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 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 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 11,287 12,405 13,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.90% 20.72% 19.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.00% 54.22% 49.08%
Number of salaries quoted 8,846 7,163 9,327
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,650 £71,500 £68,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £64,987 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.21% +3.98% +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 23,513 22,881 28,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.12% 38.22% 39.97%
Number of salaries quoted 17,433 13,721 19,573
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
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 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 11 May 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 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
North of England 0 3,089 £55,000 - 616
South East -2 2,785 £54,000 -6.09% 493
Midlands +2 1,929 £50,000 -9.09% 454
North West 0 1,647 £57,500 +4.55% 333
South West -3 1,409 £55,000 +4.76% 324
West Midlands +1 1,154 £55,000 - 270
Yorkshire 0 1,059 £55,000 - 211
Scotland -24 816 £55,000 -7.60% 142
East of England 0 794 £50,000 - 177
East Midlands +3 771 £47,500 -9.52% 183
North East +4 385 £47,500 -13.64% 75
Wales 0 339 £50,000 - 85
Northern Ireland -4 114 £55,000 +4.76% 56
Isle of Man -2 17 £46,500 -33.57% 3
Channel Islands +1 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
1 868 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 819 (7.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 288 (2.55%) ArcGIS
4 286 (2.53%) GeoServer
5 241 (2.14%) IIS
6 99 (0.88%) CMS
7 89 (0.79%) Confluence
8 84 (0.74%) Umbraco
9 78 (0.69%) Apache
10 69 (0.61%) Apache Spark
11 49 (0.43%) OpenStack
12 44 (0.39%) Kentico
13 43 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
13 43 (0.38%) WebLogic
14 41 (0.36%) Headless CMS
15 32 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
16 26 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
17 25 (0.22%) WebSphere
18 24 (0.21%) FileNet
19 22 (0.19%) Captiva
Applications
1 443 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
2 145 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 42 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 22 (0.19%) Trello
7 21 (0.19%) Simulink
8 10 (0.089%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.071%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.053%) LightWave 3D
11 4 (0.035%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.027%) Spreadsheet
13 2 (0.018%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.018%) CATIA
13 2 (0.018%) NASTRAN
13 2 (0.018%) Sketch
13 2 (0.018%) S-PLUS
14 1 (0.009%) 1Password
14 1 (0.009%) InfoPath
14 1 (0.009%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 156 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 74 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 31 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
4 14 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
5 11 (0.097%) Maximo
6 9 (0.080%) Unit4 Business World
7 8 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
7 8 (0.071%) SAP S/4HANA
7 8 (0.071%) Teamcenter
8 7 (0.062%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.053%) SAP PLM
10 5 (0.044%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.044%) SAP IBP
10 5 (0.044%) SAP PP
11 4 (0.035%) Elite 3E
11 4 (0.035%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.035%) Visualfiles
12 3 (0.027%) Oracle Applications
12 3 (0.027%) Remedy ITSM
13 2 (0.018%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3,332 (29.52%) AWS
2 2,849 (25.24%) Microsoft 365
3 1,555 (13.78%) Azure DevOps
4 1,176 (10.42%) Entra ID
5 1,144 (10.14%) Power Platform
6 1,100 (9.75%) GCP
7 650 (5.76%) SaaS
8 408 (3.61%) Serverless
9 351 (3.11%) PaaS
10 335 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
11 315 (2.79%) IaaS
12 297 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
13 283 (2.51%) OneDrive
14 278 (2.46%) GitHub
15 275 (2.44%) IBM Cloud
16 251 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
17 246 (2.18%) PowerApps
18 219 (1.94%) Azure Service Bus
19 217 (1.92%) Azure Functions
20 205 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,299 (11.51%) Firewall
2 863 (7.65%) DNS
3 635 (5.63%) WAN
4 561 (4.97%) DHCP
5 466 (4.13%) VPN
6 464 (4.11%) LAN
7 408 (3.61%) TCP/IP
8 300 (2.66%) SAN
9 277 (2.45%) Internet
10 257 (2.28%) Wi-Fi
11 241 (2.14%) VLAN
12 208 (1.84%) Wireless
13 203 (1.80%) Network Security
14 177 (1.57%) SD-WAN
15 170 (1.51%) VoIP
16 168 (1.49%) Broadband
17 117 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
18 98 (0.87%) BGP
19 87 (0.77%) HTTP
20 85 (0.75%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,149 (19.04%) SQL Server
2 835 (7.40%) Power BI
3 773 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
4 729 (6.46%) Data Warehouse
5 552 (4.89%) MongoDB
5 552 (4.89%) NoSQL
6 428 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 375 (3.32%) Relational Database
8 359 (3.18%) Data Lake
9 334 (2.96%) GIS
10 331 (2.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 284 (2.52%) QGIS
12 283 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
13 256 (2.27%) DB2
14 241 (2.14%) MySQL
15 204 (1.81%) BigQuery
16 189 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
17 180 (1.59%) Looker
18 166 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 136 (1.20%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 646 (5.72%) Git
2 399 (3.54%) JIRA
3 277 (2.45%) Jenkins
4 228 (2.02%) GitLab
5 207 (1.83%) Visual Studio
6 133 (1.18%) Selenium
7 103 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
8 73 (0.65%) Postman
9 70 (0.62%) Cypress.io
10 65 (0.58%) NUnit
11 50 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
12 44 (0.39%) Jasmine
13 41 (0.36%) JMeter
14 40 (0.35%) Cucumber
15 37 (0.33%) Bitbucket
16 34 (0.30%) TeamCity
17 33 (0.29%) Artifactory
18 31 (0.27%) Karma Test Runner
19 30 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
19 30 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 2,544 (22.54%) Social Skills
2 1,467 (13.00%) Finance
3 854 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
4 727 (6.44%) Public Sector
5 527 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 490 (4.34%) Retail
7 469 (4.16%) Law
8 294 (2.60%) Legal
9 282 (2.50%) Marketing
10 236 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
11 226 (2.00%) Manufacturing
12 208 (1.84%) Banking
13 172 (1.52%) Telecoms
14 166 (1.47%) Aerospace
15 165 (1.46%) Games
16 164 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
17 123 (1.09%) Advertising
18 90 (0.80%) Billing
19 78 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
20 55 (0.49%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2,866 (25.39%) Developer
2 1,750 (15.50%) Senior
3 1,419 (12.57%) .NET Developer
4 1,011 (8.96%) Architect
5 984 (8.72%) Lead
6 923 (8.18%) Software Engineer
7 769 (6.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 694 (6.15%) Analyst
9 690 (6.11%) Support Engineer
10 620 (5.49%) IT Support
11 597 (5.29%) IT Engineer
12 559 (4.95%) C# Developer
13 481 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
14 465 (4.12%) Senior Developer
15 455 (4.03%) C# .NET Developer
16 390 (3.46%) Senior Software Engineer
17 383 (3.39%) Data Engineer
18 377 (3.34%) IT Support Engineer
19 340 (3.01%) Cloud Engineer
20 332 (2.94%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,152 (27.93%) .NET
2 1,486 (13.17%) React
3 1,449 (12.84%) AngularJS
4 1,424 (12.62%) .NET Core
5 1,411 (12.50%) ASP.NET
6 1,288 (11.41%) CSS
7 1,224 (10.84%) HTML
8 887 (7.86%) .NET Framework
9 886 (7.85%) ASP.NET Web API
10 824 (7.30%) Entity Framework
11 757 (6.71%) ASP.NET MVC
12 686 (6.08%) Vue
13 616 (5.46%) Node.js
14 587 (5.20%) REST
15 552 (4.89%) RESTful
16 482 (4.27%) HTML5
17 458 (4.06%) Web Services
18 452 (4.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 407 (3.61%) Blazor
20 374 (3.31%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 596 (5.28%) Public Cloud
2 393 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 364 (3.22%) Data Structures
4 349 (3.09%) Algorithms
5 345 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
6 318 (2.82%) Management Information System
7 313 (2.77%) Product Ownership
8 294 (2.60%) Blockchain
9 283 (2.51%) Cloud Native
10 262 (2.32%) Data Centre
11 254 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
12 232 (2.06%) Driving Licence
13 211 (1.87%) Onboarding
14 183 (1.62%) Private Cloud
15 160 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
16 145 (1.28%) PKI
17 144 (1.28%) Mobile App
18 135 (1.20%) Social Media
19 134 (1.19%) e-Learning
20 132 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2,613 (23.15%) Windows
2 1,303 (11.54%) Windows Server
3 1,293 (11.46%) Linux
4 470 (4.16%) Windows 10
5 453 (4.01%) Android
6 390 (3.46%) Apple iOS
7 270 (2.39%) Windows Server 2016
8 222 (1.97%) Windows Server 2019
9 214 (1.90%) Ubuntu
10 189 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
11 154 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 134 (1.19%) VMS
13 132 (1.17%) Unix
14 127 (1.13%) CentOS
15 110 (0.97%) Mac OS
16 95 (0.84%) Debian
17 41 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
18 40 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
19 32 (0.28%) Windows 7
20 23 (0.20%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,736 (33.10%) Agile
2 3,080 (27.29%) DevOps
3 1,817 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
4 1,805 (15.99%) Full Stack Development
5 1,362 (12.07%) CI/CD
6 1,358 (12.03%) Software Engineering
7 1,298 (11.50%) Microservices
8 1,287 (11.40%) MVC
9 1,095 (9.70%) Mentoring
10 1,025 (9.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 1,001 (8.87%) Scrum
12 925 (8.20%) Business Intelligence
13 905 (8.02%) ITIL
14 883 (7.82%) Artificial Intelligence
15 852 (7.55%) Cybersecurity
16 807 (7.15%) Migration
17 794 (7.03%) Roadmaps
18 760 (6.73%) Web Development
19 749 (6.64%) Customer Service
20 721 (6.39%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3,043 (26.96%) C#
2 2,697 (23.89%) SQL
3 2,596 (23.00%) JavaScript
4 1,408 (12.47%) Python
5 918 (8.13%) Java
6 901 (7.98%) PowerShell
7 780 (6.91%) TypeScript
8 448 (3.97%) T-SQL
9 311 (2.76%) Bash
10 108 (0.96%) C++
11 103 (0.91%) Go
12 102 (0.90%) Bicep
13 81 (0.72%) PHP
14 78 (0.69%) VB.NET
15 74 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 73 (0.65%) VB
17 67 (0.59%) Kotlin
18 61 (0.54%) Ruby
19 57 (0.51%) C
20 39 (0.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,254 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1,143 (10.13%) Degree
3 916 (8.12%) SC Cleared
4 602 (5.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 536 (4.75%) Azure Certification
6 319 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
7 261 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 254 (2.25%) DV Cleared
9 239 (2.12%) CCNA
10 209 (1.85%) DBS Check
11 206 (1.83%) AWS Certification
12 164 (1.45%) CISSP
13 149 (1.32%) MCSE
14 99 (0.88%) CCNP
15 92 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
16 88 (0.78%) Master's Degree
17 83 (0.74%) MCSA
18 80 (0.71%) CISM
19 76 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 71 (0.63%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 476 (4.22%) QA
2 343 (3.04%) GDPR
3 289 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 251 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 238 (2.11%) SLA
6 161 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 136 (1.20%) NIST
8 75 (0.66%) Accessibility
9 61 (0.54%) PCI DSS
10 25 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 24 (0.21%) NCSC
12 19 (0.17%) PMO
12 19 (0.17%) SOC 2
13 18 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 16 (0.14%) HIPAA
14 16 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 12 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 10 (0.089%) ISO 9001
17 9 (0.080%) GRC
18 8 (0.071%) PSD2
System Software
1 2,106 (18.66%) Active Directory
2 873 (7.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 837 (7.42%) Hyper-V
4 806 (7.14%) Docker
5 285 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
6 145 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 142 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
8 127 (1.13%) vSphere
9 56 (0.50%) VMware NSX
10 55 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
11 38 (0.34%) XenApp
12 31 (0.27%) XenDesktop
13 28 (0.25%) Terminal Services
14 22 (0.19%) Firmware
15 19 (0.17%) VMware Server
16 11 (0.097%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 9 (0.080%) KVM
18 8 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 8 (0.071%) pfSense
19 7 (0.062%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,011 (8.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 918 (8.13%) Kubernetes
3 775 (6.87%) Terraform
4 421 (3.73%) Ansible
5 223 (1.98%) SCCM
6 119 (1.05%) Puppet
7 98 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
8 96 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
9 91 (0.81%) vCenter Server
10 82 (0.73%) WSUS
11 77 (0.68%) SCOM
12 74 (0.66%) Progress Chef
13 68 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 60 (0.53%) Grafana
15 54 (0.48%) FortiGate
16 53 (0.47%) Prometheus
17 31 (0.27%) CASB
18 29 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
19 27 (0.24%) ZABBIX
20 24 (0.21%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 5,012 (44.41%) Microsoft
2 1,321 (11.70%) VMware
3 703 (6.23%) Google
4 546 (4.84%) Cisco
5 395 (3.50%) Red Hat
6 364 (3.22%) IBM
7 329 (2.91%) Oracle
8 307 (2.72%) Citrix
9 289 (2.56%) ESRI
10 277 (2.45%) Veeam
11 275 (2.44%) Databricks
12 168 (1.49%) HP
13 158 (1.40%) Meraki
14 125 (1.11%) Dell
15 121 (1.07%) Fortinet
16 113 (1.00%) Apple
17 107 (0.95%) Aruba
18 105 (0.93%) ServiceNow
19 100 (0.89%) Sophos
20 89 (0.79%) SolarWinds