Azure Jobs in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 1,003 1,139 1,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.67% 20.34% 17.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.46% 54.81% 48.61%
Number of salaries quoted 763 756 807
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,198 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £104,375 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,028 2,078 2,730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.64% 37.11% 36.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,481 1,402 1,716
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £77,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £92,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the Thames Valley

Azure
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Azure in the Thames Valley

Azure
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure in the Thames Valley

Azure
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Berkshire -3 455 £52,500 -19.23% 59
Buckinghamshire -3 279 £50,000 -4.76% 51
Oxfordshire -1 269 £52,500 -4.55% 33
Azure
South East

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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
1 123 (12.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 76 (7.58%) SharePoint
3 33 (3.29%) IIS
4 28 (2.79%) ArcGIS
4 28 (2.79%) GeoServer
5 24 (2.39%) CMS
5 24 (2.39%) Headless CMS
5 24 (2.39%) Kentico
6 23 (2.29%) OpenStack
7 19 (1.89%) Exchange Server 2010
7 19 (1.89%) Sitecore CMS
7 19 (1.89%) Umbraco
8 14 (1.40%) Confluence
9 7 (0.70%) WordPress
10 6 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.60%) nginx
11 5 (0.50%) Apache
12 4 (0.40%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.30%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 18 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.30%) Trello
4 1 (0.100%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.100%) Revit
Business Applications
1 28 (2.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.10%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (0.80%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.100%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.100%) SAP PLM
5 1 (0.100%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 298 (29.71%) Microsoft 365
2 264 (26.32%) AWS
3 161 (16.05%) Azure DevOps
4 122 (12.16%) Power Platform
5 106 (10.57%) Entra ID
6 79 (7.88%) GCP
7 53 (5.28%) Dynamics 365
8 50 (4.99%) Azure Monitor
9 42 (4.19%) SaaS
10 34 (3.39%) OneDrive
11 30 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
12 29 (2.89%) PowerApps
13 27 (2.69%) Azure Storage
14 21 (2.09%) Azure Sentinel
14 21 (2.09%) Power Automate
15 20 (1.99%) Serverless
16 19 (1.89%) GitHub
16 19 (1.89%) Kontent
17 18 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
18 16 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 151 (15.05%) Firewall
2 117 (11.67%) DNS
3 70 (6.98%) DHCP
4 59 (5.88%) VPN
5 32 (3.19%) SAN
5 32 (3.19%) WAN
6 28 (2.79%) Wireless
7 26 (2.59%) TCP/IP
8 23 (2.29%) Internet
8 23 (2.29%) Network Security
9 22 (2.19%) LAN
10 20 (1.99%) Intrusion Detection
11 17 (1.69%) VLAN
12 15 (1.50%) NAS
12 15 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
13 13 (1.30%) VoIP
14 11 (1.10%) SD-WAN
15 10 (1.00%) BGP
16 9 (0.90%) Broadband
16 9 (0.90%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (11.96%) SQL Server
2 84 (8.37%) Data Warehouse
3 81 (8.08%) Power BI
4 61 (6.08%) PostgreSQL
5 41 (4.09%) BigQuery
6 40 (3.99%) Looker
7 39 (3.89%) Data Lake
8 35 (3.49%) Relational Database
9 31 (3.09%) NoSQL
10 30 (2.99%) GIS
11 29 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
12 28 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
12 28 (2.79%) QGIS
13 20 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
13 20 (1.99%) MySQL
14 18 (1.79%) MongoDB
15 17 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 17 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 11 (1.10%) Power Query
17 10 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 61 (6.08%) Git
2 41 (4.09%) JIRA
3 40 (3.99%) Jenkins
4 27 (2.69%) Visual Studio
5 24 (2.39%) NUnit
6 14 (1.40%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.40%) Selenium
7 13 (1.30%) GitLab
8 10 (1.00%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (0.90%) WebDriver
10 6 (0.60%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.50%) Bugzilla
11 5 (0.50%) MSTest
11 5 (0.50%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.30%) Postman
13 1 (0.100%) JMeter
13 1 (0.100%) JUnit
13 1 (0.100%) Maven
13 1 (0.100%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.100%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 244 (24.33%) Social Skills
2 112 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (6.58%) Finance
4 47 (4.69%) Public Sector
4 47 (4.69%) Retail
5 41 (4.09%) Manufacturing
6 40 (3.99%) Legal
7 33 (3.29%) Billing
8 27 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
9 23 (2.29%) Marketing
10 20 (1.99%) Law
11 19 (1.89%) Telecoms
12 18 (1.79%) Back Office
13 16 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
14 14 (1.40%) Health Technology
15 13 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (1.10%) Tech for Good
17 10 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
18 9 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
19 8 (0.80%) Games
Job Titles
1 259 (25.82%) Developer
2 142 (14.16%) Senior
3 99 (9.87%) .NET Developer
4 91 (9.07%) Architect
5 82 (8.18%) Analyst
5 82 (8.18%) Lead
6 74 (7.38%) Senior Developer
7 69 (6.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 66 (6.58%) Software Engineer
9 61 (6.08%) Support Engineer
10 57 (5.68%) C# Developer
11 49 (4.89%) Azure Engineer
12 47 (4.69%) C# .NET Developer
13 41 (4.09%) IT Support
14 40 (3.99%) Full Stack Developer
15 39 (3.89%) Senior .NET Developer
16 38 (3.79%) Software Developer
17 36 (3.59%) Active Directory Specialist
17 36 (3.59%) Azure Specialist
18 34 (3.39%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 237 (23.63%) .NET
2 133 (13.26%) .NET Core
3 115 (11.47%) React
4 87 (8.67%) CSS
5 85 (8.47%) ASP.NET
6 68 (6.78%) .NET Framework
7 64 (6.38%) AngularJS
8 58 (5.78%) ASP.NET MVC
9 56 (5.58%) HTML
10 44 (4.39%) Entity Framework
11 41 (4.09%) Node.js
12 35 (3.49%) ASP.NET Web API
13 31 (3.09%) RESTful
14 30 (2.99%) Web Services
15 28 (2.79%) Leaflet
15 28 (2.79%) OpenLayers
15 28 (2.79%) PostGIS
16 25 (2.49%) JSON
16 25 (2.49%) Vue
17 24 (2.39%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 66 (6.58%) Self-Motivation
2 48 (4.79%) Product Ownership
3 41 (4.09%) PKI
4 37 (3.69%) Management Information System
5 34 (3.39%) Data Centre
6 20 (1.99%) Driving Licence
7 18 (1.79%) Client/Server
7 18 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
7 18 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (1.69%) Smartphone
9 15 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
9 15 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (1.50%) Public Cloud
10 14 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.40%) Onboarding
11 13 (1.30%) Replication
11 13 (1.30%) Security Operations Centre
11 13 (1.30%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 222 (22.13%) Windows
2 130 (12.96%) Linux
3 129 (12.86%) Windows Server
4 87 (8.67%) Windows 10
5 51 (5.08%) Windows Server 2016
6 48 (4.79%) Windows Server 2019
7 24 (2.39%) Android
8 23 (2.29%) Windows Server 2012
9 22 (2.19%) Apple iOS
10 16 (1.60%) Windows XP
11 15 (1.50%) Ubuntu
12 12 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 11 (1.10%) CentOS
14 9 (0.90%) VMS
15 5 (0.50%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.40%) Mac OS X
16 4 (0.40%) Rocky
16 4 (0.40%) Windows 8
17 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
18 2 (0.20%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (31.70%) DevOps
2 308 (30.71%) Agile
3 184 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
4 133 (13.26%) CI/CD
5 124 (12.36%) Full Stack Development
6 99 (9.87%) Scrum
7 93 (9.27%) Software Engineering
8 87 (8.67%) MVC
9 86 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
9 86 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 84 (8.37%) ITIL
11 83 (8.28%) Analytics
11 83 (8.28%) Mentoring
12 82 (8.18%) Microservices
13 77 (7.68%) Project Management
14 74 (7.38%) CRM
15 69 (6.88%) Web Development
16 63 (6.28%) Customer Service
16 63 (6.28%) Cybersecurity
16 63 (6.28%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 249 (24.83%) C#
2 205 (20.44%) JavaScript
3 192 (19.14%) SQL
4 133 (13.26%) Python
5 79 (7.88%) PowerShell
6 63 (6.28%) Java
7 60 (5.98%) TypeScript
8 32 (3.19%) Bash
9 30 (2.99%) T-SQL
10 24 (2.39%) VB
10 24 (2.39%) VBScript
11 20 (1.99%) Bicep
12 16 (1.60%) Kotlin
13 12 (1.20%) Go
14 11 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 10 (1.00%) VB.NET
16 8 (0.80%) Ruby
17 7 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.50%) Perl
18 5 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 177 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 138 (13.76%) Degree
3 128 (12.76%) SC Cleared
4 52 (5.18%) DV Cleared
5 47 (4.69%) Azure Certification
5 47 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 41 (4.09%) Cisco Certification
7 34 (3.39%) CCNA
8 32 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (2.69%) CISSP
10 22 (2.19%) AWS Certification
10 22 (2.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 21 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (2.09%) DBS Check
12 14 (1.40%) CCNP
12 14 (1.40%) CTC Cleared
13 13 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
14 12 (1.20%) MCP
15 10 (1.00%) MCSE
16 8 (0.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.68%) QA
2 27 (2.69%) GDPR
3 26 (2.59%) Data Quality
4 25 (2.49%) SLA
5 21 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 12 (1.20%) NIST
8 7 (0.70%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.100%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 221 (22.03%) Active Directory
2 78 (7.78%) Docker
3 74 (7.38%) Hyper-V
4 52 (5.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 32 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (2.79%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.70%) vSphere
9 5 (0.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 3 (0.30%) XenApp
10 3 (0.30%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.20%) Firmware
12 1 (0.100%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 118 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 88 (8.77%) Kubernetes
3 53 (5.28%) Terraform
4 46 (4.59%) SCCM
5 43 (4.29%) Ansible
6 39 (3.89%) SCOM
7 32 (3.19%) WSUS
8 31 (3.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 18 (1.79%) vCenter Server
10 16 (1.60%) EMC NetWorker
11 13 (1.30%) NetBackup
12 7 (0.70%) CASB
12 7 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (0.60%) Puppet
14 5 (0.50%) HP Quality Center
14 5 (0.50%) Red Hat Spacewalk
14 5 (0.50%) Suricata
15 3 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
15 3 (0.30%) Nagios
15 3 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 500 (49.85%) Microsoft
2 111 (11.07%) VMware
3 67 (6.68%) Google
4 54 (5.38%) Cisco
5 38 (3.79%) Oracle
6 33 (3.29%) Citrix
7 28 (2.79%) ESRI
7 28 (2.79%) Juniper
8 26 (2.59%) HP
8 26 (2.59%) Veeam
9 23 (2.29%) Dell
10 22 (2.19%) Palo Alto
11 19 (1.89%) EMC
11 19 (1.89%) Optimizely
11 19 (1.89%) Sitecore
12 17 (1.69%) Databricks
13 15 (1.50%) Aruba
14 14 (1.40%) Splunk
15 13 (1.30%) Apple
15 13 (1.30%) Fortinet