Azure: market
Azure is the enterprise-segment cloud: where infrastructure is already built on Active Directory, the Office ecosystem and .NET, the cloud trail almost always leads to Azure. We track 19 985 open positions listing Azure, 19 218 of them fresh. The demand core is AKS, Azure DevOps, Data Factory, Synapse and Entra ID; a notable share of the market is hybrid setups where the cloud coexists with on-prem. The main roles are DevOps, Data and Architect. Alongside Azure, employers most often ask for AWS, GCP and Python. 40% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of demand for engineers with Azure skills.
The Azure market currently has 19,985 open roles, 19,218 of them freshly observed. Median salary $8,000/mo. Observed candidate pool — 948.
40% of Azure postings allow fully remote work; enterprise customers lean hybrid more often.
⚠ salary known for 1619 of 19985 jobs; remote share from 16169 with a stated format; 19218 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many Azure postings appeared each week since 10 Aug, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 230
New sources connected: 17 Aug +30 · 24 Aug +19 · 31 Aug +14 · 7 Sept +15 · 14 Sept +14 · 21 Sept +28 · 28 Sept +7 · 5 Oct +14 · 12 Oct +12
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses. A posting belongs to the technology by its stack tag; the series starts on 10 Aug 2026 — earlier tags were assigned differently and are not comparable. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Salaries over time
Median Azure salary per week, USD per month.
Median salary, USD per month
Only postings with a USD salary and a known period (month or year), $500–$50,000 per month. Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank — that means no data, not zero.
Remote work over time
Share of Azure postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of Azure postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Demand and observed supply
| Open demand | 19,985 |
| Observed supply | 948 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution
One in ten earns under $4,250, one in ten over $16,854. Half the market falls between $5,516 and $12,708. Sample: 1,619.
The Azure range histogram uses only postings with an explicit compensation range.
Demand geography
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| PL | 5,125 |
| US | 3,780 |
| IN | 1,515 |
| GB | 1,178 |
| DE | 752 |
| CA | 372 |
| HK | 364 |
| BR | 238 |
| TH | 232 |
| NL | 209 |
The top country for Azure demand is Poland (5 125 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
Azure most often appears next to AWS, GCP and Python: the platform rarely shows up without a language and DevOps tooling.
Roles that use it
| role | jobs |
|---|---|
| DevOps | 4,168 |
| Data | 2,711 |
| Architect | 1,577 |
| Fullstack | 1,494 |
| Platform Engineer | 1,423 |
| Backend | 1,265 |
| Security | 1,149 |
| AI Engineer | 949 |
| ML/AI | 733 |
| PM | 540 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demand by grade
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 7,847 |
| lead | 1,294 |
| middle | 1,267 |
| principal | 945 |
| junior | 320 |
Senior-and-above is about 86% of 11 673 graded Azure postings.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers
Demand is spread across 5,527 employers. The largest accounts for 8.0%, the top ten for 13.7%; the remaining 86.3% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 8.0% |
| top-3 | 10.5% |
| top-10 | 13.7% |
| long tail | 86.3% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 174 sources; the largest accounts for 19.1% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Azure postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings
- Team Lead Software Engineer · US
- Cyber Security Manager, Architecture and Engineering Team · US
- Data Integration Framework Developer - Java, AVP · US · $7,500
- Software Engineer II · US
- GenAI Fullstack Engineer · US
- QA Analyst (Mid)
- Technical Product Manager(AI & DevOps) · US
- Senior Technical Support Specialist · ZA
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 7.
Data as of 2026-10-23
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions about the Azure market — short answers from the slice.
How does Azure demand differ from AWS demand?
Azure is stronger in the enterprise segment: Entra ID (Active Directory) integration, hybrid scenarios and the data platform (Data Factory, Synapse, Fabric). AWS is wider in product and startup stacks. The skills transfer: networking, IaC and containers match conceptually — the services differ.
Which roles need Azure?
DevOps, Data, Architect and Fullstack lead the demand. DevOps and cloud engineers need AKS and Azure DevOps, data engineers — Data Factory and Synapse, backend — App Service and Functions, security — Entra ID and Defender.
What should I learn first for Azure jobs?
The foundation: networking and IAM (Entra ID), one IaC tool (Terraform or Bicep), AKS and containers, plus monitoring. AZ-104/AZ-400/DP-203 certifications appear in postings as a plus; hands-on practice with a live subscription is valued higher.
Is remote work available in Azure jobs?
40% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 19 985 open Azure positions. Hybrid is notably more common in the enterprise segment than the market average.