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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 14,831 19,750 26,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.15% 22.32% 19.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.89% 51.32% 40.74%
Number of salaries quoted 11,902 12,756 16,663
10th Percentile £34,025 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,750
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 £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 30,338 38,483 65,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.08% 43.50% 48.12%
Number of salaries quoted 24,127 25,557 36,715
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,750 £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 20 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 20 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 4,646 £75,000 - 1,574
North of England 0 3,108 £55,000 - 741
South East -2 2,800 £54,000 -6.09% 747
Midlands +2 1,929 £50,000 -9.09% 516
North West 0 1,656 £57,500 +4.55% 393
South West -2 1,422 £55,000 - 355
West Midlands +1 1,152 £55,000 - 322
Yorkshire 0 1,064 £55,000 - 261
East of England 0 784 £50,000 - 193
East Midlands +3 772 £47,500 -9.52% 193
North East +4 390 £47,500 -13.64% 89
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 1,062 (7.16%) SharePoint
2 996 (6.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 255 (1.72%) IIS
4 245 (1.65%) Apache
5 200 (1.35%) ArcGIS
6 198 (1.34%) Apache Spark
6 198 (1.34%) GeoServer
7 183 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
8 128 (0.86%) CMS
9 123 (0.83%) Confluence
10 86 (0.58%) Umbraco
11 54 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
12 49 (0.33%) Kentico
12 49 (0.33%) OpenStack
13 41 (0.28%) Headless CMS
14 36 (0.24%) nginx
15 35 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
15 35 (0.24%) WebLogic
15 35 (0.24%) WordPress
16 30 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 522 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
2 221 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 48 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 37 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
6 30 (0.20%) Trello
7 23 (0.16%) 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
1 230 (1.55%) 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%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 4,333 (29.22%) AWS
2 3,427 (23.11%) Microsoft 365
3 2,037 (13.73%) Azure DevOps
4 1,725 (11.63%) GCP
5 1,702 (11.48%) Power Platform
6 1,588 (10.71%) Entra ID
7 876 (5.91%) SaaS
8 631 (4.25%) Serverless
9 594 (4.01%) PaaS
10 563 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
11 522 (3.52%) IaaS
12 461 (3.11%) Azure Data Factory
13 423 (2.85%) PowerApps
14 399 (2.69%) GitHub
15 365 (2.46%) Cloud Computing
16 358 (2.41%) Power Automate
17 341 (2.30%) Azure Functions
18 335 (2.26%) OneDrive
19 321 (2.16%) Azure Service Bus
20 314 (2.12%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,586 (10.69%) Firewall
2 1,062 (7.16%) DNS
3 761 (5.13%) WAN
4 680 (4.58%) DHCP
5 619 (4.17%) LAN
6 581 (3.92%) VPN
7 483 (3.26%) TCP/IP
8 376 (2.54%) Wi-Fi
9 375 (2.53%) SAN
10 322 (2.17%) Internet
11 301 (2.03%) Wireless
12 300 (2.02%) Broadband
13 299 (2.02%) Network Security
14 277 (1.87%) VLAN
15 230 (1.55%) SD-WAN
16 212 (1.43%) 5G
17 180 (1.21%) VoIP
18 111 (0.75%) Remote Desktop
19 110 (0.74%) NAS
20 107 (0.72%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,610 (17.60%) SQL Server
2 1,221 (8.23%) Power BI
3 978 (6.59%) Data Warehouse
4 850 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
5 680 (4.58%) MongoDB
6 653 (4.40%) NoSQL
7 562 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 534 (3.60%) Data Lake
9 449 (3.03%) Relational Database
10 427 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 351 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
12 282 (1.90%) MySQL
13 269 (1.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 266 (1.79%) DB2
15 243 (1.64%) BigQuery
15 243 (1.64%) GIS
16 226 (1.52%) Big Data
17 196 (1.32%) QGIS
18 193 (1.30%) Looker
19 187 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 871 (5.87%) Git
2 487 (3.28%) JIRA
3 401 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 292 (1.97%) GitLab
5 267 (1.80%) Visual Studio
6 133 (0.90%) Cypress.io
7 130 (0.88%) Selenium
8 118 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
9 81 (0.55%) Postman
10 76 (0.51%) NUnit
11 61 (0.41%) TeamCity
12 58 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
13 56 (0.38%) Bitbucket
14 55 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
15 52 (0.35%) SonarQube
16 51 (0.34%) Cucumber
17 49 (0.33%) JMeter
18 46 (0.31%) Jasmine
19 39 (0.26%) Artifactory
19 39 (0.26%) CircleCI
General
1 3,397 (22.90%) Social Skills
2 2,368 (15.97%) Finance
3 1,381 (9.31%) Analytical Skills
4 879 (5.93%) Public Sector
5 734 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 573 (3.86%) Retail
7 503 (3.39%) Law
8 396 (2.67%) Banking
9 379 (2.56%) Legal
10 321 (2.16%) Marketing
11 291 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
12 288 (1.94%) Front Office
13 269 (1.81%) Manufacturing
14 209 (1.41%) Telecoms
15 199 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
16 191 (1.29%) Aerospace
17 153 (1.03%) Games
18 151 (1.02%) Advertising
19 126 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
20 116 (0.78%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3,692 (24.89%) Developer
2 2,477 (16.70%) Senior
3 1,695 (11.43%) .NET Developer
4 1,594 (10.75%) Architect
5 1,262 (8.51%) Lead
6 1,052 (7.09%) Software Engineer
7 963 (6.49%) Analyst
8 884 (5.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 760 (5.12%) Support Engineer
10 725 (4.89%) C# Developer
11 696 (4.69%) Azure Engineer
12 675 (4.55%) IT Support
13 660 (4.45%) IT Engineer
14 657 (4.43%) Senior Developer
15 607 (4.09%) Data Engineer
16 547 (3.69%) C# .NET Developer
17 546 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
18 492 (3.32%) Full Stack Developer
19 458 (3.09%) DevOps Engineer
20 434 (2.93%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,760 (25.35%) .NET
2 1,825 (12.31%) React
3 1,711 (11.54%) AngularJS
4 1,668 (11.25%) ASP.NET
5 1,525 (10.28%) .NET Core
6 1,379 (9.30%) HTML
7 1,332 (8.98%) CSS
8 1,014 (6.84%) .NET Framework
9 963 (6.49%) ASP.NET Web API
10 884 (5.96%) Entity Framework
11 835 (5.63%) Vue
12 829 (5.59%) ASP.NET MVC
13 723 (4.87%) Node.js
14 709 (4.78%) REST
15 643 (4.34%) RESTful
16 559 (3.77%) HTML5
17 549 (3.70%) Web Services
18 487 (3.28%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 417 (2.81%) jQuery
20 410 (2.76%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 578 (3.90%) Public Cloud
2 462 (3.12%) Management Information System
3 437 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 428 (2.89%) Data Structures
5 421 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
6 408 (2.75%) Product Ownership
7 381 (2.57%) Greenfield Project
8 368 (2.48%) Cloud Native
9 360 (2.43%) Algorithms
10 351 (2.37%) Data Centre
11 305 (2.06%) Blockchain
12 278 (1.87%) Social Media
13 264 (1.78%) Fixed Income
14 250 (1.69%) Hedge funds
15 229 (1.54%) Driving Licence
16 225 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
17 216 (1.46%) Equities
18 198 (1.34%) Mobile App
19 190 (1.28%) Onboarding
20 188 (1.27%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3,179 (21.43%) Windows
2 1,597 (10.77%) Linux
3 1,530 (10.32%) Windows Server
4 575 (3.88%) Windows 10
5 504 (3.40%) Android
6 449 (3.03%) Apple iOS
7 374 (2.52%) Ubuntu
8 307 (2.07%) Windows Server 2016
9 254 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
10 229 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
11 168 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 152 (1.02%) Unix
13 139 (0.94%) VMS
14 138 (0.93%) CentOS
15 134 (0.90%) Mac OS
16 96 (0.65%) Debian
17 53 (0.36%) 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 4,679 (31.55%) Agile
2 3,881 (26.17%) DevOps
3 2,212 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
4 2,205 (14.87%) Full Stack Development
5 1,790 (12.07%) CI/CD
6 1,779 (12.00%) Software Engineering
7 1,619 (10.92%) Microservices
8 1,406 (9.48%) MVC
9 1,345 (9.07%) Mentoring
10 1,297 (8.75%) Business Intelligence
11 1,260 (8.50%) Scrum
12 1,251 (8.44%) Artificial Intelligence
13 1,233 (8.31%) Cybersecurity
14 1,209 (8.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 1,160 (7.82%) ITIL
16 1,079 (7.28%) Roadmaps
17 1,047 (7.06%) Migration
18 1,046 (7.05%) ETL
19 1,025 (6.91%) Analytics
20 906 (6.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3,689 (24.87%) C#
2 3,676 (24.79%) SQL
3 2,974 (20.05%) JavaScript
4 2,271 (15.31%) Python
5 1,340 (9.04%) PowerShell
6 1,121 (7.56%) TypeScript
7 1,086 (7.32%) Java
8 571 (3.85%) T-SQL
9 552 (3.72%) Bash
10 163 (1.10%) Bicep
11 140 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 140 (0.94%) Go
12 137 (0.92%) R
13 129 (0.87%) C++
14 108 (0.73%) Kotlin
15 95 (0.64%) Scala
16 94 (0.63%) PHP
17 80 (0.54%) Ruby
18 78 (0.53%) VB.NET
19 74 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,690 (11.40%) Degree
2 1,323 (8.92%) Security Cleared
3 943 (6.36%) SC Cleared
4 763 (5.14%) Azure Certification
5 758 (5.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 467 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 385 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
8 282 (1.90%) DV Cleared
9 263 (1.77%) AWS Certification
10 256 (1.73%) CISSP
11 253 (1.71%) CCNA
12 211 (1.42%) DBS Check
13 187 (1.26%) MCSE
14 170 (1.15%) Master's Degree
15 134 (0.90%) CCNP
16 114 (0.77%) CISM
17 111 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
18 110 (0.74%) MCSA
19 102 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
20 93 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 610 (4.11%) QA
2 440 (2.97%) Data Quality
3 394 (2.66%) GDPR
4 359 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 277 (1.87%) SLA
6 197 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 187 (1.26%) NIST
8 128 (0.86%) Accessibility
9 108 (0.73%) PCI DSS
10 46 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 45 (0.30%) PMO
12 43 (0.29%) 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 2,728 (18.39%) Active Directory
2 1,068 (7.20%) Docker
3 977 (6.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 852 (5.74%) Hyper-V
5 356 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
6 199 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
7 183 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 168 (1.13%) vSphere
9 89 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
10 58 (0.39%) XenApp
11 41 (0.28%) XenDesktop
12 34 (0.23%) Firmware
13 31 (0.21%) Terminal Services
14 24 (0.16%) VMware NSX
15 19 (0.13%) KVM
16 17 (0.11%) HDFS
16 17 (0.11%) VMware Server
17 12 (0.081%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 11 (0.074%) NFS
18 11 (0.074%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 1,386 (9.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 1,250 (8.43%) Kubernetes
3 1,152 (7.77%) Terraform
4 539 (3.63%) 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 86 (0.58%) 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 34 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6,533 (44.05%) Microsoft
2 1,513 (10.20%) VMware
3 949 (6.40%) Google
4 734 (4.95%) Cisco
5 573 (3.86%) Databricks
6 428 (2.89%) Red Hat
7 417 (2.81%) Oracle
8 415 (2.80%) Citrix
9 375 (2.53%) IBM
10 327 (2.20%) Veeam
11 251 (1.69%) CyberArk
12 218 (1.47%) HP
13 210 (1.42%) Tanium
14 201 (1.36%) ESRI
15 199 (1.34%) Meraki
16 163 (1.10%) ServiceNow
17 160 (1.08%) Fortinet
18 156 (1.05%) Dell
19 148 (1.00%) Apple
20 144 (0.97%) SolarWinds