Azure Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft Azure
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 456 862 780
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 21.00% 26.07% 24.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.60% 51.83% 46.71%
Number of salaries quoted 367 672 718
10th Percentile £48,750 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,500 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.52% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £91,563 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,500 £110,000 £108,250
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

All Cloud Skills
Central London

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 958 1,663 1,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 44.13% 50.30% 51.64%
Number of salaries quoted 785 1,163 1,566
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Central London

Azure
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in Central London over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure in Central London

Azure
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 within the Central London region over the 6 months to 7 December 2025. 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 0 410 £77,500 +3.33% 179
West End of London 0 8 £47,500 -9.52% 1
City of Westminster +17 5 - - 4
Southwark -3 2 £87,500 +45.83% 2
Camden - 1 - - 7
Azure
London

Azure
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 39 (8.55%) SharePoint
2 22 (4.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.10%) Confluence
5 4 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.66%) Moodle
7 2 (0.44%) IIS
8 1 (0.22%) Appian
8 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.22%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 24 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.44%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 116 (25.44%) Power Platform
2 101 (22.15%) Microsoft 365
3 100 (21.93%) AWS
4 83 (18.20%) Azure DevOps
5 63 (13.82%) GCP
6 50 (10.96%) Azure Data Factory
7 45 (9.87%) Power Automate
8 40 (8.77%) Dynamics 365
9 39 (8.55%) PowerApps
10 38 (8.33%) Entra ID
11 28 (6.14%) Azure Logic Apps
12 21 (4.61%) PaaS
13 19 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
13 19 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 18 (3.95%) Snowflake
15 17 (3.73%) SaaS
16 16 (3.51%) Microsoft Purview
17 15 (3.29%) GitHub
17 15 (3.29%) Serverless
18 14 (3.07%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 40 (8.77%) Firewall
2 18 (3.95%) DNS
2 18 (3.95%) VPN
3 17 (3.73%) Network Security
4 14 (3.07%) WAN
5 13 (2.85%) LAN
5 13 (2.85%) VoIP
6 10 (2.19%) DHCP
6 10 (2.19%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (1.10%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.88%) NetScaler
10 2 (0.44%) BGP
10 2 (0.44%) MPLS
10 2 (0.44%) NAS
10 2 (0.44%) OSPF
10 2 (0.44%) SAN
10 2 (0.44%) VLAN
10 2 (0.44%) VSAN
10 2 (0.44%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (19.52%) Power BI
2 49 (10.75%) SQL Server
3 46 (10.09%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (6.36%) Data Lake
5 14 (3.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (2.85%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (2.63%) Relational Database
8 11 (2.41%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.97%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (1.54%) Metadata
12 6 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (1.32%) Power Query
12 6 (1.32%) Tableau
13 5 (1.10%) DynamoDB
13 5 (1.10%) Metabase
13 5 (1.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 4 (0.88%) Big Data
14 4 (0.88%) Delta Lake
14 4 (0.88%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 45 (9.87%) Git
2 22 (4.82%) Visual Studio
3 11 (2.41%) JIRA
4 8 (1.75%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.54%) Octopus Deploy
5 7 (1.54%) TeamCity
6 6 (1.32%) GitLab
7 3 (0.66%) MLflow
7 3 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.44%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.44%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.44%) ERwin
8 2 (0.44%) NUnit
8 2 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.22%) MSTest
9 1 (0.22%) Selenium
9 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.22%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 148 (32.46%) Finance
2 125 (27.41%) Social Skills
3 48 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (9.65%) Legal
5 35 (7.68%) Law
6 24 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (4.17%) Retail
8 17 (3.73%) Banking
8 17 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (3.73%) Public Sector
9 10 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.32%) Health Technology
10 6 (1.32%) Marketing
11 5 (1.10%) Advertising
12 3 (0.66%) Back Office
12 3 (0.66%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.44%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.44%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 86 (18.86%) Senior
2 81 (17.76%) Lead
3 63 (13.82%) Developer
4 48 (10.53%) Data Engineer
5 34 (7.46%) Architect
6 31 (6.80%) Analyst
7 26 (5.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 26 (5.70%) Software Engineer
8 25 (5.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 22 (4.82%) Azure Engineer
10 20 (4.39%) Security Engineer
10 20 (4.39%) Senior Data Engineer
11 15 (3.29%) IT Manager
11 15 (3.29%) Support Engineer
12 14 (3.07%) IT Support
12 14 (3.07%) Senior Developer
12 14 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (2.63%) Senior Software Engineer
13 12 (2.63%) Team Leader
14 11 (2.41%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (9.65%) .NET
2 32 (7.02%) React
3 23 (5.04%) Web Services
4 19 (4.17%) PySpark
4 19 (4.17%) REST
5 15 (3.29%) Django
6 14 (3.07%) SOAP
7 12 (2.63%) Kafka
7 12 (2.63%) Node.js
7 12 (2.63%) Vue
8 11 (2.41%) AngularJS
8 11 (2.41%) HTML
9 10 (2.19%) .NET Core
9 10 (2.19%) CSS
10 9 (1.97%) HTML5 Canvas
10 9 (1.97%) PyTorch
10 9 (1.97%) RESTful
11 8 (1.75%) Next.js
12 7 (1.54%) .NET Framework
12 7 (1.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.11%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (3.95%) Security Posture
4 14 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (2.63%) Data Structures
5 12 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (2.41%) Virtual Team
7 10 (2.19%) AI Agents
7 10 (2.19%) Low-Code
8 9 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (1.97%) Reinsurance
9 8 (1.75%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.75%) Private Cloud
9 8 (1.75%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.75%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
11 6 (1.32%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.32%) PKI
11 6 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 70 (15.35%) Windows
2 26 (5.70%) Windows Server
3 17 (3.73%) Linux
4 16 (3.51%) Windows 10
5 8 (1.75%) Unix
6 6 (1.32%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.88%) VMS
7 4 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.44%) CentOS
9 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.22%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (30.70%) DevOps
2 128 (28.07%) Agile
3 116 (25.44%) CI/CD
4 102 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
5 89 (19.52%) AI
6 68 (14.91%) Business Intelligence
7 61 (13.38%) Analytics
7 61 (13.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 56 (12.28%) Data Modelling
9 54 (11.84%) Data Pipeline
10 53 (11.62%) ETL
11 52 (11.40%) Mentoring
12 50 (10.96%) ITIL
13 49 (10.75%) Migration
14 48 (10.53%) Decision-Making
15 47 (10.31%) Software Engineering
16 46 (10.09%) Computer Science
17 43 (9.43%) Infrastructure as Code
18 39 (8.55%) Cybersecurity
19 38 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 135 (29.61%) Python
2 121 (26.54%) SQL
3 63 (13.82%) PowerShell
4 55 (12.06%) C#
5 32 (7.02%) JavaScript
6 22 (4.82%) Java
7 18 (3.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 17 (3.73%) T-SQL
8 17 (3.73%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.75%) Bicep
10 7 (1.54%) Bash
11 5 (1.10%) Scala
12 4 (0.88%) Rust
13 3 (0.66%) Go
14 2 (0.44%) C++
14 2 (0.44%) R
14 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.44%) X++
15 1 (0.22%) Korn
15 1 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 60 (13.16%) Degree
2 35 (7.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (6.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 27 (5.92%) Azure Certification
5 21 (4.61%) Security Cleared
6 19 (4.17%) SC Cleared
7 18 (3.95%) CISSP
8 15 (3.29%) Master's Degree
9 12 (2.63%) CISM
10 7 (1.54%) CEH
10 7 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.10%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.10%) PMI Certification
11 5 (1.10%) PMP
12 4 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.88%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.66%) CCNP
13 3 (0.66%) GIAC
13 3 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.44%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (6.58%) GDPR
3 23 (5.04%) NIST
4 19 (4.17%) QA
5 11 (2.41%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.32%) SLA
7 5 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.10%) NCSC
8 3 (0.66%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.66%) PMO
9 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.44%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.22%) GRC
10 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (13.16%) Active Directory
2 27 (5.92%) Docker
3 20 (4.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.85%) Hyper-V
5 12 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (1.75%) XenDesktop
7 6 (1.32%) vSphere
8 5 (1.10%) XenApp
9 4 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.66%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.22%) KVM
12 1 (0.22%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.22%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 47 (10.31%) Terraform
2 38 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 35 (7.68%) Kubernetes
4 21 (4.61%) SCCM
5 16 (3.51%) Ansible
6 11 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.32%) Grafana
8 5 (1.10%) Autotask
8 5 (1.10%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.66%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.44%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.44%) Puppet
10 2 (0.44%) SCOM
10 2 (0.44%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.44%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.22%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.22%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 207 (45.39%) Microsoft
2 63 (13.82%) Databricks
3 29 (6.36%) VMware
4 23 (5.04%) ServiceNow
5 16 (3.51%) Google
6 15 (3.29%) Citrix
7 13 (2.85%) Cisco
8 10 (2.19%) Palo Alto
8 10 (2.19%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.97%) Meraki
10 8 (1.75%) CyberArk
10 8 (1.75%) Oracle
11 7 (1.54%) iManage
12 5 (1.10%) CrowdStrike
12 5 (1.10%) OpenAI
12 5 (1.10%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.10%) SonicWALL
12 5 (1.10%) Sophos
13 4 (0.88%) Commvault
13 4 (0.88%) Intapp