Azure Jobs in England

Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 14,844 19,670 26,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.16% 22.30% 19.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.96% 51.32% 40.71%
Number of salaries quoted 11,924 12,685 16,552
10th Percentile £34,000 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £101,185 £100,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.23% +4.00% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 30,321 38,326 65,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.06% 43.45% 48.09%
Number of salaries quoted 24,150 25,416 36,470
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,788 £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% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in England

Azure
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure in England.

Salary trend for Azure in England

Azure
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure in England

Azure
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the England region 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
London 0 4,661 £75,000 - 1,432
North of England 0 3,109 £55,000 - 686
South East -2 2,794 £54,000 -6.09% 684
Midlands +2 1,932 £50,000 -9.09% 484
North West 0 1,659 £57,500 +4.55% 368
South West -2 1,419 £55,000 - 332
West Midlands +2 1,154 £55,000 - 306
Yorkshire 0 1,061 £55,000 - 237
East of England 0 784 £50,000 - 185
East Midlands +3 773 £47,500 -9.52% 177
North East +5 391 £47,500 -13.64% 84
Azure
UK

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1,065 (7.17%) SharePoint
2 997 (6.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 255 (1.72%) IIS
4 240 (1.62%) Apache
5 200 (1.35%) ArcGIS
6 198 (1.33%) GeoServer
7 197 (1.33%) Apache Spark
8 179 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
9 129 (0.87%) CMS
10 123 (0.83%) Confluence
11 86 (0.58%) Umbraco
12 54 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
13 49 (0.33%) Kentico
13 49 (0.33%) OpenStack
14 41 (0.28%) Headless CMS
15 36 (0.24%) nginx
16 35 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
16 35 (0.24%) WebLogic
16 35 (0.24%) WordPress
17 31 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 525 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
2 223 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 48 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (0.32%) MS Visio
5 37 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
6 30 (0.20%) Trello
7 23 (0.15%) Simulink
8 10 (0.067%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.054%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.040%) LightWave 3D
11 4 (0.027%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.027%) SPSS
12 3 (0.020%) S-PLUS
12 3 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
13 2 (0.013%) 1Password
13 2 (0.013%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.013%) CATIA
13 2 (0.013%) NASTRAN
13 2 (0.013%) Sketch
14 1 (0.007%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 231 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 62 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 37 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
4 20 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
5 13 (0.088%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.088%) Teamcenter
6 10 (0.067%) Elite 3E
6 10 (0.067%) Payment Gateway
7 9 (0.061%) Maximo
7 9 (0.061%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
7 9 (0.061%) Unit4 Business World
8 6 (0.040%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.040%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 6 (0.040%) Primavera
8 6 (0.040%) SAP PLM
9 5 (0.034%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.034%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.034%) SAP PP
10 4 (0.027%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 4,326 (29.14%) AWS
2 3,446 (23.21%) Microsoft 365
3 2,047 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
4 1,725 (11.62%) GCP
5 1,699 (11.45%) Power Platform
6 1,592 (10.72%) Entra ID
7 876 (5.90%) SaaS
8 639 (4.30%) Serverless
9 600 (4.04%) PaaS
10 566 (3.81%) Dynamics 365
11 529 (3.56%) IaaS
12 465 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
13 421 (2.84%) PowerApps
14 398 (2.68%) GitHub
15 368 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
16 356 (2.40%) Power Automate
17 342 (2.30%) Azure Functions
18 334 (2.25%) OneDrive
19 326 (2.20%) Azure Service Bus
20 318 (2.14%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,588 (10.70%) Firewall
2 1,060 (7.14%) DNS
3 762 (5.13%) WAN
4 679 (4.57%) DHCP
5 619 (4.17%) LAN
6 575 (3.87%) VPN
7 481 (3.24%) TCP/IP
8 378 (2.55%) SAN
8 378 (2.55%) Wi-Fi
9 321 (2.16%) Internet
10 301 (2.03%) Wireless
11 300 (2.02%) Broadband
12 299 (2.01%) Network Security
13 278 (1.87%) VLAN
14 230 (1.55%) SD-WAN
15 212 (1.43%) 5G
16 184 (1.24%) VoIP
17 112 (0.75%) Remote Desktop
18 110 (0.74%) NAS
19 109 (0.73%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,614 (17.61%) SQL Server
2 1,214 (8.18%) Power BI
3 973 (6.55%) Data Warehouse
4 849 (5.72%) PostgreSQL
5 678 (4.57%) MongoDB
6 655 (4.41%) NoSQL
7 567 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 536 (3.61%) Data Lake
9 448 (3.02%) Relational Database
10 427 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 350 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
12 288 (1.94%) MySQL
13 267 (1.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 266 (1.79%) DB2
15 243 (1.64%) GIS
16 242 (1.63%) BigQuery
17 225 (1.52%) Big Data
18 196 (1.32%) QGIS
19 192 (1.29%) Looker
20 189 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 871 (5.87%) Git
2 487 (3.28%) JIRA
3 403 (2.71%) Jenkins
4 292 (1.97%) GitLab
5 270 (1.82%) Visual Studio
6 132 (0.89%) Selenium
7 129 (0.87%) Cypress.io
8 118 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
9 82 (0.55%) Postman
10 77 (0.52%) NUnit
11 65 (0.44%) TeamCity
12 58 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
12 58 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
13 55 (0.37%) Bitbucket
14 52 (0.35%) SonarQube
15 51 (0.34%) Cucumber
16 50 (0.34%) JMeter
17 47 (0.32%) Jasmine
18 39 (0.26%) Artifactory
19 38 (0.26%) CircleCI
General
1 3,397 (22.88%) Social Skills
2 2,371 (15.97%) Finance
3 1,380 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
4 880 (5.93%) Public Sector
5 737 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 576 (3.88%) Retail
7 504 (3.40%) Law
8 393 (2.65%) Banking
9 377 (2.54%) Legal
10 322 (2.17%) Marketing
11 286 (1.93%) Front Office
12 284 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
13 269 (1.81%) Manufacturing
14 207 (1.39%) Telecoms
15 199 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
16 191 (1.29%) Aerospace
17 153 (1.03%) Games
18 150 (1.01%) Advertising
19 126 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
20 116 (0.78%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3,691 (24.87%) Developer
2 2,484 (16.73%) Senior
3 1,694 (11.41%) .NET Developer
4 1,598 (10.77%) Architect
5 1,266 (8.53%) Lead
6 1,046 (7.05%) Software Engineer
7 966 (6.51%) Analyst
8 882 (5.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 757 (5.10%) Support Engineer
10 724 (4.88%) C# Developer
11 698 (4.70%) Azure Engineer
12 674 (4.54%) IT Support
13 658 (4.43%) Senior Developer
14 657 (4.43%) IT Engineer
15 612 (4.12%) Data Engineer
16 550 (3.71%) Solutions Architect
17 548 (3.69%) C# .NET Developer
18 489 (3.29%) Full Stack Developer
19 457 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
20 436 (2.94%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,764 (25.36%) .NET
2 1,822 (12.27%) React
3 1,712 (11.53%) AngularJS
4 1,668 (11.24%) ASP.NET
5 1,525 (10.27%) .NET Core
6 1,377 (9.28%) HTML
7 1,330 (8.96%) CSS
8 1,015 (6.84%) .NET Framework
9 962 (6.48%) ASP.NET Web API
10 886 (5.97%) Entity Framework
11 836 (5.63%) Vue
12 829 (5.58%) ASP.NET MVC
13 721 (4.86%) Node.js
14 711 (4.79%) REST
15 643 (4.33%) RESTful
16 558 (3.76%) HTML5
17 549 (3.70%) Web Services
18 486 (3.27%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 417 (2.81%) jQuery
20 410 (2.76%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 583 (3.93%) Public Cloud
2 459 (3.09%) Management Information System
3 439 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 427 (2.88%) Data Structures
5 423 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
6 406 (2.74%) Product Ownership
7 384 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
8 368 (2.48%) Cloud Native
9 360 (2.43%) Algorithms
10 355 (2.39%) Data Centre
11 305 (2.05%) Blockchain
12 278 (1.87%) Social Media
13 262 (1.77%) Fixed Income
14 248 (1.67%) Hedge funds
15 230 (1.55%) Driving Licence
16 223 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
17 212 (1.43%) Equities
18 201 (1.35%) Mobile App
19 190 (1.28%) Onboarding
20 189 (1.27%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3,185 (21.46%) Windows
2 1,599 (10.77%) Linux
3 1,536 (10.35%) Windows Server
4 571 (3.85%) Windows 10
5 505 (3.40%) Android
6 449 (3.02%) Apple iOS
7 373 (2.51%) Ubuntu
8 310 (2.09%) Windows Server 2016
9 255 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
10 231 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
11 169 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 154 (1.04%) Unix
13 141 (0.95%) VMS
14 139 (0.94%) CentOS
15 133 (0.90%) Mac OS
16 95 (0.64%) Debian
17 52 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
19 31 (0.21%) Mac OS X
20 30 (0.20%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,685 (31.56%) Agile
2 3,882 (26.15%) DevOps
3 2,208 (14.87%) Problem-Solving
4 2,195 (14.79%) Full Stack Development
5 1,796 (12.10%) CI/CD
6 1,776 (11.96%) Software Engineering
7 1,621 (10.92%) Microservices
8 1,406 (9.47%) MVC
9 1,347 (9.07%) Mentoring
10 1,290 (8.69%) Business Intelligence
11 1,263 (8.51%) Scrum
12 1,249 (8.41%) Artificial Intelligence
13 1,237 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
14 1,208 (8.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 1,160 (7.81%) ITIL
16 1,080 (7.28%) Roadmaps
17 1,050 (7.07%) ETL
18 1,047 (7.05%) Migration
19 1,021 (6.88%) Analytics
20 907 (6.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3,694 (24.89%) C#
2 3,686 (24.83%) SQL
3 2,972 (20.02%) JavaScript
4 2,266 (15.27%) Python
5 1,349 (9.09%) PowerShell
6 1,114 (7.50%) TypeScript
7 1,085 (7.31%) Java
8 569 (3.83%) T-SQL
9 554 (3.73%) Bash
10 164 (1.10%) Bicep
11 140 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 140 (0.94%) Go
12 139 (0.94%) R
13 129 (0.87%) C++
14 106 (0.71%) Kotlin
15 95 (0.64%) PHP
16 93 (0.63%) Scala
17 82 (0.55%) Ruby
18 78 (0.53%) VB.NET
19 75 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,688 (11.37%) Degree
2 1,323 (8.91%) Security Cleared
3 943 (6.35%) SC Cleared
4 765 (5.15%) Azure Certification
5 760 (5.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 464 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 387 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
8 282 (1.90%) DV Cleared
9 263 (1.77%) AWS Certification
10 256 (1.72%) CISSP
11 254 (1.71%) CCNA
12 213 (1.43%) DBS Check
13 189 (1.27%) MCSE
14 169 (1.14%) Master's Degree
15 135 (0.91%) CCNP
16 114 (0.77%) CISM
17 111 (0.75%) MCSA
17 111 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
18 102 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
19 93 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 610 (4.11%) QA
2 439 (2.96%) Data Quality
3 394 (2.65%) GDPR
4 360 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 276 (1.86%) SLA
6 196 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 186 (1.25%) NIST
8 130 (0.88%) Accessibility
9 107 (0.72%) PCI DSS
10 47 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 45 (0.30%) PMO
12 42 (0.28%) NCSC
13 34 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 29 (0.20%) COBIT
15 28 (0.19%) HIPAA
16 25 (0.17%) GRC
17 20 (0.13%) ISO 9001
17 20 (0.13%) SOC 2
18 18 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 16 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2,735 (18.42%) Active Directory
2 1,069 (7.20%) Docker
3 979 (6.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 855 (5.76%) Hyper-V
5 354 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
6 202 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
7 185 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 172 (1.16%) vSphere
9 89 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
10 57 (0.38%) XenApp
11 40 (0.27%) XenDesktop
12 35 (0.24%) Firmware
13 31 (0.21%) Terminal Services
14 24 (0.16%) VMware NSX
15 19 (0.13%) KVM
16 18 (0.12%) HDFS
16 18 (0.12%) VMware Server
17 12 (0.081%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 11 (0.074%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 11 (0.074%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 1,390 (9.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 1,250 (8.42%) Kubernetes
3 1,157 (7.79%) Terraform
4 534 (3.60%) Ansible
5 300 (2.02%) SCCM
6 266 (1.79%) Jamf Pro
7 181 (1.22%) Puppet
8 166 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
9 143 (0.96%) vCenter Server
10 109 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 109 (0.73%) Progress Chef
11 87 (0.59%) WSUS
12 81 (0.55%) Grafana
13 76 (0.51%) SCOM
14 75 (0.51%) Prometheus
15 55 (0.37%) FortiGate
16 44 (0.30%) Nagios
17 43 (0.29%) CASB
18 39 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
19 33 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6,544 (44.09%) Microsoft
2 1,516 (10.21%) VMware
3 948 (6.39%) Google
4 737 (4.96%) Cisco
5 577 (3.89%) Databricks
6 427 (2.88%) Red Hat
7 420 (2.83%) Citrix
8 419 (2.82%) Oracle
9 379 (2.55%) IBM
10 323 (2.18%) Veeam
11 251 (1.69%) CyberArk
12 216 (1.46%) HP
13 210 (1.41%) Tanium
14 202 (1.36%) Meraki
15 201 (1.35%) ESRI
16 164 (1.10%) ServiceNow
17 161 (1.08%) Fortinet
18 155 (1.04%) Dell
19 149 (1.00%) Apple
20 143 (0.96%) SolarWinds