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 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 3 4 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 7,550 9,901 14,458
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.33% 24.40% 20.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 51.53% 50.51% 38.30%
Number of salaries quoted 6,067 7,266 9,612
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,500
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 £78,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.23% +4.00% +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 14,653 19,603 37,748
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 43.34% 48.31% 52.97%
Number of salaries quoted 11,910 14,302 21,927
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +11.12%
75th Percentile £79,500 £85,000 £83,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £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 20 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
1 449 (5.95%) SharePoint
2 379 (5.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 218 (2.89%) ArcGIS
4 214 (2.83%) GeoServer
5 148 (1.96%) IIS
6 87 (1.15%) CMS
7 74 (0.98%) Umbraco
8 70 (0.93%) Apache Spark
9 51 (0.68%) Apache
10 47 (0.62%) Sitecore CMS
11 46 (0.61%) WebLogic
12 45 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
13 44 (0.58%) Kentico
14 37 (0.49%) Confluence
15 36 (0.48%) Headless CMS
16 25 (0.33%) OpenStack
17 24 (0.32%) nginx
18 15 (0.20%) NServiceBus
19 11 (0.15%) Apache Solr
19 11 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 165 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
2 84 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 24 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (0.30%) Simulink
6 17 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.12%) Trello
8 3 (0.040%) S-PLUS
8 3 (0.040%) SPSS
9 2 (0.026%) 1Password
9 2 (0.026%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.026%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.026%) CATIA
9 2 (0.026%) NASTRAN
9 2 (0.026%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.026%) Sketch
10 1 (0.013%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.013%) Notion
10 1 (0.013%) Revit
10 1 (0.013%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 124 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 53 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 16 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
4 10 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
5 9 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.11%) Elite 3E
6 8 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.079%) Oracle General Ledger
7 6 (0.079%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 6 (0.079%) Primavera
8 5 (0.066%) Dynamics AX
9 4 (0.053%) Visualfiles
10 2 (0.026%) BusinessWorks
10 2 (0.026%) Oracle Applications
10 2 (0.026%) Oracle Assets
10 2 (0.026%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.026%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.026%) SystmOne
10 2 (0.026%) Teamcenter
11 1 (0.013%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2,413 (31.96%) AWS
2 1,423 (18.85%) Microsoft 365
3 999 (13.23%) Azure DevOps
4 931 (12.33%) Power Platform
5 788 (10.44%) Entra ID
6 760 (10.07%) GCP
7 529 (7.01%) SaaS
8 307 (4.07%) Dynamics 365
9 279 (3.70%) PaaS
10 265 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
11 258 (3.42%) Serverless
12 239 (3.17%) IaaS
13 231 (3.06%) PowerApps
14 209 (2.77%) GitHub
15 202 (2.68%) Power Automate
16 172 (2.28%) Cloud Computing
17 158 (2.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 120 (1.59%) Snowflake
19 117 (1.55%) Azure Functions
20 101 (1.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 614 (8.13%) Firewall
2 504 (6.68%) DNS
3 336 (4.45%) WAN
4 293 (3.88%) Broadband
5 263 (3.48%) LAN
6 246 (3.26%) DHCP
7 238 (3.15%) TCP/IP
8 210 (2.78%) 5G
9 205 (2.72%) Internet
10 199 (2.64%) VPN
11 173 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
12 159 (2.11%) SAN
13 144 (1.91%) Network Security
14 139 (1.84%) Wireless
15 138 (1.83%) SD-WAN
16 95 (1.26%) VLAN
17 83 (1.10%) BGP
18 70 (0.93%) SSL
19 57 (0.75%) VoIP
20 51 (0.68%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,724 (22.83%) SQL Server
2 682 (9.03%) Power BI
3 523 (6.93%) Data Warehouse
4 420 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 383 (5.07%) PostgreSQL
6 342 (4.53%) MongoDB
7 303 (4.01%) Data Lake
8 298 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
9 255 (3.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 235 (3.11%) GIS
11 227 (3.01%) NoSQL
12 216 (2.86%) Relational Database
13 214 (2.83%) QGIS
14 165 (2.19%) MySQL
15 153 (2.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 110 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
17 98 (1.30%) Big Data
18 84 (1.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 76 (1.01%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
20 57 (0.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 449 (5.95%) Git
2 217 (2.87%) JIRA
3 216 (2.86%) GitLab
4 205 (2.72%) Jenkins
5 166 (2.20%) Visual Studio
6 71 (0.94%) Selenium
6 71 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
7 63 (0.83%) Postman
8 49 (0.65%) Cypress.io
9 40 (0.53%) JMeter
10 39 (0.52%) Jasmine
11 37 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
12 36 (0.48%) NUnit
12 36 (0.48%) TeamCity
13 28 (0.37%) Karma Test Runner
14 27 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
15 26 (0.34%) Maven
16 25 (0.33%) SonarQube
17 21 (0.28%) Artifactory
17 21 (0.28%) Cucumber
General
1 1,732 (22.94%) Social Skills
2 1,285 (17.02%) Finance
3 666 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 440 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 414 (5.48%) Public Sector
6 376 (4.98%) Retail
7 216 (2.86%) Law
8 203 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
9 192 (2.54%) Legal
10 158 (2.09%) Marketing
11 147 (1.95%) Banking
12 123 (1.63%) Front Office
13 107 (1.42%) Advertising
14 92 (1.22%) Games
15 89 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
16 87 (1.15%) Back Office
17 84 (1.11%) Telecoms
18 69 (0.91%) Aerospace
18 69 (0.91%) Manufacturing
19 59 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,142 (28.37%) Developer
2 1,589 (21.05%) Senior
3 1,086 (14.38%) .NET Developer
4 769 (10.19%) Architect
5 748 (9.91%) Lead
6 644 (8.53%) Software Engineer
7 435 (5.76%) Senior Developer
8 433 (5.74%) C# Developer
9 403 (5.34%) Senior Software Engineer
10 387 (5.13%) Analyst
11 372 (4.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 331 (4.38%) C# .NET Developer
13 324 (4.29%) Data Engineer
14 315 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
15 303 (4.01%) Support Engineer
16 288 (3.81%) Azure Engineer
17 287 (3.80%) DevOps Engineer
18 285 (3.77%) Consultant
19 261 (3.46%) IT Engineer
20 225 (2.98%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,233 (29.58%) .NET
2 1,252 (16.58%) .NET Core
3 1,088 (14.41%) ASP.NET
4 1,018 (13.48%) AngularJS
5 983 (13.02%) React
6 793 (10.50%) ASP.NET MVC
7 713 (9.44%) HTML
8 708 (9.38%) .NET Framework
9 676 (8.95%) CSS
10 674 (8.93%) Entity Framework
11 625 (8.28%) ASP.NET Web API
12 452 (5.99%) Node.js
13 449 (5.95%) RESTful
14 398 (5.27%) HTML5
15 397 (5.26%) Vue
16 269 (3.56%) Blazor
17 243 (3.22%) REST
18 214 (2.83%) Leaflet
18 214 (2.83%) OpenLayers
18 214 (2.83%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 411 (5.44%) Public Cloud
2 269 (3.56%) Greenfield Project
3 259 (3.43%) Social Media
4 220 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
5 217 (2.87%) Management Information System
6 194 (2.57%) Cloud Native
7 187 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
8 178 (2.36%) Product Ownership
9 157 (2.08%) PKI
10 147 (1.95%) Data Centre
11 138 (1.83%) Private Cloud
12 131 (1.74%) Onboarding
13 118 (1.56%) Mobile App
14 111 (1.47%) Equities
14 111 (1.47%) Fixed Income
15 109 (1.44%) Derivative
16 105 (1.39%) Driving Licence
17 100 (1.32%) Data Structures
17 100 (1.32%) Hedge funds
18 81 (1.07%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1,161 (15.38%) Windows
2 788 (10.44%) Linux
3 589 (7.80%) Windows Server
4 295 (3.91%) Ubuntu
5 224 (2.97%) Windows 10
6 149 (1.97%) Android
7 131 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
8 101 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
9 99 (1.31%) VMS
10 94 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 93 (1.23%) Unix
11 93 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
12 89 (1.18%) Apple iOS
13 34 (0.45%) CentOS
14 24 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
15 19 (0.25%) Mac OS
16 15 (0.20%) Windows 7
17 14 (0.19%) Solaris
18 11 (0.15%) Mac OS X
19 10 (0.13%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,812 (37.25%) Agile
2 2,091 (27.70%) DevOps
3 1,160 (15.36%) Full Stack Development
4 1,103 (14.61%) Microservices
5 1,074 (14.23%) Software Engineering
6 985 (13.05%) CI/CD
7 970 (12.85%) MVC
8 945 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
9 817 (10.82%) Scrum
10 753 (9.97%) Business Intelligence
11 724 (9.59%) TDD
12 647 (8.57%) Mentoring
13 634 (8.40%) Cybersecurity
14 624 (8.26%) Artificial Intelligence
15 586 (7.76%) Roadmaps
16 584 (7.74%) Migration
17 529 (7.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 527 (6.98%) Analytics
19 519 (6.87%) BDD
20 515 (6.82%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 2,192 (29.03%) C#
2 1,892 (25.06%) SQL
3 1,852 (24.53%) JavaScript
4 1,123 (14.87%) Python
5 661 (8.75%) TypeScript
6 557 (7.38%) PowerShell
7 555 (7.35%) Java
8 358 (4.74%) Bash
9 337 (4.46%) T-SQL
10 81 (1.07%) Go
11 80 (1.06%) R
12 79 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 74 (0.98%) C++
14 68 (0.90%) Bicep
15 65 (0.86%) VB.NET
16 64 (0.85%) VB
17 59 (0.78%) PHP
18 54 (0.72%) Kotlin
19 45 (0.60%) Ruby
20 44 (0.58%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 847 (11.22%) Security Cleared
2 803 (10.64%) Degree
3 622 (8.24%) SC Cleared
4 413 (5.47%) Azure Certification
5 341 (4.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 245 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 183 (2.42%) AWS Certification
8 169 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
9 156 (2.07%) DBS Check
10 123 (1.63%) CISSP
11 106 (1.40%) DV Cleared
12 104 (1.38%) CCNA
13 72 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
14 70 (0.93%) 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
17 54 (0.72%) CCNP
18 52 (0.69%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 275 (3.64%) QA
2 182 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 155 (2.05%) Data Quality
4 113 (1.50%) NIST
5 104 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 99 (1.31%) GDPR
7 81 (1.07%) SLA
8 72 (0.95%) Accessibility
9 61 (0.81%) PCI DSS
10 23 (0.30%) NCSC
11 21 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 20 (0.26%) COBIT
13 18 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 17 (0.23%) GRC
15 14 (0.19%) PMO
16 13 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.15%) ISO 9001
18 10 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 10 (0.13%) SOC 2
19 6 (0.079%) IFRS
System Software
1 1,202 (15.92%) Active Directory
2 620 (8.21%) Docker
3 393 (5.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 289 (3.83%) Hyper-V
5 230 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
6 118 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
7 97 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
8 57 (0.75%) vSphere
9 29 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
10 19 (0.25%) Firmware
11 10 (0.13%) VMware Server
12 9 (0.12%) DFS Replication
12 9 (0.12%) Terminal Services
12 9 (0.12%) XenDesktop
13 8 (0.11%) XenApp
14 7 (0.093%) Embedded Firmware
14 7 (0.093%) NFS
15 6 (0.079%) KVM
16 4 (0.053%) VMware NSX
17 3 (0.040%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 676 (8.95%) Kubernetes
2 674 (8.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 623 (8.25%) Terraform
4 310 (4.11%) Ansible
5 215 (2.85%) Jamf Pro
6 109 (1.44%) SCCM
7 104 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
8 75 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 66 (0.87%) vCenter Server
10 56 (0.74%) Grafana
11 52 (0.69%) Puppet
12 51 (0.68%) Progress Chef
13 47 (0.62%) Prometheus
14 39 (0.52%) WSUS
15 34 (0.45%) CASB
15 34 (0.45%) SCOM
16 25 (0.33%) Microsoft Clustering
17 21 (0.28%) Nagios
18 19 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
19 17 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3,608 (47.79%) Microsoft
2 595 (7.88%) VMware
3 394 (5.22%) Google
4 308 (4.08%) Cisco
5 263 (3.48%) Databricks
6 229 (3.03%) CyberArk
7 218 (2.89%) ESRI
8 210 (2.78%) Tanium
9 206 (2.73%) Oracle
10 140 (1.85%) Citrix
11 123 (1.63%) Meraki
12 103 (1.36%) Fortinet
13 95 (1.26%) Veeam
14 92 (1.22%) ServiceNow
15 80 (1.06%) HP
16 77 (1.02%) Facebook
17 71 (0.94%) IBM
18 70 (0.93%) SolarWinds
19 67 (0.89%) Apple
20 66 (0.87%) Aruba