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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 4 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 7,569 9,784 14,500
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.29% 24.40% 20.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 51.49% 50.58% 38.05%
Number of salaries quoted 6,074 7,176 9,548
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,750
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 £64,085 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.93% +2.54% +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 14,700 19,345 38,103
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 43.29% 48.24% 53.08%
Number of salaries quoted 11,946 14,096 21,827
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,250 £37,500
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% - +11.12%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £98,750 £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 23 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
1 453 (5.98%) SharePoint
2 378 (4.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 218 (2.88%) ArcGIS
4 214 (2.83%) GeoServer
5 150 (1.98%) IIS
6 88 (1.16%) CMS
7 74 (0.98%) Umbraco
8 68 (0.90%) Apache Spark
9 51 (0.67%) Apache
10 48 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
11 47 (0.62%) Sitecore CMS
12 46 (0.61%) WebLogic
13 44 (0.58%) Kentico
14 39 (0.52%) 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
1 166 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
2 85 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 24 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (0.30%) Simulink
6 17 (0.22%) 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
1 123 (1.63%) 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%) 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%) Magento
11 1 (0.013%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2,425 (32.04%) AWS
2 1,425 (18.83%) Microsoft 365
3 1,001 (13.22%) Azure DevOps
4 933 (12.33%) Power Platform
5 790 (10.44%) Entra ID
6 763 (10.08%) GCP
7 530 (7.00%) SaaS
8 305 (4.03%) Dynamics 365
9 276 (3.65%) PaaS
10 266 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
11 256 (3.38%) Serverless
12 237 (3.13%) IaaS
13 228 (3.01%) PowerApps
14 207 (2.73%) GitHub
15 198 (2.62%) Power Automate
16 173 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
17 158 (2.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 121 (1.60%) Snowflake
19 117 (1.55%) Azure Functions
20 100 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 619 (8.18%) Firewall
2 509 (6.72%) DNS
3 336 (4.44%) WAN
4 293 (3.87%) Broadband
5 261 (3.45%) LAN
6 249 (3.29%) DHCP
7 239 (3.16%) TCP/IP
8 210 (2.77%) 5G
9 205 (2.71%) Internet
10 197 (2.60%) VPN
11 174 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
12 159 (2.10%) SAN
13 145 (1.92%) Network Security
14 140 (1.85%) SD-WAN
15 139 (1.84%) Wireless
16 97 (1.28%) VLAN
17 83 (1.10%) BGP
18 70 (0.92%) SSL
19 57 (0.75%) VoIP
20 53 (0.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,725 (22.79%) SQL Server
2 684 (9.04%) Power BI
3 520 (6.87%) Data Warehouse
4 421 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 382 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
6 343 (4.53%) MongoDB
7 304 (4.02%) Data Lake
8 297 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
9 253 (3.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 235 (3.10%) GIS
11 228 (3.01%) NoSQL
12 219 (2.89%) Relational Database
13 214 (2.83%) QGIS
14 161 (2.13%) MySQL
15 152 (2.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 107 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
17 94 (1.24%) Big Data
18 83 (1.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 76 (1.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
20 57 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 446 (5.89%) Git
2 218 (2.88%) GitLab
2 218 (2.88%) JIRA
3 205 (2.71%) Jenkins
4 164 (2.17%) Visual Studio
5 71 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
6 69 (0.91%) Selenium
7 63 (0.83%) Postman
8 49 (0.65%) Cypress.io
9 40 (0.53%) JMeter
10 39 (0.52%) Jasmine
11 38 (0.50%) NUnit
12 36 (0.48%) TeamCity
12 36 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
13 28 (0.37%) Karma Test Runner
14 27 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
15 24 (0.32%) SonarQube
16 23 (0.30%) Maven
17 21 (0.28%) Artifactory
17 21 (0.28%) Cucumber
General
1 1,739 (22.98%) Social Skills
2 1,291 (17.06%) Finance
3 663 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
4 444 (5.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 412 (5.44%) Public Sector
6 371 (4.90%) Retail
7 210 (2.77%) Law
8 204 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
9 189 (2.50%) Legal
10 158 (2.09%) Marketing
11 145 (1.92%) Banking
12 124 (1.64%) Front Office
13 107 (1.41%) Advertising
14 91 (1.20%) Games
15 88 (1.16%) Back Office
16 87 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
17 84 (1.11%) Telecoms
18 71 (0.94%) Aerospace
19 69 (0.91%) Manufacturing
20 59 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,139 (28.26%) Developer
2 1,594 (21.06%) Senior
3 1,086 (14.35%) .NET Developer
4 775 (10.24%) Architect
5 744 (9.83%) Lead
6 644 (8.51%) Software Engineer
7 437 (5.77%) C# Developer
7 437 (5.77%) Senior Developer
8 402 (5.31%) Senior Software Engineer
9 389 (5.14%) Analyst
10 374 (4.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 334 (4.41%) C# .NET Developer
11 334 (4.41%) Data Engineer
12 317 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
13 298 (3.94%) Support Engineer
14 294 (3.88%) Azure Engineer
15 289 (3.82%) Consultant
16 285 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
17 260 (3.44%) IT Engineer
18 230 (3.04%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,233 (29.50%) .NET
2 1,245 (16.45%) .NET Core
3 1,082 (14.30%) ASP.NET
4 1,018 (13.45%) AngularJS
5 982 (12.97%) React
6 791 (10.45%) ASP.NET MVC
7 710 (9.38%) HTML
8 709 (9.37%) .NET Framework
9 676 (8.93%) CSS
10 674 (8.90%) Entity Framework
11 621 (8.20%) ASP.NET Web API
12 452 (5.97%) Node.js
13 448 (5.92%) RESTful
14 397 (5.25%) Vue
15 396 (5.23%) HTML5
16 265 (3.50%) Blazor
17 241 (3.18%) REST
18 214 (2.83%) Leaflet
18 214 (2.83%) OpenLayers
18 214 (2.83%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 408 (5.39%) Public Cloud
2 265 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
3 259 (3.42%) Social Media
4 219 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
5 218 (2.88%) Management Information System
6 195 (2.58%) Cloud Native
7 188 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
8 176 (2.33%) Product Ownership
9 158 (2.09%) PKI
10 149 (1.97%) Data Centre
11 136 (1.80%) Private Cloud
12 130 (1.72%) Onboarding
13 117 (1.55%) Mobile App
14 109 (1.44%) Equities
14 109 (1.44%) Fixed Income
15 107 (1.41%) Derivative
16 105 (1.39%) Driving Licence
17 100 (1.32%) Data Structures
18 98 (1.29%) Hedge funds
19 82 (1.08%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1,163 (15.37%) Windows
2 794 (10.49%) Linux
3 588 (7.77%) Windows Server
4 296 (3.91%) Ubuntu
5 225 (2.97%) Windows 10
6 148 (1.96%) Android
7 131 (1.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 102 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 99 (1.31%) VMS
10 95 (1.26%) Unix
11 94 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 90 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
13 88 (1.16%) Apple iOS
14 34 (0.45%) CentOS
15 23 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
16 20 (0.26%) Mac OS
17 15 (0.20%) Windows 7
18 14 (0.18%) Solaris
19 11 (0.15%) Mac OS X
20 10 (0.13%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,820 (37.26%) Agile
2 2,095 (27.68%) DevOps
3 1,164 (15.38%) Full Stack Development
4 1,096 (14.48%) Microservices
5 1,080 (14.27%) Software Engineering
6 997 (13.17%) CI/CD
7 967 (12.78%) MVC
8 947 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
9 818 (10.81%) Scrum
10 753 (9.95%) Business Intelligence
11 728 (9.62%) TDD
12 647 (8.55%) Mentoring
13 632 (8.35%) Cybersecurity
14 629 (8.31%) Artificial Intelligence
15 591 (7.81%) Roadmaps
16 588 (7.77%) Migration
17 534 (7.06%) Analytics
18 531 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 522 (6.90%) BDD
20 514 (6.79%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 2,199 (29.05%) C#
2 1,896 (25.05%) SQL
3 1,854 (24.49%) JavaScript
4 1,140 (15.06%) Python
5 663 (8.76%) TypeScript
6 564 (7.45%) PowerShell
7 559 (7.39%) Java
8 355 (4.69%) Bash
9 336 (4.44%) T-SQL
10 83 (1.10%) Go
11 79 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 77 (1.02%) R
13 73 (0.96%) C++
14 71 (0.94%) Bicep
15 66 (0.87%) VB.NET
16 65 (0.86%) VB
17 57 (0.75%) PHP
18 53 (0.70%) Kotlin
19 47 (0.62%) Ruby
20 44 (0.58%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 853 (11.27%) Security Cleared
2 808 (10.68%) Degree
3 626 (8.27%) SC Cleared
4 409 (5.40%) Azure Certification
5 341 (4.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 248 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 183 (2.42%) AWS Certification
8 171 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
9 158 (2.09%) DBS Check
10 123 (1.63%) CISSP
11 110 (1.45%) DV Cleared
12 106 (1.40%) CCNA
13 73 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
14 72 (0.95%) Master's Degree
15 69 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
16 66 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 66 (0.87%) CISM
17 55 (0.73%) CCNP
18 54 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 51 (0.67%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 275 (3.63%) QA
2 179 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 155 (2.05%) Data Quality
4 113 (1.49%) NIST
5 105 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 98 (1.29%) GDPR
7 80 (1.06%) SLA
8 73 (0.96%) Accessibility
9 63 (0.83%) PCI DSS
10 23 (0.30%) NCSC
11 20 (0.26%) COBIT
11 20 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 18 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 17 (0.22%) GRC
14 14 (0.18%) PMO
15 13 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 11 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 11 (0.15%) SOC 2
17 10 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 6 (0.079%) IFRS
System Software
1 1,204 (15.91%) Active Directory
2 618 (8.16%) Docker
3 395 (5.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 292 (3.86%) Hyper-V
5 232 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
6 121 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
7 94 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
8 60 (0.79%) vSphere
9 30 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
10 20 (0.26%) Firmware
11 11 (0.15%) Terminal Services
11 11 (0.15%) XenDesktop
12 10 (0.13%) VMware Server
12 10 (0.13%) XenApp
13 8 (0.11%) DFS Replication
13 8 (0.11%) NFS
14 7 (0.092%) Embedded Firmware
15 6 (0.079%) KVM
16 4 (0.053%) VMware NSX
17 3 (0.040%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 676 (8.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 672 (8.88%) Kubernetes
3 630 (8.32%) Terraform
4 311 (4.11%) Ansible
5 215 (2.84%) Jamf Pro
6 109 (1.44%) SCCM
7 102 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
8 76 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 67 (0.89%) vCenter Server
10 56 (0.74%) Grafana
11 50 (0.66%) Puppet
12 49 (0.65%) Progress Chef
13 47 (0.62%) Prometheus
14 40 (0.53%) WSUS
15 35 (0.46%) SCOM
16 34 (0.45%) CASB
17 26 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
18 22 (0.29%) Nagios
19 19 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
20 17 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3,611 (47.71%) Microsoft
2 598 (7.90%) VMware
3 391 (5.17%) Google
4 309 (4.08%) Cisco
5 264 (3.49%) Databricks
6 229 (3.03%) CyberArk
7 218 (2.88%) ESRI
8 210 (2.77%) Tanium
9 205 (2.71%) Oracle
10 140 (1.85%) Citrix
11 124 (1.64%) Meraki
12 102 (1.35%) Fortinet
13 97 (1.28%) Veeam
14 93 (1.23%) ServiceNow
15 81 (1.07%) HP
16 77 (1.02%) Facebook
17 72 (0.95%) IBM
18 71 (0.94%) SolarWinds
19 66 (0.87%) Aruba
19 66 (0.87%) Sitecore