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

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 11,422 12,317 14,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.60% 21.10% 19.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.05% 54.66% 49.60%
Number of salaries quoted 8,882 7,033 9,328
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,111
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £64,140 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.01% +2.62% +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 23,770 22,533 28,979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.47% 38.61% 39.78%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 13,403 19,470
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,500 £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 £66,887 £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 25 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 25 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 3,131 £55,000 - 745
South East -2 2,826 £55,000 -4.35% 1,058
Midlands +2 1,956 £51,000 -7.27% 439
North West 0 1,665 £57,500 +4.55% 407
South West -2 1,422 £55,000 - 354
West Midlands +1 1,167 £55,000 - 268
Yorkshire 0 1,072 £55,000 - 247
Scotland -24 817 £55,000 -5.17% 181
East of England 0 787 £50,000 - 212
East Midlands +3 784 £48,500 -7.62% 167
North East +4 396 £50,000 -9.09% 96
Wales -1 346 £50,000 +7.53% 83
Northern Ireland -5 123 £55,000 +4.76% 58
Isle of Man 0 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
1 845 (7.40%) SharePoint
2 802 (7.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 288 (2.52%) ArcGIS
4 286 (2.50%) GeoServer
5 228 (2.00%) IIS
6 100 (0.88%) CMS
7 90 (0.79%) Confluence
8 82 (0.72%) Apache
8 82 (0.72%) Umbraco
9 70 (0.61%) Apache Spark
10 49 (0.43%) OpenStack
11 44 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
12 43 (0.38%) Kentico
12 43 (0.38%) WebLogic
13 41 (0.36%) Headless CMS
14 32 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
15 25 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2013
16 21 (0.18%) nginx
17 18 (0.16%) WordPress
18 17 (0.15%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 438 (3.83%) Microsoft Office
2 148 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 46 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 25 (0.22%) Simulink
6 24 (0.21%) MS Visio
7 21 (0.18%) Trello
8 8 (0.070%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.070%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.053%) LightWave 3D
10 5 (0.044%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.026%) S-PLUS
11 3 (0.026%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.018%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.018%) CATIA
12 2 (0.018%) NASTRAN
12 2 (0.018%) Sketch
13 1 (0.009%) 1Password
13 1 (0.009%) InfoPath
13 1 (0.009%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 162 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 71 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 32 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
4 14 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
5 9 (0.079%) Unit4 Business World
6 8 (0.070%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.070%) Payment Gateway
6 8 (0.070%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (0.070%) Teamcenter
7 7 (0.061%) Maximo
7 7 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.053%) SAP PLM
9 5 (0.044%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.044%) SAP PP
10 4 (0.035%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.035%) Visualfiles
11 3 (0.026%) Oracle Applications
11 3 (0.026%) SAP ERP
12 2 (0.018%) Remedy ITSM
12 2 (0.018%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3,411 (29.86%) AWS
2 2,809 (24.59%) Microsoft 365
3 1,548 (13.55%) Azure DevOps
4 1,179 (10.32%) Entra ID
5 1,168 (10.23%) Power Platform
6 1,089 (9.53%) GCP
7 652 (5.71%) SaaS
8 399 (3.49%) Serverless
9 338 (2.96%) PaaS
10 332 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
11 308 (2.70%) IaaS
12 301 (2.64%) Cloud Computing
13 285 (2.50%) OneDrive
14 273 (2.39%) IBM Cloud
15 268 (2.35%) GitHub
16 250 (2.19%) Azure Data Factory
17 245 (2.14%) PowerApps
18 216 (1.89%) Azure Functions
18 216 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
19 206 (1.80%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,289 (11.29%) Firewall
2 858 (7.51%) DNS
3 622 (5.45%) WAN
4 550 (4.82%) DHCP
5 461 (4.04%) VPN
6 460 (4.03%) LAN
7 415 (3.63%) TCP/IP
8 296 (2.59%) SAN
9 280 (2.45%) Internet
10 257 (2.25%) Wi-Fi
11 241 (2.11%) VLAN
12 210 (1.84%) Wireless
13 201 (1.76%) Network Security
14 179 (1.57%) SD-WAN
15 168 (1.47%) Broadband
16 160 (1.40%) VoIP
17 118 (1.03%) Remote Desktop
18 95 (0.83%) BGP
19 90 (0.79%) HTTP
20 85 (0.74%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,146 (18.79%) SQL Server
2 865 (7.57%) Power BI
3 776 (6.79%) PostgreSQL
4 762 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 554 (4.85%) MongoDB
6 545 (4.77%) NoSQL
7 423 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 376 (3.29%) Relational Database
9 362 (3.17%) Data Lake
10 331 (2.90%) GIS
11 330 (2.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 284 (2.49%) QGIS
13 274 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
14 256 (2.24%) DB2
15 233 (2.04%) MySQL
16 203 (1.78%) BigQuery
17 185 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
18 179 (1.57%) Looker
19 163 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 137 (1.20%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 648 (5.67%) Git
2 399 (3.49%) JIRA
3 283 (2.48%) Jenkins
4 232 (2.03%) GitLab
5 205 (1.79%) Visual Studio
6 127 (1.11%) Selenium
7 100 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
8 74 (0.65%) Postman
9 69 (0.60%) NUnit
10 64 (0.56%) Cypress.io
11 49 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
12 45 (0.39%) Jasmine
13 44 (0.39%) JMeter
14 43 (0.38%) SonarQube
15 41 (0.36%) Bitbucket
16 35 (0.31%) TeamCity
17 33 (0.29%) Artifactory
18 32 (0.28%) Cucumber
19 30 (0.26%) Karma Test Runner
20 28 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,593 (22.70%) Social Skills
2 1,465 (12.83%) Finance
3 866 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
4 728 (6.37%) Public Sector
5 527 (4.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 479 (4.19%) Retail
7 461 (4.04%) Law
8 279 (2.44%) Legal
9 277 (2.43%) Marketing
10 268 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
11 232 (2.03%) Manufacturing
12 188 (1.65%) Aerospace
13 176 (1.54%) Banking
14 173 (1.51%) Telecoms
15 166 (1.45%) Games
16 161 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
17 127 (1.11%) Advertising
18 92 (0.81%) Billing
19 73 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
20 58 (0.51%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2,933 (25.68%) Developer
2 1,766 (15.46%) Senior
3 1,483 (12.98%) .NET Developer
4 1,086 (9.51%) Architect
5 990 (8.67%) Lead
6 913 (7.99%) Software Engineer
7 773 (6.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 694 (6.08%) Support Engineer
9 657 (5.75%) Analyst
10 615 (5.38%) IT Support
11 593 (5.19%) IT Engineer
12 587 (5.14%) C# Developer
13 487 (4.26%) Senior Developer
14 486 (4.25%) Azure Engineer
15 481 (4.21%) C# .NET Developer
16 387 (3.39%) Senior Software Engineer
17 382 (3.34%) Data Engineer
18 377 (3.30%) IT Support Engineer
19 348 (3.05%) DevOps Engineer
20 347 (3.04%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,215 (28.15%) .NET
2 1,497 (13.11%) React
3 1,482 (12.97%) AngularJS
4 1,437 (12.58%) .NET Core
5 1,421 (12.44%) ASP.NET
6 1,290 (11.29%) CSS
7 1,220 (10.68%) HTML
8 923 (8.08%) ASP.NET Web API
9 911 (7.98%) .NET Framework
10 845 (7.40%) Entity Framework
11 755 (6.61%) ASP.NET MVC
12 702 (6.15%) Vue
13 635 (5.56%) Node.js
14 580 (5.08%) REST
15 561 (4.91%) RESTful
16 486 (4.25%) HTML5
17 460 (4.03%) Web Services
18 454 (3.97%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 405 (3.55%) Blazor
20 371 (3.25%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 592 (5.18%) Public Cloud
2 391 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
3 368 (3.22%) Data Structures
4 350 (3.06%) Algorithms
5 346 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
6 320 (2.80%) Management Information System
7 319 (2.79%) Product Ownership
8 309 (2.71%) Cloud Native
9 286 (2.50%) Blockchain
10 255 (2.23%) Data Centre
11 254 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
12 231 (2.02%) Driving Licence
13 208 (1.82%) Onboarding
14 169 (1.48%) Private Cloud
15 163 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
16 146 (1.28%) PKI
17 145 (1.27%) Mobile App
18 140 (1.23%) Social Media
19 134 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
20 130 (1.14%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 2,614 (22.89%) Windows
2 1,287 (11.27%) Linux
2 1,287 (11.27%) Windows Server
3 476 (4.17%) Windows 10
4 456 (3.99%) Android
5 390 (3.41%) Apple iOS
6 262 (2.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 224 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
8 221 (1.93%) Ubuntu
9 181 (1.58%) Windows Server 2012
10 164 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 135 (1.18%) VMS
12 130 (1.14%) CentOS
13 113 (0.99%) Unix
14 111 (0.97%) Mac OS
15 97 (0.85%) Debian
16 47 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
17 40 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
18 31 (0.27%) Windows 7
19 24 (0.21%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,791 (33.19%) Agile
2 3,134 (27.44%) DevOps
3 1,861 (16.29%) Full Stack Development
4 1,813 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
5 1,390 (12.17%) CI/CD
6 1,366 (11.96%) Software Engineering
7 1,304 (11.42%) Microservices
8 1,281 (11.22%) MVC
9 1,103 (9.66%) Mentoring
10 1,030 (9.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 1,020 (8.93%) Scrum
12 935 (8.19%) Business Intelligence
13 892 (7.81%) ITIL
14 889 (7.78%) Artificial Intelligence
15 835 (7.31%) Cybersecurity
16 829 (7.26%) Migration
17 801 (7.01%) Roadmaps
18 756 (6.62%) Web Development
19 742 (6.50%) Customer Service
20 721 (6.31%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3,106 (27.19%) C#
2 2,659 (23.28%) SQL
3 2,617 (22.91%) JavaScript
4 1,433 (12.55%) Python
5 905 (7.92%) Java
6 894 (7.83%) PowerShell
7 787 (6.89%) TypeScript
8 429 (3.76%) T-SQL
9 309 (2.71%) Bash
10 105 (0.92%) Bicep
11 102 (0.89%) Go
12 100 (0.88%) C++
13 80 (0.70%) VB.NET
14 79 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 76 (0.67%) PHP
16 74 (0.65%) VB
17 68 (0.60%) Kotlin
18 58 (0.51%) Ruby
19 57 (0.50%) C
20 41 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 1,275 (11.16%) Security Cleared
2 1,138 (9.96%) Degree
3 941 (8.24%) SC Cleared
4 595 (5.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 556 (4.87%) Azure Certification
6 313 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
7 279 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 269 (2.36%) DV Cleared
9 237 (2.07%) CCNA
10 232 (2.03%) AWS Certification
11 210 (1.84%) DBS Check
12 164 (1.44%) CISSP
13 142 (1.24%) MCSE
14 98 (0.86%) CCNP
15 91 (0.80%) Master's Degree
16 88 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
17 80 (0.70%) MCSA
18 79 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 79 (0.69%) CISM
19 73 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 485 (4.25%) QA
2 328 (2.87%) GDPR
3 294 (2.57%) Data Quality
4 251 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 236 (2.07%) SLA
6 164 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 136 (1.19%) NIST
8 73 (0.64%) Accessibility
9 65 (0.57%) PCI DSS
10 25 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 24 (0.21%) NCSC
12 19 (0.17%) SOC 2
13 18 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 18 (0.16%) PMO
14 17 (0.15%) HIPAA
15 16 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 13 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 9 (0.079%) GRC
17 9 (0.079%) ISO 9001
18 8 (0.070%) PSD2
System Software
1 2,090 (18.30%) Active Directory
2 857 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 837 (7.33%) Hyper-V
4 821 (7.19%) Docker
5 283 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
6 152 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 137 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
8 130 (1.14%) vSphere
9 56 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
10 47 (0.41%) VMware NSX
11 38 (0.33%) XenApp
12 32 (0.28%) XenDesktop
13 28 (0.25%) Terminal Services
14 23 (0.20%) Firmware
15 18 (0.16%) VMware Server
16 10 (0.088%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 10 (0.088%) KVM
17 9 (0.079%) pfSense
18 8 (0.070%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 7 (0.061%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,011 (8.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 937 (8.20%) Kubernetes
3 803 (7.03%) Terraform
4 448 (3.92%) Ansible
5 222 (1.94%) SCCM
6 125 (1.09%) Puppet
7 101 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
8 98 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
9 91 (0.80%) vCenter Server
10 83 (0.73%) WSUS
11 75 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 75 (0.66%) SCOM
12 71 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 60 (0.53%) Grafana
14 53 (0.46%) Prometheus
15 50 (0.44%) FortiGate
16 30 (0.26%) CASB
17 29 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
17 29 (0.25%) ZABBIX
18 26 (0.23%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5,001 (43.78%) Microsoft
2 1,296 (11.35%) VMware
3 703 (6.15%) Google
4 541 (4.74%) Cisco
5 402 (3.52%) Red Hat
6 348 (3.05%) IBM
7 317 (2.78%) Oracle
8 297 (2.60%) Citrix
9 289 (2.53%) ESRI
10 280 (2.45%) Veeam
11 269 (2.36%) Databricks
12 167 (1.46%) HP
13 155 (1.36%) Meraki
14 126 (1.10%) Dell
15 119 (1.04%) Fortinet
16 110 (0.96%) Apple
17 104 (0.91%) Aruba
17 104 (0.91%) ServiceNow
18 100 (0.88%) Sophos
19 88 (0.77%) CyberArk