Microsoft Azure
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 5 4
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 7,336 17,251 21,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.04% 15.91% 22.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.34% 47.33% 52.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,015 13,314 13,702
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,375 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% -5.60% -
75th Percentile £82,000 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,495 36,452 40,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.55% 33.61% 43.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,222 27,130 27,066
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,140 £34,182
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -10.16% +2.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £96,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the UK

Azure
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Azure in the UK

Azure
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure over the 6 months to 10 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure in the UK

Azure
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the UK over the 6 months to 10 June 2025. 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
England -4 6,749 £62,500 +5.93% 7,886
UK excluding London -5 4,348 £55,000 +1.85% 5,966
Work from Home -4 3,108 £62,500 +4.17% 4,469
London -2 2,495 £75,000 - 3,241
North of England -12 1,270 £57,500 +4.55% 1,450
South East -5 1,021 £60,000 +9.09% 2,079
Midlands -7 831 £52,500 - 708
North West -17 779 £57,750 +0.43% 895
West Midlands -2 566 £55,000 - 369
East of England -1 457 £47,500 -5.00% 433
South West -4 434 £52,500 -4.55% 634
Yorkshire -9 360 £57,500 +4.55% 398
East Midlands -17 263 £45,000 -7.22% 312
Scotland -10 244 £57,500 +4.55% 360
North East -6 135 £55,000 +10.00% 163
Wales -20 84 £65,000 +30.00% 178
Northern Ireland -10 15 £47,500 -26.92% 111
Isle of Man +2 4 £43,500 -6.45% 2
Channel Islands -3 3 £60,000 -29.41% 150

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 518 (7.06%) SharePoint
2 461 (6.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 258 (3.52%) Confluence
4 124 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 82 (1.12%) CMS
6 67 (0.91%) IIS
7 59 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
8 48 (0.65%) Apache
9 25 (0.34%) Umbraco
10 17 (0.23%) Headless CMS
11 15 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 14 (0.19%) nginx
13 13 (0.18%) IBM Domino
14 12 (0.16%) WordPress
15 9 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
15 9 (0.12%) Moodle
16 8 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
17 6 (0.082%) Apache Solr
17 6 (0.082%) ArcGIS
17 6 (0.082%) Drupal
Applications
1 198 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 159 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 28 (0.38%) Chatbot
6 26 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
7 19 (0.26%) Trello
8 10 (0.14%) Maya
9 8 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.041%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 3 (0.041%) Productboard
12 2 (0.027%) S-PLUS
13 1 (0.014%) 1Password
13 1 (0.014%) PlantUML
13 1 (0.014%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 157 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
4 12 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
5 11 (0.15%) Elite 3E
6 10 (0.14%) Shopify
7 9 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
7 9 (0.12%) Endur
7 9 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
7 9 (0.12%) SAP IBP
8 7 (0.095%) Carpe Diem
8 7 (0.095%) Dynamics GP
9 5 (0.068%) Fidessa
9 5 (0.068%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.055%) Magento
10 4 (0.055%) Sage 1000
11 3 (0.041%) Sage 50
12 2 (0.027%) Aladdin
12 2 (0.027%) Markit EDM
12 2 (0.027%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 2,640 (35.99%) AWS
2 1,596 (21.76%) GCP
3 1,458 (19.87%) Microsoft 365
4 1,001 (13.65%) Power Platform
5 883 (12.04%) Azure DevOps
6 731 (9.96%) Entra ID
7 487 (6.64%) Serverless
8 454 (6.19%) SaaS
9 378 (5.15%) Azure Data Factory
10 345 (4.70%) Dynamics 365
11 310 (4.23%) Power Automate
12 299 (4.08%) PaaS
13 290 (3.95%) GitHub
14 287 (3.91%) PowerApps
15 272 (3.71%) AWS Lambda
16 243 (3.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 227 (3.09%) Azure Logic Apps
18 202 (2.75%) IaaS
19 170 (2.32%) Snowflake
20 163 (2.22%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 767 (10.46%) Firewall
2 458 (6.24%) WAN
3 437 (5.96%) DNS
4 364 (4.96%) LAN
5 346 (4.72%) VPN
6 294 (4.01%) DHCP
7 227 (3.09%) TCP/IP
8 223 (3.04%) Network Security
9 216 (2.94%) Broadband
10 183 (2.49%) VLAN
11 172 (2.34%) SD-WAN
12 140 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
13 110 (1.50%) VoIP
14 105 (1.43%) Wireless
15 102 (1.39%) SAN
16 81 (1.10%) BGP
17 76 (1.04%) OSPF
18 59 (0.80%) MPLS
19 55 (0.75%) Internet
20 48 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,038 (14.15%) SQL Server
2 702 (9.57%) Power BI
3 382 (5.21%) Data Warehouse
4 342 (4.66%) Data Lake
5 248 (3.38%) NoSQL
6 215 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
7 202 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 176 (2.40%) Relational Database
9 174 (2.37%) MongoDB
10 164 (2.24%) MySQL
11 159 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 151 (2.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 145 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
14 125 (1.70%) Big Data
15 122 (1.66%) Tableau
16 115 (1.57%) Metadata
17 82 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
18 81 (1.10%) BigQuery
19 64 (0.87%) Hadoop
20 54 (0.74%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 501 (6.83%) JIRA
2 438 (5.97%) Git
3 347 (4.73%) GitLab
4 323 (4.40%) Selenium
5 303 (4.13%) SonarQube
6 286 (3.90%) Sonatype Nexus
7 280 (3.82%) Maven
8 265 (3.61%) Bitbucket
9 264 (3.60%) Cucumber
10 188 (2.56%) Jenkins
11 120 (1.64%) Visual Studio
12 79 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
13 61 (0.83%) Postman
14 59 (0.80%) TeamCity
15 47 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
16 40 (0.55%) Cypress.io
16 40 (0.55%) JUnit
17 36 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
18 33 (0.45%) JMeter
19 31 (0.42%) MSBuild
General
1 2,024 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 1,788 (24.37%) Finance
3 998 (13.60%) Analytical Skills
4 856 (11.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 657 (8.96%) Banking
6 571 (7.78%) Law
7 397 (5.41%) Retail
8 249 (3.39%) Legal
9 228 (3.11%) Public Sector
10 189 (2.58%) Marketing
11 135 (1.84%) Manufacturing
12 112 (1.53%) Investment Banking
13 103 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
14 97 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
15 90 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
16 89 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
17 86 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
18 75 (1.02%) Front Office
19 68 (0.93%) Games
20 67 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,555 (21.20%) Senior
2 1,131 (15.42%) Developer
3 797 (10.86%) Software Engineer
4 785 (10.70%) Lead
5 681 (9.28%) Architect
6 587 (8.00%) Analyst
7 414 (5.64%) IT Support
8 362 (4.93%) Azure Engineer
9 355 (4.84%) Data Engineer
10 349 (4.76%) Support Engineer
11 309 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
12 304 (4.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 249 (3.39%) Cloud Engineer
14 246 (3.35%) Senior Developer
15 235 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
16 229 (3.12%) Machine Learning Engineer
17 219 (2.99%) Support Analyst
18 207 (2.82%) IT Engineer
19 204 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
20 184 (2.51%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,216 (16.58%) .NET
2 752 (10.25%) React
3 558 (7.61%) CSS
4 525 (7.16%) HTML
5 448 (6.11%) Kafka
6 430 (5.86%) Node.js
7 387 (5.28%) REST
8 360 (4.91%) Spring
9 354 (4.83%) Spring Boot
10 321 (4.38%) RESTful
11 290 (3.95%) AngularJS
12 284 (3.87%) Redux
13 269 (3.67%) JPA
14 259 (3.53%) ASP.NET
15 256 (3.49%) .NET Framework
16 251 (3.42%) .NET Core
17 183 (2.49%) Hibernate
18 177 (2.41%) JSON
19 164 (2.24%) HTML5
20 134 (1.83%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 497 (6.77%) Self-Motivation
2 477 (6.50%) Product Ownership
3 352 (4.80%) Cloud Native
4 342 (4.66%) Enterprise Software
5 255 (3.48%) Management Information System
6 229 (3.12%) Cyberattack
7 201 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
8 186 (2.54%) Data Centre
9 183 (2.49%) Public Cloud
10 151 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
11 128 (1.74%) Data Structures
12 126 (1.72%) Onboarding
13 119 (1.62%) Algorithms
14 117 (1.59%) Security Posture
15 114 (1.55%) Driving Licence
15 114 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
16 113 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
17 101 (1.38%) NHS
18 93 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
19 92 (1.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,383 (18.85%) Windows
2 722 (9.84%) Linux
3 681 (9.28%) Windows Server
4 217 (2.96%) Windows 10
5 140 (1.91%) Mac OS
6 123 (1.68%) Android
7 118 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
8 115 (1.57%) Windows Server 2019
9 99 (1.35%) Unix
10 93 (1.27%) Apple iOS
11 70 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
12 40 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 34 (0.46%) VMS
14 30 (0.41%) Ubuntu
15 17 (0.23%) CentOS
16 12 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
17 10 (0.14%) Windows 7
18 8 (0.11%) Debian
18 8 (0.11%) Rocky
18 8 (0.11%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,494 (34.00%) Agile
2 2,056 (28.03%) DevOps
3 1,859 (25.34%) CI/CD
4 1,799 (24.52%) Problem-Solving
5 1,326 (18.08%) Mentoring
6 1,228 (16.74%) Software Engineering
7 1,010 (13.77%) Microservices
8 928 (12.65%) Analytics
9 782 (10.66%) Machine Learning
10 778 (10.61%) Containerisation
11 748 (10.20%) Business Intelligence
12 733 (9.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 661 (9.01%) ITIL
14 648 (8.83%) Test Automation
15 628 (8.56%) Full-Stack Development
16 624 (8.51%) Data Engineering
17 621 (8.47%) Migration
18 617 (8.41%) Roadmaps
19 598 (8.15%) Artificial Intelligence
20 588 (8.02%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 2,081 (28.37%) SQL
2 1,805 (24.60%) Python
3 1,177 (16.04%) JavaScript
4 1,089 (14.84%) Java
5 1,012 (13.79%) C#
6 752 (10.25%) PowerShell
7 634 (8.64%) TypeScript
8 342 (4.66%) C++
9 298 (4.06%) Go
10 260 (3.54%) Rust
11 205 (2.79%) T-SQL
12 199 (2.71%) Bash
13 95 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 90 (1.23%) PHP
15 87 (1.19%) Bicep
16 74 (1.01%) R
17 71 (0.97%) Scala
18 52 (0.71%) C
19 44 (0.60%) PL/SQL
19 44 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,285 (17.52%) Degree
2 633 (8.63%) Security Cleared
3 473 (6.45%) Azure Certification
4 398 (5.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 365 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 346 (4.72%) AWS Certification
7 305 (4.16%) SC Cleared
8 294 (4.01%) DV Cleared
9 255 (3.48%) DBS Check
10 244 (3.33%) PhD
11 235 (3.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 181 (2.47%) AWS Certified Developer
13 178 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
14 157 (2.14%) Master's Degree
15 109 (1.49%) CCNA
16 104 (1.42%) CCNP
17 82 (1.12%) CISSP
18 65 (0.89%) MCSA
18 65 (0.89%) MCSE
19 57 (0.78%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 530 (7.22%) QA
2 309 (4.21%) GDPR
3 263 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 246 (3.35%) Data Quality
5 192 (2.62%) Accessibility
6 169 (2.30%) NIST
7 121 (1.65%) SLA
8 102 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
9 84 (1.15%) PCI DSS
10 50 (0.68%) HIPAA
11 43 (0.59%) SOC 2
12 40 (0.55%) NCSC
13 27 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 26 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 23 (0.31%) PMO
16 22 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 21 (0.29%) COBIT
18 15 (0.20%) GRC
19 7 (0.095%) ISO 9001
19 7 (0.095%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1,189 (16.21%) Active Directory
2 947 (12.91%) Docker
3 382 (5.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 277 (3.78%) Hyper-V
5 132 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
6 103 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 81 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
8 52 (0.71%) vSphere
9 37 (0.50%) VMware NSX
10 28 (0.38%) Firmware
11 22 (0.30%) XenApp
12 20 (0.27%) Terminal Services
13 12 (0.16%) NFS
14 11 (0.15%) BitLocker
15 9 (0.12%) HDFS
16 8 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
17 7 (0.095%) Apache Flume
17 7 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
18 6 (0.082%) Dovecot
18 6 (0.082%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1,057 (14.41%) Kubernetes
2 730 (9.95%) Terraform
3 637 (8.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 335 (4.57%) Ansible
5 142 (1.94%) SCCM
6 133 (1.81%) Grafana
7 121 (1.65%) Prometheus
8 108 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
9 63 (0.86%) FortiGate
10 51 (0.70%) Puppet
11 46 (0.63%) Progress Chef
12 38 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 30 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
14 29 (0.40%) Nagios
14 29 (0.40%) vCenter Server
15 28 (0.38%) NetBackup
16 23 (0.31%) SCOM
17 22 (0.30%) Argo
18 21 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
19 17 (0.23%) Istio
Vendors
1 2,952 (40.24%) Microsoft
2 605 (8.25%) VMware
3 480 (6.54%) Databricks
4 449 (6.12%) Google
5 428 (5.83%) Cisco
6 247 (3.37%) Solace
7 185 (2.52%) Oracle
8 180 (2.45%) Meraki
9 167 (2.28%) Citrix
10 139 (1.89%) ServiceNow
11 130 (1.77%) SAP
12 116 (1.58%) IBM
13 100 (1.36%) Palo Alto
14 97 (1.32%) SolarWinds
15 91 (1.24%) Veeam
16 90 (1.23%) Fortinet
17 89 (1.21%) CheckPoint
18 72 (0.98%) Apple
18 72 (0.98%) Salesforce
19 71 (0.97%) Red Hat
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