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 18 664 open positions listing Azure, 17 735 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. 42% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of demand for engineers with Azure skills.
The Azure market currently has 18,664 open roles, 17,735 of them freshly observed. Median salary $7,670/mo. Observed candidate pool — 940.
42% of Azure postings allow fully remote work; enterprise customers lean hybrid more often.
⚠ salary known for 1367 of 18664 jobs; remote share from 14893 with a stated format; 17735 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Demand and observed supply
| Open demand | 18,664 |
| Observed supply | 940 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution
One in ten earns under $4,157, one in ten over $16,708. Half the market falls between $5,500 and $12,472. Sample: 1,367.
The Azure range histogram uses only postings with an explicit compensation range.
Demand geography
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| PL | 4,925 |
| US | 3,478 |
| IN | 1,329 |
| GB | 1,082 |
| DE | 737 |
| CA | 351 |
| HK | 321 |
| BR | 217 |
| TH | 210 |
| NL | 198 |
The top country for Azure demand is Poland (4 925 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 | 3,869 |
| Data | 2,553 |
| Architect | 1,475 |
| Fullstack | 1,408 |
| Platform Engineer | 1,340 |
| Backend | 1,174 |
| Security | 1,061 |
| AI Engineer | 882 |
| ML/AI | 681 |
| PM | 490 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demand by grade
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 7,249 |
| middle | 1,189 |
| lead | 1,123 |
| principal | 858 |
| junior | 292 |
Senior-and-above is about 86% of 10 711 graded Azure postings.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers
Demand is spread across 5,215 employers. The largest accounts for 8.5%, the top ten for 14.6%; the remaining 85.4% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 8.5% |
| top-3 | 11.1% |
| top-10 | 14.6% |
| long tail | 85.4% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 166 sources; the largest accounts for 19.8% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Azure postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings
- Senior Azure Data Engineer · PL
- Systems Engineer (Enterprise) - Thailand · TH
- AI Data engineer · TH
- DevSecOps Engineer · TH
- QA Engineer - Manual Tester (Contract) · TH
- Starszy Programista Fullstack/Lider Techniczny · PL
- Senior Cloud Engineer · PL · $5,338
- BI Consultant / Developer (B2B) · PL · $3,750
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 2026-10-21
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?
42% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 18 664 open Azure positions. Hybrid is notably more common in the enterprise segment than the market average.