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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 11,600 12,070 14,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.27% 21.35% 19.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.11% 54.99% 49.53%
Number of salaries quoted 8,934 6,988 9,359
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £63,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.35% +0.80% +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 24,112 21,949 29,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.74% 38.82% 39.84%
Number of salaries quoted 17,718 13,331 19,511
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.85% +3.20% +7.76%

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 1 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 1 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 0 3,210 £55,000 - 646
South East -2 2,857 £55,000 -4.35% 457
Midlands +2 1,998 £52,000 -5.45% 390
North West 0 1,710 £57,500 +4.55% 370
South West -2 1,423 £55,000 - 297
West Midlands +1 1,183 £55,000 - 243
Yorkshire +1 1,096 £55,000 - 209
East Midlands +2 811 £47,500 -9.52% 147
Scotland -21 811 £55,000 -5.17% 157
East of England 0 794 £50,000 - 137
North East +5 406 £50,000 -9.09% 69
Wales -1 359 £50,000 +8.20% 58
Northern Ireland -3 134 £60,000 +14.29% 38
Isle of Man -2 17 £46,500 -33.57% 2
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
1 837 (7.22%) SharePoint
2 806 (6.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 288 (2.48%) ArcGIS
4 286 (2.47%) GeoServer
5 224 (1.93%) IIS
6 102 (0.88%) CMS
7 91 (0.78%) Confluence
8 82 (0.71%) Apache
9 81 (0.70%) Umbraco
10 72 (0.62%) Apache Spark
11 45 (0.39%) OpenStack
12 43 (0.37%) Kentico
12 43 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
12 43 (0.37%) WebLogic
13 41 (0.35%) Headless CMS
14 32 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
15 25 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2013
16 19 (0.16%) nginx
17 18 (0.16%) WordPress
18 17 (0.15%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 435 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
2 150 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.22%) Simulink
5 21 (0.18%) Trello
6 20 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
7 15 (0.13%) MS Visio
8 8 (0.069%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.069%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.052%) LightWave 3D
10 5 (0.043%) Adobe XD
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
1 164 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 71 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 31 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
4 14 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
5 12 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.069%) Payment Gateway
6 8 (0.069%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (0.069%) Teamcenter
7 7 (0.060%) Maximo
7 7 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.052%) 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%) SAP ERP
12 2 (0.017%) Oracle Receivables
12 2 (0.017%) Remedy ITSM
12 2 (0.017%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 3,451 (29.75%) AWS
2 2,833 (24.42%) Microsoft 365
3 1,563 (13.47%) Azure DevOps
4 1,200 (10.34%) Entra ID
5 1,179 (10.16%) Power Platform
6 1,079 (9.30%) GCP
7 662 (5.71%) SaaS
8 391 (3.37%) Serverless
9 337 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
10 323 (2.78%) PaaS
11 300 (2.59%) Cloud Computing
12 297 (2.56%) IaaS
13 287 (2.47%) OneDrive
14 272 (2.34%) IBM Cloud
15 261 (2.25%) GitHub
16 254 (2.19%) Azure Data Factory
17 253 (2.18%) PowerApps
18 214 (1.84%) Azure Functions
18 214 (1.84%) Azure Service Bus
19 213 (1.84%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,316 (11.34%) Firewall
2 868 (7.48%) DNS
3 624 (5.38%) WAN
4 560 (4.83%) DHCP
5 467 (4.03%) LAN
6 466 (4.02%) VPN
7 424 (3.66%) TCP/IP
8 304 (2.62%) SAN
9 283 (2.44%) Internet
10 261 (2.25%) Wi-Fi
11 248 (2.14%) VLAN
12 218 (1.88%) Wireless
13 209 (1.80%) Network Security
14 177 (1.53%) SD-WAN
15 168 (1.45%) Broadband
16 160 (1.38%) VoIP
17 119 (1.03%) Remote Desktop
18 92 (0.79%) BGP
18 92 (0.79%) HTTP
19 89 (0.77%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,160 (18.62%) SQL Server
2 872 (7.52%) Power BI
3 769 (6.63%) PostgreSQL
4 761 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
5 557 (4.80%) MongoDB
6 530 (4.57%) NoSQL
7 427 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 375 (3.23%) Relational Database
9 357 (3.08%) Data Lake
10 332 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 331 (2.85%) GIS
12 284 (2.45%) QGIS
13 274 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
14 256 (2.21%) DB2
15 230 (1.98%) MySQL
16 202 (1.74%) BigQuery
17 183 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
18 181 (1.56%) Looker
19 165 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 139 (1.20%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 656 (5.66%) Git
2 396 (3.41%) JIRA
3 262 (2.26%) Jenkins
4 231 (1.99%) GitLab
5 203 (1.75%) Visual Studio
6 127 (1.09%) Selenium
7 102 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
8 75 (0.65%) Postman
9 70 (0.60%) NUnit
10 66 (0.57%) Cypress.io
11 50 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
12 46 (0.40%) Jasmine
13 43 (0.37%) JMeter
13 43 (0.37%) SonarQube
14 41 (0.35%) Bitbucket
15 36 (0.31%) TeamCity
16 33 (0.28%) Artifactory
16 33 (0.28%) Cucumber
17 30 (0.26%) CircleCI
17 30 (0.26%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 2,633 (22.70%) Social Skills
2 1,448 (12.48%) Finance
3 867 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
4 729 (6.28%) Public Sector
5 522 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 485 (4.18%) Retail
7 450 (3.88%) Law
8 285 (2.46%) Legal
9 281 (2.42%) Marketing
10 248 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
11 238 (2.05%) Manufacturing
12 192 (1.66%) Aerospace
13 173 (1.49%) Telecoms
14 170 (1.47%) Games
15 162 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
16 147 (1.27%) Banking
17 132 (1.14%) Advertising
18 92 (0.79%) Billing
19 74 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
20 60 (0.52%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2,986 (25.74%) Developer
2 1,789 (15.42%) Senior
3 1,517 (13.08%) .NET Developer
4 1,126 (9.71%) Architect
5 1,001 (8.63%) Lead
6 918 (7.91%) Software Engineer
7 783 (6.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 692 (5.97%) Support Engineer
9 659 (5.68%) Analyst
10 612 (5.28%) IT Support
11 602 (5.19%) C# Developer
12 590 (5.09%) IT Engineer
13 504 (4.34%) Senior Developer
14 498 (4.29%) Azure Engineer
14 498 (4.29%) C# .NET Developer
15 386 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
16 381 (3.28%) Data Engineer
17 373 (3.22%) IT Support Engineer
18 358 (3.09%) Cloud Engineer
19 354 (3.05%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,272 (28.21%) .NET
2 1,519 (13.09%) React
3 1,502 (12.95%) AngularJS
4 1,454 (12.53%) .NET Core
5 1,434 (12.36%) ASP.NET
6 1,295 (11.16%) CSS
7 1,224 (10.55%) HTML
8 947 (8.16%) ASP.NET Web API
9 924 (7.97%) .NET Framework
10 853 (7.35%) Entity Framework
11 753 (6.49%) ASP.NET MVC
12 710 (6.12%) Vue
13 637 (5.49%) Node.js
14 578 (4.98%) REST
15 568 (4.90%) RESTful
16 489 (4.22%) HTML5
17 459 (3.96%) Web Services
18 455 (3.92%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 406 (3.50%) Blazor
20 373 (3.22%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 578 (4.98%) Public Cloud
2 397 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
3 372 (3.21%) Data Structures
4 352 (3.03%) Algorithms
5 348 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
6 324 (2.79%) Management Information System
7 321 (2.77%) Product Ownership
8 307 (2.65%) Cloud Native
9 281 (2.42%) Blockchain
10 261 (2.25%) Data Centre
11 257 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
12 230 (1.98%) Driving Licence
13 211 (1.82%) Onboarding
14 162 (1.40%) Private Cloud
15 158 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
16 149 (1.28%) PKI
17 145 (1.25%) Mobile App
18 144 (1.24%) Social Media
19 131 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
20 129 (1.11%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 2,623 (22.61%) Windows
2 1,304 (11.24%) Windows Server
3 1,290 (11.12%) Linux
4 473 (4.08%) Windows 10
5 461 (3.97%) Android
6 391 (3.37%) Apple iOS
7 264 (2.28%) Windows Server 2016
8 228 (1.97%) Windows Server 2019
9 224 (1.93%) Ubuntu
10 179 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
11 166 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 137 (1.18%) VMS
13 133 (1.15%) CentOS
14 110 (0.95%) Mac OS
15 104 (0.90%) Unix
16 98 (0.84%) Debian
17 48 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
19 32 (0.28%) Windows 7
20 24 (0.21%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,806 (32.81%) Agile
2 3,165 (27.28%) DevOps
3 1,900 (16.38%) Full Stack Development
4 1,825 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
5 1,401 (12.08%) CI/CD
6 1,389 (11.97%) Software Engineering
7 1,315 (11.34%) Microservices
8 1,280 (11.03%) MVC
9 1,122 (9.67%) Mentoring
10 1,042 (8.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 1,014 (8.74%) Scrum
12 936 (8.07%) Business Intelligence
13 900 (7.76%) ITIL
14 880 (7.59%) Artificial Intelligence
15 848 (7.31%) Cybersecurity
16 844 (7.28%) Migration
17 804 (6.93%) Roadmaps
18 755 (6.51%) Web Development
19 749 (6.46%) Customer Service
20 721 (6.22%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3,156 (27.21%) C#
2 2,667 (22.99%) SQL
3 2,631 (22.68%) JavaScript
4 1,449 (12.49%) Python
5 901 (7.77%) PowerShell
6 900 (7.76%) Java
7 800 (6.90%) TypeScript
8 427 (3.68%) T-SQL
9 309 (2.66%) Bash
10 115 (0.99%) Bicep
11 106 (0.91%) C++
12 99 (0.85%) Go
13 83 (0.72%) VB.NET
14 79 (0.68%) PHP
15 78 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 77 (0.66%) VB
17 65 (0.56%) Kotlin
18 61 (0.53%) C
19 57 (0.49%) Ruby
20 42 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 1,281 (11.04%) Security Cleared
2 1,151 (9.92%) Degree
3 947 (8.16%) SC Cleared
4 607 (5.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 559 (4.82%) Azure Certification
6 317 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
7 290 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 279 (2.41%) DV Cleared
9 239 (2.06%) CCNA
10 227 (1.96%) AWS Certification
11 212 (1.83%) DBS Check
12 164 (1.41%) CISSP
13 143 (1.23%) MCSE
14 100 (0.86%) CCNP
15 95 (0.82%) Master's Degree
16 91 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
17 81 (0.70%) MCSA
18 80 (0.69%) CISM
19 77 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 72 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 494 (4.26%) QA
2 325 (2.80%) GDPR
3 297 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 257 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 243 (2.09%) SLA
6 172 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
7 135 (1.16%) NIST
8 73 (0.63%) Accessibility
9 66 (0.57%) PCI DSS
10 29 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 26 (0.22%) NCSC
12 19 (0.16%) SOC 2
13 18 (0.16%) HIPAA
13 18 (0.16%) PMO
14 17 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 16 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 14 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 9 (0.078%) GRC
17 9 (0.078%) ISO 9001
18 8 (0.069%) PSD2
System Software
1 2,117 (18.25%) Active Directory
2 876 (7.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 840 (7.24%) Hyper-V
4 828 (7.14%) Docker
5 288 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
6 156 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 138 (1.19%) vSphere
8 136 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
9 60 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
10 48 (0.41%) VMware NSX
11 41 (0.35%) XenApp
12 35 (0.30%) XenDesktop
13 27 (0.23%) Terminal Services
14 22 (0.19%) Firmware
15 18 (0.16%) VMware Server
16 10 (0.086%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 10 (0.086%) KVM
16 10 (0.086%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 9 (0.078%) pfSense
18 7 (0.060%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,015 (8.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 941 (8.11%) Kubernetes
3 805 (6.94%) Terraform
4 443 (3.82%) Ansible
5 226 (1.95%) SCCM
6 128 (1.10%) Puppet
7 103 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
8 97 (0.84%) Jamf Pro
9 93 (0.80%) vCenter Server
10 84 (0.72%) WSUS
11 75 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 75 (0.65%) SCOM
12 70 (0.60%) Progress Chef
13 63 (0.54%) Grafana
14 57 (0.49%) Prometheus
15 50 (0.43%) FortiGate
16 30 (0.26%) CASB
16 30 (0.26%) ZABBIX
17 28 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
17 28 (0.24%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5,044 (43.48%) Microsoft
2 1,323 (11.41%) VMware
3 694 (5.98%) Google
4 550 (4.74%) Cisco
5 404 (3.48%) Red Hat
6 337 (2.91%) IBM
7 313 (2.70%) Oracle
8 302 (2.60%) Citrix
9 289 (2.49%) ESRI
10 286 (2.47%) Veeam
11 267 (2.30%) Databricks
12 169 (1.46%) HP
13 156 (1.34%) Meraki
14 127 (1.09%) Dell
15 117 (1.01%) Fortinet
16 110 (0.95%) Apple
17 104 (0.90%) Aruba
18 100 (0.86%) ServiceNow
18 100 (0.86%) Sophos
19 88 (0.76%) CyberArk