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

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 16,736 22,323 30,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.86% 22.12% 19.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.28% 51.67% 40.03%
Number of salaries quoted 13,222 14,276 18,816
10th Percentile £34,000 £36,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £64,987 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.21% +3.98% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £98,750
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 35,399 43,201 76,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.67% 42.82% 48.28%
Number of salaries quoted 26,752 28,421 41,369
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% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
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 11 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 11 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 14,827 £59,500 -8.46% 3,311
UK excluding London -1 11,287 £52,500 -4.55% 2,281
Work from Home +1 7,550 £60,000 -7.69% 2,036
London 0 4,674 £75,000 - 1,194
North of England 0 3,089 £55,000 - 615
South East -2 2,785 £54,000 -6.09% 490
Midlands +2 1,929 £50,000 -9.09% 449
North West 0 1,647 £57,500 +4.55% 333
South West -3 1,409 £55,000 +4.76% 317
West Midlands +1 1,154 £55,000 - 267
Yorkshire 0 1,059 £55,000 - 211
Scotland -24 816 £55,000 -7.60% 141
East of England 0 794 £50,000 - 176
East Midlands +3 771 £47,500 -9.52% 181
North East +4 385 £47,500 -13.64% 74
Wales 0 339 £50,000 - 85
Northern Ireland -4 114 £55,000 +4.76% 56
Isle of Man -2 17 £46,500 -33.57% 3
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 1,162 (6.94%) SharePoint
2 1,069 (6.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 334 (2.00%) ArcGIS
4 332 (1.98%) GeoServer
5 294 (1.76%) IIS
6 243 (1.45%) Apache
7 213 (1.27%) Apache Spark
8 176 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
9 139 (0.83%) CMS
10 131 (0.78%) Confluence
11 100 (0.60%) Umbraco
12 56 (0.33%) OpenStack
12 56 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
13 55 (0.33%) WebLogic
14 51 (0.30%) Kentico
15 41 (0.24%) Headless CMS
16 37 (0.22%) WebSphere
17 36 (0.22%) nginx
17 36 (0.22%) WordPress
18 35 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 552 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
2 245 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 61 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 51 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 39 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 30 (0.18%) Trello
7 21 (0.13%) 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 2 (0.012%) 1Password
13 2 (0.012%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.012%) CATIA
13 2 (0.012%) NASTRAN
13 2 (0.012%) Sketch
13 2 (0.012%) S-PLUS
14 1 (0.006%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 265 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 85 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 38 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
4 31 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
5 13 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.078%) Teamcenter
6 11 (0.066%) Maximo
7 10 (0.060%) Elite 3E
7 10 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
7 10 (0.060%) Remedy ITSM
7 10 (0.060%) Unit4 Business World
8 9 (0.054%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.036%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.036%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 6 (0.036%) Primavera
9 6 (0.036%) SAP PLM
10 5 (0.030%) NetSuite
10 5 (0.030%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.030%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.030%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 5,119 (30.59%) AWS
2 3,810 (22.77%) Microsoft 365
3 2,309 (13.80%) Azure DevOps
4 2,064 (12.33%) GCP
5 1,915 (11.44%) Power Platform
6 1,753 (10.47%) Entra ID
7 1,037 (6.20%) SaaS
8 712 (4.25%) PaaS
9 698 (4.17%) Serverless
10 674 (4.03%) Dynamics 365
11 623 (3.72%) IaaS
12 506 (3.02%) Azure Data Factory
13 502 (3.00%) PowerApps
14 469 (2.80%) GitHub
15 454 (2.71%) Cloud Computing
16 409 (2.44%) Power Automate
17 369 (2.20%) Azure Functions
18 367 (2.19%) OneDrive
19 359 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
20 351 (2.10%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1,721 (10.28%) Firewall
2 1,161 (6.94%) DNS
3 860 (5.14%) WAN
4 724 (4.33%) DHCP
5 684 (4.09%) LAN
6 642 (3.84%) VPN
7 533 (3.18%) TCP/IP
8 407 (2.43%) SAN
9 391 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
10 360 (2.15%) Internet
11 340 (2.03%) Network Security
12 321 (1.92%) Wireless
13 311 (1.86%) Broadband
14 306 (1.83%) VLAN
15 265 (1.58%) SD-WAN
16 212 (1.27%) 5G
17 198 (1.18%) VoIP
18 138 (0.82%) BGP
18 138 (0.82%) Remote Desktop
19 112 (0.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,872 (17.16%) SQL Server
2 1,324 (7.91%) Power BI
3 1,064 (6.36%) Data Warehouse
4 1,013 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
5 738 (4.41%) NoSQL
6 701 (4.19%) MongoDB
7 640 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 630 (3.76%) Data Lake
9 518 (3.10%) Relational Database
10 448 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 382 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
12 381 (2.28%) GIS
13 330 (1.97%) QGIS
14 311 (1.86%) MySQL
15 284 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 266 (1.59%) Big Data
16 266 (1.59%) DB2
17 253 (1.51%) BigQuery
18 212 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
19 201 (1.20%) Looker
Development Applications
1 947 (5.66%) Git
2 561 (3.35%) JIRA
3 486 (2.90%) Jenkins
4 332 (1.98%) GitLab
5 297 (1.77%) Visual Studio
6 167 (1.00%) Selenium
7 141 (0.84%) Cypress.io
8 130 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
9 105 (0.63%) Postman
10 83 (0.50%) NUnit
11 67 (0.40%) TeamCity
12 61 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
13 59 (0.35%) JMeter
14 58 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
15 54 (0.32%) Bitbucket
15 54 (0.32%) Cucumber
16 53 (0.32%) SonarQube
17 50 (0.30%) CircleCI
18 49 (0.29%) Jasmine
19 44 (0.26%) Artifactory
General
1 3,804 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 2,756 (16.47%) Finance
3 1,475 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
4 977 (5.84%) Public Sector
5 976 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 677 (4.05%) Law
7 618 (3.69%) Retail
8 489 (2.92%) Banking
9 466 (2.78%) Legal
10 439 (2.62%) Marketing
11 390 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
12 286 (1.71%) Front Office
13 276 (1.65%) Manufacturing
14 236 (1.41%) Telecoms
15 222 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
16 200 (1.20%) Games
17 183 (1.09%) Aerospace
18 152 (0.91%) Advertising
19 135 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
20 119 (0.71%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 4,093 (24.46%) Developer
2 3,007 (17.97%) Senior
3 1,868 (11.16%) Architect
4 1,780 (10.64%) .NET Developer
5 1,514 (9.05%) Lead
6 1,344 (8.03%) Software Engineer
7 1,092 (6.52%) Analyst
8 960 (5.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 819 (4.89%) Support Engineer
10 806 (4.82%) Azure Engineer
11 773 (4.62%) Senior Developer
12 753 (4.50%) C# Developer
13 728 (4.35%) IT Support
14 710 (4.24%) IT Engineer
15 697 (4.16%) Data Engineer
16 627 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
17 557 (3.33%) C# .NET Developer
18 544 (3.25%) Full Stack Developer
19 542 (3.24%) Senior Software Engineer
20 517 (3.09%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,282 (25.59%) .NET
2 2,050 (12.25%) React
3 1,849 (11.05%) AngularJS
4 1,794 (10.72%) .NET Core
5 1,770 (10.58%) ASP.NET
6 1,562 (9.33%) CSS
7 1,499 (8.96%) HTML
8 1,118 (6.68%) .NET Framework
9 1,022 (6.11%) ASP.NET Web API
10 967 (5.78%) Entity Framework
11 887 (5.30%) ASP.NET MVC
12 884 (5.28%) Vue
13 798 (4.77%) Node.js
14 791 (4.73%) REST
15 708 (4.23%) RESTful
16 614 (3.67%) Web Services
17 590 (3.53%) HTML5
18 505 (3.02%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 448 (2.68%) Blazor
20 428 (2.56%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 795 (4.75%) Public Cloud
2 527 (3.15%) Management Information System
3 465 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 454 (2.71%) Cloud Native
4 454 (2.71%) Data Structures
5 447 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 444 (2.65%) Product Ownership
7 438 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
8 434 (2.59%) Data Centre
9 432 (2.58%) Algorithms
10 313 (1.87%) Blockchain
11 309 (1.85%) Onboarding
12 294 (1.76%) Social Media
13 278 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
14 261 (1.56%) Fixed Income
15 244 (1.46%) Hedge funds
16 240 (1.43%) Driving Licence
17 232 (1.39%) Private Cloud
18 223 (1.33%) PKI
19 220 (1.31%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3,426 (20.47%) Windows
2 1,799 (10.75%) Linux
3 1,677 (10.02%) Windows Server
4 602 (3.60%) Windows 10
5 526 (3.14%) Android
6 464 (2.77%) Apple iOS
7 400 (2.39%) Ubuntu
8 325 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
9 267 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 249 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
11 210 (1.25%) Unix
12 186 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 155 (0.93%) VMS
14 145 (0.87%) CentOS
15 139 (0.83%) Mac OS
16 97 (0.58%) Debian
17 48 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
19 35 (0.21%) Windows 7
20 32 (0.19%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,389 (32.20%) Agile
2 4,527 (27.05%) DevOps
3 2,574 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2,350 (14.04%) Full Stack Development
5 2,205 (13.18%) Software Engineering
6 2,117 (12.65%) CI/CD
7 1,755 (10.49%) Microservices
8 1,533 (9.16%) Mentoring
9 1,509 (9.02%) MVC
10 1,432 (8.56%) Business Intelligence
11 1,416 (8.46%) Artificial Intelligence
11 1,416 (8.46%) Scrum
12 1,396 (8.34%) Cybersecurity
13 1,294 (7.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 1,271 (7.59%) ITIL
15 1,217 (7.27%) Migration
16 1,208 (7.22%) Roadmaps
17 1,170 (6.99%) Analytics
18 1,111 (6.64%) ETL
19 1,026 (6.13%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4,180 (24.98%) C#
2 4,137 (24.72%) SQL
3 3,329 (19.89%) JavaScript
4 2,619 (15.65%) Python
5 1,458 (8.71%) PowerShell
6 1,326 (7.92%) Java
7 1,210 (7.23%) TypeScript
8 624 (3.73%) T-SQL
9 584 (3.49%) Bash
10 183 (1.09%) Go
11 175 (1.05%) Bicep
12 151 (0.90%) C++
13 144 (0.86%) R
14 142 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 111 (0.66%) PHP
16 107 (0.64%) Ruby
17 105 (0.63%) Kotlin
18 95 (0.57%) Scala
19 83 (0.50%) VB.NET
20 80 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 1,860 (11.11%) Degree
2 1,647 (9.84%) Security Cleared
3 1,219 (7.28%) SC Cleared
4 855 (5.11%) Azure Certification
5 832 (4.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 498 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 439 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
8 324 (1.94%) AWS Certification
9 305 (1.82%) CISSP
10 295 (1.76%) CCNA
11 275 (1.64%) DV Cleared
12 235 (1.40%) DBS Check
13 203 (1.21%) MCSE
14 186 (1.11%) Master's Degree
15 159 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
16 157 (0.94%) CISM
17 148 (0.88%) CCNP
18 116 (0.69%) MCSA
18 116 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
19 107 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 694 (4.15%) QA
2 473 (2.83%) Data Quality
3 450 (2.69%) GDPR
4 416 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 298 (1.78%) SLA
6 230 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
7 220 (1.31%) NIST
8 158 (0.94%) Accessibility
9 115 (0.69%) PCI DSS
10 65 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 47 (0.28%) PMO
12 44 (0.26%) NCSC
13 36 (0.22%) COBIT
14 35 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 31 (0.19%) GRC
16 27 (0.16%) HIPAA
16 27 (0.16%) ISO 9001
17 24 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 24 (0.14%) SOC 2
18 16 (0.096%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2,994 (17.89%) Active Directory
2 1,217 (7.27%) Docker
3 1,105 (6.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 907 (5.42%) Hyper-V
5 382 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
6 212 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
7 195 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 177 (1.06%) vSphere
9 91 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
10 59 (0.35%) VMware NSX
11 54 (0.32%) XenApp
12 42 (0.25%) XenDesktop
13 34 (0.20%) Firmware
14 31 (0.19%) Terminal Services
15 21 (0.13%) KVM
16 19 (0.11%) VMware Server
17 18 (0.11%) HDFS
18 12 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 12 (0.072%) vCloud
19 11 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 1,488 (8.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 1,448 (8.65%) Kubernetes
3 1,342 (8.02%) Terraform
4 616 (3.68%) Ansible
5 320 (1.91%) SCCM
6 266 (1.59%) Jamf Pro
7 197 (1.18%) Puppet
8 168 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
9 150 (0.90%) vCenter Server
10 131 (0.78%) Progress Chef
11 110 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 106 (0.63%) Grafana
13 93 (0.56%) Prometheus
14 89 (0.53%) WSUS
15 85 (0.51%) SCOM
16 72 (0.43%) FortiGate
17 50 (0.30%) CASB
18 44 (0.26%) Nagios
19 38 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
20 34 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 7,250 (43.32%) Microsoft
2 1,693 (10.12%) VMware
3 1,088 (6.50%) Google
4 810 (4.84%) Cisco
5 615 (3.67%) Databricks
6 504 (3.01%) Oracle
7 455 (2.72%) Citrix
8 427 (2.55%) Red Hat
9 414 (2.47%) IBM
10 358 (2.14%) Veeam
11 335 (2.00%) ESRI
12 254 (1.52%) CyberArk
13 232 (1.39%) Meraki
14 230 (1.37%) HP
15 210 (1.25%) Tanium
16 196 (1.17%) ServiceNow
17 175 (1.05%) Fortinet
18 164 (0.98%) SAP
19 159 (0.95%) Apple
20 158 (0.94%) Dell