engineer
15 680 (4.08%) Data Engineer
16 629 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
17 551 (3.31%) C# .NET Developer
18 543 (3.26%) Full Stack Developer
19 539 (3.24%) Senior Software Engineer
20 532 (3.20%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,261 (25.59%) .NET
2 2,048 (12.30%) React
3 1,848 (11.10%) AngularJS
4 1,787 (10.73%) .NET Core
5 1,766 (10.61%) ASP.NET
6 1,559 (9.36%) CSS
7 1,494 (8.97%) HTML
8 1,110 (6.67%) .NET Framework
9 1,015 (6.10%) ASP.NET Web API
10 962 (5.78%) Entity Framework
11 883 (5.30%) Vue
12 881 (5.29%) ASP.NET MVC
13 795 (4.77%) Node.js
14 792 (4.76%) REST
15 708 (4.25%) RESTful
16 610 (3.66%) Web Services
17 588 (3.53%) HTML5
18 504 (3.03%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 448 (2.69%) Blazor
20 425 (2.55%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 803 (4.82%) Public Cloud
2 526 (3.16%) Management Information System
3 479 (2.88%) Data Structures
4 465 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 460 (2.76%) Cloud Native
6 449 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
7 440 (2.64%) Product Ownership
8 436 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
9 430 (2.58%) Algorithms
10 428 (2.57%) Data Centre
11 313 (1.88%) Blockchain
12 312 (1.87%) Onboarding
13 295 (1.77%) Social Media
14 277 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
15 262 (1.57%) Fixed Income
16 245 (1.47%) Hedge funds
17 240 (1.44%) Driving Licence
18 232 (1.39%) Private Cloud
19 220 (1.32%) PKI
20 218 (1.31%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3,447 (20.70%) Windows
2 1,817 (10.91%) Linux
3 1,685 (10.12%) Windows Server
4 601 (3.61%) Windows 10
5 520 (3.12%) Android
6 462 (2.77%) Apple iOS
7 396 (2.38%) Ubuntu
8 324 (1.95%) Windows Server 2016
9 266 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 251 (1.51%) Windows Server 2012
11 213 (1.28%) Unix
12 189 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 155 (0.93%) VMS
14 141 (0.85%) Mac OS
15 139 (0.83%) CentOS
16 97 (0.58%) Debian
17 49 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
19 36 (0.22%) Windows 7
20 32 (0.19%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,376 (32.29%) Agile
2 4,516 (27.12%) DevOps
3 2,568 (15.42%) Problem-Solving
4 2,341 (14.06%) Full Stack Development
5 2,211 (13.28%) Software Engineering
6 2,119 (12.73%) CI/CD
7 1,759 (10.56%) Microservices
8 1,528 (9.18%) Mentoring
9 1,500 (9.01%) MVC
10 1,443 (8.67%) Scrum
11 1,418 (8.52%) Business Intelligence
12 1,387 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
13 1,381 (8.29%) Artificial Intelligence
14 1,292 (7.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 1,260 (7.57%) ITIL
16 1,209 (7.26%) Migration
17 1,183 (7.10%) Roadmaps
18 1,171 (7.03%) Analytics
19 1,107 (6.65%) ETL
20 1,023 (6.14%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4,162 (25.00%) C#
2 4,103 (24.64%) SQL
3 3,325 (19.97%) JavaScript
4 2,600 (15.61%) Python
5 1,473 (8.85%) PowerShell
6 1,312 (7.88%) Java
7 1,211 (7.27%) TypeScript
8 618 (3.71%) T-SQL
9 593 (3.56%) Bash
10 180 (1.08%) Go
11 178 (1.07%) Bicep
12 147 (0.88%) C++
13 143 (0.86%) R
14 140 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 115 (0.69%) PHP
16 106 (0.64%) Ruby
17 101 (0.61%) Kotlin
18 94 (0.56%) Scala
19 83 (0.50%) VB.NET
20 79 (0.47%) C
Qualifications
1 1,835 (11.02%) Degree
2 1,648 (9.90%) Security Cleared
3 1,214 (7.29%) SC Cleared
4 834 (5.01%) Azure Certification
5 825 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 491 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 441 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
8 310 (1.86%) AWS Certification
9 307 (1.84%) CISSP
10 294 (1.77%) CCNA
11 279 (1.68%) DV Cleared
12 235 (1.41%) DBS Check
13 200 (1.20%) MCSE
14 187 (1.12%) Master's Degree
15 160 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
16 159 (0.95%) CISM
17 149 (0.89%) CCNP
18 127 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
19 115 (0.69%) MCSA
20 107 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 694 (4.17%) QA
2 468 (2.81%) Data Quality
3 449 (2.70%) GDPR
4 414 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 296 (1.78%) SLA
6 229 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
7 220 (1.32%) NIST
8 162 (0.97%) Accessibility
9 115 (0.69%) PCI DSS
10 65 (0.39%) 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 31 (0.19%) GRC
16 27 (0.16%) ISO 9001
17 26 (0.16%) HIPAA
18 24 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 23 (0.14%) SOC 2
20 16 (0.096%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2,990 (17.96%) Active Directory
2 1,240 (7.45%) Docker
3 1,105 (6.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 910 (5.47%) Hyper-V
5 379 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
6 209 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
7 191 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
8 176 (1.06%) vSphere
9 89 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
10 59 (0.35%) 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 12 (0.072%) vCloud
19 11 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
19 11 (0.066%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 1,493 (8.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 1,452 (8.72%) Kubernetes
3 1,336 (8.02%) Terraform
4 612 (3.68%) Ansible
5 322 (1.93%) SCCM
6 269 (1.62%) Jamf Pro
7 198 (1.19%) Puppet
8 164 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
9 149 (0.89%) vCenter Server
10 129 (0.77%) Progress Chef
11 116 (0.70%) Grafana
12 109 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 103 (0.62%) Prometheus
14 90 (0.54%) WSUS
15 85 (0.51%) SCOM
16 74 (0.44%) FortiGate
17 50 (0.30%) CASB
18 42 (0.25%) Nagios
19 37 (0.22%) Microsoft Clustering
20 34 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 7,202 (43.25%) Microsoft
2 1,689 (10.14%) VMware
3 1,093 (6.56%) Google
4 811 (4.87%) Cisco
5 607 (3.65%) Databricks
6 490 (2.94%) Oracle
7 443 (2.66%) Citrix
8 427 (2.56%) Red Hat
9 415 (2.49%) IBM
10 355 (2.13%) Veeam
11 335 (2.01%) ESRI
12 254 (1.53%) CyberArk
13 236 (1.42%) Meraki
14 228 (1.37%) HP
15 210 (1.26%) Tanium
16 196 (1.18%) ServiceNow
17 174 (1.04%) Fortinet
18 164 (0.98%) SAP
19 160 (0.96%) Apple
20 150 (0.90%) Dell