Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

azure

983 live US technical postings name azure in August 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 983 postings naming azure that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer41.5%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer22.1%
  3. 3Security Engineer13.3%
  4. 4Data Engineer6.3%
  5. 5AI Engineer5.2%
  6. 6Full-Stack Engineer3.1%
  7. 7Machine Learning Engineer3%
  8. 8Data Scientist2.3%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where azure is named
n = 168
10th
$115k
25th
$155k
Median
$184k
75th
$205k
90th
$255k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote15.2%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA12.6%
  3. 3New York, NY8.6%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA8.1%
  5. 5Washington, DC5.2%
  6. 6Seattle, WA3.4%
  7. 7Boston, MA3.1%
  8. 8Austin, TX2.8%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.