Azure Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 4 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 7,547 9,971 13,923
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.35% 24.04% 20.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 51.69% 50.21% 38.52%
Number of salaries quoted 6,101 7,352 9,426
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,250 £50,000 £46,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £64,140 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.01% +2.62% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,601 19,859 36,141
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 43.24% 47.88% 52.80%
Number of salaries quoted 11,951 14,546 21,658
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,000 £37,478
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure.

Azure salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Azure salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 457 (6.06%) SharePoint
2 397 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 218 (2.89%) ArcGIS
4 214 (2.84%) GeoServer
5 151 (2.00%) IIS
6 91 (1.21%) CMS
7 77 (1.02%) Umbraco
8 73 (0.97%) Apache Spark
9 51 (0.68%) Apache
10 47 (0.62%) Sitecore CMS
11 46 (0.61%) Kentico
11 46 (0.61%) WebLogic
12 44 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
13 36 (0.48%) Headless CMS
14 35 (0.46%) Confluence
15 25 (0.33%) OpenStack
16 24 (0.32%) nginx
17 13 (0.17%) NServiceBus
18 11 (0.15%) Apache Solr
18 11 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 169 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
2 84 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 24 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (0.28%) Simulink
6 17 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.12%) Trello
8 3 (0.040%) SPSS
9 2 (0.027%) 1Password
9 2 (0.027%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.027%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.027%) CATIA
9 2 (0.027%) NASTRAN
9 2 (0.027%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.027%) Sketch
9 2 (0.027%) S-PLUS
10 1 (0.013%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.013%) Mathematica
10 1 (0.013%) Notion
10 1 (0.013%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 122 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 53 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 15 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
4 10 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
5 8 (0.11%) Elite 3E
5 8 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 8 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.080%) Oracle General Ledger
6 6 (0.080%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.080%) Primavera
7 5 (0.066%) Dynamics AX
8 4 (0.053%) Visualfiles
9 2 (0.027%) BusinessWorks
9 2 (0.027%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.027%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.027%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.027%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.027%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.027%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.027%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,411 (31.95%) AWS
2 1,445 (19.15%) Microsoft 365
3 1,015 (13.45%) Azure DevOps
4 933 (12.36%) Power Platform
5 787 (10.43%) Entra ID
6 767 (10.16%) GCP
7 525 (6.96%) SaaS
8 317 (4.20%) Dynamics 365
9 288 (3.82%) PaaS
10 261 (3.46%) Azure Data Factory
11 257 (3.41%) Serverless
12 248 (3.29%) IaaS
13 231 (3.06%) PowerApps
14 208 (2.76%) GitHub
15 196 (2.60%) Power Automate
16 176 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
17 154 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 120 (1.59%) Snowflake
19 115 (1.52%) Azure Functions
20 98 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 623 (8.25%) Firewall
2 514 (6.81%) DNS
3 338 (4.48%) WAN
4 293 (3.88%) Broadband
5 265 (3.51%) LAN
6 254 (3.37%) DHCP
7 236 (3.13%) TCP/IP
8 210 (2.78%) 5G
9 208 (2.76%) VPN
10 204 (2.70%) Internet
11 169 (2.24%) Wi-Fi
12 162 (2.15%) SAN
13 145 (1.92%) Network Security
13 145 (1.92%) Wireless
14 139 (1.84%) SD-WAN
15 98 (1.30%) VLAN
16 84 (1.11%) BGP
17 70 (0.93%) SSL
18 61 (0.81%) VoIP
19 49 (0.65%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,724 (22.84%) SQL Server
2 673 (8.92%) Power BI
3 509 (6.74%) Data Warehouse
4 421 (5.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 386 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
6 344 (4.56%) MongoDB
7 298 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
8 294 (3.90%) Data Lake
9 252 (3.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 235 (3.11%) GIS
11 219 (2.90%) NoSQL
12 214 (2.84%) QGIS
13 213 (2.82%) Relational Database
14 171 (2.27%) MySQL
15 149 (1.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 111 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
17 100 (1.33%) Big Data
18 86 (1.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 64 (0.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
20 57 (0.76%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 448 (5.94%) Git
2 219 (2.90%) JIRA
3 215 (2.85%) GitLab
4 206 (2.73%) Jenkins
5 170 (2.25%) Visual Studio
6 73 (0.97%) Selenium
7 71 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
8 63 (0.83%) Postman
9 48 (0.64%) Cypress.io
10 41 (0.54%) Jasmine
11 39 (0.52%) JMeter
12 38 (0.50%) TeamCity
12 38 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
13 36 (0.48%) NUnit
14 29 (0.38%) Karma Test Runner
15 28 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
16 27 (0.36%) Maven
17 23 (0.30%) SonarQube
18 21 (0.28%) Artifactory
18 21 (0.28%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,717 (22.75%) Social Skills
2 1,275 (16.89%) Finance
3 661 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
4 433 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 416 (5.51%) Public Sector
6 371 (4.92%) Retail
7 214 (2.84%) Law
8 194 (2.57%) Legal
9 189 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
10 161 (2.13%) Marketing
11 151 (2.00%) Banking
12 126 (1.67%) Front Office
13 99 (1.31%) Advertising
14 91 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
15 90 (1.19%) Games
16 84 (1.11%) Telecoms
17 83 (1.10%) Back Office
18 67 (0.89%) Aerospace
18 67 (0.89%) Manufacturing
19 59 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,129 (28.21%) Developer
2 1,609 (21.32%) Senior
3 1,076 (14.26%) .NET Developer
4 770 (10.20%) Architect
5 741 (9.82%) Lead
6 638 (8.45%) Software Engineer
7 433 (5.74%) Senior Developer
8 424 (5.62%) C# Developer
9 402 (5.33%) Senior Software Engineer
10 396 (5.25%) Analyst
11 382 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 324 (4.29%) C# .NET Developer
13 319 (4.23%) Data Engineer
14 316 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
15 301 (3.99%) Support Engineer
16 290 (3.84%) Azure Engineer
17 289 (3.83%) DevOps Engineer
18 274 (3.63%) Consultant
19 257 (3.41%) IT Engineer
20 226 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,237 (29.64%) .NET
2 1,258 (16.67%) .NET Core
3 1,089 (14.43%) ASP.NET
4 1,015 (13.45%) AngularJS
5 972 (12.88%) React
6 791 (10.48%) ASP.NET MVC
7 720 (9.54%) HTML
8 709 (9.39%) .NET Framework
9 681 (9.02%) CSS
10 670 (8.88%) Entity Framework
11 620 (8.22%) ASP.NET Web API
12 449 (5.95%) RESTful
13 447 (5.92%) Node.js
14 399 (5.29%) HTML5
15 394 (5.22%) Vue
16 270 (3.58%) Blazor
17 246 (3.26%) REST
18 216 (2.86%) PostGIS
19 214 (2.84%) Leaflet
19 214 (2.84%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 421 (5.58%) Public Cloud
2 275 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
3 259 (3.43%) Social Media
4 218 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
5 216 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 190 (2.52%) Cloud Native
7 189 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
8 175 (2.32%) Product Ownership
9 157 (2.08%) PKI
10 154 (2.04%) Data Centre
11 139 (1.84%) Private Cloud
12 129 (1.71%) Onboarding
13 116 (1.54%) Mobile App
14 115 (1.52%) Fixed Income
15 112 (1.48%) Data Structures
15 112 (1.48%) Derivative
16 111 (1.47%) Equities
17 103 (1.36%) Driving Licence
18 101 (1.34%) Hedge funds
19 82 (1.09%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1,170 (15.50%) Windows
2 790 (10.47%) Linux
3 603 (7.99%) Windows Server
4 293 (3.88%) Ubuntu
5 220 (2.92%) Windows 10
6 144 (1.91%) Android
7 133 (1.76%) Windows Server 2016
8 100 (1.33%) VMS
9 99 (1.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 94 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 94 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
11 93 (1.23%) Unix
12 86 (1.14%) Apple iOS
13 33 (0.44%) CentOS
14 25 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
15 21 (0.28%) Mac OS
16 15 (0.20%) Windows 7
17 14 (0.19%) Solaris
18 10 (0.13%) AIX
18 10 (0.13%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,806 (37.18%) Agile
2 2,084 (27.61%) DevOps
3 1,139 (15.09%) Full Stack Development
4 1,098 (14.55%) Microservices
5 1,067 (14.14%) Software Engineering
6 986 (13.06%) CI/CD
7 972 (12.88%) MVC
8 944 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
9 819 (10.85%) Scrum
10 748 (9.91%) Business Intelligence
11 711 (9.42%) TDD
12 650 (8.61%) Mentoring
13 642 (8.51%) Cybersecurity
14 598 (7.92%) Artificial Intelligence
15 592 (7.84%) Migration
16 570 (7.55%) Roadmaps
17 539 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 530 (7.02%) Actionable Insight
19 511 (6.77%) BDD
20 510 (6.76%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2,190 (29.02%) C#
2 1,886 (24.99%) SQL
3 1,850 (24.51%) JavaScript
4 1,117 (14.80%) Python
5 662 (8.77%) TypeScript
6 576 (7.63%) PowerShell
7 537 (7.12%) Java
8 359 (4.76%) Bash
9 337 (4.47%) T-SQL
10 84 (1.11%) R
11 81 (1.07%) Go
12 76 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 71 (0.94%) C++
14 69 (0.91%) Bicep
15 65 (0.86%) PHP
15 65 (0.86%) VB.NET
16 64 (0.85%) VB
17 51 (0.68%) Kotlin
18 48 (0.64%) Ruby
19 43 (0.57%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 843 (11.17%) Security Cleared
2 800 (10.60%) Degree
3 617 (8.18%) SC Cleared
4 398 (5.27%) Azure Certification
5 336 (4.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 233 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 171 (2.27%) AWS Certification
8 169 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
9 155 (2.05%) DBS Check
10 123 (1.63%) CISSP
11 103 (1.36%) CCNA
12 101 (1.34%) DV Cleared
13 72 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
14 71 (0.94%) Master's Degree
15 69 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
16 66 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 66 (0.87%) CISM
17 54 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 53 (0.70%) CCNP
19 52 (0.69%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 269 (3.56%) QA
2 185 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 153 (2.03%) Data Quality
4 113 (1.50%) NIST
5 103 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
6 102 (1.35%) GDPR
7 83 (1.10%) SLA
8 71 (0.94%) Accessibility
9 60 (0.80%) PCI DSS
10 22 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 21 (0.28%) COBIT
11 21 (0.28%) NCSC
12 17 (0.23%) GRC
12 17 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 14 (0.19%) PMO
14 12 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 11 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 11 (0.15%) SOC 2
16 10 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 6 (0.080%) GAAP
System Software
1 1,210 (16.03%) Active Directory
2 624 (8.27%) Docker
3 402 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 291 (3.86%) Hyper-V
5 226 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
6 118 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
7 100 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
8 59 (0.78%) vSphere
9 31 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
10 17 (0.23%) Firmware
11 10 (0.13%) DFS Replication
11 10 (0.13%) VMware Server
12 9 (0.12%) Terminal Services
13 8 (0.11%) XenDesktop
14 7 (0.093%) Embedded Firmware
14 7 (0.093%) XenApp
15 6 (0.080%) KVM
15 6 (0.080%) NFS
16 3 (0.040%) Gluster
16 3 (0.040%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 682 (9.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 670 (8.88%) Kubernetes
3 618 (8.19%) Terraform
4 299 (3.96%) Ansible
5 218 (2.89%) Jamf Pro
6 115 (1.52%) SCCM
7 101 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
8 78 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 66 (0.87%) vCenter Server
10 57 (0.76%) Grafana
10 57 (0.76%) Puppet
11 53 (0.70%) Progress Chef
12 47 (0.62%) Prometheus
13 42 (0.56%) WSUS
14 34 (0.45%) CASB
14 34 (0.45%) SCOM
15 25 (0.33%) Microsoft Clustering
16 22 (0.29%) Nagios
17 18 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
18 17 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3,613 (47.87%) Microsoft
2 605 (8.02%) VMware
3 396 (5.25%) Google
4 314 (4.16%) Cisco
5 263 (3.48%) Databricks
6 229 (3.03%) CyberArk
7 218 (2.89%) ESRI
8 210 (2.78%) Tanium
9 209 (2.77%) Oracle
10 150 (1.99%) Citrix
11 131 (1.74%) Meraki
12 104 (1.38%) Fortinet
13 96 (1.27%) Veeam
14 89 (1.18%) ServiceNow
15 81 (1.07%) HP
16 77 (1.02%) Facebook
17 75 (0.99%) IBM
18 70 (0.93%) Apple
18 70 (0.93%) Aruba
19 69 (0.91%) SolarWinds