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 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 11,708 11,948 14,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.15% 21.41% 19.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.24% 55.06% 49.32%
Number of salaries quoted 8,954 6,941 9,340
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,241
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,155 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,175 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.60% - +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 24,272 21,698 29,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.40% 38.89% 39.74%
Number of salaries quoted 17,741 13,238 19,497
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £40,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,029 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.20% +2.45% +6.84%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 3,230 £55,000 - 662
South East -2 2,895 £55,000 -4.35% 448
Midlands +2 2,015 £52,500 -4.55% 403
North West 0 1,731 £57,500 +4.55% 371
South West -3 1,440 £55,000 - 312
West Midlands +1 1,188 £55,000 - 240
Yorkshire +1 1,089 £55,000 - 223
East Midlands +2 823 £48,500 -7.62% 161
Scotland -22 812 £55,000 -4.86% 147
East of England 0 796 £50,000 - 147
North East +5 412 £50,000 -9.09% 71
Wales -1 370 £50,000 +8.20% 63
Northern Ireland -3 136 £60,000 +14.29% 52
Isle of Man 0 17 £46,500 -33.57% 3
Channel Islands +2 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
1 843 (7.20%) SharePoint
2 814 (6.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 288 (2.46%) ArcGIS
4 286 (2.44%) GeoServer
5 224 (1.91%) IIS
6 104 (0.89%) CMS
7 91 (0.78%) Confluence
8 81 (0.69%) Apache
8 81 (0.69%) Umbraco
9 72 (0.61%) Apache Spark
10 45 (0.38%) OpenStack
11 43 (0.37%) Kentico
11 43 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
11 43 (0.37%) WebLogic
12 41 (0.35%) Headless CMS
13 32 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
14 25 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2013
15 19 (0.16%) nginx
15 19 (0.16%) WordPress
16 18 (0.15%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 439 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
2 147 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 46 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (0.23%) Simulink
5 21 (0.18%) Trello
6 20 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
7 16 (0.14%) MS Visio
8 8 (0.068%) Photoshop
9 7 (0.060%) Chatbot
10 6 (0.051%) Adobe XD
10 6 (0.051%) LightWave 3D
11 3 (0.026%) S-PLUS
11 3 (0.026%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.017%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.017%) CATIA
12 2 (0.017%) NASTRAN
12 2 (0.017%) Sketch
13 1 (0.009%) 1Password
13 1 (0.009%) InfoPath
13 1 (0.009%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 167 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 69 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 31 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
4 14 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
5 12 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.077%) SAP S/4HANA
7 8 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
7 8 (0.068%) Teamcenter
8 6 (0.051%) Maximo
8 6 (0.051%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.051%) SAP PLM
9 5 (0.043%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.043%) SAP PP
10 4 (0.034%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.034%) Visualfiles
11 3 (0.026%) Oracle Applications
11 3 (0.026%) Oracle Receivables
11 3 (0.026%) SAP ERP
12 2 (0.017%) Remedy ITSM
12 2 (0.017%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 3,458 (29.54%) AWS
2 2,853 (24.37%) Microsoft 365
3 1,575 (13.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1,216 (10.39%) Entra ID
5 1,179 (10.07%) Power Platform
6 1,071 (9.15%) GCP
7 666 (5.69%) SaaS
8 389 (3.32%) Serverless
9 339 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
10 319 (2.72%) PaaS
11 301 (2.57%) IaaS
12 297 (2.54%) Cloud Computing
13 291 (2.49%) OneDrive
14 271 (2.31%) IBM Cloud
15 256 (2.19%) GitHub
16 253 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
16 253 (2.16%) PowerApps
17 215 (1.84%) Azure Functions
18 214 (1.83%) Azure Logic Apps
18 214 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1,328 (11.34%) Firewall
2 873 (7.46%) DNS
3 619 (5.29%) WAN
4 566 (4.83%) DHCP
5 467 (3.99%) VPN
6 465 (3.97%) LAN
7 425 (3.63%) TCP/IP
8 301 (2.57%) SAN
9 282 (2.41%) Internet
10 268 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
11 252 (2.15%) VLAN
12 223 (1.90%) Wireless
13 208 (1.78%) Network Security
14 176 (1.50%) SD-WAN
15 168 (1.43%) Broadband
16 161 (1.38%) VoIP
17 119 (1.02%) Remote Desktop
18 92 (0.79%) HTTP
19 90 (0.77%) BGP
20 89 (0.76%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,169 (18.53%) SQL Server
2 870 (7.43%) Power BI
3 770 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
4 758 (6.47%) Data Warehouse
5 562 (4.80%) MongoDB
6 526 (4.49%) NoSQL
7 428 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
8 375 (3.20%) Relational Database
9 352 (3.01%) Data Lake
10 333 (2.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 330 (2.82%) GIS
12 284 (2.43%) QGIS
13 274 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
14 256 (2.19%) DB2
15 230 (1.96%) MySQL
16 201 (1.72%) BigQuery
17 187 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
18 181 (1.55%) Looker
19 166 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 140 (1.20%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 665 (5.68%) Git
2 397 (3.39%) JIRA
3 257 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 231 (1.97%) GitLab
5 208 (1.78%) Visual Studio
6 125 (1.07%) Selenium
7 103 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
8 77 (0.66%) Postman
9 71 (0.61%) NUnit
10 67 (0.57%) Cypress.io
11 51 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
12 46 (0.39%) Jasmine
13 43 (0.37%) JMeter
14 42 (0.36%) Bitbucket
14 42 (0.36%) SonarQube
15 38 (0.32%) TeamCity
16 33 (0.28%) Artifactory
17 31 (0.26%) Cucumber
18 30 (0.26%) Karma Test Runner
18 30 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,659 (22.71%) Social Skills
2 1,453 (12.41%) Finance
3 873 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
4 727 (6.21%) Public Sector
5 518 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 485 (4.14%) Retail
7 444 (3.79%) Law
8 288 (2.46%) Legal
9 283 (2.42%) Marketing
10 247 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
11 243 (2.08%) Manufacturing
12 192 (1.64%) Aerospace
13 175 (1.49%) Telecoms
14 171 (1.46%) Games
15 164 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
16 138 (1.18%) Banking
17 135 (1.15%) Advertising
18 93 (0.79%) Billing
19 75 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
20 60 (0.51%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 3,029 (25.87%) Developer
2 1,803 (15.40%) Senior
3 1,545 (13.20%) .NET Developer
4 1,131 (9.66%) Architect
5 1,011 (8.64%) Lead
6 916 (7.82%) Software Engineer
7 801 (6.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 692 (5.91%) Support Engineer
9 659 (5.63%) Analyst
10 617 (5.27%) IT Support
11 616 (5.26%) C# Developer
12 592 (5.06%) IT Engineer
13 516 (4.41%) Senior Developer
14 511 (4.36%) Azure Engineer
15 509 (4.35%) C# .NET Developer
16 385 (3.29%) Senior Software Engineer
17 383 (3.27%) Data Engineer
18 374 (3.19%) IT Support Engineer
19 367 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
20 362 (3.09%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,314 (28.31%) .NET
2 1,537 (13.13%) React
3 1,519 (12.97%) AngularJS
4 1,470 (12.56%) .NET Core
5 1,446 (12.35%) ASP.NET
6 1,301 (11.11%) CSS
7 1,228 (10.49%) HTML
8 964 (8.23%) ASP.NET Web API
9 933 (7.97%) .NET Framework
10 862 (7.36%) Entity Framework
11 753 (6.43%) ASP.NET MVC
12 718 (6.13%) Vue
13 640 (5.47%) Node.js
14 577 (4.93%) REST
15 572 (4.89%) RESTful
16 492 (4.20%) HTML5
17 460 (3.93%) Web Services
18 457 (3.90%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 411 (3.51%) Blazor
20 375 (3.20%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 567 (4.84%) Public Cloud
2 401 (3.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 372 (3.18%) Data Structures
4 352 (3.01%) Algorithms
5 351 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
6 323 (2.76%) Management Information System
7 319 (2.72%) Product Ownership
8 306 (2.61%) Cloud Native
9 279 (2.38%) Blockchain
10 260 (2.22%) Data Centre
11 258 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
12 230 (1.96%) Driving Licence
13 209 (1.79%) Onboarding
14 158 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
14 158 (1.35%) Private Cloud
15 150 (1.28%) PKI
16 146 (1.25%) Social Media
17 145 (1.24%) Mobile App
18 129 (1.10%) e-Learning
19 127 (1.08%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2,651 (22.64%) Windows
2 1,319 (11.27%) Windows Server
3 1,298 (11.09%) Linux
4 480 (4.10%) Windows 10
5 465 (3.97%) Android
6 393 (3.36%) Apple iOS
7 271 (2.31%) Windows Server 2016
8 233 (1.99%) Windows Server 2019
9 227 (1.94%) Ubuntu
10 181 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
11 168 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 139 (1.19%) VMS
13 135 (1.15%) CentOS
14 111 (0.95%) Mac OS
15 97 (0.83%) Debian
15 97 (0.83%) Unix
16 49 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
17 40 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
18 34 (0.29%) Windows 7
19 24 (0.20%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,815 (32.58%) Agile
2 3,183 (27.19%) DevOps
3 1,925 (16.44%) Full Stack Development
4 1,857 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
5 1,406 (12.01%) CI/CD
6 1,398 (11.94%) Software Engineering
7 1,323 (11.30%) Microservices
8 1,282 (10.95%) MVC
9 1,124 (9.60%) Mentoring
10 1,058 (9.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 1,021 (8.72%) Scrum
12 936 (7.99%) Business Intelligence
13 904 (7.72%) ITIL
14 874 (7.46%) Artificial Intelligence
15 848 (7.24%) Migration
16 844 (7.21%) Cybersecurity
17 799 (6.82%) Roadmaps
18 761 (6.50%) Web Development
19 756 (6.46%) Customer Service
20 718 (6.13%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3,206 (27.38%) C#
2 2,679 (22.88%) SQL
3 2,648 (22.62%) JavaScript
4 1,467 (12.53%) Python
5 912 (7.79%) PowerShell
6 899 (7.68%) Java
7 807 (6.89%) TypeScript
8 426 (3.64%) T-SQL
9 313 (2.67%) Bash
10 113 (0.97%) Bicep
11 109 (0.93%) C++
12 97 (0.83%) Go
13 84 (0.72%) PHP
14 83 (0.71%) VB.NET
15 80 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 78 (0.67%) VB
17 65 (0.56%) Kotlin
18 61 (0.52%) C
19 57 (0.49%) Ruby
20 40 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 1,289 (11.01%) Security Cleared
2 1,169 (9.98%) Degree
3 955 (8.16%) SC Cleared
4 606 (5.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 562 (4.80%) Azure Certification
6 315 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
7 299 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 283 (2.42%) DV Cleared
9 238 (2.03%) CCNA
10 228 (1.95%) AWS Certification
11 213 (1.82%) DBS Check
12 162 (1.38%) CISSP
13 143 (1.22%) MCSE
14 100 (0.85%) CCNP
15 97 (0.83%) Master's Degree
16 90 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
17 83 (0.71%) MCSA
18 79 (0.67%) CISM
19 78 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 72 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 497 (4.24%) QA
2 322 (2.75%) GDPR
3 301 (2.57%) Data Quality
4 257 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 249 (2.13%) SLA
6 172 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 134 (1.14%) NIST
8 74 (0.63%) Accessibility
9 67 (0.57%) PCI DSS
10 29 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 26 (0.22%) NCSC
12 19 (0.16%) SOC 2
13 18 (0.15%) HIPAA
13 18 (0.15%) PMO
14 17 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 16 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 14 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 9 (0.077%) GRC
17 9 (0.077%) ISO 9001
18 8 (0.068%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 2,141 (18.29%) Active Directory
2 885 (7.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 843 (7.20%) Hyper-V
4 830 (7.09%) Docker
5 297 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
6 157 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 141 (1.20%) vSphere
8 134 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
9 63 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
10 46 (0.39%) VMware NSX
11 42 (0.36%) XenApp
12 36 (0.31%) XenDesktop
13 28 (0.24%) Terminal Services
14 22 (0.19%) Firmware
15 17 (0.15%) VMware Server
16 11 (0.094%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 10 (0.085%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 10 (0.085%) KVM
18 9 (0.077%) pfSense
19 6 (0.051%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,022 (8.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 943 (8.05%) Kubernetes
3 804 (6.87%) Terraform
4 447 (3.82%) Ansible
5 229 (1.96%) SCCM
6 130 (1.11%) Puppet
7 103 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
8 98 (0.84%) Jamf Pro
9 94 (0.80%) vCenter Server
10 85 (0.73%) WSUS
11 78 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 76 (0.65%) SCOM
13 70 (0.60%) Progress Chef
14 64 (0.55%) Grafana
15 58 (0.50%) Prometheus
16 50 (0.43%) FortiGate
17 30 (0.26%) ZABBIX
18 28 (0.24%) Nagios
19 27 (0.23%) CASB
20 26 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 5,074 (43.34%) Microsoft
2 1,329 (11.35%) VMware
3 688 (5.88%) Google
4 555 (4.74%) Cisco
5 404 (3.45%) Red Hat
6 332 (2.84%) IBM
7 315 (2.69%) Oracle
8 307 (2.62%) Citrix
9 289 (2.47%) ESRI
10 285 (2.43%) Veeam
11 266 (2.27%) Databricks
12 169 (1.44%) HP
13 157 (1.34%) Meraki
14 130 (1.11%) Dell
15 117 (1.00%) Fortinet
16 109 (0.93%) Apple
17 105 (0.90%) Aruba
18 102 (0.87%) Sophos
19 100 (0.85%) ServiceNow
20 88 (0.75%) SolarWinds