Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

azure

2,371 live US technical postings name azure in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 2,371 postings naming azure that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer43.7%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer20.5%
  3. 3Security Engineer10.3%
  4. 4Data Engineer6.8%
  5. 5AI Engineer4.9%
  6. 6Data Scientist3.3%
  7. 7Full-Stack Engineer3.2%
  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 = 1,355
10th
$119k
25th
$145k
Median
$180k
75th
$210k
90th
$250k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote11.8%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA9.3%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA8.2%
  4. 4New York, NY7.6%
  5. 5Washington, DC4.7%
  6. 6Seattle, WA4%
  7. 7Boston, MA3.2%
  8. 8Austin, TX1.9%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.