Azure Jobs in England

Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 14,827 19,845 26,025
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.26% 22.09% 19.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.92% 51.15% 40.74%
Number of salaries quoted 11,960 12,839 16,554
10th Percentile £34,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £64,987 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.21% +3.98% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 30,308 38,800 63,886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.28% 43.19% 47.99%
Number of salaries quoted 24,215 25,791 36,585
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,723 £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% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in England

Azure
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure in England.

Salary trend for Azure in England

Azure
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure in England

Azure
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the England region 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
London 0 4,674 £75,000 - 1,194
North of England 0 3,089 £55,000 - 619
South East -2 2,785 £54,000 -6.09% 490
Midlands +2 1,929 £50,000 -9.09% 450
North West 0 1,647 £57,500 +4.55% 336
South West -3 1,409 £55,000 +4.76% 317
West Midlands +1 1,154 £55,000 - 266
Yorkshire 0 1,059 £55,000 - 211
East of England 0 794 £50,000 - 176
East Midlands +3 771 £47,500 -9.52% 183
North East +4 385 £47,500 -13.64% 75
Azure
UK

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1,072 (7.23%) SharePoint
2 1,016 (6.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 263 (1.77%) IIS
4 231 (1.56%) Apache
5 200 (1.35%) ArcGIS
6 198 (1.34%) GeoServer
7 195 (1.32%) Apache Spark
8 173 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
9 129 (0.87%) CMS
10 120 (0.81%) Confluence
11 89 (0.60%) Umbraco
12 54 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
13 50 (0.34%) Kentico
14 49 (0.33%) OpenStack
15 41 (0.28%) Headless CMS
16 36 (0.24%) nginx
16 36 (0.24%) WordPress
17 35 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
17 35 (0.24%) WebLogic
18 31 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 528 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
2 219 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 46 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 37 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
6 30 (0.20%) Trello
7 21 (0.14%) Simulink
8 10 (0.067%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.054%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.040%) LightWave 3D
11 4 (0.027%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.027%) SPSS
12 3 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
13 2 (0.013%) 1Password
13 2 (0.013%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.013%) CATIA
13 2 (0.013%) NASTRAN
13 2 (0.013%) Sketch
13 2 (0.013%) S-PLUS
14 1 (0.007%) Notion
Business Applications
1 230 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 64 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 36 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
4 20 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
5 13 (0.088%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.088%) Teamcenter
6 11 (0.074%) Maximo
7 10 (0.067%) Elite 3E
7 10 (0.067%) Payment Gateway
7 10 (0.067%) Remedy ITSM
8 9 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
8 9 (0.061%) Unit4 Business World
9 6 (0.040%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.040%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 6 (0.040%) Primavera
9 6 (0.040%) SAP PLM
10 5 (0.034%) NetSuite
10 5 (0.034%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.034%) SAP IBP
10 5 (0.034%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 4,294 (28.96%) AWS
2 3,471 (23.41%) Microsoft 365
3 2,067 (13.94%) Azure DevOps
4 1,732 (11.68%) GCP
5 1,703 (11.49%) Power Platform
6 1,591 (10.73%) Entra ID
7 880 (5.94%) SaaS
8 636 (4.29%) Serverless
9 614 (4.14%) PaaS
10 572 (3.86%) Dynamics 365
11 541 (3.65%) IaaS
12 471 (3.18%) Azure Data Factory
13 425 (2.87%) PowerApps
14 404 (2.72%) GitHub
15 371 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
16 352 (2.37%) Power Automate
17 342 (2.31%) Azure Functions
18 332 (2.24%) OneDrive
19 326 (2.20%) Azure Service Bus
20 319 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,603 (10.81%) Firewall
2 1,069 (7.21%) DNS
3 772 (5.21%) WAN
4 691 (4.66%) DHCP
5 623 (4.20%) LAN
6 585 (3.95%) VPN
7 480 (3.24%) TCP/IP
8 385 (2.60%) SAN
9 376 (2.54%) Wi-Fi
10 320 (2.16%) Internet
11 301 (2.03%) Wireless
12 300 (2.02%) Broadband
13 299 (2.02%) Network Security
14 281 (1.90%) VLAN
15 234 (1.58%) SD-WAN
16 212 (1.43%) 5G
17 189 (1.27%) VoIP
18 111 (0.75%) BGP
18 111 (0.75%) Remote Desktop
19 110 (0.74%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,614 (17.63%) SQL Server
2 1,207 (8.14%) Power BI
3 955 (6.44%) Data Warehouse
4 844 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
5 679 (4.58%) MongoDB
6 657 (4.43%) NoSQL
7 569 (3.84%) Azure SQL Database
8 532 (3.59%) Data Lake
9 450 (3.04%) Relational Database
10 424 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 359 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
12 292 (1.97%) MySQL
13 266 (1.79%) DB2
13 266 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 245 (1.65%) GIS
15 242 (1.63%) BigQuery
16 225 (1.52%) Big Data
17 196 (1.32%) QGIS
18 192 (1.29%) Looker
19 186 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 869 (5.86%) Git
2 496 (3.35%) JIRA
3 403 (2.72%) Jenkins
4 290 (1.96%) GitLab
5 266 (1.79%) Visual Studio
6 132 (0.89%) Selenium
7 124 (0.84%) Cypress.io
8 116 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
9 81 (0.55%) Postman
10 75 (0.51%) NUnit
11 65 (0.44%) TeamCity
12 58 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
13 57 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
14 53 (0.36%) Bitbucket
15 52 (0.35%) SonarQube
16 51 (0.34%) Cucumber
17 48 (0.32%) JMeter
18 46 (0.31%) Jasmine
19 40 (0.27%) Artifactory
20 37 (0.25%) CircleCI
General
1 3,375 (22.76%) Social Skills
2 2,362 (15.93%) Finance
3 1,374 (9.27%) Analytical Skills
4 876 (5.91%) Public Sector
5 727 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 580 (3.91%) Retail
7 508 (3.43%) Law
8 394 (2.66%) Banking
9 382 (2.58%) Legal
10 323 (2.18%) Marketing
11 286 (1.93%) Front Office
12 276 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
13 265 (1.79%) Manufacturing
14 209 (1.41%) Telecoms
15 200 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
16 178 (1.20%) Aerospace
17 152 (1.03%) Games
18 145 (0.98%) Advertising
19 129 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
20 113 (0.76%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3,676 (24.79%) Developer
2 2,489 (16.79%) Senior
3 1,673 (11.28%) .NET Developer
4 1,578 (10.64%) Architect
5 1,253 (8.45%) Lead
6 1,032 (6.96%) Software Engineer
7 987 (6.66%) Analyst
8 887 (5.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 754 (5.09%) Support Engineer
10 713 (4.81%) C# Developer
11 706 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
12 680 (4.59%) IT Support
13 659 (4.44%) IT Engineer
14 649 (4.38%) Senior Developer
15 603 (4.07%) Data Engineer
16 543 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
17 537 (3.62%) C# .NET Developer
18 485 (3.27%) Full Stack Developer
19 456 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
20 428 (2.89%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,764 (25.39%) .NET
2 1,809 (12.20%) React
3 1,697 (11.45%) AngularJS
4 1,664 (11.22%) ASP.NET
5 1,526 (10.29%) .NET Core
6 1,386 (9.35%) HTML
7 1,336 (9.01%) CSS
8 1,014 (6.84%) .NET Framework
9 944 (6.37%) ASP.NET Web API
10 875 (5.90%) Entity Framework
11 833 (5.62%) ASP.NET MVC
12 829 (5.59%) Vue
13 715 (4.82%) REST
14 714 (4.82%) Node.js
15 643 (4.34%) RESTful
16 560 (3.78%) HTML5
17 551 (3.72%) Web Services
18 486 (3.28%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 418 (2.82%) jQuery
20 410 (2.77%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 588 (3.97%) Public Cloud
2 453 (3.06%) Management Information System
3 442 (2.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 429 (2.89%) Data Structures
5 424 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 403 (2.72%) Product Ownership
7 384 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
8 359 (2.42%) Data Centre
9 358 (2.41%) Algorithms
9 358 (2.41%) Cloud Native
10 308 (2.08%) Blockchain
11 278 (1.87%) Social Media
12 261 (1.76%) Fixed Income
13 244 (1.65%) Hedge funds
14 229 (1.54%) Driving Licence
15 221 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
16 209 (1.41%) Equities
17 202 (1.36%) Mobile App
18 194 (1.31%) Private Cloud
19 189 (1.27%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3,184 (21.47%) Windows
2 1,608 (10.85%) Linux
3 1,547 (10.43%) Windows Server
4 568 (3.83%) Windows 10
5 503 (3.39%) Android
6 448 (3.02%) Apple iOS
7 372 (2.51%) Ubuntu
8 313 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 254 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
10 236 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
11 166 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 165 (1.11%) Unix
13 141 (0.95%) VMS
14 137 (0.92%) CentOS
15 135 (0.91%) Mac OS
16 95 (0.64%) Debian
17 48 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
19 31 (0.21%) Windows 7
20 30 (0.20%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,663 (31.45%) Agile
2 3,886 (26.21%) DevOps
3 2,214 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
4 2,170 (14.64%) Full Stack Development
5 1,800 (12.14%) CI/CD
6 1,764 (11.90%) Software Engineering
7 1,608 (10.85%) Microservices
8 1,411 (9.52%) MVC
9 1,346 (9.08%) Mentoring
10 1,291 (8.71%) Business Intelligence
11 1,251 (8.44%) Scrum
12 1,248 (8.42%) Cybersecurity
13 1,242 (8.38%) Artificial Intelligence
14 1,211 (8.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 1,172 (7.90%) ITIL
16 1,063 (7.17%) Roadmaps
17 1,045 (7.05%) ETL
18 1,044 (7.04%) Migration
19 1,020 (6.88%) Analytics
20 902 (6.08%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3,704 (24.98%) SQL
2 3,690 (24.89%) C#
3 2,969 (20.02%) JavaScript
4 2,256 (15.22%) Python
5 1,363 (9.19%) PowerShell
6 1,116 (7.53%) TypeScript
7 1,071 (7.22%) Java
8 576 (3.88%) T-SQL
9 551 (3.72%) Bash
10 166 (1.12%) Bicep
11 142 (0.96%) Go
12 140 (0.94%) R
13 134 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 125 (0.84%) C++
15 100 (0.67%) PHP
16 99 (0.67%) Kotlin
17 91 (0.61%) Scala
18 84 (0.57%) Ruby
19 78 (0.53%) VB.NET
20 75 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,681 (11.34%) Degree
2 1,316 (8.88%) Security Cleared
3 934 (6.30%) SC Cleared
4 758 (5.11%) Azure Certification
5 756 (5.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 448 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 389 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
8 270 (1.82%) DV Cleared
9 258 (1.74%) CISSP
10 256 (1.73%) CCNA
11 251 (1.69%) AWS Certification
12 211 (1.42%) DBS Check
13 189 (1.27%) MCSE
14 168 (1.13%) Master's Degree
15 134 (0.90%) CCNP
16 114 (0.77%) CISM
17 113 (0.76%) MCSA
18 106 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
18 106 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
19 93 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 597 (4.03%) QA
2 441 (2.97%) Data Quality
3 404 (2.72%) GDPR
4 365 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 279 (1.88%) SLA
6 197 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 187 (1.26%) NIST
8 132 (0.89%) Accessibility
9 105 (0.71%) PCI DSS
10 49 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 46 (0.31%) PMO
12 41 (0.28%) NCSC
13 34 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 30 (0.20%) COBIT
15 27 (0.18%) HIPAA
16 25 (0.17%) GRC
17 20 (0.13%) ISO 9001
17 20 (0.13%) SOC 2
18 17 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 16 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2,751 (18.55%) Active Directory
2 1,065 (7.18%) Docker
3 997 (6.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 859 (5.79%) Hyper-V
5 353 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
6 205 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
7 182 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 172 (1.16%) vSphere
9 91 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
10 53 (0.36%) XenApp
11 36 (0.24%) XenDesktop
12 34 (0.23%) Firmware
13 31 (0.21%) Terminal Services
14 27 (0.18%) VMware NSX
15 19 (0.13%) KVM
15 19 (0.13%) VMware Server
16 18 (0.12%) HDFS
17 12 (0.081%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 12 (0.081%) vCloud
18 11 (0.074%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 1,387 (9.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 1,243 (8.38%) Kubernetes
3 1,149 (7.75%) Terraform
4 531 (3.58%) Ansible
5 300 (2.02%) SCCM
6 265 (1.79%) Jamf Pro
7 180 (1.21%) Puppet
8 160 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
9 144 (0.97%) vCenter Server
10 110 (0.74%) Progress Chef
11 109 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 89 (0.60%) WSUS
13 82 (0.55%) Grafana
14 79 (0.53%) SCOM
15 74 (0.50%) Prometheus
16 57 (0.38%) FortiGate
17 44 (0.30%) Nagios
18 42 (0.28%) CASB
19 38 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
20 33 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 6,557 (44.22%) Microsoft
2 1,542 (10.40%) VMware
3 934 (6.30%) Google
4 738 (4.98%) Cisco
5 571 (3.85%) Databricks
6 428 (2.89%) Citrix
7 425 (2.87%) Oracle
8 424 (2.86%) Red Hat
9 386 (2.60%) IBM
10 329 (2.22%) Veeam
11 251 (1.69%) CyberArk
12 219 (1.48%) HP
13 210 (1.42%) Tanium
14 205 (1.38%) Meraki
15 201 (1.36%) ESRI
16 167 (1.13%) ServiceNow
17 162 (1.09%) Fortinet
18 153 (1.03%) Dell
19 152 (1.03%) Apple
20 146 (0.98%) SolarWinds