Azure Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 5 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 11,761 11,911 14,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.89% 21.40% 19.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.23% 55.13% 49.17%
Number of salaries quoted 8,985 6,967 9,379
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,330
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.60% - +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 24,385 21,606 30,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.87% 38.82% 39.67%
Number of salaries quoted 17,824 13,300 19,551
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,975 £40,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,088 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.16% +2.40% +6.33%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure in the UK excluding London

Azure
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the UK excluding London 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
North of England -1 3,243 £55,000 - 661
South East -2 2,910 £55,000 -4.35% 416
Midlands +1 2,033 £52,500 -4.55% 384
North West 0 1,740 £57,500 +4.55% 374
South West -3 1,455 £55,000 - 303
West Midlands -2 1,193 £55,000 - 233
Yorkshire +1 1,093 £55,000 - 219
East Midlands +2 836 £48,500 -7.62% 149
Scotland -22 803 £55,000 -4.86% 145
East of England 0 796 £50,000 - 130
North East +5 412 £50,000 -9.09% 70
Wales -1 372 £50,000 +7.53% 62
Northern Ireland -4 135 £65,000 +23.81% 52
Isle of Man 0 17 £46,500 -33.57% 4
Channel Islands +2 5 £85,000 -5.56%
Azure
UK

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 842 (7.16%) SharePoint
2 815 (6.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 278 (2.36%) ArcGIS
4 276 (2.35%) GeoServer
5 222 (1.89%) IIS
6 104 (0.88%) CMS
7 93 (0.79%) Confluence
8 82 (0.70%) Apache
9 81 (0.69%) Umbraco
10 75 (0.64%) Apache Spark
11 43 (0.37%) Kentico
11 43 (0.37%) OpenStack
11 43 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
11 43 (0.37%) WebLogic
12 41 (0.35%) Headless CMS
13 32 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
14 25 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2013
15 19 (0.16%) WordPress
16 18 (0.15%) nginx
16 18 (0.15%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 437 (3.72%) Microsoft Office
2 148 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 46 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (0.23%) Simulink
5 21 (0.18%) Trello
6 20 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
7 17 (0.14%) MS Visio
8 8 (0.068%) Photoshop
9 7 (0.060%) Chatbot
10 6 (0.051%) Adobe XD
10 6 (0.051%) LightWave 3D
11 3 (0.026%) S-PLUS
11 3 (0.026%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.017%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.017%) CATIA
12 2 (0.017%) NASTRAN
12 2 (0.017%) Sketch
13 1 (0.009%) 1Password
13 1 (0.009%) InfoPath
13 1 (0.009%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 169 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 69 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 31 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
4 14 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
5 12 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.077%) SAP S/4HANA
7 8 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
7 8 (0.068%) Teamcenter
8 6 (0.051%) Maximo
8 6 (0.051%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.051%) SAP PLM
9 5 (0.043%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.043%) SAP PP
10 4 (0.034%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.034%) Visualfiles
11 3 (0.026%) Oracle Applications
11 3 (0.026%) Oracle Receivables
11 3 (0.026%) SAP ERP
12 2 (0.017%) Sage 200
12 2 (0.017%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3,455 (29.38%) AWS
2 2,860 (24.32%) Microsoft 365
3 1,580 (13.43%) Azure DevOps
4 1,217 (10.35%) Entra ID
5 1,190 (10.12%) Power Platform
6 1,054 (8.96%) GCP
7 675 (5.74%) SaaS
8 386 (3.28%) Serverless
9 341 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
10 316 (2.69%) PaaS
11 302 (2.57%) IaaS
12 298 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
13 290 (2.47%) OneDrive
14 271 (2.30%) IBM Cloud
15 259 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
16 257 (2.19%) PowerApps
17 254 (2.16%) GitHub
18 216 (1.84%) Azure Functions
19 215 (1.83%) Azure Logic Apps
20 211 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1,331 (11.32%) Firewall
2 870 (7.40%) DNS
3 628 (5.34%) WAN
4 567 (4.82%) DHCP
5 471 (4.00%) LAN
6 469 (3.99%) VPN
7 426 (3.62%) TCP/IP
8 302 (2.57%) SAN
9 283 (2.41%) Internet
10 269 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
11 254 (2.16%) VLAN
12 227 (1.93%) Wireless
13 211 (1.79%) Network Security
14 176 (1.50%) SD-WAN
15 168 (1.43%) Broadband
16 161 (1.37%) VoIP
17 118 (1.00%) Remote Desktop
18 91 (0.77%) BGP
18 91 (0.77%) HTTP
19 89 (0.76%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,186 (18.59%) SQL Server
2 876 (7.45%) Power BI
3 762 (6.48%) Data Warehouse
4 761 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
5 565 (4.80%) MongoDB
6 522 (4.44%) NoSQL
7 433 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 379 (3.22%) Relational Database
9 351 (2.98%) Data Lake
10 339 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 320 (2.72%) GIS
12 274 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
12 274 (2.33%) QGIS
13 256 (2.18%) DB2
14 230 (1.96%) MySQL
15 201 (1.71%) BigQuery
16 186 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
17 182 (1.55%) Looker
18 170 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 143 (1.22%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 668 (5.68%) Git
2 401 (3.41%) JIRA
3 243 (2.07%) Jenkins
4 231 (1.96%) GitLab
5 205 (1.74%) Visual Studio
6 127 (1.08%) Selenium
7 105 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
8 77 (0.65%) Postman
9 71 (0.60%) NUnit
10 67 (0.57%) Cypress.io
11 52 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
12 46 (0.39%) Jasmine
13 43 (0.37%) JMeter
14 42 (0.36%) Bitbucket
14 42 (0.36%) SonarQube
15 37 (0.31%) TeamCity
16 33 (0.28%) Artifactory
17 32 (0.27%) Cucumber
18 30 (0.26%) Karma Test Runner
18 30 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,667 (22.68%) Social Skills
2 1,435 (12.20%) Finance
3 881 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
4 730 (6.21%) Public Sector
5 510 (4.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 487 (4.14%) Retail
7 432 (3.67%) Law
8 284 (2.41%) Legal
9 281 (2.39%) Marketing
10 246 (2.09%) Manufacturing
11 239 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
12 192 (1.63%) Aerospace
13 173 (1.47%) Games
13 173 (1.47%) Telecoms
14 162 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
15 138 (1.17%) Advertising
16 124 (1.05%) Banking
17 93 (0.79%) Billing
18 75 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
19 62 (0.53%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 3,065 (26.06%) Developer
2 1,795 (15.26%) Senior
3 1,574 (13.38%) .NET Developer
4 1,131 (9.62%) Architect
5 1,011 (8.60%) Lead
6 899 (7.64%) Software Engineer
7 803 (6.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 684 (5.82%) Support Engineer
9 662 (5.63%) Analyst
10 631 (5.37%) C# Developer
11 619 (5.26%) IT Support
12 592 (5.03%) IT Engineer
13 521 (4.43%) C# .NET Developer
13 521 (4.43%) Senior Developer
14 516 (4.39%) Azure Engineer
15 392 (3.33%) Data Engineer
16 374 (3.18%) IT Support Engineer
16 374 (3.18%) Software Developer
17 373 (3.17%) Senior Software Engineer
18 369 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,348 (28.47%) .NET
2 1,544 (13.13%) React
3 1,535 (13.05%) AngularJS
4 1,477 (12.56%) .NET Core
5 1,455 (12.37%) ASP.NET
6 1,306 (11.10%) CSS
7 1,234 (10.49%) HTML
8 981 (8.34%) ASP.NET Web API
9 945 (8.04%) .NET Framework
10 870 (7.40%) Entity Framework
11 752 (6.39%) ASP.NET MVC
12 725 (6.16%) Vue
13 638 (5.42%) Node.js
14 577 (4.91%) REST
15 576 (4.90%) RESTful
16 492 (4.18%) HTML5
17 459 (3.90%) Web Services
18 458 (3.89%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 410 (3.49%) Blazor
20 375 (3.19%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 553 (4.70%) Public Cloud
2 402 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
3 376 (3.20%) Data Structures
4 351 (2.98%) Algorithms
4 351 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
5 325 (2.76%) Management Information System
6 313 (2.66%) Product Ownership
7 306 (2.60%) Cloud Native
8 276 (2.35%) Blockchain
9 261 (2.22%) Data Centre
10 258 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
11 232 (1.97%) Driving Licence
12 205 (1.74%) Onboarding
13 158 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
14 155 (1.32%) Private Cloud
15 150 (1.28%) PKI
15 150 (1.28%) Social Media
16 145 (1.23%) Mobile App
17 129 (1.10%) IoT
18 128 (1.09%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 2,643 (22.47%) Windows
2 1,320 (11.22%) Windows Server
3 1,286 (10.93%) Linux
4 480 (4.08%) Windows 10
5 464 (3.95%) Android
6 392 (3.33%) Apple iOS
7 271 (2.30%) Windows Server 2016
8 234 (1.99%) Windows Server 2019
9 218 (1.85%) Ubuntu
10 179 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
11 167 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 140 (1.19%) VMS
13 135 (1.15%) CentOS
14 111 (0.94%) Mac OS
15 98 (0.83%) Debian
16 95 (0.81%) Unix
17 50 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
19 34 (0.29%) Windows 7
20 24 (0.20%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,810 (32.40%) Agile
2 3,172 (26.97%) DevOps
3 1,954 (16.61%) Full Stack Development
4 1,869 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
5 1,402 (11.92%) CI/CD
6 1,383 (11.76%) Software Engineering
7 1,332 (11.33%) Microservices
8 1,281 (10.89%) MVC
9 1,127 (9.58%) Mentoring
10 1,064 (9.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 1,024 (8.71%) Scrum
12 940 (7.99%) Business Intelligence
13 907 (7.71%) ITIL
14 866 (7.36%) Artificial Intelligence
15 847 (7.20%) Migration
16 837 (7.12%) Cybersecurity
17 802 (6.82%) Roadmaps
18 753 (6.40%) Web Development
19 750 (6.38%) Customer Service
20 725 (6.16%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3,240 (27.55%) C#
2 2,685 (22.83%) SQL
3 2,648 (22.52%) JavaScript
4 1,460 (12.41%) Python
5 911 (7.75%) PowerShell
6 890 (7.57%) Java
7 822 (6.99%) TypeScript
8 426 (3.62%) T-SQL
9 313 (2.66%) Bash
10 115 (0.98%) Bicep
11 110 (0.94%) C++
12 97 (0.82%) Go
13 85 (0.72%) VB.NET
14 84 (0.71%) PHP
15 81 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 79 (0.67%) VB
17 63 (0.54%) Kotlin
18 62 (0.53%) C
19 57 (0.48%) Ruby
20 41 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 1,284 (10.92%) Security Cleared
2 1,177 (10.01%) Degree
3 947 (8.05%) SC Cleared
4 608 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 563 (4.79%) Azure Certification
6 315 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
7 306 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 285 (2.42%) DV Cleared
9 236 (2.01%) CCNA
10 227 (1.93%) AWS Certification
11 214 (1.82%) DBS Check
12 163 (1.39%) CISSP
13 143 (1.22%) MCSE
14 102 (0.87%) CCNP
15 96 (0.82%) Master's Degree
16 91 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
17 81 (0.69%) MCSA
18 80 (0.68%) CISM
19 78 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 71 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 501 (4.26%) QA
2 324 (2.75%) GDPR
3 304 (2.58%) Data Quality
4 261 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 250 (2.13%) SLA
6 175 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
7 133 (1.13%) NIST
8 75 (0.64%) Accessibility
9 68 (0.58%) PCI DSS
10 30 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 25 (0.21%) NCSC
12 18 (0.15%) HIPAA
12 18 (0.15%) PMO
12 18 (0.15%) SOC 2
13 17 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 16 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 14 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 10 (0.085%) ISO 9001
17 9 (0.077%) GRC
18 8 (0.068%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 2,139 (18.19%) Active Directory
2 885 (7.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 840 (7.14%) Hyper-V
4 824 (7.01%) Docker
5 297 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
6 158 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 144 (1.22%) vSphere
8 133 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
9 65 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
10 46 (0.39%) VMware NSX
11 43 (0.37%) XenApp
12 36 (0.31%) XenDesktop
13 28 (0.24%) Terminal Services
14 24 (0.20%) Firmware
15 17 (0.14%) VMware Server
16 11 (0.094%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 10 (0.085%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 10 (0.085%) KVM
17 10 (0.085%) pfSense
18 7 (0.060%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,019 (8.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 934 (7.94%) Kubernetes
3 789 (6.71%) Terraform
4 438 (3.72%) Ansible
5 228 (1.94%) SCCM
6 129 (1.10%) Puppet
7 103 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
8 98 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
9 92 (0.78%) vCenter Server
10 85 (0.72%) WSUS
11 78 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 76 (0.65%) SCOM
13 65 (0.55%) Progress Chef
14 63 (0.54%) Grafana
15 58 (0.49%) Prometheus
16 51 (0.43%) FortiGate
17 30 (0.26%) ZABBIX
18 28 (0.24%) Nagios
19 27 (0.23%) CASB
20 26 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 5,100 (43.36%) Microsoft
2 1,327 (11.28%) VMware
3 680 (5.78%) Google
4 558 (4.74%) Cisco
5 403 (3.43%) Red Hat
6 328 (2.79%) IBM
7 317 (2.70%) Oracle
8 306 (2.60%) Citrix
9 285 (2.42%) Veeam
10 279 (2.37%) ESRI
11 271 (2.30%) Databricks
12 168 (1.43%) HP
13 158 (1.34%) Meraki
14 131 (1.11%) Dell
15 121 (1.03%) Fortinet
16 108 (0.92%) Apple
17 105 (0.89%) Aruba
18 102 (0.87%) Sophos
19 99 (0.84%) ServiceNow
20 88 (0.75%) CyberArk