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

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 4 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 7,571 9,756 14,535
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.24% 24.44% 20.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 51.43% 50.61% 38.04%
Number of salaries quoted 6,073 7,158 9,581
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 £61,861
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.07% +7.58%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £64,195 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.09% +2.71% +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 14,720 19,277 38,212
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 43.25% 48.29% 53.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11,963 14,035 21,900
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £46,470
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 24 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
1 454 (6.00%) SharePoint
2 377 (4.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 218 (2.88%) ArcGIS
4 214 (2.83%) GeoServer
5 149 (1.97%) IIS
6 89 (1.18%) CMS
7 74 (0.98%) Umbraco
8 68 (0.90%) Apache Spark
9 51 (0.67%) Apache
10 48 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
10 48 (0.63%) Sitecore CMS
11 46 (0.61%) WebLogic
12 44 (0.58%) Kentico
13 38 (0.50%) Confluence
14 36 (0.48%) Headless CMS
15 25 (0.33%) OpenStack
16 24 (0.32%) nginx
17 15 (0.20%) NServiceBus
18 11 (0.15%) Apache Solr
18 11 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 166 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
2 85 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.36%) 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%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.013%) Notion
10 1 (0.013%) Revit
10 1 (0.013%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 124 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 53 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 16 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
4 10 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
4 10 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
5 8 (0.11%) Elite 3E
5 8 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
6 6 (0.079%) Oracle General Ledger
6 6 (0.079%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.079%) Primavera
7 5 (0.066%) Dynamics AX
8 4 (0.053%) Visualfiles
9 2 (0.026%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.026%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.026%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.026%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.026%) SystmOne
9 2 (0.026%) Teamcenter
10 1 (0.013%) Magento
10 1 (0.013%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2,425 (32.03%) AWS
2 1,427 (18.85%) Microsoft 365
3 1,001 (13.22%) Azure DevOps
4 937 (12.38%) Power Platform
5 791 (10.45%) Entra ID
6 762 (10.06%) GCP
7 529 (6.99%) SaaS
8 305 (4.03%) Dynamics 365
9 278 (3.67%) PaaS
10 266 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
11 254 (3.35%) Serverless
12 239 (3.16%) IaaS
13 231 (3.05%) PowerApps
14 206 (2.72%) GitHub
15 201 (2.65%) Power Automate
16 174 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
17 159 (2.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 121 (1.60%) Snowflake
19 116 (1.53%) Azure Functions
20 101 (1.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 621 (8.20%) Firewall
2 508 (6.71%) 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
10 198 (2.62%) VPN
11 174 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
12 159 (2.10%) SAN
13 148 (1.95%) Network Security
14 140 (1.85%) SD-WAN
15 139 (1.84%) Wireless
16 97 (1.28%) VLAN
17 83 (1.10%) BGP
18 71 (0.94%) SSL
19 56 (0.74%) VoIP
20 53 (0.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,724 (22.77%) SQL Server
2 688 (9.09%) Power BI
3 521 (6.88%) Data Warehouse
4 421 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 382 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
6 343 (4.53%) MongoDB
7 303 (4.00%) Data Lake
8 297 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
9 251 (3.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 235 (3.10%) GIS
11 227 (3.00%) NoSQL
12 216 (2.85%) Relational Database
13 214 (2.83%) QGIS
14 161 (2.13%) MySQL
15 150 (1.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 107 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
17 93 (1.23%) Big Data
18 83 (1.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 77 (1.02%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
20 57 (0.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 444 (5.86%) Git
2 217 (2.87%) GitLab
3 216 (2.85%) JIRA
4 204 (2.69%) Jenkins
5 165 (2.18%) Visual Studio
6 73 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
7 70 (0.92%) Selenium
8 63 (0.83%) Postman
9 50 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 40 (0.53%) JMeter
11 38 (0.50%) Jasmine
12 36 (0.48%) TeamCity
12 36 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
13 35 (0.46%) NUnit
14 28 (0.37%) Karma Test Runner
15 27 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
16 24 (0.32%) SonarQube
17 23 (0.30%) Maven
18 21 (0.28%) Artifactory
18 21 (0.28%) Cucumber
General
1 1,738 (22.96%) Social Skills
2 1,294 (17.09%) Finance
3 663 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
4 448 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 414 (5.47%) Public Sector
6 373 (4.93%) Retail
7 211 (2.79%) Law
8 204 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
9 188 (2.48%) Legal
10 159 (2.10%) Marketing
11 143 (1.89%) Banking
12 124 (1.64%) Front Office
13 107 (1.41%) Advertising
14 88 (1.16%) Back Office
14 88 (1.16%) Games
15 87 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
16 84 (1.11%) Telecoms
17 71 (0.94%) Aerospace
17 71 (0.94%) Manufacturing
18 59 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,142 (28.29%) Developer
2 1,591 (21.01%) Senior
3 1,088 (14.37%) .NET Developer
4 777 (10.26%) Architect
5 747 (9.87%) Lead
6 645 (8.52%) Software Engineer
7 444 (5.86%) C# Developer
8 435 (5.75%) Senior Developer
9 402 (5.31%) Senior Software Engineer
10 387 (5.11%) Analyst
11 375 (4.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 340 (4.49%) C# .NET Developer
13 332 (4.39%) Data Engineer
14 315 (4.16%) Solutions Architect
15 297 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
15 297 (3.92%) Support Engineer
16 290 (3.83%) Consultant
17 284 (3.75%) DevOps Engineer
18 262 (3.46%) IT Engineer
19 231 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,231 (29.47%) .NET
2 1,245 (16.44%) .NET Core
3 1,081 (14.28%) ASP.NET
4 1,017 (13.43%) AngularJS
5 978 (12.92%) React
6 791 (10.45%) ASP.NET MVC
7 710 (9.38%) .NET Framework
8 708 (9.35%) HTML
9 674 (8.90%) CSS
9 674 (8.90%) Entity Framework
10 618 (8.16%) ASP.NET Web API
11 451 (5.96%) Node.js
12 446 (5.89%) RESTful
13 396 (5.23%) HTML5
14 395 (5.22%) Vue
15 266 (3.51%) Blazor
16 241 (3.18%) REST
17 214 (2.83%) Leaflet
17 214 (2.83%) OpenLayers
17 214 (2.83%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 409 (5.40%) Public Cloud
2 267 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
3 259 (3.42%) Social Media
4 219 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
5 218 (2.88%) Management Information System
6 197 (2.60%) Cloud Native
7 189 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
8 176 (2.32%) Product Ownership
9 158 (2.09%) PKI
10 149 (1.97%) Data Centre
11 136 (1.80%) Private Cloud
12 127 (1.68%) 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 (15.36%) Windows
2 790 (10.43%) Linux
3 585 (7.73%) Windows Server
4 296 (3.91%) Ubuntu
5 225 (2.97%) Windows 10
6 148 (1.95%) Android
7 131 (1.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 102 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 99 (1.31%) VMS
10 95 (1.25%) 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 2,817 (37.21%) Agile
2 2,093 (27.64%) DevOps
3 1,165 (15.39%) Full Stack Development
4 1,088 (14.37%) Microservices
5 1,084 (14.32%) Software Engineering
6 1,002 (13.23%) CI/CD
7 967 (12.77%) MVC
8 948 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
9 815 (10.76%) Scrum
10 753 (9.95%) Business Intelligence
11 727 (9.60%) TDD
12 644 (8.51%) Mentoring
13 633 (8.36%) Cybersecurity
14 630 (8.32%) Artificial Intelligence
15 596 (7.87%) Roadmaps
16 588 (7.77%) Migration
17 536 (7.08%) Analytics
18 533 (7.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 521 (6.88%) BDD
20 514 (6.79%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 2,201 (29.07%) C#
2 1,893 (25.00%) SQL
3 1,850 (24.44%) JavaScript
4 1,140 (15.06%) Python
5 663 (8.76%) TypeScript
6 564 (7.45%) PowerShell
7 553 (7.30%) Java
8 356 (4.70%) Bash
9 336 (4.44%) T-SQL
10 82 (1.08%) Go
11 80 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 77 (1.02%) R
13 73 (0.96%) C++
14 71 (0.94%) Bicep
15 67 (0.88%) 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
1 854 (11.28%) Security Cleared
2 815 (10.76%) Degree
3 626 (8.27%) SC Cleared
4 415 (5.48%) Azure Certification
5 342 (4.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 255 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 184 (2.43%) AWS Certification
8 170 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
9 158 (2.09%) DBS Check
10 124 (1.64%) CISSP
11 111 (1.47%) DV Cleared
12 105 (1.39%) CCNA
13 73 (0.96%) Master's Degree
14 71 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
15 69 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
16 67 (0.88%) CISM
17 66 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 55 (0.73%) CCNP
19 54 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
20 51 (0.67%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 274 (3.62%) QA
2 180 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 156 (2.06%) Data Quality
4 113 (1.49%) NIST
5 104 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 98 (1.29%) GDPR
7 80 (1.06%) SLA
8 72 (0.95%) 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%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1,204 (15.90%) Active Directory
2 614 (8.11%) Docker
3 394 (5.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 290 (3.83%) Hyper-V
5 230 (3.04%) Virtual Machines
6 122 (1.61%) 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%) Gluster
Systems Management
1 674 (8.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 673 (8.89%) Kubernetes
3 630 (8.32%) Terraform
4 310 (4.09%) 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 (0.88%) 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 3,614 (47.73%) Microsoft
2 597 (7.89%) VMware
3 390 (5.15%) Google
4 308 (4.07%) Cisco
5 262 (3.46%) Databricks
6 229 (3.02%) 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 71 (0.94%) IBM
17 71 (0.94%) SolarWinds
18 66 (0.87%) Apple
18 66 (0.87%) Sitecore