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 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 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 11,336 12,432 14,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 21.02% 19.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.09% 54.47% 49.57%
Number of salaries quoted 8,828 7,110 9,410
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,992
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £68,743
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.23% +4.00% +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 23,573 22,822 28,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.91% 38.59% 39.90%
Number of salaries quoted 17,413 13,617 19,644
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,298 £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 £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
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 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 20 May 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 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
North of England 0 3,108 £55,000 - 756
South East -2 2,800 £54,000 -6.09% 757
Midlands +2 1,929 £50,000 -9.09% 516
North West 0 1,656 £57,500 +4.55% 399
South West -2 1,422 £55,000 - 352
West Midlands +1 1,152 £55,000 - 323
Yorkshire 0 1,064 £55,000 - 270
Scotland -24 816 £55,000 -5.98% 166
East of England 0 784 £50,000 - 194
East Midlands +3 772 £47,500 -9.52% 192
North East +4 390 £47,500 -13.64% 89
Wales -1 343 £50,000 +5.26% 102
Northern Ireland -5 120 £55,000 +4.76% 65
Isle of Man -3 17 £46,500 -33.57% 3
Channel Islands +1 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
1 857 (7.56%) SharePoint
2 800 (7.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 288 (2.54%) ArcGIS
4 286 (2.52%) GeoServer
5 226 (1.99%) IIS
6 98 (0.86%) CMS
7 92 (0.81%) Confluence
8 81 (0.71%) Umbraco
9 80 (0.71%) Apache
10 69 (0.61%) Apache Spark
11 49 (0.43%) OpenStack
12 43 (0.38%) Kentico
12 43 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
12 43 (0.38%) WebLogic
13 41 (0.36%) Headless CMS
14 32 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
15 25 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2013
16 20 (0.18%) nginx
16 20 (0.18%) WebSphere
17 18 (0.16%) FileNet
Applications
1 441 (3.89%) Microsoft Office
2 147 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (0.21%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.20%) Simulink
7 22 (0.19%) Trello
8 10 (0.088%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.071%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.053%) LightWave 3D
11 4 (0.035%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.026%) S-PLUS
12 3 (0.026%) Spreadsheet
13 2 (0.018%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.018%) CATIA
13 2 (0.018%) NASTRAN
13 2 (0.018%) Sketch
14 1 (0.009%) 1Password
14 1 (0.009%) GNU Octave
14 1 (0.009%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 157 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 72 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 32 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
4 14 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
5 9 (0.079%) Maximo
5 9 (0.079%) Unit4 Business World
6 8 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
6 8 (0.071%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (0.071%) Teamcenter
7 7 (0.062%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.053%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.053%) SAP PLM
9 5 (0.044%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.044%) SAP PP
10 4 (0.035%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.035%) Visualfiles
11 3 (0.026%) Oracle Applications
11 3 (0.026%) SAP ERP
12 2 (0.018%) Remedy ITSM
12 2 (0.018%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 3,385 (29.86%) AWS
2 2,816 (24.84%) Microsoft 365
3 1,543 (13.61%) Azure DevOps
4 1,177 (10.38%) Entra ID
5 1,149 (10.14%) Power Platform
6 1,089 (9.61%) GCP
7 651 (5.74%) SaaS
8 406 (3.58%) Serverless
9 341 (3.01%) PaaS
10 331 (2.92%) Dynamics 365
11 310 (2.73%) IaaS
12 291 (2.57%) Cloud Computing
13 286 (2.52%) OneDrive
14 276 (2.43%) GitHub
15 274 (2.42%) IBM Cloud
16 247 (2.18%) Azure Data Factory
17 243 (2.14%) PowerApps
18 217 (1.91%) Azure Functions
18 217 (1.91%) Azure Service Bus
19 203 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,286 (11.34%) Firewall
2 855 (7.54%) DNS
3 623 (5.50%) WAN
4 552 (4.87%) DHCP
5 465 (4.10%) VPN
6 464 (4.09%) LAN
7 413 (3.64%) TCP/IP
8 295 (2.60%) SAN
9 281 (2.48%) Internet
10 258 (2.28%) Wi-Fi
11 239 (2.11%) VLAN
12 210 (1.85%) Wireless
13 204 (1.80%) Network Security
14 176 (1.55%) SD-WAN
15 168 (1.48%) Broadband
16 163 (1.44%) VoIP
17 116 (1.02%) Remote Desktop
18 94 (0.83%) BGP
19 88 (0.78%) HTTP
20 85 (0.75%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,145 (18.92%) SQL Server
2 848 (7.48%) Power BI
3 773 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
4 757 (6.68%) Data Warehouse
5 557 (4.91%) MongoDB
6 547 (4.83%) NoSQL
7 422 (3.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 375 (3.31%) Relational Database
9 365 (3.22%) Data Lake
10 332 (2.93%) GIS
11 330 (2.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 284 (2.51%) QGIS
13 280 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
14 256 (2.26%) DB2
15 236 (2.08%) MySQL
16 204 (1.80%) BigQuery
17 188 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
18 180 (1.59%) Looker
19 166 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 136 (1.20%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 647 (5.71%) Git
2 395 (3.48%) JIRA
3 279 (2.46%) Jenkins
4 231 (2.04%) GitLab
5 207 (1.83%) Visual Studio
6 135 (1.19%) Selenium
7 101 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
8 74 (0.65%) Postman
9 70 (0.62%) Cypress.io
10 67 (0.59%) NUnit
11 51 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
12 45 (0.40%) Jasmine
13 43 (0.38%) JMeter
14 40 (0.35%) Cucumber
15 39 (0.34%) Bitbucket
16 34 (0.30%) TeamCity
17 33 (0.29%) Artifactory
18 32 (0.28%) SonarQube
19 30 (0.26%) Karma Test Runner
20 28 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,582 (22.78%) Social Skills
2 1,473 (12.99%) Finance
3 861 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
4 727 (6.41%) Public Sector
5 529 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 485 (4.28%) Retail
7 469 (4.14%) Law
8 288 (2.54%) Legal
9 279 (2.46%) Marketing
10 256 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
11 228 (2.01%) Manufacturing
12 195 (1.72%) Banking
13 179 (1.58%) Aerospace
14 174 (1.53%) Telecoms
15 167 (1.47%) Games
16 163 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
17 128 (1.13%) Advertising
18 91 (0.80%) Billing
19 75 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
20 57 (0.50%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2,888 (25.48%) Developer
2 1,747 (15.41%) Senior
3 1,445 (12.75%) .NET Developer
4 1,052 (9.28%) Architect
5 989 (8.72%) Lead
6 925 (8.16%) Software Engineer
7 766 (6.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 695 (6.13%) Support Engineer
9 674 (5.95%) Analyst
10 617 (5.44%) IT Support
11 599 (5.28%) IT Engineer
12 571 (5.04%) C# Developer
13 471 (4.15%) Senior Developer
14 468 (4.13%) Azure Engineer
15 465 (4.10%) C# .NET Developer
16 389 (3.43%) Senior Software Engineer
17 381 (3.36%) Data Engineer
18 380 (3.35%) IT Support Engineer
19 340 (3.00%) Cloud Engineer
20 336 (2.96%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,170 (27.96%) .NET
2 1,492 (13.16%) React
3 1,464 (12.91%) AngularJS
4 1,427 (12.59%) .NET Core
5 1,414 (12.47%) ASP.NET
6 1,284 (11.33%) CSS
7 1,217 (10.74%) HTML
8 907 (8.00%) ASP.NET Web API
9 896 (7.90%) .NET Framework
10 835 (7.37%) Entity Framework
11 756 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
12 695 (6.13%) Vue
13 625 (5.51%) Node.js
14 581 (5.13%) REST
15 558 (4.92%) RESTful
16 484 (4.27%) HTML5
17 459 (4.05%) Web Services
18 453 (4.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 407 (3.59%) Blazor
20 372 (3.28%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 588 (5.19%) Public Cloud
2 391 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 366 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 350 (3.09%) Algorithms
5 344 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
6 323 (2.85%) Management Information System
7 313 (2.76%) Product Ownership
8 297 (2.62%) Cloud Native
9 290 (2.56%) Blockchain
10 258 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
11 254 (2.24%) Data Centre
12 232 (2.05%) Driving Licence
13 210 (1.85%) Onboarding
14 178 (1.57%) Private Cloud
15 162 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
16 145 (1.28%) Mobile App
17 144 (1.27%) PKI
18 137 (1.21%) Social Media
19 131 (1.16%) e-Learning
20 129 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2,611 (23.03%) Windows
2 1,291 (11.39%) Windows Server
3 1,289 (11.37%) Linux
4 474 (4.18%) Windows 10
5 455 (4.01%) Android
6 392 (3.46%) Apple iOS
7 266 (2.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 222 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
9 218 (1.92%) Ubuntu
10 183 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
11 158 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 134 (1.18%) VMS
13 128 (1.13%) CentOS
14 122 (1.08%) Unix
15 109 (0.96%) Mac OS
16 96 (0.85%) Debian
17 46 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
19 31 (0.27%) Windows 7
20 24 (0.21%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,764 (33.20%) Agile
2 3,103 (27.37%) DevOps
3 1,836 (16.20%) Full Stack Development
4 1,818 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
5 1,368 (12.07%) Software Engineering
6 1,357 (11.97%) CI/CD
7 1,307 (11.53%) Microservices
8 1,281 (11.30%) MVC
9 1,093 (9.64%) Mentoring
10 1,023 (9.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 1,012 (8.93%) Scrum
12 925 (8.16%) Business Intelligence
13 904 (7.97%) ITIL
14 892 (7.87%) Artificial Intelligence
15 844 (7.45%) Cybersecurity
16 820 (7.23%) Migration
17 809 (7.14%) Roadmaps
18 756 (6.67%) Web Development
19 746 (6.58%) Customer Service
20 723 (6.38%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3,057 (26.97%) C#
2 2,673 (23.58%) SQL
3 2,602 (22.95%) JavaScript
4 1,419 (12.52%) Python
5 922 (8.13%) Java
6 884 (7.80%) PowerShell
7 780 (6.88%) TypeScript
8 440 (3.88%) T-SQL
9 311 (2.74%) Bash
10 109 (0.96%) C++
11 103 (0.91%) Go
12 102 (0.90%) Bicep
13 78 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 78 (0.69%) PHP
13 78 (0.69%) VB.NET
14 73 (0.64%) VB
15 69 (0.61%) Kotlin
16 58 (0.51%) C
17 57 (0.50%) Ruby
18 40 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 1,253 (11.05%) Security Cleared
2 1,148 (10.13%) Degree
3 923 (8.14%) SC Cleared
4 599 (5.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 546 (4.82%) Azure Certification
6 315 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
7 274 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 263 (2.32%) DV Cleared
9 238 (2.10%) CCNA
10 220 (1.94%) AWS Certification
11 209 (1.84%) DBS Check
12 165 (1.46%) CISSP
13 145 (1.28%) MCSE
14 98 (0.86%) CCNP
15 90 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
15 90 (0.79%) Master's Degree
16 81 (0.71%) CISM
16 81 (0.71%) MCSA
17 77 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 74 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 484 (4.27%) QA
2 334 (2.95%) GDPR
3 293 (2.58%) Data Quality
4 252 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 236 (2.08%) SLA
6 163 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 136 (1.20%) NIST
8 74 (0.65%) Accessibility
9 63 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 25 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 24 (0.21%) NCSC
12 19 (0.17%) SOC 2
13 18 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 18 (0.16%) PMO
14 17 (0.15%) HIPAA
15 16 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 13 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 9 (0.079%) GRC
17 9 (0.079%) ISO 9001
18 8 (0.071%) PSD2
System Software
1 2,087 (18.41%) Active Directory
2 859 (7.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 831 (7.33%) Hyper-V
4 809 (7.14%) Docker
5 285 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
6 147 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 140 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
8 127 (1.12%) vSphere
9 55 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
10 48 (0.42%) VMware NSX
11 37 (0.33%) XenApp
12 31 (0.27%) XenDesktop
13 28 (0.25%) Terminal Services
14 22 (0.19%) Firmware
15 17 (0.15%) VMware Server
16 10 (0.088%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 9 (0.079%) KVM
18 8 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 8 (0.071%) pfSense
19 7 (0.062%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,007 (8.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 925 (8.16%) Kubernetes
3 778 (6.86%) Terraform
4 430 (3.79%) Ansible
5 221 (1.95%) SCCM
6 121 (1.07%) Puppet
7 100 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
8 97 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
9 90 (0.79%) vCenter Server
10 80 (0.71%) WSUS
11 75 (0.66%) Progress Chef
12 74 (0.65%) SCOM
13 67 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 60 (0.53%) Grafana
15 53 (0.47%) Prometheus
16 52 (0.46%) FortiGate
17 31 (0.27%) CASB
18 29 (0.26%) ZABBIX
19 27 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
20 25 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 4,990 (44.02%) Microsoft
2 1,298 (11.45%) VMware
3 707 (6.24%) Google
4 540 (4.76%) Cisco
5 398 (3.51%) Red Hat
6 356 (3.14%) IBM
7 322 (2.84%) Oracle
8 298 (2.63%) Citrix
9 289 (2.55%) ESRI
10 276 (2.43%) Veeam
11 272 (2.40%) Databricks
12 167 (1.47%) HP
13 155 (1.37%) Meraki
14 125 (1.10%) Dell
15 119 (1.05%) Fortinet
16 110 (0.97%) Apple
17 102 (0.90%) Aruba
18 99 (0.87%) ServiceNow
18 99 (0.87%) Sophos
19 88 (0.78%) CyberArk