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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 16,763 22,177 31,089
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.78% 22.36% 19.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.33% 51.92% 39.95%
Number of salaries quoted 13,176 14,118 18,853
10th Percentile £33,966 £36,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
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 35,421 42,712 77,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 43.07% 48.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26,675 28,032 41,298
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
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 £98,750
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 18 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 18 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 14,844 £59,500 -8.46% 3,734
UK excluding London -1 11,330 £52,500 -4.55% 2,675
Work from Home +1 7,556 £60,000 -7.69% 2,290
London 0 4,661 £75,000 - 1,465
North of England 0 3,109 £55,000 - 692
South East -2 2,794 £54,000 -6.09% 719
Midlands +2 1,932 £50,000 -9.09% 486
North West 0 1,659 £57,500 +4.55% 369
South West -2 1,419 £55,000 - 337
West Midlands +2 1,154 £55,000 - 307
Yorkshire 0 1,061 £55,000 - 242
Scotland -24 815 £55,000 -5.98% 151
East of England 0 784 £50,000 - 185
East Midlands +3 773 £47,500 -9.52% 178
North East +5 391 £47,500 -13.64% 84
Wales -1 344 £50,000 +6.10% 94
Northern Ireland -5 119 £55,000 +4.76% 60
Isle of Man -3 17 £46,500 -33.57% 4
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 1,154 (6.88%) SharePoint
2 1,049 (6.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 334 (1.99%) ArcGIS
4 332 (1.98%) GeoServer
5 281 (1.68%) IIS
6 252 (1.50%) Apache
7 215 (1.28%) Apache Spark
8 182 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
9 138 (0.82%) CMS
10 134 (0.80%) Confluence
11 97 (0.58%) Umbraco
12 56 (0.33%) OpenStack
12 56 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
13 55 (0.33%) WebLogic
14 49 (0.29%) Kentico
15 41 (0.24%) Headless CMS
16 36 (0.21%) nginx
17 35 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
17 35 (0.21%) WordPress
18 31 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 548 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
2 249 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 63 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 51 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 39 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 30 (0.18%) Trello
7 23 (0.14%) 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 3 (0.018%) S-PLUS
14 2 (0.012%) 1Password
14 2 (0.012%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.012%) CATIA
14 2 (0.012%) NASTRAN
14 2 (0.012%) Sketch
15 1 (0.006%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 266 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 83 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 39 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
4 31 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 13 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.078%) Teamcenter
6 10 (0.060%) Elite 3E
6 10 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
6 10 (0.060%) Unit4 Business World
7 9 (0.054%) Maximo
7 9 (0.054%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.054%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.036%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.036%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.036%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 6 (0.036%) Primavera
8 6 (0.036%) SAP PLM
9 5 (0.030%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.030%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.030%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 5,162 (30.79%) AWS
2 3,781 (22.56%) Microsoft 365
3 2,287 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
4 2,053 (12.25%) GCP
5 1,915 (11.42%) Power Platform
6 1,751 (10.45%) Entra ID
7 1,030 (6.14%) SaaS
8 701 (4.18%) Serverless
9 695 (4.15%) PaaS
10 669 (3.99%) Dynamics 365
11 609 (3.63%) IaaS
12 500 (2.98%) Azure Data Factory
13 499 (2.98%) PowerApps
14 460 (2.74%) GitHub
15 449 (2.68%) Cloud Computing
16 414 (2.47%) Power Automate
17 370 (2.21%) Azure Functions
18 369 (2.20%) OneDrive
19 359 (2.14%) Azure Logic Apps
20 354 (2.11%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1,708 (10.19%) Firewall
2 1,148 (6.85%) DNS
3 845 (5.04%) WAN
4 711 (4.24%) DHCP
5 679 (4.05%) LAN
6 632 (3.77%) VPN
7 534 (3.19%) TCP/IP
8 400 (2.39%) SAN
9 393 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
10 360 (2.15%) Internet
11 339 (2.02%) Network Security
12 321 (1.91%) Wireless
13 311 (1.86%) Broadband
14 303 (1.81%) VLAN
15 261 (1.56%) SD-WAN
16 212 (1.26%) 5G
17 193 (1.15%) VoIP
18 138 (0.82%) Remote Desktop
19 136 (0.81%) BGP
20 113 (0.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,868 (17.11%) SQL Server
2 1,332 (7.95%) Power BI
3 1,091 (6.51%) Data Warehouse
4 1,018 (6.07%) PostgreSQL
5 733 (4.37%) NoSQL
6 701 (4.18%) MongoDB
7 638 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
7 638 (3.81%) Data Lake
8 519 (3.10%) Relational Database
9 451 (2.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 379 (2.26%) GIS
11 374 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
12 330 (1.97%) QGIS
13 307 (1.83%) MySQL
14 286 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 266 (1.59%) Big Data
15 266 (1.59%) DB2
16 253 (1.51%) BigQuery
17 215 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
18 201 (1.20%) Looker
Development Applications
1 947 (5.65%) Git
2 548 (3.27%) JIRA
3 486 (2.90%) Jenkins
4 333 (1.99%) GitLab
5 301 (1.80%) Visual Studio
6 167 (1.00%) Selenium
7 146 (0.87%) Cypress.io
8 131 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
9 106 (0.63%) Postman
10 85 (0.51%) NUnit
11 67 (0.40%) TeamCity
12 62 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
13 61 (0.36%) JMeter
14 58 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
15 56 (0.33%) Bitbucket
16 54 (0.32%) Cucumber
17 53 (0.32%) SonarQube
18 50 (0.30%) CircleCI
18 50 (0.30%) Jasmine
19 43 (0.26%) Artifactory
General
1 3,837 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 2,764 (16.49%) Finance
3 1,479 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 986 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 979 (5.84%) Public Sector
6 672 (4.01%) Law
7 614 (3.66%) Retail
8 485 (2.89%) Banking
9 459 (2.74%) Legal
10 439 (2.62%) Marketing
11 402 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
12 286 (1.71%) Front Office
13 280 (1.67%) Manufacturing
14 234 (1.40%) Telecoms
15 221 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
16 203 (1.21%) Games
17 196 (1.17%) Aerospace
18 157 (0.94%) Advertising
19 132 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
20 122 (0.73%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 4,115 (24.55%) Developer
2 3,009 (17.95%) Senior
3 1,902 (11.35%) Architect
4 1,807 (10.78%) .NET Developer
5 1,526 (9.10%) Lead
6 1,358 (8.10%) Software Engineer
7 1,067 (6.37%) Analyst
8 953 (5.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 821 (4.90%) Support Engineer
10 799 (4.77%) Azure Engineer
11 786 (4.69%) Senior Developer
12 766 (4.57%) C# Developer
13 722 (4.31%) IT Support
14 708 (4.22%) IT Engineer
15 706 (4.21%) Data Engineer
16 640 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
17 569 (3.39%) C# .NET Developer
18 552 (3.29%) Full Stack Developer
19 543 (3.24%) Senior Software Engineer
20 517 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,294 (25.62%) .NET
2 2,066 (12.32%) React
3 1,869 (11.15%) AngularJS
4 1,793 (10.70%) .NET Core
5 1,777 (10.60%) ASP.NET
6 1,558 (9.29%) CSS
7 1,492 (8.90%) HTML
8 1,124 (6.71%) .NET Framework
9 1,043 (6.22%) ASP.NET Web API
10 980 (5.85%) Entity Framework
11 892 (5.32%) Vue
12 884 (5.27%) ASP.NET MVC
13 810 (4.83%) Node.js
14 785 (4.68%) REST
15 713 (4.25%) RESTful
16 616 (3.67%) Web Services
17 588 (3.51%) HTML5
18 505 (3.01%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 448 (2.67%) Blazor
20 427 (2.55%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 787 (4.69%) Public Cloud
2 529 (3.16%) Management Information System
3 469 (2.80%) Cloud Native
4 462 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 452 (2.70%) Data Structures
6 448 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
7 447 (2.67%) Product Ownership
8 438 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
9 434 (2.59%) Algorithms
10 427 (2.55%) Data Centre
11 309 (1.84%) Blockchain
12 308 (1.84%) Onboarding
13 295 (1.76%) Social Media
14 279 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
15 262 (1.56%) Fixed Income
16 248 (1.48%) Hedge funds
17 241 (1.44%) Driving Licence
18 225 (1.34%) Private Cloud
19 222 (1.32%) PKI
20 220 (1.31%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3,423 (20.42%) Windows
2 1,785 (10.65%) Linux
3 1,664 (9.93%) Windows Server
4 604 (3.60%) Windows 10
5 528 (3.15%) Android
6 465 (2.77%) Apple iOS
7 401 (2.39%) Ubuntu
8 322 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
9 268 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 244 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
11 195 (1.16%) Unix
12 189 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 155 (0.92%) VMS
14 147 (0.88%) CentOS
15 137 (0.82%) Mac OS
16 97 (0.58%) Debian
17 52 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
19 34 (0.20%) Windows 7
20 33 (0.20%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,422 (32.35%) Agile
2 4,528 (27.01%) DevOps
3 2,566 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
4 2,384 (14.22%) Full Stack Development
5 2,221 (13.25%) Software Engineering
6 2,114 (12.61%) CI/CD
7 1,769 (10.55%) Microservices
8 1,533 (9.15%) Mentoring
9 1,507 (8.99%) MVC
10 1,432 (8.54%) Business Intelligence
10 1,432 (8.54%) Scrum
11 1,428 (8.52%) Artificial Intelligence
12 1,383 (8.25%) Cybersecurity
13 1,289 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 1,259 (7.51%) ITIL
15 1,227 (7.32%) Roadmaps
16 1,225 (7.31%) Migration
17 1,174 (7.00%) Analytics
18 1,116 (6.66%) ETL
19 1,032 (6.16%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4,193 (25.01%) C#
2 4,118 (24.57%) SQL
3 3,337 (19.91%) JavaScript
4 2,629 (15.68%) Python
5 1,440 (8.59%) PowerShell
6 1,337 (7.98%) Java
7 1,209 (7.21%) TypeScript
8 617 (3.68%) T-SQL
9 585 (3.49%) Bash
10 183 (1.09%) Go
11 172 (1.03%) Bicep
12 155 (0.92%) C++
13 148 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 143 (0.85%) R
15 112 (0.67%) Kotlin
16 106 (0.63%) PHP
17 104 (0.62%) Ruby
18 97 (0.58%) Scala
19 83 (0.50%) VB.NET
20 81 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 1,868 (11.14%) Degree
2 1,647 (9.83%) Security Cleared
3 1,225 (7.31%) SC Cleared
4 864 (5.15%) Azure Certification
5 834 (4.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 515 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 437 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
8 340 (2.03%) AWS Certification
9 303 (1.81%) CISSP
10 293 (1.75%) CCNA
11 286 (1.71%) DV Cleared
12 237 (1.41%) DBS Check
13 202 (1.21%) MCSE
14 188 (1.12%) Master's Degree
15 157 (0.94%) CISM
16 154 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
17 149 (0.89%) CCNP
18 126 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
19 114 (0.68%) MCSA
20 108 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 709 (4.23%) QA
2 470 (2.80%) Data Quality
3 438 (2.61%) GDPR
4 412 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 295 (1.76%) SLA
6 229 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
7 218 (1.30%) NIST
8 158 (0.94%) Accessibility
9 117 (0.70%) PCI DSS
10 63 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 46 (0.27%) PMO
12 45 (0.27%) NCSC
13 35 (0.21%) COBIT
13 35 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 31 (0.18%) GRC
15 28 (0.17%) HIPAA
16 27 (0.16%) ISO 9001
17 25 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 24 (0.14%) SOC 2
19 16 (0.095%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2,970 (17.72%) Active Directory
2 1,223 (7.30%) Docker
3 1,084 (6.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 903 (5.39%) Hyper-V
5 383 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
6 209 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
7 198 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 177 (1.06%) vSphere
9 89 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
10 57 (0.34%) XenApp
11 51 (0.30%) VMware NSX
12 46 (0.27%) XenDesktop
13 35 (0.21%) Firmware
14 31 (0.18%) Terminal Services
15 21 (0.13%) KVM
16 18 (0.11%) HDFS
16 18 (0.11%) VMware Server
17 12 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 11 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 11 (0.066%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 1,488 (8.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 1,453 (8.67%) Kubernetes
3 1,349 (8.05%) Terraform
4 619 (3.69%) Ansible
5 320 (1.91%) SCCM
6 267 (1.59%) Jamf Pro
7 198 (1.18%) Puppet
8 174 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
9 149 (0.89%) vCenter Server
10 131 (0.78%) Progress Chef
11 110 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 105 (0.63%) Grafana
13 94 (0.56%) Prometheus
14 87 (0.52%) WSUS
15 82 (0.49%) SCOM
16 70 (0.42%) FortiGate
17 51 (0.30%) CASB
18 44 (0.26%) Nagios
19 39 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
20 34 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7,228 (43.12%) Microsoft
2 1,661 (9.91%) VMware
3 1,102 (6.57%) Google
4 809 (4.83%) Cisco
5 621 (3.70%) Databricks
6 496 (2.96%) Oracle
7 446 (2.66%) Citrix
8 430 (2.57%) Red Hat
9 405 (2.42%) IBM
10 352 (2.10%) Veeam
11 335 (2.00%) ESRI
12 254 (1.52%) CyberArk
13 229 (1.37%) Meraki
14 227 (1.35%) HP
15 210 (1.25%) Tanium
16 191 (1.14%) ServiceNow
17 174 (1.04%) Fortinet
18 160 (0.95%) Dell
19 156 (0.93%) Apple
20 153 (0.91%) SAP