Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

azure

2,378 live US technical postings name azure in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 2,378 postings naming azure that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer44.6%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer20.5%
  3. 3Security Engineer10%
  4. 4Data Engineer6.9%
  5. 5AI Engineer4.7%
  6. 6Data Scientist3.4%
  7. 7Full-Stack Engineer3.4%
  8. 8Machine Learning Engineer3%

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 = 1,377
10th
$120k
25th
$150k
Median
$175k
75th
$205k
90th
$245k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote13%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA9.3%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA8.8%
  4. 4New York, NY7.7%
  5. 5Washington, DC4.1%
  6. 6Seattle, WA3.2%
  7. 7Boston, MA2.8%
  8. 8Austin, TX2%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.