Azure Engineer Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft Azure Engineer
London > Central London

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in Central London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 139 122
Rank change year-on-year +20 -17 +20
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 26 45 49
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 1.02% 1.40% 1.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 1.52% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 19 36 45
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +3.85% -23.53%
75th Percentile £92,500 £81,563 £78,750
90th Percentile £106,250 £95,000 £88,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 2,407 2,957 2,914
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 91.98% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,818 1,815 2,572
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,085
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £112,500
London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Azure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in Central London

Azure Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Central London.

Salary distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Central London

Azure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Engineer in Central London

Azure Engineer
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +10 21 £80,000 +23.08% 9
Azure Engineer
London

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Azure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Central London region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (57.69%) DevOps
3 13 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 11 (42.31%) CI/CD
4 11 (42.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (38.46%) Terraform
6 9 (34.62%) Windows
7 8 (30.77%) Active Directory
7 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
7 8 (30.77%) Python
8 7 (26.92%) VMware
8 7 (26.92%) Windows Server
9 6 (23.08%) PowerShell
10 5 (19.23%) Azure Certification
10 5 (19.23%) Entra ID
10 5 (19.23%) Git
10 5 (19.23%) Identity Management
10 5 (19.23%) Investment Management
10 5 (19.23%) Migration
10 5 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
11 4 (15.38%) Business Continuity
11 4 (15.38%) Databricks
11 4 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
11 4 (15.38%) DNS
11 4 (15.38%) Firewall
11 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (19.23%) Entra ID
4 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (11.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (7.69%) AWS
6 2 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (7.69%) Azure AI
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) DNS
1 4 (15.38%) Firewall
1 4 (15.38%) TCP/IP
1 4 (15.38%) VPN
2 2 (7.69%) Network Security
2 2 (7.69%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.85%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Power BI
1 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.85%) Big Data
2 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.85%) Delta Lake
2 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Git
2 3 (11.54%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (23.08%) Legal
2 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Law
4 3 (11.54%) Finance
5 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) .NET
1 3 (11.54%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Private Cloud
1 5 (19.23%) Public Cloud
2 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.85%) Data Fabric
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 9 (34.62%) Windows
2 7 (26.92%) Windows Server
3 3 (11.54%) Linux
4 2 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) DevOps
2 11 (42.31%) CI/CD
2 11 (42.31%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (19.23%) Identity Management
4 5 (19.23%) Investment Management
4 5 (19.23%) Migration
5 4 (15.38%) Business Continuity
5 4 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (15.38%) Observability
5 4 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (15.38%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 3 (11.54%) AI
6 3 (11.54%) Analytics
6 3 (11.54%) Data Modelling
6 3 (11.54%) ETL
6 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (11.54%) Mentoring
7 2 (7.69%) Benchmarking
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) PowerShell
3 4 (15.38%) SQL
4 2 (7.69%) Bicep
5 1 (3.85%) C#
5 1 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (3.85%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Azure Certification
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.85%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 5 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.85%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 1 (3.85%) Docker
3 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.85%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (38.46%) Terraform
2 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (11.54%) Ansible
5 2 (7.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (26.92%) VMware
3 4 (15.38%) Databricks
4 2 (7.69%) AppDynamics
4 2 (7.69%) Cisco
4 2 (7.69%) EMC
4 2 (7.69%) F5
4 2 (7.69%) New Relic
4 2 (7.69%) Palo Alto
4 2 (7.69%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.85%) Citrix
5 1 (3.85%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.85%) Pure Storage
5 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow